Kultur Gävleborg

The dance activities implemented by the Gävleborg authorities from Sweden work in different ways to make dance accessible to everyone, regardless their dance abilities or age. Through networking, continuing education, workshops and performances for children, young people and adults, the people of the region are invited to participate in the cultural life, experiencing the dance art. Several programs implemented in the region are:
- Dance for health: in the spring of 2020, a network group was initiated with trained instructors in dance for health.
- Dance and Parkinson's: in 2020, work on a national study regarding dance and Parkinson's has begun, in which representatives from various parts of Region Gävleborg's organization and Gävleborg's county participate.
- Dance for the elderly and people with various functional abilities: Kultur Gävleborg has produced material for lessons for leading dance classes

Over the past 15 years, several artists have been commissioned to examine the hospital environment, processes and location from an artistic perspective. This initiative can act as a new perspective in care development. These assignments have consisted of residency grants and resulted in three artistic processes and works:
- Matilda Ruta's video work Sjukhusfåglarna, which is installed in the diorama at the children's clinic in Gävle and whose story has been published in the form of the children's book Ninna och sjukhusfåglarna. Matilda Ruta spent time together with chronically ill and hospitalized children and made art therapy with them for a couple of months, trying to emphasize the child's experience into the hospital.
- Anna Asplind's site-specific experience Gävle – Dancewalks at Gävle Hospital. The 45-minute soundtrack is composed by Tadklimp, based solely on hospital sounds.
- Marie Bondeson's artist book The elephant and me. It is a kind of artistic diary depiction of different perspectives on a psychosis ward based on study visits, workshops, dialogues and joint reflections with employees, patients and family associations in Gävle as well as in other places.

The project Language pills or Book on prescription is a county-wide collaboration between Region Gävleborg Kultur Gävleborg, the municipal libraries in Gävleborg, speech therapists, BVC and parents. Many of Gävleborg's libraries have children's books that have the language pill logo on the front. They are read and recommended by both children's librarians and speech therapists precisely for use in language training with children who have a language impairment. When a parent and child visit the speech therapist, Language Pills can be prescribed as part of the child's treatment. Parents and children then go to the library to pick up their "Language Pills" which consist of books that train that particular child's language impairment. This is a training for children's language development. BVC can also recommend parents and children with delayed language development to go to the library and borrow language pill books.

Stage: se is an art and culture project that creates opportunities for children and young people with severe intellectual disabilities. Through imagination, creativity and magic, the project creates opportunities for inspiration, joy and play. The project period is 2017-2020 during which Hudiksvall Municipality, Glada Hudik Theater's supporter club, Folkteatern Gävleborg, Riksteatern Barn och Unga and Hälsinglands Museum collaborate.

Culture Gävleborg's activities in music and dance offer in collaboration with municipalities the concept "Balcony concerts" where musicians / dancers come to nursing homes and perform outside their balcony. During the pandemic period, it has been a successful concept and we also see a continuation of this project in the future.