{"id":32577,"date":"2026-02-19T14:53:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=32577"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:22:49","slug":"performance-night-haraldur-jonsson-solvi-halldorsson-petals-gigja-jonsdottir-vena-nasrecka","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/menning.kopavogur.is\/en\/event\/performance-night-haraldur-jonsson-solvi-halldorsson-petals-gigja-jonsdottir-vena-nasrecka\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance Night | Haraldur J\u00f3nsson, S\u00f6lvi Halld\u00f3rsson, petals, G\u00edgja J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir &amp; Vena Naskrecka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Everyone is warmly welcome to a performance evening in collaboration with Hamraborg Festival!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performances by:<br>Haraldur J\u00f3nsson<br>S\u00f6lvi Halld\u00f3rsson<br>petals accompanied by S\u00f3lr\u00fan Mj\u00f6ll Kjartansd\u00f3ttir, \u00c6gir Sindri Bjarnason, Ingibj\u00f6rg Turchi<br>Vena Naskrecka &amp; G\u00edgja J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curation: Hamraborg Festival \/ P\u00e9tur Eggertsson.<br>Welcome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist bios:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Haraldur\u2019s works, different materials, languages, and soundscapes are intricately interwoven, appearing to audiences as spatial installations, sound works, and performances. His pieces respond to their surroundings and seek to evoke a sense of place through diverse interventions and methods. They exist at the crossroads of various media and often invite active participation from visitors, who contribute to a fluid creation of meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00f6lvi Halld\u00f3rsson writes poetry, criticism, and performance works. His poetry collection \u00deegar vi\u00f0 vorum hellisb\u00faar was published by M\u00daKK in 2025 and received a New Writing Grant from the Icelandic Literature Center. These days, he sings tenor with Mergur at Tjarnarb\u00ed\u00f3 and is currently working on a manuscript about tolerance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>petals is a multi instrumentalist, composer of frantic musics, a retired poet, and author of kalimba, marsh-river-raft-feather, &amp; glee &amp; bless ~ all titles by guillemot press. petals is interested in cats, bells, playing hard (like her and your life depend on it), improvisation and gathering seemingly irreconcilable sounds and textures. petals also loves arranging flowers and making lamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vena Naskrecka is an interdisciplinary artist working across movement, performance, social theatre, and site-specific installation. She is a graduate of Munster Technological University in Cork and the Minerva Academy in Groningen. 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