Alla har rätt – We are all born free

Alla har rätt (We are all born free) is the collective name for all of Kulturverket’s projects aiming towards 2014. The articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are the starting point for a variety of aesthetic expressions, research, and collaborative authorship. All projects are carried out in accordance with Kulturverket’s pedagogic model,” Kids tell pros what to do”.

Contemporary science - contemporary art

Alla har rätt (We are all born free) is part of the three-year-project Contemporary science –contemporary art, where researchers and artists meet in the classroom and children help turn research into art. These projects, all of them related to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are a way of presenting art and new research in an aesthetic learning process.

Each year’s project will result in a professional performance, exhibition etc. but it will also serve as inspiration for separate works of art by professional artists; In 2010 the painter and graffiti artist Daniel Diaz made a mural in a school and in 2011 the project will result in a dance performance by the dancers Emmalo Lundström, Kajsa Sandstöm och Annica Styrke. The projects will be running 2009-2013 and in 2014 they will form the basis of a big performance in Umeå.

Fair Opera

Fair Opera, is a five-year music- dance- and text project aiming toward 2014 when Umeå will be European Capital of Culture.
Topics taken from the four main articles in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: justice, dignity, progress and expression, form the basis of the project. These topics will be dealt with in music, lyrics and dance by young people in different countries, whose ideas and suggestions will finally be handed over to professional composers, librettists, musicians and dancers and result in a full-scale opera.

The youngest children set the rules for the music and choreography and the older children/youths carry out their work in accordance with these rules. Jan Sandström, one of Sweden’s internationally most frequently played composers of art music will compose the opera that will have its premier at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå in 2014.

Writing Competition

The text material for the Fair opera will be taken from short stories written by 13-18 year-olds in a writing competition.
 

UNICEF

In the”Madonna-project” children’s interpretations of an article will be handed over to an internationally known singer and composer who will compose a song based on this material. The children’s material will be texts, pictures or musical fragments. The song will be available for downloading at the UNICEF website. Kulturverket has already established contact with UNICEF and the project may also include the re-shaping of the permanent exhibition of the UNCRC in the UN building.