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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16/02/2013 | 12:06
Iceland’s Government Offices Attract Naked People
Two men wearing nothing but their birthday suits were spotted racing on the lawn in front of the Government Offices of Iceland in Reykjavík on Thursday night. Not long ago, a foreign tourist was tricked by local girls to strip down in front of the building.
Stjórnarráðið, the Government Offices of Iceland. Photo: Páll Stefánsson/Iceland Review.
In regards to this week’s incident, the Reykjavík Metropolitan Police commented on their Facebook page that “it was unclear what the men’s intention was but it is considered certain that they were not on their way to a cabinet meeting.”
A witness reported the nude men to the police but they had left by the time the officers arrived to the scene.
The witness stated that the men had taken their clothes off in a bus shelter opposite the Government Offices, walked across the street and then run around on the lawn in front of the building.
Afterwards they returned to the bus shelter and put their clothes back on before disappearing into the night.
The police pointed out that the men’s actions are in violation of police regulations and people should not make a habit of stripping in front of the Government Offices.
Besides, “everyone should be aware that running around naked in the frost can easily cause a bad cold, high fever and make people bedridden.”
The police’s Facebook entry has gotten around 500 likes with a number of people commenting.
One person asked whether Icelanders had lost their minds, others suggested that the two men had lost a bet or were trying to catch a cold to get time off work, while others commented that people should have the freedom to run around naked without police interference.
Click here to read more about the foreign tourist who was tricked into running in the nude in front of the Government Offices.
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