Arctic Arts Festival
arctic art festival norwegian festspillene nordnorge festival based harstad norway first held consists music theatre art performance festival last one week held june arctic art festival active throughout year arranged annual festival harstad since festival acknowledged festival national importance called knutepunktfestival received funding government budget arctic art festival made possible various source funding norwegian state finnmark troms nordland regional council well local harstad council february festival launched new art culture magazine called høtt arctic art festival great faith art north festival arctic event ambition becoming world important art festival entire arctic region together strong profile local art culture festival set motion fresh creative project festival encourage collaboration bring together different northern region wish take leading role facilitator network building arena arctic art culture arctic art festival foreground new constellation partnership groundbreaking independent production arctic art festival administers art funding amount award total million krone annually aim stimulate local art culture fund diverse project field theatre music visual art young artist stipend open call funding allocate support creative theatrical project challenge boundary artistic expression new collaboration want provide opportunity artist think big push boundary take chance arctic art festival arranges annually nuk northern norwegian youth festival festival week june direction maria utsi festival launched arctic art summit panarctic cultural conference policymakers stakeholder cultural sector throughout arctic region arctic art summit biannual event rotating arctic state territory first edition harstad second edition helt june rovaniemi finland hosted university lapland edition postponed due covid pandemic taking place whitehorse yukon canada june canadian edition cohosted government yukon canada council art