Opening May 29, 2026, as part of Riga Art Week, EDEN: Wet Work Over Lap brings together Latvian and international artists in an exhibition and performance program that examines desire, sexualized labor, exposure, censorship, and the unfinished forms of intimacy, maintenance, and control.

A new wave of Sámi screen storytelling at imagineNATIVE’s 2026 festival asks Nordic and Baltic audiences in North America to widen the map of what “northern culture” means.

As Norway’s Constitution Day arrives on Sunday, May 17, 2026, celebrations in Brooklyn, Park Ridge, Calgary, Minot, Seattle, and other North American communities show why Syttende Mai remains one of the diaspora’s most durable public traditions. More than a heritage display, the holiday survives because it transforms culture into motion: children marching, bands playing, flags waving, bunads worn in public, food shared, songs remembered, and neighborhoods briefly reorganized around belonging.

As the New York Botanical Garden prepares to welcome Summer of Moomin, Tove Jansson’s beloved world is once again finding a public home in New York. Following the first major U.S. exhibition dedicated to Jansson and the Moomins at Brooklyn Public Library in 2025, this feature explores why the Moomins continue to resonate so deeply with Nordic and Baltic families, and with a wider North American audience searching for gentler, wiser forms of storytelling.