Greenland's Creative Industry and Handicrafts
Greenland is a nation of creative people. A large proportion of the greenlandic population is engaged in professional creative projects and enterprises reaching from personally crafted handicraft artwork to international or indigenous music to million dollar animation projects.
Greenlandic handicrafts is more than mere souvenirs. Handicraft art products are made from nature’s own materials such as stones and gems, driftwood, antlers, bones and teeth of the wild animals of the Arctic.
Whether created for decoration or for traditional magic handicraft art of Greenland has exciting stories to tell and each piece is unique in material, form and colour. Exhibitions of Greenlandic art are shipped and sold worldwide. For more information please contact webmarketing@kni.gl.
For more information about Greenlandic handicraft exhibitions and artists please contact thue@thue-art.dk Greenland also enjoys a vivid musical culture, and ranges from the traditional, beautiful Greenlandic choirs to the modern music stages of rock, pop and hiphop.
To learn more about what Greenland has to offer international listeners please go to http://www.atlanticmusicshop.gl/
Greenland has also set the stage for several internationally renown motion pictures. The adventures of the traditional Inuit culture has also inspired animation moviemakers in making the first large-scale animation movie catering to the international animation movie audience - both young and old. The contrasts of Greenland’s nature and environment - from the idyllic to the dramatical - also set an impressive stage for commercials and TV-ads with a need for spectacular settings.
For more information please contact Greenland Tourism & Business Council at info@inussuk.gl
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