Photo: Sigrun Drivdal Johnsen
Welcome to Arty Party – Kunsthall Stavanger’s day of art for children!
This time, we invite you to a day of play, movement and creative exploration, inspired by the performance ENE. Its creators, Mari Bø and Solveig Holthe Bygdnes, will guide you into the world of ENE through Inside Out.
In ENE, there are no clear boundaries between inside and outside, up and down, or front and back. Everything is undefined and constantly changing—and that's exactly what makes it full of possibilities. Inside Out invites you to turn familiar perspectives upside down: wear your clothes inside out, balance your shoes on your head, and explore whatever feels different and 'inside out' to you. The only limit is your imagination!
The day will feature a performance, a disco, a workshop and creative activities, offering a sensory experience where children are invited to be both audience members and
Welcome to Arty Party – Kunsthall Stavanger’s day of art for children!
This time, we invite you to a day of play, movement and creative exploration, inspired by the performance ENE. Its creators, Mari Bø and Solveig Holthe Bygdnes, will guide you into the world of ENE through Inside Out.
In ENE, there are no clear boundaries between inside and outside, up and down, or front and back. Everything is undefined and constantly changing—and that's exactly what makes it full of possibilities. Inside Out invites you to turn familiar perspectives upside down: wear your clothes inside out, balance your shoes on your head, and explore whatever feels different and 'inside out' to you. The only limit is your imagination!
The day will feature a performance, a disco, a workshop and creative activities, offering a sensory experience where children are invited to be both audience members and co-creators.
Arty Party is free, open to everyone, and no registration is required. The event is especially aimed at children aged 2–10 and their families, but children of all ages are warmly welcome.
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Arty Party is Kunsthall Stavanger’s event series for children and part of our public programme. Each edition highlights a different artist, inviting audiences into their artistic universe through activities such as performances, workshops, concerts, guided tours and disco.
This year's event is generously supported by Kulturtanken.
ENE is a collaborative project by Mari Bø (performance), Solveig Holthe Bygdnes (costume and visual design), and Frode Larsen (sound), developed in collaboration with Figurteatret i Nordland.
Mari Bø is an interdisciplinary artist working with movements, sounds and textures connected to the body. She has a BA in Contemporary Dance and an MA in Fine Arts. She is currently based in Tromsø and working as a freelance artist, choreographer, and dancer. She is specifically interested in exploring nuances and facets existing within her own body, using her art as a tool to understand and challenge herself. In her work, she often explores concepts related to gender and sexuality, and how gendered norms and ‘codes of conduct’ can influence how we as a society perceive and police bodies. Working at the intersection of performance, fine art, and movement, her work has been presented at venues such as Høstutstillingen at Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Ásmundarsalur (Reykjavík), Kitoks Festival (Vilnius), and Festspillene i Nord-Norge (Harstad).
Solveig Holthe Bygdnes is a costume designer and scenographer based in Oslo.
She works at the intersection of body, material, and storytelling, with a practice spanning theatre, dance, and performance. Through a tactile and research-driven approach, she explores how textiles carry traces of time, movement, and affect, and how costume can function as an active presence within the performative space.
Her work moves between craftsmanship and experimentation, using material-based processes to investigate how costume shapes movement, presence, and narrative. She has designed costumes for theatre, dance, and television productions, collaborating with artists and institutions across Norway.
Frode Larsen (b. 1987, Finnsnes, Norway) lives and works in Oslo. He studied music at the University of Tromsø and has spent the past 20 years working as a musician, composer, producer and project manager. He is best known as the frontman of the bands Kantona and The Band Called Oh.
Larsen composed, performed and produced the music and sound design for ENE.
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