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