Workshop in Duodji
At 15-19 in the Conference Room, Tráhppie.
Artist presentation & Workshop with Lena Lundin Skott. Try making your own key ring and learn methods in tin wire embroidery and leather.
Film screening Je’vida
At 15-16.40, Folkets cinema.
The Finnish Skolt Sami drama film Je’vida from 2023 is shown. The film describes the life of a Skolt Sami woman named Je’vida during the period when her people were forcibly assimilated into Finnish society, while following Je’vida’s life in three different periods.
Árran – the fire burns
12-4pm at the Sami residences, Gammlia.
One of the three corners is kept open. Here you can experience what it can be like to live in a Sami environment, talk about Sami history with the museum’s museum educator or test your skills in throwing a lasso.
Anniversary exhibition
At 1 p.m., Tráhppie.
Artists and artisans who showed their creations in 2014 and the next few years reflect on their artistry then and now. Among others will be Katarina Spike Skum, Lena Sandberg Johansson and Marianne Enoksson.
Inauguration of Sami week
At 12.00, Tráhppie.
The opening of Ubmejen biejvieh where Såhkie’s chairman Lena Maria Nilsson opens the week together with the chairman of Umeå municipality’s cultural committee Helena Smith.
Film screening from the Museum’s photo archive
Every day all week at 10 am at the Bio Abelli Västerbotten museum.
Films by Rickard Tegström (1909–1981) are shown throughout the week. He made several rural films and during the 1960s he made a series of attention-grabbing craft films in collaboration with the museum.
Look in the rearview mirror
At 16.00, Tráhppie.
Peter Steggo shows pictures from Såhkie’s 25-year history. Steggo has previously worked as a minority coordinator for the Sami in Umeå Municipality and is currently a language consultant at the Sami Language Center in Jokkmokk.
Craft coffee
At 16.00, Tráhppie.
Having coffee together while looking at each other’s crafts.
Presentation of the new nursing home
At 2 p.m., Tráhppie.
While waiting for the Sami elderly home in Ubmeje/Umeå to open in Teg’s nursing home, Anna Bergström, quality manager at the Elderly Care Administration, and Sanna Kasos, unit manager at the Sami profile unit at Teg’s elderly center, offer a presentation about the new unit.
Textile craft
14-16 at the textile room, Västerbotten museum.
Axa offers a creative moment with Sami signs. She sets out fabrics, paper, pencils, crayons and other things for the children.
Display Sami textile world
At 11.00 and 13.00, Västerbotten’s museum.
The Sami textiles are displayed together with antiquarian Annika Suomio Ulander, who shows the archive’s Sami textiles and related objects. Also on site is Lena Lundin Skott, craftsman and teacher of duodji.
Review by Sámi Duodji
At 12.00 Textilrummet, Västerbotten museum.
The Samislöjd foundation’s operations manager Johanna Njajta talks about the foundation and the Sami Duodji brand.
Open mold workshop
14-16, Umeå city library.
Sophia Rehnfjell leads children aged 6 and up in mini-crafts where they twist leather bands and create freely.
Reading aloud in Ume Sami
13-16 in the Story Room, Umeå city library.
Sophia Rehnfjell reads her new book Help me! in Umesamian and Swedish.
300 words for snow
At 15.00, Tráhppie.
Johan Sandberg McGuinne is a Sami writer, translator, yoiker and teacher. He writes in several languages, including English, Southern Sami and Scottish Gaelic. Here he will talk about the Southern Sami language’s wealth of snow words.
Healthy Aging
10am-1pm (for invited seniors), Tráhppie.
Workshop on indigenous food supply is held for invited seniors in connection with a research project carried out by Umeå University and the Swedish University of Agriculture.
Literary soiree on film
At 18.00, Tráhppie.
Littfest shows its filmed literary soiree from 2023 about light and hope, in a meeting between text and specially composed music. The soár was created by artists from Sápmi, under the theme Čuovga (Light) with the aim of highlighting activist struggle in the north.
Duodji story
At 12-13 Alva culture, Norrland University Hospital.
Duodjár Niilá Omma talks about the traditional craft.
In memory of Lars Thomasson
10am-12pm, Bio Abelli, Västerbotten museum.
Cecilia Thomasson Blomquist and Charlotta Thomasson, daughters of Lars Thomasson, talk about their father’s extensive work with Sami history and contemporary times, but also what role he has played for the family.
Lecture “Digitalisation of the Sámi people’s archive”
At 1 p.m., Tráhppie.
The lecture gives an insight into the work behind “Digitalization of the Sami people’s archive” and summarizes the project team’s reflections on the material and the selection that is now being made for the digitization. Some of the rich image material is shown and we talk about the exhibition that has emerged under the same name.
The performance Ruohttsot
At 17.15-17.40, Väven, foyer Coffee.
In the performance Ruohttsot, Jasmine, dancer and choreographer, and Juhán, Lule Sami joker, explore geographical identity.
The Sámi Parliament holds a conference
Scandic Plaza Umeå.
The Sámi Parliament is holding a conference on Possible educational paths within the Sámi languages and Sámi culture for young Sámi aged 18-30.
Performance The gentlemen put us here
At 18.00-19.15, Vävenscenen level 1.
A story about a dark chapter in Sweden’s history through the eyes of the forcibly displaced. The performance is based on the book of the same name by Elin Anna Labba.
Evening mass
At 17.00, Martasalen, Umeå city church.
Priest Kim Rehnman talks about the violations that the Church of Sweden has been involved in towards the Sami people, about the consequences this has had and about the reconciliation process that has begun.
The Sami library
13-15, Tráhppie.
Some of the Sami cultural organizations and institutions talk about their activities and visions.
Games and pizza night
18-21, Tráhppie.
Pizza and game night for young people with Sáminuorra.
Conversation about Sami women’s conditions
5-7pm, Women’s History Museum, floor 4, Väven.
Different generations of women meet in a conversation Anna-Britta Rikko and Káren-Ann Hurri, Elin Nejne together with Rönn Lisa Zakrisson Påve, poet and spoken word artist.
Joke away with Stålka
At 2 p.m., Sami villages, Gammlia, Västerbotten museum.
Meet Juhán Niila, yojker, storyteller, social debater and activist for the Sami, during a workshop where you can both listen, guess and try yojka yourself.
Boy and history
12-1pm, Alva culture, building 1D, Norrland University Hospital.
Juhán Niila offers a performance where he alternates yoiks and stories from places, animals and people from the area around Jokkmokk, where he has his roots.
Pub night
At 20.00, New bar “Kajen” in Kulturhuset Väven.
Meet old and new friends. Spontaneous-yelling and impulsive-telling something from the stage. Your moment if you want and dare – of course you do! Oscar Sedholm guest stars.
Nomad Music Theatre
At 19-20.30, Väven.
Nomad is a musical story about different ways of living. The performance is based on interviews that the playwright Lucia Cajchanova has done with the artists Sofia Jannok and Salamanca Taikon Gonzalez.
Launch of the report “Violence against Sami women”
At 3 p.m., Women’s History Museum, floor 4, Väven.
The research group Lávvuo at Umeå University presents results from the research project “Violence against Sami women” which they carried out on behalf of Sámediggi/Sami Parliament in Sweden.
Book release Umesan language book
At 12.00, Tráhppie.
Álgguogåhtie publishes a book about the Umesami verbs they present.
Test Sami apps and games
12-3pm, Tráhppie.
Hanna Karolina Schimmer, Sami library consultant, and Magne Lunder show Sami apps, games and creative craft activities.
Lecture – exploitation of Sápmi
2-4 p.m., Bio Abelli, Västerbotten museum.
Lectures and talks about land exploitation in Sápmi historically and in the present.
Concert Kajsa Balto with band
At 8 p.m., Studion, Folkets hus.
Concert with Kajsa Balto with band and Västanå theater about the Sun’s daughter. In addition, Såhkie awards a youth prize.
Sami fair
At 11-12, Umeå city church
The priest Kim Rehnman, leads the mass. Organist is Lisa Oscarsson and deacon Anna Saxin.