Now comes the Spectacle of the Oslo – NRK

It was a very big surprise! We will start up in Oslo, and a gift of over a million to the process, is fantastic, ” says Kjersti Berge, managing director of the Spectacle.

She received together with the colours before the big pengedonasjonen from Gjensidigestiftelsen during the preparations for The christmas concert in the grieg Hall on Saturday afternoon.

the Money will go to the planned creation of the Spectacle in Oslo.

– To start up in Oslo is a big focus for us. The other places we have started up the Spectacle, operates locations itself, with the help and training from us. But in Oslo we operate ourselves, ” says Berge.

Lustre

• Projects with children and young people from different ethnic backgrounds, put together with professional musicians.

• the Spectacle made his debut at the Bergen international Festival in 2004.

• Is since then watched by over 145 000 spectators.

• the Project began when composer Ole Hamre was asked to create a performance with kulturskoleelver to the Bergen international Festival.

• 3000 children and young people have participated in the project since its inception in 2004.

• Lustre has acted for amongst others the royal family, Prince Charles and Aung San Suu Kyi.

– Uses culture to bring people together

Lustre is a music and dance company that produces shows with children and young people from all over the world. The project was started in Bergen in 2004.

Lustre has over many years made a fabulous effort attached to it to create the joy around integration. They use song, dance and music to create a larger community, ” says tillitsvalg Even Søfteland in Gjensidigestiftelsen.

– It is that they will take with them the concept they have spent a long time to develop in the Bergen to Oslo, we would be helping to support, he adds.

FROM ALL over the WORLD: Spectacle warehouse shows with children and young people from all over the world. Here are they practising for the christmas concert in the Hall.

Photo: Tim Christian Wassmo / NRK

Søfteland was present during the Fargespills exercises in advance of today’s christmas concert, and tells us that he was touched by what he saw.

– They create the lot of joy, and shows us the joy to find together through music and dance can provide. Nok 1.3 million is almost small in the big picture, when one sees how much joy Spectacle takes with him to the east, ” says Søfteland.

Was a surprise

the Chief executive Berge says that the Spectacle had applied for funds from the Gjensidigestiftelsen, but that the award Saturday came as a big surprise.

She hopes that the Spectacle is ready to present cultural performances in Oslo in the spring of 2018.

– We start up in the spring, so is the plan to get started with the exercises to fall and to have the first show ready in the spring of 2018, ” says Berge.