SONI Board	President Pauline Sch. Thorsteinsson [email protected] Vice President Catherine Dodd [email protected] Other members: Tishk, [email protected] Heike Gerlinde Xander, webmaster, [email protected]

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October 12th-13th, 2000
A Multicaltural Society in Iceland
Conference held at "Grand Hotel" in Reykjavik

Singing, drama & Visual arts for children
This winter a course in the arts will be offered FREE to children ages 7 to 14 at Miðstöð Nýbúa. The course is a cooperative project betwen the Intercultural Children's Choir (led by Júlíanna Indriðadóttir), the artist Ósk Vlhjálmsdóttir, the drama teacher Harpa Arnardóttir, and Miðstöð nýbúa.

The course will be twice a week, one day of which will be choir practice, held at Austurbærskóli on Tuesdays from 5pm until 5.45pm and the other day, Saturday from 12.30pm until 2.30pm will be either drama or art.

Children's choir - The plan is to have between 20 to 30 children of different backgrounds, ages 7- 14, in the choir.Songs will be chosen from the countries of origin of the children.

The visual arts class will be held during October from 12.30pm to 2.30pm at Miðstöð Nýbúa. The teacher, Ósk Vilhjálmsdóttir, works a lot with photography and the children will, among other things, prepare an exhibition in November.

In November all efforts will go into the organizing of the exhibition and choir practice.

For more info or to register please phone Guðrun at: 511-3360

S O M E      L I N K S

A foreigners' representative has started working at the Social Service of Kópavogur
Recently a foreigners' representative began working in Kópavogur. On of her tasks is to promote greater knowledge among town authorities about foreigners' issues and needs. The main goal is to develop a comprehensive town policy regarding immigrants' issues.

The jof of the foreigners' representative is still in development. I would really like to get in touch with residents of Kópavogur who are of foreign descent and learn about their experiences of living in Kópavogur, their needs, and their suggestions about what we can do better and how we can improve their general situation.

In order to succeed, I feel it is essential that foreigners be active participants in the policy development process which is ahead. Therefore I ask all interested parties to contact me for those who desire it.

María Þorsteinsdóttir, foreigners' representative
Social Service of Kópavogur
Fannborg 4
Tel.: 570-1400
e-mail: [email protected]

Jónas Bragi Jónasson - Sculptor
Art studio - Audbrekka 7
IS-200 Kopavogur
Iceland

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 Family ......... 1,500 kr
 Single ......... 1,000 kr
 Students .......   500 kr
 Pensioners .....   500 kr
 Disabled .......   500 kr