[5] Through this, the event aims to strengthen circumpolar, Pan-Arctic contact,[6][7] and invites the public to consider questions of sovereignty, borders and nation states.
[citation needed] In April 2024, it was announced that the second edition of Pan-ArcticVision would go live from Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat, in October 2024, in cooperation with the culture centre Katuaq and Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation, KNR.
[citation needed] The first edition of the Pan-ArcticVision was arranged in Vadsø, Northern Norway, a town of ca 6000 people located on the brink of the European mainland.
[16][17] Prize winners 2024:[18][19] Other notable participants of Pan-ArcticVision 2024 included Qacung Stephen Blanchett from Alaska, know from the band Pamyua, and Mirja Palo from Northern Sweden.
[2][clarification needed] Pan-ArcticVision is initiated, financed and run by Nordting - the Northern Assembly, and led by artistic director and entrepreneur Amund Sjølie Sveen, who claims the event is challenging a worldview where the centre (the capitals of nation states) is the starting point.