23 Jan 2020English musican, singer and songwriter Damon Albarn has long dreamt of composing a piece about the view from the window of his house in Iceland.
3 Nov 2017A unique copy of a vinyl record by Icelandic songwriter and musician Ásgeir is now floating somewhere in the North Atlantic Iceland off the coast of Iceland.
5 Apr 2017Reykjavik Fashion Festival took place in Harpa in the end of March. The festival's new CEO has high hopes for the festival and for Icelandic fashion, and wants to further the export on Icelandic design.
1 Apr 2017Icelanders had for years a complicated relationship with Harpa after a troublesome start, but not anymore. Harpa manages to put on many faces, to be a platform for events for pretty much every angle of society. It also houses two great restaurants.
30 Dec 2016There are three locations in Reykjavik ideal to go and watch fireworks at midnight on New Year’s Eve. The weather forecast is ideal for fireworks so there is bound to be a good show.
17 Oct 2016The new, exciting virtual-reality exhibition Björk Digital – currently in London – will open at Reykjavik’s Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in November.
5 Oct 2016Children and adults will delight at the forthcoming performances by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at Harpa Concert Hall of Disney's Fantasia - accompanied, of course, by a screening of the legendary animation.
15 Sep 2016Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon will be among those attending the 2016 Arctic Circle Assembly to be held in Reykjavik on 7-9 October.
13 Sep 2016The Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik has been named one of the world’s Top 5 most beautiful concert venues by CNN Style.
26 Aug 2016Tomorrow night sees the glittering competition to select Miss Iceland – the lucky winner will be Iceland’s representative at the 2016 Miss World pageant in Washington DC, USA, on 20 December.
13 Jul 2016Legendary American singer-songwriter Burt Bacarach performed some of his greatest hits to a packed-out Harpa in Reykjavik yesterday evening.
29 Jun 2016Reykjavik’s iconic Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre has been named Europe’s best Meetings and Conference Centre for 2016 by Business Destinations magazine.
23 Mar 2016Keflavík Airport and Reykjavik’s Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre have decked themselves in the black, yellow and red colours of Belgium.