Saturday, February 11, 2012

Icelandic culture

  • Stirred by Bjorks presence in our city, HuffPost Culture is exploring the cultural offerings of Iceland for the second installment of our Around the World Culture series.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Icelandic sign language is now, for the first time, available to everybody online. Iceland's education and culture minister opened the new internet language learning portal today, which already contains over 1,200 signs.
  • (IceNews)
  • products and culture of Iceland. It represents the true essence of Iceland, its creativity and spectacular natural wonders. The group is comprised of Icelandair, Icelandic USA, Inc.
  • (Marketwatch)
  • Mercury winners The xx have also agreed to perform exclusively at the Isle of Wight festival Bestival, which takes place from 6 - 9 September.
  • (Daily Telegraph)
  • The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras New Music Festival starts this weekend and its theme of Nordic musical culture is perfect now that winter You can catch her again Feb. 1 (same time/place) playing Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnasons Bow to String.
  • (Winnipeg Free Press)
  • The claims were made by Minister of Education and Culture, Katrín Jakobsdóttir to the Alþingi parliament last Friday.
  • (IceNews)
  • Sport is an important part of Icelandic culture. The main traditional sport in Iceland is Glíma, a form of wrestling thought to have originated in medieval times. The oldest sport association in Iceland is the Reykjavík Shooting Association, founded in 1867.
  • (Worldnews.com)
  • GIMLI - If youre hoping to explore your Icelandic heritage, or just want to learn more about the culture, and perhaps support a good cause, there are a couple of informational sessions coming up in Gimli that could afford you opportunities to do just that.
  • (Interlake Spectator)
  • Icelandic indie-folk sextet Of Monsters and Men won't Catch the band while last year's bidding war is still warm.
  • (Wired News)

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