Time has been passing away so fast since the Festival, and we are now writing a report of our work, our expectations and the feedbacks we got so far from everyone.
If you feel like helping us, please answer the questions of our survey and i will publish a summary as soon as we are done with it. The survey page will remain open for a week only since we need the statistics for our final presentation. However it will be re-opened afterwards, feedbacks at any time are very welcome and useful for us!
Thank you!
to reach the survey, please click here!
29/11/2007
14/11/2007
Fruits of the MCH Preparations
I will never know, how time has passed?! I must admit, it has been a great challenge but a great success at the end. I am really thankful to my friends: Annika, Laurent, Marie, Filomena and Yo that have taken all my complaints, supported my ideas good/bad, giving me hugs every time I needed. It was extremely fabulous to work with you and manage a successful work after all. The more credit goes to the friends who helped us in the Festival arena, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!Here are some memories from the day, sorry for the delay because we have been very busy with our Courses just after the Festival. More will come up later... Enjoy!
12/11/2007
Some pics of the festival
The girls
Tommy and his cunches
Theater play for children
Sofi Hellborg and her gang
Marie-Hélène, Filomena and the beautiful guys from Hojfen Balagan
Panel discussion hosted by Theo
Elleska, the girls who rocked !!!
Fair Trade shop
And everybody was dancing
Yo and Lolo tired ??? Never03/11/2007
Day + 1, time to recover
Hello everyone!
it is difficult to say all the things we fell yesterday from 7 in the morning until 1 at night, so many feelings in one day, enough to sleep 24h afterwards...and it is actually what i did!
it is difficult to say all the things we fell yesterday from 7 in the morning until 1 at night, so many feelings in one day, enough to sleep 24h afterwards...and it is actually what i did!
We just want to tell you all a big thank you for coming to the Festival yesterday, day & night, for your support, your help, your smiles, your words, it was fantastic, and we couldn't have made it without you!!
A big thank you also to all the speakers, shops and artists present this day, it was such a pleasure to welcome you!
It is also a pleasure and pride for us to see the feedbacks we got from the media who talked about the programme and came and interview us and visitors, and here are some articles you can find online:
- Sydsvenskan, "Festival för en bra framtid"
- Sydsvenskan, "Hållbar festival vill få oss att agera"
The Festival as an event is over, but there are still a lot to do to close the project, as least until next year!
Pictures to come soon, as much as more information about what's going to happen now of our Making Change Happen Festival!!
02/11/2007
5:30 in Lund
At this time of the day, it is obvious, it is still dark, and it feels pretty lonely and cold in the middle of this darkness.
However!
A long day is waiting for us, and, though there is not so much left to prepare in Stadshallen, the day seems like a long challenge, even a battle, that we plan to win. After months of work we are reaching at last the day when this work will be judged by the unknown anonymous public.
Direction Stadshallen at 7 to finalize the place and the activities, sound and light checks, and door opening at 9:00.
At 9:15, our special guest Tommy Adolfsson, a wonderful conch blower, is going to open the Festival. After that we hope things are going to start living by themselves and that people will feel happy to join us.
- First steps of the day, Panel Discussions in English (9:30-11:30) and Swedish (12:30-14-30) and the challenge to produce enough coffee for everyone!
- Second steps, the activities that already started in the morning : LUMES presentations (environmental consultancy and tree planting), fair trade market, Workshsops, theatre, movie made by students, schoool exhibitions,....
- Third Step, the concerts between 18:00 and 24:00. For the programme please click here
- And Final step: cleaning!!!
:)
We wish you a pleasant day, and we're all looking forward to meeting you in Stadshallen. If you have any question and comment you want to address directly to us, you won't miss the organization team, we're all wearing the brown Tshirt with the official logo (pic in a previous article!)
However!
A long day is waiting for us, and, though there is not so much left to prepare in Stadshallen, the day seems like a long challenge, even a battle, that we plan to win. After months of work we are reaching at last the day when this work will be judged by the unknown anonymous public.
Direction Stadshallen at 7 to finalize the place and the activities, sound and light checks, and door opening at 9:00.
At 9:15, our special guest Tommy Adolfsson, a wonderful conch blower, is going to open the Festival. After that we hope things are going to start living by themselves and that people will feel happy to join us.
- First steps of the day, Panel Discussions in English (9:30-11:30) and Swedish (12:30-14-30) and the challenge to produce enough coffee for everyone!
- Second steps, the activities that already started in the morning : LUMES presentations (environmental consultancy and tree planting), fair trade market, Workshsops, theatre, movie made by students, schoool exhibitions,....
- Third Step, the concerts between 18:00 and 24:00. For the programme please click here
- And Final step: cleaning!!!
:)
We wish you a pleasant day, and we're all looking forward to meeting you in Stadshallen. If you have any question and comment you want to address directly to us, you won't miss the organization team, we're all wearing the brown Tshirt with the official logo (pic in a previous article!)
01/11/2007
Final Day!
Today was a long day. it's always the same when you organize a big thing, you always have to expect last minute troubles or fears. But still, everything went well and we evacuated some little stress.
We installed the rooms this afternoon. The teachers of the school helped us fixing the school exhibitions, and we really have to congratulate the kids and their teacher: what they did is wonderful! in Stadshallen you will find paintings, collages, recycling works, they were very creative and it's a pleasure for us, a reward for the last months of work.
See the article that the Sydsvenkan wrote about it there !
Pic from Sydsvenskan.se
We installed the rooms this afternoon. The teachers of the school helped us fixing the school exhibitions, and we really have to congratulate the kids and their teacher: what they did is wonderful! in Stadshallen you will find paintings, collages, recycling works, they were very creative and it's a pleasure for us, a reward for the last months of work.
We also would like to congratulate Sofi Hellborg who just got the Fellis-priset!! It will be a pleasure and an honour to have her playing tomorrow night for our Festival, don't miss her performance at 20:15 on the main stage !!
See the article that the Sydsvenkan wrote about it there !
Pic from Sydsvenskan.se
Don't forget to buy your ticket for the concerts, in Stadshallen or on http://www.ticnet.se!
31/10/2007
Thank you to sponsors, thank you to our friends, thank you to our Master Programme
While talking to the journalist i realized how much we've been going through since our first notes in the white board. It was an interested flashback in my mind, a recollection of feelings, ideas, stress, hopes, happy moments... i remember myself writing everything down, names of people to contact, places to go to, shops to visit. i smile when i think about my fears when talking to people and ask for sponsorship.
There are still 2 days to go in the organization, and some more weeks to fix our budget afterwards, but i'd like to send a sincere warm thank you to all the people supporting the Making Change Happen Festival, and more specifically supporting us with money and helping hands and smiles.
The list of people to consider is long but i'll make a special effort to name our main sponsors one by one:
- LUMES-LUCSUS
- Lunds Kommun
- Kultur i Lund
- Mobility Management Department
- Musik i Syd
- Coop Konsum on Mårtenstorget
- Ramklints Konditori
- Mossagården
... and of course all the volunteer workers who are helping to make change happen on friday!
Don't forget to buy your ticket for the concerts at night in Stadshallen and http://www.ticnet.se !
There are still 2 days to go in the organization, and some more weeks to fix our budget afterwards, but i'd like to send a sincere warm thank you to all the people supporting the Making Change Happen Festival, and more specifically supporting us with money and helping hands and smiles.
The list of people to consider is long but i'll make a special effort to name our main sponsors one by one:
- LUMES-LUCSUS
- Lunds Kommun
- Kultur i Lund
- Mobility Management Department
- Musik i Syd
- Coop Konsum on Mårtenstorget
- Ramklints Konditori
- Mossagården
... and of course all the volunteer workers who are helping to make change happen on friday!
Don't forget to buy your ticket for the concerts at night in Stadshallen and http://www.ticnet.se !
2 days left!!!
Rush Rush Rush, we're in an exciting rush! 2 days left before the Festival and there are still things to organize!
Today we had an interview in Stasdhallen with a journalist from Skånska Dagbladet, regional newspaper, in order to present the project and hope to attract even more people to come on friday. The contact we think was good, and the journalist said our work was ambitious but great, something new happening in Lund. Expect to find also an article tomorrow or friday in the Sydsvenkan (an other regional newspaper), we got a phone interview yesterday while we were painting our posters!it's a good feeling to see that media are interested in our work, and we count of their articles to make people come both during the day and the concerts.
Internet is also an important tool. Mails have been sent to the main departments of Lund University and they are presented the Festival programme on their official webpages. Some musical websites are also advertising the event (Musik i Syd, Sydsvenska Dygnet Runt, DinDel).
And of course, posters and flyers will be distributed in town all day long, and people will be around to meet and discuss with the people.
Tomorrow we'll finally install the school projects, the posters and prepare the sound system in advance to be ready early on friday morning.
Yesterday we made some painting with Zeynep to prepare posters and have some time off from stress. These posters, painted with our hands and feets in LUMES (under the curious looks of students and teachers) will be set on the walls and the entrance of Stadshallen:
Today we had an interview in Stasdhallen with a journalist from Skånska Dagbladet, regional newspaper, in order to present the project and hope to attract even more people to come on friday. The contact we think was good, and the journalist said our work was ambitious but great, something new happening in Lund. Expect to find also an article tomorrow or friday in the Sydsvenkan (an other regional newspaper), we got a phone interview yesterday while we were painting our posters!it's a good feeling to see that media are interested in our work, and we count of their articles to make people come both during the day and the concerts.
Internet is also an important tool. Mails have been sent to the main departments of Lund University and they are presented the Festival programme on their official webpages. Some musical websites are also advertising the event (Musik i Syd, Sydsvenska Dygnet Runt, DinDel).
And of course, posters and flyers will be distributed in town all day long, and people will be around to meet and discuss with the people.
***
Yesterday we made some painting with Zeynep to prepare posters and have some time off from stress. These posters, painted with our hands and feets in LUMES (under the curious looks of students and teachers) will be set on the walls and the entrance of Stadshallen:
Don't forget to buy your ticket for the concerts, in Stadshallen or on http://www.ticnet.se/ !
29/10/2007
4 days left!
We've been working for months on the Making Change Happen project, and we're now experiencing the rush and stress of the last days before the event (only 4!!). Meetings, phone calls, hundreds of mails, there is no time anymore to rest, and so far we've been quite efficient. We solved the last technical details, and today we are going back to Stadshallen to check the place again with the help of the caretaker.
More last-minute news to come soon!!
Pic: our official TShirt for the organization team!
15/10/2007
Advertizing is important !
Here is the official poster of the festival, that you will all be able to contemplate this week hopefully for those who live in Lund.
Thanks to Hannes for this great job !!!
Festival poster by Hannes
Thanks to Hannes for this great job !!!
Festival poster by Hannes
10/10/2007
Yes! Things are going faster each day... We have 3 weeks left to the Festival, but the progress we are showing is absolutely unbelievable. It makes each one of us feel more happy and energetic! The latest update is from our school Lund University's web page, you can check it out from www.lucsus.lu.se The Festival arena, Stadshallen in Lund has started selling tickets for students for 80 SEK to see the bands and artists from 18.00 to 23.45. Otherwise you can buy adult and 5-15 years old tickets from www.ticnet.se I think this is enough of commercialism. The Festival starts at 09.30 in the morning and presents school projects, panel discussions, movies and music with efficient amount of drinks, sandwiches during the day are going to be supplemented as well. One very good news is Tommy Adolfsson is coming from Stockholm to play (conch blower) wonderful shell music. Check him out from www.myspace.com/tommyadolfsson You will not regret it! This is all from small updates of our portfolio.
The last details...
No time to update this blog...
Still, things are moving fast and efficiently. So far, everything is working out: money, bands, projects, people participating etc.
We are now entering the details part. How to organize the space available at StadsHallen, how to organize the help from our fellow students, who will be in charge of what, how to transport the material, how we'll make the coffee, where to order the drinks, who is gonna clean, are just few examples of the thousand of questions we need to answer now. This is so exciting ! Last week was kind of strange for us, lots of tensions and negative feelings. But this week, the energy is back! We stayed late at night on Monday to chat and work.
So far I think I can give some updates and give you things to check out:
The tickets for the concerts are on sell. They can be purchased at ticnet.se or at Satdshallen. NB: students'tickets are only available at StadsHallen! We also have all the bands confirmed:
* Environmental 6
* Sofi Hellborg Gang
* Lena Måndotter & Skin to Skin
* Hojfen Balagan
* ElleSka
* Härr Gårman
* Max Somah Band
* Skogsfolket
* Songt theater SelahNoah
* Arons Shoug Öhman
The school projects are also providing me a lot of fun. One of the student, Hannes, has worked hard with Photoshop to create different pictures. Very provocating! We are thinking of using this one as flyers:
Maing Change Happen by ©Hannes Lidfeldt
Still, things are moving fast and efficiently. So far, everything is working out: money, bands, projects, people participating etc.
We are now entering the details part. How to organize the space available at StadsHallen, how to organize the help from our fellow students, who will be in charge of what, how to transport the material, how we'll make the coffee, where to order the drinks, who is gonna clean, are just few examples of the thousand of questions we need to answer now. This is so exciting ! Last week was kind of strange for us, lots of tensions and negative feelings. But this week, the energy is back! We stayed late at night on Monday to chat and work.
So far I think I can give some updates and give you things to check out:
The tickets for the concerts are on sell. They can be purchased at ticnet.se or at Satdshallen. NB: students'tickets are only available at StadsHallen! We also have all the bands confirmed:
* Environmental 6
* Sofi Hellborg Gang
* Lena Måndotter & Skin to Skin
* Hojfen Balagan
* ElleSka
* Härr Gårman
* Max Somah Band
* Skogsfolket
* Songt theater SelahNoah
* Arons Shoug Öhman
The school projects are also providing me a lot of fun. One of the student, Hannes, has worked hard with Photoshop to create different pictures. Very provocating! We are thinking of using this one as flyers:
Maing Change Happen by ©Hannes Lidfeldt
18/09/2007
Back to highschool
Wow...
Things are moving so quick and we are so busy that we forgot to update this blog.
However, today I was meeting some high school (or sth like that) students and when I told them about this blog, I realized we should use it more often. So that's what I'm doing, because the feeling I got tis afternoon with those guys, I just wanna share it.
52 students are going to be involved with us to create an exhibition and in their school, two groups will work on the creation of a video clip (they're making their own songs + their own video) and another group is going to work with some collage work.
When I got there, I was so nervous. Dealing with 17-18 years old students is not an easy task. You never know what's gonna happen, you never know how they gonna react. So imagine me when I had to stand in front of 52 of them! After a brief intro of the teachers, I had to throw myself into it. I just stood up and started talking. Did not even prepare anything, did not know where I was really heading to. I just talked, tried to get the shit out of me, filled with energy, my energy, the one that got me out of trouble anytime and everything went very smooth.
I let them listen a song from the Flaming Lips, the Yeah Yeah Yeah Song, because I think it could be a good source of inspiration. I wasn't sure how they would react, but I guess it was positive.
I really liked the fact that some of them had criticisms about the song itself.
Later, I went with the visual art class who is gonna make some collage work. I was fascinated how enthusiastic this group is ! It took them no more than 10 min to get the thinking to a point I did not even expect. The variety of ideas is amazing, some very pessimistic thoughts, some other very enthusiastic. Their maturity was really interesting: they always had some good arguments to follow their ideas, and they were really willing at expressing themselves. Well, it's good I guess, this is what we want.
One of the group was a bit lost though, and not really agreeing with my little speech. So I sat down with those guys and chat for a while. I found it very interesting that those guys did not really give a shit of what's going on in the world, because everytime, they had good argument going along.
It made me thought a lot tonite: what if they are right? I mean, how can one be sure that what we are doing - the festival, believing in sustainability etc. - is the right thing? Who tells us that what is going on right is the way it should be and that everything will just be fine? Well, I couldn't tell them they were wrong. Nor they were right. I just told them: be yourself !
Things are moving so quick and we are so busy that we forgot to update this blog.
However, today I was meeting some high school (or sth like that) students and when I told them about this blog, I realized we should use it more often. So that's what I'm doing, because the feeling I got tis afternoon with those guys, I just wanna share it.
52 students are going to be involved with us to create an exhibition and in their school, two groups will work on the creation of a video clip (they're making their own songs + their own video) and another group is going to work with some collage work.
When I got there, I was so nervous. Dealing with 17-18 years old students is not an easy task. You never know what's gonna happen, you never know how they gonna react. So imagine me when I had to stand in front of 52 of them! After a brief intro of the teachers, I had to throw myself into it. I just stood up and started talking. Did not even prepare anything, did not know where I was really heading to. I just talked, tried to get the shit out of me, filled with energy, my energy, the one that got me out of trouble anytime and everything went very smooth.
I let them listen a song from the Flaming Lips, the Yeah Yeah Yeah Song, because I think it could be a good source of inspiration. I wasn't sure how they would react, but I guess it was positive.
I really liked the fact that some of them had criticisms about the song itself.
Later, I went with the visual art class who is gonna make some collage work. I was fascinated how enthusiastic this group is ! It took them no more than 10 min to get the thinking to a point I did not even expect. The variety of ideas is amazing, some very pessimistic thoughts, some other very enthusiastic. Their maturity was really interesting: they always had some good arguments to follow their ideas, and they were really willing at expressing themselves. Well, it's good I guess, this is what we want.
One of the group was a bit lost though, and not really agreeing with my little speech. So I sat down with those guys and chat for a while. I found it very interesting that those guys did not really give a shit of what's going on in the world, because everytime, they had good argument going along.
It made me thought a lot tonite: what if they are right? I mean, how can one be sure that what we are doing - the festival, believing in sustainability etc. - is the right thing? Who tells us that what is going on right is the way it should be and that everything will just be fine? Well, I couldn't tell them they were wrong. Nor they were right. I just told them: be yourself !
05/09/2007
02/09/2007
MCHF, 2 months left!
Things are moving fast and well! the Makin Change Happen Festival will take place in 2 months from now, and there are still so many things to do that the organization doesn't give us so much free time to breathe!
The different projects with schools are now starting, and we already have the support of Lunds Kommun, Kultur i Lund and the Mobility Department of Lund City.
We are now reaching a critical aspects of the making of a festival, which is the "hunt" for financial and structural support. We are however quite confident: even if we hace one month left to confirm our budget and our programme, it seems that the Festival has been attracting many positive comments. Letters and documents have been sent to companies in Lund, and we're now waiting for answers concerning any possible sponsors. To make everything work, we of course need money to pay the rent in Stadshallen and the exhibitions, but we also need to find a way to geta good sound system for the concerts at night.
In the next 2 months we'll be meeting every monday. More news to come later to describe you the projects and tell you about the main decisions.
As usual, if you have any question, you can contact us through the "comments" of this blog.
If you feel like helping us in any possible way (financial support, flyer and poster distribution, baking, participation in workshop and presentations, ...) please leave your mail address as a "comment" and we will contact you as soon as possible! Any help is welcome!!Thank you!!
The different projects with schools are now starting, and we already have the support of Lunds Kommun, Kultur i Lund and the Mobility Department of Lund City.
We are now reaching a critical aspects of the making of a festival, which is the "hunt" for financial and structural support. We are however quite confident: even if we hace one month left to confirm our budget and our programme, it seems that the Festival has been attracting many positive comments. Letters and documents have been sent to companies in Lund, and we're now waiting for answers concerning any possible sponsors. To make everything work, we of course need money to pay the rent in Stadshallen and the exhibitions, but we also need to find a way to geta good sound system for the concerts at night.
In the next 2 months we'll be meeting every monday. More news to come later to describe you the projects and tell you about the main decisions.
As usual, if you have any question, you can contact us through the "comments" of this blog.
If you feel like helping us in any possible way (financial support, flyer and poster distribution, baking, participation in workshop and presentations, ...) please leave your mail address as a "comment" and we will contact you as soon as possible! Any help is welcome!!Thank you!!
12/08/2007
Synthesis of the Making Change Happen questionnaire distributed in May 2007
Sorry for the late post about the questionnaire, summer time is now over and we're back on tracks to prepare the Festival. Here are the conclusions of the survey, we used them to prepare the schedule and activities in order to make them corresponding as much as possible with your expectations! Thank you very much for your help and your patience!
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As we explained you earlier on this blog, we prepared and distributed an anonymous survey in order to know more about people’s expectation and therefore to organize an event that would fit as much as possible with these expectations. Last May, the written questionnaires have been answered by 30 people, and we also interviewed people randomly to collect their opinion. If many of the answerers are students or scholars in Lund University, we also tried to reach other categories of the population (family members, inhabitants in Malmö, guests and lecturers of the LUCSUS seminars…) in order to make our test relevant and reliable and therefore to make people as much interested as possible with the proposed activities. We were expecting more complete questionnaires to come back in order to analyse them, but it often happened that the answers were unclear or incomplete, and many were not given back at all.
The majority of the people we interviewed were between 20 and 40 years-old, and we found a good numerical balance between women and men. When we defined the type of activities of the festival at the beginning of the questionnaire, it seemed that half of the answerers never went to any event like this and were interested in it. In total, 90% said they would be glad to come, especially with their family (40%) and friends (40%).
When we asked them when they would like the festival to happen, 80% answered that the weekend would be the best, and that it should include nightly activities as much as daily ones. We also proposed different possible duration of the event and half was in favour of 1 day, the other half in favour of 2 days. 60% were also in favour of an outdoor event.
→ Our decision to organize a Making Change Happen Festival on November 2nd in Stadshallen has been the result of many discussions concerning the answers of the survey and the options we were offered about the place and the time of the year. Friday November 2nd is the day that precedes Alla Helgons Dag (Saturday 3rd) which is often considered as a family time for celebrations and which takes place during the school holidays. We thought that such a day could be good to start the weekend and that it could therefore be the best in order to include as many people, from different ages, to the event.
Concerning the list of activities we proposed, major trends could be observed: people seemed mainly really interested in artistic, cultural/scientific and children-related activities. According to the comments we got, they were also eager to access information panels and workshops concerning fair-trade and ecological products, sustainable everyday-life practices …
→ The Making Change Happen Festival therefore seems to answer the expectations, since we propose a diverse choice of activities for young and older people, including access to scientific knowledge, entertaining activities and workshops, fair-trade and ecological food and products market…Some students of the LUMES programme are also willing to share and present their knowledge through exhibitions, presentations, discussions…
The issue concerning the entrance fees was one of the most important to ask in order to prepare our budget and activities. Although our expectations about the answers were not high, it occurred that around 65% are willing to pay between 10 and 30 Sek to enter the making Change Happen Festival! Some also advised us to organize different entrance-fees systems and separate the daily and nightly activities.
→ The possibility that seems the best for our purposes and the organization of our budget is to let the entrance free of charge/open fees (people can decide to pay what they want at the entrance of the place) during the daily time, and sell tickets for the concerts at night. If the price of these tickets still have to be discussed, we thought of making different offers such as children-students-family reductions. These tickets could be bought in advance or at night.
At last, 95% of the answerers are not disturbed by the fact that the organization of the festival is mainly made in English.
→ Our purpose is to welcome both English and Swedish-speaking people from different ages, origins and backgrounds. The goal of this event is to be opened to everyone and to present possible ways for people to understand and change their ways of thinking and habits in order to reach a more sustainable world and solidarity and peace between generations.
As we explained you earlier on this blog, we prepared and distributed an anonymous survey in order to know more about people’s expectation and therefore to organize an event that would fit as much as possible with these expectations. Last May, the written questionnaires have been answered by 30 people, and we also interviewed people randomly to collect their opinion. If many of the answerers are students or scholars in Lund University, we also tried to reach other categories of the population (family members, inhabitants in Malmö, guests and lecturers of the LUCSUS seminars…) in order to make our test relevant and reliable and therefore to make people as much interested as possible with the proposed activities. We were expecting more complete questionnaires to come back in order to analyse them, but it often happened that the answers were unclear or incomplete, and many were not given back at all.
The majority of the people we interviewed were between 20 and 40 years-old, and we found a good numerical balance between women and men. When we defined the type of activities of the festival at the beginning of the questionnaire, it seemed that half of the answerers never went to any event like this and were interested in it. In total, 90% said they would be glad to come, especially with their family (40%) and friends (40%).
When we asked them when they would like the festival to happen, 80% answered that the weekend would be the best, and that it should include nightly activities as much as daily ones. We also proposed different possible duration of the event and half was in favour of 1 day, the other half in favour of 2 days. 60% were also in favour of an outdoor event.
→ Our decision to organize a Making Change Happen Festival on November 2nd in Stadshallen has been the result of many discussions concerning the answers of the survey and the options we were offered about the place and the time of the year. Friday November 2nd is the day that precedes Alla Helgons Dag (Saturday 3rd) which is often considered as a family time for celebrations and which takes place during the school holidays. We thought that such a day could be good to start the weekend and that it could therefore be the best in order to include as many people, from different ages, to the event.
Concerning the list of activities we proposed, major trends could be observed: people seemed mainly really interested in artistic, cultural/scientific and children-related activities. According to the comments we got, they were also eager to access information panels and workshops concerning fair-trade and ecological products, sustainable everyday-life practices …
→ The Making Change Happen Festival therefore seems to answer the expectations, since we propose a diverse choice of activities for young and older people, including access to scientific knowledge, entertaining activities and workshops, fair-trade and ecological food and products market…Some students of the LUMES programme are also willing to share and present their knowledge through exhibitions, presentations, discussions…
The issue concerning the entrance fees was one of the most important to ask in order to prepare our budget and activities. Although our expectations about the answers were not high, it occurred that around 65% are willing to pay between 10 and 30 Sek to enter the making Change Happen Festival! Some also advised us to organize different entrance-fees systems and separate the daily and nightly activities.
→ The possibility that seems the best for our purposes and the organization of our budget is to let the entrance free of charge/open fees (people can decide to pay what they want at the entrance of the place) during the daily time, and sell tickets for the concerts at night. If the price of these tickets still have to be discussed, we thought of making different offers such as children-students-family reductions. These tickets could be bought in advance or at night.
At last, 95% of the answerers are not disturbed by the fact that the organization of the festival is mainly made in English.
→ Our purpose is to welcome both English and Swedish-speaking people from different ages, origins and backgrounds. The goal of this event is to be opened to everyone and to present possible ways for people to understand and change their ways of thinking and habits in order to reach a more sustainable world and solidarity and peace between generations.
23/07/2007
Logo
Hi everyone.
I know, we could update this blog more often, but everyone is on summer break, so...
Anyway, few weeks ago was born the logo of the festival. Here it is.
I know, we could update this blog more often, but everyone is on summer break, so...
Anyway, few weeks ago was born the logo of the festival. Here it is.
30/06/2007
Showing progress towards our ambition
Hej Alla! Today is July 1st and we have totally 4 months left to our Making Change Happen Festival. As you all know we are on our summer break and all in different cities. However, our preparations still goes insofar as one is able. We have, from cultural exhibition contacts, heard or not even get a one reply. We have contacted Eko-Mode, where we thought would be wise and interesting to have an Ecologic Catwalk, but we haven't heard from them yet. Another ecological design demonstrator is a shop in Malmö, called Uma Bazaar. Unfortunately, they had to close their shop on östra förstadsgatan, but hopefully we are expecting to hear from Sara Rossling, the owner, pretty soon as she mentioned she is interested in the project. Latest news came 
from Do Redo, which is a about recycling-make new things out of old worn wool clothes and so(see the picture on the left, Do Redo Tokyo Workshop).
They regrettably, send an e-mail saying "Unfortunatley we are already booked to give a Do Redo workshop in Århus, Denmark on the 3rd of November (our day of travelling will be on the 2nd), so we have to turn your request down."
Anyhow, we will go with other alternatives and keep you updated of the participators to our festival, during the summer.
Thank you!
from Do Redo, which is a about recycling-make new things out of old worn wool clothes and so(see the picture on the left, Do Redo Tokyo Workshop).They regrettably, send an e-mail saying "Unfortunatley we are already booked to give a Do Redo workshop in Århus, Denmark on the 3rd of November (our day of travelling will be on the 2nd), so we have to turn your request down."
Anyhow, we will go with other alternatives and keep you updated of the participators to our festival, during the summer.
Thank you!
17/06/2007
Summer time
Our second term in Lumes is over, and we all left for some well-deserved holidays.
However!
Time will go fast for sure, and the biggest part of the work will have to be done in August, when we come back to Lund. But working for the festival doesn't need any break, and we all keep on thinking about the different projects and their organization. We already have many contacts with representatives of Lunds Kommun and many schools and artists, and all the comments we got are really positive! What we wrote on the portfolio slowly but surely turns into something real and we are really excited about!
As explained in a previous post, the portfolio is available via the Google Group related to our project. Please contact us via the "comments" part below if you want us to send it to you via mail.
Annika is still in Sweden, she can be reached directly by phone, and you're of course welcome to send any mail to any of us if you have questions to ask or any comment to give!
However!
Time will go fast for sure, and the biggest part of the work will have to be done in August, when we come back to Lund. But working for the festival doesn't need any break, and we all keep on thinking about the different projects and their organization. We already have many contacts with representatives of Lunds Kommun and many schools and artists, and all the comments we got are really positive! What we wrote on the portfolio slowly but surely turns into something real and we are really excited about!
As explained in a previous post, the portfolio is available via the Google Group related to our project. Please contact us via the "comments" part below if you want us to send it to you via mail.
Annika is still in Sweden, she can be reached directly by phone, and you're of course welcome to send any mail to any of us if you have questions to ask or any comment to give!
24/05/2007
Stadshallen
We all visited the place where the festival will happen last tuesday.
Stadshallen (this is the name) is located in down town, on Stortorget (the main square in Lund) and so, very-well located.
When we got insde, I think it was more than our expectations! This place is just perfect for the event we want to have. Two floors, a concert hall, a lot of litlle corners, open to the rest of the place but isolated enought to conduce different activities, exposition walls etc. Just what we need.
Everyone felt very good to finally have a better idea of where we are going to do this. I mean, we now have a better picture in our head of what it is going to be like, what can be done, what can't.
After, we all had lunch in the Cathedral Park to discuss about other issues.
The port-folio is almost ready and will already be presented next week. Annika, Yo and Zeynep got in touch with the person in charge of cultural events at Lund Commun and she seemed enthusiastic about the all idea.
On my side, I have been starting sending email to different schools with the help of Annika. So now, let's wait and hope for positive answers!
If you are interested at knowing more about the project, help us or have an access to our porte-folio because you are willing to sponsor us, please contact us: make-change-happen-in-lund@googlegroups.com
Stadshallen (this is the name) is located in down town, on Stortorget (the main square in Lund) and so, very-well located.
When we got insde, I think it was more than our expectations! This place is just perfect for the event we want to have. Two floors, a concert hall, a lot of litlle corners, open to the rest of the place but isolated enought to conduce different activities, exposition walls etc. Just what we need.
Everyone felt very good to finally have a better idea of where we are going to do this. I mean, we now have a better picture in our head of what it is going to be like, what can be done, what can't.
After, we all had lunch in the Cathedral Park to discuss about other issues.
The port-folio is almost ready and will already be presented next week. Annika, Yo and Zeynep got in touch with the person in charge of cultural events at Lund Commun and she seemed enthusiastic about the all idea.
On my side, I have been starting sending email to different schools with the help of Annika. So now, let's wait and hope for positive answers!
If you are interested at knowing more about the project, help us or have an access to our porte-folio because you are willing to sponsor us, please contact us: make-change-happen-in-lund@googlegroups.com
17/05/2007
Porte-folio
So we had a meeting last tuesday.
Eveybody came up with what he/she was supposed to create for the porte-folio. To remind you, we are now creating a porte-folio presenting our project. Every details of what we want to do will be presented, accompanied of budgets. Because the objective of this porte-folio is, obviously, finding sponsors.
Marie created the basic layout (if i can call it like this). The final version should be done by next week hopefully.
If you are interested to get an electronic version, contact us. Our contact is on the right side of the blog.
Otherwise, everybody is still enthusiastic and optimistic. We did not get all the questionnaires back yet, but soon we will have the first estimations of this survey. Also, we are planning a lunch on Tuesday at Stadshallen, which will certainly be the main and cetral place of the festival, just to have an idea of what can and can't be done.
That's the news for the week. And don't forget: Changes are possible !!!!
Eveybody came up with what he/she was supposed to create for the porte-folio. To remind you, we are now creating a porte-folio presenting our project. Every details of what we want to do will be presented, accompanied of budgets. Because the objective of this porte-folio is, obviously, finding sponsors.
Marie created the basic layout (if i can call it like this). The final version should be done by next week hopefully.
If you are interested to get an electronic version, contact us. Our contact is on the right side of the blog.
Otherwise, everybody is still enthusiastic and optimistic. We did not get all the questionnaires back yet, but soon we will have the first estimations of this survey. Also, we are planning a lunch on Tuesday at Stadshallen, which will certainly be the main and cetral place of the festival, just to have an idea of what can and can't be done.
That's the news for the week. And don't forget: Changes are possible !!!!
08/05/2007
Monday's meeting
It is nice to work with people who have different points of view, ways to think, backgrounds, maturity, skepitisism... It is what makes this project so interesting: diversity.
The yesterday meeting saw a new big step in the making of the festival.
First of all, we almost know for sure where and when the festival will take place. Stadshallen in Stortorget seems to be the most strategical place in Lund. Annika, who has contact over there, have asked when a date would be available. The latest we can get is in the beginning of November, which is kind of early compare to our mid-december plans. However, this is the only solution, and everybody finally agreed on Friday the 3rd of November.
THE ISSUE: MONEY. Now we have to find 8500 SEK (approx 900 euros) just for the rental of the hall. Usch as we say in Sweden.
That's how we got into the second point: the sponsoring.
Marie had the brilliant idea of creating a portfolio where the project would be described in details as well as a first frame for the budget. We need to look serious and trustable over potential sponsors. So, right now, we are all working on the creation of this document.
Also, the questionnaire has been printed out and the survey has started. We are hoping to get results by the end of the week so we can start focusing on details.
Aaron has also joined us. His idea is to create an institution that would give the abilities to all the university bodies related to environment to join altogether. The idea is to create a common website or mailing group where everyone could collaborate, and also where other people could get into what's going on in sustainability in Lund. For him, it is also good to take the opportunity of our project for a first collaboration of this institution, and see how it works.
So, everything is going good. We are facing, as expected, time and money issues, but it wouldn't be as fun if we were not, don't you think so?
Announcement: if by any luck you are part of a company or an organization from Lund or Skåne, and you are willing to sponsor our project, or help in any kind of way, please contact us at this adress: make-change-happen-in-lund@googlegroups.com
Thank you!
The yesterday meeting saw a new big step in the making of the festival.
First of all, we almost know for sure where and when the festival will take place. Stadshallen in Stortorget seems to be the most strategical place in Lund. Annika, who has contact over there, have asked when a date would be available. The latest we can get is in the beginning of November, which is kind of early compare to our mid-december plans. However, this is the only solution, and everybody finally agreed on Friday the 3rd of November.
THE ISSUE: MONEY. Now we have to find 8500 SEK (approx 900 euros) just for the rental of the hall. Usch as we say in Sweden.
That's how we got into the second point: the sponsoring.
Marie had the brilliant idea of creating a portfolio where the project would be described in details as well as a first frame for the budget. We need to look serious and trustable over potential sponsors. So, right now, we are all working on the creation of this document.
Also, the questionnaire has been printed out and the survey has started. We are hoping to get results by the end of the week so we can start focusing on details.
Aaron has also joined us. His idea is to create an institution that would give the abilities to all the university bodies related to environment to join altogether. The idea is to create a common website or mailing group where everyone could collaborate, and also where other people could get into what's going on in sustainability in Lund. For him, it is also good to take the opportunity of our project for a first collaboration of this institution, and see how it works.
So, everything is going good. We are facing, as expected, time and money issues, but it wouldn't be as fun if we were not, don't you think so?
Announcement: if by any luck you are part of a company or an organization from Lund or Skåne, and you are willing to sponsor our project, or help in any kind of way, please contact us at this adress: make-change-happen-in-lund@googlegroups.com
Thank you!
02/05/2007
Questionnaire
(Please select your answer. The questions with * allow many answers)
Age: ……….. Gender: M F Location: ……………………..
1- Have you already gone to any cultural event like that? YES or NO
Did you enjoy it? YES or NO
Why? .................................................................................................................................
2- Should such a festival happen to Lund? YES or NO
3- If such an event happens in the next months, do you think now you would go? YES or NO
4- Would you come*: alone? ... with your family? ... with your friends?
5- When shall the festival occur?* During the week ... during the weekend
During the day ... during the night
How long shall it be? 1 day .. 2 days ... other ……………………….
6- Where shall the event happen?* Indoor (Stadshallen…) ... outdoor (Stortorget…)
7- Would you join any of these activities?
- Artistic events: concerts, exhibitions, theatre YES or NO
- Cultural-Scientific discussions, conferences, debates, workshops… YES or NO
- Activities for children and students, presentation, artistic activities YES or NO
- Political institutions’intervention, Lunds Kommun, associations… YES or NO
- Economic interventions, partners, sponsors… YES or NO
Do you think about something else you would like to see during this festival? .................................................................................................................................................
8- Would you accept to pay entrance fees? YES or NO
If yes, how much? SEK 5-10 ... SEK 11-20 ... SEK 21-30 ... other: ………………..
9- Would you be interesting in helping us in the organization of the event? YES or NO
If yes, how could you participate? ...........................................................................................
10- Do you agree with the use of English and Swedish as official languages? YES or NO
11- Do you have any other comment? ………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Thank you a lot for your participation!
The Organizing Team: Annika, Zeynep, Summer, Yo, Laurent and Marie-Hélène
Age: ……….. Gender: M F Location: ……………………..
1- Have you already gone to any cultural event like that? YES or NO
Did you enjoy it? YES or NO
Why? .................................................................................................................................
2- Should such a festival happen to Lund? YES or NO
3- If such an event happens in the next months, do you think now you would go? YES or NO
4- Would you come*: alone? ... with your family? ... with your friends?
5- When shall the festival occur?* During the week ... during the weekend
During the day ... during the night
How long shall it be? 1 day .. 2 days ... other ……………………….
6- Where shall the event happen?* Indoor (Stadshallen…) ... outdoor (Stortorget…)
7- Would you join any of these activities?
- Artistic events: concerts, exhibitions, theatre YES or NO
- Cultural-Scientific discussions, conferences, debates, workshops… YES or NO
- Activities for children and students, presentation, artistic activities YES or NO
- Political institutions’intervention, Lunds Kommun, associations… YES or NO
- Economic interventions, partners, sponsors… YES or NO
Do you think about something else you would like to see during this festival? .................................................................................................................................................
8- Would you accept to pay entrance fees? YES or NO
If yes, how much? SEK 5-10 ... SEK 11-20 ... SEK 21-30 ... other: ………………..
9- Would you be interesting in helping us in the organization of the event? YES or NO
If yes, how could you participate? ...........................................................................................
10- Do you agree with the use of English and Swedish as official languages? YES or NO
11- Do you have any other comment? ………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Thank you a lot for your participation!
The Organizing Team: Annika, Zeynep, Summer, Yo, Laurent and Marie-Hélène
What would you think...
...about joining a Make Change Happen Festival in the next months?
Let me introduce myself. My name is Marie-Hélène, i'm 23 years old, and as you might have guessed with my name, i'm French (from Paris). I've a Bachelor degree in Political Science, and i'm now enjoying my specialization master in environmental science and sustainable studies.
As Laurent wrote before, organizing a festival to promote sustainable development and solidarity to the people in Lund is an exciting thing to me.
I'm now in charge of preparing a questionnaire that we will spread around and use to ask questions to people in the streets of Lund. Its purpose is to answer as much as possible everyone's demand, and to help us focusing on the most interesting parts. There are so many issues we'll have to deal with, that a little help from people we don't know is more than welcome. We made a list of questions together during the last meeting concerning different topics: idea of the festival, what kind of activities are expected, shall it be free or not, are english and swedish good as official languages, and so on an so forth...
We were short in free time the last days, but it's time to go back to work and prepare something good.
As soon as the questions are definitively defined, i'll publish the questionnaire: you're more than welcome to answer the questions, it will be helping us a lot. Please use the comments to answer. It is of course anonymous, your information will only be used for our present purpose.
(btw, this is a serious work, try to answer as seriously as possible!)
Enjoy the sunny days!
Love, Marie Helene
Let me introduce myself. My name is Marie-Hélène, i'm 23 years old, and as you might have guessed with my name, i'm French (from Paris). I've a Bachelor degree in Political Science, and i'm now enjoying my specialization master in environmental science and sustainable studies.
As Laurent wrote before, organizing a festival to promote sustainable development and solidarity to the people in Lund is an exciting thing to me.
I'm now in charge of preparing a questionnaire that we will spread around and use to ask questions to people in the streets of Lund. Its purpose is to answer as much as possible everyone's demand, and to help us focusing on the most interesting parts. There are so many issues we'll have to deal with, that a little help from people we don't know is more than welcome. We made a list of questions together during the last meeting concerning different topics: idea of the festival, what kind of activities are expected, shall it be free or not, are english and swedish good as official languages, and so on an so forth...
We were short in free time the last days, but it's time to go back to work and prepare something good.
As soon as the questions are definitively defined, i'll publish the questionnaire: you're more than welcome to answer the questions, it will be helping us a lot. Please use the comments to answer. It is of course anonymous, your information will only be used for our present purpose.
(btw, this is a serious work, try to answer as seriously as possible!)
Enjoy the sunny days!
Love, Marie Helene
Second meeting
This week-end has been very busy for all of us, as we have other classes going on. The final paper took us quite some times. Then, Sista April, 1st of May doing nothing... It has been hard to focus on the project. Anyway, we are all back on track.
I met Annika two days ago and she told me she met the person in charge of the place we want to organize the festival. Apparently, there is only three dates available in October. That seems very close, too close! And it seems also very expensive.
Marie is going to submit us the first draft of the questionnaire we are going to introduce to Lund population. A meeting is organized for tomorrow 12, we'll discuss all those things together, and try to refine the questionnaire maybe. But by next week, I hope we'll be tracking everyon in the streets.
So here we are, lack of time, lack of money it seems... Challenges are straight in front of us. And that's what is going to motivate us!
I met Annika two days ago and she told me she met the person in charge of the place we want to organize the festival. Apparently, there is only three dates available in October. That seems very close, too close! And it seems also very expensive.
Marie is going to submit us the first draft of the questionnaire we are going to introduce to Lund population. A meeting is organized for tomorrow 12, we'll discuss all those things together, and try to refine the questionnaire maybe. But by next week, I hope we'll be tracking everyon in the streets.
So here we are, lack of time, lack of money it seems... Challenges are straight in front of us. And that's what is going to motivate us!
26/04/2007
How it all started...
When Annika first exposed her idea of festival, it was a bit confusing I have to admit, and a bit far from my idea of working with children in school.
So we all sat down wednesday 25th of April 2007, in a classroom, the seven of us, and she explained the concept of her idea.
Maybe before to go any further, I should explain more about the objective of this all thing.
In the master programme we are following now, the last class we are required to take before the terrible thesis is called "Make change happen". Students should conduce projects where they could apply what they have learnt during one year and a half, and of course should be linked to the broad topic of sustainability.
And so, this wednesday afternoon, Annika introduced her idea. It seems that it all started with her will to create a kind of solidarity day for the tsunami catastrophy. But the poor Annika was a bit alone to do everything alone, so she thought that maybe with the help of others, it would be interesting to really make it happen.
Her original idea was to organize an artistic festival where bands and poets could come, but also theatral representations or a painting exposition could happen. Everyone was very enthusiastic about this idea. Actually, the very first thing that we made for this project is on the next picture:
Basically, what we need to do:
- create an instituionnal framework, inviting other organisations dealing with sustainability to work with us; it will give much more power and a better decision-making force
- find sponsorings through the local business in Lund
- contact bands and artists who would be willing to make representations for the festival
- get in touch with some local school and try to work with them on an artistic exposition
- convince the public to participate to our event.
The discussion was very open and we first tried to decide on what this festival would be. Solidarity seemed to be a bit out of what we were trying to do. I mean, everybody knows about solidarity. So, we started to discuss about environmental issues. But here again, what about social issues?
We finally realized that all those things should be included together, that the existing walls between every parts of this project should be broken, and also that we should show to people that changes are possible in our society, that they are able themselves to make change happen...
It was logically that "MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN" started...
PS: Of course, this is a genral overview of the project. Don't worry, more detailed of what we will do exactly will come very soon. We are already working on finding a place, create a questionnaire to know exactly about expectations of people etc... So check this blog out often to be updated of real things we are doing.
So we all sat down wednesday 25th of April 2007, in a classroom, the seven of us, and she explained the concept of her idea.
Maybe before to go any further, I should explain more about the objective of this all thing.
In the master programme we are following now, the last class we are required to take before the terrible thesis is called "Make change happen". Students should conduce projects where they could apply what they have learnt during one year and a half, and of course should be linked to the broad topic of sustainability.
And so, this wednesday afternoon, Annika introduced her idea. It seems that it all started with her will to create a kind of solidarity day for the tsunami catastrophy. But the poor Annika was a bit alone to do everything alone, so she thought that maybe with the help of others, it would be interesting to really make it happen.
Her original idea was to organize an artistic festival where bands and poets could come, but also theatral representations or a painting exposition could happen. Everyone was very enthusiastic about this idea. Actually, the very first thing that we made for this project is on the next picture:
Basically, what we need to do:
- create an instituionnal framework, inviting other organisations dealing with sustainability to work with us; it will give much more power and a better decision-making force
- find sponsorings through the local business in Lund
- contact bands and artists who would be willing to make representations for the festival
- get in touch with some local school and try to work with them on an artistic exposition
- convince the public to participate to our event.
The discussion was very open and we first tried to decide on what this festival would be. Solidarity seemed to be a bit out of what we were trying to do. I mean, everybody knows about solidarity. So, we started to discuss about environmental issues. But here again, what about social issues?
We finally realized that all those things should be included together, that the existing walls between every parts of this project should be broken, and also that we should show to people that changes are possible in our society, that they are able themselves to make change happen...
It was logically that "MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN" started...
PS: Of course, this is a genral overview of the project. Don't worry, more detailed of what we will do exactly will come very soon. We are already working on finding a place, create a questionnaire to know exactly about expectations of people etc... So check this blog out often to be updated of real things we are doing.
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