Nordic Music Week

The main objective of Nordic Music Week is to stimulate discourse! With a maximum of 100 participants, roundtable discussions are used as the main tool to stimulate knowledge exchange and the emerging of new ideas in an intimate, peer to peer, setting.

The concept

The concept is a small and easy one. Selected speakers, hand picked for their knowledge within a given field, give presentations to a subject. These presentations function as the basis for the following roundtable discussions.

By the end of the day every participant should have become a bit enlightened, have made new contacts and maybe even a friend – and be as tired as after a good, long day in school. The evening program gives everyone a chance to experience and enjoy what it’s really all about – music!

Nuarena

Is a contemporary arts festival pilot project based in Stavanger, Norway. The event units a diverse array of cultural festivals, arts events, exhibitions and initiative under one umbrella. The obvious goal being, that dialogue and partnership between these singular events will have a synergetic effect and that Stavanger shows off more of what it actually has to offer.

The initiative is a “strength through unity” project aimed at shining a spotlight on the quality of acts and artists appearing at these events during the month of September and promoting this information to a wider national and international audience.

This year the Nuarena festival concists of:

• Nordic Music Week
• Numusic Festival
• Nuart Festival
• Composer in Residence project with the University of Stavanger
• Kapittelfestivalen – International festival of Litterature

History

2011 is Nordic Music Week’s fourth year of existence. It began in 2008 when Stavanger was the European Capital of Culture. The event is non-profit and structured as a project under STAR – regional center for rhythmical music in Rogaland and funded by the municipality of Stavanger, Rogaland county and the Arts Council Norway.

Facts for NMW 2011

• Dates are still in September
• A real chance of having enjoyable weather
• Boat trip to Lysefjorden on a veteran boat
• Nordic Music Week is an official part of Nuarena
• An even broader and more attractive live program
• The possibility to take part in Stavanger’s Numusic Festival, Nuart Exhibition and Kapittelfestival of Litterature

It was an excellent idea to move NMW to September so that the delegates could enjoy the diverse program of Nuarena on top of the NMW seminar program. This made NMW 2010 stand out in the jungle of other festivals containing music & arts. The roundtable discussions were well put together and worked beautifully as an initiative for networking!

- Jan Senum, music coordinator, Danmarks Radio, DR Musik