EVENTS
May
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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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Model Feared She Would Freeze to Death in Iceland
Alyssa Miller, who models for the 2013 swimwear issue of Sports Illustrated, stated she had feared she would freeze to death wile posing in a bikini for a different photo shoot at Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon in Iceland.
Jökulsárlón. Photo: Páll Stefánsson/Iceland Review.
“I had to lay across an iceberg in a bikini,” Miller was quoted on latimes.com. She described the experience as “the craziest shoot” she had ever participated in. “I thought I was going to die. We had to do five minutes on, then take time off so I could warm up.”
Iceland is becoming a popular destination for film crews and photo shoots; supermodel Bar Refaeli helped organize a photo shoot where a model posed in front of what appeared to be a burning plane wreck on Sólheimasandur in South Iceland.
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