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Mr. Gareth Evans (www.gevans.org/), one of the world’s foremost expert in the field of nuclear disarmament held on 4th October a well received public lecture in conjunction with the exhibition, in which he traced the threat posed by nuclear weapons, took a few examples where nuclear weapons were almost used due to misunderstanding, outlined attempts [...]

WHY WE SHOULD ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS An open lecture organized by the Atomic Bomb Exhibition partners, by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans(http://www.gevans.org/), Co-Chair of International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), Convenor of Asia Pacific Leadership Network on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) and former Foreign Minister of Australia, Thursday October 4, at 12:00 in [...]

Elementary school students continue to flock to the exhibition at the University of Iceland and comprehensive secondary school students have also started to attend. In the history course SAG203, taught at the ­Comprehensive Secondary School at Ármúli, students learn, among other things, about the World War II. Heiða Björk Sturludóttur, history teacher at Ármúli,  thought it [...]

The University of Iceland promotes the Exhibition on it’s website, www.hi.is, which has around 11 – 12,000 page views each day. Over the duration of the Exhibition the accompanying image is one of  four rotating pictures that are displayed on the website. Moreover, the image is displayed one the University’s intraweb, Ugla, which is the [...]

On the 18th of September the exhibition opened on the ground floor of the so called Háskólatorg, at the University of Iceland and will be there until the nineth of October. The exhibition will then be moved to the Hof Culture House in Akureyri from the 13th – 29th of October. Already on the first day it gathered a [...]

Web assignments that connect the curriculum of the students of the 10th grade in elementary schools and the exhibition material are an aspect of the exhibition. Thirty-two classes have booked visits to the exhibition, most visit the Reykjavík City Library, but also class visits are still being booked for the University of Iceland, where the [...]

Yuki Ikenobo, master of the Japanese art of flower arrangement Ikebana, bookended her stay in Iceland with a visit to the school Fellaskóli in Reykjavik where she invited 20 students to a lesson in flower arrangements using the Ikenobo method. In no time at all, the children had created their own decorations, which they took [...]

Every seat was taken at Yuki Ikenobo’s lecture on Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging on Saturday the 8th september. Slides from her presentation can be found here: Ikebana Traditional Japanese Culture How to arrange Ikebana Following the lecture and a demonstration, where Mrs. Ikenobo conjured up four beautiful flower arrangements, 40 participants were [...]

On Saturday 8th of September at 13:00, Yuki Ikenobo, one of Japan’s foremost master in flower arrangement,  will be giving a lecture on Ikenobo, a 550 years old variant of Ikebana which is the ancient Japanese art of arranging flowers in accordance to season. (www.ikebanabyjunko.co.uk / history.htm). At 14:00 starts a two-hour-long workshop with Yuki Ikenobo [...]

Friday 31st August, Icelandic State television channel, RUV,  showed images from the exhibition at the end of the Evening News: http://www.ruv.is/sarpurinn/frettir/31082012/lokaskot-afleidingar-kjarnorkusprengju. It is worth mentioning that nearly 3,500 people visited the exhibition in August.