Reykjavík Festival City

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RVK Feminist Film Festival has a simple aim, strengthen female film directors and equalize gender deficit in the film business all over the world. 

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Dark Music Days is a festival of contemporary and new music which takes place during the darkest period of the Icelandic winter at the concert hall Harpa.

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The long winter days of darkness in Reykjavík will be illuminated magnificently at the city’s next annual Winter Lights Festival.

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Amazing nature, nightlife and northern lights in fantastic international and local company. 

1. March every year

The Icelandic Annual Beer Festival is an annual celebration of beer freedom with a four day festival starring the best of the Icelandic beer trade along with selected international ones.

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With extraordinary culinary talent, a selection of quality Icelandic ingredients combined with countless adventures and the chance to experience Reykjavík’s world famous nightlife, the Food and Fun festival mixes a variety of exciting elements to create the ultimate recipe for fun.

4. - 9. April 2020

Watch blues artists from Europe, Iceland and North America perform together in some of the most unique jam sessions in the Northern Hemisphere.

21.-24. Apr 2021

This biannual festival has been held since 1985 and is one of the most important literary festivals in Europe. Meet authors, attend readings and seminars or dance with your favourite author at the Literary Ball!  

21.-26. April 2020

Children's culture, culture for children and culture with children, these are the three main aspects of the Reykjavík Children’s Culture Festival: a week-long arts and culture festival dedicated to children and youth.

21.-24. May 2020

RAFLOST electronic art festival is an annual boost to the grass root of Icelandic electronic arts.

06.-07. June 2020

One of the main goals is that families can come to the Old Harbour, and have a fun day with all kinds of events with reference to the sea and its surroundings, without cost. Everything that the festival offers is free of charge. Sailing´s, entertainment, food taste, playgrounds, competition´s etc.

6.-21. June 2020 

The Reykjavik Arts Festival is a biennial  multidisciplinary festival with a special focus on new commissions and the creative intersection of the arts.

16.-17. June 2020

Cycle Music and Art Festival is sprung out of the mere interest of creating a platform where experimental music and visual art are given an opportunity to engage in dialogue and experiments.

16.-21. Jun 2020

 Hafnarfjörður town hosts the annual Viking Festival, which is the oldest and biggest festival of its kind in Iceland. Visiting this festival will make you feel like you have been transferred back in time a thousand years or so.

17. June 

The Icelandic National Day celebrations in Reykjavík take place annually in the city centre on June 17th from 10:00 in the morning until 19:00. 

24.-28. June 2020

Design March showcases the best creations straight from the Icelandic design scene, with fresh, exciting, exotic and under the radar treasures. The scene is small and intimate, which means you’ll get the chance to meet all the stars of local design.

26.-28. June 2020

The Secret Solstice Festival takes place over the summer solstice during the brightest part of the year, and is establishing itself as a major event in Icelandic music. 100-150 acts perform at the festival each year from a variety of genres, both domestic and foreign, established and up-and-coming. 
 

04.-12 July 2020

A celebration of all art forms, new and old artists on the fringe. Local and international artists perform all over the city at the height of summer presenting a variety of theatre, dance, circus, comedy, poetry, drag, burlesque, children's shows, magic, new media and more. 

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Vikings and tent camp will be at Austurvöllur between 12.00 and 17.00 everyone is welcome. It is free for everybody. Speak to us and get a glimpse of days long gone. Take a look at our outfits and equipment. There could be some sagas told. This a part of a project called Landnámsmenning 2019 sponsored by the city of Reykjavík.

31. - 2. August 2020 

Innipúkinn is a 3-day annual music festival held in Reykjavik, Iceland the first weekend of August.

04.- 09. August 2020

This colourful event brings tens of thousands of people into the city centre every year to show solidarity and to have fun with the LGBTQ community in Reykjavik. People of all genders, friends, relatives, and a fast growing number of tourists, all come together to celebrate and support universal human rights.

22. August 2020

Culture Night is now a permanent fixture in the annual calendar of events in Reykjavík and marks the start of the city’s cultural year, when museums and theatres and other cultural institutions launch their annual programme of events.

29. Aug.- 05. Sep 2020

The festival hosts performances in a variety of styles, from contemporary jazz and the avant-garde to Latin jazz, gospel and big bands. It features many acclaimed international Jazz players as well as Iceland’s leading Jazz musicians. 

10.- 12. Sep 2020

Extreme Chill festival, a yearly festival in Iceland moved now permanently to Reykjavík. Established in 2010, it is Iceland's longest running festival focusing on electronic music and related arts.

14.- 22. September 2019

LÓKAL is a performing arts platform that produces and introduces contemporary performance to audiences in Iceland and connects local performance practitioners with fellow artists and presenters from abroad.

24. Sep - 4. Oct 2020

For eleven days every fall since 2004 Icelandic people and tourists alike go to the cinema to enjoy the best and freshest of international filmmaking.

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FAR Fest Afríka Reykjavík is a musical and cultural Festival, held every year in the beginning of October in Reykjavík City. 

08.-11. Okt 2020

The International Festival of Children’s Literature: In the Moorland is a children’s and youth literature festival held biennially.

09. October 2020

The Imagine Peace Tower is a work of art conceived as a beacon to world peace by the legendary artist, musician and peace advocate, Yoko Ono. The work is designed in the form of a wishing well from which a powerful tower of light beams. The words IMAGINE PEACE are inscribed on the well in 24 different languages.

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The aim of the festival is to produce and present progressive visual art with special focus on time-based mediums, such as performance, sound art, video and public interventions.

04.-07. Nov 2020

Iceland Airwaves is a critically acclaimed international music festival showcasing the hottest new international bands and the best up-and-coming Icelandic artists.

This festival week is packed with a multitude of performers and spectators. The programme consists of music, design, fashion, photography, paintings and theatre, and reflects current trends in young people’s art. Unglist is unique, awesome and supercool. The future is now, don't miss it!  Enjoy it!

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For four days, we’re taking over the city with a festival of national and international dance, performance and choreography.

Date to be announced

Sónar Reykjavík is the Icelandic outpost of the global alternative music festival series. With other festivals in Barcelona, Istanbul, Hong Kong, and Bogota, each Sónar is set in a cultural hotspot.