Stella Polaris has been organizing summer schools since 1997.

Children, young people and adults have learned songs, dances and circus skills through play and community, which has culminated in a celebration of the harvest of the first grain in mid-August.

The Feast of Bread, also called Lammas, is an ancient tradition that has been celebrated for centuries.

Course participants came from far and wide to attend the summer school. At its peak, while we were based at Fossnes Center in Stokke (1996 to 2013), there were 130 course participants in 7 groups for five days. There was also a large market with handicrafts, food and drinks for sale.

Some years we moved the course to June, and celebrated the summer solstice and the sun at Gokstad mound in Sandefjord in June.

Here we created a labyrinth for purification that course participants and the public walked through. We also organized a market with food and crafts for sale.

In recent years we have had the Bread Festival at Preståsen in Sandefjord.

This year, 2025, the summer school will take a place at Vallhall - Breidablikk village house from 5th until 8th of August with the Bread Festival in Preståsen 9th of August.

To sign yourself up: https://forms.gle/Tru4uvd8VRJdUkwV9

Photo by Bjørn Kamfjord 

Per Spildra Borg and Merete Klingen – the founders of Stella Polaris – welcome you to a journey!

A workshop where you will learn methods of expression through body and voice language, and techniques to explore your possibilities of communication in a private and professional context.

We will through dance, song, movement, and rhythm-work open new doors for expression and communication.

The workshop is open to everyone who wants to find inspiration and more joy and love in life, and for people who are simply curious to find out more about themselves through this human and art work.

We will promote time and place for new workshops in web, FB and Instagram

Photo by Piotr Nykowsky

Through our work with children, youngsters and grownups we have developed a unique educational method that enables people to open up to joyful learning at all levels.

Our instructors are actors and artists of Stella Polaris constantly looking for ways to relate their experience and skills to different people and settings.

Our workshops require no particular prequalification other than motivation and a curious approach to learning.

Whether you want to learn how to juggle, blow fire, use your voice or develop your ability to communicate, your motivation will be the most important thing.

The workshop will usually end with participating in one of our performances where the participants are joining with dances, singing and acting together wit our artists. But we can also give workshops in other contexts.

If you have an idea, or a project for a workshop, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We give workhops from 2 hours to 5 full days.

Photo by Kathrine Thude.

We run our own theater for children, where the participants are taught by educators who are also actors in Stella Polaris. Pedagogues share their experience in juggling, dancing and acting skills. Based on community, movement and rhythm, we play our way to skills in acrobatics, juggling, stilt dancing, stage combat, trapeze and tightrope dancing. Music and singing are fundamental elements in the training and in the performances we create with the children. We work a lot with improvisation, group dynamic exercises, character training and theater games. The children get to participate in the process of designing the performances. In the oldest group, we also work a lot with text and storytelling.

Photo by Yevheniia Barlet