• Live stream

    If you’re not in Oslo during Showbox, you can still listen to the talk at Showbox Performing Arts Festival for a Young Audience with the partners.

    We have invited artists and institutions with different approaches to performing arts, the young audience and urban development.

    • What can theatres offer young people, and what does this interaction do to their identity as art producers?
    • What is the right balance between making a place to hang out, and a place for programmed activities and art production? Or, what is a good balance between audience development and art development?
    • What kind of methods do artists use to involve young people who don’t see performing arts as a place for them?
    • What role can performing arts play in young people’s lives; do we offer experiences, participation, social community, entertainment or education?

    Participants:

    Speaker: Ine Therese Berg (NTNU)
    Junges Ensemble Stuttgart
    Divadlo DRAK
    Scenekunstbruket
    Vega scene / Vega ung by Katinka Rydin
    Kloden theatre by Ådne Sekkelsten
    Østfold Internasjonale teater by Thomas Østgaard
    Landing by Venke Sortland
    Panta Rei Danseteater by Anne Ekenes

  • Festival visit Showbox

    Each year the experience of the project will be presented at a festival hosted by one of the partners. Local participants, both professionals and young will take part in sharing their experience together with representatives from the other partners. During this dissemination aimed at a broader audience, the project will receive feedback, impulses and possible expansion of the project.

    The festival visit is also important for the partners. Meeting in person is important to reinforce the collaboration, learning to know each other and the context of each partner. The visiting partners should not only be guests and observers but partake in activities.

    The partners all have their own festival reaching both a local and an international audience. This is a good place to reach others in the field of performing arts outside our own organisations.

    Main achievements

    The main achievement is to disseminate the project in the context of a festival, to share the project to professionals and audience connected to the festival, that don’t know of the project before. We will get feedback and shared experiences that will push the project forward for the next year.

    We connect the partner organisations with the Norwegian art field, and to the other international delegates. We work closely with Performing Arts Hub Norway to get apply for support from the Norwegian Embassies all over the world to get international delegates to the festival. This means we will meet visitors with other cultural backgrounds that will share their responses to the project, and also share knowledge of the project in their countries.

    The academic event: 3Place – the performing arts, the city and the young audience also have introced the project to a researcher for further development. Ine Therese Berg (dr. philol) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, is speaker at our 3Place event and will further research on this through the university, for Drama and theatre at the Department of Art and Media Studies.

    The last day we will invite the delegates to our “home” – the office we share with Kloden and that one day will be the large theatre house. We will introduce the urban development of the area, insight in the process for the next years, and how this project connects with Klodens’ and Oslos’ strategies and goals.

    For full festival program, check www.showbox.no.

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  • 3Place – The performing arts, the city and the young audience

    During the festival visit at Scenekunstbrukets festival in Oslo; Showbox performing arts festival for a Young Audience, we have invited to an open talk around the topics of third space in the arts.

    We serve coffee and tea, as well as free lunch. NB: If you want lunch, send an email to gabrielle@scenekunstbruket.no

    Register here (scroll to bottom)

    The talk will be in English.

    We have invited artists and institutions with different approaches to performing arts, the young audience and urban development.

    • What can theatres offer young people, and what does this interaction do to their identity as art producers?
    • What is the right balance between making a place to hang out, and a place for programmed activities and art production? Or, what is a good balance between audience development and art development?
    • What kind of methods do artists use to involve young people who don’t see performing arts as a place for them?
    • What role can performing arts play in young people’s lives; do we offer experiences, participation, social community, entertainment or education?

    Participants:

    Speaker: Ine Therese Berg

    Junges Ensemble Stuttgart
    Divadlo DRAK
    Scenekunstbruket
    Vega scene / Vega ung by Katinka Rydin 
    Kloden theatre by Ådne Sekkelsten
    Østfold Internasjonale teater by Thomas Østgaard
    Landing by Venke Sortland
    Panta Rei Danseteater by Anne Ekenes

    Ine Therese Berg:

    Ine Therese Berg is an Associate professor in drama and theatre, with an academic focus in theater and performance studies. She has particular expertise in recent performing arts practices and the development of Norwegian theater and dance after the Second World War. Her research looks at various points of intersection between performing arts and society, and Berg is particularly concerned with connecting theatre-historical, cultural-sociological, dramaturgical and aesthetic discourses around theatre. Her doctoral dissertation Negotiating the Participatory Turn: Audience Participation in Contemporary Theater and Performance (2020) looks, for example, at how a value-laden concept such as participation can both legitimize different artistic practices, while at the same time the critical discourse on the autonomy of art causes the same practices to be questioned from concepts of artistic quality and instrumentalization of art. 

    About 3Place:

    In 2023, Scenekunstbruket started the project 3Place – Performing arts as the Third Place for the young audience. This is a three-year collaboration with Junges Ensemble Stuttgart in Germany and Drak Teatre in the Czech Republic, as well as Kloden theatre. The project is based on the sociological theories of third places, which are both physical places outside the home (first place) and school (second place), but which are also different social and imaginary spaces. Third places are often defined as a safe place where individuals gather for a common purpose, a place where participants can develop a sense of belonging. This forms the framework for the project, which will examine methods for developing theater houses, performing arts and art experiences to become a place where young people choose to be, especially young people who today do not see 

    The project is supported by Creative Europe.

    Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.