Short-term (2 to 4 weeks) "festival" project in Greenland

Ilulissat is Greenland’s third largest city and commune with over 5000 inhabitants of whom most people live in Ilulissat formerly known as Jakobshavn. The rest lives in the four villages Ilimanaq (Claushavn), Oqaatsut (Rodebay), Qeqertaq og Saqqaq.
The city is located 300 km north of the polar circle close to one of the world’s largest ice fiords – Kangia. This provides a fruitful environment for fishing as well as tourism. The area is on UNESCO’s list of one of the World’s Nature Heritage.
The great leader of arctic expeditions and polar explorer Knud Rasmussen was born in Ilulissat, and his childhood home is today a city museum. Sledge dogs are used for both fishing and for leisure trips, so the 5000 dogs in the city are hard to overlook. Remember they are not pets! Sermermiut is an ancient settlement near the ice fiord, where you still can see the remains from the houses. There has been found traces which lead back 4000 years to the ancient culture of the Eskimos by Sermermiut.
The big glacier is located 40 km in the ice fiord and produces in average 20 million tons a day.

The main objective at this workcamp is to help the local community to arrange the Saqqaq Midnight Festival, which takes places around the end of July. We will also help the community with cleaning up and beautify the area.

Ilulissat, Greeland. Check the Greenland guide - www.greenland-guide.gl

There are regular flights from a growing numbers of destinations to Greenland, but you will have to change flight in Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strømfjord).

Ilulissat - A private house or students hostel/ dormitory. Rodebay - not settled yet, probably basic accommodation.

EURO 250 to be paid on arrival.