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 ??? Never

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!

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!!

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!!!

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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!)

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.

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!

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 !

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.

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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:

Don't forget to buy your ticket for the concerts, in Stadshallen or on http://www.ticnet.se/ !

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!

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

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

We also could invite another guest... Chec here, it's kinda surprise !!!


Cheers for now!