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About Stavanger2008
We have called 2007 "The Year of the Voice" – a year where we will explore song, speech and strong opinions.
We dedicate this year to voices in the broadest sense of the word and explore all song forms, a whole range of different types of music, the art of storytelling and the very meeting between music, texts and theatre.
We want all voices to be given the chance to express themselves and to be heard. Voices that insist on their own truths, that define an identity and that challenge our conceptions. Loud and clear voices and whispering voices.
The Year of the Voice in not a Capital of Culture in miniature. It is a year which is to encourage involvement and participation for the big event in 2008, when the Stavanger region will be Europe's Capital of Culture.
This gives everyone who lives in Stavanger, Sandnes and the whole of Rogaland a unique opportunity to experience art, culture and people. Furthermore, it could turn the region into an even more exciting place to live in the years to come. It is all about creating a Capital of Culture that shows who we are, we who live in this region. But it also gives us the opportunity to go down to the open harbour, to the harbour that invites us all to take part in an exchange of art and culture. Moreover, it gives us the chance to open up the port of inclusiveness and hospitality. Stavanger2008 is all about the new, the international and the fantastic.
The Capital of Culture year is an opportunity that will not come back.
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