Ibsen at The Coronet Theatre | The International Sámi Business Conference | Arctic Winter Games | P.M. Egede on the future of Greenland | The Hempel Foundation | EURO 2022 Handball groups draw | The Swedish Dala horses | Stroke rehabilitation through music | Documentary ‘A taste of whale’ | Thure Lindhart @ Nordic Portraits
Ibsen’s “When we dead awaken” at The Coronet Theatre
“The Norwegian Ibsen Company” returns to The Coronet Theatre (London) with a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s enigmatic final play ‘When We Dead Awaken’, directed by Norwegian director Kjetil Bang Hansen
The first International Sámi Business Conference
Sami entrepreneurs, businesses and organisations will meet in Kautokeino (Norway) for the first International Sámi Business Conference (March 22-23)
The Arctic Winter Games, founded in 1969, is a multi-sport and indigenous cultural event involving circumpolar peoples residing in communities or countries bordering the Arctic Ocean
P.M. Egede on the future of Greenland
Greenland is poised to lead the new Arctic and take a more prominent position on the world stage: read Egede’s vision for its future
The Hempel Foundation is a commercial foundation and a committed philanthropist within the fields of education, sustainable technology, biodiversity
EURO 2022 Handball groups draw
Groups for EURO 2022 handball men’s competition in Podgorica (4-14 August) Montenegro are all set: Iceland is in Group A, Denmark and Norway in Group C, Sweden and Faroe in Group D
The story of the Swedish Dala horse, a classic carved wooden toy representative of traditional Swedish design
Aalborg University research: stroke rehabilitation through music
A group of researchers of Aalborg University (Jutland) has adopted a new system that uses synthesized music to guide brain-injured patients through their rehabilitation exercises
Documentary ‘A taste of whale’ acquired by Films Boutique
Berlin-based ‘Films Boutique‘ has acquired international sales rights to “A Taste of Whale” documentary which examines the centuries-old tradition of whale hunting in the Faroe Islands during which roughly 1,000 pilot whales are hunted, beached and killed by knife in the fjords
Podcast of the week
Nordic Portraits Podcast: Thure Lindhart Thure Lindhardt is a stage and screen actor who has built a successful international career. Known as Detective Henrik Sabroe from nordic noir crime series The Bridge or as the leading man in modern Danish cinematic gems Flammen og Citronen, Nordkraft and A Place Nearby, his Hollywood career includes Ron Howard’s Angels and Demons and Sean Penn’s Into the Wild