Check out the Karlsøy Festival's most important work tool, the Handbook

    Karlsøty Festival's Handbook v8.1

    Now there are only three short months left until we gather in creative interaction at Karlsøy in Troms! 

    The festival association has come to life, the program is on its way to the public and this year's poster is about to be completed. This year, as last year, the festival is organized as a joint venture, where the currency is time, desire, interest and effort. The reward comes in the form of mastery, social interaction, belonging, identity and, not least, quantities of rich art, music, food and other cultural expressions in the world's most beautiful nature.

    We want to kick-start the festival rush by presenting and sharing our most important work tool for realizing the Karlsøy Festival - our Handbook! The first version of the Handbook (a kind of woodpecker book) was the result of a multi-year process of understanding what we actually do every summer on Karlsøya. We've been doing the festival for 24 years now, and it wasn't quiet on Karlsøya either in the 30 years before the festival started, so we should have some experience left behind. With the Handbook, we were able to structure responsibility and freedom in a clear way, so that we actually gained a common understanding of how this works. That helped!

    The Handbook is now in version 8 and it is a living document that is constantly updated and changed. We plan to publish it in book form to share our experiences and working methods with the rest of the world sometime in the future. Read and learn until your eyes water - these are 30 pages of concentrated experience from an underground festival.

    Keep up to date with this year's festival, participant plans and what you can be involved in by visiting our website www.karlsoyfestivalen.no. You can already buy a participant pass and register here: https://www.karlsoyfestivalen.no/kjop-deltakerpass/.

    We look forward to seeing you at Karlsøyfestivalen 2023!

    Here you can download the Handbook as a PDF: https://www.karlsoyfestivalen.no/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Handboka-for-Karlsoyfestivalen-v8.1.pdf

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