PALLAS. Many aviation enthusiasts in northern Finland are now eagerly waiting to catch a glimpse of a real airship. The 75 [...]
KVALSUND. To tell about war, and how it affects people, can be told in many ways. Many historians and scholars [...]
KANDALAKSHA. Russia is going through a period of fast modernization. New shopping centres, skyscrapers in big towns and self-service [...]
UMEÅ. The relationship between a photographer and the photo subject is not as simple and obvious as it sometimes may seem. [...]
KEMINMAA. Peter Franzén, born and raised in the small northern town of [...]
KANDALAKSHA. Dance education for children has been common and widespread in Russia since the Soviet times. At an early age [...]
TORNIO. For three days (18-20/4) media students and teachers in Tornio and Tampere celebrate the radio media with lectures, competitions, [...]
MURMANSK. The noble art of armchair travelling is both comfortable and practical. The vehicle is often a travel book, and the [...]
LONDON. Brazilian-born Sebastiao Salgado is one of world’s most famous photographers. Since the 1970′s he has been working on issues like [...]
KEMI. Photographer Tuula Lampela has a studio in Sodankylä, northern Lapland. – I wanted to do something outside my ordinary [...]
LAINIO. If you travel between Pajala and Vittangi in northern Sweden, you will suddenly see a sign on the side [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO. Border towns Haparanda and Tornio are growing together into a single unit. The long term vision is to constitute [...]
PAJALA. With the Internet, anyone with passion, time and knowledge can open a TV-channel on their own. Enthusiasts Bror Astermo [...]
SYKTYVKAR. Ethnofuturists is an art movement that has spread in northwest Russia and Estonia after the perestroyka. With the collapse [...]
LULEÅ. Artist Lisa Vipola wears a self-made Sami costume. She grew up in a Sami environment in northern Sweden and [...]
KEMI. If you you go to Aine’s in Tornio, it will be an art museum. If you go to Aine’s [...]
HAPARANDA. Last weekend, the sound festival HapaRaTor made its debut in Haparanda. People listened to sound from Russian villages, Tunisian [...]
SYKTYVKAR. The Komi Republic has a rich and vivid folklore, a tradition that also has strong support from authorities and [...]
HAPARANDA. The ongoing big culture festival Vinterglöd [Winter Glow] in Haparanda had an international start last weekend. People from the [...]
UMEÅ. More and more information about the program of the Umeå 2014 European Culture Capital is now getting available. Some of [...]
NARYAN MAR. The circumpolar conference “With love to the Arctic” will be held in the Nenets capital 27/2 – 1/3. [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO. When light slowly returns after a long winter, Haparanda town celebrates its annual culture festival Vinterglöd [Winter Glow, 22/2 [...]
NARYAN MAR. The Nenets capital Naryan Mar has changed dramatically over the last 5-10 years. Today, the centre is full [...]
ARKHANGELSK. It’s finally here – the fourth volume of the Pomor Encyclopedia, totally devoted to culture in the Arkhangelsk Region. [...]
NARYAN MAR. The northern region Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) has almost no roads. The main part of the vast territory [...]
NARYAN MAR. Ten years ago Irina Kotkina worked as a librarian at a boarding school in Nenets. She felt that [...]
KIRKENES. The 10th Barents Spektakel festival (5-10/2) celebrates the anniversary by gazing into the future. This year’s slogan is “Ticking [...]
SYKTYVKAR. Skilled handicraft can be found in many places and environments. The belts around our waists are such objects, where [...]
INARI. An Alaskan fish smoker, Australian protest singers, a female Indian revenger, a Colombian jungle tribe and Sami yoikers – [...]
BARENTS REGION. Jukkasjärvi started doing it. It opens in Kemi this Saturday. Kirkenes has one. The same thing in [...]
ROVANIEMI. Works of Rovaniemi-born artist Kari Huhatamo can be found all over FInland, and out in Europe. His abstract and [...]
TROMSØ. The ongoing Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF), now on its 23rd year, has grown to the biggest film festival [...]
KARASJOK. The North Sami word Gaba means “capable and independent woman”. Since 1996, it’s also the title of a very [...]
UMEÅ. To protect citizens from diseases and bad and ugly environment is one of the authorities´tasks. Sometimes their ambitions stretch [...]
KIRKENES. After a long period of severe cold at the end of 1992, Monday, 11th of January 1993 turned out [...]
LULEÅ. From 2013, the public libraries in Norrbotten county are united into one single unit. This means that a reader [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO, JUOKSENGI/JUOKSENKI. Living at a national border gives a number of advantages – the access to different cultures, languages, food [...]
ROVANIEMI / NANAI. Lindza Beldy, a Nanai woman from the Russian Far East, was a known healer from the Wild [...]
TROMSØ. The winter solstice, when the sun is at its lowest, and not visible at all north of the Arctic [...]
VELIKI USTYUG. The small town of Veliki Ustyug is located in the north-eastern corner of Vologda Region, just south of [...]
UMEÅ. The Umeå twins Samuel and Mikael Åhdén have some joint passions – guitars, cars and music. The brothers have [...]
TROMSØ. Big Brother can see us, and follow our movements in detail. As citizens in a modern society, we can [...]
VITSANIEMI. Gunhild Stensmyr has a vision. She wants to create a modern art museum in the Torne Valley, where artists [...]
ROVANIEMI. – We can’t learn skills from indigenous peoples. But more about life attitudes, mobility, flexibility. A relaxed attitude. Freedom. [...]
KIRUNA. The northern mining town of Kiruna is today well-known, because of the dramatic fact that central parts of it [...]
LULEÅ. The time-consuming embroidery handicraft was formerly looked upon as a domestic female activity with low status, but has [...]
HELSINKI. Writer Rosa Liksom was born in Ylitornio, Finnish Lapland. After living in Denmark, Russia, France, Iceland and Norway, and [...]
Sweden’s most beautiful tradition – Lucia – is celebrated annually on December 13th, next Friday. [...]
KORPILOMBOLO. “To find light in the darkness.” It’s a statement for the European Festival of the Night, held in the [...]
SYKTYVKAR. The Komi Republic, in the easternmost corner of the Barents Region, has two official languages: Komi language (belonging to [...]
ROVANIEMI. What is Arctic Design, and how can it be developed and used here in the north? The new publication [...]
MURMANSK. The annual tv- and documentary film festival “Northern Character ” was held in Murmansk this week. Around 100 tv-programs [...]
OULU. Images are getting more and more important in our societies. In recent years, technologies have developed fast and made [...]
LULEÅ. The Barents Region is extremely rich in languages: Komi, Nenets, Sami, Karelian, Meänkieli, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Swedish etc. But [...]
TORNIO. Dancers Titta Court and Pia Lindy sweep around the book-shelves in the public library, let books cover their faces, [...]
HAPARANDA. Today, Wednesday, the meeting of the Arctic Council’s senior officials starts in Haparanda. But the chair of one of [...]
ARKHANGELSK. The Russian security service FSB charges Ivan Moseev, leader of the Pomor Institute of Indigenous Peoples of the North [...]
JOKKMOKK. Next March you will be able to fly over the majestic mountains in the UNESCO World Heritage “Laponia” in [...]
GÄLLIVARE. Sweden’s tastiest sandwich is called Reindeer Dream, and is made from smoked and salted reindeer meat in white sourdough [...]
KARGOPOL. What has Communism meant to people in the small town of Kargopol, southern Arkhangelsk region? This is the theme [...]
BODØ. The main character in Knut Hamsun’s novel “Hunger” is drifting in the streets of Kristiania, dizzy and weak from [...]
II. What do you scream when you see a really scary horror film? Probably something like Iik!! This is also [...]
LULEÅ. Late autumn, before snow covers the ground, is a very dark time in the north. From 25th of October [...]
UMEÅ. Works by one of Indias most influental photograpers – Dayanita Singh – can now be seen in Umeå. The [...]
PETROZAVODSK. The music scene in the Karelian Republic is vivid and manyfolded. Folk group Myllärit and rockers Santu Karhu & [...]
PITEÅ. Scandinavia’s largest organ has now been built and installed in the northern town of Piteå. With 9 000 [...]
TROMSØ. There was a kick off party for The Insomnia Festival for Music earlier this month but the actual festival [...]
KEMI. What is political art today? In radical political times, like the late 60′s and early 70′s it was easy [...]
YLITORNIO. The music instrument kantele has a long tradition in Finland. According to the national epic Kalevala, it was created [...]
ARKHANGELSK. The annual jazz festival in Arkhangelsk is a must, an important meeting place for culture-minded people in the Pomor [...]
UMEÅ. Today the curtains will go up for the film festival MOVE in Umeå. A large selection of films will [...]
TROMSØ. In recent years, photo has become one of the most spread modern art forms. In 1999 the festival Polar [...]
