The group behind Vinabær has now broken ground on its future premises at Stuðlaskarði 2 in the Skarðshlíðarhverfi area. The Vinabær Operations Company is a limited company owned by six individuals and their families, whose purpose is to provide services to the residents of Vinabær, and the company will oversee the construction of the building at Stuðlaskárði. It is planned that the flats will be ready […]
Nordic Day is celebrated on 23 March every year. This year marks 70 years since Hafnarfjörður became a member of the Nordic sister city chain, joining with Frederiksberg in Denmark, Uppsala in Sweden, Bærum in Norway and Hämeenlinna in Finland. Hafnarfjörður also has the twin towns of Tvöroyri in the Faroe Islands and Illulissat in Greenland. Cooperation between the towns began after the Second World War when […]
In light of recent events, the community pledge is reproduced below, with a kind request for the full and active participation of everyone. In light of recent news, it is worth reminding everyone of the community agreement. An agreement which has been in force since Covid-19 arrived in the country in March 2020. We would like to remind you about the community pledge Chcielibyśmy […]
Yesterday, Páll Björgvin Guðmundsson, CEO of SSH, and Ásta Kristín Sigurjónsdóttir, CEO of the Icelandic Travel Cluster, signed an agreement for the Radar in the capital region. The Radar is an innovation and development project by the Icelandic Travel Cluster and is a specific tool intended for managers in the travel industry and related sectors who want to increase their innovation capacity, accelerate important change processes and gain increased insight and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
