Fjord Oslo: Norway’s capital celebrates peace at open-air light art festival

That being in the city that gives the Nobel Peace Prize also invites to more reflection in how the artists present their work because it's very meaningful. Hopefully we We send a stronger message by dedicating our festival to the topic of peace and again it is about imagining what peace is on many different levels. It's also about the global peace, the international peace, but it's also on a personal level what peace is for you as a person. We asked a lot of people around the world, especially in these six countries that are part of the festival, what is peace for you? To just say it in one word. And it was really interesting answers, like father, friendship, mother, friends, things like that. Not always no war or other stuff. I definitely think that art can change things. Not, like, stop a war. But it can get more people to want to stop a war because life is too precious to have wars and conflicts and all that. I think it's not only the meaning but also the task of culture and art to really point a light on this very meaningful word and attitude I'd say. I think it means freedom. For me that's what it means. The freedom to live, the freedom to exist with each other, the freedom to be able to move within the world. So that is what peace means to me. The sense of freedom to just live and exist, coexist with everyone around.