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 […]
Come Celebrate Icelandic National Day with the ICCT Online! Our very first “virtual” event at the ICCT after the onset of the pandemic was the June “picnic” for Icelandic National Day. It was a big leap for us to take our beloved annual picnic event online, but it was a fabulous success and those […]
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 […]
It has been a long and on-going pandemic, and your Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto has been working hard to bring you the members as much online content as possible! But its time to get together and we are now committed to bringing Thorrablót 2022 to our members as our first major in person event. […]
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 […]
December 4th 2pm-4pm 4 Morningside Ave. (near High Park) Come celebrate the holiday season with Icelandic traditions including Jólabókaflóðið (the book flood of Christmas). Betty Jane Wylie’s book on our Western Icelandic heritage will be available: Letters to Icelanders: Exploring the Northern Soul. You might find the cantankerous Yule Cat, Jólakötturinn, lurking in a corner. […]
