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On This Day in History!
It was on this day 70 years ago that Dwight D. Eisenhower visited #Iceland. Eisenhower visited as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) for NATO and met with then Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson. Eisenhower would visit Iceland again in 1955 as President, the first time a sitting U.S. President visited Iceland.
Read more about it here⬇️
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1951v03p1/d245
🎬 First week of Nordic Women in Film coming up soon with the screening of the Finnish 2021 #Oscar candidate TOVE, directed by Zaida Bergroth, February 2-3.
***REGISTER NOW UNTIL FEB 1, 2021***
More information and registration below 👇
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In search of freedom and desire...
👉🏼 During the first week of 'Nordic Women in Film', US audiences will be able to watch the Finnish 2021 #Oscar candidate TOVE, directed by Zaida Bergroth. Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nordic-women-in-film-boundless-art-boundless-success-film-screening-tove-tickets-136273494691
🎥 TOVE is about Tove Jansson, who in the midst of her artistic struggles and unconventional personal life, found worldwide success from an unexpected side project: the creation of the beloved world of the Moomins. TOVE is a captivating drama about the creative energy of an iconic talent and her turbulent search for identity, desire and freedom. 🎥
👉🏼 Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw_JrV8HYHE
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We are proud to announce the publication of the Greenland and Iceland - Report of the Greenland Committee Appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development Cooperation. The report contains recommendations on how to strengthen co-operation between Greenland and Iceland as well as analysing current bilateral relations between the two countries. 🇮🇸🇬🇱Read the report here 👉https://bit.ly/2NkoCWw
Ambassador Bergdís Ellertsdóttir and her husband Jón Óskar Sólnes today represented Iceland at the inaugration of the 46th president and the 49th vice president of United States.🌟
Beautiful day in Washington and a historic one. We congratulate president Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris and look forward to continuing our work on strengthening the bond between Iceland and the United States even further. 🇺🇸🇮🇸
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Iceland Naturally
Are you lonely? In 2020, we had to learn how to live socially distanced. Our lives turned inward—isolation and loneliness followed. In Search for Connection, theater artist and writer Eva Rún Snorradóttir takes the pulse on loneliness in her hometown of Visit Reykjavik, Iceland: strangers share how their loss of connection has impacted their lives—and also their hopes for the future. Are you searching for connection too? Listen at satcnyc.org now.
Commissioned and produced by the Scandinavian American Theater Company / SATC, Search for Connection is created by Eva Rún Snorradóttir and presented in collaboration with Borgarleikhúsið. It’s the third piece from the new series, Our Future Stories.
#OurFutureStories was developed as part of #UN75, the world’s largest conversation on #ShapingOurFuture and a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.
Please join us for the Reykjavík Conference and Dialogue 16–18 August 2021: renewing activism to end violence against women.
This international event will be held virtually and in person to support activist leadership, with victim-survivors centre stage.
Learn more here: https://reykjavikdialogue.is/
Please join us for the Reykjavík Conference and Dialogue 16–18 August 2021: renewing activism to end violence against women.
This international event will be held virtually and in person to support activist leadership, with victim-survivors centre stage.
Learn more here: https://reykjavikdialogue.is/
✈ As of today, all passengers must undergo a PCR test upon arrival in Iceland, followed by a 5–6-day quarantine and a second screening at the end of quarantine period. This procedure will remain in place until 1 May, when cautious steps will be taken to ease restrictions, based on the epidemiological situation at passenger's point of departure. 🇮🇸
✈ Skimun á landamærum verður skylda frá og með deginum í dag en í ljósi alvarlegrar stöðu faraldursins víða um heim verður núverandi fyrirkomulag sóttvarna á landamærunum með tvöfaldri skimun og fimm daga sóttkví á milli framlengt til 1. maí. Þá verða tekin varfærin skref til afléttingar sem taka munu mið af ástandi faraldursins á brottfararstað komufarþega.
As of today, all passengers must undergo a PCR test upon arrival in Iceland, followed by a 5–6-day quarantine and a second screening at the end of quarantine period. This procedure will remain in place until 1 May, when cautious steps will be taken to ease restrictions, based on the epidemiologica...
✨ Join us for fiercely intelligent and radiant Nordic cinema this coming February and March 2021! ✨
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#NordicWomeninFilm is five weeks of artistic ambition. Five weeks of cultural exchange. Five weeks of fearless film screenings and conversations.
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📽 Get the chance to see #Oscar-nominated and award-winning cinema and meet their cast and crew! 📽
Every week between February 2 and March 3, you will have the chance to watch a contemporary Nordic film between Tuesday and Thursday, and meet online for a Q&A and themed conversation each Wednesday.
🇫🇮 February 2-3: Tove (dir. Zaida Bergroth, 2020)
🇩🇰 February 9-11: Queen of Hearts (dir. May el-Toukhy, 2019)
🇳🇴 February 16-18: Hope (dir. Maria Sødahl, 2019)
🇸🇪 February 23-25: Lucky One (dir. Mia Engberg, 2019)
🇮🇸 March 2-4: And Breathe Normally (dir. Ísold Uggadóttir, 2018) And Breathe Normally / Andið eðlilega
More information on the special events following soon, stay tuned.
💥 Registration for the screenings and events will open on January 18 💥
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Nordic Women in Film is a collaboration between the Embassies of Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in Washington D.C. and by Women in Film and Television International and Women in Film and Video DC.
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Iceland Naturally
Join us for a virtual Q&A with Iceland’s official Academy Awards entry 𝗔𝗚𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗝𝗢𝗬’s director Silja Hauksdóttir and actors Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir & Donna Cruz, as part of the first weekend of our Nordic & Baltic Oscar Contenders series, screening across the U.S. January 7-10, organized by ASF + Scandinavia House and Scandinavian Film Festival L.A.
𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 # 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲: bit.ly/NordicBalticOscarContenders1
Agnes Joy trailer: youtu.be/VAiJqBvUgWA
Moderated by NY Baltic Film Festival programmer Jūle Rozīte. Supported by Iceland Naturally.
Iceland has successfully moved away from fossil fuels and shifted to 100% electricity production from renewable sources.
The island nation has developed high-tech greenhouses to grow organic vegetables and embraced sustainable fish farming, ecotourism, breakthrough processes for carbon capture and disposal, and efforts to restore the forests that were lost in earlier centuries.
Read more in the Guardian coverage on Iceland´s innovations to reach net-zero.
Isolated and challenged by a harsh climate and battered by the financial crisis of 2008, Iceland has successfully moved away from fossil fuels and shifted to 100% electricity production from renewable sources
Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson
Krefjandi ár að baki. Ég óska ykkur öllum gleðilegs nýs árs og þakka fyrir árið sem var að líða. Við höfum sannarlega verk að vinna á nýju ári!
US Embassy Reykjavik Iceland
We are all moved into our new US Embassy Reykjavik Iceland, and we were excited and honored to greet the Icelandic Ambassador to the United States, Bergdís Ellertsdóttir.
"We are blessed to welcome Ambassador Bergdís to America's new home in Iceland," said Ambassador Jeffrey Ross Gunter. "The relationship between America and Iceland has never been stronger, in part because of her tireless work with her tremendous team in the Embassy of Iceland Washington DC."
Besides the extensive tour, Ambassador Bergdís graciously met with our tremendous team member, Helga Magnúsdóttir, in Cultural Affairs, sharing information about the importance of Disability Rights in America and here in Iceland.
In addition, Ambassador Bergdís met with Deputy Chief of Mission Michelle Yerkin, discussing Michelles's Native American heritage and the importance of women leadership around the world.
A wonderful visit and a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the tremendous relationship between two historic free and democratic Allies, #America and #Iceland.
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Starfsfólk sendiráðs Íslands í Washington óskar ykkur gleðilegrar hátíðar og farsældar á nýju ári 🌟
Opnunartími sendiráðsins yfir hátíðarnar er eftirfarandi:
24-27 desember, lokað
28-30 desember, opið frá kl. 9-16
31. desember - 3. janúar, lokað
☎️ Í neyðartilvikum bendum við á neyðarnúmer utanríkisráðuneytisins (+354 545-0112) sem er opið allan sólahringinn. Einnig er hægt að senda tölvupóst á netfangið [email protected].
Kærar jólakveðjur!
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The staff of the Embassy of Iceland in Washington DC wishes everyone a happy holidays & a wonderful 2021 🌟
The opening hours of the Embassy over the holidays are the following:
December 24-27, closed
December 28-30, open between 9 am – 4 pm
December 31 – January 1, closed
☎️ In case of emergency please contact the Consular Affairs Unit of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs by calling +354 5450112 or sending an e-mail to [email protected]
The Icelandic Christmas period is an intriguing mixture of religious practice and traditional folklore, beginning on 23 December and ending on Epiphany, 6 January.
As many countries do, Iceland celebrates Christmas mostly with good food and gifts to loved ones, but unlike most countries that have a single Father Christmas / Santa Claus character, Icelandic children are fortunate enough to be visited by 13 Yule Lads.
Icelandic children place a shoe in their bedroom window each evening in the 13 days leading to Christmas. Every night one Yuletide lad visits, leaving sweets and small gifts or rotting potatoes, depending on how that particular child has behaved on the preceding day.
Today on December 21 Gluggagægir Window-Peeper came to town.
Read more about our lads and their parents here: https://bit.ly/2WCBokJ
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This week we are very happy to introduce our two fantastic Honorary Consuls in Minnesota.
Örn Arnar has been Iceland´s Honorary Consul General in the state for the past 25 years and Katrín Sigurðardóttir has been Honorary Consul for 3 years.
A part from covering the State of Minnesota they also cover Iowa and South Dakota and other surrounding areas if needed. There are many Icelanders and Western Icelanders in Minnesota that they enjoy helping out.
In addition to promoting Icelandic culture and roots in Minnesota and assisting Icelanders in the area, Örn has been involved in work with the Icelandic Manuscript Institute at the University of Iceland (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum) in locating, preserving and digitizing all the literary material in books and other written material that the Icelandic immigrants brought with them. That way it can be made available to everyone, spreading the Icelandic literary culture.
The Icelandic Coast Guard‘s EOD unit stars in NATO‘s holiday card this year, which was also recorded in Iceland. The unit has been involved in NATO’s peacekeeping missions for many years, for example in bomb disposal training in conflict areas.
Gleðileg jól! 🎄
Happy holidays from all of us at NATO.
It's been a challenging year and we wish you a safe and stronger new year
#WeAreNATO
Fulbright Commission Iceland
On December 15th, 2020, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development Cooperation and the #Fulbright Commission Executive Director signed an agreement to continue the Fulbright-MFA Arctic scholar grant program for another three years.
With reference to the importance of observing social distancing, we were unable to get together for this event. Each signatory happily signed in his/her office.
For further information please visit the Fulbright Iceland website.
https://fulbright.is/fulbright-iceland-ministry-for-foreign-affairs/
🔬🦠A new Icelandic study on the coronavirus shows that younger children are less likely to get sick or to infect others. 🦠🔬
National Geographic was given exclusive access to the results from the study. Icelandic researchers monitored every adult and child in the country who was quarantined after potentially being exposed this spring, using contact tracing and genetic sequencing to trace links between various outbreak clusters, and found that children under 15 are half as likely as adults to be infected, and only half as likely as adults to transmit the virus to others.
For more information click the link below 👇
Big decisions around COVID-19 and children have been heavy on politics and short on science. New large-scale studies are changing that.
Iceland Naturally
Iceland’s holiday season is full of unique traditions and exciting celebrations. One of the most well-known Christmas customs is the telling of the #YuleLads story, a staple in the country’s rich historic folklore! Enjoy the famed Icelandic story featuring the 13 Yule Lads, “Christmas is Coming,” read by Icelandic actress Erla Skúladóttir in the Árbæjarsafn / Árbær Open Air Museum in Visit Reykjavik. https://icelandnaturally.com/article/watch-christmas-coming-icelandic-story-christmas-yule-lads/
Information for Icelanders traveling to Iceland during the holiday season👇
❗️✈️Sóttvarnarlæknir varar enn við öllum ferðum til útlanda og eru öll lönd skilgreind sem áhættusvæði. Farþegar til landsins hafa val um tvöfalda skimun, með 5 daga sóttkví á milli, eða 14 daga sóttkví. Skimun á landamærum er gjaldfrjáls til 31. janúar.
📄Mótefnavottorð frá löndum innan EES/EFTA-svæðisins verða tekin gild frá 10. desember nk. ef þau eru frá rannsóknarstofu í EES/EFTA ríki (auk Andorra, Mónakó, San Marínó og Vatíkaninu) þ.m.t Íslandi. Vottorð má vera á pappír eða rafrænt. Metið er við komuna til landsins hvort vottorð telst fullgilt og er ákvörðunin á ábyrgð sóttvarnalæknis.
Klínísk sjúkdómsgreining er ekki tekin gild.
ℹ️Sjá nánar á vefsíðu landlæknis: https://www.landlaeknir.is/um-embaettid/greinar/grein/item43707/Vottord-vegna-fyrri-sykingar-af-voldum-COVID-19-tekin-gild-a--landamaerum-fra-og-med-10--desember-2020
Inspired by Iceland
Did you know that on an average every day, we scroll through 22.7m (74,5ft) of bad news? That’s a long way to go to end up in a grumpy mood.
It looks like you need a break from doomscrolling.
It looks like you need to joyscroll instead.
Visit joyscroll.com and scroll away where 22.7 meters of Icelandic joy awaits you!🎉
#joyscrolling #joyscrollingiceland #joyscroll #lookslikeyouneediceland #inspiredbyiceland
The Icelandic Yule Lads are coming to town! ❄️
Iceland’s Christmas Yule Lads are a staple in Iceland’s rich historic folklore. During each of the 13 nights leading up to Christmas, a Yule Lad comes down from the mountains to bring children gifts or candy – and sometimes even to play pranks. Each Yule Lad has unique characteristics, like the Sausage-Swiper who is known to hide in the rafters and steal sausages or Door-Slammer who stomps around and slams doors, keeping everyone awake.
Before they go to sleep, kids take one of their best shoes and leave near an open window. Come morning the shoe will contain a small gift from the Yule Lad that arrived on that night. However, this only works if the child has been good – if he or she has been bad, the shoe will contain only one lonely potato.
Be sure to keep an eye out for the Yule Lads arriving on the following dates:
December 12 – Sheep-Cote Clod
December 13 – Gully Gawk☃️
December 14 – Stubby
December 15 – Spoon-Licker
December 16 – Pot-Scraper
December 17 – Bowl-Licker
December 18 – Door-Slammer
December 19 – Skyr-Gobbler
December 20 – Sausage-Swiper🌭
December 21 – Window-Peeper
December 22 – Doorway-Sniffer
December 23 – Meat-Hook🍖
December 24 – Candle-Stealer
Which Yule Lad are you most like? Take the quiz below to find out and let us know in the comments!
Iceland’s Christmas Yule Lads are a staple in Iceland’s rich historic folklore. It’s believed that during each of the 13 nights leading up to Christmas, a Yule Lad comes down from the mountains to bring children gifts or candy – and sometimes even to play pranks. Each Yule Lad has unique cha...
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It is time for #NordicJazz - online! Washington DC's #Nordic Ambassadors invite you to enjoy jazz from home. Every day June 22-26 at 12 PM EDT. Join the Facebook event here http://bit.ly/nordjazz2020 #NordicsinUS
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🇫🇮🇸🇪🇮🇸🇳🇴🇩🇰 The five Nordic countries' Embassies in D.C. celebrated Pride with locals last weekend in order to show our support for the LGBTQI+ community and to promote equality and human rights. #Nordics4Equality #ThrowbackThursday #PrideMonth #LoveIsLove Music: Beautiful Sight (feat. Barbasauce) - Neko Fuzz Embassy of Denmark in the United States Embassy of Sweden in the U.S. Norwegian Embassy in Washington Embassy of Iceland Washington DC Embassy of Finland in the U.S. Capital Pride Human Rights Campaign
We #Nordics invited The Phillips Collection visitors to test their #Nordic language skills. No easy task. See the results here. 🔊 Volume up! 🔊 Translations: Icelandic Hrekkjavaka – Halloween Eyjafjallajökull – Name of Icelandic volcanoinland Embassy of Finland in the U.S. Hyvää yötä – Good night Rakkauspakkaus – Affectionate word for your loved one Embassy of Sweden in the U.S.: Flaggstångsknoppspoleringsmedel – Acorn polishing Älgförvaltningsområdesansvarig – Accountable for management of moose populated area Räksmörgås – Shrimp Sandwich Norwegian Embassy in Washington: Humørsyk – Moody Skjærgård – Waterfront Embassy of Denmark in the United States: Bæredygtighed er en dansk værdi – Sustainability is a Danish value Hygge gør danskerne lykkelige – Hygge makes Danes happy
Sigurður Flosason quartet live at Nordic Jazz DC
In 1918 Iceland became a sovereign country.
in 1918 Iceland became a sovereign country.
It is not to late to get your tickets. Olga Vocal Ensemble will perform at Strathmore tonight. @OlgaVocal tickets at www.strathmore.org We hope to see you there !
Whole Foods Markets in Washington D.C. and surrounding areas promoting Icelandic lamb, Icelandic skyr, cheese, butter, seaweed and chocolate. Chef Siggi Hall came from Iceland an did his magic and cooked up some lamb-soup “kjötsúpa”. Fun was had by all and it looked like that the customers enjoyed Siggis cooking..
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