Barents Spektakel Opening Night: Opening of MAKE THE NORTH GREAT AGAIN!

The installation MAKE THE NORTH GREAT AGAIN! opens on Kirkenes town square on the festival opening night, with speeches, music from a Kirkenes horn orchestra, as well as spontaneous cultural songs and other happenings. 

The Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt will hold the opening speech and mark the official opening! 

The advertising sign displaying the words MAKE THE NORTH GREAT AGAIN! will light up Kirkenes throughout the Northern night. The installation will be exhibited throughout the festival. It is a part of Amund Sjølie Sveen’s art project NORDTING – “A Parliament for the North”, started in 2014, and is striving to allow issues “from the North and about the North” to be voiced at full volume. 

This time NORDTING and Barents Spektakel will raise questions about the Arctic, the balance of power, sovereignty, and the use of natural resources, starting on the opening night of the festival! 

Participants: Artist Amund Sjølie Sveen and crew: Erik Stifjell, Marthe K Engdal, Inger-Marie Lupton, Knut Åserud og Kirkenes Hornmusikk m.fl. Opening by Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt.