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Join Artica and Emma Henderson for an introduction to printmaking with natural colour. In this experimental three-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to turn natural materials into colour, and then transform them into inks for printmaking. Focusing on screen printing, we’ll use simple stencils to print and layer colours, exploring the possibilities of natural inks.

(Lecture will be held in Norwegian)

The climate in Svalbard is changing rapidly, temperatures are rising, glaciers are melting, and rainfall is increasing. In this talk, Ine-Therese Pedersen reflects on how these transformations have affected daily life in the Arctic and what it means to live in a landscape that is visibly changing.

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Join artist-in-residence David Samuel Stern for a hands-on workshop exploring the fundamentals of pinhole photography — one of the earliest and most elemental forms of image-making. Together, we will learn how a pinhole camera works and look at examples of this uniquely atmospheric medium

Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us on the first Friday of every month for Artica Svalbard’s Coffee Club!

Art Club is back! Join us this dark season for Art Club—an open, welcoming space to make, share, and get inspired. Bring along your own arts or crafts projects to work on, or try out one of the materials and activities available, such as watercolour, drawing, or collage.

* Fully Booked *

Artist-in-residence Ashley Middleton leads a participatory workshop in Adventdalen exploring the transformation of light through two frameworks — the Grid and the Matrix. Focusing on coal as fossilised sunlight, participants will reflect on how deep time was burned to sustain modern life. Through gentle movement, walking, drawing, and conversation, the workshop invites a renewed sense of connection between body, landscape, and environment.

(Presentation will be held in Norwegian)

What is it like for youth to live in Longyearbyen when so many people come and go? Over the past three years, Ragnhild Bjørnsen has conducted a research project focusing on how mobility affects youth in Longyearbyen. This evening, she will present some of the findings from her project and asks for feedback on her work. The evening ends with a conversation concerning topics such as friendships, belonging, inclusion, and exclusion.

A new monthly gathering at Artica Svalbard where scientists and artists meet, share, and spark ideas over tea, cake, and conversation.

* Fully booked *

We are pleased to invite you to a special creative writing workshop with writer Clara Arnaud, held inside the exhibition space of the Svalbard Museum. Objects and images carry stories from the past — sometimes they reflect our own stories, sometimes they spark entirely new ones. In this workshop, participants will be invited to bring the seemingly inanimate artefact to life through writing.

Can lived experience shape the way we design sound — and what happens when that process involves the body, memory, and place? In this talk, experimental composer and sound designer James Welburn explores how immersion, experimentation, and embodied listening can lead to authentic soundscapes — with ideas relevant to purely audio-based works as well as film, games, and audiovisual art. 

Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us on the first Friday of every month for Artica Svalbard’s Coffee Club!

* Fully Booked - Waiting list only *

This hands-on workshop invites you to rediscover the joy of home fermentation through the simple and accessible process of lacto-fermentation — a method anyone can try at home. As an introduction to the event, Anatolijs Venovcevs, a local fermentation enthusiast and researcher in historical archaeology at the Svalbard Museum, will give a brief introduction to fermentation and its history - both globally and on Svalbard.

Join us for an evening with artist Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel, exploring the world of scent, memory, and landscape. Simon will introduce how olfaction shapes his artistic practice and guide us through small exercises and “how-to’s” for developing a heightened sense of smell.

A new monthly gathering at Artica Svalbard where scientists and artists meet, share, and spark ideas over tea, cake, and conversation.

Get inspired by stories and the spirit of the Longyearbyen Literature Festival in this free, hands-on printmaking workshop for all ages. Join Artica Svalbard and Longyearbyen folkebibliotek for a creative session making your own unique bookmark using simple lino printing techniques.

Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us on the first Friday of every month for Artica Svalbard’s Coffee Club!

Join us in the Artica Workshop to create your own Pride banner! We’ll have materials and space ready for you to design, paint, and assemble your banner in preparation for Longyearbyen Pride

We are pleased to welcome local artist and filmmaker Terhi Nieminen to Artica for a screening of her award-winning short film Granada.

Join artists Malin Arnell and Mar Fjell for a collective walk along the Longyearelva. We look forward to welcoming you for this performance, gathering, action, and manifestation together with the moraine water. 

Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us on the first Friday of every month for Artica Svalbard’s Coffee Club!

Join us for a hands-on book-making workshop with our summer residents, Nicole Cecilia Delgado and Amanda Hernández of La Impresora, exploring the fundamentals of low-cost publishing. Using analogue design techniques, participants will learn to create four distinct single-page publication formats inspired by La Impresora’s Poema Suelto series, known for its inventive, non-traditional layouts.

Join us for an early evening bilingual poetry reading (in English and Spanish), hosted by the Puerto Rican poets Amanda Hernández and Nicole Cecilia Delgado of La Impresora, a small-scale publishing project focused on contemporary poetry and Risograph printing based in Puerto Rico

Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us on the first Friday of every month for Artica Svalbard’s Coffee Club!

Fully Booked - waiting list only

Join Artist in Residence Endi Poskovic for a discussion and hands-on printmaking workshop exploring process, intuition, and storytelling through relief woodcut and stencil. Discover how traditional techniques shape contemporary narratives in his creative practice.

Artica is delighted to invite you to an Open Studio evening with artist Endi Poskovic, offering a rare behind-the-scenes look into his practice, process, and recent work. In this informal setting, visitors will have the chance to view works-in-progress, hear about his current themes and inspirations, and learn more about his creative approach. 

Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us on the first Friday of every month for Artica Svalbard’s Coffee Club!

Join us for a drop-in event with artist Floortje Zonneveld and ecologist Sanne Moedt, showcasing their project Shadowing Without a Sunset at Artica Svalbard. The exhibition features a curated, three-dimensional archive of scientific fieldwork in Ny-Ålesund, brought to life through video, audio, photography, quotes, and objects.

Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us on the first Friday of every month for Artica Svalbard’s Coffee Club!