Three conversations at Heddadayen

Cultural baby chicks, park suits and packed lunches

How can we ensure national dissemination to kindergarten children?

Tuesday, June 10
08:45 – 11:30
The Beehive, The Norwegian Theatre

All children, including those under school age, have the right to experience art and culture. However, it depends on where the children live whether they receive cultural services in kindergarten. There are many different local delivery models for this target group, but no national scheme that ensures equal access to art and culture for all. 

Unge Viken Theatre, Tigerstad Theatre, Kulturtanken and Scenekunstbruket invites artists, institutions, kindergarten employees and decision-makers to a roundtable discussion to discuss how a national dissemination model for 3-6 year olds can be organized and financed.

You can attend this event either physically or digitally. Register via the buttons below:

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Magic in the middle of the day

During school time, all children and young people in the country encounter art experiences. Art experiences are influenced by how they are received and talked about. How can we ensure that children and young people's encounters with performing arts during school time are characterized by competence and curiosity?

Tuesday, June 10
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
The Beehive, The Norwegian Theatre

There are many people who influence the experience of performing arts; student organizers, teachers who host the performances and talk to the students afterwards, parents who hear the children talk about what they have experienced. All of these voices help shape the experience itself. Media portrayals and the general attitude towards art also play a role.

Art and culture are under increasing pressure, and we need more than ever to increase the general competence in reflection and conversation about the performing arts.

In the panel you will meet Johannes Hafnor, a research fellow at UiA, who researches film communication and The Cultural Backpack, in conversation with a student teacher, a performing artist and a representative of Unge stemmer. The conversation is led by Nora Evensen, theatre director at Brageteatret.

Produced by Brageteatret and Scenekunstbruket

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Kitchen Table Conversation with Young Voices

What do Unge Stemmer think about performing arts criticism? How does it feel to enter a public space as a critic, and how does one find one's own voice?

Tuesday, June 10
15:15 – 16:00
The Beehive, The Norwegian Theatre

In an informal kitchen table conversation in Bikuben, some of the young voices meet for a conversation with a critic mentor and a performing artist. With young inputs, they examine what criticism can be, who it concerns and how they experience their own place in the art community. The young people meet performing artist Cici Henriksen and critic mentor Per Christian Selmer-Anderssen for a conversation.

Young Voices is Scenekunstbruket's criticism program for young people, established in 2012. In the spring of 2025, the project, with support from Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, was expanded to a year-round editorial team with twelve participants from Oslo, Drammen and Østfold. With guidance from the critic mentors Per Christian Selmer-Anderssen and Anette Therese Pettersen, the goal is to give young people tools and platforms to participate in the public conversation about performing arts.

Young voices is supported by the DNB Savings Bank Foundation. The project is owned and operated by Scenekunstbruket , which has entered into cooperation with Kloden theatre, Brageteatret and Østfold International Theatre about recruiting young people and borrowing premises. The editorial team, which consists of young people between 15 and 20 years old, will publish art criticism in various forms on ungestemmer.no