Bigboy Songwriting Camps

Music & culture

Jun 18

Who: Bigboy AS

What: Bigboy songwriting

Where: Bergen, Norway

Project period: 2026-2027

About the project:

Bigboy is a songwriting camp project run by Bigboy AS, dedicated to creating safe and supportive spaces for women and non-binary songwriters, artists, and producers. Building on the success of our 2024 pilot project, where artists, songwriters, and producers from Oslo, Trondheim, and Bergen gathered at our shared studio collective in Bergen, we now aim to expand and run these camps on a more regular basis.

One of the biggest challenges in the music industry today is the continued lack of women working as producers. By creating a space free from the pressure of working alongside more experienced peers, we give participants the opportunity to experiment, take creative risks, and develop their skills as producers and songwriters. Our pilot proved this approach works: songwriters with an interest in production got to try it hands-on, and several established artists who participated as songwriters for the first time have since gone on to attend larger, more high-profile songwriting camps after their debut at a Bigboy camp.

Our goal is to run these camps twice a year, with some editions exploring thematic angles — for example, writing for film and TV sync placement, writing for the Eurovision Song Contest (Melodi Grand Prix), or working on songs tailored for specific artists.

To carry this out, we need funding to cover travel, accommodation, and subsistence for participants, making it possible for more people to take part regardless of where they live. To ensure the music created has real impact afterward, Bigboy will assign a project lead responsible for pitching finished tracks to record labels and publishers, coordinating production logistics, and managing all contractual matters.

About the organisation:

Bigboy AS was started to address something we kept noticing: women and non-binary people remain underrepresented across many roles in the music industry, particularly as producers. While more women are visible as artists today, the production side of the industry is still largely male-dominated, which makes it harder to gain hands-on experience in that space. Bigboy is a mix of management, booking agency, label, songwritingcamp-organizers and artists.

The organization is run by Veslemøy Dybwig Fossdal, Thea Arnesdotter Lien, Malin Isabel Disco Guleng, and Silje Strauman Halstensen. The last two mentioned organize songwriting camps in Bergen for women and non-binary artists, songwriters, and producers. The goal is to create a space where participants can try out new roles, experiment with production, and write music without the pressure of working alongside more experienced peers.

We're based in a shared studio collective in Bergen, and our camps bring together people from across Norway. The work doesn't stop when the camp ends, either — we follow up afterwards by pitching the songs to labels and publishers, coordinating production, and making sure all contracts are in order, so the music created actually has a chance to go somewhere.