We are very pleased to have Andri Snær Magnason from Iceland coming to Saga Connections on June 2, 2021 at 7:30pm EDT. Andri Snær Magnason is an award winning poet, writer and documentary film-maker author in Iceland. Magnason’s novel, LoveStar got the Philip K Dick Special Citation 2013, and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire […]
Join us for our first in-person event in over 20 months! Come enjoy an afternoon with noted Icelandic author and environmentalist Andri Snær Magnason This is so exciting! After so long being cooped up in our homes and through our Zoom calls, your Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto is getting together in person! Noted Icelandic author […]
ICCT has been invited to participate in the 2022 Toronto St. Patrick’s Parade on Sunday, March 20, starting at Noon. Brendan Fyfe one of the organizers of the parade is also a fan of all things Icelandic and has attended our Þorrablót on the invitation of our ICCT member, singer and song-writer Lindy Vopnfjörð. Lindy […]
Kinmount is a charming little village in the Kawartha Lakes just north of Fenelon Falls, east of Coboconk. One hundred and forty-eight years ago, a group of Icelandic settlers arrived by train and trekked through the night forest to lumber shanties in the woods where they would stay to work on the foundations of a […]