On Saturday 12 August, ‘Pan-ArcticVision’ premieres in Vadsø (Northern Norway) with artists from various Arctic corners, a new and distinctive exercise in creating contact and unity across borders in the north: people are welcome to participate, be it first-hand in Vadsøhallen (Eastern Finnmark), at one of the international viewing locations for streaming, or in the thousands of homes. ‘Pan-ArcticVision’ is a northern twist on the ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ and a collection of artists from almost the entire Arctic. According to the invitation from the initiator ‘Nordting‘, an artistic popular movement in the North, it will be a completely new presentation of Arctic music and community. “By extension, we will give the stage and podium to the northern territories, which cannot display their own flag and identity in various contexts. Like Greenland and the Faroe Islands, both parts of the Danish state. Alaska and Sápmi are also other examples,” so the Artistic Director Amund Sjølie Sveen. Organized by Nordting in collaboration with the Varanger festival and several other international partners, ‘Pan-ArcticVision’ is thus part of an ongoing discussion about independence in the North. Nordting is, in its own words, “a nomadic people’s parliament for the North, a party for the periphery – and a separatist movement for the Arctic colony.” Also central to the project is strengthening the basis for Arctic cooperation, which today has a fragile feeling to it: interaction at arenas such as the Arctic Council and the Arctic Arts Summit is partly on ice in the wake of Russia’s war against Ukraine and Western counter-sanctions.
Scene: Vadsø, a Norwegian coastal town 70 degrees North. The show is part of the Varanger festival, with complete film production for international live streaming.
PanArcticVision live-stream from 18:00 (CEST / UTC +2 / GMT +2) at www.panarcticvision.org/
The show is also shown on big screens in various places: ‘Verdensteateret’ in Tromsø (Norway); ‘Hiljaisuus-festivali’ in Kaukonen (Finland); ‘Norðurlandahúsið’ in Tórshavn (Faroe Islands); ‘Katuaq Kulturip Illorsua’ in Nuuk (Greenland); Old Fire Hall at the Yukon Arts Center in Whitehorse, Canada. In addition, screenings are planned in Anchorage, Alaska, in Iceland as well as in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the Russian exile community. See Facebook-events here
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