For many years, the municipality of Narsaq lacked a place for unfolding its preventative work and health enhancement. A-21 is therefore a place that we will be using quite frequently. Besides, we are proud that in Narsaq the prevention programme and the museum are having this close cooperation and common workplace.
We have many plans and ideas for the new Community Centre. At the moment we are busy with its interior renovation and furnishing. Great costs need to be avoided, for money is what we haven’t got. For the furnishing, we have so far received support from: Royal Greenland Academy, Narsaq municipality, the two supermarkets Brugsen and Pilersuisoq, Narsaq El-Forretning (Narsaq’s electricity firm), the Polarmagasinet store and the Hønekroen public house as well as private donors. We advocate reuse – worn is wonderful – so we do not need designer furniture and fine hardwoods, if only the furniture serves its purpose. So far, we have only had to spend money on paint (and coffee!); all wooden parts of the interior are reused, either from the town’s building sites or from the museum. And we will continue in this way. For the new purchases necessary and for special exhibitions, we have applied to a number of funds for financial support, and have already received help from the NUNA Fund, the Greenlandic Home Rule’s Cultural Fund, Greenland’s Environmental Fund, NAPA and the Nordic Cultural Fund. But we do nevertheless appreciate all help and donations.
If we all pitch in, also a small municipality like ours can manage to have its own Community Centre – without spending millions on that effort.
What is going on at A-21?
Preventative work
1. Health enhancement, educational campaigns, smoking-stop instruction
2. Centre for summer adventure
for Narsaq’s children on summer holiday
3. Junior’s Club
for Narsaq’s young ones between 10 and 13 lacking special offers for
activities in town. Here they are involved in the fitting-out and further
development of A-21.
4. Abuse groups and support groups, pregnancy groups and mother’s groups
5. Location for certain target groups
6. Family arrangements
Exhibitions
1. Shifting special exhibitions
focusing on local history and current subjects, like the project Ateqqi –
use and reuse in cultural history (2005-07). The project includes
exhibitions and arrangements, as well as activities for the town’s residents
in close connection to these. The first exhibition “Dumpen kommer” (“The
dump’s coming”, 2005) by visual artists Nuka Godtfredsen and Finn Larsen as
well as Lisbeth Valgren, Master of Arctic Studies, came into existence in
cooperation with the vocational school’s Piareersarfik classes and the
various groups of the preventative work.
2. Permanent exhibition of the museum
about the Norse settlers, with original objects (to be opened in 2006). The
exhibition will be used in connection with the Landnám Farm.
Green information / inspiration
Assemblies and lectures for the town’s house owners, gardeners, children /
young ones
Café
Healthy food, Greenlandic products. Management of the café to be farmed out
by autumn, 2006 (?)
Exchange corners
Centre of good things for the home, which can be reused: clothes, books etc.
Reading corner
With newspapers, second-hand books and informing material
Service facilities
for visitors in town: Washing machine, baby dressing table, shower
Playroom
Playground outside the house
As a part of the above mentioned project Ateqqi – use and reuse in cultural
history, a playground made of reused materials is being built up outside the
house (summer 2006). The cutter Ulla has already been laid up here as a
“climbing frame” in summer 2005.
