Cleaner Life Ice Project (CLIP) – Uummannaq Polar Institute’s new initiative dedicated to the Earth Day

On 04.21.12, In Climate, Environment, Natures, People, By Bolot

Galya Morrell has shared the link to the video “CLIP” summarizing the new initiative of Uummannaq Polar Institute named CLIP (“Cleaner Life Ice Project“).

It is UPI’s contribution to the Earth Day – a day on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth’s natural environment. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year on April 22nd.

Learn more about the CLIP project at the Uummannaq Music/Uummannaq Polar Institute website with detailed description of the happening:

http://uummannaqmusic.com/2012/04/clip/

Happy Earth Day, my friends!

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2011 Uummannaq Polar Institute Summer Expedition. To the North of Greenland.

On 08.09.11, In Climate, Cultures, Education, expedition, Lives, News, Projects, Travel, By Bolot
The 2011 Uummannaq Polar Institute Summer Expedition. To the North of Greenland.

The 2011 Uummannaq Polar Institute Summer Expedition. To the North of Greenland.

Aaaaa, it’s my big honour to be one of Ole Jorgen Hammeken‘s many friends. He is the most recognizable Greenlandic man, who attracts the world’s attention to Greenland, its people and climate issues.

It were him and his wonderful wife, who run together Uummannaq Children’s Home in the settlement called Uummannaq.

It was them, who host Galya Morrell and Joel Spiegelman‘s Uummannaq Music project.

Certainly, they are those people, who share Uummannaq Polar Institute‘s vision, i.e. to conserve Greenland’s local culture and promote educational programs for young Inuit people.

UPI was founded in 2007 by Ann Andreasen and was inaugurated in 2008 by HSH the Prince Albert II of Monaco, Jean Malaurie, a distinguished French ethnographer, and by Arthur Chilingarov, polar explorer and Vice-President of the Russian Parliament.

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Happy Arctic summer life among icebergs in Uummannaq, Greenland. 10 pictures taken by Hivshu Ua in July 2011

On 07.14.11, In Climate, Environment, Lives, Natures, Photos, By Bolot

Can you imagine? When the rest of the world is suffering the heat and the temperature much above +40C and even +50C, people of Greenland’s Uummannaq settlement are enjoying “the sight and light and smell of the salty seawater and fresh glacier air” daily.

That’s the way Hivshu Ua described the Uummannaq life among Arctic icebergs in July 2011.

Uummannaq dwellers are very lucky to have such honor… Unfortunately, it might not last forever. In 30 years, scientists predict the ice-free(!) Arctic… :(

Who is Hivshu Ua?

He is one of great men participated in the Uummannaq Music project. Be sure to visit UM’s website, facebook page and Flickr sets to learn more and see Greenland in its currently-existing glory.

Hope, you will like this and below-published photographs and say thanks with me to Hivshu Ua, their author, for letting us to see such an Arctic summer beauty online.

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Uummannaq Music Project Presentation at ICASS VII in Akureyri, Iceland

On 07.04.11, In Climate, Education, Environment, Music, Photos, Places, Videos, By Bolot


Text, photo, video (c) Galya Morrell

The second season of the Uummannaq Music project (www.uummannaqmusic.com) curated and done by Galya Morrel and Joel Spiegelman in Uummannaq, Greenland, has been finished.

It’s really hard to describe what they have completed this year. So many activities! Too many! That was the reason why the post was delayed.

Praise god, Galya created the video presentation of the Uummannaq Music project for The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) Conference in Akureyri, Iceland :)

Galya Morell & Joel Spiegelman’s project “Uummaannaq Music”
The most unusual Music Festival at the Ice School for Orphaned Eskimo Children in Uummaannaq, Greenland, 590 kilometers north of the Artic Circle
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Uummannaq Music is included in Cold United’s list of Cold-Related People & Projects.

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Kevin Morrell’s “Uummannaq!” rocks! [video]

On 01.09.11, In Music, Projects, Societies, Videos, By Bolot

A new video from Galya Morrell and Joel Spiegelman‘s Uummannaq Music project. Created and performed by Kevin Morrell.

The video information:

Uummannaq! is written and performed by Kevin Morrell is based on a true story, except for the parts that aren’t. Kevin, the NYC iliarsuk, lonely and hungry, heads to Uummannaq to meet Pipaluk, the beauty.

Glossary: Iliarsuk=”fatherless, orphan”. Koodlooktoo =”the famous Greenlandic orphan who used to live closer to the Pole than any other human being and who caught the white owl for Adm. Robert Peary”. Pipaluk=”the little small nothing”.

Needless to say, that in the country of understatements, which Greenland definitely is, “the little small nothing” means no less than “the great big something”. We also know that every great hunter and every great leader once used to be an orphan.

Galya Morrell, the co-founder of the Uummannaq Music project, says about the video: (more…)

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Big Blasts in Uummannaq, Greenland

On 10.20.10, In Climate, Environment, Lives, Photos, By Bolot
A melting iceberg is about to collapse. Photo by Galya Morrell.

A melting iceberg is about to collapse. Photo by Galya Morrell.

Galya Morrell (the Uummaannaq Music project) reports from Greenland,

“Big Blasts keep shattering the air and window glasses in Uummannaq. Those of you who’ve seen “SOS Eisberg “ – a 1933 German-U.S. coproduction starring Leni Riefenstahl in Uummannaq in her pre-filmmaking days may remember phantasmagoric collapses of skyscraper-size icebergs in Uummannaq fjord. Most of those blasts were induced by dynamite which made “SOS Eisberg” one of the most expensive films of its time. Today icebergs in Uummannaq break up inexpensively: it just happens, naturally.”

In short, thanks to climate changes, iceberg collapses happen daily. Greenland is melting.

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Arctic Movie: “Inuk – On the Thin Ice”

On 06.24.10, In Climate, Lives, Movies, Videos, By Bolot

A few moments ago I’ve sent all my friends a request to join the movie Facebook fan page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Le-Voyage-dInuk-On-thin-Ice/60867737760

Just want to let friends know about this amazing film made on a beautiful island inhabited with good people! Greenland with the town of Uummannaq, Greenland, is that place.

By the way… Ole Jorgen Hammeken is among my fb friends. It’s a man, who starred in the movie. He is depicting that brutal-look guy on a sledge, who was asked to care an orphan-teenager, Inuk, as his son.

The Inuk film is not on big screens yet. It is currently shown only on special premiers around the world. Each screening appears to be a big event. Recently it was appraised in Oslo during the last International Polar Year conference. Very good feedbacks this movie has. Hope one day it will make it to Yakutsk!

Enjoy the Arctic!

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