Delegates interested in this programme will be offered direct contact with various projects concerned with sustainable devel-opment in the region. These projects relate to sustainable community development, the ecological supply of foodstuffs in a cold climate, efficient ecological building using local materials, and also reclamation and recycling.

For more information please write to:
Luleå Stads Hushållningsgille
Köpmangatan 2
972 38 Luleå
Fax: +46-920-244190 or send an e-mail to the Chairman: nils.tiberg@sb.luth.se

Throughout the week the hotels will assist you with various enjoyable events. These do not need to be pre-booked before arrival in Luleå. Information on booking and charges will be available at your hotel.

Some examples are given below:

• Trip by dog sleigh, all-day and half-day
• Snowmobile rides through the forest and over the rivers with a packed lunch. Evening trips also possible and, hopefully, with the Northern lights.
• Visits to the Wild West farm
• Norrbotten dinner including exhibition and opportunity to see handicrafts made by local artisans

Kemi in northern Finland lies 140 kilome-ters up from Luleå in Sweden. In 2 000 the town will build its fifth snowcastle which opens its gates at the beginning of February. The Millennium SnowCastle welcomes all participants of the Winter Cities Conference in Lulea (and Kiruna) to celebrate the New Year Thousand in Kemi. The Millennium SnowCastle is a new and different attraction - an exciting Italian-style architectual creation in snow on the plains of the Gulf of Bothnia. And how to get to Kemi and to the Millennium SnowCastle? From Lulea it takes approximately two hours to drive to Kemi. You will also easily get to Kemi by bus. For more information, please call +358(0) 16 259 502.

We wish you very much welcome to the Millennium SnowCastle!

Fire and ice are the theme at the Lulaå ARcTic Festival 8-14 February 2000, in conjunction with Winter Cities 2000. A world Championship in Ice Sulpture and a symposium in European fire sculpture are two exciting events which promise unforgettable experiences.

The world championship in Ice sculpture has only been arranged on one previous occasion, in Alaska. Now it´s Luleå´s turn, where 40 of the world´s most eminent ice sculptors from all corners of the globe will be competing in ice clear as glass, all taken directly from Luleå Bay.

The European Symposium in Fire Sculpture is being held for the second time. For two days European artists will be presenting their inflammable sculptures, and on the last day they will let the flames take on exciting shapes against the snow and the dark winter sky.

Other events at the Luleå ARcTic Festival:

A new creative Multi-Art Show with dancing, music and ice stage setting. Ice and snow construction, the result of a research project involving architects, ice research workers and artists.
An international workshop in ice sculpture. Gigantic ice slides and exciting play area in snow.
Several instructive courses in snow sculpture for children and young people. A snow restaurant offering exciting dishes and warm drinks.

The Luleå ARcTic Festival is arranged by the Art Group in Luleå and City of Luleå.

The four towers
Course in snow-sculpture for adults at Gültzauudden in Luleå
During the week before the Winter Cities Conference, we will be holding on a course with two functions:
1. To teach playgroup leaders how to work with snow sculpture, so they can use it in their children’s groups;
2. To create a stage design - a setting for the winter adventure.

Winter adventure
Outdoor drama for 4 to 5-year-olds from playgroups. The children will help to create the adventure. We will start in a Sami hut or tent, and the action will then take place outside, amongst the snow sculptures and fir trees on Gültzauudden [Gültzau Promon-tory].

Ice and fire sculpture
During the conference we will be working with teenagers from Luleå and pupils from the Visual Arts College at Valkeaskoski, Finland.

Today´s children - a challenge?

Teaching conference on a Reggio Emilia-inspired method for working with children and youths. The conference will include a presentation of the documented thoughts and notions of children concerning SNW.

Date: 23-24 February, 2000
Place: Luleå
For information, contact: Sonja Lundmark
+46 920 29 45 10
e-post sonja.lundmark@skol.lulea.se

Four artists/groups of artists from the Nor-dic countries will each have a room in the House of Art [Konstens Hus] to portray winter artistically in their own way. The invited artists all live in countries which have a real winter climate, i.e. they all have a personal relationship with and experience of real winter. The Icelander surrounded by the sea, the Norwegian crammed in between the gulf stream and the mountains, the Finn in a country be-tween Sweden, Norway and the infinite expanses of Russia, and the Swede in his long, long country where the difference in temperature between north and south can be as much as 30 - 40 degrees Celsius. All of them with different backgrounds and points of departure.

The visitor moves between the various "rooms" at the House of Art, where the seasons change: he leaves one winter and steps at once into another. Perhaps he won’t be quite sure whether he’s inside or out!

Northern Forum´s 2000
Regional Coordinators meeting in
February, 2000

Opens a world of science!
Come to The House of Science and visit the world of technology of our region! Here you can find the steelplant, the mine, the power station and the forest. Technology of everyday life, like the car or the dishwasher are here to explore too.

At Teknikens Hus you can easily interact with other people and with technology. No barriers, no "do not touch" signs will stand in your way.

You can invent anything you want and technology becomes a tool for your imagination.

Try it yourself! Go exploring! You can do it!

Hours: Tue, Thu, Fri 9 am-4pm,
Wed 9 am-8 pm, Sat and Sun 11 am-4 pm. Mon closed. Free entrance.

Situated on the University Campus, Luleå.
Bus #15, 16 and 17.

For information, please call +46 920 722 01. http//www.luth.se

Luleå Basket

Luleå Basket is hosting a Women´s National League basketball game on 12 February.