västerbotten
2014, here we
come!
Umeå and the Latvian capital, Riga, are Europe’s
joint Capital of Culture for 2014. In Umeå, we’ve
chosen to celebrate by making 2014 a fully-fled-
ged year of culture throughout Västerbotten
County. The following eight double-page spreads
– one for each of the seasons of the Sami year –
present a small selection of all the events planned
throughout the county in 2014, including events
organised by Region Västerbotten, NorrlandsOperan, Västerbottensteatern, Västerbotten Museum,
the Storytelling Festival in Skellefteå and Konst-
Ammarnäs
River Stories
Archangelica – Songs for a
Flower House
Tärnaby
vägen Sju Älvar.
Join us for a wealth of art, music, theatre, dance,
Stor-Nila
exhibitions and oral and literary storytelling. Here
in Västerbotten County. 2014, here we come!
Sorsele
River Film Stories
Ola Kellgren, Head of Cultural Affairs, Region Västerbotten
The Log-drivers Are Coming!
Inlandsbanefestival
Malå
The Woodcutters
Manaj Vuöllie,
the Children’s Yoik
Storuman
FEST 2014
Norsjö
The Woodcutters
Inlandsbanefestival
(music festival)
Skellefteå
Stor-Nila
Storytelling Festival
Framest Vocal Ensemble
Choral concert
Saxnäs
Events by the Water
Vilhelmina
River Film Stories
Inlandsbanefestival
(music festival)
Kôrksangern
(Folk Hymns)
Dorotea
Music and
Storytelling along
Konstvägen Sju Älvar
Inlandsbanefestival
(music festival)
Kôrksangern
(Folk Hymns)
FEST 2014
Lycksele
Storytelling at Nordanå
Storytelling at
Gammplatsen
Robertsfors
Stor-Nila
Anything Goes, Robertsfors
Musiksällskap music society
River Film Stories
Gumboda Hed 2014, with the
Västerbotten Regiment
Archangelica– Songs
for a Flower House
Framest
Vocal Ensemble
Åsele
Music and Storytelling
along Konstvägen
Sju Älvar
Events by the Water
River Film Stories
Västerbotten – Verbalised,
Set to Music, Visualised
Dance festival
Vindeln
Framest Vocal
Ensemble
The Log-drivers
Are Coming!
The Woodcutters, Åmsele
Bjurholm
Music and
Storytelling along Konstvägen Sju Älvar
Warner Oland
Vännäs
Music and
Storytelling along
Konstvägen Sju Älvar
Framest Vocal
Ensemble
River Film Stories
Nordmaling
Baroque and Beyond
The Price of Good Will
100 MIGRATORY
Sune Jonsson Centre for
Documentary Photography
Mon lean duhát jagi
- I’m a Thousand Years
Gustaf Was Here
Littfest
Passion from Norrland
MADE 2014
Crescendo 2014
Storytelling at Gammlia
The Holmön Song Festival
Blanche & Marie
Umeå Jazz Festival
THE PRICE OF GOOD WILL
Dálvvie
Winter
In Västerbottensteatern’s production of Välviljans pris, playwright and actor Gunnar Eklund
examines some of the conflicts that arose between the Swedish and Sami cultures during
the 20th century. In the Swedish dream of folkhemmet, the welfare state, the old was
to be torn down and a new community was to be built from the ground up. How did
this idea gel with the Sami tradition that the past is an important part of life in the
present? “We can’t live in the past, but the past lives in us.”
Välviljans pris is part of Rock Art in Sápmi, a major collaborative project
organised by Västerbotten Museum during Umeå’s year as the European Capital of Culture. Script, Gunnar Eklund; director, Lillemor
Skogheden; actors, Gunnar Eklund, Margareta Niss and Nina
Nordvall Vahlberg.
WHEN: Première 31 January, 7 PM. Also 1 February,
6 PM and 2 February, 3 PM (also during the Sami
Week, 3 and 4 March, 7 PM). The performance
will then tour Västerbotten County throughout 2014.
WHERE: Västerbotten Museum in Umeå
during the official opening of Umeå’s
year as European Capital of Culture, and
in the Studion venue at Umeå Folkets
Hus, 3
and 4 March.
100 MIGRATORY AND DANCE
BY CARMEN OLSSON
100 MIGRATORY,
with dance by Carmen Olsson.
30 January–27 February
PHOTOGRAPHIC
HISTORY IN THE
SPOTLIGHT AT
VÄSTERBOTTEN
MUSEUM
The Sune Jonsson Centre for Documentary Photography, a new platform for
documentary works on social change
and human living conditions, will
open in January 2014. Here, older
photographic projects will meet new
works by contemporary photographers and filmmakers, giving us pause
to reflect on our lives.
Vera and Frits Eriksson, small
farmers in Öre-Långsele, Lycksele,
1961. Photo: Sune Jonsson.
OPENING WEEKEND – NOT JUST IN UMEÅ
Umeå’s selection as the European Capital of Culture for 2014 involves more than the city itself. The entire region is participating. The official opening of the year’s cultural
celebrations will include a collection of activities under the collective title FUTURE FLOWS THROUGH US. NorrlandsOperan has brought together the creative talents of the
entire region through the River Stories collaborative project. A number of the project’s contributors will meet in Umeå 30 January-1 February.
FROM AMMARNÄS, we will follow the ten-day-long migration of a herd of reindeer along the old Sami migration trail that leads to the traditional wintertime pasturelands
around Umeå. Artist Nicolai Dunger and Sami musicians will accompany the herd on skis. The artists will make a few stops along the way to give concerts. Otherwise, they
will spend their nights sleeping in tents and traditional Sami huts, holding singing sessions with those who join them. A STEAM TRAIN LEAVES from Storuman, bound for
Umeå. On board, ordinary passengers will share the carriages with visiting performers‚ namely, the vocal ensemble FRAMEST, from Riga. The musical tour will make stops in
Storuman, Lycksele, Vindeln, Vännäs and Umeå. FROM NORRBOTTEN, accompanied by Mari Boine and the Norrbotten Big Band, we take the E4 highway south and begin
our tour in Jukkasjärvi. There will be concerts in Luleå, Piteå, Skellefteå and Umeå. FROM SUNDSVALL, we travel to Umeå with the Bothnia Line railway. In Sundsvall, the
2014 celebrations will kick off with a mini festival held in the Capital-of-Culture spirit. At the opening ceremony, we jump on the culture bandwagon with Karin Rhenqvist’s
work Där korpen vittnar (Where the Raven Pales), about 17th-century witch trials, with Ulrika Bodén and the Nordic Chamber Ensemble. FROM VASA, we hitch a ride with the
Wasaline ferry to build a BRO (bridge) with Bothnia Rhythm Orchestra, a newly-established big band in the region. Kick-off in Vasa, a concert on the ferry and finale in Umeå.
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Monica L. Edmondson’s exhibition, 100 MIGRATORY, is a
thought-inspiring installation made up of glass objects,
images and dance. Within the exhibition, 100 glass vessels
take a round trip. They migrate in and out of different environments, lands and worlds. One of the key ideas behind
the work is mankind’s common place of origin, Africa.
From this centralised beginning,
humans have travelled on foot to
other places, adapting their genetic
traits to different areas and climates
over time as they went. This idea
calls to mind the Sami people living
in the area known as Sápmi and
the migration patterns they have
followed throughout the ages, also
about Sápmi in the context of the
land called Sweden and Sweden in
the context of the wider world.
100 MIGRATORY will be on display
during the spring of 2014. As part
of the exhibition, dancer Carmen
Olsson will create a piece to be
performed during the exhibition, in
collaboration with NorrlandsOperan.
With her joint Nordic and Spanish
heritage, Olsson has developed her
own style of the Japanese dance
form butoh, called mibudo. Mibudo
is characterised by precision and a
strong presence in each movement.
Both the exhibition and dance piece
are part of the Rock Art in Sápmi
project.
WHEN: Opening, 1 February 2 PM.
Carmen Olsson dances at 3 PM.
Olsson will also dance at Edmondson’s exhibition during Sami Week,
on 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9 March at 2 PM.
WHERE: Västerbotten Museum,
Umeå.
Välviljans pris (The Price of Good Will).
Kind-hearted teacher Birgit Johansson arrives
at a nomad school in the 1950s to spread folkhemmet’s ideas in Sápmi.
OTHER EVENTS
The Museum’s Opening of the
Capital of Culture Year
Three exhibition openings, three theatre
premières, two book releases, the inauguration
of the Sune Jonsson Centre for Documentary
Photography, dance, open fires, open houses
and Sami camps with reindeer. It’s all part of
Västerbotten Museum’s programme for the
opening of the Capital of Culture celebrations.
The event will run from 31 January to 2 February. Read more at www.vbm.se.
Folk and World Music Gala
The 21 February 2014 will see the start of
Sweden’s annual Folk and World Music Gala,
which will be held at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå
in honour of the city’s designation as the European Capital of Culture 2014. This year, the gala
is being held together with the well-established
local folk music festival Umefolk.
Jukka’s Tunes
In Jukkaslåtar, musician Gunnar Idenstam
recreates personal memories of his childhood
spent in Jukkasjärvi, beside the Torne River in
far-northern Sweden. Jukkaslåtar was commissioned to celebrate Jukkasjärvi’s 400th anniversary in 2008. The piece will be performed in
Umeå on 20 February and then tour Västerbotten County 21–25 February.
Mirror
Europe
Västerbottensteatern’s youth group,
UngHästen, is currently contributing its
special form of forum theatre to the Mirror
Europe development project. The project aims
to develop communication among a number of
European cities and to enrich their cultural
activities. Mirror Europe is testing new
collaborative methods, including digital
co-creation processes and interactive
workshops.
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Mer på gång
28 February–29 April
Umeå Novellpris
– Competition for Novelists
Gijrradálvvie
Early spring
The sixth edition of the Storytelling Festival in
Skellefteå will take place 24-30 March, this time
with a clear international flavour.
STORYTELLING
FESTIVAL IN
SKELLEFTEÅ
The 2014 Storytelling Festival will be held 24-30 March. It will be a week filled with the art of telling good yarns and
the joy of listening to them unfold.
For the sixth year running, the Storytellers’ Town, Skellefteå, will be transformed into a boiling cauldron filled
with local, national and international tales. Over 100 different events held across the municipality will fill the weeklong programme, including storytelling performances, seminars, lectures, workshops, storytelling contests, a
festival club and much more. Extra effort is being made during the Capital of Culture year to give the programme an
international dimension, with artists from a number of European countries contributing. The festival will also include
a conference with seminars, lectures and workshops, through which the “storytelling industry” will share its insights
on the power of the art form.
The Storytelling Festival is organised by Västerbottensteatern, Skellefteå museum, Västerbotten Museum and
Kultur Skellefteå, supported by Region Västerbotten and Skellefteå Municipality.
Drawing inspiration from Gustaf
Hallström’s diaries, Love Ersare has
created a storytelling performance
entitled Gustaf Was Here. The work is
part of the Rock Art in Sápmi project.
Umeå Novellpris is Sweden’s largest
annual competition for novelists. The prize
was established in 2007 as part of Umeå’s
bid to become the 2014 European Capital
of Culture. The competition aims both to
create a new forum for Swedish novels and
to affirm Västerbotten County’s reputation
as the “Storytellers’ County”. The 2014 Novellpris will be awarded in conjunction with
Littfest, Umeå’s international literature
festival (see below).
Folk Hymns
Over a period of several years, Ulrika
Bodén has gathered together a little-known repertoire of songs from the area
where she grew up in the Swedish province
of Ångermanland. The beautiful ballads
on her new album, Kôrksangern (2012), are
the result of her continued collaboration
with her local music scene.
Touring Västerbotten County 3-9 & 17-23
February.
GUSTAF WAS HERE
– a storytelling performance
by and with Love Ersare
The year is 1942. A 62-year-old archaeologist treks across
Nazi-occupied Finland and Norway on skis. Gustaf Hallström was
not just a researcher who discovered some of the Nordic region’s
most important rock art sites, he also documented Sami culture in
Sápmi, transforming our understanding of northern Sweden’s ancient
past. His political involvement eventually carried him far from his
lonely excavation sites to Siberian prison camps. During
World War II he came into contact with Swedish Nazis,
Finnish volunteer corps members and spies.
Simply put, Gustaf was there.
Giron Sámi Teáhter’s play
Jag är tusen år – Mon lean duhát jagi will
première at NorrlandsOperan on 6 March.
NARRATOR: Love Ersare
WHEN: 1 March, 7 PM; 2 March, 2 PM;
and 5 March, 7 PM.
WHERE: Bio Abelli, Västerbotten
Museum, Umeå.
SNÖBOLLEN
– A UNIQUE PICTURE BOOK PRIZE
SÁPMI – YESTERDAY,
TODAY, TOMORROW
Sami Weeks in Umeå
I AM 1,000 YEARS OLD – MON LEAN DUHÁT JAGI
Symbols etched into rock surfaces thousands of years ago. A 900-year-old Arabian coin at a Northern Sami sacrificial site.
A Sami girl who pushes Christian missionary work in the north and the son of a Sami clergyman who is knighted and prevents the burning at the stake of alleged Sami shamans. I Am 1,000 Years Old – Mon Lean Duhát Jagi is a thrilling musical
journey through time and space that portrays both how Sami and Swedish history became intertwined and what happened
when centuries of mutual respect were forgotten when mining entered the picture.
The play will première in March 2014. The performance is part of the Rock Art in Sápmi project and is produced by Giron
Sámi Teáhter in cooperation with the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Västerbotten Museum, NorrlandsOperan and Norrbottensmusiken/Norrbotten NEO.
WHEN: Première 5 March. Other performances held on 6, 7 and 8 March, before the performance tours
Västerbotten County.
Sami culture is the focus of Västerbotten Museum
for two weeks in March 2014. Lectures, film screenings, handicrafts, exhibitions and children’s activities
are just some of the events in store.
www.vbm.se www.rockartinsapmi.se
Snöbollen – Swedish Picture Book of the Year is a literature prize
founded by the northern Swedish youth literary society Krumelur.
The prize money is SEK 50,000 and the award’s purpose is to
raise the status of picture books as artistic works and to encourage
authors and publishing houses to extend artistic boundaries of
picture books with regard to content and form. The prize has previously been awarded twice, in 2012 and 2013, at Littfest, Umeå’s international literature
festival. All Swedish publishing houses may nominate as many books as they like, as long
as they are first editions printed in either Swedish or in one of Sweden’s national minority
languages and as long as they were published during the present year. The prize is awarded each year in the early spring.
MORE INFORMATION: visit www.ungaordinorr.se
CONTACT: edlund.annika@gmail.com or ingalill.stenmark@umea.se
LITTFEST – UMEÅ’S INTERNATIONAL
LITERATURE FESTIVAL
You are invited to visit Sweden’s best, cheapest, most engaging and multifaceted literature
festival. As usual, the festival will take place in the third week of March in Umeå, at and
around Folkets Hus. Be part of a celebration that mixes regional with international, youth
with seniors and the serious with the entertaining. Experience over 50 events; participate
in workshops; attend lectures, discussions and debates; visit the Poetry Bar (Poesibaren)
and the evening parties.
The majority of the programme will also be broadcast online: www.littfest.se.
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DISCOVER NEW ROCK ART!
Up until 15 May 2014, you should look up from the trails and blueberry bushes
when walking in the forest. Instead, examine the sides of mountains and stone
faces around you for undiscovered rock art or carvings.
“There is most definitely rock art out there that we don’t yet know about. So
we’re recruiting the general public to help us find it,” explains Kristina Kalén,
Project Manager for Rock Art in Sápmi, which has announced the competition.
A competition to find new rock art has been announced within the framework
of the Rock Art in Sápmi project. Berry pickers, elk hunters, dog owners, runners,
hikers and inquisitive children can become the proud discoverers of rock art
within Västerbotten County. A jury consisting of archaeologists from Västerbotten
Museum will decide the winner, who will receive a trip for two to the famous rock
art site, Alta, in northern Norway.
The competition will run from 15 May 2013 to 15 May 2014.
Gijrrae
Spring
30 April–19 June
READ MORE: www.rockartinsapmi.se
CONTACT: Project Manager, Kristina Kalén, kristina.kalen@vbm.se,
ph. +46 (0)70-621 84 40
Three young playwrights with roots in northern Sweden were tasked with each writing their own plays.
The result is three stand-alone performances blended into a joint project, Passion from Norrland.
The piece is the contribution to Umeå’s year as the European Capital of Culture by Sweden’s five
northernmost county theatres. Passion from Norrland is a play in which pioneer culture meets the
region’s indigenous people, a collage of topical tales from Norrland (northern Sweden), contemporary images, people and events. The piece is the culmination of a collaborative project run by Västerbottensteatern, Estrad Norr, Giron Sámi Teáhter, Norrbottensteatern and Teater Västernorrland.
SCRIPT: Camilla Blomqvist, Therese Söderberg and Gustav Tegby
DIRECTOR & script combiner: Olle Törnqvist
WHEN: Premier, 3 May. Additional performances, 4, 5 May.
WHERE: Umeå
Followed by a tour visiting Sundsvall, Örnsköldsvik, Östersund, Luleå, Kiruna and Skellefteå.
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The play Passion
from Norrland is
the contribution by
Sweden’s five northern-most county
theatres to Umeå’s
year as a European
Capital of Culture and
will première on 3 May.
Photo: Patrick Degerman,
from Västerbottensteatern’s
performance of Tre Kärlekar.
Two thousand children and youths will be
given the opportunity to write and publish a
book under the project 2014 New Writers from
Västerbotten. In May 2014 a large book fair will
be held in Umeå at which authors will present
and sell their books in entertaining ways. Umeå
Legend Club and the storyteller’s association
TellUs, which aims to help children and youths
play active roles in their communities and make
their voices heard, are working together on the
project with Umeå City Library and schools and
libraries in Umeå’s various neighbourhoods
and neighbouring municipalities.
This performance includes dance, music and
artwork and portrays the log driving that once
took place along northern Swedish creeks,
streams and rivers, from the mountains to the
sea. Händelser vid vatten is a collaborative project by Åsa Åström and artist Håkan Bring and
will be performed at three different waterside
locations during the summer of 2014, including
in Saxnäs.
Västerbotten Museum’s Rock Art
in Sápmi project has announced
the start of the Hitta Ny Hällkonst
(Find New Rock Art) competition.
Don’t miss your chance to take
part! The competition will run
until 15 May 2014.
Inlandsbanefestival (music festival)
GIVE ME FIVE
Large picture at left:
Snowpaint, a type of
modern rock art.
– A Global and Local Book and Storytelling Project for Five-year-olds
Five-year-olds and the adults around them enjoy exciting, hair-raising,
funny and innovative picture books together. The children’s creations and
work processes will be displayed at libraries during the springtime, and the
project will conclude with different events around Västerbotten County,
such as Story Festivals at Gammlia in Umeå and at Nordanå in Skellefteå.
Don’t miss it!
The Give Me Five project has run from 2011 to 2013 in Västerbotten
County, with Västerbotten County Library as its organiser and with the
support of grants from the Swedish Arts Council. Umeå2014 will provide
additional funding for Give Me Five within Umeå Municipality during 2013
and 2014, with local public libraries running projects in collaboration with
preschools, ABF and other partners.
Visit our blog: gemigfem.wordpress.com
A music festival touring the northern section of
Västerbotten’s inland railway line. Both artists
and audiences will be given the chance to travel
by rail through the beautiful northern Swedish
inland, making stops along the line for concerts
in Norrbotten, Västerbotten and Jämtland
counties in early June. Organised in collaboration with cultural association Inlandskult, the
relevant municipalities and the River Stories
project.
Körmanifestationen (choral concert)
A choral concert to be held at Skellefteå Kraft
Arena on 10 May 2014 with almost 1,600
singers from across the region, together with
guest performers, including Göran Fristorp and
La Gaylia Frazier. Organised by secular choir
association Sveriges Körförbund in collaboration with Skellefteå Chamber Choir, the River
Stories project and others.
Sami storytelling
Six hundred youngsters on a single stage. Storuman’s KulturAkademin recreates
the hit concert from 2005 in CRESCENDO 2014. 31 May, Nolia in Umeå.
The second issue of the magazine Västerbotten
for 2014 will be dedicated to Sami storytelling. It will present both
Sami literature and oral
storytelling. The issue will
also discuss Sami songs,
images and everyday
implements. In particular,
the magazine will present
a contemporary Sami tale
that does not shy away
from broaching the subject
of conflicts and grievances. That said, without
tradition and history, there
would be no present day to
tell stories about...Västerbotten no. 2, 2014, will be
released in June.
CRESCENDO 2014
FEST 2014
The hit event from 2005 returns, bigger and better than ever! With new students, new schools, new areas, a
new venue, an orchestra of 250 musicians and a choir of 250 singers. On 31 May 2014, close to 600 youths
will take the stage at Nolia in Umeå for the giant concert Crescendo 2014, an international collaboration
in which all music schools in Västerbotten County and a number of schools in Helgeland, Norway, will
participate. Jonas Knutsson has provided the music for the concert. The orchestra will be led by Crescendo
composer Arvid Martinsen. The music was composed based on the participants’ own ideas, inspired by the
journey from the Atlantic coast of Norway over the mountain range, across the inland areas and on to the
Bothnia coast in Sweden. The concert contains a delightful mix of styles and rhythms as well as dance and
improvisation.
The Crescendo 2014 project is run by KulturAkademin in Storuman in collaboration with music schools
in Västerbotten County and Helgeland, Norway, and with NorrlandsOperan (River Stories).
For information about tickets and performance times, contact KulturAkademin at www.kulturakademin.se.
WHEN: 31 May WHERE: Nolia, Umeå
The Federation for European Storytelling
(FEST) and the Swedish storytellers’ network
Berättarnätet Sverige invite you to join the
Federation’s annual European Storytelling
Conference, to be held this year in Skellefteå,
Malå and Umeå, 9-12 June. The conference
aims to strengthen and develop storytelling all
across Europe. Locally, we want to showcase
Västerbotten’s storytelling tradition through
our cities, countryside, mountains, rivers and
sea. We want to share both traditions and
innovations as well as encourage networking
among European storytellers.
WHEN: 7–10 May WHERE: NorrlandsOperan, Umeå
Passion from Norrland
– FIVE THEATRES, ONE TOUR!
2014 New Writers from Västerbotten
Events by the Water
MADE 2014
What does the future look like for festivals? For Capitals of
Culture? For opera houses? For artists and audiences? What
comes after? And after what? Yes, what comes next? MADE 2014
asks the question: “What comes next?” when we, for the ninth
year running, lay claim to NorrlandsOperan. Together, we cast
ourselves out into the unknown, into the future, at the same time
as we explore our own past. MADE is organised by NorrlandsOperan and is Umeå’s annual dramatic arts festival, with a mixture
of different forms of expression and art forms that never ceases
to surprise. High-calibre international performers and artists,
local artistic innovators, enthusiasts and festival lovers from all
over meet together as one.
Music, Art, Dance, Experience
– MADE has masses of everything!
Other events
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STORIES FROM VÄSTERBOTTEN
During 2014, Västerbotten Museum will organise storytelling
at some of the county’s important historical sites as part of
the Västerbotten Berättar project.
Gijrragiessie
Early summer
STORYTELLING AT GAMMLIA
– A LOVE STORY
Inside the dance pavilion at Gammlia in Umeå, surrounded by
beautiful nature, visitors will have the chance to listen to a story
that brings to life the era of open-air dance once again when the
characters Kristina and Bengt meet. Historical people like the
legendary Gösta Skoglund and Gunnar Westin are also part of the
story, and the steamboat Egil plays a central role in its unfolding.
Based on meticulous archival research and a large helping of
imagination, actor and storyteller Gunnar Eklund will tell a tale that
brings to life both the buildings in the area and characters from
times past.
Narrator and scriptwriter: Gunnar Eklund
WHEN: Summer 2014
WHERE: Dance pavilion at Gammlia, Västerbotten Museum, Umeå
OTHER EVENTS
Regional Book Club Project
Readers in the Umeå region have transformed the entire area into a giant book club centred
around Frida Åslund’s Folke och Frida and Sune Jonsson’s Brobyggarna. Now, in 2014, it’s time for
a new book! We would like to encourage everyone in the region to read the same book within
the course of a year. Our aim is to select a new book each year. We would also like the
books we read together to have some connection to the Umeå region. Umeåregionen Läser organisers have already selected a book for 2014. Just which book they
have chosen will be revealed in December 2013. A clue to the book’s identity is
that the story includes a large gallery of local people from all social classes and
that their desire to better their standing within these social classes is a central
theme.
The Log-drivers Are Coming!
At storytelling meets held at cafés, Carina Bergström collects tales about log
driving along Vindelälven River for her own storytelling, from the perspective of the villagers, rather than the log-drivers. Bands of local fiddlers provide
the music that accompanies each telling. Bergström will take her stories
on tour during June and July 2014, travelling from Sorsele to
Umeå via Lycksele, Vindeln and Vännäs. A collaborative project run by the relevant municipalities and River Stories.
20 June – 10 July
Summertime visitors to Umeå’s Västerbotten Museum will have the chance to hear
Gunnar Eklund’s tale, En Kärlekshistoria, in
which the museum’s dance pavilion plays a
central role.
The Woodcutters
Skogshuggarna is a musical and storytelling
performance that portrays events that took
place in the village of Lossmen, in the western
part of the Burträsk parish. At the heart of the
story lie the woodcutters and their predicament during the long labour dispute of 1924 to
1931, Sweden’s longest ever lockout, in which
forestry companies delivered an ultimatum
demanding that workers dissolve their labour
unions. On tour during the summer of 2014.
FACTS
Stories from Västerbotten
Visitors to Gammplatsen, Lycksele, will
be treated to stories like that of legendary
log-driver Johan Fredriksson.
STORYTELLING AT
GAMMPLATSEN
– GENTLEFOLK OF
YESTERYEAR
In a variety of very different environments
– a hut, a church, a school and along a
street – the story of the people living in
and around the town of Lycksele from the
18th century onward is told. As they went
about their lives, they left impressions and
traces behind them, which the storytellers
have investigated and interpreted. Even an
old log-driver and a laundrywoman can be
considered “gentlefolk”!
Stor-Nila
The youth musical Stor-Nila is based on the famous Sami legend about Stor-Nila and his wife, Lill-Docka, and their life story.
The real Stor-Nila and Lill-Docka lived outside the village of Tärnaby in north-western Sweden until a violent quarrel changed
their lives. Their story is dramatic and includes murder, fights and theft, but it is also a story of love and hope. Although the tale
depicts life in the region 150 years ago, relations between Swedes and Sami are just as relevant an issue today. The script was
written by Mikael Niemi, who has succeeded in adapting the legend to speak to a modern audience. The play’s musical score has
been composed by Per Egland. The musical itself has been developed together with youths from the towns of Storuman and
Tärnaby, in collaboration with the national Skapande Skola cultural project and Storuman Municipality. Every compulsory school
in Västerbotten County will receive a copy of the musical, together with study materials that can be used in several subjects.
Public performances of the musical will be held in Sävar, Lycksele, Storuman and Tärnaby. The project is managed by
KulturAkademin in Storuman and is supported by Region Västerbotten, NorrlandsOperan, the Västerbotten chapter of the
RUM national youth music society, Storuman Municipality, the Sami Parliament, the Swedish Arts Council, Lycksele Municipality
and the Musikanten music shop in Umeå.
WHEN: Performances will be held during the spring, beginning in February. WHERE: The schools Skytteanska Skolan in
Tärnaby, Röbroskolan in Storuman, Finnbacksskolan in Lycksele and Sävar Skola in Sävar.
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The People and Buildings of
Villarydsbacken
Legendary Log-driver Johan Fredriksson
The Linguist from Lapland
Big-city Girls in Tannbäck
Author Mikael Niemi has written the script for the youth
musical Stor-Nila, based on the lives of the Sami couple
Stor-Nila and Lill-Docka, who lived 150 years ago.
Stories composed and presented by
Elisabet Lindgren, Mikael Jakobsson, Karin
Söderlund and Anne Woulab.
WHEN: Summer 2014
WHERE: Gammplatsen, Lycksele
STORYTELLING AT NORDANÅ
Skellefteälven River was an important transportation route in times past. Speedy ships
for transporting goods to the growing city and beyond to the rest of the world were
built along the valley. In their capacity as both shipbuilders and owners, a single family,
“the Sandströms” (Sandströmmarna) at Karlgård, were responsible for the majority of
the ships built here. One of the family’s sons, Nikanor Sandström, maintained his ties
to Skellefteå throughout his life. Through his life story, we trace Skellefteå’s growth
during the mid-19th century. The tale is based on documentary materials that have
been brought to life and given a voice through this story. Come and listen to a story
unfold in the very same location where it actually took place. Narrator and scriptwriter:
Birgit Andersson
WHEN: 27 June, 5 July and 12 July
WHERE: Outdoor stage at Nordanå, Skellefteå
We call them “cultural environments” – places where people have
lived and left their mark, created
and worked. Västerbotten County
has many historical sites that are
well worth a visit. Some of them we
go to not only to learn about times
past, but also for relaxation and recreation. Through the Västerbotten
Berättar project, we aim to make
history come alive at some of these
places. To do so, we have chosen to
make use of the ancient and tried
and tested method of storytelling.
We believe that through storytelling’s form (in which the storyteller
and listener come together in a
dynamic meeting), we can open
new doors and generate interest
in the past, on which current life is
based. During 2014, storytelling
events will be held at the open-air
museums of Gammlia in Umeå,
Gammplatsen in Lycksele, Nordanå
in Skellefteå and at Vilhelmina’s
church village and Norrbyskär.
This is a collaborative project run
by Västerbotten Museum and
Region Västerbotten, with support
from the EU’s Regional Development Fund.
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OTHER EVENTS
Giessie
Summer
11 July-28 August
Manaj Vuöllie
Children’s yoiking choirs are being started all
around Västerbotten County under the name
Manaj Vuöllie – the Children’s Yoik.. Jörgen
Stenberg leads the choir in Malå and, together
with Cecilia Persson, also a large choir that
combines all of the children’s yoiking choirs in
one. This large choir will perform during the
grand opening of Umeå 2014.
Art Camp
Rock Out Wild
For the fourth year in a row, the Rock Out Wild
music festival will take place 1-2 August, 2014
with both out-and-out hardcore metal music
and softer tones. The festival will take place at
the Nalovardo ski park outside Sorsele, with
views overlooking the beautiful Vindelälven
River. It has a friendly and happy atmosphere,
in which people of all ages and from many different places can get together. The bands that
have played at the festival in previous years
have been Swedish rock bands from as far away
as Malmö and Kiruna. Festival goers can even
listen to all of the bands without missing any,
because no two bands are scheduled to play at
the same time.
WHEN: 1-2 August
WHERE: Nalovardo ski park outside Sorsele
A group of artists perform a tour of camping
sites in Västerbotten County in a caravan. At
each site, the group erects tents where its holds
film screenings, exhibitions and workshops. Art
makes a showing in summertime Västerbotten!
Organised by Vita Kuben, NorrlandsOperan’s
public exhibition space for contemporary art.
WHEN: Summer 2014
WHERE: Touring the county’s camping
grounds and other meeting places.
Theme: Minority languages
Holmön Song Festival (Visfestival Holmön)
turns 20 in 2014 and this achievement will
be celebrated with a concert in central Umeå
during the last week of July. The theme of the
concert will be Sweden’s minority languages,
that is, Sami, Romany, Yiddish, Finnish and
Meänkieli. To conclude the concert, the festival
hopes to be able to book a major international
artist, such as Buffy Sainte Marie. Naturally, the
festival will be held on Holmön too, on the last
weekend in July, as is the tradition.
UmeImpro
River Film Stories
Imagine yourself sitting on the banks of your local river. A large film screen is floating on the surface. As you sit there,
you also watch films. Perhaps you have a cup of hot coffee in your hand or something to eat. And all the while, around
the film and past you, the river flows downstream.
Film screenings will be held at six different locations along four of Västerbotten County’s rivers during the summer of 2014. These will be short films about the importance of the river to the location and to the people who live
there, but also feature films about rivers. Audiences will sit on the banks while the films are shown on large screens
standing on anchored rafts. The screenings will provide a unique experience in harmony with the rivers and with the
history of the sites. River Film Stories is a collaborative project run by film associations Folkets Bio and Film i Västerbotten, River Stories and the relevant municipalities.
WHERE: On the banks of the Vindelälven, Umeälven, Ångermanälven and Skellefteälven rivers.
WHEN: Slöjdarnas hus, 16-17 August; Umeå Energicentrum, 18-19 August; Gammplatsen Lycksele, 23-24 August;
Sorsele, 21-22 August; Vilhelmina, 25-26 August; Skellefteå, 27-28 August.
A music course for young musicians with a focus on improvisation. The course will be given
by some of Sweden’s most famous musicians
and instructors within folk music and improvisation. As a taste of the courses to come, it will
also be possible to meet these musicians and
take part in workshops during the 2013 Umeå
Jazz Festival. This is a collaborative project run
by jazz club Umeå Jazzstudio, RUM national
youth music society, River Stories and others.
WHEN: 4-9 August
WHERE: Midgårdsskolan, Umeå
Archangelica
– Songs for a Flower House
Through a collection of songs, Åsa Hagberg
and her brother, Anders Berglund, bring to life
some of the stories about a house in Ammarnäs
that was know as “Blomsterhem” (the Flower
House). It was there that Charlotta “Blomsterlotta” Berglund and her son, Alfred, created a
unique, blossoming garden.
WHEN: August 2014
WHERE: Ammarnäs and Lycksele
Trästockfestivalen – SWEDEN’S LARGEST FREE FESTIVAL
Trästockfestivalen is Sweden’s largest festival with free entry. Over the course of three days, the festival serves up live
music, performances, food and other delights in the beautiful natural surroundings of Nordanå in Skellefteå. Each
year, Trästockfestivalen attracts more than 30,000 visitors from all over Sweden. Trästockfestivalen’s desire to make
culture and music available to all by organising a free event is no secret. A couple of years ago, festival organisers
made the decision to expand the festival’s availability by collaborating with sign-language interpreters in 2012. In
2013, the festival took another step by setting up a giant screen connected to the main stage, primarily to make the
sign-language interpretation more clearly visible.
In the lead-up to the 2014 festival, a dialogue about visual interpretation has begun, aimed at optimising the festival and making it as accessible and welcoming for all as possible. Kulturföreningen Mullberget organises the festival
together with Kultur Skellefteå and other stakeholders.
WHEN: The dates for the 2014 Trästockfestivalen festival have not yet been finalised, but it will most likely be held
17-19 July. Keep your eyes and ears open: www.trastockfestivalen.se
WHERE: Nordanå, Skellefteå
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HISTORIC
MARKET
In september, västerbotten
museum will turn back the
clock to around 1870. merchants and ladies in period
costume, wares and activities
will spirit visitors back to the
time of the historic marketplace at Gammlia.
Among the goods for sale at the old market are butter, leather, meat, dried fish, coarse woollen cloth, yarn and cows. Several craftsmen are already hard at work making clothing and other
items in styles typical of the time. As a visitor, you will also be treated to storytelling, music
from the period and historical foods in an 1870s setting.
In conjunction with the market day, the story of Adak-Ulla will be retold. This is the story of
an extraordinary woman who took up living in Asplunda, Adak, and who, from the mid-19th century on, drove wagons loaded with goods all the way to marketplaces in Sweden and Norway.
The story has been adapted from Britta Stenberg’s book Adak-Ulla. Narrator and scriptwriter:
Marianne Folkedotter.
Butter, leather, meat, dried fish…
Travel back in time and discover
what it was like to visit a market
150 years ago.
The picture depicts a market in
Skellefteå in 1828.
WHEN: 20-12 September
WHERE: The Open Air Museum Gammlia, Västerbotten Museum, Umeå
Mirage
Halfway between Bjurholm
and Vännäs, out on a marsh, stands
Kent Karlsson’s church and reflects
the surrounding landscape. Like other
churches it stands there, imposing for
some, ignored by others. But this church
is not like the rest; here, architecture
has been transformed into sharpedged sculpture and the church has
become a mirage clothed
in cracked glass.
Tjakttjagiessie
Early Autumn
29 Augusti – 9 Oktober
MUSIC AND STORYTELLING ALONG konstvägen sju älvar
Konstvägen Sju Älvar is a 350-kilometre-long art exhibit running from Borgafjäll in southern Lapland’s mountains
in the west to the seaside town of Holmsund in the east. A trip along Konstvägen not only lets you enjoy 13 different
works of art, it also provides you with a fantastic taste of nature’s beauty and a chance to visit many historic sites
along the way. Over the course of five Saturdays in August and September 2014, Konstvägen Sju Älvar will also
become the venue for a travelling music and storytelling event that will throw the spotlight on local authors,
storytellers and musicians in each of the county’s municipalities. Storyteller, musician and actor Greger
Ottosson will act as MC.
Music and storytelling along Konstvägen Sju Älvar is a collaborative event run by the relevant municipalities
and the River Stories project.
WHEN and WHERE: Dorotea, 23 August; Åsele, 30 August; Bjurholm, 6 September; Vännäs, 13 September;
and Umeå, 20 September.
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Nordmaling Baroque
and Beyond
Nordic Baroque Music Festival was a festival and week of courses held
in Nordmaling during the late 1980s and 1990s, primarily based on
baroque music. The festival was last held in 2001, since which time
local baroque music enthusiasts have wanted to organise another event
in the same spirit. We will now fulfil this wish by organising the festival
Nordmaling Baroque and Beyond in 2014, with baroque and renaissance music and with new music.
The programme will include Acqua Alta (a concert performed on
instruments from the period and with a focus on the climate), to which
Daniel Stighäll, Serikon, Erik Westberg’s vocal ensemble and meteorologist Per Holmgren will contribute; Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with
Gilles Apape & the Nordic Chamber Orchestra; Umeå-based Uman
Singers; and NorrlandsOperan’s own brass ensemble. Nordmaling
Baroque and Beyond is a collaborative project run by Nordmaling Municipality, the foundation Carl Wikströms Stiftelse and the River Stories
project.
WHEN: 30 August-7 September
WHERE: Nordmaling, Olofsfors Ironworks, Rundvik
The Nordic Baroque Music Festival was last held in Nordmaling in 2001. Now, with Umeå as the
European Capital of Culture, it’s time to revive the magic. This photograph from Venice illustrates
the performance Acqua Alta (“high tide”).
FActs
LITERARY VÄSTERBOTTEN
This project’s main target group is established and up-and-coming writers in
Västerbotten County, or, put another way, published and as-yet-unpublished
authors. Its aim is to “develop Västerbotten’s literary infrastructure so that it
becomes easier to both become and remain a writer in Västerbotten, and thereby strengthen literature as an art form,” a goal which, if realised, will lead to
an increased number of active writers in Västerbotten and a greater number of
published literary works. Such an achievement would benefit the literary art
form and its professional practitioners, who often live quite meagre existences.
We perceive a great need for this occupational group to receive support
from a highly robust literary infrastructure; an infrastructure that currently
exists in part in the region, but that needs to be significantly developed if the
literary tradition in Västerbotten – the tradition of storytelling, writing and
composing people – is to be preserved into the future.
Det litterära Västerbotten is a three-year project run by Västerbotten County Library and funded by the Swedish Arts Council and Region Västerbotten.
The project began in May 2013.
The sculpture Poem
för en imaginär älv, by
Sigurdur Gudmundsson,
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It feels like your body disappears and only
your senses remain. A bewitching melody stimulates
your ears. Sune Jonsson’s melancholy and sympathetic
photography awakens your eyes. Lastly, the feeling is
converted into words and a magical completeness fills
the room. Because that’s what magic is. Västerbotten’s
magic.
Local newspaper Norran
Västerbotten – Verbalised, Set to Music, Visualised
VÄSTERBOTTEN
– VERBALISED, SET TO MUSIC, VISUALISED
In the storytelling event Västerbotten – ordsatt, tonsatt, framkallat (Västerbotten – Verbalised, Set to Music, Visualised) narrator Marianne Folkedotter and musicians Johan
Norberg and Jonas Knutsson have verbalised and set to music their memories and experiences of life as natives of Västerbotten County. The story and music of the performance
are surrounded by Sune Jonsson’s wonderful photographs. Together, they invite us on a
journey through time and space in which we have the opportunity to meet ourselves, regardless of where in the world we have our own roots. The performance is a joint production by Västerbottensteatern and Västerbotten Museum.
SCRIPT: Marianne Folkedotter
DIRECTOR: Peter Engkvist
PERFORMERS: Marianne Folkedotter, Jonas Knutsson and Johan Norberg
WHEN: October-November 2014
WHERE: A total of eight performances will be held during the season.
Umeå Jazz festival
10 Oktober – 20 November
Tjakttja
autumn
Blanche & Marie
Blanche and Marie is a new opera written by Mats Larsson Gothe and Maria Sundqvist, specially commissioned by
NorrlandsOperan for Umeå’s year as European Capital of Culture. The work is based on P.O. Enquist’s novel The Story
of Blanche and Marie, published in 2004 and nominated for Sweden’s August Prize in the category Best Fiction Book of
the Year.
Using four striking characters living in Paris at the turn of the 20th century, Enquist weaves a tale about possible
and impossible love. At the centre of the story stand Blanche Wittman, once the world’s most famous mental patient, and
Marie Curie, who, although a two-time Nobel Laureate, was rebuffed on the grounds of her forbidden love.
WHEN: Première, 10 October. Subsequent performances, 12-25 October.
WHERE: NorrlandsOperan, Umeå
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When the autumn of 2014 comes around it will once again be time for a
new version of the Umeå Jazz Festival, this time the 47th edition. According to the long-running tradition, the City of Birches, as Umeå is known,
will be invaded by jazz-lovers and artists from near and far, by legendary
world-class musicians, rising stars and “well-kept-secret” local artists. The
festival will be held 22-26 October and will include concerts, seminars,
children’s concerts and workshops. Umeå Jazz Festival offers a broad
range of sounds, but also provocative and artistic improvised music. The
festival’s vision is to create a venue that encourages artistic innovation and
an attractive meeting place rich with experiences.
WHEN: 22-26 October
WHERE: NorrlandsOperan, Umeå Folkets Hus and other venues in Umeå
OTHER EVENTS
Design NU
While renovations are being carried out at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm
and the museum remains closed, parts of its collections will tour the country. The Design NU exhibition will give visitors some perspective on our
own era through design objects created in the last decade. The exhibition
run at Västerbotten Museum during autumn 2014.
FAKTA
Sune Jonsson
CENTRE FOR DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Västerbotten Museum has a long tradition of documentary photography. Photographer and
author Sune Jonsson (1930-2009) became affiliated with the museum and, over approximately 40 years, he developed a unique investigative work method that brought him acclaim
and many awards, including the Hasselblad Award in 1993. His life’s work has been held as
part of the museum’s collection since 2002.
Umeå’s year as the European Capital of Culture will begin with a retrospective exhibition
of Sune Jonsson’s work, held in parallel with contemporary documentation detailing conditions in Västerbotten County’s interior today, by photographer and journalist Tom Juslin.
The Max Ström publishing house publishes an extensive monograph on Sune Jonsson’s
photography. His photographs will be shown in Riga in May, at the same time as internationally renowned Latvian photographer Inta Ruka will exhibit her latest project, Dainas liv
(Daina’s Life), about the life and family of Daina, who lives in eastern Latvia. Researcher in
photography Niclas Östlind discusses photography in his research and exhibition project
Tidens långsamhet och livets flykt (Performing History). The photographic group VODA will
also exhibit its joint project. In addition, events, a photographic symposium, the presentation of an award for photography and more will also be held.
World of Glass
Terje Isungset and Arve Henriksen give a concert on innovative glass instruments crafted by artists in Tallinn and Umeå. The concert will be held
in collaboration with Umeå Jazz Festival, Glödheta glassworks and the
River Stories project.
When: 25 October
Where: NorrlandsOperan, Umeå
Röster för Rättigheter – Swedish Forum for Human
Rights 2014
The Swedish Forum for Human Rights will be held in Umeå 13-15 November 2014, with the theme “Röster för rättigheter” (Voices for Rights). As
part of Umeå’s Capital of Culture celebrations, this year’s programme will
take a closer look at human rights and culture; both the right to culture
and culture as a tool for strengthening and promoting human rights. The
main event on the Forum for Human Rights’ programme is a three-day
conference to be held in November, although a range of exciting events
will be held in and around Umeå in the lead-up to the conference. The
forum’s aim is two-fold: to organise a large number of networking events,
workshops and activities that encourage contribution to and participation
in the main event, and to organise a number of educational and evening
events that are interesting and rewarding in their own right.
Would you and your organisation like to be involved in the Forum for Human Rights 2014? Contact Ingvar Rönnbäck or Trine Munkvold Lindset at
the local/regional office in Umeå: ingvar.ronnback@mrdagarna.se or trine.
munkvold@mrdagarna.se
Märta Olofsson, Aronsjö, 1961.
Contact: Project Manager, Britta Lundgren: britta.lundgren@vbm.se, +46 (0)70-209 70
26. More information: www.vbm.se
Sponsors: Umeå 2014, Umeå Municipality, Region Västerbotten, the Swedish Arts Council, Västerbotten Museum, Västerbottens-Kuriren, the society Sune Jonsson-sällskapet.
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Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.
The storytelling musical about the Hollywood star from Bjurholm, Warner Oland,
will première at Sagateteatern theatre in
Umeå on 21 November.
Tjakttjadálvvie
Early winter
Warner Oland
21 November – 29 Januari
DANS I NOVEMBERMÖRKRET – A MONTH-LONG DANCE FESTIVAL IN SKELLEFTEÅ
Each year local municipal cultural organisation Kultur Skellefteå organises the dance festival Dans i novembermörkret (Dance in the November Darkness),
with a focus on stage dance. The festival is organised in collaboration with non-profit organisations and the public sector. The festival’s programme offers
dance performances in different genres and styles. Visitors to Dans i novembermörkret can see dance exhibitions by both professional dance companies
and talented amateurs from the municipality’s vibrant dance community. The event, which first began with a torch dance and performance by local dance
and ballet association Skellefteås Dans & Balettförening (and which gave the festival its name) has since become a tradition. Many well-known choreographers and dance companies have taken part in the festival over the years, such as Örjan Andersson Dance, Kenneth Kvarnström & Co, Jo Strömgren,
NorrDans and Charlotte Engelkes. The 2014 festival will be the 14th festival in a row and, as in previous years, it will offer a host of exciting and inspirational events, from dance performances and come-and-try classes to discussions and workshops held by professional choreographers.
WHEN: Throughout November. For more information, visit www.skelleftea.se/kultur.
WHERE: Nordanå, Skellefteå
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A storytelling musical by Hans-Ola Stenlund about the boy from Bjurholm who became a Hollywood movie star. Alongside Greta Garbo, Verner Ölund from Bjurholm was
the biggest Swedish movie star in Hollywood during the 1930s. Ölund emigrated to
America with his family as a 13-year-old in 1892. He began acting at an early age and
introduced the likes of author August Strindberg to the American public. As early as
the 1910s, during the film industry’s pioneering age on America’s east coast, Ölund
was involved in a large number of silent films, working under the name of Warner
Oland.
He is best known for his 16 films about the Chinese super sleuth Charlie Chan. The
last of these opened in Sweden in 1938, the same year that Ölund returned to his old
homeland for the first time since leaving for America. Filled with the joy of homecoming, he walked the marshes of Bjurholm barefoot during midsummer. But dark
clouds soon obscured the sunshine in Ölund’s heart.
Throughout his life, Ölund had been torn between his desire to take to the stage as
a serious actor and his work within the film industry. The life of a film star is one of luxury, to be sure; he was one of Hollywood’s highest-paid stars of the day. At the same
time, it was a cut-throat industry that implacably rolled on to the next money-making
success, leaving its former darlings behind with no remorse.
Hans-Ola Stenlund’s play is an up-close-and-personal portrait of the unique life of
an actor. This story of the boy from Bjurholm who became a Hollywood star has all of
the ingredients needed to prove that, at times, truth is stranger than fiction.
Script: Hans-Ola Stenlund. Director: Matthew Zajac.
WHEN: Première: 21 November, 7 PM. Additional performance, 22 November.
Touring Västerbotten County during autumn 2014 & spring 2015, starting in
Bjurholm on 25 November.
WHERE: Première at Sagateatern theatre, Umeå.
FACTS
Cultural Tourism in
the Storytellers’ Town
A development project is currently ongoing in Skellefteå that aims
to develop tourist products based on storytelling. Stories bring our
history to life, both those that are born today and those that are as old
as the hills. Stories say
something about our identity. The identity and culture of a place are becoming
increasingly important
in making it attractive to
visitors. This project aims
to promote Skellefteå’s
cultural offering as a way
to attract more visitors to
Skellefteå and surrounding areas. Work is ongoing to make it possible
to offer literary day trips
that trace the lives of the
region’s premier authors
as well as a packaging of
historical tales that excite
the senses and a conference with international elements, to be held
in conjunction with the Storytelling Festival in the Storytellers’ Town,
among many other things.
Visit www.skelleftea.se/kultur or www.berattarfestivalen.se and learn
more about northern storytelling in 2014.
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västerbotten
Västerbotten. 2014 Here We Come! has been produced by representatives from Region Västerbotten, Västerbotten County Library, NorrlandsOperan, Västerbotten Museum, Västerbottensteatern, Kultur Skellefteå and others.
Editor: Anders Karlsson, Coordinator for the EU project Västerbotten – berättarnas län, Region Västerbotten: anders.karlsson@regionvasterbotten.se
Design: Ulrika Lönnberg. Layout: Leena Hortell, Ord & Co. Translation: Accent Språkservice. Printing: Daily Print, Umeå, July 2013. Photo: Page 2 Carl-Johan Utsi. Page 3 Mikael Rutberg, Sune Jonsson, Karl-Heinz Hernried, Nordiska museet. Page 4 Lars
Thulin. Page 5 Patrick Degerman From the Research Archives, Umeå University, Lars Öberg, Lars Stenman/Johnér. Page 6 Petter Engman, Patrick Degerman. Page 7 Tove Backman, Duncan Kemp. Page 8 Andreas Nilsson. Page 9Petter Engman, Andreas
Nilsson, Johan Gunséus. Page 10 Ludwig Eriksson, Berit Djuse/Johnér. Page 11 EvaLinda Grensman, Sven Halling/Johnér. Page 12 Anders Karlsson, Bo Nilsson. Page 13 Guillem Lopez, Cato Lein. Page 14 Ur Umeå Jazzfestivals arkiv. Page 15 Patrick
Degerman, Ur Umeå Jazzfestivals arkiv, Märta och kossan: Sune Jonsson. Page 16 TR, Skellefteå. Page 17 Ur bildarkivet, Warner Oland Acadamy, Thorn Ullberg. Page 18 Erik Palm, Henke Olofsson, Jonas Lundqvist, Duncan Kemp.
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