A sporting polar year ahead
From the Arctic Games to the Southern Games, here’s a look back at the competitions that took place in 2023 and will resume next year in a highly sporting year with the arrival of the Olympic Games.
From the Arctic Games to the Southern Games, here’s a look back at the competitions that took place in 2023 and will resume next year in a highly sporting year with the arrival of the Olympic Games.
Germaine Arnaktauyok received the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts earlier this month. An opportunity to look back at the work of this celebrated Inuit artist.
Looking for a gift to slip under the tree? Or a good book to read, curled up under a soft blanket, hot chocolate in hand? PolarJournal brings you its selection of books.
Every year, Nunavut organizes a competition for songwriters in Inuktut. A way to promote Nunavut Indigenous languages while showcasing local artists.
A book about a major scientific expedition to the Arctic Ocean, a well-illustrated groundbreaking experience in the study of the ocean, ice and climate of the polar regions, aimed at a wide audience.
The Arctic Circle Assembly opens in Reykjavik for three days of discussions between those involved in sustainable development in the Arctic Circle. The presence of the French ambassador for the poles reinforces the launch of the One Polar Summit in Paris in November.
A Swiss project combines art and science and can conduct its work in Iceland’s Westfjords thanks to the Grímsson fellowship.
The Royal Norwegian Guard and Band visited the king penguin Sir Nils Olav III, whom they promoted to Major General, at Edinburgh Zoo last week, as part of their performance at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2023.
PanArctic Vision is the Arctic equivalent of the world’s largest music competition and aims to strengthen Arctic culture and diversity
Alaska Maritime Heritage Preservation Program is open to funding projects by museums, others
Drawing workshops in Greenland are allowing people to tell their own story to historians. The result is a more detailed picture of the past
NONAM and the Cerny Museum of Contemporary Circumpolar Art in Switzerland invite everyone to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day on June 18 with round tables, workshops and guided tours. Inuit and Sami artists and their works will be on the program as well.
Young Greenlanders accompanied by their English and science teachers visited Rennes, in Brittany, on Friday
An insurance dispute forced the postponement of last years leg, but the organisers have new ship that will allow the scientific and artistic voyage to go on
A hundred or so French polar scientists descended on Paris from 3-5 May to present and discuss their research and how it is feeding into contemporary issues
In a book that makes us live the tension of the fieldwork, the motivating charge of the meetings, we have the exciting sensation to be a glaciologist the time of a reading.
Since April 1, 2023, the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq showcases the evolution of Inuit art over the past 2,000 years in a new exhibition featuring nearly 400 works of art.
In Antarctica, a new art installation has been erected at the Ukrainian Vernadsky Station. An old fuel tank that was no longer needed was reused for this purpose.
Researchers who are leading or starting a career in science and who are linked to the Arctic or Antarctic, meet in Paris in early May.
The shooting of Mission Impossible 8 will not implement its initial plan, it does not meet the environmental legislation of Svalbard.
The South Georgia Heritage Trust-initiated “Commensalis” art project on South Georgia enters the “hot” phase and launches its call for sponsorship
The ‘Ice Alaska World Ice Art Championships’ is coming soon. This year’s World Ice Championships will be held from February 17 to March 31.
Researchers have made their collected sounds from the Arctic and Antarctic available to musicians, who have created a spectacular music album from them.
In paintings and sculptures made of stone and bone, artists from Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Chukotka bring the Arctic to life, along with its myths and stories.