”Sliperiet” - The youth-centre ”Sliperiet” is a place where young people come together- a youth recreation center. It’s located in our town- Örnsköldsvik. There you can go to practice dance, play music or just hang out. Sliperiet was founded in 2003 as part in a project in our town called “Vision 2008” with the goal to make Örnsköldsvik a more attractive town during the time until the year 2008. It’s the culture- and recreation-administration that are sponsors for the center. The purpose is to run a place where young people can come together for just hanging out and also that you can get help and encourage with putting your ideas and dreams into effect. Sliperiet is run by the youth who get involved. On every specific arrangement there are also different people who organizes too, part from the usual group, depending on who comes up with the idea, and wants to carry it out in some form. The café is run by a group of young volunteers who are interested in having the café-business. A lot of things to do The people who come to Sliperiet are mostly between fifteen and twenty-five. The goal right now, though it's quite newly started, is to make more people come there and get involved by giving new ideas for different kinds of activities or just to be there. When it comes to the arrangements they mostly cooperate with The Music house, which is the school of music for those between seven and nineteen years old. But they also have a lot of other activities like dancing classes, puppet theaters, café and they also have six different bands who come there for practicing in a premise where they have all kinds of instruments. They also have different kinds of games like billiards and soccergames for those who just want to hang out there. A forum for discussions Open Space is another of their projects. Young people from the upper-secondary schools are mixed with politicians and other adults in purpose to discuss questions about different subjects and ways how to make our town and society a better place. A couple of groups have come out of Open Space and are working with some of the subjects and proposals that have been born. The goal for the project is to see concrete changes and improvements. What do people think about Sliperiet? We've interviewed two young students, Sanna Lindkvist and Andreas Melander, about their opinions of Sliperiet. The questions were: 1. What do you think about Sliperiet? What is good? Bad? 2.What do you do when you hang out there? 3.How can it get better? Sanna Lindkvist 1.I think it's cozy, that's the good thing. The bad thing is that it's hard to get infor-mation about what is going on there. 2.I usually play games, listen to concerts made by The Music house and I've also been to the Open Space- meetings. 3. Better information, through other ways then posters. Andreas Melander 1.It's nice. And it's good that it's calm. The bad thing is that it's mostly only one kind of people there. 2.I like to talk with my friends and play games. Especially the soccergame. 3.It would be nice if they had more parties. Therese Johansson & Emma Witzansky © 1997-2004 Freeway Author: Therese Johansson (Sp06-27@park.se). Author: Emma Witzansky (Sp06-04@park.se). HTML by: Patrik Körberg (te05-16@park.se).