About | Arctic Voices

Helene Sofie Smit

Helene Sofie Smit is a young activist who plays a key role in the resistance against the Nussir mining project in northern Norway, which threatens a fragile ecosystem and Sámi reindeer husbandry in the region.

Anna Ravna

Anna Ravna is a young activist who plays a key role in the resistance against the Nussir mining project in northern Norway, which threatens a fragile ecosystem and Sámi reindeer husbandry in the region.

Jil Rissi

Jil Rissi studierte Volkswirtschaft, Geschichte und Skandinavistik im Bachelor an der Universität Zürich. In ihren Arbeiten beschäftigte sie sich mit Raumwahrnehmungen im Nordatlantik, grönländischer Fotografie und der Interdisziplinarität von Kunst

Vera Sperisen

Vera Sperisen works as a research associate at the Centre for Democracy in Aarau at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, School of Education (PH FHNW).

Isabelle Avingaq Choquette

Isabelle Uyaralaaq Avingaq Choquette is the curator of the Nunavik Inuit Art Collection at the Avataq Cultural Institute, based in Montreal.

Kim Leine

Kim Leine has written several children's books, and is particularly known for the books about the siblings Andreas and Sofie in Greenland, illustrated by Peter Bay Alexandersen.

Fiona & Désirée Bär

Fiona and Désirée grew up yodeling in a rural region of Bern and later, with great joy, discovered a deep connection and love for other forms of traditional folk singing.

Elisabeth Berg

As a Norwegian lecturer at the universities of Zürich and Basel, Elisabeth Berg worked with Sámi literature and invited Sámi guest lecturers. She now works as a freelancer, focusing on Sámi music, film, and literature projects.

Sara Hauser-Rohr

Sara Valentina Hauser-Rohr (University of Bern) is a historian (MA) and a doctoral researcher in the Anthropology of Music. In her dissertation project, she engages with “sonic colonialities”.

Láijla Sofe Egilsdatter Swart

Láijla Sofe is a Sámi poet whose work explores poetry as a space for personal and collective reflection.‍ Her writing engages with themes of mental health, silence, and the invisible wounds carried through generations.

Ingor Antte Ailu Gaup (Ailloš)

Ingor Antte Ailu Gaup (Ailloš) from Guovdageaidnu in Sápmi, Norway, is a yoiker, instructor, and actor at the Sámi National Theatre Beaivváš. He has performed his art worldwide.

Alissa Csonka

Alissa Csonka (HKB) ist Designforscherin (MA) mit Wurzeln in der Schweiz und im Norden Russlands.

Krista Ulujuk Zawadski

Dr. Krista Ulujuk Zawadski is an Inuk curator, anthropologist, land-based educator, researcher, scholar and writer from Kangirłiniq (Rankin Inlet), Nunavut.

Natascha Cerny Ehtesham

Natascha Cerny Ehtesham has a background in civilian peacebuilding and human rights and works as Assistant Director at the MCCA.

Martha Cerny

Martha Cerny is a Canadian-Swiss curator, co-founder, and director of the Museum of Contemporary Circumpolar Art (MCCA).

Ciné Liminal

ciné liminal is a collectively curated documentary film program run by students, anthropologists, film enthusiasts and filmmakers.

Alexandra Baumann

Alexandra Baumann is head of the Prosperity and Sustainability Division at the FDFA and Swiss ambassador to the Arctic Council

Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi

Vorsitzende des Jugendausschusses des Sámi-Parlaments in Norwegen

Nimal Bourloud

Nimal Bourloud is a Curator, Filmmaker and Visual Anthropologist from Bern.

Kati Eriksen

Kati Eriksen is a dedicated Sámi activist, producer, and developer with extensive experience in various Sámi organizations and projects since 1996.

Andrea Bordoli

Andrea Bordoli is a Visual Anthropologist and Filmmaker based in Ticino and Bern.

Cyrill Hermann

Cyrill Hermann is a Climate Strike Activist from Switzerland.

Lars Anders Baer

Saami Politician and member of the Sámiráđđi / Saami Council

Alisi Telengut

Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian roots, living between Berlin, Germany and Tiohtià:ke/ Montréal, Canada.

Tabea Willi

Tabea Willi is Programme Head at Voices (formerly Society for Threatened Peoples)

Mike Metatawabin

Mike Metatawabin is a member of Fort Albany First Nation in Treaty 9 territory. He is a Survivor of the notorious St. Anne’s Indian Residential School, which was located in his home community.

Lea Hagmann

Dr. Lea Hagmann ist Filmemacherin und Musikethnologin an der Universität Bern.

Marja Mortensson

Marja Mortensson is one of the world’s foremost performers of traditional South and Ume Saami yoiks.

Berit Alette Mienna & Øistein Hanssen

Berit Alette Mienna is a Joik teacher and artist from Jergul in Finnmark (Norway). Øistein Hanssen from Nordkjosbotn (Norway) has immersed himself in the sounds of natural flutes and has researched traditional Sámi and Kven music in music archives.

Beaska Niillas

Beaska Niillas from Deatnu in the Norwegian part of Sápmi, is among other things a father of two, Sámi duojár (Sámi storyteller and knowledge-holder), hunter, gatherer, land guardian and politician.

Lewis Cardinal

Lewis Cardinal is a Woodland Cree communicator and educator from the Sucker Creek Cree First Nation in Treaty No. 8, Alberta, Canada. He has dedicated his life to fostering cross-cultural connections through public service.

Jo Morten Kåven

Jo Morten is a versatile Sámi artist and musician who works at the intersection of heritage and modernity to strengthen Sámi identity. In his visual work, he uses encaustic – an ancient technique where heated, pigmented wax is built up in layers.