Photo: Knuden
– This is a unique opportunity for a person who wants to contribute to creating good and creative meeting places for children and young people in Kristiansand, stresses municipal manager for culture and leisure in Kristiansand municipality, Stein Tore Sorthe. – The person hired will become part of the management team for Stiftelsen Fargespill and work closely with our cultural school, Knuden. The workplace will be the beautiful new premises of the cultural school. The person hired will have a unique opportunity to help put together a professional team that will work on the development of new performances and coordinate rehearsals in collaboration with the team. The position is 100 percent and currently a two-year project with the possibility of extension. The application deadline is 15 April.
More information about the position itself is available here.
About Fargepill
Fargespill originated in Bergen 20 years ago and has since spread to several parts of the country. Now more than 500,000 audiences have seen the Color Play performances nationwide. The foundation has received a number of awards and honors and has been nominated for both the Spellemann Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize. Creating a Fargespill performance is about bringing children and young people together to explore each other’s cultural heritage with curiosity and respect.
Photo: Knuden
Respect and mastery
– The idea is to bring in children and young people from many different cultures. You put together a performance based on what the individual can contribute. Maybe then you will get a dance from Syria, a lullaby from Somalia and a poem from Ukraine. By mixing different cultures and cultural expressions, you get an arena that can help give young people a sense of mastery, friends for life and increased self-confidence, says Sorthe.
Good experiences
The principal at Knuden, Tor Egil Vaule Andersen, already has positive experience from a Fargespiel production that Knuden carried out on 13 and 14 May 2023.
– Then we had over 50 children and young people with roots from 35 different nationalities on stage. It really was a fantastic performance full of song, dance and joy, he says. – The actors themselves got to contribute to building the show. They were allowed to sing in their own languages, but also learned songs from other languages. When everyone contributes something from their culture, each Fargespill performance becomes completely unique, states Vaule Andersen.
Contributes to integration
The fact that Fargespill gives children and young people unique opportunities to express themselves creatively and develop socially means that the performance also contributes to integration. The participants meet with a positive expectation that everyone has something valuable to give to the community. Everyone must find their place and be recognized as a resource, by virtue of their identity and history. In this way, a new space is created for coping and interaction and greater understanding and knowledge is created between the different participants and the different cultures that are represented in the performances.
Photo: Knuden
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