The next 7 days: Things to do in Skellefteå

Trying to find something to do over the next week? Let us be your guide. Have an event you want to share? Just let us know on the email at the bottom of the page.

Tove Alexandersson, champion orienteer.

Tove Alexandersson, champion orienteer.

Foto: Thomas Johansson/TT

Engelska2023-05-19 16:48

Until Sunday May 21
What: 10MILA Skellefteå 2023
A massive national orienteering event! The northernmost 10MILA ever will contain competition in the middle distance on Thursday, city sprint on Friday and the 10MILA bidders on Saturday and Sunday.
Time: Follow the link below for full program!
Where: Skellefteå Golf Club, the city square and Skellefteå Kraft Arena
Suitable for: All
Cost: Free for spectators
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Monday, May 22 and 29
What: Summer Qigong

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Try Qigong oudoors.

Try Summer Qigong outdoors. Qigong is a form of exercise where you perform slow movements while controlling your breathing, quieting your mind, and listening inwards. No prior knowledge is required.
Time: 10.00 -11.00
Where: Hembygdsparken in Bureå
Suitable for: All
Cost: Free

Until May 28
What: Spring exhibition

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Solvik

During a year of intensive creation, the participants in Solvik's art program have drawn, painted, printed graphics and sculpted in clay. At their spring exhibition you will find a great art variety of colors and shapes!
Time: Opening night 18.00-19.00, then every day at 11.00-15.00. Evening opening Tuesday and Wednesday until 19.00.
Where: Pop-up gallery at Trädgårdsgatan 8
Suitable for: All
Cost: Free
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Tuesdays, May 23 & 30
What: Language café
At the language café at the library you can have a fika and practice the Swedish language with other newcomers.
Time: 15:00-16:30
Where: The City Library at Sara kulturhus
Suitable for: All
Cost: Free
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Tuesdays, May 23 & 30
What: Broarna runt

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Join the race at "Broarna runt".

"Broarna Runt" is an exercise race organized in Skellefteå during spring evenings every year since 1965. Behind the race is Skellefteå AIK Friidrott. The race is five kilometers, with start and finish at Nordanå. You can run, jog or walk, and there is a chance to win great prizes!
Time: 16:30 - 19:00
Where: Nordanå
Suitable for: All
Cost: Adults 50 kronor, youths free

Friday, May 19 - Sunday May 21
What: Are we humans or are we dancers? Skellefteå Dance & Ballet Association's Spring Performance 2023
'Are we humans or are we dancers' is a performance about the love of dance, identity, and treatment. A story about our fears and doubts, but also a fairy tale about the freedom to create, express and exist.
Time: 15:00-17:00 and 18:00-20:00
Where: Nordanåteatern
Suitable for: All
Cost: Adults 140 kronor, kids ut to 17 years 70 kronor
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Thursday, May 25
What: Vän i Skellefteå
Vän i Skellefteå is a network that wants to create opportunities for people with different backgrounds to meet. A meeting place for those who want to get to know more people in Skellefteå, practice Swedish, hang out, have someone to talk to, and come up with different activities.
Time: 16.00-19.00
Where: Café Canalen, Sankt Olovsgården
Suitable for: All
Cost: Free

Runs until May 28
What: Bigert & Bergström's The Broken Greenhouse
Where: Skellefteå Art Gallery, Sara kulturhus

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Bigert & Bergström

Skellefteå Art Gallery presents the Broken Greenhouse by the Swedish art duo Bigert & Bergström, whose new exhibition, The Broken Greenhouse, focuses on the destructive human impulse to control and tame nature by creating space for cultivation and cities. For this exhibition, the artists are showing new and older works that in different ways allude to the idea that nature created for humanity a perfect climate that is now broken. For almost thirty years, Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström's work has been driven by scientific and historical theories, often with clear reference to issues concerning the current climate crisis
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Runs until May 21
What: SPACE, Exhibition 

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The SPACE exhibition

Graduates of the Bild Aesthetic program welcome you to their final exhibition where selected works on the theme SPACE are displayed.
Time: Tuesdays 10:00-19:00, Wednesday to Sunday 10:00-16:00
Where: Exhibition room, Nordanå
Suitable for: All
Cost: Free
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Runs until May 26 (no weekends)
What: Adamah

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Adamah

Photo exhibition with nine images of LGBTIQA+ people who embody the vocabulary of sacred texts with their bodies. With words from the bible and the hymnal written on bare skin, the body and the words are in focus.
Isboden restaurant and cafe is open in connection with the exhibition for soup lunch and coffee every Wednesday-Friday at 11-13 while the exhibition is in progress.
Time: 10.00-18.00
Where: Stiftsgarden, Brännavägen 25, 931 44 Skellefteå
Suitable for: All
Cost: Free
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