The City Executive Council has approved 20 project grants from the City Center Fund for 2023.
The role of the City Center Fund is to ensure that the city center remains an interesting and appealing place for residents and other city stakeholders, the people of Iceland, and foreign guests alike. The goal of the City Center Fund is to encourage diversity in the city center and promoting it as a residential area, as well as a center for commerce, services, daily life, culture, and administration.
The application deadline for City Center Fund grants was Nov. 1, 2023. The fund received 37 applications requesting a total of 50,941,000 ISK in grants.
Grant decisions were based on diversity, innovation, projected audience size, grassroots support, impact on city center development, applicant group composition, project accessibility, long-term impact, synergies, and overall application quality.
The proposal for allocation was presented to the city center consultation forum for official statement, and no comments were received.
Further information about the funded projects.
The following 20 projects will receive funding:
| Project title | Amount: |
| Concert venue R6013 | 2,000,000 kr. |
| Multicultural Winter Lights Festival — music, dance, and craft workshop | 500,000 kr. |
| Memory of summer | 100,000 kr. |
| Jazz í Djúpinu | 800,000 kr. |
| The Negla quartet at Sígildir sunnudagar | 100,000 kr. |
| Love poems and east winds: Concerts at Sígildir sunnudagar | 100,000 kr. |
| KANNSKI | 800,000 kr. |
| Eins og Tjara... Art exhibit at Höggmyndagarðurinn | 100,000 kr. |
| Wasteland Iceland | 500,000 kr. |
| CODAPENT — performing arts therapy | 100,000 kr. |
| African Saturdays in downtown Reykjavík | 300,000 kr. |
| Hringrásarsafnið — second location in 101 | 1,000,000 kr. |
| DRIF web radio in the tower at Lækjartorg | 400,000 kr. |
| Baroque New Year's celebration 2024 | 100,000 kr. |
| Mural artwork in the underpass at Grettisgata 73 | 300,000 kr. |
| Street food festival at Hljómskálagarðurinn — July 19-21, 2024 | 1,000,000 kr. |
| Reykjavík Fringe 2024 | 500,000 kr. |
| Fimmtudagurinn langi 2024 | 1,000,000 kr. |
| Sumarjazz Jómfrúarinnar 2024 | 400,000 kr. |
| Fyrirbæri — multi-complex artist-run space: exhibits and events 2024 | 2,000,000 kr. |
| Total: | 12,100,000 kr. |