Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival

Since 2015 Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival has taken part in setting the standard for how far art and culture can go within the Nordic collaboration. Every second year since then, the capital of Greenland Nuuk has hosted one of the most honest, concentrated and inclusive platforms for artistic development, collaboration and inspiration. Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival is a four-day celebration of arts and culture in all forms – Melting together cultures, art forms and hearts.

Greenland is the Arctic window in the Nordic region. One of the goals of the festival is to showcase the best art and culture from Greenland to a visiting Nordic region and vice versa. The festival aims to host 50% Greenlandic and 50% Nordic artists.

The festival has a programming group that consists of four important partners: Nuuk Art Museum, Katuaq, The National Theater of Greenland and The Central Library of Greenland. These partners are part of the curating and creative process but also serve as main venues during the festival, hosting a broad range of concerts, theatre, dance, exhibitions, talks, literature and more. Outside of the main venues, the festival offers a lot of events hosted outside of their normal comfort zone. This will mean dance performances at a shopping mall, parades in unexpected places, concerts at elder homes and apartments and much more.

The festival has usually been held in the autumn but in 2023 it’s been moved to the month of May. This will enable us to host a much broader range of outdoor events which we are sure will be a blast to attend. Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival is a festival for everyone and we make sure to have both popular and recognizable names on the poster, but also cater to the culture-aficionado. Even the youngster will have a dedicated stage for music and other art forms.

The next festival will take place May 25th-28th 2023 under the theme “UNITY”.

The core values of the festival are:

• Nordic collaboration
• Participation culture
• Co-creation