Post-conference Excursions Öland`s Harvest Festival – the

Places, people, stories conference
28-30 September 2011
Post-conference Excursions
Please register together with your conference registration to be sure of your place on one of
our three amazing excursions.
All excursions leave from Brofästet. The prices include tax.
Excursion 1
Öland’s Harvest Festival – the Art Night.
Friday, 30 September, kl 17.30 – late
Cost: 400 SEK (dinner included)
As the sun sets hundreds of activities, exhibitions and shows will open up at the largest
harvest festival in Sweden. Your guide will take you to some of the festival’s most
spectacular events on the Art Night. You will be visiting artists at their studios, handicraft
workshops, night fairs and farmers’ markets in a landscape which is on the UNESCO world
heritage list as a “continuing cultural landscape”.
Excursion 2
With Jan Jörnmark to Masten, Kristianopel –
an open-air dance floor of former glory
Saturday, 1 October, kl 09.00 – 14.00
Cost: 300 SEK (lunch included)
Built in 1953, Masten soon became the third largest amusement park with open-air dance
floor in Sweden. Chuck Berry, Phil Lynott and Elvis Costello played here as well as many
Swedish artists including ABBA, Gyllene Tider and Svenne & Lotta. Today the site is an
abandoned monument of the recent past evoking memories and nostalgic sentiments.
We invite you to explore this place of former glory with Jan Jörnmark as our guide. More
information about Masten is at www.kristianopelsgoif.com/masten/ (in Swedish).
Excursion 3
Embrace! – a multi-media art and culture exhibition in Växjö
Saturday, 1 October, kl 08.30 – 14.30.
Cost: 300 SEK (lunch at restaurant included)
 You will be able to take along your luggage and meet train connections at 13.00 or later
from Växjö station to Copenhagen Airport, Gothenburg or Stockholm.
Welcome to Embrace!, a multi-media art and culture exhibition at the Utvandrarnas Hus in
Växjö about immigration and integration. It is one of the largest and most exciting group
shows in Sweden, featuring over 30 highly accomplished Swedish American artists, their
American Dream and their journey as immigrants. Embrace! encourages all to discover
similarities amongst each other, and to celebrate differences that are our cultural heritage, in
order to create a world in which all people regardless of race, religion or origin can live
harmoniously together. Embrace! is shown in several cities in Småland this fall and winter,
and is expected to be at the House of Sweden in Washington DC, USA, in 2013. More
information about at Embrace! is at www.embrace.se.
We have an exciting opportunity for a private visit to Embrace!, where we will be greeted by
the head of the museum, Erica Månsson, and can engage in an interactive discussion with
curator Lixuan An. We will also enjoy a private guided tour and discussion on the rich
history of Swedish migration to America in the last century, followed by a lunch at one of the
best restaurants in town. Seating is limited to 65, so sign up early!