The Protestfestival

The Protest Festival of Kristiansand

Kristiansand

-History:As indicated by archeological findings in the city, the Kristiansand area has been settled at least since 400 AD. A royal farm is known to have been situated on Oddernes as early as 800, and the first church was built around 1040...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, is a protest against powerlessness and indifference, in support of commitment and action. A protest against standardisation of society and one-track market thinking and a feeble notion of tolerance.

A program in the spirit of Axel Jensen

Axel Jensen

Axel Buchardt Jensen was a Norwegian author. From 1957 until 2002 he published both fiction and non-fiction texts which include novels, poems, essays, a biography, manuscripts for cartoons and animated films....

, Jens Bjørneboe

Jens Bjørneboe

Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a waldorf school teacher. Bjørneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society and Western civilization on the whole...

 and Henrik Wergeland

Henrik Wergeland

Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland was a Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist...

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The festival is supported by the Norwegian state cultural department with an annual Nkr 250.000 grant.

External links

• Kristiansand Protestfestival – English official homepage
• Norwegian Government Department for Children and Equality, announcement by Secretary Krishna Chudasama
• Axel Jensen – Norwegian official homepage