Christmas at the Castle

More than 160 guests had appeared before the Greenland Committee traditional event "Christmas at the Castle", which took place on Tuesday i The County Hall at Christiansborg.

The program featured musical elements from The MALIKK, Ulf Fleischer, Uummannaq Kids and Karina Møller as well as the Aavaat choir. In addition, there was joint singing and dancing around the Christmas tree and of course also a Santa who shared goody bags out to children and childish souls.

More than 160 guests had appeared before the Greenland Committee traditional event "Christmas at the Castle", which took place on Tuesday i The County Hall at Christiansborg.

The program featured musical elements from The MALIKK, Ulf Fleischer, Uummannaq Kids and Karina Møller as well as the Aavaat choir. In addition, there was joint singing and dancing around the Christmas tree and of course also a Santa who shared goody bags out to children and childish souls.

A meeting point in Denmark

For chairman of the Greenland Committee, Aaja Chemnitz (IA), the event is both about creating a gathering point for Greenlanders i Denmark and open up Christiansborg as the people's house.

- We always try to spice up the event with some new musical talents. Last year, it was the first time that a Greenlandic drum dance was performed in Folketinget, and this year was the first time rapping in Greenlandic was done in the Folketinget. I think perhaps some of those in the adjoining rooms thought so made quite a bit of noise, but at least it was a good experience for all of us there participated.

Political focus areas

The Christmas event also marks the end of the political year in the Danish Parliament, and the musical elements were therefore supplemented with speeches along the way.

- So we also use the event to highlight some of the results we has obtained, among other things, compensation for the women in the spiral case, but also many of the cases that we continue to focus on such as for example placed Greenlandic children in Denmark, legally fatherless and the illegal ones adoptions. At the same time, we are looking into an election year, so there are many loopholes, I would like to be bound by some of the concrete tasks that are outstanding, says Aaja Chemnitz.