KIRKENES. The 10th Barents Spektakel festival (5-10/2) celebrates the anniversary by gazing into the future. This year’s slogan is “Ticking [...]
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 [...]
TROMSØ. The winter solstice, when the sun is at its lowest, and not visible at all north of the Arctic [...]
TROMSØ. Big Brother can see us, and follow our movements in detail. As citizens in a modern society, we can [...]
BODØ. The main character in Knut Hamsun’s novel “Hunger” is drifting in the streets of Kristiania, dizzy and weak from [...]
TROMSØ. There was a kick off party for The Insomnia Festival for Music earlier this month but the actual festival [...]
TROMSØ. In recent years, photo has become one of the most spread modern art forms. In 1999 the festival Polar [...]
TROMSØ. Svein Flygari Johansen is back in northern Norway again. Or at least, his latest contribution to the art world [...]
MO I RANA. The theatre play “Elsa Laula – kvinnen som sprengte grenser” [the woman who blew boundaries away] will [...]
LAVANGEN. The old practice of shamanism is this weekend (24 – 26/8) celebrated in Lavangen, northern Norway. The Isogaisa festival [...]
BARENTS REGION. The bicycle invention has been praised by many. Radio reporter Eric Sandström (1910 – 1992) produced Sweden’s bicycle [...]
HAMARØY. The Hamsun Centre in Hamarøy, northern Norway is an architectual “must see” attraction devoted to writer Knut Hamsun (1859 [...]
TROMSØ. At the end of the 19th Century and beginning of the 20th Century so called “primitive peoples” where shown [...]
TRÆNA. One of the most spectacular music festivals in the Barents Region is going on right now on an island [...]
STAMSUND. Last Tuesday the Stamsund International Theatre Festival was opened in between snow showers on the Lofoten Islands [...]
TROMSØ. Until 15th of April there is still time to see Norwegian-born Jonas Bendiksen’s photo exhibitions “Satellites” and “The places [...]
