EVENTS
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Reykjavík Queer Choir Spring Concert
Reykjavík Queer Choir’s annual spring concert will be held at 6:30 pm on Friday, May 24, at Harpa concert hall.
The choir is known for a wide variety of music and will perform pieces from different categories, from old Icelandic choir songs to new pop songs in Icelandic and English.
The choir was founded in the July 2011 and has since performed at multiple events including the opening ceremony of Reykjavík Gay Pride.
The spring concert is a fundraising event for the choir’s trip to Dublin in the summer of 2014 where the choir is scheduled to take part in Various Voice, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered choral event.
The conductor is Helga Margrét Marzellíusardóttir.
For more information visit harpa.is.
Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús
Exhibitions
Erró – Graphic Art, 1949 – 2009
For the first time the general public are able to view Erró’s graphic art spanning half a century. The exhibition is the result of three years’ work researching and registrating the
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Herring Unmoved by Low Frequency Sound
Attempts at pushing the surviving herring in Kolgrafafjörður, West Iceland, out of the fjord with low frequency sound have been unsuccessful.
The herring in Kolgrafafjörður. Photo: Páll Stefánsson/Iceland Review.
According to manager of the marine resources division at the Icelandic Marine Research Institute (Hafró), Þorsteinn Sigurðsson, there are likely more than 200,000 tons of living herring in the fjord.
Specialists from Hafró are currently in Kolgrafafjörður considering other alternatives, visir.is reports.
An estimated 52,000 tons of herring died in the fjord. Work on burying the dead herring with the use of heavy machinery continues. It is expected that up to 15,000 tons of herring have been buried in the area so far, while approximately 1,000 tons of grútur, herring fat, has been removed to be disposed of at a different location.
The fish are believed to have died due to lack of oxygen in the fjord caused by a landfill and bridge constructed across the fjord in December 2004.
Read more about this story here and here.
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