15. May, 2009
Check out the new ‘I ♥ Kristiansand‘ website on Facebook. The group is for all those who love Kristiansand and want to be kept up-to-date with what’s going on, events, dates to remember, general news and festival information. Members can also post updates and their own news and secrets of what to do and see and where to go in Kristiansand.
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11. May, 2009
8. May, 2009
Various disciplines have touched upon festival studies in Croatia. However, the phenomenon has been approached in very different ways, and so far there has not been an attempt to combine these diverse points of view.
Norwegian festivals have gone through immense and swift changes over the last decade, thus research on festivals is as well an ongoing and changing process. Today there is a specific interest in postmodern festivals, and the researchers take part as agents in festivals themselves.
The festival research in Sweden has been conducted in different areas with focus on different kinds of festivals. However, there are less explored areas as well, and the Swedish delegation will be researching some of them in FESTIVALS project.
Festivals have been a long-standing tradition in the UK and the research into festivals in the UK is ongoing, has proven worthwhile and yielded some useful information. The research can be grouped into three broad areas of interest: Economic Impact, Festival Forms and Cultural and Social Critique. The UK research teams, one of the FESTIVALS project partners, are now involved in the FESTIVALS research project and HERA bid.
FESTIVALS project partners, led by Agderforskning, will explore the complex cultural, social and economic phenomena of 11 European festivals by posing the question ‘what role do festivals play in initiating and nurturing creativity and innovation?’
7. May, 2009
Finland, one of the partner countries in the FESTIVALS project with Agderforskning, has seen various festivals, especially since 1960s, by a variety of people, groups and organizations. Some of these festivals have grown and developed from local and regional events to national and large, partly international, events. Finland Festivals, which is a collaboration forum for the most important cultural events in Finland, runs almost 100 member festivals, representing concert and vocal music, chamber music, jazz, folk music and culture, rock and pop music, dance, theatre, literature, visual art and combinations of these. (more…)
6. May, 2009
Festivals are often overlooked despite extensive studies conducted into the performing arts sector. The potential of festivals to foster creativity and innovation or how they can, and do, contribute to the areas of cultural and economic development have never been a specific research interest for academics or the business world. The purpose of the FESTIVALS project, headed by Agderforskning alone with its partners, is to explore these complex cultural, social and economic phenomena, sampling 11 European festivals, by posing the question ‘what role do festivals play in initiating and nurturing creativity and innovation?’
