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Participation and Diversity

Through its SPOR productions, Kilden has put participation in the arts and culture on the agenda. These productions create opportunities for young people with disabilities and their peers to express themselves on stage through song, music, text, dance, film, and other forms of expression. Through collaboration with professional musicians and performing artists, a performance is created that is diverse, authentic, and, above all, unique.

Mastery and Inclusion

Both students and the artistic team are given ample opportunity to grow both artistically and personally. All participants, regardless of their role, are given the chance to learn something new about themselves and about the people they work with. In SPOR, everyone is equally important, and everyone must pull in the same direction for SPOR to become the colorful and moving performance it is meant to be!

Critically acclaimed SPOR productions have been staged in 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, and 2025. The next performance is in March 2028. While each production is entirely unique, they all share the common element of symphonic music by Stig Nordhagen, composed specifically for SPOR, which serves as the musical backbone of the performance.

Over the years, SPOR has received significant attention both in Norway and abroad. In 2021, SPOR participated in the government’s memorial event for July 22 at Oslo Spektrum and on NRK TV. That same fall, NRK TV aired a two-part documentary series with a “behind-the-scenes” focus on SPOR. Mette Midling-Jenssen, a special education teacher at Kristiansand Katedralskole Gimle, and Elisabeth Lindland, director and scriptwriter for SPOR, received the Agder County Culture Award for their work on the SPOR performances.

“Once again, SPOR is the most important art event of the year at Kilden. No one leaves unchanged after experiencing it.”

– Emil Otto Syvertsen, critic for Fædrelandsvennen.