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Aviaja Sanimuinaq is an Inuit woman who comes from a shamanic lineage in Greenland. Aviaja returned to her pre-colonized traditional beliefs after a long journey of intergenerational trauma healing. She holds a deep respect for ancient teachings, connection and healing in a modern world.

Naja Lyberth is a Greenlandic psychologist specializing in trauma and women’s rights activist known for her campaign against birth control policies called Danish Coil Campaign in Greenland for Inuit women without their consent. In December 2022, she was named as one of BBC’s 100 Women.

Ikimaliq Pikilak is an artist, author, filmmaker and traditional practitioner of Tunniit (Inuit Tattoo from Narsaq). A neurodivergent research nerd, she has been researching Inuit culture since 2016. Her passion about the preservation of Inuit culture is exemplified in the disseminating knowledge through her practice, art, children’s books and films.

Nuka Alice Lund is one of the pioneers in the revitalization of the Inuit drum dancing and singing in Greenland. Not only is she a keeper of songs that she passes along when she teaches, she also creates her own drum songs. She learned drum dancing from Pauline Lumholt in 2009 and that same year she also created the first of her own drum songs. Nuka also opens the annual Arctic Sounds music festival since it started in 2014.

Varna Marianne Nielsen Apaloo is a singer, composer and traditional drumdancer. Born in Greenland, her art is inspired by the old traditions of east Greenlandic drum dancing. She stems from a long ancestral line of known drum dancers, tracing back to the legendary shaman and drum dancer Maratse. Today she is the only one left of her family who carries on the cultural heritage and history. She is dedicated to spread knowledge, uphold and further develop the rare cultural treasure of drum dancing.