Reykjavík Grapevine - 04.02.2011, Qupperneq 36

Reykjavík Art Museum -
Hafnarhús
10:00 -17:00 Saturday and Sunday
Film , Video and Sound Art /
Without destination
Film, Video and Sound Art Program:
10:00 Ring Road, Friðrik Þór Friðriksson,
1985 (80 min.)
11:30 Hekla, Haraldur Jónsson, 2001 (10
min.)
12:00 Skipholt, John Bock, 2005 (55 min.)
13:00 From Hetty to Nancy, Deborah
Stratman, 1997 (44 min.)
14:00 Das Echo ist der Zwerge Sprache,
Teil I: Island - Land ohne Eisenbahn,
Wolfgang Müller, 1999 (22 min.)
14:30 Counterclockwise, Ragnheiður
Gestsdóttir, 2011 (12 min.)
15:00 Skagafjörður, Peter Hutton, 2003
(35 min.)
16:00 Searching for Hjetna, Rory
Middleton, 2010 (45 min.)
Tryggvagata 17, 101, Reykjavík
Garðabær Library
11:30 - 14:00 Saturday
Play reading for children
Anna Brynja Baldursdóttir reads for
children. Suitable for children age
5-8 years, all children and adults are
welcome.
Again at 12.30 and 13.30
Garðatorgi 7, 210, Garðabær
The Icelandic Printmaking
Association
14:000 - 18:00 Saturday
Friends of the IPA
Printmakers will be working at the
workshop. Programme for children from
14pm-4pm, in which graphic artists print
with children. Museum also open Sun.
Tryggvagata 17, 101, Reykjavík
Grófarhús
14:00 - 16:00 Saturday
Shadow Theatre
A workshop for children and grown-ups.
Make your own puppets and use them
in the shadow theatre on site. Hosted
by Reykjavík City Library, Reykjavík
Museum of Photography and Reykjavík
City Archives.
Tryggvagata 15, 101, Reykjavík
Hafnarborg - The
Hafnarfjordur Centre of
Culture and Fine Art
15:00 - 16:00 Saturday
Artist's Talk: Libia Castro and
Ólafur Ólafsson
The artists Libia Castro and Ólafur
Ólafsson, will lead an informal discussion
about their work, The Constitution of the
Republic of Iceland.
12:00 - 17:00 Saturday
The Constitution of the Republic
of Iceland - Libia Castro and
Ólafur Ólafsson
The Spanish-Icelandic artist duo Libia
Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson will open
their exhibition, The Constitution of
the Republic of Iceland. The work is
a collaboration with the composer
Karólína Eiríksdóttir. They commissioned
Karólína to write a music piece where all
the 81 articles of the constitution would
be sung.
Strandgata 34, 220, Hafnarfjörður
The Farmhouse Krókur
13:00 - 16:00 Saturday
The farmhouse Krókur at
Garðaholt - open house
The small farmhouse, Krókur að
Garðaholt, is a small gabled farmhouse
clad with corrugated iron, built in 1923
on the foundations of an earlier turf
building. Krókur is a good example of
houses in which ordinary working people
lived in this part of the country in the first
half of the twentieth century.
Garðavegur, 210 Garðabær
The Sigurjón Ólafsson
Museum
15:00 - 16:00 Saturday and Sunday
Sigurjón Ólafsson's Pillars -
Guided tour
One of sculptor Sigurjón Ólafsson´s
main themes is columns and pillars.
A guided tour through the exhibition
which displays a selection of pillars and
columns, carved in wood.
Laugarnestanga 70, 105, Reykjavík
National Museum of
Iceland
11:00 - 12:00 Saturday
Guided tour in English
A guided tour through the main
exhibition of the National Museum of
Iceland, Making of a Nation.
Suðurgötu 41, 101, Reykajvík
ASÍ Art Museum
15:00 - 16:00 Sunday
Artist talk: The Family Quintet
The Family Quintet talks. The artist
Curver Thoroddsen and his family will be
present to talk about the exhibition and
answer questions.
Freyjugata 41, 101, Reykjavík
Reykjavík Art Museum -
Kjarvalsstaðir
15:00 -16:00 Sunday
Artist's talk: Ragnar Kjartansson
Artist's talk with Ragnar Kjartansson,
Iceland's representative at Venice
Biennale in 2008 in relation to the
exhibition, "50 Years of Icelandic Art
at the Venice Biennale." Icelandic
artists have had a representative at this
major international contemporary art
exhibition for fifty years but their regular
participation did not start until the year
1984.
Flókagata 5, 105, Reykjavík
Reykjavík
Winter Lights Festival
www.vetrarhatid.is
Saturday 12. February and Sunday 13. February
Protective charms – Would you like to
make your own protective charm? Runes
were an ancient alphabet, used mainly for
cutting into stone or wood. Come and put
your rune on a piece of wood that you can
wear round your neck.
Instructor: Þórdís Halla Sigmarsdóttir
Óðinn’s ravens – Come and make your
own news-gathering raven! Huginn and
Muninn were the pet ravens of Óðinn, the
highest of the Norse gods. By day they flew
far and wide, watching and listening to ev-
erything on their way; in the evening they
came back, perched on Óðinn’s shoulders
and croaked the day’s news into his ears.
Instructor: Guðmunda Óskarsdóttir
No ordinary animals, these! – Come and
make Óðinn’s eight-legged horse Sleipnir,
the two cats that drew the chariot of Freyja,
goddess of Love, or the boar Sæhrímnir,
which was cooked for dinner every night
in Valhöll, the great hall of warriors in the
afterlife. All these can be made out of or-
dinary paper plates, which you will learn to
transform as if by magic into the animals of
Norse mythology.
Instructor: Rosalie Alegre
When the Dwarves Rolled up their
Sleeves – The Black Elves of Norse my-
thology were skilled craftsmen who could
make wonderful things with magic powers.
For example, they made the charmed cord
that bound the monster Fenrisúlfur (Fen-
rir’s Wolf) in Gerðuberg. Come and make
your own dwarf and give him a real dwarf’s
name.
Instructor: Kristín Ragna Gunnarsdóttir
Freyja’s pikelets and the Valkyries’
mead – Freyja’s pikelets are irresistible,
especially with the golden dressing made
from the tears of the Goddess of Love. The
Valkyries drank a special charmed mead
before they set off to the battlefield to se-
lect the bravest heroes and bring them back
to live forever in Valhöll. Come and enjoy
these refreshments, prepared out of doors
over an open fire.
Instructors: Nichole Leigh Mosty and Anita
Krasniqi
Make a Roman musical instrument! – A
variety of musical instruments were used by
the ancient Romans in the worship of their
gods. Come and make your own Pan pipes,
drums, rattles and wind instruments. At
the outdoor gathering at the end of the day
there will be a chance to join in the singing
and let rip with your own instrumental ac-
companiment.
Instructors: Pamela De Sensi, Hjörtur Hjar-
tarson, Heiðrún Fivelstad and Hugrún Hel-
gadóttir.
Dance workshop: Southern and Sway-
ing – A dance workshop where you will
learn some important steps to the accom-
paniment of the subtle and hypnotic music
of South America and Cuba. At the clos-
ing festival gathering on the square outside
there will be an opportunity to dance to the
accompaniment of drums and other instru-
ments.
Instructor: Edna Mastache
Making the Festival Dragon – Dragons
feature in myths from many parts of the
world. Origami is the ancient Japanese art
of folding paper to make figures and orna-
ments. Come and take part in making a big
oriental dragon and then go with it out to
the festival gathering on the square outside
at the end of the day.
Instructor: Björn Finnsson
Chinese dragons – Come and make a little
dragon you can take home with you. Chi-
nese dragons are colourful and can twist
and coil and turn just like real ones! The
blue one is the Weather Dragon, and the
Manchu Dragon can change itself into other
things. What sort of dragon is yours?
Instructor: Katarsyna Woźniewska
Making puppets from A to Z – It’s fun to
make simple puppets out of paper. Greek
mythology is full of all sorts of intriguing fig-
ures: Athena, goddess of Skill and Wisdom;
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty,
Zeus, King of the Gods ... Learn to make
your own puppet of a Greek god or goddess.
Instructor: Hugrún Ýr Magnúsdóttir
Dracula – Would you like to play at being
Dracula? The tale about Count Dracula in
his gloomy castle in Transylvania is based
on ancient history and also folklore about
vampires. The Count is terribly pale, with
blood-red lips and red eyes, and his white
fangs stick out from under his lip. – Dracula
is horrrrrrrible!
Instructor: Kristín Þóra Guðbjartsdóttir
Merlin’s Magic Workshop
The mythical figure Merlin was an ancient
British magician who appears in the stories
of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round
Table. The magician Jón Víðis will take on
the role of Merlin and teach us some clever
magic tricks.
Instructor: The magician Jón Víðis Jakobsson
Festival of Fire – with a Dragon!
World Children’s Day will end with all par-
ticipants going out onto the square between
Miðberg and Gerðuberg at 4 p.m. There,
artists from the Circus School will perform,
including Wally the Clown and a real fire-
eater! Those who have made Roman instru-
ments will play them, and to the accompa-
niment of drums, the great Dragon will be
brought out and the singing and dancing
will begin.
Gerðuberg 3-5, 111, Reykjavík
Don’t miss World Children’s Day in
Gerðuberg!
Gerðuberg Culture Center and Miðberg Leisure Center
International Children's Day
Saturday, 12 February 13:00 - 17:00
Free entrance
The Love Walk festival will be held at
the heart of Reykjavik on Sunday 13th
February. The event starts at sunset,
17:30 and lasts for about an hour. In
this festival we all focus on what unites
us; love. People gather at Austurvöl-
lur where we are welcomed by a brass
band playing. Several noted individuals
present beautiful thoughts on love and
what connects us. The love walk goes
around the lake while skilled musicians
play known love songs. Several Reyk-
javik choirs unite by the lake and sing
a few songs for us. Actress and author
Bergljót Arnalds is the organiser of the
festival, with the help of several parties
such as AUS, the Red Cross and oth-
ers. Everyone is encouraged to wear
red for the occasion.
Austurvöllur, 101, Reykjavík
Love Walk in ReykjavíkT
Sunday, 13 February 17:30.