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Saturday, December 21st Selection of the week: Haraldur F. Gíslason, chairman of the Icelandic Association of Preschool Teachers, discusses the corporatization of preschools and Jón Þór Þorvaldsson, chairman of the Icelandic Association of Commercial Pilots, discusses the airlines' attempts to dismantle labor unions and social dumping. Ragnar Hjálmarsson, PhD in Governance, discusses the fall of the government and the new political landscape in Germany. Bragi Ólafsson, writer, discusses his new book with Vigdís Grímsdóttir and Oddný Eir. Poetry is on the agenda. Poets Anton Helgi Jónsson, Halla Þórðardóttir and Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir discuss poetry and allow us to hear poems from their newly published books, and six authors perform a dance, Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir, Margrét Lóa Jónsdóttir, Daníel Daníelsson, Birgitta Björg Guðmarsdóttir, Sunneva Kristín Sigurðardóttir and Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir. The couple Ólöf Þorvaldsdóttir and Logi Kristjánsson have written the book Fjall í fangið, which talks about the avalanches in Neskaupstað but also about the community that the floods hit, and Egill Sæbjörnsson, a visual artist, assisted his mother Ágústa Oddsdóttir with her book about Sigríður Björnsdóttir's art therapy, and Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir, a writer, wrote and edited a book about the life of his mother, Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir. Vigfús Bjarni Albertsson, former hospital chaplain, talks about life, death and the struggle for life, and Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, the general priest, talks about faith and the tones of existence, death, life and magic on the occasion of the solstice festival. At the end, activists Sigtryggur Ari Jóhannsson, Pétur Eggerz, Guðbjörg Ása Jóns Huldudóttir, Unnur Andrea Einarsdóttir and Tinna Þorvalds Önnudóttir come and make Christmas cards with clear messages to the leaders. 1 • The Red Table 19. Dec - Arion Kindergarten 2 • The Red Table 16. Dec - Decomposition of the work... 3 • The Red Table 17. Dec - German politics 4 • The Red Table 18. Dec - Book Talk: I... 5 • The Red Table 16. Dec - Poetry Jam 6 • The Red Table 19. Dec - Book Ball 7 • The Red Table 16. Dec - Mountain in the Arms 8 • The Red Table 17. Dec - Writing books with... 9 • The Red Table 17. Dec - The road home 10 • The Red Table 19. Dec - Faith and tones in... 11 • The Red Table 19. Dec - Crafted with a...