The Annual Icelandic Open +
Icelandic Open Golf Tournament – Logberg-Heimskringla, Inc. August 2 2013 – entrance fees $125.00 until June 15 2012, after June 15 2012 $150.00… Read More
Icelandic Classes +
Mondays Calgary, AB: Icelandic Language Study Group. Monday nights at 7 p.m. Classes started on April 1st. There is no… Read More
Literature +
Lestrarfélagið Gleym-mér-eiWinnipeg, MB Lestrarfélagið Gleym-mér-ei, an English-language reading society for Icelandic Canadians and their friends, meets monthly at the Icelandic… Read More

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Christine Antenbring earned bravos at Carnegie Hall

Photo Credit: Anne Burlock Lawver

Author: Ingrid Slobodian, Winnipeg, MB

Christine Antenbring with accompanist Miklail Hallak post performance It was a sold out concert for the Festival Chamber Music’s 20th anniversary season at Weill Concert Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY March 28, 2013. The program included Mozart, Dvorak, and Arbos. Christine Antenbring of Winnipeg was a surprise guest artist, performing one of Iceland’s most beloved songs, Draumalandið, by Sigfús Einarsson. Christine is the granddaughter of noted Winnipeg musician, the late Elma Gislason.

Snippets: little morsels of time from the Seattle INL of NA conference

Author: W.D. Valgardson, Victoria, BC

A detailed baðstofa (living room) from an old turf farmhouse has been replicated in one corner of Seattle’s Nordic Heritage Museum Getting to the INL conference in Seattle this year was easy. Participants could drive from Vancouver or White Rock. For those of us in Victoria, harbour to harbour on the Clipper was two hours and forty-five minutes and no having to deal with airports.
It rained. Let’s get that out of the way first. We’d had weeks of glorious sunshine but on Thursday when we stood waiting for the bus tour to begin, it started raining, it kept raining, and it was still raining when I was waiting outside the hotel for a cab on Sunday morning. As I write this, Monday morning, with the conference over, the sky is blue, the sun is shining, the apple trees have crowns of white blooms.

Fara Heim: Getting there

Author: JJ Sigurdson with Johann Sigurdson, David & Mackenzie Collette

The lookout was key Photo: J. Sigurdson Photo Credit: J. Sigurdson

The second of a four-part series on the Fara Heim expedition, the story picks up from Issue 6, March 15 2013.

The second of a four-part series on the Fara Heim expedition, the story picks up from Issue 6, March 15 2013.

I have to admit I never thought that part of my break from the U of Manitoba would include travelling by small boat down the Nelson River out to Hudson Bay, but I was keen.