Greenland’s economy is almost exclusively based on fish and shellfish. This makes the economy vulnerable and limits young people’s career choices. On the other hand, Greenland has a rich cultural life with international potential in both music, performing arts, fashion, film and much more. The culture strengthens and allows for new business opportunities. But in order to fulfill this, the cultural and creative entrepreneurs in Greenland must have access to professional sparring, access to international networks and markets, better knowledge of personal branding, use of media, copyright and much more.
NAPA has therefore taken the initiative for Creative Business Academy Greenland – a collective name for the activities that combine economic and cultural sustainability. The activities will start in Nuuk, but the plan is to spread throughout the country. In addition, there will be a focus on internationalization and interaction with the rest of the Nordics and the Arctic. In the pipeline are:
GFD Collective, a combination of different musicians from Greenland, Faroe Islands and Denmark, held several workshops and concerts in Greenland, during the end of 2021. Their goal? To raise awareness and interest in the individual cultures, identities, and languages of the north, through the music
We have a language community between Norwegian, Swedish and Danish which we call the Scandinavian language. In the Nordic community we have many more languages; Finnish, Icelandic, Greenlandic, Sami, Faroese and several minority languages. Many of the citizens who have these languages as their mother
Open call for Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto (IFWTO) to next year’s fashion week. Indigenous designers, artists and makers are invited to apply to IFWTO 2022 and you can also apply Naalakkersuisoq for Culture for participation IFWTO is a biennial multi-platform fashion, craft and textiles festival
After more than 10 years in the public sector in Norway, I admit that I am reasonably pragmatic about reports and probably also deadlines for submitting reports. The experience is that usually not many read what you write, and the report quickly ends up in
