During early 2024, Alta Museum invited to three online events with academic programs and storytelling workshops. The workshops were part of the project YOUR STORY – OUR FUTURE. The workshops also shared knowledge and stories from the project’s activities in Greenland.
The workshops are a cooperation with:
Online-Workshop 1
January 25, 10:00 am-12:00 pm CET
Speaker: Maria Øien, Ph.D. Senior Curator; Host: Jens Larsen, Eva Ritter, Ph.D.
Online-Workshop 1 (in English)
What values are shared when Ngan’gi artists create art with a wish to share stories of Ngan’gi culture, cosmology, and knowledge? How can art facilitate cross-cultural communication ?
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, Maria Øien is presenting art and design stories made by Ngan’gi artists, an Aboriginal community in Northern Australia. She is exploring a parallel to Sami relationships to sacred Sieidis in nature. Furthermore, she takes a critical look at the intercultural contradictions involved in art sales by exploring the term «shame-job» and the statement «black art on white walls.»
In the second part of the workshop, participants are invited to share stories about how arts, nature and culture can be used to give voice to different perspectives and create community.
[Photo: Stian Thoresen. Maria Øien learning to loop a dilly bag by Molly Yawalminy and Mercia Wawul in Nauiyu, 2007.]
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Online-Workshop 2
March 20, 10:00 am-12:00 pm CET
Speaker: Mari Sofie Strifeldt Arntzen. Conservator; Host: Jens Larsen, Eva Ritter
Online-Workshop 2 (in Norwegian & Danish)
How do the body, stone, water and rock interact in the process of making petroglyphs?
After having gained experience in making petroglyphs, Mari has learned that nature interacts with the body in the process. All elements are equally important in achieving the result, which in this example are petroglyphs. Mari is also talking about how nature can be a healing element in, for example, a grieving process.
In the second half of the workshop, we share experiences and stories about using nature in our own lives and in society to support well-being.
[Photo: CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia]
Online-Workshop 3
May 23, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm CET.
Speaker: Kristin Nicolaysen, Museum Lecturer; Kjell Derås, Naturvernforbundet.
Host: Jens Larsen, Eva Ritter, Ph.D.
Online-Workshop 3 (in Norwegian & Danish)
[Photo: Leif Gabrielsen, Alta Aksjonen 1981. Courtesey Alta Museum]
Kaffemik
Nov 11, 2023, 15:00PM (CET+3) Gertrud Rask Vej 68, Nuuk
Host: Jens Larsen, Eva Ritter, Ph.D.
Part of the Greenland Science Week.
Stakeholder-Meeting
Nov 10, 2023, 12:00PM-1:30 PM (CET+3) Nuuk library and a walk outside
Host: Jens Larsen, Eva Ritter, Ph.D.
Part of the Greenlandic Science Week.
We meet at Nuuk library, Imaneq 26, Nuuk 3900, Greenland.
Join us for a stakeholder walk. We start with an introduction to our project. Then we go for a walk to share stories and reflect on what Arctic leadership is.
The stakeholder meeting aims to discuss and share stories about what defines an Arctic approach to leadership and how it can improve mental health, business and sustainable development. The Nordic Ministry of Council sponsors the meeting.
Organizer: Eva Ritter Ph.D. and Jens Larsen, author,
Affiliation: Institute Nordic Perspectives and True Storytelling Institute