UPCOMING YOUTH WORKSHOP: Printmaking Skaftfell invites young people to join the printmaking workshop on Saturday the 3rd of December in the Prent Verk Seyðisfjörður studio on Öldugata 14. The workshop will be led by printmaker Linus Lohmann. Saturday 3rd of December at 10 am - 4 pm Print workshop for 8 years and older Limited space - registration by email to [email protected] The workshop will introduce different printmaking techniques such as linocut and monoprint as well as potato stamps to make wrapping paper. Participants are asked to bring lunch. Sunday 4th of December at 12 - 16 pm The works will be exhibited in the gallery of Herðubreið during the annual Christmas market after which they can be picked up by the makers. The workshop is supported by Múlaþing and Landsvirkjun ___ Prentsmiðja fyrir krakka og ungmenni Skaftfell býður krökkum og ungmennum upp á prentsmiðju laugardaginn 3. desember í vinnustofu Prent Verk Seyðisfjörður, Öldugata 14. Leiðbeinandi er Linus Lohmann. Laugardaginn 3. des kl. 10 - 16 Prent smiðja fyrir 8 ára og eldri. Takmarkað pláss - skráning á [email protected] Mismunandi prenttækni verður kynnt svo sem linocut og monoprint og búin verður til innpökkunar pappír úr kartöflu stimplum. Þátttakendur eru beðnir að koma með nesti með sér. Sunnudaginn 4. Des kl. 12 - 16 Sýning á afrakstri smiðjunnar á hinum árlega jólamarkað í galleríi Herðubreiðar, þar sem þátttakendur geta sótt verkin sín að sýningu lokinni. Verkefnið er styrkt af Múlaþingi og Samfélagssjóði Landsvirkjunar. #skaftfell #skaftfellartcenter #skaftfelleducation #printmaking #skaftfellworkshops #seydisfjordur #easticeland #austurland

SKAFTFELL PROJECTS: Nicola Turner: Myth and Miasma Skaftfell, Austurvegur 42, November 26 – December 15, 2022. British artist Nicola Turner has been in residency at Skaftfell for the month of November. Now at the end of her stay, she is presenting an installation in Skaftfell’s hallway and bookstore on the second floor, entitled Myth and Miasma. The work will be on view from November 26 to December 15. Open during office hours: Monday-Friday from 9:00-15:00. In her artistic practice, Nicola responds to the specific sites in which she finds herself, keeping an eye out for organic waste material to use in her work. By walking the landscape and absorbing the environment around Seyðisfjörður, she informed herself about the local history, farming structures, and geographical features of the place. One of the first features to capture her attention was the floating black circle in the fjord. In response to what she learned about the mysterious ring, she created the project Myth and Miasma. More about the project can be found here: https://skaftfell.is/en/nicola-turner-myth-and-miasma/ www.nicolaturner.art #skaftfell #skaftfellresidencyprogram #skaftfellartcenter #iceland #icelandart #artresidency #seydisfjordur #austurland

We are excited to share installation photographs of new works by our current artist-in-residence Nicola Turner. In her practice, Nicola first considers the distinctive geology and history of a place. She then works with found materials — in this case, discarded wool from a local farm — that she shapes to conform to a landscape or architectural setting, mindful not to alter the site. Ultimately, the works Nicola has made during her residency are designed to be ephemeral. The wool will be recycled for use as booms, to absorb oil leaking from the wreck of El Grillo, the British oil tanker in the fjord that was bombed by Germans in 1944. @nicolaturner.art #skaftfell #landart

OPENING SOON: November 26, 16:00 - 18:00. Skaftfell is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Nína Magnúsdóttir. The exhibition, Lines of Flight / Hársbreidd includes over 20 assemblages by the Seyðisfjörður-based artist and will be on view from November 27, 2022 to January 29, 2023. The new works were made in the aftermath of the devastating landslides of December 2020, that caused the loss of historic buildings, including homes, and led to the temporary evacuation of the town. Displaced from her home and studio, Nína embarked on a series of canvases incorporating hair, as representing something of her body and also separate from it. The process of making the work involved an interplay between the patterns formed by the strands of hair and the artist´s subtle manipulations of them: a meeting of chance and will on the canvas surface. #skaftfell #skaftfellartcenter #seydisfjordur #icelandart #linesofflight #harsbreidd #painting #visitseydisfjordur #visitausturland #samtímalist #contemporaryart #fineart

UPCOMING YOUTH WORKSHOP: Ceramics Skaftfell invites young people of all ages to join the ceramics workshops next weekend 19th and 20th of November in the Heima studio, Austurvegur 15, Seydisfjördur (front entrance). The workshop is developed and led by ceramicist Rikke Høgenhof. Monster modeling - for 5 - 10 year olds Saturday 19th of November at 12-4pm Heima - Austurvegur 15 Bring your monster ideas to life in clay! Parents are welcome. The artworks will be sculpted in clay and painted during the workshop and then glazed and fired by Rikke in the following week. They will be exhibited in Heima on Saturday, 26 November between 14-15, after which they can be picked up by the makers. Reflecting the light - for 11-16 year olds Sunday 20th of November at 12-4pm Heima - Austurvegur 15 We will work with plate technique and make our own candle light holders, thinking about how light can be reflected by cutting out our own patterns in the clay. The artworks will then be glazed and fired by Rikke and ready for pick up at Heima on Saturday 26th of November between 14-15 where they will also be exhibited. Registration: [email protected] Works pictured are unglazed and fired. The project is supported by Múlaþing and Landsvirkjun

FRAMUNDAN: Austfirskir höfundar fylla lestina í ár - Rithöfundalest(ur) verður í Skaftfelli á Seyðisfirði föstudaginn 18. nóvember klukkan 19:00 Skaftfell hlakkar til að bjóða þau Benný Sif Ísleifsdóttur, Jónas Reyni Gunnarsson, Smára Geirsson, Rangar Inga Aðalsteinsson og Jón Pálsson velkomin á föstudaginn. Rithöfundar verða á ferð um Austurland 17. - 20. nóvember að kynna verk sín venju samkvæmt. Að þessu sinni verður Rithöfundalestin alfarið austfirsk þar sem allir höfundar eiga rætur eða eru búsettir á Austurlandi. Kjarna lestarinnar mynda fjórmenningarnir: Benný Sif Ísleifsdóttir með skáldsöguna Gratíana sem er framhald Hansdætra; Jónas Reynir Gunnarsson með skáldsöguna Kákasus-gerillinn; Smári Geirsson með stórvirkið Sögu Fáskrúðsfjarðar; og Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson með þrjú verk, Líkið er fundið - sögur af Jökuldal, kvæðasafn systkinanna frá Heiðarseli og bók um Skáld-Rósu. Aðrir höfundar sem stíga um borð í lestina á mismunandi stöðum eru: Unnur Sveinsdóttir með barnabókina Skotti og sáttmálinn; Ásgeir Hvítaskáld með skáldsögu byggða á sönnum atburðum, Morðið í Naphorni; Jón Pálsson með glæpasöguna Skaðræði; Jón Knútur Ásmundsson með ljóðabókina Stím; Anna Karen Marinósdóttir með ljóðabókina Kannski verður allt í lagi; og Björn Ingvarsson með þýðingar á ljóðum Inúíta. Rithöfundalestin er samstarfsverkefni Gunnarsstofnunar, Skaftfells, Menningarstofu Fjarðabyggðar, menningarsviðs Múlaþings og menningar- og atvinnumálanefndar Vopnafjarðarhrepps. Verkefnið nýtur stuðnings Uppbyggingarsjóðs Austurlands, Síldarvinnslunnar, Alcoa, Atlantsolíu, Brims, Forlagsins, Bílaleigu Akureyrar og Gistihússins á Egilsstöðum. Allar upplýsingar um viðburðina er að finna á Facebook-síðum samtarfsaðilanna. Upplestrarsamkomur Rithöfundalestarinnar 2022: Fimmtudaginn 17. nóv. á Vopnafirði í Uss Bistro Kaupvangi kl. 20:30 Föstudaginn 18. nóv. í Skaftfelli Seyðisfirði kl. 19:00; Laugardaginn 19. nóv. í Safnahúsinu í Neskaupstað kl. 14:00 og í Löngubúð á Djúpavogi kl. 20:00 Sunnudaginn 20.nóv. á Skriðuklaustri kl. 13:30 - viðburðinn verðu líka í streymi.

ARTIST TALK with Skaftfell residency artists Jan Krtička and Nicola Turner. We warmly invite you to a presentation of work and sharing of thoughts by our residency artists. Thursday, November 10, 19:00 - 20:30. Skaftfell, top floor. Sound and installation artist Jan Krtička is based in the Czech Republic, where his work has been widely exhibited. He teaches at the Faculty of Art at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústi nad Labem. Jan’s residency is part of the international collaborative project Gardening of Soul: In Five Chapters, of which Skaftfell is a partner. Funded by the EEA Iceland Liechtenstein Norway Grants, the project explores and commissions public artworks that engage in community building and place making. As part of his residency he is developing a new sound-based artwork using recordings made in Iceland. www.jankrticka.com Based in Bath, UK, British artist Nicola Turner works mostly with sculpture, including found objects and materials. In her practice she investigates the dissolution of boundaries, liminal states, and the continuous exchange of ecosystems, exploring the interconnection of life and death, human and non-human, attraction and repulsion. During her residency in November Nicola intends to create a new body of work responding to the environment of Seyðisfjörður and its surroundings. www.nicolaturner.art #skaftfellartcenter #skaftfellresidencyprogram #skaftfell #seyðisfjörður #artisttalk

RESIDENCY NEWS: We are excited to announce Skaftfell's participation in the international collaborative project Gardening of Soul: In Five Chapters, led by the Faculty of Art at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University and House of Arts in Ústi nad Labem, Czech Republic. Our project partners include four non-profit organizations working with community-building art practices in the Czech Republic, and eight other art organizations from across the world. The 3-year project is funded by the EEA Iceland Liechtenstein Norway Grants @EEA and Norway Grants from 2022 to 2024. Gardening of Soul: In Five Chapters explores and commissions public artworks that engage in community building and place making. The project is particularly interested in the interactive artistic processes bringing these artworks to life, which could be seen as forms of gardening – involving caretaking, listening, placing, growing, activating, maintaining. Outcomes will include two exhibitions at House of Arts, a series of artist residencies and art commissions, a conference and a publication. Curator Adéla Machová and artist Jan Krticka visited us in October as representatives of the Jan Evangelista Purkyne University. Collectively, we worked on Skaftfell's contributions to the project's first exhibition in House of Arts in December 2022, and on artist residencies and art commissions planned in the context of the project. We would like to thank Adéla and Jan for a very productive and enjoyable week and look forward to meeting them again soon in Ústi nad Labem. Jan Krticka will stay on at Skaftfell as artist in residence until mid-November, developing his research on a new sound based artwork with recordings from Iceland. More about Gardening of Soul can be found on the project's website (in process): www.gardeningofsoul.com and at https://skaftfell.is/.../gardening-of-soul-in-five-chapters/ #skaftfell #skaftfellresidencyprogram #skaftfellartcenter #gardeningofsoul #icelandart #publicart #communitybuilding #placemaking #seyðisfjörður #iceland

Aflýst vegna veðurs / cancelled due to weather Dagar Myrkurs: Ljósmyndanámskeið / Photography workshop Halltu upp á DAGA MYRKURS með því að læra að taka ljósmyndir af nátt himninum! Skaftfell býður upp á námskeið í næturljósmyndun með ljósmyndaranum Nikolas Graber á sunnudaginn, 30. október, kl. 19:00 -21:00. Námskeiðið mun fara fram að mestu utandyra, í bakgarði Austurvegs 42 (á bak við Skaftfell). Verð fyrir fullorðnir: 2.500 kr. Frítt fyrir börn sem koma með. þátttakendur þurfa að koma með eigin myndavél (þarf að vera með manual styllingum) og gott er að koma með þrífót. Skráning á [email protected] --------- Celebrate the DAYS OF DARKNESS by learning how to take expert photographs of the night sky! Skaftfell is offering a workshop in night photography with professional photographer Nikolas Grabar on Sunday, October 30th, from 19:00 - 21:00. The workshop will take place mostly outside, in the back garden of Austurvegur 42 (behind Skaftfell). Fee for adults: 2.500 ISK. Free for accompanying children. Participants need to bring their own camera (must have a manual setting) and ideally a tripod. Sign up by sending an email to [email protected] Mynd/Photo: Nikolas Grabar #skaftfell #skaftfellartcenter #photography #seyðisfjörður #dagarmyrkurs #daysofdarkness #nightphotography #workshop

Halló, heyrið þið í okkur? Listasmiðja um loftslagsaðgerðir fyrir ungt fólk fór fram í Skaftfelli og í beinni útsendingu á @seydisfjordur.community.radio síðastliðinn laugardag. Við þökkum öllum frábæru þátttakendum okkar fyrir hugsanir, orð, málverk og litríka steina. Kærar þakkir til Seyðisfjörður Community Radio fyrir útsendingartíma og rausnarlegan tækniaðstoð og sérstakar þakkir til Önnu Margrétar Ólafsdóttur og Signýjar Jónsdóttur fyrir að undirbúa og stýra þessum spennandi degi. Hægt er að nálgast útvarpsþáttinn hér : https://soundcloud.com/seydisfjordur/hallo-heyrid-thid-i-okkur Listasmiðjan er hluti af röð sambærilegra smiðja í sex norrænum löndum, studdar af Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA), sem Skaftfell er aðili að. NAARCA er samstarfsverkefni sem rannsakar hlutverk gestavinnustofa í leit að aðgerðum í loftslagsmálum. Í tengslum við loftslags fræðslu er rannsakað hvernig listkennsla getur stuðlað að því að vinna gegn loftslagskvíða hjá börnum og valdefla ungt fólk í ljósi loftslagskreppunnar. Hello, do you hear us?! Workshop on climate action for young people took place in Skaftfell and Seyðisfjörður Community Radio last Saturday. Thank you to all our wonderful participants for their thoughts, words, paintings and colourful stones. Thank you Seyðisfjörður Community Radio for giving us airtime and generous technical support, and special thanks to Anna Margret Ólafsdóttir and Signý Jónsdóttir for preparing and leading this exciting day. The radio show is accessible here: https://soundcloud.com/seydisfjordur/hallo-heyrid-thid-i-okkur The workshop is part of a series of similar workshops in six nordic countries, initiated and supported by the Nordic Alliance of Artists’ Residencies on Climate Action (NAARCA), of which Skaftfell is a member. NAARCA is a collaborative project researhing the role of artist residencies in the search for climate action strategies. In the context of climate education it investigates how art education can contribute to counteracting climate anxiety in children and foster empowerment. #skaftfellartcenter #skaftfell #naarca #seyðisfjörður #seydisfjordurcommunityradio

Laugardaginn 22. október fer fram vinnusmiðja fyrir krakka 8 ára og eldri í Skaftfelli. Smiðjan hefst kl. 10:00 á þriðju hæð Skaftfells og lýkur klukkan 14:00 á sama stað. Á einhverjum tímapunkti verður farið í gönguferð um bæinn. Boðið verður upp á hádegismat um miðjan dag. Þátttaka í námskeiðinu er gjaldfrjáls. Skráning á [email protected] Í þessari skapandi vinnusmiðju sem er þróuð og leidd af Önnu Margréti Ólafsdóttur og Signýju Jónsdóttur munum við kanna loftslagsmálin í samhengi við nútímann en einnig horfa til framtíðar. Hvað vitum við? Hvað viljum við vita? Er hlustað á áhyggjur okkar? Hvernig mætum við komandi breytingum með hugrekki? Út frá þessum spurningum munum við gera handrit að útvarpsþætti sem verður fluttur í beinni útsendingu á Seyðisfjörður Community Radio 107.1 FM á laugardaginn kl. 13:00. Einnig munum við skapa saman minnisvarða, vörðu, sem mun standa eftir og stækka með árunum og veita jákvæða hvatningu í baráttunni til loftslagsmála. Hello, do you hear us?! Creative workshop on climate action for young people On October 22, Skaftfell offers a workshop on climate change awareness and climate action for children aged 8 and older. The workshop starts at 10:00 in Skaftfell, Austurvegur 42, 3rd floor, and finishes there at 14:00. At some point in between the group will take a short walk around town. A simple lunch will be provided. Participation is free. To register please email [email protected] In this creative workshop, developed and led by Anna Margrét Ólafsdóttir and Signý Jónsdóttir, we will discuss our awareness of climate change in the present and in the future. What do we know? What do we want to know? Are our concerns being heard? How can we address coming changes with courage? Starting from these questions we will produce a script for a radio program which will be broadcast live on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio 107.1 FM on Saturday at 13:00. We will also begin to build a collective sculpture, a cairn, that will grow over the coming years and stand for positive motivation in the fight against climate change. #skaftfell #skaftfellartcenter #naarca