Financial support for Nordic children's cultural festival
22.02.2012 | Umeå's Capital of Culture Committee grants SEK 300 000 to the venture with the condition that the Nordic Culture Fund also awards funding.
Plans for a childrens and young people's cultural festival in Umeå 2014 are part of a project that aims to promote cultural exchanges between young people in the Nordic countries.
Is there a "Nordic identity" among today's youth and if so what does it mean? Umeå's project will endeavour to answer these questions by allowing the children and young people from the Nordic countries to meet in different forms outside national borders to exchange ideas and knowledge of art and culture.
Young people will be given the opportunity to join together and create pictures, film and music, as well as other forms of art. The project is mainly intended for children and young people up to the age of 18.
We feel that the venture is excellent and grant the project SEK 300 000 during 2012. This is with the condition that the application for co-funding from the Nordic Culture Fund is also approved, says Sven-Olov Edvinsson (Center), the vice-chairman of the Umeå Capital of Culture Committee.
The idea of having an annual children's cultural festival in Umeå that would use and stimulate young people's interest in art and culture was included in Umeå's application for being selected the European Capital of Culture 2014. The project that is currently being planned is a further development of the idea that was outlined then. The project has three parts:
Digital meetingplace with the means and material so that will enable young people to meet online and describe and develop their interests and ideas about art and culture;Groups of young people who meet and interact locally and with other Nordic countries during 2013;
A five day long children's and young people's cultural festival in Umeå 2014.
The ideas and creativity of young people will drive the project forward and professional artists and educators will help develop and manage the forms of art that the young people create.
In the autumn 2011, a workshop with young people from the Nordic countries and Riga, which is Umeå's partner city during the European Capital of Culture year, was held. Planning for a Nordic festival in Umeå is the first step in establishing an even larger international cultural festival for children and young people in the future.
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