Exhibition of +100 Quilts, Merchant Hall, Quilters’ Café, Viking Village and more. May 21 - 26 2018 in Ailsa Craig, Ontario Admission $10, Youth (13-21) $5, Children FREE Visit their Website for full details.
CHILDREN OF NATURE (Börn Náttúrunnar) The only Icelandic film ever nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's moving breakthrough feature is a poignant, elegiac, and lightly magicrealist portrait of what (and who) was lost in Iceland's drive towards modernization. The film opens as the aged Þorgeir (Gísli Halldórsson) bids a silent […]
Join us for our second Saga Connections event -- Monthly online seminars with extraordinary content! Our second Saga Connections will be an intimate discussion with noted Icelandic Canadian author W.D. Valgardson. Bill will be discussing the many talented Icelandic Canadian fiction writers in Canada who have helped shape our collective feeling of community. Event Synopsis: […]
Our third Saga Connections event will be Part 2 of the Kinmount story: Rediscovering Kinmount. This will follow up the Part 1 discussion we had on December 3, 2020 where Don Gislason, Gail Einarson-McCleery and historian Guy Scott told the story of the original Icelandic immigrants who arrived in Kinmount in 1874. Part 2 will […]
Our Icelandic Christmas Gathering on December 19th, 2021 Online at 2 pm Come celebrate the holiday season with the ICCT Virtual Christmas Celebration! We have a fun-packed event to appeal to the young and young-at-heart. As a special guest, we will be joined by Icelandic textile artist Margrét Guttormsdóttir who will talk about the ancient […]
Saga Connections is pleased to be hosting Bettyjane Wylie on Saga Connections, Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 at 7:30 pm EST. The theme will be Exploring a Northern Soul. You might know Bettyjane as our high spirited, witty ICCT Board member or from her regular and entertaining articles in our Fálkinn newsletter. But did you know […]
