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The Danish Constitution Day is a day of traditions. It is characterized by routines for organizers, for politicians on the rostrums and for the few people in the audience.
In 2007, however, non-formal adult education plans to renew the Constitution Day. We want to turn Constitution Day into a Democracy Day. The intention is to supplement the present rather passive way of organizing constitution meetings with active and involving events.
The Democracy Day is part of Educate Democracy which is one of the action areas of non-formal adult education.
A walk-and-talk in each city will be the core activity of the Democracy Day.
The participants will be divided into a number of groups comprised of acquaintances or strangers at one’s own option. The groups will walk around the city in a specified direction and at different places they will be provided with questions and issues able to kick-start discussions about democracy.
The questions could be e.g. “What does “free expression” mean”, “Do we have a just society in Denmark”, or “What does “equality” mean”. In other words a democracy orienteering.
The Democracy Day will take place in at least five region capitals, Aalborg, Viborg, Vejle, Hillerød and Sorø. DAEA will undertake responsibility for the coordination of these events in collaboration with local educational associations. We are convinced that similar events will occur in other cities too. We will do our best to disseminate the idea and we have already received a great deal of encouraging response.
Before and after the walk-and-talks the local organizers will be able to distribute food and drink and arrange concerts, stalls and competitions. They can also arrange speeches given by politicians and celebrities following the traditional approach to Constitution Day.
We want the Democracy Day to provide people with the opportunity to speak out and discuss important democratic issues and concepts.
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