Kulturtanken - Arts for Young Audiences Norway

02/03/2018

Fifteen years of musical cooperation between India and Norway has come to an end. We have witnessed much musical magic and seen our partners take giant steps. Together, we have created solid roots and limitless wings. Now, it is up to you S**C MACAY Rock Street Journal Flying Carpet Productions Strings of the World SAPA Sharat Chandra Srivastava Rukmini Chatterjee Bindu Subramaniam Ambi Subramaniam Sohail Arora Rashmi Malik Anirban Chakraborty to choose where you will fly next. Thanks to the Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs and Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi for continuous and warm support. This has truly been a great adventure.

26/01/2018

Music students and teachers from the Norwegian Academy of Music(Norges musikkhøgskole) visiting our partner Subramanian Academy of Performing Arts (SaPa) in Bangalore for workshops and in-school training for teachers and children.
A great inter-cultural experience for the norwegian students during their own academic education!

The project is part of the ongoing music program between Kulturtanken, NMH, SaPa with support from the Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi.

All about a musical cultural exchange programme

30/11/2017

The Norwegian school concert model with a South-Asian twist! Kulturtanken - Arts for Young Audiences Norway was present at the ISME South Asia Regional Conference in Bangalore this week. In addition to valuable exchanges between academics and music educators, SAPA organized free concerts in government schools in the city. We are pleased to see that our work conducted in the SAARC region for the past 15 years continues to bear fruits, here represented by Chirkutt, playing for the most important audience of the world: Children and Youth!

03/11/2017

Barnas Verdensdager Oslo! This wonderful familiy festival is part of Oslo World, and takes place this Saturday and Sunday at Grønland kulturstasjon/Asylet. All is free! Official opening tomorrow at 11:30. Join the journey, immerse in impressions and tastes of the world, be part of making experiences, arts and impressions

16/10/2017

The Totem Pole festival for youth arranged by Flying Carpet Productions, was held in Mumbai the 11th - 14th of October. Kulturtanken - Arts for young Audiences is proud to be supporting the SAARC-project (Chauraha) bringing young performers from Bangaldesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and India to the festival.

04/09/2017

In August, the annual Øya Music Festival took place in Oslo (Øyafestivalen). This year, with Mohit Shandilya from The Media Tribe helping out at the mixing board. How did a sound engineer student from Mumbai end up at a festival in Oslo? Read the story on Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi's site!

https://www.norway.no/en/india/norway-india/news-and-events/new-delhi/news/from-mumbai-to-oslo-with-the-speed-of-sound/

11/08/2017

Øyafestivalen is currently happening in Oslo, and Kulturtanken - Arts for Young Audiences has invited two delegates and a senior student from The Media Tribe - Institute of Media Arts & Technology in Mumbai. The student will be a trainee in live sound production and is assisting at one of the stages during the festival (8th -12th August).
This is part of the Øya International Program 2017, that gives a unique possibility to team up with professionals from music industry in other countries.

08/08/2017

This young collective from South Africa is visiting Oslo Jazz festival next week, as part of an exchange programme with Concerts SA, bringing the South African sound of jazz to Oslo. See INIT at Herr Nilsen, Wednesday the 16th/10pm, or at Sentralen Saturday the 19th/ 5:45 pm.

| INIT., a collective of young musicians formed in late 2016. They'll be heading to this month for Oslo Jazz Festival (Nordic Showcase) as part of our programme.

"The collective was formed out of a shared idea: that young musicians need to be playing original music, as well as drawing on the music histories surrounding them, to express themselves and their ideas, and interact with each other and their surroundings.

The band comprises:
Shakeel Sohail-Gibran Cullis (Contrabass)
Thembelihle Dunjana (Piano)
Tefo Mahola (Drums and Percussion)
Ofentse Moshoetsi (Alto Saxophone)

All members are currently students at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town. They are also all currently performing in and around the Local music scene on different professional stages.

INIT.’s focus is to highlight the musical histories of southern Africa with specific focus on jazz and the South African sound, in order to explore and develop it for themselves."

Kulturtanken - Arts for Young Audiences Norway

06/07/2017

The TALENT project at Førdefestivalen, the Førde Traditional and World Music Festival 2017, is rolling! This year's young musicians come from Colombia, Cuba and Norway. Enclosed are some pictures from their first meeting in Førde last Sunday, as well as from workshops and a performance in Førde city centre. The TALENT project is supported financially by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Utenriksdepartementet (Norge)), and was created in partnership with Kulturtanken (prev. Concerts Norway). This year, the project is organised for 22nd time! See www.talent.fordefestival.no/talent-2017/ for more info on the project and participants.

The workshops are led by internationally renowned musicians
Sverre Indris Joner and Hilde Fjerdingøy.

30/06/2017

Next week (3rd -7th of Juli) six groups of musicians will visit schools in the Batticaloa area in Sri Lanka, performing music from local traditions. There will also be a festival to celebrate and share all the good music!

08/06/2017

Check out our brand new web pages in English:

www.kulturtanken.org

www.artsforyoungaudiences.no

06/06/2017

The Arts and Education 2017 event is now open for registration. The seminar invites practitioners and scholars interested in participatory arts, arts partnerships, and arts education to take part in an intensive three-day seminar. This is an international seminar organized by Kulturtanken - Arts for Young Audiences Norway and the DiSko project, CASE center.

. International keynotes and clinicians are Eric Booth, US, the founder of the Teaching Artist movement, professor Gert Biesta, UK, and professor Liora Bresler, US.