UKA

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This article is about the Norwegian cultural festival. For the publisher, see The UKA Press. For the Crash Bandicoot character, see Uka Uka. For the village in Russia, see Uka. For the sports governing body, see UK Athletics.
The logo of UKA-05
The logo of UKA-05

UKA is the largest cultural festival in Norway and is arranged every other year entirely by volunteer students from Trondheim. The last time UKA was arranged, October 2005, 1394 students did volunteer work, while 78,000 event tickets were sold. The name "UKA" translates to "the week", although it now lasts for the better part of a month.

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[edit] History

UKA was established in 1917 by students studying at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH, now part of NTNU) in an attempt to improve the financial situation within the students' community in Trondheim. In 1917 the festival mainly consisted of a revue, which was arranged every other year except the mid-war years. Starting with scarce resources UKA has been in constant growth and is today the largest Norwegian cultural festival with more concerts and entertainment than ever before. Although the festival now features big name artists, the organizers still consider revue, UKErevyen, as the "heart" of the festival.

[edit] Names

The official poster of 2005s Origo.
The official poster of 2005s Origo.

Every UKErevyen revue is given a name, which also becomes the name of the entire festival. The name is decided by the writers and is a well-kept secret all the way up to the opening of the festival and the play, and only a handful people outside of the writers' collegium knows it before it's officially revealed. This is a big event where the name is physically uncovered at midnight in front of the student society, with several thousand attendants.

The writers aren't entirely free in choosing the name either. A more or less strict set of rules applies, never written down, but followed from one festival to the next. The most important ones are that the name should consist of three syllables, and that it should have several meanings, either in splitting up the word(s) or rearranging the letters. The rules aren't always followed, as seen with the name of UKA-03; Glasur, that had only two syllables. It did, however, supply different interpretations, first of all with the word itself, meaning glaze, then "Gla' sur" which means "happy sad", and "gla'rus" (a rush of happiness). UKA-05 restored the rule of three syllables with the name Origo.

[edit] List of UKA names

[edit] Size

During the twenty-five days of the UKA-05 festival there were more than 280 events available for everyone in Trondheim city and the 78,000 tickets were sold. Highlights from UKA-05 included:

Former UKA festivals have included:

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