(Photo: Per Melander)
Insight and outlook – Conference on Sábmie related research
organised by Várdduo – Centre for Sámi research
Ubmejen universitiähta/Umeå University
8-10 October 2024, Umeå.
SOCIAL EVENTS
Tuesday October 8
On the first day of the conference, there will be a mingle dinner where we will eat well and meet each other in a relaxed way. The venue for the event is Restaurant ÚMA at Clarion Hotel Umeå, located next to the Ume River in central Umeå.
Wednesday October 9
On Wednesday evening a conference dinner including entertainment will take place at Västra Paviljongen - West Pavilion – located at downtown Umeå. The place is historic because in this former gymnastic hall the world's first joik concert was performed in 1910. To sense the historical place, the evening will be gilded with joik performed by Jörgen Stenberg together with Nils Johansson on keyboard and electronica!
Jörgen Stenberg is one of the few active Ume Sámi joik artists, and in 1995 he was one of the very first Sámi from Sweden to take part in the Sámi Grand Prix melody festival. He won the competition in 2014, and in 2013 Jörgen Stenberg was awarded the Umeå Sámi Association's Såhkies honorary prize for his contribution to Sámi joik. In 2013 Stenberg released his first album Vuöllieh.
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Current exhibition at Bildmuseet*
Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest
The exhibition brings together contemporary art exploring our complex relationship with the forest, ranging from ideas of an inviolable intrinsic value to the conception of something to be utilized as an economic asset or a space for recreation. What is a forest? And what pressing questions about it are relevant here and now?
Participating are Matti Aikio, Gerd Aurell & Micael Norberg, Malin Arnell & Åsa Elzén, Toms Kokins, Norrakollektivet, Elia Nurvista, Uriel Orlow, Edith Marie Pasquier, Jörgen Stenberg, and Lena Ylipää.
Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest is produced by Bildmuseet with support from The Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation.
https://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibitions/2024/eight-degrees--contemporary-art-on-the-forest/
* This exhibition is a proposition for activities to do when visiting Umeå and are not part of the program.