The UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals will be transformed into big bands, dance theatre, body sculptures, colourful garbage art and other creative expressions when up to 5,000 children from schools and kindergartens engage with sustainability at 20 events across the Midtjylland region.

 

Is the earth drowning in plastic? What's it like to grow up without a home? And what can a single child do to fix the climate change they hear about every day in the media? These are some of the questions that children across the Midtjylland region have been working on this spring in the Songs for the World project.

 

25.5.-29.6. Songs for the World culminates in the European Region of Culture Festival GENOPDAG. Songs for the World is based on seven newly composed Songs for the World and a series of creative Workshops with World Goals. Created by young MGK students from across the region, the seven songs address themes such as climate change, overconsumption, marine life and poverty in different ways.

 

The seven Songs to the World have been sung, played, danced, painted, imagined and fantasised about in schools and kindergartens across the region in collaboration with local artists over the past months. The project brings the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals to life for children, allowing them to engage with current and complex issues such as climate, inequality and sustainability through creative and musical activities - activities that spark thought, hope and ideas about how we can work together to create a new world narrative and a sustainable future for all people on earth.

 

Join local children's choirs of up to 850 children as they perform Songs for the World with the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra at six major concerts across the region, with children's dance performances, animations, artworks and recycled sculptures as part of the experience - as well as a wide range of other playful and innovative events and concerts, bringing into play children's own expressions of musical and creative work on the SDGs.

 

In addition to Kulturprinsen in Viborg, Aarhus Jazz Orchestra and BUM - Network for Children and Youth Culture in Central Jutland, Songs for the World was created in collaboration with a number of municipal and cultural actors from 17 of the region's municipalities.

 

READ MORE ABOUT SONGS TO THE WORLD HERE

DOWNLOAD PROGRAM HERE

DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE HERE

 

FACTS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

  • Songs for the World is created in collaboration between Kulturprinsen in Viborg, Aarhus Jazz Orchestra and BUM - Network for Children and Youth Culture Central Jutland.
  • Songs for the World involves up to 5000 children and takes place on 25.5.-29.6. at up to 20 events - see attached programme.
  • The project is part of the European Region of Culture Festival GENOPDAG.
  • Free admission to all events (except the concerts with Aarhus Jazz Orchestra on 11.6. and 13.6.).
  • KULTURPRINSEN is a development centre for children and youth culture, which creates projects, builds networks and interdisciplinary communities in Denmark and abroad.
  • AARHUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA is a professional big band with a mission to reach out to all age groups and deliver a wide range of concert offerings: from school concerts and concerts at community centres to high-profile artistic concerts at home and abroad.
  • BUM facilitates and creates new encounters across disciplines and genres within the arts, culture and children and youth sector in the Central Denmark Region.
  • Songs for the World is supported by Aarhus Foundation 2017, and Workshops with World Goals is supported by Regional Development, Region Midtjylland
  • Read more on the Facebook page 'Network BUM' and bumkultur.dk/songs-for-the-world/
  • CONTACT PERSON: Project Coordinator v. Kulturprinsen, Stine Bernth Johansen, stbj@kulturprinsen.dkTel: 60 21 88 15.