About the festival Kulturmødet

Kulturmødet in the island Mors is a three-day festival with art, music, talks, and conversations about art and culture. It brings together artists, authorities, opinion leaders, and citizens to assess current topics in the cultural debate and gain knowledge collectively. There will be talks, debates, performances, speeches, and many other types of democratic interaction.
You can watch a video from 2023 here to get the feel of it – and read more about it here (in Danish).

Workshop before Kulturmødet

The first three days of your stay in Denmark will be dedicated to workshops, where you will learn to write a speech that you will deliver at Kulturmødet later in the week. We are all staying together in a holiday apartment near Nykøbing Mors.
The workshop language will be English, but you can write and deliver your speech in your national language to celebrate Nordic cooperation and diversity.

This year the theme is ‘Next generation & perspectives from the North’, so it’s rather broad and elastic – you can take your own perspective on what you associate with the concept of culture. You might have a cause you want to raise awareness about, or a more personal story you wish to share. Maybe there is a societal change you want to promote?

Regardless of your topic, the facilitators Kristian Faurby and Gunvor Barkholt from Røst will assist you throughout the entire process of writing and delivering a speech – from the initial idea and linguistic work to your body language and the nervousness that may arise when speaking in front of others.
Kristian and Gunvor are both educated in rhetorics from University of Copenhagen and have helped a lot of people delivering their messages.

To be able to get feedback during the workshop, you will need to translate your script into English. When you deliver your speech, it will be shown in a translated version on screens for the audience to follow.

During the days, there will also be time to get to know each other, enjoy nature, and have a good time in Mors.

Speeches and the festival

On August 21st Kulturmødet opens and half of the group will deliver their speeches right after the opening event at ‘Folkescenen’. The other half will deliver their speeches afterwards on a different stage. After that, you will also participate in a panel discussion on youth and culture in the Nordic region.

In addition to taking the stage with your own speeches and supporting each other, we will participate in the impressive program at Kulturmødet of talks, debates, concerts, engage in discussions with other young people from the Nordic region and the North Atlantic, and experience the festival.