Norrlandsoperan
The city has an opera house, and a famous opera company. Besides opera, the building hosts a large number of other events.
Megazone
Adventure centre on Rådhustorget in central Umeå. Here anyone can get his dose of action in the 600 m^2 large area for Laserdome, Phazerzone as well as 26 Fort Boyard style cells with various problem solving tasks. This wonderful place also holds an arcade game centre and a large pool and snooker hall. On top of this, there is a reasonably prized grill.
House of Metal
House of Metal is a two day indoor festival concentrating on rock and metal in different forms. It has three main stages and two cover band stages, with approximately 25 bands from Sweden and all over the world performing. In 2010 the festival is held 5-6 mars.
With 27,000 students, UmeÃ¥ is Swedenâs fifth largest university city.
SF cinema
The main cinema in the city centre mostly showing hollywood blockbusters and swedish film.
Umeå Open
Annual popular music festival during three days in mid March attracting thousands of visitors. This is the biggest music event in Umeå. Most of the artists and bands are of Swedish origin.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
slu, (http://www.slu.se/?id=171). forestry, agriculture, landscape planning and garden science, plus the school of environmental studies.
Work is quite hard to find in the city, even for locals. The biggest employers are the University, the Hospital and Volvo which has a factory in the outskirts. Knowledge of Swedish as well as a work permit not needed for Nordic or EU citizens are essential in order to get a job at either.
Students especially foreign/exchange students will find it even harder to get a job, but have a chance at the pubs, student papers and at the Student Union. Additionally, a French or Spanish native speaker might just get a temporary job as a teaching assistant.
Brännbollsyran
Last weekend every May, Umeå changes it shape into a celebration of the upcoming summer break. Brännbollsyran is an unofficial world cup in the Swedish game of brännboll spread out all over the city. Anyone can join and over 1000 teams of 8-11 competitors so do. If you have plans to compete, IKSU Sportcentre (http://www.iksu.se/sv/tav...) is the place to register your team. The final games are held on the university campus on Sunday. This Thursday-Sunday event has grown into a festival with virtually every part of the city helding some kind of event. Nordic Rock (http://www.nordicrock.se/) arranges an annual Friday-Saturday hard rock music event at Hamnmagasinet in downtown during Brännbollsyran.
Umeå University
umu, (http://www.umu.se). faculties include humanities, medical, teacher education, science and technology, social sciences, fine arts, restaurant and culinary arts, institute of design, business and economics, environment, physical education and sports and technology.