WEXFO YOUTH VOICES
About the event
Focused experience tailored to the audience
This year’s festival will provide a more focused experience tailored to the target audience. The program is roughly outlined as follows:
- Main stage (15 min) – Introduction and general assembly.
- Two workshops of 40 min each – Participants are divided into various thematic workshops.
- Closing on the main stage (15 min) – Summary and reflection.
Each class follows its own program for the day. The program includes workshops such as:
- Stopp Hatprat: What is the worst?
- When expressions become violence
- FN Sambandet: Human rights and freedom of expression
- Artistic freedom of expression
- Workshop with Solidaritetsungdommen
- Voksenaasen: What are you afraid to say?
- Workshop with Utøya
- Author talks with Kristina Quintano about “Flukt”, Helene Guåker about “Ned i skjul” and Neda Alaei about “På en betingelse”
- Freedom of expression in music with UKM
Detailed descriptions of each workshop, including practical information, will be sent to each class well in advance of the event. For more information, contact project manager Hilde Fauskerud, hilde@wexfo.no
We look forward to welcoming you to inspiring days filled with engagement, reflection, and new perspectives on freedom of expression!
World Expression Forum will:
- be an inspiration internationally, nationally, and locally.
- be a hub, the central international meeting place for everyone who is concerned with freedom of expression.
- influence developments through reports and projects, discussions in the Forum and summary afterwards.
- share experiences, but especially search for best practices for improvement.
- seek cooperation with others to develop offers of Forum gatherings elsewhere as well.
- participate in developing the local cooperation in the region on freedom of expression, with
institutions such as the Norwegian Festival of Literature , Lillehammer UNESCO City of Literature and ICORN. - reflect diversity in the work and in the organization.
World Expression Forum (WEXFO) was established as an ideal joint stock company on 20 August 2021.
Norway is one of the countries in the world with the highest degree of freedom of expression, according to Freedom of Expression Index (Our World in Data). Lillehammer is a UNESCO City of Literature, an ICORN city of refuge for artists at risk, and is the host of the biggest literature festival in Scandinavia. Both the city, the region (Innlandet) and Norway as a country are committed to supporting freedom of expression around the world.
WEXFO wants to inspire progress for freedom of expression on all levels of society – internationally, nationally and locally.
