Nordic strings in Greenland
The Nordic string group Unison Strings has made workshops for children and young people and played concerts in Greenland
Since 2014, the inter-Nordic classical string festival, Unison Strings Festival – Greenland, has been inviting string students and professional string players from Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Denmark to 10 intense days in Greenland with rehearsals and concerts.
In 2018, the festival wanted to try something new and different, and therefore joined forces with the Greenlandic band, Small Time Giants, to create a magnificent concert in Ilulissat, where the rock band was merged with the Unison Strings Festival’s classical string orchestra. It turned into a memorable and touching concert, where up to 600 people had turned up to this unique experience. The concert was immortalized on film by Jens Christian Lennert Lyberth and Anda Otto Schmidt, and shows that together – across national borders, age and cultural differences – you can create the most amazing moments.
The project is supported by NAPA.
Other projects we funded
Supported project: Improved tools to safeguard Indigenous Peoples’ rights in Sápmi
Sápmi, the ancestral land of the Sámi people, extends across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula in Russia. To this day, there is no system in place to consistently monitor the situation of the Sámi people’s rights throughout these territories.
What is family – what is the Nordic region?
Six young actors meet in a performance at ZeBU, where they in the transition between reality and fiction discuss what being part of the Nordic family means to them – and what divides them.In the theater production Familien Norden, two Greenlandic, two Danish and two
IMARSUAQ – The Roads of the Sea – encounters with and around the Arctic Ocean
The old Colonial Harbour in Nuuk will be transformed with image projections and sound on Friday 15 October 2021 at 18 – 20. There will be outdoor light shows on the walls, ice and rocks, and sound installations with live music. NAPA has supported the