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G! Festival names seven more artists for 2021 line-up

The G! Festival has revealed an additional seven names to be featured on the 2021 edition of the acclaimed music event — five ...
By Alda Nielsdóttir / Portal.fo3 days ago0
Arts & Culture

Artist Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir awarded National Culture Prize 2020

The Faroe Islands’ National Culture Prize 2020 was awarded to artist Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir at a ceremony in Løkshøll, Runavík, on January 13th. The ...
By Sverri Egholm / Portal.foJanuary 14, 20210
Arts & Culture

Video: World record-holding ocean rower Livar Nysted interviewed

VIDEO: Traveler-filmmaker-photographer Danny Rest interviews Faroese adventurer, artist and world record-holding ocean rower Livar Nysted.
By Local.foDecember 29, 20200
Arts & Culture

Roundabout in undersea Eysturoy Tunnel to be lit up by huge Tróndur Patursson art piece

Last week it was announced that Eysturoyartunnilin (The Eysturoy Tunnel), the new giant subsea road tunnel connecting the Faroese capital Tórshavn to two ...
By Alda Nielsdóttir / Portal.foDecember 1, 20200
Arts & Culture

With a Faroese tinge: Posta releases new Christmas seals

Posta, the Faroese postal service, has published this year’s new collection of Christmas seals. Again this time around, profits from the sales will ...
By Local.foNovember 6, 20200
From left to right: Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs, Hjalmar P. Petersen, Jógvan D. Hansen, Rakel Helmsdal og Maria Róadóttir Jæger (Image credits: Tórshavn Municipality)
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Literature and culture prizes from Tórshavn City Concil awarded on Thursday

At a secret ceremony at Müllers Pakkhús, The Tórshavn City Council awarded this year’s Faroese Literature Prizes and the City Council’s Cultural Prizes ...
By Ingi Samuelsen / Portal.foOctober 12, 20200
Arts & Culture

Faroese might soon be available on Google Translate

Currently, Google Translate supports a lot of languages, but sadly, Faroese is not among them – yet. On next year’s budget, the Faroese ...
By Alda Nielsdóttir / Portal.foOctober 5, 20200
Ólavsøka is the national holiday of the Faroe Islands (Image credits: Jens Kr. Vang)
Arts & Culture

Ólavsøka 2020: Different but as normal as possible

This year’s Ólavsøka, the national holiday of the Faroe Islands, also called St Olaf’s Day, will be as normal as possible, Tórshavn Municipality ...
By Sverri Egholm / Portal.foJune 26, 20200
Image credits: Sverri Egholm
Arts & Culture

Sprotin to release Greenlandic–Faroese dictionary this week

On Friday, 21 February, the Faroese publishing house, Sprotin, is adding a new dictionary to their collection of free online dictionaries. The new ...
By Ingi Samuelsen / Portal.foFebruary 19, 20200
Arts & Culture

Dánjal á Neystabø and Búi Dam won this year’s Geytin award

On Saturday, it was once again time for Geytin, the annual Faroese film awards, and as always, the event was held in the ...
By Alda Nielsdóttir / Portal.foFebruary 17, 20200

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