Addressing the Northern Geography in Major Exhibition The art gallery Havremagasinet in Northern Sweden has filled a whopping 3600 square meters with art created by various artists from the High North. The works offer diverse views of the northern land of the future.
Researcher Anka Ryall Highlights Female Voices in the Norwegian Polar History Anka Ryall's research career has been marked by a series of coincidences, but women's travel literature has remained a recurring theme throughout. In the bookPolar Women, she sheds light on the women in what is usually a very masculine representation of the Norwegian polar history.
Amund Sjølie Sveen: Uses Art As Testing Ground for Major Political Ideas and Critique of Power Harstad (High North News): For ten years, Amund Sjølie Sveen has traveled the Arctic with Nordting – a people's movement and an artistic-political project. With political analyses, critical takes on power, and referendums – with supplementary sing-alongs, dancing, and vodka – Nordting offers a democratic arena to explore a different world.
Icelandic Author Couple: Literature Allows Us To Explore Everything, Including the End of the World Harstad (High North News): "We Icelanders never prepare for anything," says the author couple Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir and Jón Kalman Stefánsson. They admire the Norwegian practical preparedness thinking but also remind us of the resistance power of traveling literature and maintain that a preparedness storage must also include a book and a ukulele.
Rebekka Brox Liabø: Helps Northern Youths to Find Their Voice Through Writing Harstad (High North News): Creating a safe framework for youth to explore writing about their own experiences and opinions and sharing their own words with several listeners. That is how pedagogue and playwright Rebekka Brox Liabø works with developing language skills and belonging among the young in Northern Norway.
