Do you want to get involved in a project in Andrými? We are looking for new and old volunteers to join a collective to support the family group and their weekly family mornings on Sundays 🎈

Our house and garden at Bergþórugata 20 has a long and wonderful history as a kindergarten. We want to do more to welcome families into the house and garden, and make it more family-friendly and an inclusive place for children.

The family mornings are a place where parents and kids can come together in a non-oppressive, welcoming and supportive space.

At this meeting we’ll be making a collective to help the family group carry on meeting each Sunday. We’ll organise the work we’ll do to support the group, such as:
– opening the house with the families involved
– making breakfast, tea and coffee
– helping tidy up
– providing child-friendly activities and workshops such as juggling, yoga, crafts, music, games
– reaching out to lonely and marginalised families, particularly the asylum seeker and refugee community in Reykjavík, to include them in the space

You don’t have to be a parent to be involved in this project.

Come and bring your ideas and join us for kaffi this Sunday!

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Accessibility:

The building is currently not wheelchair accessible, but it is our top priority to make it so and we are working on getting city approval to make changes to the building.

There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door), and the washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building).

There is plenty of space outside the house and in the garden to park prams and pushchairs.

Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral, and have both adult and child-sized toilets and sinks.

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Information on the family group [English below]:

Við erum hópur fjölskyldna sem komum saman í Andrými þar sem við skipuleggjum vikulega viðburði á sunnudögum. Komið og takið þátt í að skipuleggja þann heim sem við viljum skapa fyrir fjölskyldurnar okkar, og hjálpið okkur við að láta framtíðarsýn verða að veruleika.

Ykkur er velkomið að koma með mat fyrir fjölskyldu ykkar, og einnig til að deila með öðrum ef þið viljið. Vinsamlegast látið vita ef einhver fjölskyldumeðlimur er með fæðuóþol eða þarfnast aðstoðar, t.d. vegna fötlunar eða öryggis, og við reynum að sjá til þess að allir geti verið öruggir og notið sín.

Við viljum skapa umhverfi sem er skemmtilegt, en um leið berjumst við gegn félagslegri kúgun og umberum hvorki mismunun né ofbeldi. Ætlunin er að viðburðirnir séu aðgengilegir öllum, óháð einstaklingsgetu.

Við bjóðum sérstaklega velkomna þá einstaklinga sem finnst þeir vera jaðarsettir, kúgaðir eða ekki eiga heima í öðrum fjölskyldusamkundum. Sem hluti af Andrými félagshreyfingunni, leggjum við áherslu á samstöðu með þeim sem eru kúgaðir, stuðning við náttúruna, baráttu gegn ofbeldi – þar með talið efnahagslegt ofbeldi – og hvetjum til þátttöku í sameiginlegri ákvarðanatöku.

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We are a group of families who meet in Andrými where we organise weekly events on Sundays. Please join us to relax, talk, create, plan, build, construct, deconstruct, and form the world we want for ourselves and our families.

You are welcome to bring food for your family, and to share, if you would like. If someone in your family has special needs (accessibility, safety, allergies, etc.) we will try to make the space and activities safe and enjoyable for everybody! There is space to relax and some tea and coffee.

We are cultivating an environment for fun and reflection where we fight oppression and do not allow discrimination and violence. The space where we meet, and the activities we organize, are intended to be accessible to people of all different abilities, and we welcome people who may have felt marginalized or excluded from other family groups.

As a part of the Andrými social cooperative, we adhere to the policies of solidarity with oppressed people, support of the natural world, fight against violence including economic violence, and encourage collective decision making.