EVENTS

At the Icefjord Centre we continuously present events in the most beautiful surroundings.

If you have inquiries about a possible event or questions regarding an upcoming event please do not hesitate to contact us by email info@ifc.gl  

UPCOMING EVENTS

Mikro plastics in the oceans food chains by professor Torkel Gissel 

Lecture by Torkel Gissel Nielsen 
Professor at DTU Aqua, Section for Oceans and Arctic 

Time: 24th of March 4PM 
Place: Kangiata Illorsua – The Icefjord Centre

Entré:  50,- kr. Pay upon arrival. Free entrance with an annual pass.
Language: Danish 

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ICE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Saturday & Sunday 9th & 10th of March 2024.

Find more information here.

Ice Music Festival will perform in Ilulissat, Greenland on March 9th & 10th 2024.

The universally acclaimed Ice Music Festival from Norway will be creating a special set of Arctic outdoor music concerts and art installations, combined with a science camp in Ilulissat on March 9th & 10th March 2024. The concerts will be called the Greenland Sessions. 

The Greenland Sessions will be performed with a view of the stunning UNESCO world heritage site, Ilulissat Icefjord, on the west coast of Greenland – 250km north of the Arctic Circle.

The outdoor terrace of the beautifully designed Icefjord Centre in Ilulissat will host the specially designed arena, which will provide the perfect backdrop for the festival to collaborate with talented Greenlandic artists.

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. The Greenland Sessions will offer an extraordinary experience immersed in fragile hyperborean beauty.

Hailed as one of the world’s most unique gatherings, the annual Ice Music Festival is excited to extend its creative reach into Greenland, and when the first ice note is played, the sound emitted will mark the festival’s 19th year of merging music, art and climate science beautifully.

For more information, please contact info@icemusicfestivalnorway.no

Read more about the Ice Music Festival’s history

https://www.icemusicfestivalnorway.no/festival-history

View a comprehensive range of images of the Ice Music Festival

https://www.icemusicfestivalnorway.no/gallery 

The Ice Music Festival is extremely grateful for the generous support and brilliant collaboration with the following organisations:

The Icefjord Centre https://isfjordscentret.gl

Avannaata Kommunia https://www.avannaata.gl 

The Nordic Institute of Greenland https://napa.gl

Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research https://bjerknes.uib.no/en

Arts and Culture Norway https://www.kulturdirektoratet.no

University of Bergen https://www.uib.no

The Research Council of Norway https://www.forskningsradet.no

Follow the Ice Music Festival on social media:

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/icemusicfestivalnorway

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/IceMusicFestivalNorway

News updates https://www.icemusicfestivalnorway.no/news

Hosting the World’s First Glacier Funeral

Talk

Sunday the 16th of April 2023 4PM

Free entrance

Hosting the World’s First Glacier Funeral
In this public lecture, cultural anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer discuss how they discovered the death of Iceland’s first major glacier lost to global warming and how that led to the world’s first glacier memorial, a story that circulated across the world in the summer of 2019 bringing attention to Arctic ice loss and its consequences for humanity.
 
The talk will be in english

CONVERSATION ABOUT CLIMATE AND THE FUTURE OF SKIING IN GREENLAND

Talk by the Norwegian Olympic cross country skiing champion Vegard Ulvang, Greenlandic cross country skiier Martin Møller from Nuuk and 
professor in climate Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu

Thursday the 23rd of March 2023 5PM

What the Water flea Calanus hyperboreus and cartography can tell us about Arktis

Science & Artist talk

Saturday the 25th of March 2023 4PM

In the occasion of Artist Janne Breinholdt Bak’s exhibition “ARKTIS” at Ilulissat Museum, Marine Biologist Torkel Gissel Nielsen and Artist Janne Breinholt Bak will present a scientific and artistic talk.

Photo: Susan Christianen

WHAT THE WATER FLEA CALANUS HYPERBOREUS AND CARTOGRAPHY CAN TELL US ABOUT THE ARCTIC

In the occasion of Artist Janne Breinholt Bak’s exhibition “ARCTIC” at Ilulissat Museum, Marine Biologist Torkel Gissel Nielsen and Artist Janne Breinholt Bak will present their collaboration about gathering the water flea Calanus Hyperboreus in the Disco bay. Torkel Gissel Nielsen will describe how the cartography of the nearly invisible water fleas can tell a significant story of how the arctic climate has evolved throughout the past 30 years.

With the Greek Myth as her source, which also lays name to the water flea, Janne Breinholt will speak about the importance of myths and tales, not only for the first maps of arctic but also the Arctic nations claim over the seabed and the North Pole. The presentation will be interpreted simultaneously.

 The exhibition ”Arctic” opens at Ilulissat Art Museum the 12th of March at 4pm, where there will be a tour of the exhibition and a presentation. The 20th of March at 7pm there will be a dialogue with the hunter Inunnguaq Heilmann, about the film Janne Breinholt Bak and Eva la Cour have produced with him during their residence in Ilulissat. Eva La Cour has as an artist researched in Arctic image formations and folklore and will be performing a performance and lecture after the dialogue with Inunnguaq Heilmann. It is also possible to book private guided tours in the exhibition “Arctic” on the 21st and the 23rd of March at 3pm and by further appointment: +45 29914782

Torkel Gissel Nielsen is a Marine Biologist and professor at DTU. He has in the past 30 years been working in the Disco bay and registered how climate change has affected the foundation of the productive food chains. In connection with this he has researched how the water fleas’ propagation has changed significantly in connection with the melting ice.

Janne Breinholt Bak has exhibited the exhibition “ARCTIC” in both Denmark and Greenland since 2019. As the daughter of a surveyor, she has been brought up with cadastral maps and surveyors’ sticks. She has studied literature and art and has simultaneously been working with her arctic project as Senior Editor at Gyldendal.

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Dance Performance

Sunday the 11th September 2022 2PM

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NOVO QUARTET

Concert

Sunday the 7th of August 2022

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THE INUIT WINTER HOUSE – ASTA MØNSTED

Lecture

Wednesday the 6th of  July 2022 

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WORKING MIND – STINE JOHANSEN

Concert

Wednesday the 6th of April 2022

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BO NORMANDER – NATURGUIDE GRØNLAND

Book reception

Sunday 3rd of April 2022

H.M. Queen Margrethe ll – Visits the Icefjord Centre

8. October 2021

Skærmbillede 2022-01-19 kl. 17.01.11

JETTE BANG – Leise Johnsen

Presentation & talk about the film “Inuit”

10. October 2021

 
Skærmbillede 2022-01-18 kl. 15.57.22

Conversation between Bjørn Nørgaard(professor, scultor & graphic artist) and Minik Rosing(professor in geology) and book signing with the artist Aka Høegh.

21. September 2021

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Lecture by Carsten Egevang

QIMMEQ – the GREENLANDIC SLEDGOG
12. September 2021
 
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Lecture by Preben Clause

The coming and goings of Arctic Geese

19. September 2021

 
 
Koncert Grønland

Acustic concert with Kenneth Tordahl

5. September 2021
 
 

Jazz & Coffee

Katrine Zuwalski Sax and Marie Schmidt Piano

6. August 2021

 
 

Kaffemik 

The Icefjord Centre welcomes all of Ilulissat
 
3. Juli 2021
 
 

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