Bergen International Festival 2019 English catalogue FiB Katalog EN 2019 lowres single pages | Page 104
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BE RGE N INTE RN AT I ON AL
FE STIVAL 2019
T HE FEST I VAL T HAN KS
Westfal-Larsen og Hustru
Anna Westfal-Larsens
Almennyttige Fond
The
Festival
thanks
Birgitte Friele/Santos
Birgitte Friele became a new Festival
Consul in 2018. Friele says she wants
to support the Bergen International
Festival because it is a significant
part of Bergen's history, and because
she believes it will be equally as
important for the city's future. Her
contribution helps us in our goal to
preserve the Festival's traditions
while simultaneously ensuring, via
innovative means, that a varied and
high-level artistic content reaches
out to new audiences.
The Bergen International Festival
wishes to thank Birgitte Friele/Santos
for her continued support.
The Kavli Trust has for many years
supported the Bergen International
Festival. In particular, the Trust has
wanted to support measures to make
the Festival available to people who,
for various reasons, do not them-
selves have the opportunity to attend
the regular festival programme.
The Kavli Trust supports several
events in the Festival’s outdoor pro-
gramme that are available and free
to everyone. The support from the
Kavli Trust contributes, among other
things, to the Festival being able to
offer a free opening ceremony for the
benefit of the entire city's population.
Through a collaboration with the Red
Cross, Robin Hood House and other
organizations, the festival is able to
provide offers for free tickets.
The support from the Kavli Trust also
makes it possible to carry out tai-
lor-made arrangements at the city's
nursing home, hospitals, schools, day
centres, prison and asylum reception
centres, to the benefit of students,
patients, residents, users, employees
and relatives in the concept of the
festival collective (p. 98).
We thank the Kavli Trust for their
contributions and dedication to mak-
ing the Bergen International Festival
experience available to more people.
www.kavlifondet.no
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Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anna
Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige Fond
has the purpose of providing support
for the promotion of matters that
are in the best interest of Bergen's
general well-being and cultural life.
The fund supports horror musical
The Sandman (p. 24) and this year's
opening performance Waiting (p. 34).
The Sandman is considered one of
director Robert Wilson's very best
pieces. The story is based on E.T.A.
Hoffmann's Gothic horror story and
set up in Grieghallen.
Westfal-Larsen og Hustru Anna
Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige Fond
also supports the international
co-production Waiting, which is a
symphonic Passion for music by
Edvard Grieg, with new texts by Karl
Ove Knausgård who sees the story of
Peer Gynt from Solveig's perspective.
The Bergen International Festival
thanks Westfal-Larsen og Hustru
Anna Westfal-Larsens Almennyttige
Fond for the contributions that
bring new perspectives and stories
to Bergen, to the benefit of the
whole city.