Travelers' Day

Skellefteå celebrates Resandefolket on September 29 in Sara kulturhus. The Day of the Traveling People is celebrated to commemorate the date when the first immigration of Roma to the Nordic countries and Stockholm took place. Several organizers then invite you to a party in Sara Kulturhus to highlight the day and rejoice together.

PROGRAM:

12.00 - 12.20 Opening of the Travelers' Day. Location: Kulturtrappan.
Opening speech by Britt-Inger Hedström Lundqvist and Andreas Löwenhöök.

12.30 - 13.00 Guided tour of the exhibition "Contemporary and Contemporary Traveling Artists and Craftsmen". Location: South Foyer
The exhibition is on display Sept 24 - Oct 1. The exhibition tells the story of a time when the objects that are now considered art were seen as everyday objects or food, and which in our time are seen as art. The exhibition raises questions such as: What is art? Can everyday objects be art? How has art changed over time? Link to the exhibition: https://forlagdikko.nu/samtida-och-datida-resandekonstnarer-och-hantverkare/
ARR: Sensus, RUNG, DIKKO and Sara kulturhus

13.00 - 13.30 Book reading The Tale of Valentin. Location: Västerbottensrummet.
During the story time you get to follow Valentin who is visiting his grandmother at a junkyard. There he spends time with the animals and with his best friend. We follow Valentin on his adventures during his summer with his grandmother. The story, which consists of different stories, has been adapted and adapted to each other by Britt-Inger Hedström Lundqvist. Then the story has been directly translated into travel romance by travelers from Norrland, Sonny Carlsson and Linda Lundqvist. Link to more text about the story: https://forlagdikko.nu/sagan-om-valentin/
Participants: by Linda Lundqvist and Sonny Carlsson. Reading in Swedish and travel romance.
ARR: Sensus, Stadsbiblioteket, DIKKO & RUNG. No tickets, drop in.

13.30 - 14.00 Creative workshop at the library in connection with reading. Location: The library. No tickets, drop in.

13.45 - 14.00 Janna-Li and friends
play Jazz Manouche, also known as Hot Club Jazz or Django Jazz, after its main progenitor Django Reinhart. It is a musical genre that combines jazz with traditional Roma music. 'Manouche' means man in Romani.
Participants: Janna Li Janke violin and guitar, Jonas Åkerström violin, Karl-Martin Munter violin
ARR: Sensus, RUNG, DIKKO & Västerbottensteatern. No tickets - drop in.

14.00 - 14.30 Guided tour of the exhibition "Contemporary and Contemporary Traveling Artists and Craftsmen". Location: South Foyer
The exhibition is on display Sept 24 - Oct 1. The exhibition tells the story of a time when the objects that are now considered art were seen as everyday objects or food, and which in our time are seen as art. The exhibition raises questions such as: What is art? Can everyday objects be art? How has art changed over time? Link to the exhibition: https://forlagdikko.nu/samtida-och-datida-resandekonstnarer-och-hantverkare/
ARR: Sensus, RUNG, DIKKO & Sara kulturhus

14.45 - 15.00 Old travel songs performed by Sonny Carlsson. Location: Kulturtrappan.
Sonny Carlsson plays and sings old travel songs in the way they were sung in the past, mixed with some new songs. Sonny sings in Swedish and travel romance. ARR: Sensus, RUNG, DIKKO & Västerbottensteatern. No tickets - drop in.

15.00 - 15.45 Lecture on the history of travelers. Location: Kulturtrappan.
A description of the history of the Romani people and the antiziganism that has existed and exists in Sweden and Europe. Britt-Inger Hedström Lundqvist belongs to the Resandefolket, which is the largest and oldest group in the Roma minority in Sweden. She is a trained ethnologist and the publisher of DIKKO magazine, the only digital Traveler/Roma magazine in Sweden.
Participant Britt-Inger Lundqvist. ARR: Sensus, RUNG, DIKKO & Västerbottensteatern. No tickets available. Drop in.

15.45 - 16.00 Old travel songs performed by Sonny Carlsson. Location: Kulturtrappan.
Sonny Carlsson plays and sings old travel songs in the way they were sung in the past, mixed with some new songs. Sonny sings in Swedish and travel romance. ARR: Sensus, RUNG, DIKKO & Västerbottensteatern. No tickets - drop in.

18.00 - 19.20 Tschandala/Tattaren with Lindy Larsson & Bon Bon band. Location: stage 4. Bilket required!
In the acclaimed performance Tschandala/Tattaren, Lindy Larsson, backed by the acclaimed orchestra Bon Bon Band, offers a personal theater concert based on his origins. He gives a voice to the travelers and makes visible a blind spot in our Swedish history that resonates into our present. The performance tackles large and complex questions about exclusion and abuse, but also about survival, healing and liberation. It is a musical manifestation, high-voltage Romani music without a safety net and an urgent measure to preserve an endangered minority, the Romani people. It is a revision of Swedish history and a punky reckoning with Strindberg and the short novel "Tschandala".

Tschandala/Tattaren is produced in collaboration with Strindbergs Intima Teater.

Participants and director Lindy Larsson
Lyrics Lindy Larsson, Stefan Forss, August Strindberg
Costumes Delaine Le Bas, Stefan Forss
Music Bon Bon Band
Sound & light Gustave Lund
Duration approx. 1 hr 20 min without intermission

Tickets: SEK 200, Youth (up to 26 years)/student SEK 100. Sold via vasterbottensteatern.se, tickster.com & Skellefteå Tourist Center tel. 0910-452510. Ticket release September 4

ARR: RUNG & Västerbottensteatern.