Storytelling festival

Together with the Dance and Ballet Association, we meet storytelling and dance in a playful and fun way.

The fairy tale spinning wheel spins on, and where it stops - that's the story. With storytellers from Västerbottensteatern.

Welcome to this year's packed Storytelling Festival with the theme Courage. Come and take part in Storytelling Power and Listening Pleasure.

Students in class 3 from Tuböleskolan show their thoughts and letters, poems and pictures about what is good about the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Exhibition in Sara Cultural Center.

Free soup lunch combined with storytelling from a small stage at Hubben.

Poet and author Mats Söderlund talks about his book Härlig är jorden, which was awarded the Norrland Literature Prize 2024. A conversation about places we love and how best to protect them.

Istermyrliden, what does this name really mean? Ulf Lundström tells us based on his thesis; Bebyggelsenamnen i Bureå, Burträsks och Lövångers socknar i Skellefteå kommun.

Mirja Lakso on what it's like to live in a country where a small power elite rules with an iron fist

Elisabeth Engberg describes the crisis years of the 1830s, when the population of northern Sweden suffered from recurring crop failures for almost 10 consecutive years.

Storyteller and drama teacher Rose-Marie Lindfors holds a workshop in storytelling for high school. For invited groups.

Students in class 3 from Tuböleskolan show their thoughts and letters, poems and pictures about what is good about the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Exhibition in Sara Cultural Center.

Stories for change! About people's rights, living conditions and dreams, raising the voices of Västerbotten for an everyday life free from obstacles.

Lunch program with poetry, music and song with Marianne Folkedotter and Rickard N Jokela

Robert Tedestedt talks about a legendary documentary filmmaker who worked with Walt Disney and others.

Rolf Granstrand talks about the Finnish evacuation and how it affected the Skellefte area.

Silvia Kakembo tells us about her work and gives us tools to create public opinion and increase the impact in the public debate.

Rose-Marie Lindfors (Storyteller and drama teacher) invites you to a moment of storytelling. You are also welcome to share your own stories if you wish.

A historical walk through our local history exhibition Storsia with Maja Östlund

The popular local historian Ulf Lundström lectures on some phenomena in Västerbotten folklore.

Opening of the Storytelling Festival, exhibition and storytelling café by and with Malin Rost.

A festive taste of the Storytelling Festival week ahead.

An adapted performance for people with disabilities.

Bishop Emeritus Jonas Jonsson talks about Archbishop and Peace Prize winner Nathan Söderblom and the role of the Church in Europe during the interwar period.

Journalist Mirja Lakso on what it's like to live in a country where a small power elite rules with an iron fist.

A broad mix of musical mineral finds interwoven with memories, anecdotes and free associations.

Joik by one of the greatest contemporary traditional Sápmi joikists together with Axel Andersson Utsi on keyboard and string.

By Camilla Blomqvist. A story about the rise and fall of Algots Nord, about friendship, assembly lines and v-jeans.

Students in class 3 from Tuböleskolan show their thoughts and letters, poems and pictures about what is good about the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Exhibition in Sara Cultural Center.

Stories for change! About people's rights, living conditions and dreams, raising the voices of Västerbotten for an everyday life free from obstacles.

Together with the Dance and Ballet Association, we meet storytelling and dance in a playful and fun way.

Julia, who is a medical foot care therapist and artist, gives 30 minutes of foot care treatment in parallel with interviewing the client with an audience and recording a pod.

Free soup lunch combined with storytelling from a small stage at Hubben.

Julia, who is a medical foot care therapist and artist, gives 30 minutes of foot care treatment in parallel with interviewing the client with an audience and recording a pod.

A music and storytelling performance about Gammalsvenskby in present-day Ukraine

Fragments from people's lives based on footprints on wallpaper rolls. Monologue performed by podiatrist and artist Julia Larsson. 

CANCELLED! Kent Lundholm talks about his book Älskade Ester. Ester was often judged for her appearance and her slowness, but was a wise, humorous and fighting woman.

Till minnet av Lajka is Jannike's second book and is about Ellen who works in home care and the people she meets there.

Jörgen Andersson, archivist at Skellefteå Museum, shares his knowledge and stories about the dramatic encounter between Swedish and Russian forces.

Julia, who is a medical foot care therapist and artist, gives 30 minutes of foot care treatment in parallel with interviewing the client with an audience and recording a pod.

We create stories together with the children and then tell stories from near and far.

OPEN ROPES CANCELED!

A historical walk through our local history exhibition Storsia with Maja Östlund

A conversation with the author and former factory worker Maria Hamberg about lifting invisible stories and places, and about how memories settle in the body.

Julia, who is a medical foot care therapist and artist, gives 30 minutes of foot care treatment in parallel with interviewing the client with an audience and recording a pod.

Archaeologist and historian of technology Carina Bennerhag presents new research that changes our view of the early history of iron in the north.

This is how Sara Lidman encouraged the women of Algot to resist.

Join Peter Holmblad on a journey of archaeological discovery.

Story sharing café with the band Less Brave Men and Skelleftebygdens Berättarförening.

A conversation between actor Reuben Sallmander and Västerbottensteatern's dramaturge Tora von Platen with music.

A novel that questions not only human relationships, but also man's relationship with nature.

Anne Sandlund, a small-scale farmer from Ljusvattnet, Burträsk, talks about how we who live in the north can defy the climate with cunning, knowledge and planning.

Fragments from people's lives based on footprints on wallpaper rolls. Monologue performed by podiatrist and artist Julia Larsson. 

By Camilla Blomqvist. A story about the rise and fall of Algots Nord, about friendship, assembly lines and v-jeans.

A concert by the two experienced musicians Carolina on guitar and Daniel on nyckelharpa. They weave stories and anecdotes between the songs.

Participants in the Solvik Writers' School read their own texts and share sixteen interlinking life stories.

Together with the Dance and Ballet Association, we meet storytelling and dance in a playful and fun way.

H C Andersen's classic fairy tale retold in the King and Queen Theater version. Invited groups only.

Students in class 3 from Tuböleskolan show their thoughts and letters, poems and pictures about what is good about the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Exhibition in Sara Cultural Center.

Stories for change! About people's rights, living conditions and dreams, raising the voices of Västerbotten for an everyday life free from obstacles.

Free soup lunch combined with storytelling from a small stage at Hubben.

H C Andersen's classic fairy tale retold in the King and Queen Theater version. Invited groups only.

The duo Tania Naranjo and Reuben Sallmander together with The True Music Orchestra invite us to an exciting encounter between different musical styles.

Doris Ekefjärd talks about how her writer's block developed into four books.

Archivist Jörgen Andersson highlights two objects that at first glance may seem mundane, but which bear traces of a dramatic time in our history.

During the Second World War, many families and villages in our area took in Finnish refugees. Museum educator Sandra Marklund explains.

Västerbottensteatern's dramaturge Tora von Platen talks to actor and writer Zinat Pirzadeh and artist, director and playwright Nasim Aghili

Maja Östlund, curator at Skellefteå Museum, guides us through the story of strikebreakers, state intervention and collective will to fight.

In the performing arts, it is important to be able to talk about the difficult and the disturbing. But doing so requires many conscious choices. How do we show the problems without recreating them?

Jörgen Andersson is an archivist at Skellefteå Museum and explains

Carina Linder talks about when her father won the National Golden Axe and the show "The Perfect Forest"

Meet the frontman of Refused, along with Vidar Burman Melin, drummer in Kjells Bänk, and Alice Elveros, bassist and singer in Röda Naglar, in a conversation about what courage means in their musical lives. The moderator is Per Strömbro. 

Why Nordic cooperation is seen as more important than ever in today's troubled world.

Hilding Carlsson tells how ordinary people in Västerbotten in the 19th century became interested in organ building

With warmth and compassion, Deborah Edin invites you to a life-affirming performance filled with music, stories and reflection.

New important, exciting and topical performance, by and with the colt. Directed by Oskar Thunberg.

A concert performance with Frida Andersson and Fredrik Furu

A music and poetry performance with elements of provocative theater about hate, where the language is Norrbotten, but the hate is general. From 18 years!

A performance that moves between hip-hop, poetry and storytelling - where the present and the human voice are at the center.

Together with the Dance and Ballet Association, we meet storytelling and dance in a playful and fun way.

about Kim who has a dream and is offered a magical adventure, where courage and cunning are needed when problems suddenly arise.

Students in class 3 from Tuböleskolan show their thoughts and letters, poems and pictures about what is good about the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Exhibition in Sara Cultural Center.

Stories for change! About people's rights, living conditions and dreams, raising the voices of Västerbotten for an everyday life free from obstacles.

Free soup lunch combined with storytelling from a small stage at Hubben.

A musical storytelling performance in which Saga Eserstam and Hans Ericsson explore the melodious and rhythmic world that characterizes the music of Dolores and The Cranberries.

Come and eat waffles and solve the quiz, together as a team or individually.

Elisabeth Engberg talks about the great fire in Bonnstan in 1937 and how the church town was saved against all odds.

Two young boys, Berra and Benny, make a macabre discovery in a railroad car in Skellefteå in the summer of 1965. They recognize the man who is dumped among the slaughter remains.

We explore the art of oral storytelling, its possibilities, mysteries and place in the storyteller's life and everyday life.

Join us for a crazy, music-filled, big-hearted adventure with a bold leap into the fairytale world of the Brothers Grimm. In English.

A storytelling performance about Lina Sandell and her songs.

Agnes Lundmark and her band with musical arrangements that smell of pop, soul and song

Singer of the multi-award winning band Deportees on the main stage of Sara Cultural Center during the Storytelling Festival.

Brave and talkative storytellers compete in an impromptu and highly entertaining "Storytelling Battle". The result is spontaneous and hilarious!

Students in class 3 from Tuböleskolan show their thoughts and letters, poems and pictures about what is good about the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Exhibition in Sara Cultural Center.

Stories for change! About people's rights, living conditions and dreams, raising the voices of Västerbotten for an everyday life free from obstacles.

Meet local and more distant authors at the open stage and book table at the City Library.

Jörgen Andersson, archivist at Skellefteå Museum, shares his knowledge and stories about the dramatic encounter between Swedish and Russian forces.

H C Andersen's classic fairy tale in Theater King and Queen's version. For children 6 - 10 years in adult company.

The 50th anniversary of Burträsksvängen is celebrated with a full day of bush games, concerts, storytelling and dancing. The evening ends with a movie premiere.

Through preserved medical records, we meet the people behind the numbers, several of whom became role models in Ensign Steel's legends.

Screening of documentary film about Rönnskär, which deals with the conflict between welfare and environmental degradation. Short presentation by Monica Larsson.

H C Andersen's classic fairy tale in Theater King and Queen's version. For children 6 - 10 years in adult company.

This year's theme: KURAGE - MORE THAN A GLANCE OF COURAGE

An honest, humorous and touching musical storytelling performance about sexuality, desire, liberation, shame and anger. 

About Sara Lidman's return to Missenträsk.

A lecture on the artist couple by music journalist and curator Elena Wolay.

A mix of well-known pop songs, songs and hits - arranged directly for them by Tomas Isacsson and Bo Selinder.

A free adaptation of Dag Thelander's & Per Wickström's musical Jernbanan after Sara Lidman.

Students in class 3 from Tuböleskolan show their thoughts and letters, poems and pictures about what is good about the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Exhibition in Sara Cultural Center.

Stories for change! About people's rights, living conditions and dreams, raising the voices of Västerbotten for an everyday life free from obstacles.

Join Pernilla Lindström, the museum's architectural historian, on a journey in Sara's footsteps.

Nöjesfabriken opens the Brothers Grimm's magical storybook.

Maja Östlund, curator at Skellefteå Museum, guides us through the story of strikebreakers, state intervention and collective will to fight.

With music, song and words we honor the memory of Meta Andreasson, Åbyn, Burträsk.

Storytelling performance for children filled with song and music. Inspired by Sara Liman's "Granen" but set in the present day.

Nöjesfabriken opens the Brothers Grimm's magical storybook.