Piteraq is a radio documentary about a storm that hit Tasiilaq - a small town on Greenlands East coast - in 1970. This story is produced during a Polar Radio workshop in Tasiilaq in 2005. Recordings are made by a group of children from Tasiilaq school, production. Tasiilaq choir makes wind sounds. Edit and sound design by Jón Hallur Stefánsson, Sabine Hviid and Rikke Houd. 

According to our informationPiteraq is the first radio documentary produced in Eastern Greenlandic. It was 6. on the Prix Europa short list in 2006. 

Polar Radio is a non-profit project that aims to help youth in remote communities articulate important issues by means of radio features and creative radio pieces created by them.

English script: http://rikkehoud.dk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Piteraq_english-transcript.pdf

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Piteraq

Waterheart is radio documentary produced in April 2008. Polar Radio and CBC North collaborated with 10 teenagers from the Ethseo Ayah public school in Délįne, a small community of about 700 Sahtú Déne First Nations situated by the Great Bear Lake in Northern Canada. 

It's a story about broken trust. A story of epic scope that incorporates nuclear bombs, a language almost lost, a terrible illness and a looming apocalypse. It's also a story about love, humanity, water and the endurance of life. 

Polar Radio is an international radio project focusing on teenagers in remote circumpolar communities - founded in Iceland by Rikke Houd, Sabine Hviid and Jón Hallur Stefánsson in 2005. Polar Radio´s goal is to give young people and their communities their own documentary voice. The project turns youngsters into radio documentary makers through intensive hands-on, ten-day production workshops. In each case, the result is a professionally produced group documentary ready for air.

In this workshop we had the pleasure of joining forces with Dawn Ostrem, Dave Miller and Paul Andrew from CBC North. 

Copyright Polar Radio and CBC North 2008

Link to English script: http://www.scribd.com/doc/165369230/Waterheart-ENGLISH


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