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ARTS
Saturday 4 November
Toronto, ON: Part one of Ione Thorkelsson’s
new exhibition, Ossuary 501, opens at To-
ronto Free Gallery, 660 Queen Street East.
For more information, visit www.thorkelsson.
com.
Saturday 4 November
Toronto, ON: Part two of Ione Thorkelsson’s
new exhibition, Ossuary 501, opens at Mate-
rial Matters, 215 Spadina Avenue. For more
information, visit www.thorkelsson.com.
Tuesday 28 November
New York, NY: Nordic Contemporary Art:
Conversations with Scandinavian Artists.
This new series of talks at Scandinavia
House offers a unique opportunity to meet
Nordic artists currently exhibiting new work
in New York. Each event will connect the
artists with the New York art scene as they
engage with recognized curators, critics,
academics, or artists in a conversation
about their practice, their inspiration, and
their upcoming projects. The series be-
gins Monday 16 October. On November
28 at 6:30 p.m., hear Icelandic artist Katrín
Sigurðardóttir in conversation with critic and
curator Gregory Volk, Associate Professor
at the VCU School of the Arts in Richmond,
VA. Tickets: $10 ($8 ASF members, free for
students). Pass for 3-lecture series: $25 ($20
ASF members, free for students) For reser-
vations call (212) 847-9740.
EVENTS
Monday 16 October
New Westminster, BC: 7:30 p.m. Iceland
House, 939 6th Street, Dr. Anatoly Liberman
of the University of Minnesota will give a talk
on “The Truth about the Berserks.” Everyone
welcome. Refreshments served after the
lecture. For further information call Gerri at
(604) 279-0420.
Saturday 21 October
Ottawa, ON: The Friends of Iceland and the
Embassy of Iceland are planning to honour
the contribution to Iceland of Canadians of
Icelandic descent and other Canadians who
served during the Second World War. The
ceremony will take place at the Cartier Drill
Hall, 2 Queen Elizabeth Drive, Ottawa, com-
mencing at 2 p.m. For further information,
e-mail lou.howard@sympatico.ca or phone
(613) 523-5543.
Saturday 28 October
New Westminster, BC: Hallowe’en Potluck
and Ghost Tales, 6:30 p.m. at Iceland House
939 6th St. Don your Hallowe’en guise, bring
your favourite witch’s brew and come listen to
the stories of Icelandic ghosts as presented
by Kristín Jóhannsdóttir. Come join the fun
— everyone welcome. For further informa-
tion call Gerri at (604) 279-0420.
November 3 – 5
Markerville, AB: Christmas in Markerville
and Dickson Craft Show and Sale at four
Markerville locations: Creamery Market,
Fensala Gallery, Marlene’s Krafty Korner and
the Kemp House. Featuring our sixth annual
Cookie Walk in support of the “Creamery
Storm Damage Fund.” Two Dickson loca-
tions: Classy Glass and Gammel House. Call
(403) 728-3006 for information.
ICELANDIC CLASSES
Tuesdays
Vancouver, BC: ICC of BC Icelandic con-
versational classes will be held at Iceland
House for 9 sessions throughout October
and November. Classes begin at 7 p.m. Pre-
register with Kristín Jóhannsdóttir: email:
stina@mail2skier.com or phone (604) 221-
2263.
Winnipeg, MB: The Icelandic Canadian Frón
holds language classes at the Scandinavian
Centre. We have changed the day we are
having the classes. Classes begin at 6:30
p.m. every Tuesday. We hope to offer three
levels of classes, Beginner, Intermediate and
Advanced. All are welcome to join us. Price
is $40 for members and $45 non-members.
Ten classes.
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Spanish Fork, UT: Fridrik Rafn Gudmunds-
son will be teaching Icelandic at the Span-
ish Fork Family History Center, 400 South
Main, on Tuesday and Thursday evening
from 7 to 8:30 p.m. beginning October 3
and continuing for six weeks. Call John K.
Johnson at (801) 798-0139 or e-mail John at
kiwifruit1965@hotmail.com if you would like
to learn Icelandic. The cost is $30 tuition and
$20 for the book and CD.
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
Monday 16 October
New Westminster, BC: ICC of BC presents
Professor Anatoly Liberman from the Uni-
versity of Minnesota, who will give a lecture
at Iceland House at 7:30 p.m. He will then
speak at the Beck Trust Lectures in Victoria.
Beck Lecture Series
Victoria, BC: Professor Anatoly Liberman
teaches in the Department of German,
Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of
Minnesota. Apart from Medieval Germanic
Philology, his wide interests include folklore,
history of linguistics, literary criticism, po-
etic translation, and poetry. His publications,
which number almost 500, include studies of
the histories of words, a subject on which he
has given radio talks for general audiences.
His latest book is Word Origins ... and How
We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone,
Oxford University Press, 2005.
Wednesday 18 October
1:30 p.m. - Clearihue C112
“Baldr and the Mistletoe” — Scandinavian
myths tell us that the death of the shining
god Baldr was the beginning of the collapse
of the world. Nearly all the circumstances in
the murder of Baldr are unclear, but the odd-
est of them is the mistletoe, the plant with
which he was killed. The lecture will explore
the development of the myth and try to ac-
count for the appearance of the fateful plant
in the conspiracy that cost Baldr his life.
Thursday 19 October
7:30 p.m. - Clearihue C112
“The Truth about Berserks” — Little is known
about the semi-mythical Scandinavian war-
riors and about the name they bore (ber-
serks). Berserks (plunderers and brigands)
are prominent in the sagas, but the sagas
were written down long after the original
berserks had been forgotten. The lecture will
separate the fictional chaff from the historical
grain in the history of berserks.
Friday 20 October
1:30 p.m. - Clearihue A206
“Icelandic Words Recorded Late” — The
basic vocabulary of Old Icelandic has been
preserved remarkably well until today. Yet
hundreds of words surfaced in Modern Ice-
landic late. Unlike such late appearances
in English or German, the additions to the
vocabulary of Modern Icelandic, unless
they are borrowings, have cognates in the
other Scandinavian languages, and this cir-
cumstance suggests their old age. The gap
between these words’ first attestations and
probable antiquity poses great difficulties for
language historians. They will be at the cen-
tre of the lecture.
LITERATURE
Thursday 26 October
Winnipeg, MB: Lestrarfélag, the Icelandic
Reading Society, meets at 7 p.m. at the Ice-
landic Collection Seminar Room, 3rd floor,
Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Mani-
toba. The group will be discussing W. John
Johnson’s From Steeds to Stars. Everyone
welcome.
Thursday 30 November
Winnipeg, MB: Lestrarfélag, the Icelandic
Reading Society, meets at 7 p.m. at the Ice-
landic Collection Seminar Room, 3rd floor,
Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Mani-
toba. The group will be discussing a film;
more info TBA. Everyone welcome.
MEETINGS
Sunday 29 October
Edmonton, AB: Icelandic Canadian Club of
Edmonton, Norðurljós, holds its Annual Gen-
eral Meeting starting at 7 p.m. at the Dutch
Canadian Centre, 13312-142 Street.
MOVIES
Until 19 October
Chicago, IL: The 42nd Chicago Interna-
tional Film Festival, at various venues.
Icelandic movies on offer include Grímur
Hákonarson’s short Slavek the Shit and Árni
Ólafur Ásgeirsson’s Blóðbönd (Thicker Than
Water). Visit www.chicagofilmfestival.org for
more information.
Thursday 26 October
Toronto, ON: Launch of new movie season
at the National Film Board. We will be screen-
ing Dark Horse, directed by Dagur Kári, an
Icelandic-Danish co-production in Danish
with English subtitles, in cooperation with
the Danish Consulate. This is Dagur Kári’s
second film, after his very successful Nói
albínói. Reception 6:30, screening at 7:30,
NFB, 150 John St. NFB members, students,
seniors $6, others $8 For more info, call Gail
at (416) 762-8627.
Until Saturday 16 December
New York, NY: “Looking In / Looking Out:
Documentaries from Scandinavia”: this fall
The American-Scandinavian Foundation is
pleased to present a selection of the most
distinguished and artistically successful doc-
umentaries from all five of the Scandinavian
countries. The 22 films in the series include
documentaries made in recent years as the
form has gained worldwide acclaim and
popularity as well as several classics show-
casing the genre’s great Nordic pedigree. The
rich and internationally celebrated Scandi-
navian documentary film tradition combines
two impulses: to document the experience of
“the other” and to reflect on Scandinavians’
conceptions of their own national and cultural
identity. At the same time, they (perhaps in-
directly) shed light on what Scandinavians
feel they’re missing in their own societies and
explore the attraction to and fascination with
other cultures. These insightful documen-
taries, which are both funny and scathing,
skewer the self-satisfaction of many hallowed
institutions and traditional “holy cows.” Kristín
Ólafsdóttir’s How Do You Like Iceland? will
be shown Wednesday 1 November at 6:30
p.m. For more information, contact Scandi-
navia House: The Nordic Center in America,
58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th
Streets), New York, NY 10016; phone: (212)
879-9779; www.scandinaviahouse.org.
MUSEUMS
October 21, 22
Gimli, MB and area: The New Iceland Heri-
tage Museum presents A Weekend in New
Iceland.
October 21: 12 noon — Walk to the Rock,
leaving from the museum. Join in the annual
pilgrimage to the White Rock at Willow Point,
where the first settlers arrived on the shores
of Lake Winnipeg. 2 p.m. — New Iceland
Heritage Museum; return to the museum for
a short program and refreshments after your
long walk! Including: a PowerPoint Presen-
tation depicting the extension of Manitoba’s
boundaries, launch of reprinted booklet The
Settlement of New Iceland and launch of a
Community Memories virtual exhibit entitled:
“Gimli: The Evolution of a Community.” Re-
freshments to follow. At 6 p.m. – 125 Cel-
ebration at the Fraserwood Hall! Join us for
a fabulous evening of music, dance, art and
the culinary delights of New Iceland! Featur-
ing the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the
Barvinok Ukrainian Dancers and an array of
art by artists of New Iceland. Tickets are $30
per person or $20 for New Iceland Heritage
Museum members.
October 22: 11 a.m. — Gathering at Sandy
Bar in honour of the aboriginal people and
settlers who lost their lives during the small
pox epidemic of 1876. 12 noon — A Liter-
ary Lunch, a light lunch with presentations
highlighting the rich literary legacy of the
Icelandic settlers that began with the printing
of the Framfari in Riverton. 2 p.m. — Wind
up your weekend with a fabulous perfor-
mance by one of Iceland’s finest performers,
Ragnheiður Gröndal, sponsored by the Gov-
ernment of Iceland.
MUSIC
Bill Bourne tour dates:
October 27 and 28 — Penticton, BC at The
Dream Cafe
Ragnheiður Gröndal tour dates:
October 19 – 21 — Winnipeg, MB at Inn at
the Forks, Currents Lounge 9 p.m. – 12
a.m. all evenings
October 22 — Riverton, MB at Riverton Hall
at 2 p.m. as part of “Weekend in New
Iceland”
October 24 — Vancouver, BC at the famous
Rossini restaurant,162 Water Street.
Telephone: (604) 408-1300.
Doc Walker tour dates:
November 16 — Winnipeg, MB at Winnipeg
Convention Centre, 8 p.m.
Weakerthans tour dates:
October 18 — Halifax, NS at University of
Dalhousie, McInnis Room (Halifax Pop
Explosion)
October 19 — Fredericton, NB at University
of New Brunswick, SUB
TELEVISION
Tuesday 31 October,
Saturday 4 November
CANADA: Wrath of Gods, an incredible be-
hind-the-scenes look at the mounting difficul-
ties faced by the director, cast and crew of
Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf and Grendel,
which was shot in Iceland under financial,
meteorological, and perhaps even mystical
constraints. Filmed by Icelandic director Jón
Gustafsson. Shown 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBC
Newsworld. For more information, visit www.
wrathofgods.com/.
TRAVEL
Mid-October
Montreal, QC: Westmount Travel will pro-
mote a French-language 10-day tour of Ice-
land at the trade and travel show to be held in
mid-October at Place Bonaventure. For more
information contact Bernice Oddson Kinnon,
Westmount Travel, (514)482-9402.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF IONE THORKELSSON
Ione Thorkelsson’s Ossuary 501 is at two locations in Toronto.
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