ART-PRESS empowers communication professionals to support independent artists in performance and visual arts through specialized training in artistic PR. Rooted in creativity, collaboration, and digital innovation, the project addresses gaps in vocational education by building skills in artist branding, media relations, and digital storytelling. By connecting Romanian and Norwegian expertise, ART-PRESS fosters a future-ready PR…

Kitchen Battle is the biggest charity culinary competition in Romania. Over three consecutive evenings, six recognized chefs and their teams cook delicious meals for 450 guests, Chef Adi Hădean is the moderator and MC of the event. A remarkable event, with two noble goals: to provide hot meals to vulnerable people supported by the #SocialFood…

An immersive music and visual experience celebrating the ever-evolving role of female artists through history in ancient Southeast European and Scandinavian cultures. Our project aims to explore the roots of artistic expression in woman and how it has transformed under the pressures of social and cultural shifts. The project aims to celebrate and explore the evolving…

Bård is a prizewinning Norwegian scenographer whose career has spanned for more than twenty years. In this time he has developed 95 set designs and created an additional 57 separate costume designs for professional theatre productions. His curation of major exhibitions of art by Norwegian painter Munch has been presented at prominent galleries and art…

This Norwegian violinist and composer participated in the project Casa Cultura – Câmpulung Muscel. This was an opportunity to for us to meet youth from the city and develop a performance with them. Born in Oslo, Norway, Inger Hannisdal started playing violin at the age of four, and grew up playing both classical and improvised…

This town has deep historic roots as a central seat of power in the feudal state of Wallachia. Together with the principality of Moldavia these two regions first formed the area we today know as the country of Romania. Neacșu’s letter (Romanian:Scrisoarea lui Neacșu) is the oldest surviving document available in Old Romanian that can be reliably dated (Written…

Independent theater company Unteatru are based in Bucharest and is one of the most successful touring companies in Romania. Founded by Andrei and Andrea Grosu they have established themselves as a creative force in Bucharest. It will be my pleasure to work with them in 2023 as we will develop a production together with a…

As part of my collaboration with the Cēsis district municipality in Latvia, I can now publish a text about the poet Eduarts Veidenbaums. The following is an excerpt from the book Eduards Veidenbaums, Life and Oeuvre: Contexts and Reception (Riga 2020). Had Veidenbaums been an Estonian We can engage in lengthy discussions and imagine how…

The sport of Disc Golf has been a great passion of mine and has introduced me to hundreds of people through friendly competitions and casual rounds in the Oslo area. Disc Golf is a “lifetime” sport, an outdoor activity for all ages, and all types of people. It takes its principles from traditional golf, but…

Drama exercises allow us to explore new ways of expressing ourselves.Drama is the safe space were you can freely study how we interact with each other. Sadly, no-one but drama students normally receive such training. The act of playing out and responding to others enhance our social flexibility, making us adapt easier to new social…