NEWS A professor has told children of different ages about his research on brain tumours. With the help of the artists at Kulturverket, the children’s thoughts about the research have been transformed into art. The exhibition Alla har rätt till trygghet (Everybody is Entitled to Security) at Bildmuseet this summer contains film, music, pictures, dance and performance.
Bildmuseet June 6 - September 4, 2011
Press preview: Wed June 1, at 10 am
Opening: Mon June 6, at 2 pm (Swedish National Day)
The exhibition is the result of the second year of the Kulturverket project Where’s the Art in Research?. This year’s theme has been "everybody is entitled to security", taken from the UN Child Convention, and under that theme Professor Tommy Bergenheim has visited schools in Umeå to talk about his research on brain tumours. Two of the articles in the child convention are about the child’s right to be safe, and Tommy Bergenheim's research aims to make the life of those sick more secure.
Participating are 3rd and 5th graders from Stöcke school, 4C and 7D from Sävar school, 7C from Bräntbergsskolan, and class 7-10 from Ålidhemsskolan. After meeting with Tommy Bergenheim, the pupils between the ages of 5 and 17, have thought and talked about what makes them feel secure or unsecure, and together with professional artists from Kulturverket, their feelings and thoughts have been visualized in music, film, dance, words and pictures.
Participating from Kulturverket: Lenita Brodin Berggren, artist and librarian Jan Ferm, teacher in composition and composer Frida Hammar, artist and animator Emmalo Lundström, choreographer and dancer Fredrik Oskarsson, director of film Kajsa Sandström, choreographer and dancer Annica Styrke, choreographer and dancer
Göran Wretling, teacher in composition and composer
Kulturverket is a part of the municipal activities of Umeå. Its aim is to find and use the creativity of young people and children, to increase their participation in the public cultural life and to develop aesthetic learning methods for the classroom. One of the ongoing projects is Where’s the Art in Research in cooperation with Umeå University, and with support from the Swedish Inheritance Fund. It continues for three years and will end in June 2012. During the project, researchers from the university have visited schools in Umeå and given lectures on their specific research. Different articles from the Convention of the Rights of the Child have been discussed in connection with the lectures, and the children/young people have then created art, inspired by the research. Project leaders through this process have been professional artists from Kulturverket.
Tommy Bergenheim is a professor and senior physician at the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University.
Beatrice Hammar, producer Kulturverket
beatrice.hammar@umea.se
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Editor: Helena Vejbrink