Heroes of the Silent Snow documentary

I am really thankful to the destiny for giving me opportunity to get acquanted with Galya Morell, a New York based educator, who appeared eventually to be my best channel to many Arctic environment alert projects. Today, with her help, I learned about another fantastic Greenland project called “Silent Snow.”

“This morning Silent Snow – a must see documentary featuring the Uummannaq Music protagonists – was introduced to a forum of distinguished delegates and ambassadors at the UN. Thank you to Moki Kokoris who made it possible. Hopefully, this will lead to some concrete results,” wrote Galya Morell in her last status update on the Uummannaq Music facebook fan page on April 23, 2010.

So what is this project about? Before clicking the link “More”, please, know that I am very open-minded and extremely interested in any inspiring helpful Arctic-related projects. If you run some of them or are aware of some great initiatives, I beg you to share such info with me via our Cold United FB fan page or directly via the contact form.

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Track the iceberg with sculptures in the Arctic Ocean

Track the iceberg with sculptures in the Arctic Ocean

As Joel and Galya worked at their great project “Uummannaq Music Festival” in Uummaannaq, Greenland, 590 kilometers north of the Artic Circle, the team of Cool(E)motion, placed two huge sculptures on an iceberg.

The sculptures start to float shortly and will make an uncertain trip through the Arctic oceans. Cool(E)motion attached GPS systems on the sculptures so everybody can see ‘live’ where they are drifting to.

The project is launched to show the impact of climate change on local cultures.

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About the video

“I always wondered: what Angel of Uummannaq might look like? Would it be wearing skins and kamiks, like Greenlandic Ken who is fashioned in polar bear pants and a seal parka? Would it be flying above the ice cap or beneath the sea ice? Would it be driving the dogs?.. I staged this little Arctic Ballet on Ice to find the answer.” Chaika1961 [Galya Morrell].

Via Galya Morrell’s blog

Who is Galya Morrell?

Galya Morrell is the NY-based educator, who coordinates the fantastic Uummaannaq Music project in Greenland, Norway. She describes her initiative as “the most unusual Music Festival at the Ice School for Orphaned Eskimo Children in Uummaannaq, Greenland, 590 kilometers north of the Artic Circle.”

Please visit her blog for more information and enjoy what kind of good deeds she and her colleagues do for Eskimo kids. By the way, browse through her beautiful winter pictures. White snow, blue ice, happy kids and wonderful music!

Join also the Uummaannaq Music Facebook fan page.

8.1.2010 – 18:10 Uhr  Source dpa

Bielefeld, Germany (AP) – Germany is sinking in the snow. Many people feel cold – Dorthe Kohler, however, is happy since the onset of winter. The 54-year-old Inuit woman from Aasiaat on the west coast of Greenland, feels these days as in their homeland. For 15 years she lives in Bielefeld.

 

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Big igloo in front of Kinngait (southern region of Baffin Island) — Source Wikipedia

 

Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa she told how the German differs from the Greenland winter.

How does the German winter for you?

Kohler: “I feel like at home. The childhood comes back to me. Snow, always snow. Dog sled ride, skiing – those were good times. In Bielefeld is rarely any snow. But I can not change, I have to through. I chose to live here because I also have to endure, that there is hardly any snow. ”

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The governments of Canada, Greenland and Nunavut have signed an agreement to protect polar bears in overlapping governmental regions. This is similar to the bilateral deal signed last year between Canada and the U.S. and a separate agreement between Alaska and Russia.
These agreements all set a framework for collaboration on scientific research and monitoring of polar bear population levels.

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