Mladi Levi International Festival 2016

19^th consecutive edition of the Mladi levi international festival of contemporary arts is set and ready to perk up the late summer scene in Ljubljana and bring leading-edge stage artists from all over the world. An allegorical performance by the French director Philippe Quesne, Night of the Moles, will open the festival and have us follow gigantic magical creatures as they lead us into the cavity of the world in their search for shelter.

The festival this year also proudly presents Penny Arcade, the legend of the New York underground scene, and last year’s festival highlight, the Brazilian artist Christiane Jatahy, with video installation of the performance #thewalkingforrest.doc. The festival will see the return of enfant terrible of contemporary Belgian avant-garde Benjamin Verdonck, joining forces with a young Portuguese artist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia to orchestrate poetic surprises across the city. Joris Lacoste will make an appearance with Suite N°2, one of the most exhilarating performances in its composition of musicality of the spoken language. The classical festival repertoire this year consists of the international hit performance Clean City, which shines light on cleaning ladies under the Greek directing duo Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris.

A portion of the festival programme is dedicated to young hopes with uniquely bold autopoetic expressions: Mladi levi is to play host to the young Indian-based activist performer Mallika Taneja with a surprising solo Be Careful, Polish artist Karolina Brzuzan is to serve a subversive menu from the Starving Cookbook, and a German student collective is to perform an exorcism with an entertaining Kabbalistic invention to break the curse cast upon the philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek.

Collectives representing home soil at the forthcoming festival are Beton Ltd. with their much-anticipated premiere Ich kann nicht anders and No!training collective, with their Variations on Slowness: TIME OUT 2. – unfolding an exploration of performing possibilities. Plus a concert evening to spice it all up with the real »badass gangsta rapper« Smaal Tokk.
The international Ready to Change conference with the title theme New Political Mythologies and Art will take place as part of the forthcoming festival.

Mladi levi remains the central arena of encounters and surprises, bringing together national and foreign artists in their experience of art and providing the space of mutual reflection on contemporary social and art issues. In times of all too frequent flight in nostalgic pasts and national contexts, the Mladi levi festival insists on embodying a transnational haven of uncensored thought, active presence and future horizons.

Programme:

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	Friday, August 19th at 8.00 pm The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL
	Friday, August 19th at 8.00 pm Saturday, 20. avgust 2016 ob 20.00 The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Philippe Quesne: NIGHT OF THE MOLES (Welcome to Caveland!)/ NOČ KRTOV (Welcome to Caveland!) (FR)
	Saturday,  August 20th, 3.00pm – 19.30pm Sunday, August 21st , 3.00pm – 19.30pm Pedaling on the river Ljubljanica A reservation is required. Maria Lucia Cruz Correia: COMMON DREAMS/ SKUPNE SANJE (PT, BE)
	Saturday,  August 20th, 9.30 pm DUM  Ludomir Franczak: THE RECOVERED ONES / PONOVNO PRIDOBLJENI (PL)
	August 19th – August 28th  Foyer of the Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Robertina Šebjanič in Miha Ciglar: SUBAQUATIC SOUND SCAPE  / SUBAKVATIČNA ZVOČNA KRAJINA (SI)
	Sunday, August 21, 8.00 pm Monday, August 22, Glej, the Theatre Penny Arcade: LONGING LASTS LONGER / HREPENENJE TRAJA DLJE (US)
	Sunday, August 21, 7.30 pm The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Anestis Azas & Prodromos Tsinikoris: CLEAN CITY  / ČISTO MESTO (GR)
	August 22nd at 9 pm, August 25th at 9.30 pm, August 26th at 9pm at The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  August 23 at 8.00 pm at Park Tabor Maria Lucia in Benjamin Verdonck: SECRET EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATORY FOR GLOBAL MATTERSSKRIVNI EKSPERIMENTALNI OBSERVATORIJ ZA GLOBALNE ZADEVE (BE, PT)
	Tuesday, August 23rd , 7.30 pm Thursday, August 25th, 7.30 pm Glej, the Theatre Mallika Taneja: BE CAREFULL / BODI PREVIDEN (IN)
	Tuesday, August 23rd , 8.30 pm Park Tabor Smaal Tokk: concert / koncert  (SI)
	Thursday, August 25th, 9 pm Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana No!Training Lab:Variations to Slowness: Time-Out 2 / VARIACIJE NA POČASNOST: TIME OUT 2 (SI)
	August 26th – Avgust 27th Old Power Station – Elektro LjubljanaReady to Change International Conference: NEW POLITICAL MYTHOLOGIES AND ART
	Friday, August 26th, 8 pm PREMIERE Saturday, August 27th, 9 pm ŠD Tabor Beton Ltd.: ICH KANN NICHT ANDERS (SI)
	Friday, August 26th, 9.30 pm Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana ScriptedReality: THE PIECE CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF PURPUSEFULNESS / PREDSTAVA O VPRAŠANJU SMOTRNOSTI (DE)
	Saturday, August 27th, 7 pm Foyer of the Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Karolina Brzuzan: A STARVATION COOKBOOK / KUHARICA STRADANJA (PL)
	Sunday, August 28th od 4 pm – 8.30 pm DUM Christiane Jatahy: #THEWALKINGFOREST.DOC /#GOZDKIHODI.DOC (BR)
	Sunday, August 28th, 7 pm The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Joris Lacoste: SUITE NO. / 2 SUITA ŠT. 2 (FR)

We reserve the right to possible programme alterations.

The tickets are free of charge. Voluntary contributions are welcome at all festival venues.
More information and ticket booking: +386 51 269 906, info@bunker.si.