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Pan-ArcticVision is an international social and cultural event that describes itself as "a Eurovision for the Arctic".[1] Pan-ArcticVision has live musical contributions from the circumpolar North (the Arctic), and arranges televotes among the public. The event is broadcast internationally, and is loosely modeled on the well known Eurovision song contest.[2]
Opposed to Eurovision, the Pan-ArcticVision deliberately questions the concept of a musical competition, and asks the public to decide whether or not there should be a more than one winner. Furthermore, it is not a competition between creators (unlike Eurovision); it is a competition between communities and artists who both create and perform their own works.[3] The Pan-ArcticVision has participants not from nation states, but from different northern and arctic territories, displaying local arctic flags. The 2023 edition included participants from Alaska, The Yukon, Kalaallit Nunaat, Akureyri in Iceland, Faroe Islands, Sápmi, Northern Norway and Northern Finland — in addition to a Russian exile participant.[4] Through this, the event wants to strengthen a circumpolar, pan-arctic community,[5][6] and invites the public to consider questions on sovereignty, borders and nation states in new ways.
In April 2024, it was announced that the second edition of Pan-ArcticVision would go live from Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat, in October 2024, in cooperation with the culture centre Katuaq and Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation, KNR.[7][8][9] There was an open call in several territories to find participants for the event.
Pan-ArcticVision 2023
editThe event was arranged for the first time in 2023, and the public voted to that the competition should have multiple winners. In addition, there was a prize for "the place in the Arctic that really needs a prize and deserves to host the next edition of the Pan-ArcticVision". This prize was won by Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenland.[10] This implied that the next event would be arranged in Nuuk. A possible venue is the culture centre Katuaq.[11]
Other price winners in 2023:[12]
- The most Arctic Song 2023: Nuija from Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).[13]
- The most Revolutionary Song 2023: Sköll from Båtsfjord, Nord-Norge (Northern Norway).
- The song that gives the most feeling of Community and Togetherness 2023: Guðrið Hansdóttir from Velbastaður, Føroyar (The Faroe Islands).[14]
Circumpolar event
editThe Pan-ArcticVision is quite unique in that it is one of few attempts to not just include the euro-arctic region, or the Barents region, or the Nordics, or the American Arctic or the international inuit community, but to in fact include the whole circumpolar North and establish "Pan-Arcticism" as a concept in the same way as f.ex Pan-Africanism.[2]
The first edition of the Pan-ArcticVision was arranged in Vadsø, Northern Norway, a town of ca 6000 people located on the brink of the European mainland. The event was hosted by the local festival Varangerfestivalen. The project was initiated, financed and run by Nordting - the Northern Assembly, and led by artistic director and entrepreneur Amund Sjølie Sveen.[4]
References
edit- ^ "PanArcticVision". PanArcticVision. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ a b Wenger, Dr Michael. "PanArctic Vision – Music for a stronger and diverse Arctic". Polarjournal. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "LIVE". PanArcticVision. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ a b Edvardsen, Astri. "Arctic Music and Criticism, Politics and Sequins, Glitter and Reindeer Antlers!". www.highnorthnews.com. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ Seliger, Andrea (2023-08-12). "Das Eurovision des hohen Nordens: Vadsø feiert PanArcticVision". polarkreisportal.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Arktiset kansat kohtaavat ensi kertaa Pan-ArcticVision kilpailun merkeissä Norjan Vesisaaressa". Yle Uutiset (in Finnish). 2023-08-07. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Open Call". Pan-Arctic Vision. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
- ^ "Pan-Arctic Vision bliver holdt i Nuuk til oktober". KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ Edvardsen, Text Astri. "Pan-Arctic Vision 2024 in Greenland: Seeking Arctic Artists To This Fall's Big Stage in Nuuk". www.highnorthnews.com. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ "Grønland vinder det første arktiske melodigrandprix | Nyheder". DR (in Danish). 2023-08-13. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Grønland vandt værtskabet, men bliver der overhovedet et Pan-Arctic Vision næste år?". KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Results 2023". PanArcticVision. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "NUIJA efter sejr: Vi er vildt glade over det, vi har præsteret". KNR (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ Einarsson, Sigurjón (2023-08-13). "Næsta PanArcticVision verður í Grønlandi". FM1. Retrieved 2023-09-04.