Entries by Hilde Steinmoen

Project leader presented DiSko for the music network of Arts for young audiences Norway – AYAN

14. June 2017 /0 Comments/in /by

Early June 2017 music employees of Kulturtanken’s (AYAN’s) associated organizations around Norway were gathered in Stjørdal near Trondheim. Project leader of DiSko, Kari Holdhus, had been invited to present the DiSko project with these professionals, mainly creative producers and administrators devoted to distributing concerts to schools in their respective regions. Presentations and discussions on the […]

Register for The Arts and Education 2017 seminar: Integration or Separation?

9. June 2017 /0 Comments/in /by

The Arts and Education 2017 event is an interactive international seminar organized byKulturtanken – Arts for Young Audiences Norway and the DiSko project, CASE center. International keynotes and clinicians are Eric Booth, US, the founder of the Teaching Artist movement, professor Gert Biesta, UK, and professor Liora Bresler, US. Register and see the full program

Music and animation artworks inspired by science

18. May 2017 /0 Comments/in /by

Masters student Jose Eduardo Garcia Aldama Pepe is studying at the Annimation Department of Volda University College (Norway). Pepe is currently working on animation films for the UH-nett Vest project ART@CREATIONS which will produce a series of music and animation artworks inspired by scientific themes related to the European Commission’s project, CREATIONS.  

Building Sustainable Digital Practices in Kindergarten Literacy and Arts Programmes (DigiSus)

27. April 2017 /0 Comments/in /by

DigiSus is a bottom up competence project involving kindergartens in two municipalities, pre-service kindergarten teacher programmes and a research environment. The main objective of the project is to develop and establish a competence framework for kindergarten staff and teacher educators connected to evaluation and implementation of sustainable digital practices (SDPs) in kindergartens supporting playing and learning in literacy and […]

Work on ”field portrait” of schools started in DiSko

14. March 2017 in /by

In the project “School and concert – from transmission to dialogue”, fieldwork has started. This first half year is dedicated to analysis and exploration of four different school contexts, and a “field portrait” of each school will be constructed on basis of interviews, observation, conversations, focus groups, document/curriculum analysis and literature reviews. The researchers are […]

Linking science investigation and world peace

22. February 2017 in /by

Jonathan Harris, is Head of Academy Music at the Premier Academy (Milton Keynes, UK), and the UK “alpha-contact” for the Global Science Opera. He is now working on a new version of his song “Bring Peace” for this year’s Global Science Opera, “Moon Village”. Originally written for the 2015 GSO Production, “SkyLight“, he now hopes that many […]

Professional storytellers creates scene in Moon Village

9. February 2017 in /by

The Italian Story-Telling Center in Portico di Romagna will collaborate with the Global Science Opera (GSO) in 2017 during the “Moon Village” opera production. During the year, the Italian team,  here represented by  Giovanna Conforto (photo),  will create a scene within the opera, together with Italian pupils.