Track: Kids

Animation Boot Camp is an annual workshop for young artistic talents.
Guided by the fantastic multi-talented artist Christen Bach, young people from the Visuel Hf program at The Animation Workshop and Viborg Gymnasium and Hf work intensively for four days producing a bunch of amazing visuals for the band Twins of June. The workshop is a chance to explore creativity, storytelling and filmmaking. The music is provided beforehand and the young students the opportunity to dive into the lyrics for inspiration on look and visual expression.

The workshop ends with a live concert with Twins of June, where the beautiful visuals form the backdrop, on Thursday 28/9 at Paletten.

Body Time is an animation project for kids and families made in collaboration with the Belgian artist Katrien Oosterlinck. An animation film and a hoodie with coloured shapes guide your hands to make contact, to create contact. Come and try a different experience of calmness, presence and togetherness.

Program: 

Wednesday 27/9

• kl 16.00 – 16.45

Thursday 28/9

• kl 16.00 – 16.45

Saturday 30/9

• kl 10.00 – 10-45
• kl 11.00 – 11.45
• kl 13.00 – 13.45
• kl 14.00 – 14.45

Viborg UNESCO Creative City invites all of Denmark and the rest of the world to join in an annual drawing campaign!

Drawing is absolutely fundamental to humankind, regardless of background and origin. The earliest traces of our species are drawings in caves, and most of us draw before we speak.
In Viborg, we have a special and long-standing position of strength in drawing, animation, children’s culture and creativity. We know the value of drawing for children, for young people and adults. Unfortunately, most Danish children stop drawing from the third grade and onwards. This is a problem as we are losing creativity. We strive to change that.

For the last two years Viborg UNESCO Creative City has therefore invited children and young people from all over the world to draw through the global drawing campaign TegnHåb, circling around corona and trust. The ambition is to strengthen our understanding of the value and importance drawing has for children and young people’s creativity and development. Because we have to nourish the passion for drawing.

In the same period, Viborg Municipality created Grønne Sammen (Green Together) – together for a sustainable future – with focus on green transition and sustainability. In this year’s edition, we link the two initiatives, inviting Denmark and the rest of the world to join DrawHope – Green Together 2023 – based on 20 drawing challenges.

This year, we received approx. 1200 drawings from 15 countries spread over five continents, once again making the campaign a global event, and animators in Viborg, Columbia and Georgia are currently working on creating series of animated films based on the drawings. Two animated films are being produced by Multara Al-Ameri, who graduated from The Animation Workshop, and a Colombian animator based on drawings from a 7th grade team in visual arts from Vestre Skole in Viborg and a corresponding team from school in Cali, Columbia. Drawings and animations are shown and projected during VAF in the Music School’s large windows and later in the year in Cali Columbia, York England and in Tbilisi Georgia.

Exhibited in the windows at the Kulturskolen foyer in Gravene, 8800 Viborg

Shabholm is a new Danish film by the satire collective Gigis, who in 2020 were behind the animated comedy “Blokhavn”, and subsequently made the TV series Gigis “100 problems”, which can be seen on DR.

In their new film, an oil sheik has bought Bornholm and turned the island into a Middle Eastern holiday paradise for foreigners only. Hassan is tired of Denmark and discrimination, so he gathers his Shabbas and together they head for the sunny island. But is paradise too good to be true?

• Screening of Shabholm
• Q&A after the film

Directed by: Gigis

Country: Denmark
Duration: 1 hour 46 min.
Lanuage: Danish
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

For the first time, we are opening up the ANIMATION PLAYGROUND, a multi-story playful universe with real animation magic.
We are converting the Student House at VIA University College into ANIMATION PLAYGROUND open for families all weekend.

Experience the storytelling cave, where you can dive into the fantastic illustrative narratives and universes found in Danish literature.

Play with an abundance of creative expressions. Create funny, fantastic, romantic or dramatic animation films with different animation techniques, such as GIFs, turntable animation, collage animation, pixilation, cut out and many more.

Build with Mouse and Crane in the mechanics workshop: Mouse and Crane is a Danish concept consisting of games, films and books, which in a fun and engaging way inspire children to build and come up with ingenious solutions when a problem arises.
In the mechanics workshop, it will be possible to play the game, watch movies and build your very own crazy machines.

A visit to the Animation Playground does not require registration, and you decide for yourself how long you wish to stay.

Visit the Animanimals play area in the Tinghallen’s foyer, where children and adults can play with the animals from the well-known TV series of the same name, or Dyttelidyr as the series is called in Danish.

It is free to visit the Animanimals play area and no tickets need to be booked. Get more information at KLCViborg

Animanimals is a fantastically original and delightful TV series, where we guarantee plenty of laughs for both children and adults. In each episode, a very charismatic animal embarks on an absurd adventure that can only happen to them. As they try to find a solution, each animal learns a little more about the world and life.

The stories about the animals in Dyttelidyr are told in a colorful universe with a simple graphic design, and with fun, whimsical stories completely without dialogue. Perfect for the little ones. This multi-award winning TV series is created and directed by Julia Ocker, produced by Studio Film Bilder, Germany and Meta Media Entertainment.

Animanimals (Danish title: Dyttelidyr) is a fantastically original and lovely TV series, where we guarantee plenty of laughs for both children and adults. In each episode, a very charismatic animal embarks on an absurd adventure that can only happen to them. As they try to find a solution, each animal learns a little more about the world and life.

Country: Denmark
Duration: 37 min.
Language: Danish
Subtitles: None
Age group: 4-6 year olds

Animation Boot Camp is an annual workshop for young artistic talents.
Guided by the fantastic multi-talented artist Christen Bach, young people from the Visuel Hf program at The Animation Workshop and Viborg Gymnasium and Hf work intensively for four days producing a bunch of amazing visuals for the band Twins of June. The workshop is a chance to explore creativity, storytelling and filmmaking. The music is provided beforehand and the young students the opportunity to dive into the lyrics for inspiration on look and visual expression.

The workshop ends with a live concert with Twins of June, where the beautiful visuals form the backdrop, on Thursday 28/9 at Paletten.

The film ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Part One’ is the sequel to the Oscar-winning animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”.

In the film, we meet Miles Morales again, who has taken over the Spider-Man suit after Peter Parker dies. In this adventure, Spider-Man is transported through The Multiverse along with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-people to fight a villain more powerful than any they’ve faced before.

The screening is in English with English subtitles

Suitables from age 7+

Body Time is an animation project for kids and families made in collaboration with the Belgian artist Katrien Oosterlinck. An animation film and a hoodie with coloured shapes guide your hands to make contact, to create contact. Come and try a different experience of calmness, presence and togetherness.

Program: 

Wednesday 27/9

• kl 16.00 – 16.45

Thursday 28/9

• kl 16.00 – 16.45

Saturday 30/9

• kl 10.00 – 10-45
• kl 11.00 – 11.45
• kl 13.00 – 13.45
• kl 14.00 – 14.45

Viborg UNESCO Creative City invites all of Denmark and the rest of the world to join in an annual drawing campaign!

Drawing is absolutely fundamental to humankind, regardless of background and origin. The earliest traces of our species are drawings in caves, and most of us draw before we speak.
In Viborg, we have a special and long-standing position of strength in drawing, animation, children’s culture and creativity. We know the value of drawing for children, for young people and adults. Unfortunately, most Danish children stop drawing from the third grade and onwards. This is a problem as we are losing creativity. We strive to change that.

For the last two years Viborg UNESCO Creative City has therefore invited children and young people from all over the world to draw through the global drawing campaign TegnHåb, circling around corona and trust. The ambition is to strengthen our understanding of the value and importance drawing has for children and young people’s creativity and development. Because we have to nourish the passion for drawing.

In the same period, Viborg Municipality created Grønne Sammen (Green Together) – together for a sustainable future – with focus on green transition and sustainability. In this year’s edition, we link the two initiatives, inviting Denmark and the rest of the world to join DrawHope – Green Together 2023 – based on 20 drawing challenges.

This year, we received approx. 1200 drawings from 15 countries spread over five continents, once again making the campaign a global event, and animators in Viborg, Columbia and Georgia are currently working on creating series of animated films based on the drawings. Two animated films are being produced by Multara Al-Ameri, who graduated from The Animation Workshop, and a Colombian animator based on drawings from a 7th grade team in visual arts from Vestre Skole in Viborg and a corresponding team from school in Cali, Columbia. Drawings and animations are shown and projected during VAF in the Music School’s large windows and later in the year in Cali Columbia, York England and in Tbilisi Georgia.

Exhibited in the windows at the Kulturskolen foyer in Gravene, 8800 Viborg

The little insecure fairy-flower Roselil, who lives alone in her Rose bush, has always wanted a friend. Underneath the Rose bush lives Mr. and Ms. Mouse, who cannot find a bride for their son Karl Gustav. Roselil offers to marry him, but quickly she regrets her decision. She is saved by the butterfly Silke, who helps her to stand up for herself and a new adventurous friendship occurs.

The film is based on the children’s book by the same name, by Josefine Ottesen.

The screening is in Danish

Suitable for all ages

Together with author Pernille Bønløkke and illustrator Thomas Hjorthaab, the class must come up with rambling, sweet, cheeky rhymes and draw illustrations for them. The pupils will learn a lot about writing funny texts and become good at drawing strange creatures and funny universes.

Author Pernille Bønløkke and illustrator Thomas Hjorthaab have together created the book “Vingummigoplen og røven i tasken” which is definitely worth a look.

The workshop is for school classes. The workshop must be booked through KLC Viborg.

The workshop is supported by the Statens Kunstfond

For the first time, we are opening up the ANIMATION PLAYGROUND, a multi-story playful universe with real animation magic.
We are converting the Student House at VIA University College into ANIMATION PLAYGROUND open for families all weekend.

Experience the storytelling cave, where you can dive into the fantastic illustrative narratives and universes found in Danish literature.

Play with an abundance of creative expressions. Create funny, fantastic, romantic or dramatic animation films with different animation techniques, such as GIFs, turntable animation, collage animation, pixilation, cut out and many more.

Build with Mouse and Crane in the mechanics workshop: Mouse and Crane is a Danish concept consisting of games, films and books, which in a fun and engaging way inspire children to build and come up with ingenious solutions when a problem arises.
In the mechanics workshop, it will be possible to play the game, watch movies and build your very own crazy machines.

A visit to the Animation Playground does not require registration, and you decide for yourself how long you wish to stay.

Is algae just smelly waste rotting on the beach? Where will you be able to live in 20 years and can the ocean run out of oxygen?

These are some of the questions you will get answered when you will gain new knowledge from research within climate and the environment through beautiful animated short films in different styles.

For this year’s Science Visualization screening, we have selected various productions that deal with climate and sustainability. All the films shown are produced under our Sci-Vi initiative at The Animation Workshop/VIA UC.

The producers; Sia Søndergaard and Agota Vegso will present the films and answer questions after the film screening

Films in the program:

• Where will you be able to live in 20 years? – Rikke Planeta, Philip Piaget
• Can the ocean run out of oxygen? – Mette Ilene Holmriis
• Can animals understand death?– Denis Chapon
• Waste Water Reuse – Jody Ghani Nordby
• Washed ashore – Cosimo Miorelli
• Kaskelot – Cosimo Miorelli
• How would a turtle see our ocean
• What about the food on my plate?
• Are we in harmony with the wildlife around us?
• What is the climate change exactly?

Q&A

Duration: 48 min
Language: English
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 13+

Visit the Animanimals play area in the Tinghallen foyer, where children and adults can play with the animals from the well-known TV series of the same name, or Dyttelidyr as the series is called in Danish.

It is free to visit the Animanimals play area and no tickets need to be booked.

Animanimals is a fantastically original and delightful TV series, with a guarantee for plenty of laughs for both children and adults. In each episode, a very charismatic animal embarks on an absurd adventure that can only happen to them. As they try to find a solution, each animal learns a little more about the world and life.

The stories about the animals in Dyttelidyr are told in a colorful universe with a simple graphic design and with fun, whimsical stories completely without dialogue. Perfect for the little ones. This multi-award winning TV series is created and directed by Julia Ocker, produced by Studio Film Bilder, Germany and Meta Media Entertainment.

“Storken Richard 2 – and the mystery of the great jewel” is the sequel to Storken Richard, and is directed by Danish animation director Mette Tange, who graduated from The Animation Workshop in Viborg. Storken Richard 2 is her debut film as a director.

The adventurous Richard is actually a sparrow but was raised by storks and got his slightly odd nickname from there.

While wintering in North Africa, he meets the streetwise Samia and her gang of sparrows, who are held captive by the greedy and merciless peacock Zamano. The birds’ only path to freedom is solving a riddle that can bring Zamano the mysterious jewel. To save the sparrows from Zamano’s clutches, Richard decides to set off on an action-packed and dangerous journey. He has his friends Olga and Kiki with him, but also meets lots of new friends on his way…

The screening is in Danish

Suitable from 7+

Viborg UNESCO Creative City invites all of Denmark and the rest of the world to join in an annual drawing campaign!

Drawing is absolutely fundamental to humankind, regardless of background and origin. The earliest traces of our species are drawings in caves, and most of us draw before we speak.
In Viborg, we have a special and long-standing position of strength in drawing, animation, children’s culture and creativity. We know the value of drawing for children, for young people and adults. Unfortunately, most Danish children stop drawing from the third grade and onwards. This is a problem as we are losing creativity. We strive to change that.

For the last two years Viborg UNESCO Creative City has therefore invited children and young people from all over the world to draw through the global drawing campaign TegnHåb, circling around corona and trust. The ambition is to strengthen our understanding of the value and importance drawing has for children and young people’s creativity and development. Because we have to nourish the passion for drawing.

In the same period, Viborg Municipality created Grønne Sammen (Green Together) – together for a sustainable future – with focus on green transition and sustainability. In this year’s edition, we link the two initiatives, inviting Denmark and the rest of the world to join DrawHope – Green Together 2023 – based on 20 drawing challenges.

This year, we received approx. 1200 drawings from 15 countries spread over five continents, once again making the campaign a global event, and animators in Viborg, Columbia and Georgia are currently working on creating series of animated films based on the drawings. Two animated films are being produced by Multara Al-Ameri, who graduated from The Animation Workshop, and a Colombian animator based on drawings from a 7th grade team in visual arts from Vestre Skole in Viborg and a corresponding team from school in Cali, Columbia. Drawings and animations are shown and projected during VAF in the Music School’s large windows and later in the year in Cali Columbia, York England and in Tbilisi Georgia.

Exhibited in the windows at the Kulturskolen foyer in Gravene, 8800 Viborg

The film ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Part One’ is the sequel to the Oscar-winning animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”.

In the film, we meet Miles Morales again, who has taken over the Spider-Man suit after Peter Parker dies. In this adventure, Spider-Man is transported through The Multiverse along with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-people to fight a villain more powerful than any they’ve faced before.

The screening is in English with English subtitles

Suitables from age 7+

For the first time, we are opening up the ANIMATION PLAYGROUND, a multi-story playful universe with real animation magic.
We are converting the Student House at VIA University College into ANIMATION PLAYGROUND open for families all weekend.

Experience the storytelling cave, where you can dive into the fantastic illustrative narratives and universes found in Danish literature.

Play with an abundance of creative expressions. Create funny, fantastic, romantic or dramatic animation films with different animation techniques, such as GIFs, turntable animation, collage animation, pixilation, cut out and many more.

Build with Mouse and Crane in the mechanics workshop: Mouse and Crane is a Danish concept consisting of games, films and books, which in a fun and engaging way inspire children to build and come up with ingenious solutions when a problem arises.
In the mechanics workshop, it will be possible to play the game, watch movies and build your very own crazy machines.

A visit to the Animation Playground does not require registration, and you decide for yourself how long you wish to stay.

Animanimals (Danish title: Dyttelidyr) is a fantastically original and lovely TV series, where we guarantee plenty of laughs for both children and adults. In each episode, a very charismatic animal embarks on an absurd adventure that can only happen to them. As they try to find a solution, each animal learns a little more about the world and life.

Country: Denmark
Duration: 37 min.
Language: Danish
Subtitles: None
Age group: 4-6 year olds

Together with author Pernille Bønløkke and illustrator Thomas Hjorthaab, the class must come up with rambling, sweet, cheeky rhymes and draw illustrations for them. The pupils will learn a lot about writing funny texts and become good at drawing strange creatures and funny universes.

Author Pernille Bønløkke and illustrator Thomas Hjorthaab have together created the book “Vingummigoplen og røven i tasken” which is definitely worth a look.

The workshop is for school classes. The workshop must be booked through KLC Viborg.

The workshop is supported by the Statens Kunstfond

Body Time is an animation project for kids and families made in collaboration with the Belgian artist Katrien Oosterlinck. An animation film and a hoodie with coloured shapes guide your hands to make contact, to create contact. Come and try a different experience of calmness, presence and togetherness.

Program: 

Wednesday 27/9

• kl 16.00 – 16.45

Thursday 28/9

• kl 16.00 – 16.45

Saturday 30/9

• kl 10.00 – 10-45
• kl 11.00 – 11.45
• kl 13.00 – 13.45
• kl 14.00 – 14.45

Once again, Viborg Library’s Makerspace offers fun family workshops. This year inspired by the beloved tale of “People and robbers in Kardemomme city”, which is also a part of the film programme. The film is based on the book of the same name from 1955 by Thorbjørn Egner.

Help decorate lions, camels and other animals from the movie and learn to do simple coding so our robots can go on a journey in Cardamom City.

Read more about the workshop here

Visit the Animanimals play area in the Tinghallen foyer, where children and adults can play with the animals from the well-known TV series of the same name, or Dyttelidyr as the series is called in Danish.

It is free to visit the Animanimals play area and no tickets need to be booked.

Animanimals is a fantastically original and delightful TV series, with a guarantee for plenty of laughs for both children and adults. In each episode, a very charismatic animal embarks on an absurd adventure that can only happen to them. As they try to find a solution, each animal learns a little more about the world and life.

The stories about the animals in Dyttelidyr are told in a colorful universe with a simple graphic design and with fun, whimsical stories completely without dialogue. Perfect for the little ones. This multi-award winning TV series is created and directed by Julia Ocker, produced by Studio Film Bilder, Germany and Meta Media Entertainment.

Visit the Animanimals play area in the Tinghallen’s foyer, where children and adults can play with the animals from the well-known TV series of the same name, or Dyttelidyr as the series is called in Danish.

Saturday 30 September from 11.00-14.00 you can meet the creator, the German animation director Julia Ocker, behind Animanimals. Together with Julia Ocker children can learn to draw the animals from the series and make fun cut-out animation films.

Animanimals is a fantastically original and delightful TV series, where we guarantee plenty of laughs for both children and adults. In each episode, a very charismatic animal embarks on an absurd adventure that can only happen to them. As they try to find a solution, each animal learns a little more about the world and life.

The stories about the animals in Dyttelidyr are told in a colorful universe with a simple graphic design, and with fun, whimsical stories completely without dialogue. Perfect for the little ones. This multi-award winning TV series is created and directed by Julia Ocker, produced by Studio Film Bilder, Germany and Meta Media Entertainment.

Experience one of the newer classics by Disney on the big screen! 

The always optimistic and fearless Anna is going with the rough mountain man and his loyal reindeer Sven on an epic journey to find her sister Elsa, who’s icing powers has created an eternal winter in the kingdom of Arendelle. Through similar to Everest conditions, mysterious trolls and a comical snowman, by the name Olaf…. Do they find Elsa in time to save Arendelle? 

The Screening is in Danish

Suitable from age 7+

This year Disney turns 100 years and of course it must be celebrated with a true children’s birthday at ANIMOK.
That’s why we invite all the city’s children and their adults to a birthday party on Saturday the 30th. at 15-17 in the Animation Playground, where there will be lots of fun drawing activities, such as learn to draw a Disney character, make your own pin, draw with students from The Animation Workshop, dance to well-known Disney music when Viborg FDF/Harmoniorkester play their tunes.

As part of the celebration of Disney 100 years, we are also showing a Disney classic in the cinema on Saturday the 30th at 14.00-15.30

Opening feature at VAF 2023!

Shenxiu was abandoned by her mother when she was a child. One day, she travels on a cruise ship with her family. On a stormy night, she falls into the sea and breaks into the magical “Deep Sea” restaurant, an old, transformed submarine. She meets the Chef, Nanhe, and embarks on a journey between dream and reality, life and death. DEEP SEA is the sea of the soul, where painful secrets and beautiful memories are hidden.

Screened in Chinese with English subtitles

The film is screened in 3D

Suitable for age 11+

Viborg UNESCO Creative City invites all of Denmark and the rest of the world to join in an annual drawing campaign!

Drawing is absolutely fundamental to humankind, regardless of background and origin. The earliest traces of our species are drawings in caves, and most of us draw before we speak.
In Viborg, we have a special and long-standing position of strength in drawing, animation, children’s culture and creativity. We know the value of drawing for children, for young people and adults. Unfortunately, most Danish children stop drawing from the third grade and onwards. This is a problem as we are losing creativity. We strive to change that.

For the last two years Viborg UNESCO Creative City has therefore invited children and young people from all over the world to draw through the global drawing campaign TegnHåb, circling around corona and trust. The ambition is to strengthen our understanding of the value and importance drawing has for children and young people’s creativity and development. Because we have to nourish the passion for drawing.

In the same period, Viborg Municipality created Grønne Sammen (Green Together) – together for a sustainable future – with focus on green transition and sustainability. In this year’s edition, we link the two initiatives, inviting Denmark and the rest of the world to join DrawHope – Green Together 2023 – based on 20 drawing challenges.

This year, we received approx. 1200 drawings from 15 countries spread over five continents, once again making the campaign a global event, and animators in Viborg, Columbia and Georgia are currently working on creating series of animated films based on the drawings. Two animated films are being produced by Multara Al-Ameri, who graduated from The Animation Workshop, and a Colombian animator based on drawings from a 7th grade team in visual arts from Vestre Skole in Viborg and a corresponding team from school in Cali, Columbia. Drawings and animations are shown and projected during VAF in the Music School’s large windows and later in the year in Cali Columbia, York England and in Tbilisi Georgia.

Exhibited in the windows at the Kulturskolen foyer in Gravene, 8800 Viborg

Join this funny and imaginative film program for the little ones as we show a series of international animated short films all taking us on a trip into nature. The films are in multiple languages but are very easy to follow

After the film screening, it is possible to go over to ANIMOK’s creative workshop in Tinghallen, where you can continue playing with the stories through animation and drawing.

Recommended from 5 years

The short film program will be showing several screenings:

• Velkomst og introduktion
  Hunden Ib – Taler med Kim D
  Lille Malabar: Havbundens skorstene
  Rainboy
  Lille Malabar: Planten med de 1000 skjulesteder
  Spot Hits the Spot
  Hunden Ib – Bliver forfulgt at nogle bænkebidereCat and Bird
  Pizza Touch
  Tænk hvis…
  FISK
  Hunden Ib – Ser Nordstjernen
• Bubble Up

Visit the Animanimals play area in the Tinghallen foyer, where children and adults can play with the animals from the well-known TV series of the same name, or Dyttelidyr as the series is called in Danish.

It is free to visit the Animanimals play area and no tickets need to be booked.

Animanimals is a fantastically original and delightful TV series, with a guarantee for plenty of laughs for both children and adults. In each episode, a very charismatic animal embarks on an absurd adventure that can only happen to them. As they try to find a solution, each animal learns a little more about the world and life.

The stories about the animals in Dyttelidyr are told in a colorful universe with a simple graphic design and with fun, whimsical stories completely without dialogue. Perfect for the little ones. This multi-award winning TV series is created and directed by Julia Ocker, produced by Studio Film Bilder, Germany and Meta Media Entertainment.

You don’t have to be a superhero to be super! Hedvig has shrunk her father’s superhero suit, and now he can no longer be the town’s Super Lion. Typical Hedvig, who is rather clumsy and mostly likes to play, but when her father chooses strong and sovereign cousin Adrian to become the new superhero, Hedvig must take up the fight. Join us on an action-packed and humorous hunt for the super lion title!

The screening is in Danish

Suitable for all ages

VAF presents this classic Disney film from 1994

An amazing adventure about Simba, the temperamental lion cub who dreams about ‘soon to be king’. Led astray by his regrettable uncle Scar, Simba chooses a simple and unworried lifestyle with his hilarious friends Timon and Pumba, and soon he forgets his royal responsibility.  

But soon fate strikes, and he must return home and reclaim his place in the eternal circle of life.  

The screening is in Danish

Suitable from age 7+

Viborg UNESCO Creative City invites all of Denmark and the rest of the world to join in an annual drawing campaign!

Drawing is absolutely fundamental to humankind, regardless of background and origin. The earliest traces of our species are drawings in caves, and most of us draw before we speak.
In Viborg, we have a special and long-standing position of strength in drawing, animation, children’s culture and creativity. We know the value of drawing for children, for young people and adults. Unfortunately, most Danish children stop drawing from the third grade and onwards. This is a problem as we are losing creativity. We strive to change that.

For the last two years Viborg UNESCO Creative City has therefore invited children and young people from all over the world to draw through the global drawing campaign TegnHåb, circling around corona and trust. The ambition is to strengthen our understanding of the value and importance drawing has for children and young people’s creativity and development. Because we have to nourish the passion for drawing.

In the same period, Viborg Municipality created Grønne Sammen (Green Together) – together for a sustainable future – with focus on green transition and sustainability. In this year’s edition, we link the two initiatives, inviting Denmark and the rest of the world to join DrawHope – Green Together 2023 – based on 20 drawing challenges.

This year, we received approx. 1200 drawings from 15 countries spread over five continents, once again making the campaign a global event, and animators in Viborg, Columbia and Georgia are currently working on creating series of animated films based on the drawings. Two animated films are being produced by Multara Al-Ameri, who graduated from The Animation Workshop, and a Colombian animator based on drawings from a 7th grade team in visual arts from Vestre Skole in Viborg and a corresponding team from school in Cali, Columbia. Drawings and animations are shown and projected during VAF in the Music School’s large windows and later in the year in Cali Columbia, York England and in Tbilisi Georgia.

Exhibited in the windows at the Kulturskolen foyer in Gravene, 8800 Viborg