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 […]
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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.
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
National Pact on Literacy
The Minister of Education and Culture, Illugi Gunnarsson, and the Chair of Home and School – the National Parents' Association, Anna Margrét Sigurðardóttir, today signed an agreement on the creation of a literacy charter for parents and related promotional material. Áslandsskóli had the honour of hosting the signing, and the ceremony was conducted by the headteacher, Leifur S. Garðarsson. A National Literacy Charter has now been signed, in which local authorities and […]
Conservation and Research Centre
An agreement for a new Preservation and Research Centre for the National Museum of Iceland at Tjarnarvellir in Hafnarfjörður has been signed. This new centre marks an important milestone in the preservation of national heritage in Iceland. It will provide ideal conditions for the preservation of national treasures under the correct security conditions, and well-equipped facilities for curatorial work, teaching and research in the professional field of the National Museum of Iceland, which is the principal museum for cultural heritage. In the building […]
The town council in the national game
The City Council of Hafnarfjörður has decided to enter the National Reading Challenge, thereby logging their reading of books, reports and papers for the next month. What's more, the town council plans to get their families involved in this worthy literacy project. On Husband's Day itself, the national campaign – the National Reading Challenge – was launched, where […]
Gudridur Osk Eliasdottir
At the start of the town council meeting on Wednesday, Guðríður Ósk Elíasdóttir was remembered, as she had recently passed away. Guðríður was a trade union leader and was actively involved in social affairs. She was the leader of the Framtíðin Women's Trade Union in Hafnarfjörður and a former vice-president of the ASÍ. Guðrún Ósk was a stalwart of the trade union movement, where she played a diverse role. She was an alternate town councillor from 1974 and a town councillor on […]