Scenekunstbruket celebrates 30 years and launches pilot project

30 years ago, Norsk scenekunstbruk was founded as a dissemination scheme for the performing arts. Now, three decades later, we are marking the start with a pilot project that will make the performing arts even more accessible.

Testing communication scheme with cultural center

In 1994, the journey began as a dissemination scheme for performing arts, and since 2001 it has included organizers in The Cultural Rucksack. In our anniversary year, we want to take this a step further and look at the opportunities that exist in this scheme. We have therefore established a collaboration with Norwegian cultural centers to carry out a pilot project that gives more young people access to professional dance and theater.

In the pilot, we invite cultural centers to join forces and form tour loops, where the expenses for a tour either in autumn 2024 or spring 2025 will be covered by Scenekunstbruket.

Established infrastructure

Through the pilot project, we want to show how existing infrastructure and systems can interact to increase the supply of performing arts to young audiences across the country. The report Mobilization for mobility(2022), points out the opportunity for collaboration between actors such as the cultural centers and Scenekunstbruket.

"As we celebrate 30 years, it felt natural to go back to the starting point and highlight the dissemination scheme that started it all. This has proved to be an effective way of communicating performing arts, regardless of the target group," explains Tine Valavuo Tyldum, General Manager of Scenekunstbruket. " The pilot is a one-off project on the occasion of the anniversary, but we hope it can inspire an organizer support scheme for performing arts at the cultural centers on a par with the one we have for The Cultural Rucksack.

Economically beneficial

Our dissemination scheme is efficient and financially beneficial for both artists and organizers. By assessing the quality of performances, setting prices and making them visible in our system, we simplify the process for organizers.

"High-quality performing arts for children and young people are simply in short supply in Norway's cultural centers, " says Nina Hodneland, CEO of Norske kulturhus. "The fact that we now get to celebrate Scenekunstbruket's 30th anniversary by sharing performances with the country's children and young people is fantastic.

Scenekunstbruket's dissemination scheme gives the organizers in the network a financial incentive to choose quality. By programming performances from our repertoire, they are reimbursed for part of their expenses, and these funds are earmarked for the purchase of performing arts the following year. This creates an ecosystem that stimulates increased demand and provides an incentive to choose good performances from the independent performing arts field, to the delight of the audience.