Varna Marianne Nielsen
Artist name: VARNA GL.
Founder of Qilaat.org.
is an Inuit multidisciplinary artist with her main focus on music, film and research on heritage.
She is currently the only female producer and electronic musician in Greenland, who also
practices Drumdacing and Drumsinging.
Her life work is is devoted to her heritage Drumdancing and Drum singing.
Especially focussed on preservation and ongoing innovation of the ancient music of Greenland,
which was also inscribed in UNESCOs list of intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2021.
Qilaat.org
pillugu mississuiuviuvoq aammattaaq ilisimasanik katersuiviulluni.
Nunattatsinni avatangiisitsinnullu eriagisassaq pillugu ingerlatitseqiinissatsinnut siunertaqarpugut.
Qilaat.org
is a research and knowledge center.
Our purpose is to preserve, revive and share knowledge of drumdancing for Inuit in Greenland and others around the world.
latest publication:
nunap inoqqaavi kultoorikkut kingornussaanut
NERsorinnineq
Atuagaq online-mi uani tuluttut atuarneqarsinnaavoq.
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000390088
CELEBRATING THE LIVING HERITAGE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Here you can find the online version of the publication:
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000390088
INNGERUTIT INERTEQQUTAAMMATA / THE FORBIDDEN SONGS /
INNGERUTIT INERTEQQUTAAMMATA / THE FORBIDDEN SONGS /
First chapter in a series of films about Greenlandic Drumdancing, by director Varna Marianne Nielsen
UNESCO
Element Inuit drum dancing and singing
Inscribed in 2021 (16.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Title EN: Nuumi Peqatigiiffik Inngertartut practicing drum dancing and singing with their selections of drums in the middle
Photograph: Kristine Eiby Møller
© Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaateqarfialu, 2012
Link to article:
https://ich.unesco.org/en/photo-pop-up-00973?photoID=14592
