High Noon 2025: Northern Debate on Svalbard, Tax Cuts, Norway Seen From Russia, and Dictatorship Next week, the debate series High Noon will take place during the True Northern Arts Festival in Northern Norway. This year's edition addresses questions under the headline 'Everything is about security' – and offers strong voices from arts and culture, politics and business, research and journalism, as well as defense.
Joint Viking 2025: 10,000 Soldiers From 9 Nations Exercise Defending Northern Norway This year's largest military exercise in Norway kicked off on Monday. Norwegian forces are now practicing on countering military threats in the North – reinforced by allies from Western Europe and North America. "Even more important in light of today’s uncertain security situation," says Deputy Commander of Norway's Joint Headquarters.
Joint Viking 2025: 10,000 Soldiers From 9 Nations Exercise Defending Northern Norway This year's largest military exercise in Norway kicked off on Monday. Norwegian forces are now practicing on countering military threats in the North – reinforced by allies from Western Europe and North America. "Even more important in light of today’s uncertain security situation," says Deputy Commander of Norway's Joint Headquarters.
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.
High Noon 2024: Northern Debate on Youth, Preparedness, Democracy and Moral in the Arts Everything is set for the debate series High Noon during the Arctic Arts Festival in Northern Norway. This year's edition offers tunes from several young and up-and-coming artists – and various voices from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. Among the primary guests is the critically acclaimed Icelandic writer Jón Kalman Stefánsson.
A Northern Gateway to the Charm and Gravity of Life For this year's Arctic Arts Festival exhibition, the curatorial collective Pikene på Broen and various artists offer interesting perspectives on the good life in the north. Shoulders are lowered, senses are engaged – and Finnish gallows humor incites smiles all around.
A Northern Gateway to the Charm and Gravity of Life For this year's Arctic Arts Festival exhibition, the curatorial collective Pikene på Broen and various artists offer interesting perspectives on the good life in the north. Shoulders are lowered, senses are engaged – and Finnish gallows humor incites smiles all around.
A Northern Gateway to the Charm and Gravity of Life For this year's Arctic Arts Festival exhibition, the curatorial collective Pikene på Broen and various artists offer interesting perspectives on the good life in the north. Shoulders are lowered, senses are engaged – and Finnish gallows humor incites smiles all around.
Moddi: Threading the Musical Path Into the New North Harstad (High North News): "We are spreading out across Northern Norway to be more present in the places many of us write and sing about. To speak to the people that listen to our music. In a search to create something a bit more relevant and close to reality," says musician Pål Moddi Knutsen.
VIDEO: Living in The Shadow of The War It has been over a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. Preparedness is being increased in the northern regions and the nuclear threat is imminent. How is our mental and physical reality affected by our neighbor's warfare? Join the debate when Editor-In-Chief Arne O. Holm meets composer Tine Surel Lange together with other guests during the True Northern Arts Festival.
Strives for Open and Bold Art Harstad (High North News): "A lot is at stake. Art has been referred to as a "trench" – it buries itself and holds its ground. At times, there are tendencies for "burying strategies" to be needed even in our society," says Director Tore Vagn Lid.
A Conversation Looking for Answers is Better than Answers that Cannot Stand Conversation Harstad, Norway: He puts the fishing rod down while opening a new can of beer. Meticulously and detailed, he explains to me how to catch halibut from the pier in Harstad. I listen and learn. “Though I never caught any halibut” he says in the end, emptying his beer can.
A Conversation Looking for Answers is Better than Answers that Cannot Stand Conversation Harstad, Norway: He puts the fishing rod down while opening a new can of beer. Meticulously and detailed, he explains to me how to catch halibut from the pier in Harstad. I listen and learn. “Though I never caught any halibut” he says in the end, emptying his beer can.
