SVÄV

Graceful, swirling, adventurous, strong-willed!

A trio that:

plays both old and new

explores tone and rhythm

plays together with the dancers and challenges its audience

Anna Nordesjö Segerström - fiddle
Maria Olsson - double bass
Carin Ehelmsdotter - storyteller, guitar

Sväv will have a storytelling performance in Miklagård on Friday and perform to dance in Tonsalen on Saturday. The author Britta Stenberg opens the storytelling performance and her book that inspired the show will be on sale.                                       

Storytelling Performance

Ulrika Lovisa Andersdotter,  Adak-Ulla

Kristina and Selma

A tale about the origin of a community

A tale of courage to go one’s own way

A tale of hard-work, longing, joy and sorrow

A tale that extends across three generations

Who was she really, this woman who so many rumours were spread about. Some true, others spiced with both envy and ridicule.

A woman should have known her place, but Ulrika challenged the structure of society at all levels. She was a person with an irrepressible urge to constantly want more, see more and not be stopped by restrictions. 

But she must have also experienced doubts, sadness, despair?

How did she resist the views, slander and malicious tongues of her time?

How did she put all this behind her and move on?

Keep moving forward – that’s what she did!

To finish the story with both Kristina and Selma seems natural since Adak-Ulla was my great great grandmother, Christina was my great grandmother and Selma was my grandmother. We are all descendants of Ulrika Lovisa, Adak-Ulla. 

Without her and n'Jani, the village of Adak would not have become what it came to be and I would not be standing here today!

/Carin Ehelmsdotter

The author Britta Stenberg comes from Malå. She is a journalist at Norran and has previously published the books Pigdrömmar, Eldfåglar, Kristus i Berget, and Som en Krympfotad. 

The novel about Adak-Ulla: En bok om Qvinnan som levde under 1800-talet och som skapade ett namn vida känt.

She was Västerbotten’s first driver and, because of her strengths and talents, she became an inventor, survivor and visionary.