Edda
- Free admission
Please join us to celebrate the completion of the Kvennaspor research project. The event is free and light refreshments will be offered.
The programme features presentations by project members, followed by excerpts from a new opera, SILENT // HLJÓÐUR, by Sarah Woods (librettist) and Þórunn Gréta Sigurðardóttir (composer).
The research project Kvennaspor: Unearthing and Foregrounding Women in Icelandic Saga Landscapes was funded by Rannís from 2023 to 2026.
The event is in English but the text of the opera is in Icelandic.
Programme
EDDA Lecture Theatre
10–10.40 Overview by project leaders
- Emily Lethbridge & Sarah Woods, “Traces, Tracks, Stitches”
10.40–11 Coffee
11–12 Presentations by project members
- Zachary Melton, “Foreign Women in Iceland in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries”
- Marie Sophie Besson, “Re-animating the Real: Literary Landscapes and Creative Criticism”
- Maya Bøgh-Andersen, “Women, Landscape, and Historical (Dis)continuities in Hvalfjörður”
- Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, “The Solid Oak and the Marble Statue: Hulda Garborg's Saga Women”
SAGA Ground floor space
12.15–13 Opera performance
- Extracts from the new opera Hljóður // Silent, by Þórunn Gréta Sigurðardóttir (composer) and Sarah Woods (librettist). Performed by Björk Níelsdóttir, Hanna Dóra Sturludóttir and Herdís Anna Jónasdóttir, with Ólína Ákadóttir (piano). Produced and directed by Lil Woods.
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