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Buošši winner 2024

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This years Buošši winner / 2024

On Thursday 11 July, the Buošši prize was awarded, in connection with the opening of the Riddu Riđđu festival in Manndalen in Kåfjord. The Buošši prize is awarded to people or associations that have made an effort to make Sea Sami language and culture visible. This year’s winner is an active member of Birtavarre husflidslag and sits on the board of Troms regional husflidslag and the board of Romssa Sámiid Searvi. This year’s winner is 47-year-old Hege Renate Nilsen.

(In the picture from left to right, Sajje Solbakk, Svein O. Leiros, Hege Renate Nilsen (buošši winner), Bente Ovedie Skogvang, Camilla Brattland)
This year there were many nominations for the buošši award, but there was one that we knew deserved the award. This year’s buošši prize winner has for many years been involved in the home craft team in Birtavarre, and through her involvement has maintained old traditions and created new life and enthusiasm around Sea Sami handicrafts and design.
In addition to being a committed craftsman, she has for several years communicated about the Sea Sami culture around the world. Most recently last year she was in the USA, where through the cultural association Pacific Sámi Searvi in ​​Seattle, she held several courses in Sámi crafts.
Those who have nominated Hege describe her as a role model in the local community, someone who always stands up for others and who shows a genuine interest in safeguarding and communicating the Sea Sami cultural heritage. Later this year, she will also travel to the Norwegian-American Museum in Iowa, USA. Below we have some photos from this year’s Buošši award and photos of the jury for the Buošši award.

Visualizing Arctic Voices

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KUNSTUTSTILLING
VISUALIZING ARCTIC VOICES

Welcome to one of the most comprehensive exhibitions Riddu Riđđu has ever had! Through images from the Arctic (approx. 1750-1930), the art exhibition Visualizing Arctic Voices will tell and examine the traces of indigenous people’s biographies, culture and experiences in the face of colonization. The exhibition builds on five years of archival work and collaboration between researchers with western and indigenous backgrounds. We can’t wait to share these amazing stories with this year’s festival audience!

See the art exhibition Visualizing Arctic Voices during this festival. Through images of the Arctic (approx. 1750-1930) the exhibition will tell and examine the traces that exist of Indigenous people’s biographies, culture and experiences in the face of colonization.

Follow this link for the exhibition catalogue (In North Sámi and English:

https://arcticvoices.space/exhibtion

The images are linked to Indigenous peoples, landscapes and animals in Sápmi, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), Inuit Nunangat (Northern Canada) and Alaska in a period of increased colonial pressure and contact. The images are tied together by the fact that they arose in meetings between people from different cultures, and with different agendas and understandings of relationships to people, animals, nature and culture. The art exhibition examines how historical images can retrieved and potentially enrich the history and culture for Arctic Indigenous people today.

In the exhibition you will also encounter works by Sámi artists, among others Outi Pieski, Anders Sunna, Raisa Porsanger, Áillohaš/Nils Aslak Valkeapää (1943-2001) og Aage Gaup (1943-2021), as well as the Greenlandic artist Bolatta Silis-Høegh and Sugpiat anthropologist, curator and artist Sven Haakanson. Their contributions to the exhibition invite conversations about repatriation, revitilization and ways to decolonize history.

Visualizing Arctic Voices is a collaboration between the Arctic Voices-project, Riddu Riđđu Festivála, Center of Northern Peoples and RiddoDuottarMuseat, with further contribution by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute.

The exhibition has also received funding from The Research Council of Norway, The Nordic Culture Fund, Fritt Ord, Riddu Riđđu Festivála,  NAPA – Nordic Institute on Greenland and The UiT The Arctic University of Norway’s Equality  and Diversity Committee.

Welcome to a journey through pictures of the Arctic that tell forgotten and unrecognized stories to the audience! We hope that the art exhibition will contribute to good conversations about revitalization, repatriation and methods of decolonizing history.

The opening of the art exhibition is on thursday 11 of july at 18:00! The exhibition is open after the main opening to 20:00, and will be available to see (during Riddu Riđđu festival):
Thursday – saturday from 10:00 – 18:00 and sunday from 10:00 – 14:00.

After Riddu Riđđu it is avaiable to see: monday – friday from 10:00 – 15:00.

Anders Sunna, Death Means Nothing for the Colors, 2009. Sámi Dáiddamagasiidna / Sámi Art Collections, RiddoDuottarMuseat, Kárášjohka. Photo: Håkon Holmgren Gabrielsen.
Outi Pieski, Rádje johtin I (Finnish: Rajan käynti I; English: Pacing the Borders I), 2014. Sámi Dáiddamagasiidna / Sámi Art Collections, RiddoDuottarMuseat, Kárášjohka. Photo: Håkon Holmgren Gabrielsen.