This was our first trip to Scandinavia, so we were really looking forward to attend the last festival of We are Europe. We took 3 flights between Porto, Frankfurt and Oslo to get there, but finally we landed in Tromsø, in the northern end of Norway. We’ve found the Insomnia Festival, a small festival happening in a student’s place that, in addition to an avant-garde electronic music program, also presents a set of conferences. This was our starting point to talk with our two guests of the last episode of the New Activists of European Culture series: Aslak Holmberg and Srećko Horvat. Aslak is the vice president of the Saami Council, an organization that aims to preserve Saami’s culture in the northern part of Scandinavia; Horvat is a philosopher, activist, author and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25).

"The terrace of my house has a great view with old rooftops, the Northern Lights Cathedral and the Holy Mountain..." - Say no more! Gjøa Orheim, the director of Insomnia festival, showed us her porch where we spent half an hour with snow at our feet, filming and talking with Aslat and Screckó about nomadism and identity.

Meanwhile, we still had time to explore the fjords and watch, just for a while, the Aurora Borealis, also known as Northern Light. This was the trigger to name our last episode of the series New Activists of European Culture - because we still believe in a guiding light of hope, even though Horvat claims the apocalypse has already happened and that we are already suffering from its effects.

“New Activists of European Culture” is a series by Canal180 that focuses on conversations between activists from Europe. Born from partnership with We are Europe, which promotes, creates and produces 8 major European events. Their goal is to develop a prospective vision of electronic culture, technology and entrepreneurship, while contributing to new social and political developments through an interdisciplinary approach.