Liverpool to host Icelandic culture festival

For four days the streets of Liverpool will be flooded with a vibrant display of Icelandic culture. From November 29th until December 2nd, the ICE2007 festival will fill Liverpool’s streets with Icelandic art, music and films.

Ingi Thor Jonsson is the brain behind the event. “Our purpose is to bring a taste of Iceland to the north of England, and to bring an exciting roster of young Icelandic talent to the attention of the British public. Reykjavik’s only a couple of hour’s flight time away yet, still, Iceland feels as far away as Fiji to most people. This festival aims to change all that,” Ingi explained.

The festival brings together a wild mix of cultural elements from Iceland. Leading musicians from the country will take to a variety of stages. Photography and art exhibitions will be hosted in a number of locations throughout the city alongside movies and films from Iceland.

Merseyside schoolchildren can enter a short story and art competition to be judged by Icelandic authors and anyone can stop by the Racquet Club on Chapel Street to sample Icelandic cuisine served up by Ragnar Omarsson.

“We aim to highlight the burgeoning Icelandic economy and its British connections,” Ingi says, “but, most importantly, we want festival visitors to experience the very best of Icelandic arts and culture, in a range of venues around the city and Merseyside.”