Pan-Arcticvision

Pan-ArcticVision is an international social and cultural event describing itself as «a Eurovision for the Arctic». Pan-Arctic Vision has live musical contributions from the circumpolar North (the Arctic), and arranges televotes among the public. The event is broadcast internationally, and is loosely modeled on the well known Eurovision song contest.

Opposed to the Eurovision, the Pan-ArcticVision is deliberately questioning the concept of a musical competition, asking the public to decide on whether or not there should even be chosen one winner. Furthermore, it is not a competition of creators like the Eurovision, it is a competition of communities and artists who both create and perform their own works. The Pan-ArcticVision has participants not from nation states, but from different northern and arctic territories, displaying local arctic flags. The 2023 edition had participants from Alaska, The Yukon, Kalaallit Nunaat, Akureyri in Iceland, Faroe Islands, Sápmi, Northern Norway and Northern Finland - in addition to a Russian exile participant. Through this, the event wants to strengthen a circumpolar, pan-arctic community, and invites the public to consider questions on sovereignty, borders and nation states in new ways.

In April 2024, it was announced that the second edition of Pan-ArcticVision will go live from Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat, in October 2024, in cooperation with the culture centre Katuaq and Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation, KNR. There was an open call in several territories to find participants for the event.

Pan-Arcticvision 2023
The event was arranged for the first time in 2023, and the public voted to not just choose one single winner, but to have several winners. In addition, there was a price for «The place in the Arctic that really needs a price and deserves to host the next edition of the Pan-Arctic Vision». This price was won by Kalaallit Nunaat / Greenland. This would imply that the next edition would be arranged in Nuuk. A possible venue is the culture centre Katuaq.

Other price winners in 2023:


 * The most Arctic Song 2023: Nuija from Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).
 * The most Revolutionary Song 2023: Sköll from Båtsfjord, Nord-Norge (Northern Norway).
 * The song that gives the most feeling of Community and Togetherness 2023: Guðrið Hansdóttir from Velbastaður, Føroyar (The Faroe Islands).

Circumpolar event
The Pan-ArcticVision is quite unique in the way that it is one of few attempts to not just the euro-arctic region, the Barents region, the Nordics, the American arctic or the international inuit community, but to in fact include the whole circumpolar North.

The first edition of the Pan-ArcticVision was arranged in Vadsø, Northern Norway, a town of ca 6000 people located on the brink of the European mainland. The event was hosted by the local festival Varangerfestivalen. The project was initiated, financed and run by Nordting - the Northern Assembly, and led by artistic director and entrepreneur Amund Sjølie Sveen.