Pan-Arcticvision

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Pan-ArcticVision is an international social and cultural event that describes itself as "a Eurovision for the Arctic".^[1] Pan-ArcticVision has live musical contributions from the circumpolar North (the Arctic), and arranges televotes among the public. The event is broadcast internationally, and is loosely modeled on the well known Eurovision song contest.^[2][3]

Different from Eurovision, the Pan-ArcticVision questions the concept of a musical competition, and asks the public to decide whether or not there should be a more than one winner. Furthermore, this is not a competition between creators (unlike Eurovision); it is a competition between communities and artists who both create and perform their own works.^[4] The Pan-ArcticVision has participants not from nation states, but from different northern and Arctic territories, displaying local Arctic flags. The two first editions have included participants from Alaska, The Yukon, Nunavut, Kalaallit Nunaat, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Sápmi, Nord-Norge (Northern Norway), Norrbotten in Norra Sverige (Northern Sweden) and Pohjois-Suomi (Northern Finland) — in addition to a Russian Arctic Exile participant.^[5] Through this, the event aims to strengthen circumpolar, Pan-Arctic contact,^[6][7] and invites the public to consider questions of sovereignty, borders and nation states.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2024, it was announced that the second edition of Pan-ArcticVision would go live from Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat, in October 2024, in cooperation with the culture centre Katuaq and Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation, KNR.^[8][9][10] There was an open call in several territories to find participants for the event.^{[citation needed]}