Ten Sing

Ten Sing is a Christian youth program within YWCA and YMCA, engaging teenagers in creative performing arts.

Ten Sing invites young people to a creative work process that uses different cultural expressions in a Christian context.

The five C's The five C's "Culture, Creativity, Care, Competence and Christ" are equally important parts of the Ten Sing idea.

Therefore, young people should be active in the management of Ten Sing and take responsibility for running programmes themselves.

The whole human being Everybody has talents that can be used in Ten Sing, and everyone should get the chance to be creative and active with his or her own mind and body, thus stimulating their spirit.

This happens through a great variety of performing arts, such as music, dance, drama, video and other creative expressions.

"-teen") and the English word "sing" - a kind of language mixing that was quite common in Norway at the time.

The Norwegian YWCA-YMCA wanted to implement Ten Sing in other European countries, and the starting point was Germany in 1986.