2026 Events
Art Club
Join us for the last in this dark season of 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.
Workshop: Hidden Stories: Creative Writing from the Museum Collection
We are very pleased to welcome the return of writer Clara Arnaud and the creative writing workshops at Svalbard Museum. Over three workshops participants will have the opportunity to work within this unique setting and draw inspiration from the museum’s collections and surroundings.
Concert & lecture: Violin Stories (Arctic Chamber Music Festival)
Artica Svalbard and the Arctic Chamber Music Festival invite you to an after-work concert and lecture exploring the violin’s evolving voice. From early traditions to contemporary expressions, we trace how the violin and its music have transformed across time. Live performances illuminate these shifts, while Artica resident Clara Arnaud threads in a story about change, perspective, and the ever-shifting realities of Svalbard.
Svalbard i en verden i endring: Sikkerhet, suverenitet og økende spenninger
Artica Svalbard inviterer til en åpen og aktuell samtale i Oslo torsdag 5. mars. Vi samler forskere, journalister og andre sentrale aktører for å diskutere hvordan vi kan forstå virkningen av store geopolitiske endringer på Svalbard i lys av norsk suverenitet – samtidig som vi forblir åpne, inkluderende og følger våre internasjonale forpliktelser.
Concert: Glacier Lamentation - The Sound of Svalbard (Polar Jazz festival)
Artica Svalbard and Polar Jazz invite you to an evening of sound, science, and shifting ice. What does a glacier sound like as it calves, drips, fractures, and recedes? What can seismic pulses, melting rhythms, and underwater echoes tell us about a world in transformation? Glacier Lamentation asks us to listen differently—to hear climate change not as data or distance, but as vibration, resonance, and presence.
First Friday Coffee Club
Are you interested in meeting Longyearbyen’s creative community? Join us for the last First Friday Coffee Club of the year! We’ll celebrate the season with festive treats, good company, and inspiring conversation.
Workshop: Nature and the Inner Landscape
Fully Booked
In this workshop, we will explore ways of being in nature that are grounding and creative. Drawing on her experience as both a psychiatrist and an Arctic nature guide, Olga Tingstedt will lead a gentle practice that invites participants to connect with nature, with themselves, and with one another.
Art Club
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.
Film Screening: In the Summers
Join us for a special Monday evening screening at Nordover, selected by Artica Svalbard artist-in-residence Ashley Middleton. In the Summers, directed by Alessandra Lacorazza, follows sisters Violeta and Eva as they spend summers with their loving yet reckless father, Vicente.
Workshop: Introduction to Screen printing hosted by Kamil Kak
* Fully booked - waiting list only *
Artica Svalbard invites you to a two-day introduction to screen printing led by artist-in-residence Kamil Kak. This hands-on workshop is open to everyone, and no prior experience is required.
Art Club
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.
Lantern Lecture: Creeping risks of the Arctic: How Svalbard Science can help us to see, understand and adapt
Is the Arctic a sensor of physical, chemical and biological risks for the Earth? Svalbard is an unique location to create understanding of the on-going processes.