Another kind of food festival

The Nobel Peace Centre invites you to a peace conference and food festival this weekend. "Fix the Food" is a celebration of the 2020 Peace Prize for the World Food Programme and is about both food security and food enjoyment.

The square outside the center will be transformed into a market area with a festival tent, stalls, and seating where the public can taste and learn about sustainable food. The festival is open from 12.00 to 20.00 on Friday and from 11.00 to 17.00 on Saturday. Admission is free.

Coffe grounds and a robot

The tents will offer food tasting, sale of food products, and mini-lectures including a range of exciting knowledge about sustainable food. The public can taste hummus made from Norwegian field beans, make their own beauty products from coffee grounds, or meet Thorvald the agricultural robot. In the festival tent, there is an exciting programme of mini-lectures and dialogues. On Friday afternoon, the World Food Programme's Kim Rønning and NRK's "voice from Africa" Tomm Kristiansen, will respectively bring fresh impressions from Afghanistan and talk about how food is used as a weapon in wars and conflicts on the African continent where Kristiansen has spent half his life.

There will be food for the mind, heart, and stomach when the Nobel Peace Centre invites you to a "different kind of food festival".

A Nobel Peace Prize celebration

"It's been a long time since there has been a good festival atmosphere on City Hall Square, and we are delighted to invite you to this celebration of one year since the World Food Programme was announced as a Peace Prize winner", says Kjersti Fløgstad, director of the Nobel Peace Centre.

On Friday morning from 9.00 to 12.00, the peace conference "Fix the Food" will take place at the Nobel Peace Center, with four Peace Prize winners and international experts on food security speaking in the programme. Read more about the conference here.