Barents Spektakel

Abstract

barents Spektakel uniting the region from an outsider-perspective The Barents Spectacle is a regional Festival which takes place in Kirkenes, in the North East of Norway on the border to Russia and Finland. The Spectakel »Pikene på Broen« was born in 1996 by five women of the Barents region. This year’s festival theme was »borders and fences« to form a close union and collaboration between the northern countries and to exchange different cultural arts, attitudes and backgrounds. The aim is to powering the development of the local society and the cultural co-operation with the northern areas of the neighbouring countries. The centre stage of the Kirkenes Barents Spektakel 2006 takes the transnational collaboration of the North. Several artists, cultural producers, investigators, musicians, athletes and economy employees from different countries are brought into contact here. They came together from the close-by cities of the Barents Sea as well as from other countries of the world.