Agenda 17 June 2015

17 June 2015 – Happy National Day in Hafnarfjörður

8:00 Flags lowered and saluting the flag

The Hraunbúar Scout Group is flying 100 flags around the town to mark the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage on 19 June.

10:00 Athletics meeting at the Kaplakriki athletics indoor centre

The FH Athletics Department is organising an athletics competition for children aged 6-10 – born 2005-2009.

The following athletics events will be competed in:
6-8 years: 60m hurdles, 200m hurdles, shot put and long jump.
9-10: 60 m hurdles, 600 m hurdles, shot put and long jump.

Everyone welcome to the meet at the athletics stadium. Competitors will receive a medal at the end of the competition.

11:00 National costume gathering in Flensburg

Annríki – National Costumes and Jewellery provides assistance with wearing national costumes and encourages the people of Hafnarfjörður to wear national costumes from all countries.

12:00-18:00 The Skateboard Club invites the town's residents to skateboarding

Hafnarfjörður Skateboard Club is offering residents free entry to the skatepark at Flatahrauni 14 between 12 and 6 p.m. Skate equipment will be available to borrow free of charge.

13:00 Festive programme at the Hamar

Hafnarfjörður Brass Band
The Threasts Male Choir
Appeal of the mountain women, a hundred women from Hafnarfjörður in national costume
Songs of the Mountain Women: Bergrún Íris Sævarsdóttir
A service, with the Reverend Thorhildur Olafs, parish priest at Hafnarfjörður Church

13:30 Parade from Hamrin to Thor's Square

Walk the new route down Hringbraut towards Læknar, turn onto Lækjargata and Strandgata to Thorsplan. The Hafnarfjörður Brass Band and the Hraunbúar Scout Association lead the parade, along with representatives of sports clubs. The parade includes Vikings, women in national costumes, Sirkus Íslands and others.

Celebrations in the town centre from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The women's children, Eygló Hilmarsdóttir and Ebba Katrín Finnsdóttir, present a children's and family programme at Thorsplan.
14:00 Address by the Chairman of the National Day Committee, Matthías Freyr Matthíasson
14:05 Gunni and Felix
14:30 Circus dance masterclass by Bjarkanna
14:45 Viking Combat – Rimmugýgur
3 pm The Monsters
15:30 Line Long Sock

At Hafnarborg, 14:00-16:00
2:00 pm Electric Elephant
14:45 Senior Citizens' Line Dancing
3:00 pm FH Fencing Department
3:15 pm Dance performance by the Hafnarfjörður School of Choreography

The Quarter Mile Club shows cars and the Gaflars Motorcycle Club shows motorbikes in front of Hafnarborg.

East Street Festival
The residents of Austurgata welcome residents of Hafnarfjörður and the surrounding area to Austurgata on 17th June.
The sailing club Þytur will have boats and kayaks at Læknar.
Horse riding for children from the Sörli Riding Club at Grundartún

The seafront, streets and squares
On the High Street there will be stalls, fairground rides, face painting and street performers.
On Ráðhústorg will be fairground rides, street performers, and the BH table tennis section.
Margrét Björg Gylfadóttir yodels and Margrét Arnardóttir plays the accordion.
The Scouts' coffee stall will be in and around the Red Cross premises at Thorsplan.
The Vinnuskólans Arts Group and Creative Summer Jobs will be on tour.
At the Co-op Square there will be a small bouncy castle, a basketball obstacle course and face painting.

Healthcare institutions
Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir, a singer, and Margrét Arnardóttir, an accordion player, visit hospitals and perform their own arrangements of folk songs and sea shanties, tracing the mood in Icelandic music.

The Bæjarbandið band competition at Bæjarbíó

The Cultural and Arts Society of Hafnarfjörður is hosting the band competition, Bæjarbandið, at Bæjarbíó. Live music from 2 p.m. and free entry.

Port city

Open 12:00-17:00. Free admission. The exhibitions 'No Place' and 'Your Place, Our Environment at Flensburg Harbour' are on display at Hafnarborg.

 At Hafnarborg, 14:00-16:00

2:00 pm Electric Elephant
14:45 Senior Citizens' Line Dancing
3:00 pm FH Fencing Department
3:15 pm Dance performance by the Hafnarfjörður School of Choreography

No place
A photography exhibition focusing on contemporary photographs of Icelandic nature by photographers and artists, all of whom are based in Iceland.

Exhibitors include: Björn Árnason, Claudia Hausfeld, Daniel Reuter, Edda Fransiska Kjarval, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Pétur Thomsen and Stuart Richardson.

The curators are: Áslaug Íris Friðjónsdóttir and Unnur Mjöll Leifsdóttir.

Your place, our environment at Flensburg Harbour
The exhibition is an open studio on a new layout for the Flensburg Harbour. In Sverrissal at Hafnarborg, visitors can familiarise themselves with a large-scale plan of Flensborg Harbour and use it as a basis for their own ideas. There, they can also see older maps and plans, photographs, reports and various other documents relating to the planning of Hafnarfjörður around the harbour. The workshop relates to the City of Hafnarfjörður's preparatory work for a new plan for the area around the marina, which is defined as a mix of a harbour area and a retail and service area. Residents and others will have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the reports and other material used in the planning process, and to submit their ideas.

The project is overseen by Magnea Guðmundsdóttir, architect.

The Quarter Mile Club shows cars and the Gaflars Motorcycle Club shows motorbikes in front of Hafnarborg.

Hafnarfjörður Museum of Local History

Hafnarfjörður Museum of Local History

A lively and informative museum for the whole family. Open 11 am–5 pm in five buildings: the Packhouse, the Sievertsen House, Beggubúð, Siggubær, the Bungalow and Strandstígurinn. Free admission.

The Warehouse, 8 West Street.
The Packhouse is the main exhibition building of the Folk Museum and hosts three exhibitions. A new themed exhibition about the film town of Hafnarfjörður, 'This is how it was… the history of Hafnarfjörður from settlement to the present day', and on the top floor of the building, a colourful toy exhibition for children and adults.

Sívertsens' House, 6 Vesturgata.
The Sívertsen House is the oldest house in the town, built between 1803 and 1805 by Bjarni Sívertsen, who was in his day the most prominent businessman in Hafnarfjörður, running a fishing business, a shop and a shipyard in the town. The house contains a wide variety of information about Bjarni and his family.

Beggubúð, 3b Kirkjuvegur.
The building houses the Museum of Trade and Industry's exhibition. It was built in 1906 as a shop for Egil Jacobsen's business. It was formerly located on Strandgata, the town's main shopping street, but was moved to the museum's grounds, restored, and opened as an exhibition hall in 2008.

Siglufjörður, Church Road 10.
Stepping inside this little house is a truly unique experience. Siggubær was built in 1902 and is preserved as an example of a working-class or fisherman's home in Hafnarfjörður from the first half of the 20th century. In addition, the 'Elves and Belief in Elves' exhibition is open at Siggubær.

Bookless Bungalow, 32 Vesturgata.
The house tells the story of the foreign fishing industry at the beginning of the 20th century, but the building itself is also a unique museum piece and was opened as an exhibition and reception house in 2008 after extensive renovations. The bungalow was built as a residence for the Scottish brothers Harry and Douglas Bookless in 1918, who ran an extensive fishing business from Hafnarfjörður during the first half of the 20th century. They were influential and the town's largest employers for many years, and the brothers' drawing room can be seen in the house.

The Coastal Path
On the promenade along the harbour in Hafnarfjörður, the Hafnarfjörður Folk Museum has an exhibition space for its photography collection. There you can see the photography exhibition „Hafnarfjörður from a Women's Perspective“, featuring photographs from the first half of the 20th century by Sigríður Erlendsdóttir and Ólafía G. Jónsdóttir.

Viking Midsummer Festival at the Fjord Shore

13:00 Market opens
13:30 The Children's Viking School
2:00 pm Fight show
15:00 Storytellers in the hotel's cave
15:30 Mas-wrestling (planka keflis tog)
15:30 The band Hrafnagaldur plays
4pm Fight show
16:30 Archery and Axe Throwing
17:00 The band Hrafnagaldur plays
17:30 Storytellers in the hotel's cave
18:00 Mas-wrestling (planka keflis tog)
6:00 pm The Viking Band plays
19:00 Fight show
20:00 Market close
21:30 Farewell ceremony for the Vikings at the fire pit
22:30 Farewell party at the Vikings'
1:00 am Closing

16:00 FH – Haukar at the Sports Hall on Strandgata

There will be competitions in men's and women's handball in the senior categories. The referees will be Bjarni Viggósson and Ægir Örn Sigurgeirsson. Dansíþróttafélag Hafnarfjarðar will perform a show during the interval. The compère is Helgi Ásgeir Harðarson.

20:00 Evening programme at Thorsplan

The ladies Eygló Hilmarsdóttir and Ebba Katrín Finnsdóttir present the evening's programme at Thorsplan.
8 pm Milkhouse
20:10 Address by the new graduate – Björn Skarphéðinsson
20:15 María Ólafsdóttir performs „Unbroken“
20:30 Friðrik Dór
9:00 pm Eyjólfur Kristjánsson and Stefán Hilmarsson

Transport, traffic closures and keeping dogs

The town centre will be closed to car traffic during the celebrations:

Strandgata: by Lækjargata
Austurgata: by Linnetstíg
Linnet Path: at Fjardar Street and 23 Hverfisgata
Mjósund: at East Street

Disabled parking spaces will be at 1 Linnetstíg.

Residents are encouraged to park legally near the town centre and walk or take the bus to event venues. We point to the numerous car parks at Lækjarskóli, Iðnskólinn, Flensborg, the Strandgata Sports Hall and Víðistaðaskóli.

Leave the dogs at home
It should be noted that dogs are more comfortable at home than in crowds. PLEASE NOTE THAT DOGS ARE NOT PERMITTED AT THE EVENT VENUE.

National Day Committee and Executive Committee

Matthías Freyr Matthíasson
Godbjörg Oddný Jónasdóttir
Guðbjörg Norðfjörð Elíasdóttir

Executive Committee
Andri Ómarsson
Bára Kristín Þorgrímsdóttir
Geir Bjarnason
Linda Hildur Leifsdóttir