Charlottenborgs Kaffeklub #2

Theme: How do we ensure that children and young adults encounter art?

Art is important. Our encounters with art and our participation in culture play a crucial role in our general formation and growth, both professionally and as human beings. Our engagement with art affects and shapes us a people, providing us with stepping stones towards a better quality of life – it hones our curiosity, creativity and imagination, nourishing our ability to wonder and to ask critical questions.

The education and growth of future generations starts right now and merits close attention. For how do we, as a society, ensure that we reach and get hold of the many children and young people who do not visit the various art institutions today, and who have few, if any, opportunities for creative expression in their lives? When do young people encounter the realm of art? Who activates and facilitates the encounter between art and the young? Those important overlaps between the world of art and the formative years in primary school – do we properly activate and leverage them? How? And if not, why?

How can we allow the young voices to be heard, enabling them to actively influence the future and culture of which they will be part? And what does the encounter with art and culture really mean to young people?

At Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub #2, we delve deeper into the conversation about the cultural developments of the future, adding greater nuance as we focus on the young people who will meet the world of art now and in the years ahead.

Panel 1
Benedikte Kiær, mayor of Helsingør Municipality, The Conservative People’s Party.
Trine Wisbech, manager of Det Lille Teater and Marionet Teatret (The Puppet Theatre) in Kongens Have.
Thomas Blachman, musician, writer, X-Factor judge and host of Blachman på Skemaet, DR1.
Hans Kristian Kristensen, head of the secretariat of the A.P. Møller Foundation’s Primary School Project.
Maria Frej, programme director of classical music, Tivoli; member of the Culture and Leisure Committee for the Socialist People’s Party, City of Copenhagen.

Panel 2
Mai Mercado, MP for the Conservative People’s Party and former Minister for Children and Social Security.
Katrine K. Pedersen, Head of Education at Arken, Head of Arken Art & Tech Lab.
Tue Biering, director; artistic director of Fix&Foxy.
Hamayun Butt, initiator, X-Skolen.
Kirstine Vinderskov, development editor at Nordisk Film and host of the Radio24syv programme Forældreintra.

Moderator: Lene Johansen, journalist and former presenter at DR.

The event will be in Danish.

Admission is free, but seating is limited, so all attendees must sign up in advance. Sign up here.
We expect this session of Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub to be streamed live on Facebook.

About Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub
Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub is a place where the realm of politics meets the art community to share a cup of coffee and a frank, open conversation about our visions for the cultural policies of the future – and about how art promotes our growth as humans.

Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub convenes four times over the course of two years. Its objective is to assist the dissemination of art in Denmark and to nurture greater understanding of the importance of art to people and to society in general.

Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub is collaborative project by Kunsthal Charlottenborg and the Bikuben Foundation.
Arranged by Michael Thouber and Karina Lykkesborg.