Avitseqatigiitta - Lets Share @Suialaa Art Festival

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Avitseqatigiitta - Lets Share @Suialaa Art Festival

Girjegumpi will be the stage for sharing and reflecting during Suialaa Art Festival 2025. Nuuk Art Museum, the Girjegumpi team and Daiddadallu have put together a strong program focusing on indigenous perspectives seen through art and cultural practices. Experience an impressive line of artist, cultural professionals and cultural carriers share their experience with collaboration, knowledge sharing and competence building form an indigenous perspective.

There will be programming from 11:00 – 15:00 (and some days more) during the festival days. Girjegumpi is manifesting inside Katuaq Culture Center.

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PROGRAM

Thursday October 23th

Keywords: Presentation and opening of the stage with Girjegumpi crew.

11:00 – 11:45 Pre-opening – Coffee and Hangout presentation of the Art Flags by Cecilie Christiansen, Kine Yvonne Kjær and Ivínguak Stork Høegh, Lena Andersen, Palleq Kristiansen and Frederik Kunngi Kristensen.

12:00 – 12.45 Presentation and opening of the stage Girjegumpi - The sámi architectural library w. Joar Nango

13:00 – 14:40 Craft and Weaving as Knowledge Practice. Presentations with Duojar Katarina Spik Skum, boatbuilder Arne Terje Sæther, food-artist Máret Ravdna Buljo.

15:00 - 16:00 Reframing the Arctic: Culture as a Force for Cooperation and Resilience. A Conversation between the Arctic Arts Summit and the Arctic Council. The conversation features: Vivian Motzfeldt, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Research and Chair of the Arctic Council and Maria Utsi, Head of Arctic Arts Summit Secretariat

Language: Greenlandic and English (with translation between the two)

Friday October 24th

Keywords: Physical and Structural Conditions in an Arctic Indigenous perspective

10:00 – 11:00 Collectives of Knowledge Creation: the UrbTrans project Vivi Noahsen (moderator), Anna Andersen, Anna Jensine Arntzen, Martin Svingen Refseth, Prashanti Mayfield and Tone Huse.

11:15 - 12:15 Edible Archives – Food as Cultural Memory A conversation across Sápmi and Kalaallit Nunaat about the role of local food in shaping identity, community, and the future. How does food carry knowledge, and what happens when traditional practices meet modern change? Through the voices of Máret Rávdna Buljo, Miki Siegstad, and Liv Meyer Larsen, this conversation explores food as living heritage — from ancestral methods and climate adaptation to the future of Arctic cuisines. Moderated by Qaaqqutsiaq Fenger Lynge

Visions, dreams and actions towards better infrastructures for arts and culture.

13:00 – 13:45: The impact of language when navigating Nordic Structures / Voices in the Nordic Regions Tikaajat Kristensen, Hanne Kirkegaard, Tanja Mangalanayagam moderated by Mathias Danbolt.

14:00 – 14:45: Changing, developing and dreaming new structures. Dine Arnannguaq Fenger Lynge and Maria Utsi from NANU – Sami Arts International, Lindsay McIntyre Inuit Art Foundation, Nivi Christensen Nuuk Art Museum, moderator Maria Utsi, NANU – Sami Arts International and Arctic Art Summit.

15:00 – 16:00 Where does culture stand? Mapping Data and Knowledge about art and cultural life in Greenland. Participants: Susanne Andreasen - Director NAPA, Mats Granér – Director and Head of Authority, Swedish Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis / Kulturanalys Norden, Naleraq Eugenius, independent producer, lighting designer, etc. Board member in several cultural organizations, including EPI and Katuaq. Moderated by Alysa Procida, international Liason on the Arctic Art Summit Secretariat.

Saturday October 25th

Birgejupmi Trough Art // Eqqumiitsuliornermi Inuussutigut
Keywords: Artist colaborations between Kalaallit and Sami artists.
Progam curated by Daiddadallu and Nuuk Art Museum

11:00 – 11:20 Gáfe ja Luohti by Beaska Niilas and lighting of qulleq

11:20 – 11:35 Introduction Birgejupmi Through Art, Dáiddadállu ja Allaskuvlla 
- The meaning of Birgejupmi Through Art & Duodji – Dine Arnannguaq Fenger Lynge and Nivi Christensen

11:45 – 12:15 Kine Yvonne Kjær and Ivínguak Stork Høegh presenting their visualization of Birgejupmi Trough Art.

12:25 – 13:10 Performing Arts and Birgejupmi

13:10 – 13:50 Duodji as a traditional knowledge keeping with Ove Stødle v. Mearrasiida and Ingá Elisa Påve and Sofia Amondsen

14:00 – 14:45 Allanguineq // Breaking Patterns – Artist Talk with Arnajaraq Støvlbæk, Ann Sofie Kallok and Julie Grenier Di Ciero. Moderator: Nivi Christensen

15:00 – 16:15 Indigenizing architecture. Joar Nango, Mark Bennet, Helene Lennert, Johanna Minde and Ulloriaq Lennert. Moderator Arnakkuluk Jo Kleist.

16:30 – 17:30 Homoholdet Podcast Live from the Stage with Laura Lennert and Birte Olsen.

17:30 – 18:30 Qullaq Artist Talk

Sunday October 26th

12:00 – 13:00 North Atlantic Islands Dance Network - How collaboration in the periphery can create synergetic ecosystems.