Ladies’ world cup. Photo: Lars Klefbom.
Hjärtats Nycklar – Keys to the Heart
Inauguration of the women’s history museum
Photo: Jan Komarek.
Photo: Sune Jonsson.
Swedish championships week, winter
Sune Jonsson Centre of Documentary Photography
The Spring Forward Festival
Littfest
PonduS
© Katapultkontoret.
© Katarina Pirak Sikku
Nave Solar, 2011. Photo: Antimodular Research.
8 Sámi artists – Katarina Pirak Sikku
Photo: Mikael Rutberg.
Photo: Reine Vindebro.
Photo: Andreas Nilsson.
Umeå Autumn Lights
Umeå Open
100 Migratory
Photo: Per Lundberg
Photo: Axel Andersson.
Väven © Snøhetta.
Väven – Inauguration
Profilteatern. Photo: Andreas Nilsson.
The Sami Chinese Project
Horror Theatre Festival
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Sámi week
Photo: Emil Lindgren.
Contemporary Chinese art
Fair City
Umedalen Skulptur, Sean Henry. Photo: Galleri Andersson/Sandström
Frostbyte
Zhang Huan, Family Tree, 2000. © M+ Sigg Collection
Umedalens Skulptur
Dálvvie
(true winter)
30 Jan – 27 Feb
Tjakttjadálvvie
(early winter)
Season of
tending
Gijrradálvvie
(early spring)
28 Feb – 29 Apr
21 Nov – 29 Jan
Season of
awakening
Season of
wandering
Joar Nango, from the Doghouse project, 2010.
8 Sámi artists – Joar Nango
Tjakttja
(true autumn)
10 Oct – 20 Nov
Season of
driving force
Tomasz Stanko, Umeå Jazz festival.
The Jazz festival
THE
PROGRAMME
YEAR’S EIGHT
SEASONS
30 Apr – 19 Jun
Photo: Inta Ruka.
Inta Ruka
Season of
returning
Gijrragiesse
(early summer)
Tjakttjagiessie
(early autumn)
20 Jun – 10 Jul
29 Aug – 9 Oct
Season of
harvesting
Gijrra
(true spring)
Giessie
(true summer)
11 Jul – 28 Aug
Season of
growing
Season of
contemplation
Blanche and Marie
8 season concerts – The Shape of Punk To Come
Photo: Annakarin Drugge.
Poto: Fanny Carinasdotter.
Food festival
Survival Kit
La Fura dels Baus.
Photo: Madelen Eliasson.
Elektra
Photo: Mats Pallin.
Weaving fair
UxU
Art sails in II
River Stories – Stor-Nila och Lill-Docka
Photo: Tage Olsin.
© Carola Grahn
8 Sámi artists – Carola Grahn
Photo: John Perivolaris. (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0).
Midnight Light Tango Festival
Foto: Henrik Olofsson.
The Samic Chinese Dance Project
Swedish Beach Tour
Photo: Lisa Kejonen.
Umeå Fashion Week
Chinese culture festival
8 x art – Art Camp
8 Sámi artists – Liselotte Wajstedt
8 season concerts – Stadium music
join the adventure!
PHOTOGRAPHY, THEATRE, MUSIC, DESIGN, LITERATURE, ART, ACTIVITY, FOOD, FASHION, SPORT AND SO MUCH MORE.
INITIATIVES 8 SEASON CONCERTS | 8 SÁMI ARTISTS | 8 X ART
CHALLENGING POWER | UMEÅ URBAN FORUM | TRÁHPPIE – SÁMI HERITAGE HOUSE
UMEDALEN SKULPTUR | THE GLASS HOUSE | GUITAR MUSEUM | ROCK ART IN SÁPMI | RIVER STORIES
THE STORYTELLERS’ COUNTY | SKI UMEÅ2014 | CULTURE TRAIN | CULTURE FOR SENIORS | FAIR CITY
FAIR GAME | FAIR OPERA | CULTURE ON CAMPUS | THE CITY – THE NOMO DACO DANCE COLLECTIVE
HONORARY CITIZEN STIEG LARSSON | CORNERS | MIRROR EUROPE | THE BIRDS SHOW THE WAY
GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER – SKUGGTEATERN | EUROPEAN ROADSHOW CAUGHT BY [UMEÅ]
festivalS UMEFOLK | WINTER CITY HORROR THEATRE | The SPRING FORWARD festival
ubmejen biejvieh – SÁMI WEEK | 12 POINTS JAZZ | LITTFEST | Umeå Open | STORYTELLER FESTIVAL
HOUSE OF METAL CULTURE NIGHT | 2 DAYS IN UMEÅ | MADE Midnight Light Tango Festival
a choral midsummer light’s dream HOLMÖN SONG FESTIVAL | BLUES FESTIVAL | FOOTBALL
FESTIVAL | FOLK MUSIC | U x U | rock out wild FOOD FESTIVAL | survival kit – ART FESTIVAL
CONTEMPORARY CIRCUS | CHINESE CULTURE FESTIVAL| UMEÅ FASHION WEEK THE JAZZ FESTIVAL
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | liet international | FILM FESTIVAL umeå AUTUMN LIGHTS | POPUP etc
Inspired by the Sámi calendar year, the programme
has been divided into eight seasons. Check out
the current schedule and updates on our website.
www.umea2014.se
2014
Thinkstock.
Photo: Magnus Ström.
Umeå – EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE
It is with pride that we present a selection of all
the fantastic events that will be taking place here
from January to December next year.
For many generations, Umeå has
been an obvious arena for powerful
expression. This is also where sharp
contrasts meet and become new
energy: climate research and queer
blogs; autochthonous culture and
the latest trends; computer games
and football festivals; soft-voiced
narrators and hardcore genres...
All the foregoing exist side by side
and in constant development. This
is because our region likes electric
and cross-border meetings. Thus,
we are now demonstrating to the
whole of Europe that Umeå has
exactly the creative and cultural
driving forces that the world needs
in greater quantities.
Welcome!
Photo: Emil Myrsell. (CC BT-NC 2.0)
Photo: Anna Öhlund.
THE PROGRAMME
YEAR’S EIGHT
SEASONS
Inspired by the Sámi calendar, the capital of culture programme has been divided into eight seasons. Read more
about each season and its events on our website.
Dálvvie
(true winter)
30 Jan – 27 Feb
Tjakttjadálvvie
(early winter)
Season of
tending
The seasons affect us as people – variations in weather, variations in mood and
variations in what we do with our time.
Each season has its own character and
particularities, just as the activities in our
European Capital of Culture year.
RESERVATION
FOR CHANGES!
In the same way that the weather changes, creative ideas and projects also
change over time. We would thus ask
for your indulgence if the programme
changes. A large number of projects will
be added while others disappear or
change colour and shape. Regardless
of changes, we are convinced that 2014
is going to offer tens of thousands of
unique “stories”!
Gijrradálvvie
(early spring)
28 Feb – 29 Apr
21 Nov – 29 Jan
Season of
awakening
Season of
wandering
Tjakttja
(true autumn)
Gijrra
(true spring)
10 Oct – 20 Nov
Umeå (Ubmeje in Sámi) is a part of Sápmi
(the lands inhabited by the Sámi people)
and the history, culture, occupations, religion and languages of its indigenous people. The Sámi calendar year is a way of
crystallizing the year’s changes and focusing on what is important in each phase.
Photo: Jonny Rönnblom.
30 Apr – 19 Jun
Season of
driving force
Season of
returning
Gijrragiesse
(early summer)
Tjakttjagiessie
(early autumn)
20 Jun – 10 Jul
29 Aug – 9 Oct
Season of
harvesting
Giessie
(true summer)
11 Jul – 28 Aug
Season of
growing
Season of
contemplation
We are building
for the future
The city is expanding. It is getting smarter, bigger and
more sustainable. Meeting places, work, life, culture... We are
taking Umeå not just into 2014, but far into the future.
On the shores of the Umeälven river,
we are erecting Väven, an iconic building
designed by the world famous Snøhetta
firm of architects. Väven’s rooms will offer
Umeå’s residents and visitors a multitude
of cultural meeting points. These include
a museum, music, art, crafts, dance, a
hotel and restaurants. The opening ceremony for the building is being held in
capital of culture year 2014.
The city’s new subway near the central
rail station features Europe’s largest
work of art in glass. Our eastern rail station shines bright and “sparkling” below
the University Hospital. Glass walls play
their part here too, along with a timber
laminate shell and an art-adorned interior. Umeå Airport is getting a facelift and
its air services are being developed. Like
life-giving arteries in a body, the expanded road network and the Bothnia Line
railway connect all parts of the city. They
give it strength, drive its pulse.
Our magnificent riverside has been enriched by the Umeå Arts Campus and its
creative, absolutely world-class courses.
This area is now also home to Bildmuseet,
one of the country’s most interesting windows on contemporary visual expression
and art. Bildmuseet has both a national
and an international character.
Music is an important part of culture
in Umeå. In the heart of the city, with a
guitar museum, café and restaurant that
form part of a house of music, there is
Scharinska, a vibrant music scene. A
scene that is becoming ever more attractive to local and international performers.
In fact, the whole city centre is undergoing a transformation. New shops, offices and hotels are putting down roots
in Umeå. Time, life and the city’s people
are all nourishing this expansion. Umeå
is changing, it is growing – and we are
building for the future.
WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR
YOUR SUGGESTIONS!
THE PROGRAMME BUILDS ON
INQUISITIVENESS, PASSION
AND CO-CREATIVITY.
www.UmeA2014.se
Umeå is a proud, go-ahead city in an integrated and multifaceted Europe. The city is built
on participation and co-creativity. It bears the
stamps of inquisitiveness and passion.
Culture is essential and a strong driving force
in building any community that is pervaded
by an openness in which human creativity
shapes the future. For many years, we have
worked intensively on building a cultural city
that is characterized by this outlook.
RIGA – Umeå’s twin town
Balticgruppen
– Main partner
Of umeå2014
Marie-Louise Rönnmark, municipal commissioner/
chairwoman of the capital of culture committee
Photo: Malin Grönborg.
Northofsweden.
Photo: Garry Knight.
The programme comprises unique performing arts
experiences, exhibitions, festivals, sports events and
much more. Some themes recur every season. Other
wide-ranging initiatives permeate the entire year in the
A programme
in the making
form of development projects to generate involvement
and culture-driven growth. Keep up-to-date via our
website – it has details of everything that is going on!
EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF
CULTURE UMEÅ2014
An inauguration weekend kicks the programme
year off in Dálvvie, the season of tending, at the
end of January 2014.
The adventure can begin
www.umea2014.se