The Arts of Hospitality

In 2008 Stavanger, Norway, is to be a European Cultural Capital, using theme Open Port.

Sølvberget, the cultural centre and main library of Stavanger, is participating with an extensive project titled The Art of Hospitality; which will focus on and discuss the concept of hospitality, the possibility of intercultural dialogue, and the productivity of cultural encounters that use and promote the arts and literature as an essential means to close the gaps between peoples and cultures.

The Arts of Hospitality aims to challenge our understanding of hospitality and our application and use of this understanding as individuals, as communities, and as people divided by political borders, but bound by the realities we share as inhabitants of an increasingly globalized world