U.K. post-punk legends The Danse Society are celebrating 40 years across Europe and we are happy to announce that one gig will be at the Uma Obscura festival!

read more:
https://umaobscura.se/the-danse-society/

We are proud to present that Kælan Mikla will join the 2020 line up for Uma Obscura! The Icelandic synthpunk band will go on an extensive tour and one of the stops will be in Umeå!

Read more:
https://umaobscura.se/kaelan-mikla/

We are releasing the first artists for Uma Obscura 2020! First out we have the honor of welcoming back to Umeå the legendary gothic rock band Two Witches from Finland!

As if that wasn’t enough we also release the first artists from the Dance Obscura program and we are proud to welcome new dancer Storm and veteran at Uma Obscura: Entropy – a bellydancer with a twist. Also, first name for the Art Obscura is Anna Windseth!

Read more on the program pages.

Also, join the official event at Facebook here.

The Dark Sky event was a blast! Here is an aftermovie where you can see many of the participating artists and DJs as well as have a look at the marvellous art installations and general atmosphere of the event. Thanks go out to all who attended the event, all who supported the event and of course to our friends at Liquid Sky for making this a weekend to remember!

Time yet again for another collaboration with house/techno club LIQUID SKY and together we present the event DARK SKY on November 1-2, 2019. Read more about it here.

Here is the Aftermovie for Uma Obscura 2019! Thanks to all who supported and contributed to this year’s festival and made it come true and to all of you who joined us. See you next year.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

DUE TO THE SAS-AIRLINE-STRIKE THE SWORD DANCE WORKSHOP HA BEEN RESCHEDULED TO
SATURDAY MAY 4, 11.30-13.30
VENUE: MIKLAGÅRD, UMEÅ FOLKETS HUS.
(We also offer a refund of tickets if you cannot attend the rescheduled WS.)

The try out workshop from Thursday, may 2 at 8 pm is preliminary rescheduled to May 4, 4-5 pm, venue Miklagård, Umeå Folkets Hus.

Also: Neze has cancelled her participation in the Art Obscura exhibition.

The program folder is out now with presentations of the acts, time schedules and more. Download it here.

The lineup for the festival is complete and we have released the tickets and schedules. Have a look and make your reservations now!

We have released lots of new bookings and there is still some to come before the final lineup is ready. Tickets will be out very soon here on Uma Obscura, they have been delayed due to that we have been awaiting confirmation on some of the acts to be announced. Soon…Enjoy our first teaser trailer and please share it to your friends:

We are very proud to present VKgoeswild (Viktoriya Yermolyeva) at this year’s Uma Obscura 2019!

Viktoriya Yermolyeva (Vika) is VKgoeswild, a classical pianist who is also known worldwide for her metal covers. Her Youtube-channel is currently soon at 700 000 subscribers. She now visist Uma Obscura where she will give a concert including lots of metal and goth songs.

Read more…

First bookings are out for Uma Obscura 2019. The Dance Obscura experience will be enhanced by fusion collaborations and first out is dark ambient act Oestergaards who will join forces with dance act krAa fusion to create a unique live performance. We also welcome american/swedish electrorock-band Normoria to this year’s lineup. We also give you the possibility to try witchdrums in a workshop with finnish MagaLacrima and finally we welcome back scuplting artist Emmalie Västman to the Art Obscura exhibition. Lots more to expect in a near future, so stay tuned here and join the facebook-event to get even more frequent updates.

Hello everyone! The fifth edition of Uma Obscura festival will be held on May 3-4, 2019 and we are looking forward to a weekend with great performances where we can all meet and celebrate the diversity of subcultures, art full of progressive and innovative ideas.

Are you interested in participating? Now is the time to let us know.

Uma Obscura, autumn 2018 is over, and what a fantastic weekend it was. We had great performances, a great audience and lots of fun. Have a look at this aftermovie and you will get a glimpse of what Uma Obscura had to offer.

More pics and film to come here as soon as people send it in. Do you have pictures from Uma Obscura that you wish to share? Contact us.

Programbladet med presentationer av artister och medverkande är ute nu! Läs mer här: umaobscura.se/program-2018-autumn/

Full program (in Swedish) is out now. Have a look at the ”program” section.

We are very happy to announce that The Magnettes will be part of Uma Obscura.
read more:
umaobscura.se/the-magnettes/

We have just confirmed that Agent Side Grinder will replace Henric de la Cour as one of the music acts for October 13! Read more:
umaobscura.se/agent-side-grinder/

We are sad to announce that Henric de la Cour has been forced to cancel the concert at Uma Obscura on October 13, due to illness.

A replacement artist will be announced very soon.

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Vi har nåtts av det tråkiga beskedet att Henric de la Cour tyvärr tvingas ställa in den planerade spelningen på Uma Obscura 13 oktober, detta på grund av sjukdom.

En ersättare för Henric kommer strax annonseras ut i programmet.

We are happy to announce that Uma Obscura will be joining forces with LIQUID SKY and we give you the special event ”DARK SKY”, filled with DJs, smoke, UV-lights, live music and more…. Read more in the program section.