The board of the ÍBH Elite Athletes' Fund today allocated grants to the member clubs of ÍBH for major championships in 2015 in the senior, junior and youth categories. The board of the fund deemed eighteen projects in the senior categories and sixteen in the junior/youth categories to be eligible for grants this year. The role of the ÍBH Performance Fund is to operate in accordance with its regulations, which include the following categories: travel grants, performance grants on […]
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Primary School Festival 2016
On Wednesday, 3rd February, the Hafnarfjörður Primary School Festival will take place. The youth clubs and primary schools in Hafnarfjörður have been running this project for years, and the festival has been a great credit to the young people and their projects. During the day, there will be performances at the Gaflar Theatre at 13:00 and 15:00, where pupils from the town's schools will showcase the results of all kinds of art-related work. Performance at 13:00 […]
Museum Night in Hafnarfjörður
Museums in Hafnarfjörður are taking an active part in Museum Night on Friday 5 February with a varied programme. In Hafnarfjörður, over twenty events will be on offer. Museum Night is part of the Winter Festival. The Hafnarfjörður Library, the Hafnarfjörður Folk Museum and Hafnarborg will take part in the festival with an active and varied programme. The three museums will be open from 7 pm to […]
Oppose the change
The Family Council of Hafnarfjörður protests the decision by the Health Service of the Capital Region (HH) to move the home nursing service in Hafnarfjörður from its premises at Sólvangur and Fjörður to Kópavogur without any consultation. Efficient use for the benefit of users The Executive Management of HH has decided to merge home nursing in the southern region (Kópavogur, Garðabær and Hafnarfjörður), and it is planned that the new service will begin in May 2016. […]
Magnificent Darkness – Winter Festival
A magnificent four-day Winter Festival will be held from 4th to 7th February, taking place in all six municipalities of the capital region. This is the thirteenth time this festival of light and darkness has been held, and its four main pillars are: Museum Night, Swimming Pool Night, Snow Fun and Light Art, along with 150 related events. The main purpose of the Winter Festival is to entertain people […]
Town Council Meeting, 3 February
A meeting of the Hafnarfjörður Town Council has been called for Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 16:00. The agenda for the town council meeting can be accessed here. The meeting can be watched live here. The broadcast begins at 16:00 on 3 February.
Hafnarfjörður Singing Competition
The Hafnarfjörður youth club singing competition was held this week. This annual competition is a qualifying round for the Samfés Singing Competition, which will be held in the Laugardalshöll on Saturday, 5th March. The competition took place at the Gaflaraleikhúsið, and the venue was packed with a fantastic atmosphere. A total of 14 acts took part in the competition, two acts from each youth club. Acts that had been selected in preliminary rounds as […]
Urban Density – Report
A working group was appointed by the Planning and Building Committee of Hafnarfjörður at the end of 2014 to assess the potential that may exist in the neighbourhoods of Hafnarfjörður and on the edges of the built-up area for urban densification. The group has now completed its work and submitted a report to the Planning and Building Committee, a report which will be presented to the Hafnarfjörður Town Council next week. Work […]
Pressure for ministerial action
A representative of businesses in Hellnahraun and Selhraun in Hafnarfjörður attended a meeting with the Minister of the Interior recently, together with the Mayor of Hafnarfjörður and the Chairman of the Planning and Building Council. At the meeting, two formal letters were submitted concerning the construction of a grade-separated junction at the intersection of Krýsuvíkurvegur and Reykjanesbraut. A junction that is considered extremely dangerous and has long since become a thing of the past. To date, however […]
The Symphony Orchestra
The concert by the Schools' Symphony Orchestra will be held in Langholtskirkja on Saturday, 30th January at 16:00. The piano soloists with the orchestra are Árni Halldórsson, Hugrún Britta Kjartansdóttir and Rebekka Friðriksdóttir, all pupils at the Sigursveinn School of Music. The conductor is Guðmundur Óli Gunnarsson. The programme includes the following works: Jón Ásgeirsson: Fornir dansar – úrval Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 Robert Schumann: […]