Press Archive

Links to selected press coverage for Nuna(now) 2011      

( This Section Currently Under Construction )


“ Einangrun og einmanaleiki á íslensk-kanadískri eyju” Fréttablaðið, September 1, 2011 http://vefblod.visir.is/index.php?s=5344&p=117683

Article on The Island in Reykjavik in Frettatiminn http://issuu.com/frettatiminn/docs/12_agust_2011/50

“Ghosts Give Icelanders That Haunted Feeling” Interlake Spectator Roger Newman Sunday, May 29th, 2011 http://onlineenterprisenews.info/2011/05/29/ghosts-give-icelanders-that-haunted-feeling/

“Rich and riveting: Iceland and Canada converge at Manitoba’s “nuna (now)” festival” Tuesday May 10, 2011 http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/other/2011/05/10/lots-to-take-insoon-at-nunanow-festival-in-winnipeg-and-gimli/

“Iceland Arts Festival in Manitoba” Iceland Review May 2011 http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/Iceland_Arts_Festival_in_Manitoba_0_377757.news.aspx

2010           

“Arm in Arm—Nuna(now) festival links Icelandic and Canadian Cultures Through Art,” cover story, Winnipeg Free Press, April 29, 2010: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/the_tab/arm-in-arm-92393189.html

“Manitoba and Iceland Converge with Nuna (now),” Manitoba Music News, April 29, 2010: http://www.manitobamusic.com/news/4148

“Nuna Festival showcases Manitoba and Icelandic performers,” Interlake Spectator, April 30, 2010 http://eedition.interlakespectator.com/doc/Interlake-Spectator/InterlakeSpectator/2010042901/2.html

“The Weakerthans to Premiere New Documentary We’re the Weakerthans, We’re From Winnipeg”, Josiah Hughes: http://exclaim.ca/News/Weakerthans_to_Premiere_New_Documentary_Were_Weakerthans_Were_From_Winnipeg

“Nuna festival ends on a high note with Gimli shows,” Interlake Spectator, May 21, 2010: http://www.interlakespectator.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2596506

“Nuna Festival response” Cliff Eyland - June 2nd, 2010:  http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=385

Review of Olof Arnalds Concert, Gutter Snipe News:  http://www.guttersnipenews.com/music/concert-reviews/olof-arnalds/

“Top 10s of 2010” Uptown Magazine:  http://www.uptownmag.com/music/features/Top-10s-of-2010-112963724.html

“Nuna now!” Winnipeg Culture on Every Corner, May 7, 2010: http://www.cultureoneverycorner.ca/calendar-of-events/event/1271/nuna-now

“Nuna now events continue on weekend,” Interlake Spectator, May 14, 2010: http://www.interlakespectator.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2589878

“Lord of the Ring Road” Iceland Review, Stephanie Orford: http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/upload/files/atlantica/atlantica0111.pdf

Documentation of Visual Artists Sara Riel’s mural created for nuna (now) 2010: http://www.sarariel.com/myndir/2010/nunanow/nunanow.html

Four interviews and performances on City TV Breakfast Television in May, 2010, available on DVD.

 

2009

“High Nuna: Icelandic artists & performers invade city for annual multi-culti fest”, Winnipeg Sun, April 23, 2009, Taylor Burgess http://www.winnipegsun.com/entertainment/music/2009/04/23/9212491-sun.html 

“And Núna, please welcome the afi of Icelandic rock…” Winnipeg Free Press, April 23, 2009,  Alison Mayes: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/the_tab/and-nuna-please-welcome-the-afi-of-icelandic-rock-43527307.html

“Múm with Sin Fang Bous and Hildur Guðnadóttir – October 30/09 @ Pyramid Cabaret” Stylus Magazine, Dustin Danyluk: http://stylusmagazine.ca/archives/288

“Symphony of sounds, light and dark installed in Gimli” Interlake Spectator, Jim Mosher: http://www.nugget.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=1582875

“Núna (now) expands Interlake component” Interlake Spectator, Jim Mosher: http://www.interlakespectator.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=1541873

“From Iceland to our Land: A Q&A with LayLow” Winnipeg Sun, Taylor Burgess, April 2009: http://www.winnipegsun.com/entertainment/music/2009/04/23/9212496-sun.html

“Get revved in Gimli on Lay Low” Interlake Spectator, http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=1560372

“Digital duet: Local multimedia artist’s Avatar melds technology and movement into a laptop dance” Alison Mayes 10/15/2009: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/the_tab/digital-duet-64345187.html

“Dancer gives lonely vloggers compassionate critique” Winnipeg Free Press, Alison Mayes, 10/17/2009 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/dancer-gives-lonely-vloggers-compassionate-critique-64661807.html

2008

“nuna (now) Transliterates Art” Interlake Spectator, Jim Mosher: http://www.communityarts.mb.ca/documents/No.2MCNAAward.pdf

“Year of thought-provoking, life-enriching art” Winnipeg Free Press Stacey Abramson, 12/30/2008: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/year_of_thought-provoking_life-enriching_art.html

“Audition at aceartinc.” response by Cliff Eyland - June 3rd, 2008 http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/index.php?id=200

“Major Maker’s Lindy Vopnfjord Revisits His Icelandic Roots” CHARTattack, Scott Bryson http://www.chartattack.com/news/53769/major-makers-lindy-vopnfjord-revisits-his-icelandic-roots

“In The Future…Wolf Parade, The Buzzcocks, And Núna! A Winnipeg Music Blog: http://paintingoversilence.blogspot.com/2010/04/in-futurewolf-parade-buzzcocks-and-nuna.html

“Future of major music festival uncertain: Global economic crisis may cause Winnipeg to lose major sponsor, damage local community” Joe Kornelsen See page two of: http://uniter.ca/pdf/uniter-2008-11-06.pdf

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Online supplement to Issue 11, 2008  http://www.lh-inc.ca/documents/Iss11_Nuna08_diary.pdf

“Drawing Restraint 9 - by Matthew Barney” Blog response by Takashi Iwasaki: http://www.itsmyfuture.ca/takashi/?cat=8

Press from an exhibition support in conjunction with Truck Contemporary Art Gallery in Calgary 2008: http://www.truck.ca/index.php?action=view&exnumber=63

“Sundogs”: The Idea of North” Canadian Art http://www.canadianart.ca/online/see-it/2008/04/24/sundogs/

“Contemporary Icelandic art a survey in excess: Truck hosts six artists in booze-fuelled cultural exchange” by Anthea Black: http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/arts/visual-arts/contemporary-icelandic-art-survey-excess/

“The best of visual arts: A good year for Calgary exhibitions and institutions” Anthea Black in Visual Arts: http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/arts/visual-arts/the-best-of-visual-arts-3116/

2007

“Membranes and beauty” Winnipeg Free Press, 04/19/2007 http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/historic/32200944.html

“NUNA (now) EVENT GUIDE” Winnipeg Free Press, 04/19/2007: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/historic/32200954.html

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Online supplement to Issue 9, 2007: http://www.lh-inc.ca/documents/website_NUNA_2007_000.pdf

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Online supplement to Issue 10, 2007: http://www.lh-inc.ca/documents/website_NUNA_Iss10_000.pdf

“Absent sound, present booming” The Manitoban,Timothy Brown: http://www.archives.themanitoban.com/2006-2007/0411/125.Absent.sound.present.booming.php