Open conference at Oslo University College
25th of June 2004

The aim of the European project “Glitterbird - Art for the very young” is to give children under three years of age opportunities to see and to experience art. The project will stimulate artists, and give them the opportunity to create and present art to small children. During the project there will be gained and exchanged knowledge and experience about children under three meeting art.
Glitterbird is supported by the European Commission’s program “Culture 2000”.  It started in November 2003 and will last till November 2006. Six European countries, Denmark, Finland, France/Italy, Hungary and Norway, collaborate in Glitterbird. Glitterbird is a continuation and a further development of the Norwegian project “Klangfugl – kunst for de minste”.  
The program for the conference in Oslo consists both of performances for children under the age of three and lectures. Dansdesign will show ThreeMothers, a dance performance that won the Hedda-price in 2003. Artists from the Norwegian Klangfugl-project, Petrusjka theatre, Bibbi Winberg and Agnes Buen Garnås together with Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer, will show their performances which were created as parts of the Klangfugl-project.
Director and consultant Anne-Françoise Cabanis from France is the counsellor for the cultural authorities in Paris about art for small children and have been working with initiating and promoting art for children under three years of age for seventeen years. In her lecture she will share her rich experience.  Associate professor Dr. polit. Gunvor Løkken, Queen Maud's College of Early Childhood Education, will emphasise small children’s meeting with the aesthetic word. She has for many years investigated peer-relations between toddlers. Associate professor Dr. art. Faith G. Guss, Oslo University College will talk about dramaturgy in theatre and in children’s dramatic play.