Join the silver treasure hunt

Kongsberg Jazz Festival and the Norwegian Mining Museum hosts silver treasure hunt for children during the festival. Treasure Hunt will take place indoors on smelting. In secret places, silver nuggets and other treasures lie hidden, children to find these and collect them in a coffin. The silver is sold after the festival to raise money for SOS Children's Villages. Kongsberg has previously raised money for houses in Malawi, where orphaned children can live, and now we are collecting money for a social center that also will help the children who live outside the children's village.

Plastic Collection provides money for SOS Children's Villages
Kongsberg Jazz Festival contributes to improved safety and increased solidarity

Kongsberg Jazz Festival takes responsibility. We were the first Jazz Festival in Norway who could call himself a Lighthouse. The festival works with Amnesty International and SOS Children's Villages. Kongsberg Jazz Festival began in 2005, together with SOS Children's Villages, building Kongsberg Jazzhus in a town called Blantyre in Malawi. Kongsberg Jazzhus is one of fifteen children in the city, and the house will stay twelve children.
- This spring, we reached the goal of 1 million to the house. It needed money to operate the, so we keep working, Paul tells Fidjestøl, Managing Director of Kongsberg Jazz Festival.

Plastic Collection will be environmental and Children's
Kongsberg Jazz Festival works with waste. This is 3. year they collected plastic for recycling glass. The objective is to collect 90 % disposable lenses. At most restaurants in the city will be an environmental surcharge of one penny for each selling plastic glasses. The glasses are collected and the plastic is recycled. At the major concert venues, the public can meet the Nature and Youth (NOW) which is responsible for sorting job. Environmental fee is half of the Nature and Youth and half to the SOS Children's Villages, Kongsberg Jazzhus in Malawi.

- People are very positive that we focus on the environment and collects plastic glasses, tells Tuva Grimsgaard, Kongsberg NU and responsible for collecting. There is much work and we are quite a few that sorts, but it has not been a problem getting people. It's nice to collaborate with the festival, she emphasizes.

Asking the public for help
- We want to lead by example, "concludes head of the Kongsberg Jazz Festival, and asks the audience to help so it collected a lot of plastic glasses and thus more money for Kongsberg Jazzhus in Malawi.