WordJam

The International Science Festival Gothenburg

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Time to start kicking of the spring and summer events. We start of with a special edition of Beats & Ord at Brunnen, as part of the International Science Festival in Gothenburg the 12th, 13th and 14th of May (next weekend).

On the Friday evening we open the exhibition with Beats & Afterword. Saturday morning we begin with buckets of coffee and breakbeats, Breakbeats for Breakfast. Sunday we finish of with Beats outside the Box.

And if that was not enough we also take part in the School Programme with a 90 minutes workshop-version of WordJam.

So we will keep ourselves busy 🙂

March and already April

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It has been a couple of hectic months and all of a sudden it was April. During February and March we hosted four Word Jams at Brunnen. We could have wished for more participants but other than that it were brilliant and creative events. At present we are evaluating and working with the reports for the funding we received.

Next time will be during the International Science Festival Gothenburg in May when we will guide six school-classes through the word-jam-jungle. That will be great fun!

During the festival we also host three events together with Brunnen all with a focus on hip hop and our exhibition Beats & Ord.

At the end of May we are of to Bergen, Norway, with Slot Car Music were we will participate in the conference Digital Technology in Arts Education.

Last but not least we have repainted Cat Eyed People’s Playground so that it is ready for take off in June.

Countdown WordJam Göteborg

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On Saturday, 11th March, WordJam Göteborg will kick of with two text-focused workshops. Followed by a sound-oriented workshop on Sunday, 12th of March. Once again we are happy to welcome Pelle Møller from Denmark and Per Olav “Skranglebein” Hoff Mydske from Norway as our coaches. Together with Geert “Langemand” Madsen they will guide the participants through the workflow and help them learn and develop creative writing skills and to add sound to the words (lyrics maybe).

WordJam Göteborg will take place at Brunnen, and the events are made possible with support from the City of Gothenburg and our collaboration with Brunnen.

Welcome!

WordJam Gothenburg

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Time for round two and WordJam Gothenburg on the 11 – 12th of March at Brunnen. During the Saturday we will host two text-workshops, WordJam Göteborg 1:1 Text and WordJam Göteborg Text 1:2, and on the Sunday we will dive deeper into texts and also add sound and figure out how to combine your text with beats and music during WordJam Göteborg 2:1 Ljud.

We are happy to once again welcome Pelle Møller, Denmark, and Per “Skranglebein” Olav Hoff Mydske, Norway, as our text-coaches, and very thankful to the City of Gothenburg for making the three jams possible.

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Sum-up WordJam Norden

First of all THANKS to all who participated and made the day so fun and educational at the same time. The plan for the day worked fine and we gained constructive feedback and creative inputs that will be put to use soon again.

Now we will evaluate project and sum up all that we have learned and the knowledge regarding methods that we have gained throughout the project. Hopefully all of this then, if our future funding applications comes through, will end in a larger Nordic project by the end of this year or the beginning of next. During 2017 we will stage three more WordJam, all at Brunnen in Gothenburg, and during the International Science Festival in Gothenburg we will host eight adjusted, in content and length, WordJams as part of the School programme.

Don’t miss! WordJam Norden

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On the 11th of February we are guests at Brunnen hosting WordJam Norden – a creative afternoon with words and music. Together with our prominent coaches from Denmark and Norway, Pelle Møller and Per ”Skranglebein”Olav Hoff Mydske, brilliant at freestyle rap and creative juggling with words, we will guide you through a creative workshop putting words together and (if you feel for it) performing them at the end.

Get a teaser at of their skills at Pelle and Skranglebein

Read more about the event here (in swedish) and be there! 🙂

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WordJam Norden February 2017

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On the 11th of February next year we will host the first WordJam Norden. It will be a smaller jam and takes place at Brunnen in Gothenburg, Sweden. Everyone is welcome but we recommend people to have a basic knowledge of Swedish, Danish or Norwegian since the jam will be held in these languages.

The jam will be the summary of the pre-project funded by Nordic Culture Point and after the jam we will evaluate the project and define the next steps.

In March we will host two (maybe three) local WordJam Göteborg. Dates and place are not set yet and these are funded by the City of Gothenburg’s project fund Pronto.

But first WordJam Norden! The link to the event you’ll find here.