IceMusicFestival 2025
06.03.2024 – 09.03.2025
We are excited to announce that the successful Greenland Sessions will return to Ilulissat to celebrate 20 years of the Ice Music Festival.
A set of outdoor concerts and art installations combined with a science camp will take place in Ilulissat from 6th to 9th of March 2025. They will be performed with a view of the stunning UNESCO world heritage site, Ilulissat Icefjord, on the west coast of Greenland
Ilulissat Icefjord is located 250km north of the Arctic Circle, with the mighty Sermeq Kujalleq glacier and its massive ice bergs. Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest moving glaciers in the World, contributing to more than 10% of the total mass loss from the Greenland Icecap.
The Greenland Sessions will be hosted on the terrace of the beautifully designed Icefjord Centre in the town of Ilulissat.
Greenland is experiencing the effects of climate change at a faster rate than most of the world, so weaving the magic of Ice Music into the local Avannaata community’s lived experience, will make an important statement about life surrounded by earth’s most precious resource – water.
Greenland Sessions offers an extraordinary experience immersed in fragile arctic beauty.
“Indigenous perspectives of climate change” with young voices from the Arctic
18.04.2024
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Place: Litteraturhuset, Auditoriumet
How do the indigenous people living on Greenland perceive climate change and how does it affect their daily life and culture?
Join us for a conversation with Nivi Rosing (Arctic Youth Network), youth from Sápmi and Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (Leader of ClimateNarratives and professor at UiB) in a discussion on how climate change affects Indigenous people.
ClimateNarratives is an interdisciplinary research project in the climate sciences focusing on identifying risks, vulnerability, innovation and adaption possibilities for indigenous communities living along the coast of Greenland and on low-lying islands of the Pacific. Both of these communities live close to nature and to the ocean, and are facing new challenges and opportunities due to climate change: As the glaciers and the sea ice along the coast of Greenland retreats, new land is appearing and the fjords are opening; meanwhile, on low-lying island states of the Pacific, land is disappearing as the ice melts, and the communities are at an ever increasing risk of storm surges and floods.
What is novel with the ClimateNarratives project is the combination of climate science, social science and art together with local indigenous knowledge and narratives across cultures and generations in the search to identify challenges and possibilities in the face of current and as well as future climate changes.
ClimateNarratives tassaavoq silap pissusaanik ilisimatusarnerup iluaniilisimatusarfiit sammisaat akimorlugit suliniut, silap pissusaatanunarsuup ilaani sumiiffiit marluk inuiinut sunniutaanik misissuinermikimaqartoq, uani pineqarlutik Kalaallit Nunaata sineriaani najugallitaamma Manerassuarmi qeqertani pukkitsuni najugallit.
Silap pissusaata allanngorneratigut ajutoorutaasinnaasut eqqorneqartussallu suuneri,
ineriartortitseqqissagaanni sunik ineriartortitsisoqassanersoq aammasuut naleqqussarfigineqassanersut suliniut aqqutigalugu qulaajaasoqassaaq.Sumiiffiit pineqartut inui pinngortitamut imaanullu qanillutikinooriaaseqaramik silap pissusaata allanngorneratigut nutaanikunammilligassaqalerput periarfissarsiortariaqalerlutillu: Sermipuukkaaviisa immallu sikuata Kalaallit Nunaata sineriaani aakkiartorlutik milliartornerisigut nuna kangerluillu nunatai nuiartorput; nunarsuupilluatungaani Manerassuarmi qeqertat pukkitsut kiviartorput,ulissuarnernit qarsutsinernillu eqqorneqarnissaat aarlerinartuarluni.Suliniutip ClimateNarratives’ip nutaartaraa silap pissusaanikilisimatusarneruinnarani aamma inuiaqatigiilerinermik aammaeqqumiitsuliornermik imaqassagami.
Suliniummi nunaqavissut ilisimasaat oqaluttuaallu katersorneqassapput – kulturii kinguaarillu arlallit akimorlugit – taakkunatigut silap pissusaata allanngornerata maanna sunniutaasa siunissamilu sunniutigilerumaagassai suussusersiniarneqarput taamaaliornikkut unammilligassat suuneri periarfissallu suuneri qulaajarumallugit.
Header image by: Skade Henriksen / Karita Kajanto