It's the final episode of the first season of Fellow Travellers, and there's no better way to end it than by asking the ultimate questions: what is East of Moon?

Josie Anne and Arnar Sigurðsson get together to hash it out, and in the process explore the value of community, the difference between countryside and urban cultural activity, and how it works to bridge the gap.

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This episode was recorded in East of Moon's home, hafnar.haus.

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For our tenth episode we are doing another review; this is where we take the time to look back over the conversations we've had thus far, and reflect on the themes and ideas raised. Anna Marjankowska joins Josie Anne in the studio to discuss the moments and concepts that resonated with us from episodes 06-09.

Read Anna's piece on Artistic Intervention as a Direct Action on our website, or find out about the game she is developing. If you are interested in the work Anna is doing with East of Moon, you can email her.

This episode was recorded in East of Moon's home, hafnar.haus.

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Atli Freyr Hjaltason is a folklorist and ethnologist who is deeply embedded in the folk dancing community in Iceland—and beyond. Atli shared with us his perspective on communities built around traditional cultural activities, the challenges they face, and what lessons other types of communities might be able to learn from them. 

You can follow the Folk Dance Association of Reykjavík on Facebook—look out for their Sagnavaka events for an easy and fun way to try out Icelandic folk dancing.

This episode was recorded in East of Moon's home, hafnar.haus.

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Alec Shaw is a cognitive neuroscientist and linguist, currently completing his phD from the University of Zürich. But he is also a member of Andrými, a radical social space and associated community in downtown Reykjavík. In this honest and genuine conversation, Alec reflects on the challenges communities can face, and how success feels like community joy.

craic
noun [ U ] Irish English
/kræk/

enjoyable time spent with other people, especially when the conversation is entertaining and funny

This episode was recorded in East of Moon's home, hafnar.haus.

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Nanna Gunnars is the founder of RVK Fringe Festival and co-founder of Huldufugl theatre company. She joined East of Moon to talk about how Iceland joined the worldwide movement of Fringe festivals, and the challenge of building an inclusive, exciting environment without facing burnout.

RVK Fringe takes place from the 2nd to the 8th of June 2025

This episode was recorded in East of Moon's home, hafnar.haus.

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Brendan Arnold is the UK government's first ever "Creative Technologist". Brendan works for Policy Lab, a cross-disciplinary innovation team which is part of the UK civil service and is established to enhance policy making through design and innovation and people centred approaches.

Policy Lab has a blog.

You can connect with Brendan Arnold via Linkedin and Twitter.

This episode was recorded in East of Moon's home, hafnar.haus.

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For our fifth episode we decided to take a look back at the conversations we’ve had so far and reflect on what we have taken away from listening to the ideas our different guests have presented to us. East of Moon founder Arnar Sigurðsson joins Josie Anne in the studio to discuss the moments and concepts that each episode has raised. 

This episode was recorded in East of Moon's home, hafnar.haus.

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Ægir Sindri Bjarnason is a musician and sound engineer, who runs a rehearsal and  venue space in the basement of a domestic house in downtown Reykjavík. Named 'R6013' after the old license plate he and his brothers nailed to the door when they were teenagers, the space has become an important home for experimentation in the music scene in Iceland.

Want to go to an R6013 gig? Follow them on Facebook or Instagram.

Want to support Ægir's work to maintain a grassroots music space in Reykjavík? You can do so via his Patreon.

This episode was recorded in East of Moon's home, hafnar.haus.

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Gamithra Marga is  a programmer and the co-founder of the Icelandic Association for Humane Technology (Samtök um mannvæna tækni). She joined East of Moon to talk about social media, AI, and why we should be more scared of ourselves than a robot uprising.

You can find out more about Gamithra's plans to change the world here:

https://gamithra.notion.site/fixing-the-world-b567b7e8cdb4445ca14389d74f273349

Want to learn Icelandic? Download TVÍK!

https://tvik.is/

This episode was recorded in East of Moon's home, hafnar.haus.

Find us at eastofmoon.com or reach out to [email protected].

Anna C W De Matos is the CEO and Founder of Circular Library Network (CLN), as well as Munasafn RVK / RVK Tool Library and Hringrásarsafnið. She joined East of Moon to discuss how her work has grown and developed from an solution for a city, to an idea that is making an impact globally. 

You can find out more about Circular Library Network here: https://www.circularlibrary.network/

This episode was recorded in East of Moon's home, hafnar.haus.

Find us at eastofmoon.com or reach out to [email protected].