17. February, 2011
”En gigantisk folkefest”. ”En eventyrlig folkefest”. ”Himmel og hav for en folkefest”. Overskriftene i media er mange, men merkelig likelydende før og under Tall Ships Races Kristiansand 2010. På samme tid som store begivenheter knytter store forventninger til seg – om å tiltrekke seg folkemengder og skape folkefester, være identitetsbyggende og profilskapende, gi synlighet og stolthet – så er det også knyttet kostnader, ofte store kostnader, til begivenheter som Tall Ships Races. Hva får lokale bedrifter til å sponse arrangement av denne typen?
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4. February, 2011
Gjennom OiOi-festivalen, Festspillene i Bergens uteprogram, fikk Bergens befolkning og besøkende oppleve opera, tango og jazz på steder som utstillingsvinduene til et kjøpesenter og bagasjebandet på Flesland flyplass, arrangement som genererte reaksjonen ”oi”. Hva gjorde et slikt arrangement mulig? Et godt samarbeid mellom dyktige aktører med kunnskap innen ulike felt, og tillit til hverandres evner, foreslår vi.
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8. May, 2009
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.
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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.
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In September 2008 delegates from Finland, Croatia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Norway met in Kristiansand, Norway, in order to discuss and prepare for a joint comparative study of festivals from national and regional perspectives, a project called FESTIVALS.
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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…)
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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?’
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10. July, 2008
Den svenska rockgruppen KENT har en stor publik i Norge. Här har man spelat inte mindre än 34 gånger genom åren. Ikväll spelar KENT på Skralfestivalen i Grimstad som en del av bandets sommarturné. När Quartfestivalen gick i konkurs tog Skralfestivalen över värdskapet för det svenska bandet som spelade i Arendal tidigare i år. Det finns tydligen en dragningskraft till Sørlandet och en vilja till att komma tillbaka och uppträda. Men det är inte hela sanningen.
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