What is water worth? The United Nations has celebrated World Water Day on 22 March since 1993. The UN's aim with the day is, among other things, to raise people's awareness of the essential need for access to clean water, but today, around 2.3 billion people lack access to safe water. One of the United Nations' Global Goals is precisely to ensure […]
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Hafnarborg's Autumn Exhibition 2021 – winning proposal
The Art Council of Hafnarborg has selected *Community of Sensing Beings*, curated by Wiola Ujazdowska and Hubert Gromny, as the autumn exhibition for 2021. By inviting a diverse group – artists, scholars and others – to participate in the exhibition, the curators aim to create a platform where multiple voices meet and different possibilities of expression and perception are explored. In this way, the exhibition will […]
Formal graduation from the 65+ Multifaceted Health Promotion Programme
The formal graduation from the 'Comprehensive Health Promotion for 65+ in Hafnarfjörður – a Path to a Successful Later Life' project, run by Janus Health Promotion, took place at Hafnarborg on Tuesday, 2 March. This is the third group to reach this milestone, but the project began in early 2018. A group of participants who have completed this two-year project […]
Hafnarfjörður Style and Style 2021 – circus is the theme this year
Hafnarfjörður Style was held at the youth centre Setrið in Setbergsskóli at the beginning of March. This is an ambitious design competition in hair, make-up and fashion, and the contestants in Hafnarfjarðarstíll will take part in Stíl 2021 – the young people's design competition – which takes place tomorrow, Saturday, 20th March. The theme of this year's competition is […]
Artists of the Year 2021 exhibit at Hafnarborg
On Saturday 20 March, the exhibition Magic Meeting – a Decade Later will open at Hafnarborg by the Spanish-Icelandic art duo and recipients of the 2021 Icelandic Art Award, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, together with the flexible artist and activist collective The Magic Team. It is now ten years since the artists last held a solo exhibition at Hafnarborg, then based on the 1944 constitution, and likewise a decade has passed since […]
The Hafnarfjörður map service is a powerful real-time source.
The map service allows you to see Hafnarfjörður and its surroundings in a new light. It is a powerful tool for getting to know our town better. The Municipality of Hafnarfjörður is placing an ever-increasing and greater emphasis on digital services and communication for the town's residents and other stakeholders. Over the past few months, a great deal of work has been carried out to update, refine, expand and enhance the map website […]
Is your child entitled to a special sports and leisure grant?
Applications are open for a special sports and leisure grant for children from lower-income households until 14 April. The project aims to level the playing field for lower-income families to participate in organised sports and leisure activities. Attention is drawn to the fact that […]
Public consultation: Master plan for the harbour area
Amendment to the Master Plan for the Harbour Area in Hafnarfjörður. A public meeting is being called for 17 March 2021 from 17:00 to 18:30 at Norðurhellu 2, where a proposal for an amended master plan for the harbour area in Hafnarfjörður will be presented. The number of participants in the room will be in accordance with government guidelines on gathering sizes and distancing. All attendees are kindly requested to wear […]
Construction on the North Bank
Work has begun to install a sub-base at the old steel sheet pile at the North Shore, but in accordance with the recently approved plan for the North Shore area, a rock armour will be installed in front of the bank, and the surface will then be finished with footpaths, lighting and planting later this summer. Area in accordance with the shoreline at the bottom of the fjord The older steel wall at Norðurbakki on the eastern side is now over 60 […]
Jón Jónsson chats about a healthy lifestyle
The City of Hafnarfjörður takes its preventative role seriously and has, among other things, chosen to offer preventative education within Hafnarfjörður's primary schools. For eleven years, the affable Hafnarfjörður musician and former footballer Jón Jónsson has been visiting all Year 8 pupils in the town's primary schools to talk to them about a healthy lifestyle. These days, the visits […]