Artistic Discoveries in European Schoolyards

BRAGETEATRET
Drammen | Norway

Brageteatret is a professional theatre, run by Buskerud County and Drammen City, founded by the owners and the Norwegian State.

Brageteatret’s main purpose is to produce and play theatre with the perspective of children and young people, as well as theatre with a multicultural perspective.

Brageteatret started as a project run by the culture office in Buskerud County in 1998, with the intention of building up a professional theatre in the county.

From 2001 Brageteatret became a Public Organisation, with its own board with members from the owners. Brageteatret plays more than 350 performances each year. The theatre plays for +/- 40 000 children and young people every year.

We look forward to bringing our philosophy about children-and-youth-theatre into the project Platform 11+, learning from other theatre-institutions and cultures and developing new ideas about playing for this audience.

The Cultural Rucksack

In 2001 Norway established a new concept with the purpuse – how to give all pupils between 6 and 16 years quality meetings with art – named “The Cultural Rucksack”.

In our region there are 146 schools, with a total of 32 000 pupils. Through this program, they are guaranteed 5 cultural encounters with art: Theatre/dance performances, concerts, exhibitions, literature and cultural heritage. This means a total of 150 000 “Cultural Rucksack-Experiences”! Brageteatret is responsible for offering a variety of theatre/dance performances, both plays we have produced ourselves, and productions we have bought from other companies.

The Cultural Rucksack is a very well-organized project. It could be interesting to bring our experiences into this project, as well as learning from other countries, how they have succeeded their work.

We are looking forward to an inspiring and creative cooperation with dedicated theatres in Europe, sharing the hope that together we can both strengthen and lift Performing Arts for this challenging target group, pupils aged 11-16.

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