crosscurrents

A circumpolar exploration of Arctic cultural traditions. Where is true North? Sight along your home line of longitude: what you see depends on where you stand. The songs and stories collected in tonight's program are distillations of firsthand experience of life in the North, following the logo of Dartmouth's Institute of Arctic Studies around its circle of Arctic nations. The ICARP conference is about discovering common truths, and about appreciating different perspectives, on the Arctic. If the definition of genius is to hold two conflicting truths in the mind at once, then the Arctic has a great deal to teach us about the genius of place, toward a deeper understanding of the place where all the lines of sight converge. There, in the mind's eye, is true North.