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18-12-18
The highly profiled and internationally renowned cultural leader and producer Ragnheiður Skúladóttir is today employed by the board of the Arctic Arts Festival in Harstad, Northern Norway as the new director. Skúladóttir is currently the managing director of Iceland Dance Company, and artistic director of the international theater festival LÓKAL in Reykjavík.
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08-06-18
The Arctic and a Northern perspective is once again the theme for the festival design for the Arctic Arts Festival. This year designed by local graphic designer Simen Justdal.
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26-05-18
Festival director Maria Utsi presents the program for the 54th Arctic Arts Festival. With recent years' focus on large global and Arctic questions, this program's direction is towards the people living in the North. In a time where algorythms control our reality and we live in our own echo chambres, it has never been more important to communicate with each other. The festival program for 2018 is filled with debates, workshops, conversations and seminars where the audience is invited to participate.
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14-02-18
The innovative Arctic Arts Pilot project won the NPU-award for 2017 in the category "includes most". The award is presented by Audiences Norway, a network of national and international art and cultural institutions.
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13-02-18
Since 1997, the Arctic Arts Festival has awarded scholarships to young, unestablished artists. These youth art projects have consolidated their position in the Arctic Arts Programme, and both the audience and the press are interested in these projects. Now artists with an affiliaton to Northern Norway may apply for support to realise their ideas for art projects.
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23-06-17
During the Arctic Arts Festival there will be a photo service, providing fresh photos from each day.
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20-02-17
The Arctic Arts Festival proudly presents a dance performance with the events of the Second World War in the North as the framework. This is particularly relevant to emphasize today, in light of the lack of recognition of the northern Norwegian contribution to the resistance. GLEMT (FORGOTTEN) by Simone Grøtte is a dance performance conveying the war history in a completely new way.