by Torben | Feb 27, 2021 | engelsk
I just did an online workshop with 45 kids from the Narihira school, which is located in Tokyo right next to the Tokyo Skytree. It was a huge experience. The Japanese school children were incredibly kind and very diligent with the scissors. I am amazed that it is...
by Torben | Feb 18, 2021 | engelsk
I am doing my first online paper cutting workshop on March 20th, 2011 with Japanese participants. At the workshop, the Japanese participants will hear about what I have experienced in my almost twenty years in the service of the scissors. In addition, they shall learn...
by Torben | Nov 2, 2020 | engelsk
I have just hung up an exhibition at Kolding Library, where it can be seen from December 1th to December 20th. I have not been to Kolding Library before, but I must say that it is both big, bright and beautiful. The exhibition includes 19 framed cut paper cuts people....
by Torben | May 19, 2019 | engelsk
In May 2019, I traveled to the United States in the service of the scissors. The University of Wisconsin-Madison had invited me to attend the symposium “Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest”. The event was attended by Scandinavian and American...
by Torben | Apr 18, 2019 | engelsk
April 2th – on Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday – there was a foundation stone positioning for the new H.C. Andersen’s House (museum) in Odense. I about ten meters deep, a suitcase with some effects was dug down for posterity. Councilor Jane...
by Torben | Dec 28, 2018 | engelsk
I was busy with the scissors when I held a paper cut workshop at the Museum of Danish America in Elk Horn, USA. I was at the museum for over two days. Almost 400 visitors came to the museum and many of them grabbed the scissors. I also showed the exhibition “The...
