The first day of the GRS Summer School is dedicated to presenting and debating the multicultural arts project "Fargespill", which has gathered a lot of attention in recent years - locally as well as nationally in Norway. Two represesentatives of "Fargespill" will present the project, and then we will have two research presentations dealing with "Fargespill", from very different angles. A panel debate will sum up the seminar.
Speakers:
Ole Hamre, Fargespill (artistic leader)
Ole Hamre is a Norwegian musician and composer living in Bergen. As a musician he has performed with a big variety of Norwegian and Scandinavian artists as well as international names like Mick Ronson (long time collaborate with David Bowie) and Cuban saxophone legend Paquito De Rivera. He has composed music for film and television as well as music played on the horns of 22 steamboats in the harbor of Bergen.
Ole is also constantly working on his video and sound sampling project - The Folkofon (The Humanizer) He has been commissioned to write Folkofon music by festivals all over the world from Cape Town and Berlin to Bergen.
From 2006 until 2010 Ole was the head of Bergen International Festival’s outdoor program. He is the artistic leader of the multicultural project Fargespill (Kaleidoscope) together with Sissel Saue, with whom he co-founded the project in 2004.
Irene Kinunda, Fargespill (participant)
Irene Kinunda is originally from the Congo and came to Norway in 2006 as a refugee. She has been one of the performers in Fargespill since then, and has grown into one of the projects most important resources. Today she has many solo ventures – both as a performer and as a lecturer.
Irene has a powerful story and she is a storyteller like no other, which has awarded her the municipality of Bergen’s Talent award in 2013, and has made thousands of people laugh, cry and maybe even given them a new perspective on life. Irene engages, challenges and moves us with her unique voice and open communication with her surroundings – regardless the differences.
Read a presentation of Fargespill here.
Vibeke Solbue, Bergen University College
Vibeke Solbue is Associate Professor at Bergen University College. She is educated as a preschool-teacher, but has for many years worked as a teacher-educator at the University of Bergen and currently at Bergen University College.
Solbue’s Doctoral thesis (PhD, 2014) is about immigrant youth in upper secondary school and their experiences with their everyday life at school.
Her research is about intercultural education, intercultural competences, narrative inquiry and intersectionality.
Thomas Solomon, University of Bergen
Thomas Solomon is Professor of Musicology in the Grieg Academy-Department of Music at the University of Bergen. He has previously taught at New York University, University of Minnesota and Istanbul Technical University. He has done field research in Bolivia on musical imaginations of ecology, place and identity, and in Istanbul on place and identity in Turkish hip-hop; he has also published on various theoretical topics in ethnomusicology and popular music studies. His publications include articles in the journals Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Yearbook for Traditional Music, as well numerous papers in edited volumes. He is also editor of Music and Identity in Norway and Beyond: Essays Commemorating Edvard Grieg the Humanist (2011) and African Musics in Context: Institutions, Culture, Identity (2015), and co-editor of Ethnomusicology in East Africa: Perspectives from Uganda and Beyond (2012).
Read Vibeke Solbue and Thomas Solomon's abstracts here.
