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It would take 46 days to row a boat nonstop from Sørvågen, Norway to New York City. This is the amount of delay of the live broadcast on Montez Press Radio of a concert that took place on September 7, 2024, at Sørvågen Radio, the former telegraph station in the remote fishing village far west in the Lofoten islands of Northern Norway.
Hvert år utlyser Nordnorsk kunstnersenter reisestipend på vegne av Nordland fylkeskommune. Midlene er søkbare for alle kunstnere som bor og jobber i Nordland. Søknadsfristen er 1. desember 2024.
North Norwegian Art Centre and LIAF Artistic Advisory Board are happy to announce the opening weekend of Lofoten International Art Festival—LIAF 2024, taking place September 20–22.
Lofoten International Art Festival - LIAF is now hiring exhibition hosts for this year's exhibition period September 20 till October 20.
Are you interested? Forward your inquiry, application and CV to post@nnks.no by August 20.
The exhibition is shown at Jacobsenbrygga as part of the Helgeland Festival which opens on June 29 June and is on view until August 11.
This year's festival exhibition is based on the history surrounding the Lofoten Line: a large-scale national initiative from 1861 which was supposed to make the Lofoten fishery more efficient. With its 170 km of submarine cables and land lines, the facility constituted the country's first telegraph line outside the main telecommunications network.
