UMEÅ. The relationship between a photographer and the photo subject is not as simple and obvious as it sometimes may seem. [...]
LAINIO. If you travel between Pajala and Vittangi in northern Sweden, you will suddenly see a sign on the side [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO. Border towns Haparanda and Tornio are growing together into a single unit. The long term vision is to constitute [...]
PAJALA. With the Internet, anyone with passion, time and knowledge can open a TV-channel on their own. Enthusiasts Bror Astermo [...]
LULEÅ. Artist Lisa Vipola wears a self-made Sami costume. She grew up in a Sami environment in northern Sweden and [...]
HAPARANDA. Last weekend, the sound festival HapaRaTor made its debut in Haparanda. People listened to sound from Russian villages, Tunisian [...]
HAPARANDA. The ongoing big culture festival Vinterglöd [Winter Glow] in Haparanda had an international start last weekend. People from the [...]
UMEÅ. More and more information about the program of the Umeå 2014 European Culture Capital is now getting available. Some of [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO. When light slowly returns after a long winter, Haparanda town celebrates its annual culture festival Vinterglöd [Winter Glow, 22/2 [...]
UMEÅ. To protect citizens from diseases and bad and ugly environment is one of the authorities´tasks. Sometimes their ambitions stretch [...]
LULEÅ. From 2013, the public libraries in Norrbotten county are united into one single unit. This means that a reader [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO, JUOKSENGI/JUOKSENKI. Living at a national border gives a number of advantages – the access to different cultures, languages, food [...]
UMEÅ. The Umeå twins Samuel and Mikael Åhdén have some joint passions – guitars, cars and music. The brothers have [...]
VITSANIEMI. Gunhild Stensmyr has a vision. She wants to create a modern art museum in the Torne Valley, where artists [...]
KIRUNA. The northern mining town of Kiruna is today well-known, because of the dramatic fact that central parts of it [...]
LULEÅ. The time-consuming embroidery handicraft was formerly looked upon as a domestic female activity with low status, but has [...]
Sweden’s most beautiful tradition – Lucia – is celebrated annually on December 13th, next Friday. [...]
KORPILOMBOLO. “To find light in the darkness.” It’s a statement for the European Festival of the Night, held in the [...]
LULEÅ. The Barents Region is extremely rich in languages: Komi, Nenets, Sami, Karelian, Meänkieli, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Swedish etc. But [...]
JOKKMOKK. Next March you will be able to fly over the majestic mountains in the UNESCO World Heritage “Laponia” in [...]
GÄLLIVARE. Sweden’s tastiest sandwich is called Reindeer Dream, and is made from smoked and salted reindeer meat in white sourdough [...]
II. What do you scream when you see a really scary horror film? Probably something like Iik!! This is also [...]
LULEÅ. Late autumn, before snow covers the ground, is a very dark time in the north. From 25th of October [...]
UMEÅ. Works by one of Indias most influental photograpers – Dayanita Singh – can now be seen in Umeå. The [...]
PITEÅ. Scandinavia’s largest organ has now been built and installed in the northern town of Piteå. With 9 000 [...]
UMEÅ. Today the curtains will go up for the film festival MOVE in Umeå. A large selection of films will [...]
UMEÅ. Here it is for the second year running, Festival Normal, a stage art event that gives anybody who is [...]
UMEÅ. – We are pioneers, said Simon Persson, the host of the ceremony when Umeå City Library unveiled a very [...]
UMEÅ. A merger between contemporary dance and philosophy will next week result in a dance performance at the Black Box [...]
LULEÅ. The culture of Norrbotten county has earlier been associated with traditional and decorative arts and crafts, lagging behind more [...]
UMEÅ/LULEÅ. Last weekend Art of the Streets rolled into Umeå, and this Saturday the Graffiti Coach Tour will do the [...]
UMEÅ. A week ago the the popfolk group Väärt, with its roots in the counties of Norrbotten and Västerbotten. released [...]
MO I RANA. The theatre play “Elsa Laula – kvinnen som sprengte grenser” [the woman who blew boundaries away] will [...]
UMEÅ. Even the most hardcore city slicker can get a kick out of nature when visiting the Umedalen Sculpture Park [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO. Fashion designer Marju Matsin in Haparanda likes to play with materials and design. The result can be stylish [...]
SWEDEN. August is the time when the people of Sweden traditionally get their first bite of this seasons crayfish and [...]
HAPARANDA/UMEÅ. Barentsculture.com´s personnal will during coming months increase by 100 percent. Lasse Koski Anjou from Umeå in Västerbotten County, will [...]
KIRUNA. Mining town of Kiruna is changing. When digging out the iron below the earth, cracks and ground movements occur [...]
BARENTS REGION. The bicycle invention has been praised by many. Radio reporter Eric Sandström (1910 – 1992) produced Sweden’s bicycle [...]
TROMSØ. At the end of the 19th Century and beginning of the 20th Century so called “primitive peoples” where shown [...]
TORNE VALLEY. Some new signs on the lampposts have recenty appeared in HaparandaTornio. The same symbols are also on the [...]
HAPARANDA. The border town of Haparanda has for some years invested in public art – one million Swedish crowns [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO. The Kalottjazz & Blues festival is in full swing in border towns Haparanda and Tornio. The intimate and [...]
ERKHEIKKI. The Midsummer music and culture festival “Meänfestivaali” is this year held for the 10th time. What was once a [...]
KIRUNA. Swedish mining town Kiruna will be very different in the future. The excavation for iron ore continues more than [...]
HAPARANDA. Performance artist Lynn Lu from Singapore throws more water on the sauna stones. The hot air smells of tar, [...]
BODEN. In 2010, the city of Boden took a giant step forward on the art scene. The huge oats warehouse, [...]
UMEÅ Arts Campus is growing. Last weekend the new museum for contemporary art and visual culture, seven floors for exhibitions [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO. Industry-metal band Raubtier’s third album “Från Norrland till Helvetets Port” (From Nothern Sweden to the Gate of Hell) has [...]
UMEÅ. The first events in Umeå’s Big Year have now been presented. Umeå and Riga have been appointed Culture Capitals [...]
LOVIKKA. Lovikka is a small village in northern Sweden, famous for its wollen mittens. This special kind of mittens was [...]
PITEÅ. This season’s last ice music concert by the Eternity Orchestra [Evighetens Orkester] will be held in Piteå, Sweden, tomorrow [...]
HAPARANDA-TORNIO. Ouga Chaka! Ouga Chaka! Ouga ouga ouga chaka! Twelve hard shouting women made their own version of “Hooked on a [...]
