Foto: Frank Schmiemann
Foto: Scandic Holmenkollen P
ark
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uben Kachatryan
Foto: Sissel Jenseth
“Camphill in Norway”
“A worthy and dignified life for everybody”
The Camphill Village Trust in Norway
50
thanniversary 2016
13th -15th May, Whitsun 2016
The anniversary celebrations will begin in Vidaråsen at Whitsun 2016 with a great village event. Exactly at Whit-sun 50 years ago, the 4 pioneers; Margit Engel, Trygve Thornes, Ivan and Phyllis Jacobsen; celebrated their first Whitsun at Bakke Farm, the property now known as Vidaråsen Landsby(village). In the course of our anniver-sary celebrations, we will review these fifty years, celebrate
the present and share some of our wishes/dreams for the future. In addition to the performance of a “musical” produced by Vidaråsen, there will be an official opening of the new herb and “sensory”, garden and workshop. We will invite guests from the other villagers as well as many of our closest friends.
Contact: Simone Wantz, [email protected]
Vidaråsen Landsby
Foto: W
ill Browne
Foto: Eric de Hahn
Foto: Sissel Jenseth Foto: Sissel Jenseth
Foto: Sissel Jenseth
Foto: fra filmen
”SAMMEN”.
Foto:
Truls Aagedal
Foto: aSissel Jenseth
50 YEARS: CAMPHILL IN NORWAY
In the spirit of our theme: “A worthy and dignified life for everybody” we celebrate our anniversary with festivals and events throughout the country:
• Celebrations in Vidaråsen Landsy, Andebu, Vestfold.
• Celebrations in Oslo at the Holmen-kollen Park Hotel.
• Market at Youngstorget in Oslo in co-operation with the Biodynamic Association.
• Public seminars and evening debates in The House of Literature in Oslo in collaboration with the Anthroposoph-ical Society and interested people. • An anniversary edition of the
maga-zine “LandsByLiv”. • Film portraits.
• Publications of two books.
• Local events and anniversary activities throughout the Village Trust.
EVENING DEBATES The House of Literature in Oslo
The intention of the public debates is to focus on important themes within special education and the Trusts core values, for example three-folding of the social life, human dignity etc. This will be arranged in co-operation with the Anthroposophi-cal Society of Norway and others.
Responsible: Rigmor Skålholt, [email protected] og Kirsti Hills-Johnes, [email protected]
ANNIVERSARY EDITION of LandsByLiv
The editors of the magazine will co-operate with the anniversa-ry committee in the making of the anniversaanniversa-ry edition, which will be published in April 2016. Extra copies will be printed for distribution at the SOR-conference in the spring of 2016 and during the festival and marked in the autumn.
FILM PORTRAITS
5-7 villagers will be interviewed and filmed providing a glimpse of their daily life.
“A worthy and dignified life for everybody”
PUBLICATION of 2 books
As an “anniversary gift”, the book: “The Eightfold Path” by Joop van Dam illustrated with photographs of the 8 glass win-dows in Andreasbygget in Vidaråsen has been translated and will be published. In addition it is planned to publish a book with the provisional title “Et verdig liv for alle. Om landsbyen
Vidaråsen og Camphillbevegelsen i Norge» («A worthy and
digni-fied life for everybody»).The intention of the book is to create an image of the past, present and visions for the future from different perspectives, largely through interviews. It is hoped that the book will be published in December 2016 and that Christian Egge, author of two books (Frihetens vilkår og Lev-ende økonomi på Flux forlag), will write the book.
EVENTS in many places in Norway:
All six Camphill communities have been encouraged to cel-ebrate the anniversary locally. The places in Trøndelag have already decided to perform a series of Christmas plays in Our Lady’s church and participate in the Christmas Market in Trondheim. More events are in the planning.
THE FESTIVAL at Scandic Holmenkollen Park Hotel
Wednesday 28th.September to Sunday 2nd. October 2016
Wednesday 28th September: Arrival day
Supper at the hotel. Welcome with song and folkdance.
Daily, Friday to Sunday in the mornings:
Morning Lecture in the conference Hall.
Thursday 29th we celebrate Michaelmas with tests of courage, artistic activities and a play.
Friday 30th September: Vocational seminar
Politicians and professionals will be invited to the hotel. There will be working groups and debate.
Friday evening: we arrange a social evening with plenty of fun and dance.
Saturday 1st of October: Market at Youngstorget with stalls, sale and entertainment (see under)
Excursions to Bygdøy (The Viking ships), The Vigelands Park etc.
Saturday evening: Anniver-sary dinner at the hotel with
good food, speeches and cabaret. Maybe medals will be distrib-uted?
Sunday 2nd October: Departure day
Morning lecture, farewell and departure after lunch.
Responsible for the festival at the hotel:
Dag Balavoine, [email protected] Sabine Eitel, [email protected]
MARKET AT YOUNGSTORGET
Friday 30th September and Saturday 1st. October
Camphill villages in the Northern Region wish to present themselves for the general public in co-operation with The Ecological week/ Biodynamic Association. There will be sale of workshop products, biodynamic fruit, vegetables and dairy products. Food will be served from a barbeque. There will be artistic contributions and an exhibition.
We hope that Youngstorget can become a vibrant meeting place where we can present to the world Camphills core values in the town, through the sale of tasty and sustainable products and a vibrant, inclusive environment where the element of human dignity is the most important.
Responsible for the marked at Youngstorget:
Ruben Khachatryan, [email protected]
Festival, seminar and market
Intentions
We will live together for four days in spacious Holmenkollen Park Hotel. We intend to recreate a village environment and atmosphere with common meals and activities. We hope to put our stamp on the common rooms of the hotel with pictures and art from the villages. The hotel has a large conference room where we can establish a stage. It is possible to divide the room into 3 smaller entities. There are also rooms where conversations, courses and artistic activities can be arranged. You find more information about the hotel here: www.holmenkollenparkhotel.no.
OUR INTENTION:
• With our festival/ conference we hope to create
in the course of a few days a mini village in
Oslo.
• We want to mark our existence in the
commu-nity at large and create dialogue around
impor-tant themes.
• We wish to make our environment and its
qualities known for many of the people who
have never heard of us.
• We want to put our villages on the cultural
map.
• We wish to include as many as possible in
cele-brating this anniversary festival .
HOW TO contribute to create a
community spirit
• How can one communicate something that can
normally only be experienced in a village? Can
we rise to the challenge?
• Holmenkollen Park Hotel can “give a home to
all of us, as well as contribute to create a
com-munity spirit.
• We will endeavour to create “a space”,
influ-enced by the unique and varied people who
live in the villages.
• In the context of the festival, we wish to create
a lively, inclusive environment.
• Create the possibility for interaction and
inno-vative thinking through interesting
conversa-tions/ debates and artistic experiences.
• Invite people- who do not know our villages,
but whom we wish to become acquainted with-
to a village-festival environment.
Foto: Dag Balavoine
IMPORTANT THEMES:
• Beyond Institution and Loneliness from 2016
• What are the questions Camphill villages ask
today; both to themselves and the rest of
com-munity, 50 years after its beginnings?
• UN convention on the rights of persons with
disabilities.
• How far have we come with the questions of
right to education, free choice of where and
with whom I wish to share my life and other
questions related to the individual?
• What must happen for the UN convention to
have an effect in Norway?
• What is a worthy and dignified life?
• What does it mean in practice?
• What is the difference between “User” and
“In-dividual”?
• Professional and personal relationships
• Earmarked local resources for people with
spe-cial needs..
FOR WHOM
• Debates and evening performances: Open
house, everybody interested is welcome.
• Participants at the hotel: approx. 400
• Villagers: Approx. 100 from the Norwegian
villages
• Co-workers: Approx. 100 from the Norwegian
villages.
• Realtives of villagers and co-workers:
• approx. 50
• The board and Village Trust members:
• approx. 40
• Village friends from Norway and abroad: about
100 form homes and schools in Norway, the
Northern Region and other countries.
• Our partners: Sosialterapeutisk Forbund,
Nordisk Forbund (NFLS), Stiftelsen SOR,
Konferenz Dornach, Norsk forbund for
ut-viklingshemmede (NFU), Sosialdepartementet,
Steinerhøyskolen. Approx. 20-30 delegates.
“
A dignified life for everybody”
With the above as our motto we wish to celebrate the
50th anniversary of the Camphill Movement in Norway.
In the course of 2016 there will be many celebrations. The opening of our celebrations take place at
Vidaråsen 13th to 15th of May with a Whitsun and
vil-lage happening.
The main celebration will be 28th Sept. to 2nd October
in Oslo. There will be a marked at Youngstorget and a festival and conference at the Holmenkollen Park Hotel, including a festive dinner, lectures, art and cultural events.
Everybody who is interested or connected to the vil-lages and /or the Social therapeutic work in Norway and the north are warmly welcome. We also wish to invite and include other people whom we wish to be acquainted with.
The anniversary committee
An anniversary committee is established consisting of Rigmor Skålholt, Dag Balavoine, Cato Schiøtz, Simone Wantz,Frank Schmiemann, Kirsti Hills-Johnes, Will Browne, Birgit Hammer, Sabine Eitel, Ruben Kha-chatryan and Rolf Kåre Håland. Tinken Laurantzon is co-ordinator : 95153844, [email protected].
Vidaråsen 1967: from the left: Lars, Trygve Thornæs, Bjørn Haugen, Phyllis and Ivan Jacobsen, Unni Thornæs, Margit Engel and Arne. Text:
Tinken Laurantzon og Sissel Jenseth. Design: Kaja Jenseth,
jensethprosjekt.no
