about us
Anita Munch Kulset
County Library Director
Project owner for the Hospitality Symposium. She also participates in the Via Querinissima general assembly, of which Nordland County Library is a member.
Marit Laland
Advisor Nordland County Library
Project Manager Nordland International Hospitality Symposium
Silver Riise
Special Advisor Nordland County Library
Working with the practical implementation of the symposium, following up on the participants, from registration to logistics, including transport to and from Røst, and between the various arenas.
She is the contact person for Beddingen Kulturhus in Bodø and the theater performance that will take place there on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, together with Anne Silje Kolseth at Figurteateret in Nordland.
Ane Haugen Gussiaas
Advisor Nordland County Library
Working with programming the symposium and contacting speakers.
She is also responsible for a map exhibition that is being created in collaboration with the symposium.
Veronica Iren Kroka
Consultant Nordland County Library
Finance manager
Interdisciplinary working group
Hildegunn Pettersen
Host your stay on Røst, where she will be responsible for organizing all activities on Røst from your arrival to your departure. Hildegunn is an opera singer and artist who has chosen to move back to her childhood island, after many years in the capital, and she will be found on stage, where she specializes in communicating local history through song and music.
Ole Martin Andreassen
Works as a producer at Musikk i Nordland, and is part of the interdisciplinary working group working on the Hospitality Symposium.
Musikk i Nordland is a concert provider, partner and competence institution for organizers in the region – one of the pillars of Nordland's cultural life. Through the vision "big music experiences in small places", we work to make professional music available to audiences throughout the county.
Musikk i Nordland produces new concerts and performances with its professional ensemble, which consists of five permanent musicians, as well as an administration located in Narvik.
During the Hospitality Symposium, Musikk i Nordland delivers the production “Lighthouse - Pharos”.
Lighthouse – Pharos is Ensemble Phos' intercultural musical exploration of the connections between Norwegian and Greek coastal culture. The music was created during an Artist in Residence stay on the island of Sula. With harp, bandoneon and tarhu a distinctive soundscape is created inspired by lighthouses, the sea and shared maritime stories. The production is realized by Musikk i Nordland, which also contributes with its string quartet and lifts the work into a larger sonic space.
Lill Charlotte Sætren Trondsgård
Advisor and network coordinator for visual arts. Art and cultural development group.
Contact with speakers related to the field of visual arts, as well as follow-up, practical arrangements and coordination of the artworks included in the symposium.
Reference group
Photo: Ove Aalo
Christian Torset
Philosopher
Group leader for SV in the Nordland County Council. Former County Councilor for Culture with responsibility for Via Querenissima.
Marzia Liuzza
Doctoral fellow
PhD candidate in historical, geographical and anthropological studies at the University of Padova and Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research interests include sustainable tourism, community-based tourism, participatory heritage management, and the role of cultural routes in promoting dialogue between places, people and identities. She investigates how tourism can become a tool for cultural exchange, local development and the preservation of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
She is leading a research project on the cultural route Via Querinissima , with a pilot study in Røst. In addition, she is responsible for communication strategies for the Via Querinissima International Cultural Association as communications manager. She combines her professional expertise in cultural routes and tourism research with professional communication to enhance the visibility and understanding of the cultural route Via Querinissima.