Reporting from the villages of East Iceland and on everything that concerns the region. Updated daily.
The Days of Darkness festival began in Fjarðabyggð over the weekend and runs until Halloween next Saturday. During this time the dark season is met with lights, art and live stories, with fifteen events on the programme in all.
Read the story →
Menningarstofa Fjarðabyggðar (the Fjarðabyggð Cultural Centre) and the newly founded National Opera have signed a three-year declaration of intent on continued cooperation on opera performances, education and the development of musical activity in East Iceland. This, they say, would increase residents’ access to opera and create more opportunities for musicians in the region.
It is a busy time today, tomorrow and on Sunday at the Music Centre in Eskifjörður, where the staff of Iceland’s new National Opera are preparing their opening event, the work Undir sömu stjörnu, which is to be performed at 3 pm next Sunday. Well over a hundred people are involved in the large-scale production in one way or another.
There has been a lot going on at Norðfjarðarkirkja in recent days and weeks, and that continues tonight with a new event that the parish priest calls God on the Big Screen – the Bible’s stories of influence. The very first film to be watched and discussed is the popular but controversial Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
The band Nýdönsk had the unfortunate experience of taking a car by mistake at Egilsstaðir Airport earlier this month. The band had come east to play a concert in Breiðdalsvík and record songs.
A Polish film festival will be held in Fjarðabyggð this weekend for the sixth time. Rapid change in Polish society is the common thread in the festival’s programme. The festival’s director says the theme is highly relevant to both Icelanders and Poles living in Iceland.
The design and appearance of the Baugur Bjólfs viewing platform above Seyðisfjörður continues to attract great attention far beyond Iceland’s borders. The design has now, for the second time in a short while, made a list of outstanding architecture in a prestigious competition.
Urgent temporary repairs to Safnahúsið in Neskaupstaður, recommended by a building specialist after an inspection some time ago, have already been carried out by Fjarðabyggð. The specialist’s concerns were that the building’s roof has sagged considerably, the exterior walls have been pushed outward and columns had broken down through the floor covering in several places.
In October it is two years since a group of remote workers in Egilsstaðir opened the Setrið workspace. Both bookings and working hours there have risen markedly from year to year, and the past September was the biggest month in Setrið’s history.