A laurel and a hearty handshake from the curatorial committee:

núna (now) has crossed its half-decade threshold and we are now gloriously embracing our sixth year of stupendous Icelandic and Canadian artistic presentations. As ever we have a scintillating stew of events from both that exotic island in the North Atlantic and right here in Canada; and once again the magic is in the mixture of these two distinct but sublimely compatible cultures.

We’re thrilled to present the North American premiere of The Island, a performance project two years in the making, created through a collaboration of Winnipeg and Reykjavík-based artists, and thoroughly not to be missed. We will be screening the film Everything Everywhere All the Time, a documentary about the beloved musical collective Bedroom Community, whose members created a sensation this past winter with their New Music Festival performances. We’ll be bringing you music, parties, a brain-leavening lecture from Laurie K. Bertram, and more!

Bringing núna (now) together for you to enjoy is the great pleasure of our little six-person Curatorial Committee, though we could not do it alone. We rely for guidance, good humour and much more on our Advisory Board members Atli Ásmundsson, Timothy Samson and Bill Perlmutter and for sheer brute strength and spirit wisdom on our alliterative associate Robbie Rousseau. Also we have a new body to welcome into the fold this year, our Administrator Heidi Ouellette. Welcome! And as ever we would like to thank our generous sponsors, who make it all possible. But of course our greatest patron is you, our public, without whom we would lack any real reason for doing any of this. We sincerely hope you enjoy what you experience at núna (now) 2012, and that you bring all your friends, every last one of them, along with you to enjoy it too.