Sálufélagar invite you to a party in honor of our image,us Icelanders. At this gathering, everyone isconscious of privilege, and we will celebrate inclusivity and diversity. Here you can be the best version of yourself.

Close your eyes. Listen to the silence. You are alone. Feel the moss beneath your feet. Sense the power in the depths of the earth, how it flows up and into your naked flesh. You and the untouched nature become one and you feel how small you are in the vast wilderness: innocent, pure, untamed, mysterious, foreign, – but familiar. This is the land of the unexpected, the land of secrets. Your land.

Sálufélagar is a performance art group founded in 2015 by Nína Hjálmarsdóttir and Selma Reynisdóttir. The group uses devised methods in staging the self and the image. Earlier performances include Mátulegt (2015), which premiered at the 2016 NEU/NOW festival in Amsterdam, and Soulmates (2016). Independent Party People first staged as a ‘work in progress’ in Mengi, August 2018. Following that performance Sálufélagar received funding from the Iceleandic ministry of education and culture to make a full-scale production of the concept.

This performance is in Icelandic.

Creators and performers: Davíð Þór Katrínarson, Jónmundur Grétarsson, Nína Hjálmarsdóttir og Selma Reynisdóttir.

Director: Brogan Davison
Project Managers: Nína Hjálmarsdóttir og Selma Reynisdóttir
Set design: Katerina Blahutová
Assistants in dramaturgy: Brogan Davison og Pétur Ármannsson
Music: Sigrún Jónsdóttir
Lighting: Aron Martin Ásgerðarson
Costumes: Tanja Huld Levý
Marketing and PR: Heba Eir Kjeld
Photographer: Owen Fiene
Graphic design: Jón Kári Eldon

The project is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

OPENING CELEBRATION OF LÓKAL 2019

Honorable assembly, dear guests. Dear friends and family. Honorable guests, friends and family, moderator. Honourable moderator, companions, ladies and gentlemen. Beloved friends. Beloved family and gathering, gathily, famering, fatherly, gamering, assembly, president and representatives. The show is about to begin. Please take your seals

Artist Snæfríður Sól Gunnarsdóttir will open the festival with a ritual.

Three Inspireres will give artist talks on their creative process. The Inspires are: Eirún Sigurðardóttir – fine artist/performance artist, Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir – writer and Margrét Bjarnadóttir dancer/performance artist.

New artistic directors will go over the program shortly. Skál and the bar is open.

Friday 20th september at 8 pm in Tjarnarbíó

Icelandic Snitsel-
Janus Bragi Jakobsson og Loji Höskuldsson:

Performative lecture using found material, mainly icelandic family- and home videos.

In many families there were camcorders and in most homes a camera. Often there was one man who documented all towns happenings, most of the time rather diligently but the purpose was unclear as there were few places to show the recordings.
Through the years Janus has collected those gems and with the help and accompaniment of Loji Höskuldsson shown few of those videos on so called Snitsel-nights.
Under the same umbrella these documentations become a slice of Icelandic reality, about its values, it self, its memories and professionalism but above all the will to connect with others.
The videos are the documentarists idea about life, a little like the endless documentation is a presentation of their loneliness and the fear of being forgotten. We as an audience are left with the notion that loneliness can best be transferred simply and cheap. Loneliness is best naked, clear and desperate.

After the show:
Music at the bar
Árni Vilhjálmsson, just released his record Slightly hungry. Árni is a member of the electro band FM Belfast and the Performans group Kriðpleir
mynd

Free entrance to all this years LÓKAL performances! All work on the festival are works in progress.

SUNDAY 22TH SEPTEMBER AT LÓKAL IN TJARNARBÍÓ

The day starts with a festival brunch at 12 pm in Tjarnarbíó. We encourage everyone to come and then go and straight after and see Kveikjur.

Kveikjur – the festivals workshop. Artists participating in the workshop show the weeks work. – 2 pm-

Artists participating in Kveikjur:

Andrea Vilhjálmsdóttir with a seed sprung from a box of her own children’s clothing, forgotten but kept in the attic for the past 25 years.

Ragnar Ísleifur Bragason with a seed sprung from a hotel-lobby manager working night shifts and listening repeatedly to a song by an Icelandic pop band with epic lyrics, centering around the epochs of every man’s life.

Ragnheiður Harpa Leifsdóttir with a seed sprung from the attraction of theatre seen from the people working behind the scenes.

Tatjana Dís with a seed sprung from dreams and all that is uncomprehensible

Free entrance to all this years LÓKAL performances! All work on the festival are works in progress.