VÆB urges a phone-free summer
It was packed at Thorsplan when the musical brothers from VÆB turned up on Monday and entertained primary school pupils in Hafnarfjörður. The aim was to encourage a phone-free summer, to be together in the real world and look each other in the eye.
Let's look into each other's eyes all summer
It was packed at Thorsplan on Monday when the musical brothers from VÆB turned up and entertained primary school pupils in Hafnarfjörður. The third-year class were the first to arrive and sang in the summer, ably led by the singer Guðrún Árný. Then the VÆB brothers arrived and took the already high-spirited atmosphere to the next level.
It's clear the brothers are very popular; yes, it became crystal clear when the town's middle school pupils, following the Year 3s, flocked to the stage after their performance of our Eurovision entry this year., To calm.
Phone-free during the summer holiday
However, the brothers Matthías Davíð and Hálfdán Matthíassynir were not just there to sing. Their purpose was clear. They were on behalf of the parents' council and the City of Hafnarfjörður to encourage a phone-free summer holiday.
„Let's look each other in the eye! You know what that means. Boom,“ says Halldór, raising his characteristic glasses. „We're not going to be on our phones. We're going to look each other in the eye,“ says Halldór in a video that resulted from the get-together. The brothers encourage everyone to meet up with friends and family and have fun.
„It's a bit like that,“ says Matthías – “let's not be on the phone.„ Hálfdán: “Yeah, it's simple. Let's go."
Let's be good role models
Kristín Ólöf Grétarsdóttir from the Hafnarfjörður parents„ council appears in the video and encourages us all to take part and be good role models. "This is a collaborative project for all of us and we all have to take part. Let's look each other in the eye. Put down our phones and do something fun together.
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Let's Face It is an initiative by the parents' council and the City of Hafnarfjörður that has been running all winter. The concert was a kind of culmination of the vigorous work this winter, but the 'Let's Look Each Other in the Eye' and 'Phone-Free' initiatives were recently recognised by the national association of parents' committees for homes and schools. Yes, this harvest is truly gratifying, and Monday will be a day long remembered. The news agency of Stöð 2 and Vísir was on the scene, and their report perfectly captures the atmosphere in Thorvaldsen Square.
Yes, let's keep in touch face-to-face and have fun this summer!