10-03-2008

Ung í Føroyum (’The Young in the Faeroes’) –cultural rally in Torshavn

The initiator of the cultural rally, project leader Hedvig Westerlund-Kapnas and the writer Rakel Helmsdal, say that this year Ung í Føroyum is held for the eighth year running. The young participants are selected from all over the Faeroe Islands. From Friday until Sunday afternoon, the young people try out their ideas in workshops on music, theatre, visual arts, video, dance and writing. Professional artists instruct the participants and give advice, but it is up to the youngsters to come up with ideas and the forms of presenting them. The young participants appreciate the opportunity to develop their artistic skills under professional guidance.

In addition to artistic skills, Ung í Føroyum has the ambition to develop the young people’s social skills and stimulate the community feeling. Most of the participants did not know each other initially, thus an intensive group work and shared accommodation required adaptation skills and tolerance to differences. The closing performance of high artistic quality was a good proof of the fact that both the artistic and social training had been really fruitful.

What was the best thing in the Ung í Føroyum cultural rally? And what was the second best thing?