NORWAY

Implementing partner: East Norway Jazz Center 

East Norway Jazz Centre (ENJC) is the regional centre for jazz music in Eastern Norway, geographically covering the counties of Oslo, Viken and Innlandet. ENJC include a number of 30 jazz clubs, 60 big bands, 5 festivals and more than 450 professional musicians as active members within the region.

Their main activities are focused on coordinating and initializing jazz activity within the region, as well as working politically to improve general working and operating conditions for our members. Though the main interest lies within stimulating organisers and others to increase the jazz activity on a local scale, ENJC also initializes and arranges own projects (ensembles, concerts, tours), as well as arranges seminars for musicians, big bands and organisers. Along with the coordinating task goes working with general information on jazz matters towards media, politicians, members of the organisation and others.

The Play Ground Project partners have created music workshops at refugee centres in Norway. Through the Play Ground Project, and with the support from Creative Europe, a team of highly skilled music therapists and musicians have created a workshop practice consisting of music, song, dance, rhythm and musical games. The workshops aim to strengthen social unity and decrease feelings of isolation. Play Ground seeks to promote music, song and dance as a way to involve young people in positive activities. These activities may serve as a method to learn other skills, such as language.