Invitation to Children's Art Competition - World Reindeer Herders Congress

Written by Philip Burgess

Wednesday, 11 March 2009 00:30

The Association of World Reindeer Herders Congress is fast approaching. Youth are the future of reindeer husbandry and encouraging youth to recreate scenes from reindeer husbandry in their region has been a feature of previous World Reindeer congresses, all the way back to the first international gathering of reindeer herders in Tromsø 1993. All regions of reindeer husbandry are invited to submit entries for the childrens art exhibition to in the upcoming Congress to be held in Kautokeino, March 29-April 4, 2009. You can read the full invitations in the Congress Document Centre: Samigiella, Norsk, English, на русском языке This picture is by Risten Ravna Eira, and was an entry to the 1993 exhibition in Tromsø. Incidentally, Risten was a participant in the recent EALÁT Information workshop in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). You can see pictures here.  Related Articles/Posts