Community Projects

Tónagull po polsku (Tónagull in Polish) was launched in 2019. The music sessions offered to Polish families living in Iceland are weekly group music sessions with parents and children, mostly between 0 and 3 years of age, although all family members are welcome to join the sessions. In the Polish version of the “Tónagull” sessions, the teachers are Polish speaking musicians, and the songs and rhymes are chosen from the traditional Polish repertoire, while following the same structure and methodology as the Icelandic sessions. Initially, the Polish family music sessions received some start-up funding from the Polish Embassy in Iceland (in 2019) for buying necessary equipment such as appropriate musical instruments. Currently, the program receives support at the municipal level through access to free locales at cultural centres (Gerðurberg and Hafnarborg) while families pay a small fee for participation as a token of commitment. Teachers are not always compensated for their work and sometimes their contribution is entirely on a voluntary basis.