The Fartein Valen Festival takes place in Haugesund and Sveio communities. The Fartein Valen Festival is a national festival, aiming to convey the impression of both composer and cultural personality Fartein Valen.
An important starting point for the festival is the composer's home in Valevåg. This house is owned by the couple Fartein Valen Sendstad and Sølvi Vinnes, and holds treasures it is important to present to the public. The Fartein Valen Foundation collaborates with the relatives of the composer and the Sveio and Haugesund municipalities. The arenas for the festival is both Sveio and Haugesund and the festival's important artistic goal is to reach out to a large audience. - We work consciously to achieve the greatest possible relevance in the society we are a part of.
The region is situated between Bergen and Stavanger on the west coast of Norway. International visitors may travel by plane or bus to get here. There is an airport in Haugesund with both domestic and international connections. By bus it takes appr. 2,5 hours to Bergen in the north and Stavanger to the south.
Today, May 17th, is Norway's National Day. It is celebrated all across the nation, from the largest community to the smallest, with parades, bands, flags, national costumes, festival services and festivities with everyone taking part, marking the day in 1814, when Norway adopted its new Constitution.
With all of the important outdoor festivities, the weather is very important on this day, and the whole nation watches the weather forecasts..
Norwegian author Jo Nesbø will be awarded this year's Peer Gynt Prize for his international success and for thus helping to put Norway on the world map of international litterature...
On Tuesday February 19th, is the start of Nordic Cool 2013 in New York, a month-long festival that showcases Scandinavian theater, music, visual arts, literature, design, cuisine and film.
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Expertly hidden around two and a half hours drive south of Oslo, is Kragerø, a small seaside town nestled in amongst one of the little fjords that fray the coast from Oslo to Vest-Agder. On discovering this little secret, you will quickly realize that there is a little more beneath the surface here. ..
The Norwegian TV series based on the novel The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen has won two awards in the series category at the French television festival FIPA.
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The winter cod fishing has a long tradition, and for several hundred years, this fishery has attracted anglers from all over the country. Fishing for cod occurs mainly around Vesterålen, Senja and Lofoten. In Lofoten alone more than 30,000 tons of cod is caught every season.
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The Church of Norway’s Presiding Bishop Helga Haugland Byfuglien will on Sunday preach at Mindekirken, the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Minneapolis.
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Norwegian director Eva Sørhaug's 90-minute film about men that kill their women was praised as powerful and bold at Toronto International Film Festival this weekend.
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The Ministry of Health has criticised t
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A pot filled with 11,000 liters of mussel soup - enough to feed 10,000 people - was served in Trondheim's city square Friday, setting a new world record.
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