Children and young people

OPEN CALL: Join us on an inspiring journey with your center education and the performing arts group for children and young people.

Would you like to participate in an inspiration trip to the showcase fair Imaginate in Edinburgh in May?

Then apply here!

Practical information:

* The trip will tentatively take place from May 28 to June 1, 2025.
* Deadline for application is February 9, 2025
* Criteria for selection:
– Professionally active in performing arts/music with operations based in Västra Götaland.
– Experience working with performing arts/music aimed at children and young people.
* If you are selected to go on this arm-in-arm trip, this will be paid for by the Cultural Administration of the Västra Götaland Region:
– Travel
– Accommodation
– Festival pass to the showcase festival Imaginate which is part of the Children's Festival in Edinburgh

Note - the link to the application is at the bottom of the post - make sure to read all the text about the call and the requirements before applying.

Info about the trip:

As part of the center formations, this inspiration journey is now being announced from us at Musikcentrum Väst! In collaboration with the centers for circus, dance, music and theater, the Cultural Administration of the Västra Götaland Region (VGR) is arranging an arm-in-arm trip for performing arts practitioners in VGR where, based on the application below, we select a person from MCV who will travel together with a staff member from MCV. At the same time, circus centers, dance centers and theater centers are making the same announcement and application opportunity for their members and selection is made based on the same criteria as those in this application. In this way, a group of different practitioners from circus, dance, music and theater centers is formed who travel together to Imaginate to be inspired - we simply link arms. Read more below.

More info about the showcase festival Imaginate in Edinburgh can be found here:  https://www.imaginate.org.uk/festival/

As a step In the cultural administration's international mission, arm-in-arm travel is a way to strengthen relationships between different actors in the performing arts and cross-artistic collaborations.

The purpose of the trip is to bring home new perspectives and create a stronger community in the important work of performing arts for children and young people. A trip to recharge the cultural infrastructure through several levels and to provide inspiration for new productions that reach children and young people in VGR.

The trip is made together with a representative from each center formation, one practitioner per center formation and performing arts consultants from the Swedish National Agency for Culture VGR. This creates regional and international exchanges of experience and opportunities for future contacts and possible collaborations. The trip is for performing artists who are regional carriers of experience in performing arts for children and young people with an interest in international contacts and world exploration to further develop in the region.

Mandatory meetings take place before the trip, daily during the festival for coordination and reflection.

After the trip The group will reunite to share insights and experiences and analyze trends and tendencies to share at regional practitioner meetings such as the Performing Arts Breakfast and/or within their own center formation, as well as a shorter summary text to publish on the Kulturkatalogen Väst website.


Content of the application

  • Describe your previous experiences of creating and working in the field of performing arts for children and young people.
  • Free text about how a trip to Imaginate can enrich one's own creativity.
  • What do you think the festival can contribute? For example, expectations, thoughts about the international perspective, how the days can enhance your creativity, how a festival can give inspiration and power to you and subsequently to the region's children and young people. Max 1 A4.
  • Have you been to Imaginate before, if so when?

Selection: The selection takes into account the perspectives of equality and diversity. The selection process may differ slightly between the different center formations due to their different structures and organizational forms.

Decision: The final decision is made jointly by the center formations and the Västra Götaland Cultural Administration.

 

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KuBo - that's how it works

This affects you who play for children and young people and has your base in the Gothenburg region.

The February 11 at 17 p.m. do you have the opportunity to participate in an exclusive digital meeting with Mia Björklund, Ida Kaivola and Sofia Åhrman from Gothenburg's cultural administration, which tells about the cultural administration's new booking system, KuBo.

KuBo is a digital platform and booking site with cultural offerings for preschools, elementary schools and high schools. Free cultural practitioners in the Gothenburg region can apply to be included in the offer that is linked to the equalization grant within the City of Gothenburg.

The video meeting is held via Zoom.
Sign up no later than 10 February to lars@mcv.se. You will then receive a link to the meeting.

KuBo is the City of Gothenburg's tool in the work to ensure that all Gothenburg's children and young people during their time in preschool and school have good and equal opportunities to take part in art and culture.