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BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2016
T HE FEST I VAL T HAN KS
T H E F E ST IVA L T H A N KS
The Festival
thanks
The Kavli Trust has supported the
Bergen International Festival for a
number of years, and in recent years
the Kavli Trust has supported the festival’s outdoor programme: a variety
of events that are free and open to
everyone.
The Grieg Foundation supports
numerous charitable projects worldwide, with emphasis on projects that
involve children and youth, medical
research and the environment. The
Grieg Foundation makes an active
commitment to ensure necessary
support and progress, and contribute
in ways that make a difference. Grieg
Foundation is one of the main sponsors behind SOS Children’s Villages.
The Bergen International Festival
has been a recurrent name when the
foundation bestows their gifts, and
we are very pleased that they wish
to take part in this festival tradition
in Bergen. Their contribution enables us to create a comprehensive
children’s and outdoor programme
that let children, adolescents and
adults take part in and watch good
performances – and enjoy the festival
atmosphere.
Support has been crucial in making
possible this year’s festival staging
of the opera The Barber of Seville
(p. 21). The Bergen International
Festival would like to thank the Grieg
Foundation for their support.
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The DNB Savings Bank Foundation
is an independent foundation that
works to increase interest in and
understanding of art and culture,
especially among children and youth.
They achieve this by supporting
projects that involve good communication and encourage participation.
Dextra Musica is a subsidiary of of
The DNB Savings Bank Foundation,
and since 2006 it has purchased valuable string instruments that it lends
to Norwegian musicians.
With support from The DNB Savings
Bank Foundation – Dextra Musica
the festival offers Kaleidoscope with
KORK (p. 10), a concert with 100 children and young people of 35 different
nationalities, the Norwegian Radio
Orchestra and young soloists from
Dextra Musica. Funds and collaboration from The DNB Savings Bank
Foundation – Dextra Musica have in
addition made possible the mentor
programme Crescendo.
The Bergen International Festival
would like to thank The DNB Savings
Bank Foundation – Dextra Musica for
their support.
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The Kavli Trust also continues its
collaboration with Bergen Red Cross,
Robin Hood House and many other
organisations that make the festival
accessible to people who, for various
reasons, are not able to experience
the programme at the regular festival
venues.
Thanks to the support from the
Kavli Trust, festival concerts will
once again be arranged at some of
Bergen’s hospitals, nursing homes
and senior centres this year. The
following locations will be visited
by festival artists to entertain the
patients, residents, users, staff and
relatives: Åstveit sykehjem, Ulset
sykehjem, Hordnestunet sykehjem, Midtbygda sykehjem, Arna
Helseheim, Skjoldtunet sykehjem,
Kalfaret sykehjem, Mildeheimen
sykehjem, Øvsttunheimen sykehjem
and Ladegården sykehjem.
Support from the Kavli Trust ensures
that the festival can offer a free opening ceremony (p. 6) for the whole
town to enjoy.
We would like to thank the Kavli Trust
for their contribution and involvementin making festival experiences
available to more people.
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