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Hamrahlíð
Choir at
Northern
Voices
Festival
Hamrahlíðarkórinn, the
Hamrahlíð Choir, will perform
at the Northem Voices Cho-
ral Festival in Toronto during
their upcoming tour to Ontario,
Manitoba and North Dakota.
The Hamrahlíð Choir was
founded in 1967 by Þorgerður
Ingólfsdóttir who has been
the conductor ever since. The
choir is made up of students at
Reykjavík’s Hamrahlíð College
between the ages of 16 and 20.
They will give a few concerts in
North America from June 10 to
June 19.
Their concert at the North-
em Voices Choral Festival will
start at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 12
and the choir will also take part
in the final concert of the festi-
val in the evening.
The choir will perform at a
school in Toronto on June 10,
in Kitchener, ON on June 13
and in Hamilton, ON June 14.
On June 17 the choir will give a
moming concert in Gimli, MB
and then perform at the Winni-
peg Art Gallery 20 in the eve-
ning. The following day they
will perform twice in Gimli and
finish their program in Moun-
tain, ND on June 19.
23rd Stephansson Award
presented in Edmonton
June Parker
Edmohton, AB
Walter Hildebrandt of
Calgary won the Stephan G.
Stephansson Award for Po-
etry at the 2005 Alberta Book
Awards. Stephan V. Benedikt-
son, Stephan G. Stephansson’s
grandson, presented him the
award for Where the Land
Gets Broken.
It was one of 15 literary
awards presented at a gala
banquet al the Fairmont Hotel
MacDonald celebrating Alber-
ta’s publishing industry and
writing community.
The Stephan G. Stephans-
son Award for Poetry has been
presented yearly since 1983.
Among the winners is Krist-
jana Gunnars, who won for
Exiles Among You in 1997.
Stephan V. Benediktson
gave a presentation about his
grandfather at the Annual Lit-
erary Awards.
The other 14 awards pre-
sented were for illustration,
cover design, short fiction,
novel, trade fiction, non-fic-
tion, trade non-fiction, chil-
dren's, children’s literature,
educational, drarna, scholarly
work and publishing.
Stephan V. Benediktson is
also a published author, hav-
ing written about his work in
Stefan 's Story: A Half Century
in the International Oil Busi-
ness (2002). The profits of this
book and the one he commis-
sioned Joanne White to write
about his rnother, Stephan’s
Daughler: The Story of Rosa
Siglaug Benedictson go to the
Stephan G Stephansson Ice-
landic Society.
Stephan V. Benediktson
is also helping to cover the
expense of the reprinting of
selected translations of his
grandfather’s poetry from
Andvökur.
This, along with a gener-
ous donation to the restoration
of the Fensala Hall in Marker-
ville, evidences his likeness to
his grandfather in wanderlust.
Although Stephan V. Bene-
diktson has lived in 16 coun-
tries, and at present in Mexico,
he still has fond ties wilh the
place where he started his
life's joumey.
A chance to send your mail by horse express
The “Path to Gimli” is of-
fering people an opportunity
to send mail by horse as in the
old days. Iceland Post has cre-
ated a specially franked stamp
for this event only.
The Path to Gimli is a
pilgrimage by horseback be-
ginning in Eyrarbakki, on the
south coast of Iceland, on June
17 (Iceland’s National Day)
and ending at Islendinga-
dagurinn, the Icelandic Fes-
lival of Manitoba in Gimli,
Manitoba, on July 30. A “post
horse” will carry the mail.
“This happens to be one
of those ‘once in a lifetime’
opportunities, where anyone
can ask a friend or a relative
from Iceland to send them a
letter to be delivered by the
Path to Gimli post horse,” says
Guðrún Girgis. She is the chair
of the planning committee of
Ice Fest in Kinmount, Ontario,
where the Canadian leg of the
joumey will begin on July 16,
at Ice Fest.
“These letters, with this
particular stamp, are bound to
become a valuable collector’s
item and much sought-after
memorabilia by generations to
come,” Guðrún adds.
The horses have already
been shipped from Iceland and
are being acclimatized in prep-
aration for their trek to Gimli.
To receive a letter via the Path
to Gimli “post horse,” one has
to ask somebody in Iceland to
purchase a stamp and address
the letter to the receiver:
Reveiver’s name
c/o The Path to Gimli
820 Eyrarbakki
On the top left corner
write the name and address of
the receiver. The deadline is
June 13.
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