Free entrance and everyone welcome!
Icelandic Sign Language takes over Iðnó, courtesy of performing arts group O.N. productions.
Guests get to learnand ask, play and enjoy, experience artistic events and get to know Deaf culture. This takeover will be a banquet of diverse dishes such as workshops, talks and a sign language café, culminating in the event Shut up and watch! #2 where Deaf artists host a hilarious feast for the senses. In Icelandic Sign Language, with access provided to hearing participants as needed.

Children in 3rd grade Ísaksskóli
The children repeatedly visit the National Museum to view and experience different works and ideas. Their research topics have included coats of arms as well as seals, storytelling, and laid-and-couched embroidery. In conclusion they have drawn, written stories, played games and more.
On view are their drawings of tapestries inspired by the exhibition Creative Hands as well original stories about each one of them. Coats of arms designed by the children are also displayed.

The children have studied Norse mythology and connect their artistic work with exciting stories of old gods and myths. Old mythological names carved in runes form a shield around the finely embroidered and painted center tapestry.

Free entrance and everyone welcome!
Electric bass player Ingibjörg Turchi and her band improvise and play songs from Ingibjörg’s albums Meliae (2020) and Stropha (2023). Her music can be described as a blend of the electronic and the natural. Through repetition, she creates a mesmerising soundscape, broken up with melodic bass lines. Ingibjörg has won multiple awards for her critically acclaimed albums and other work in music.

Free entrance and everyone welcome!

17:00-19:00
A performance by senior citizens where we offer ourselves up to old age with full dignity, in happy gratitude for each year we are granted. We honour and accept old age through a symbolic sacrifical ceremony.
The event takes place in Icelandic

20:00-22:00
A space to dance, to feel the life in your body, the beat of your heart. Senior citizens take us dancing into the night in honour of old age, led by the legendary Sæmi Rokk.

This winter, the children in 5th, 6th and 7th grade in Grandaskóli have created works of art and models based on national heritage and the nation's history. Some are given a modern look, while others take on an adventurous and sometimes scary feel.
The children use only found and recycled materials and show a rich imagination and resourcefulness.

Maximus Musicus is Iceland’s most famous music mouse! Maximus lives in Harpa Concert Hall and who knows, we might meet him at the BIG BANG festival! Maximús’s adventure began in 2008 with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, followed by years of mice outbreak all over the world in many performances by various orchestras. Maxicus is the main star in five illustrated books with music from the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Maximus Musicus is Iceland Symphony’s most extensive educational music project.

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The Pranskter Workshop is an empowering and creative workspace for children, where ethics, empathy, and boundaries are explored through pranks and our connections to them. The work with the children forms the basis for creating a new musical for children.

The City Library welcomes you to our cozy book and craft corner under the stairs. There will be a warm and calm atmosphere where families will have the opportunity to relax between concert programs, check out books, magazines and other relaxing activities. In the cozy corner, music-related crafts will be offered by the City Library's children's librarians. 

Small creative workshops for children between 1 and 4PM.
Music-bookmark workshop!
BIG BANG coloring books!
Can you bead music??