11 Icelandic projects receive grants from West Nordic Capital Fund
The West Nordic Capital Fund held its annual board meeting on June 24 at Reykjavík City Hall. The board includes mayors and city councilors from Nuuk, Tórshavn and Reykjavík, and the fund supports cultural cooperation between the three cities.
This year brought 51 grant applications, including 24 from Iceland — the highest number on record. In 2023, the board decided to increase the total funding available for 2024 and 2025, since significant surplus funds had built up from distributions made during the pandemic. Each city had 300,000 Danish kroner available for their allocations this year, the same as last year.
Cultural City Reykjavík reviewed the applications and presented official statements about them to the fund's Icelandic board members. The board decided to fund 11 projects after reviewing whether each project's content and scope aligns with the fund's rules and objectives.
The projects are:
West Nordic Voices at RIFF – Reykjavík International Film Festival
Unison String Festival – Anna Hugadóttir
Concert tour to the Faroe Islands – Benni Hemm Hemm and choir
Islands – Icescapes: Climate Change, Social Change – Guðjón Bjarnason and Magnea Marinósdóttir
Hoym – Concert tour – Hoym band
An Imortelle – Katrín Bára Elvarsdóttir
Vestnordiske Stemmer – Nordic House
Voices from the North: A multilingual literary exchange – Reykjavík Poetics
Heysahorn Pan-Nordic Assembly – Snæbjörn Helgi Arnarsson Jack
Klang REYK/THOR – Spectrum choir
Söguhringur Project – Ós Pressan
Reykjavík City congratulates the grant recipients and thanks all applicants for their excellent and engaging proposals.
Representing the City on the fund's board were Mayor Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir and city councilors Alexandra Briem and Kjartan Magnússon.