Urban Heat

Since 2012, Drugajanje festival is part of Festivals in Transition, a network of 13 festivals that seek to examine, by means of artistic research within projects such as the current one, Urban Heat, the relations between cities and art and the invisible communities within cities. (more…)

Culture Camp – Theater Playground 2.0

Theater Playground 2.0 is a pilot project of cultural and artistic education for the young, which aims to integrate contemporary art and formal education through the development of learning models involving artists. (more…)

Our plans for the midweek? RocketPlans!

festival party with DJ Kozmonavt

Wednesday will be right in the middle of the festival – which means time to take a break and breath in with music!

Abandon all expectations you who enter DJ Kozmonavt’s Rocket named Muzika Fantastika. (more…)

Andra Aaloe & Flo Kasearu: COSTUME DRAMA: CITY PATROL MARIBOR

Estonija/Estonia

Flo Kasearu and Andra Aaloe are Estonian artists living in Tallinn and working in various fields of art and with different media. In Maribor, they decided to address the issue of security, which is becoming one of the pressing issues of modern times. We live in a world that seems increasingly dangerous. In a world where security is increasingly shifting from national and local levels to the private sector. Is the world really becoming more and more dangerous? Are we becoming increasingly safe with private security? (more…)

Rima Najdi: THINK MUCH. CRY MUCH.

Nemčija, Libanon/Germany, Lebanon

Think much. Cry much. je delo, ki je nastalo po polletnem intenzivnem raziskovanju meja. Rima Najdi je bivala in ustvarjala v vrsti rezidenc: v Talinu, v Vidmu, Droju, Münchnu, Helsinkih in tudi v Mariboru. V vseh krajih je raziskovala meje – v Sloveniji recimo rezilno žico in izkušnje beguncev. Predstava Think much. Cry much. se izvaja kot kompleksna koreografija, ki jo izvajajo udeleženci predstave po navodilih, ki jih prejemajo prek slušalk. Predstava je skupinski eksperiment, kako naše telo izvaja in dojema različne vloge v mejnih procesih: begunec, socialni delavec, policist, carinik … (more…)

EnKnapGroup & Nature Theater of Oklahoma: PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

EnKnapGroup is currently the only Slovenian permanent contemporary dance ensemble. It is skillfully led by the artistic director Iztok Kovač, a world‑renowned dancer, choreographer and founder of the EN‑KNAP Institute, who is shaping a topnotch collective by constantly choosing new choreographers and directors, making EnKnapGroup an ensemble capable of tackling not only dancing, but also acting and directing challenges. For the performance Pursuit of Happiness, the collective collaborated with Nature Theater of Oklahoma, the New York artistic duo Kelly Copper and Pavol Liška. (more…)

Ideal (M)other

Sound play on the maternity myth, premiere

My womb is a holy machine,
crucial for society and state.
My breasts are the fountain of life,
they feed her and him,
despite mastitis.
I’m a container of the highest quality class,
the best, all-natural, the only one,
the cleanest flower of paradise,
wonderful dawn, the miracle of reproduction, the guarantee of the well-being of nations.

Come. Fill me up gently.
Step with me.
Melt together with the mother.

Come.

An interdisciplinary research about changing/changeless views on motherhood.

Tickets: 7 EUR, 5 EUR (students, seniors)
Reservation and information: info@bunker.si, 00386 51 269 906

The Archive as a Process. How To Archive Contemporary Performing Arts And Keep Them Alive?

Focused on contemporary performing arts, we question ways in which to form the process of archiving so as to preserve the life of artistic works (performances, happenings, installations) and allow them to be seen and experienced by a broader public. What does the process of archiving brings in terms of content? How to contextualise the material? How to classify it? How to avoid the ‘character of a museum’? How to not close the work into a canon, a drawer, history?

Preparation and implementation: Lana Zdravković (Kitch & City of Women, Ljubljana)

Participants: Ana Čigon (Red Dawns, Ljubljana), Barbara Orel (AGRFT, Ljubljana), Bettina E. Knaup (re.act.feminism – a performing archive, Berlin), Ida Hiršenfelder (Modern Gallery – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana), Jelena Višnjić (BeFem, Beograd), Kristina Lelovac (Tiiiit! Inc., Skopje), Leila Šeper (Blasfem, Banja Luka), Phoebe Patey-Ferguson (Live Art Development Agency, London), Sabina Potočki (City of Women, Ljubljana), Tanja Petrović (ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana), Tihana Bertek (Vox Feminae, Zagreb), Vedrana Frašto (CURE, Sarajevo).

10.00am – 11.15am
How To Think Archive (of Contemporary Performing Arts)?
What Do We Do with Art When We Archive It?
Tanja Petrović, ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana), Barbara Orel, AGRFT (Ljubljana)
Introduced and moderated by: Lana Zdravković, Kitch & City of Women (Ljubljana)

11.30am – 1.30pm
How Do They Deal with Archiving in the Region of South-Eastern Europe?
Tihana Bertek, Vox Feminae (Zagreb), Vedrana Frašto, CURE (Sarajevo), Leila Šeper, Blasfem (Banja Luka), Kristina Lelovac, Tiiiit! Inc. (Skopje), Jelena Višnjić, BeFem (Beograd), Ana Čigon, Rdeče zore (Ljubljana)
Introduced and moderated by: Sabina Potočki, City of Women (Ljubljana)

2.30pm – 3.45pm
How to Archive and Preserve the Life of Archived Material?
Bettina Knaup, re.act.feminism – a performing archive (Berlin), Phoebe Patey-Ferguson, Live Art Development Agency (London)
Introduced and moderated by: Ida Hiršenfelder, Modern Gallery – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (Ljubljana)

In English.

Admission free.
Information: info@bunker.si, 00 386 51 269 906

In the frame of the project nEXtYU.
Production and organization: City of Women. In cooperation with Bunker.

Performing Gender – Dance Makes Differences

Performing Gender – Dance makes differences is a two-year European Cooperation Project between Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Netherlands and England. It investigates gender and dance, and provides skills useful to develop new forms of narrative for LGBTIQ identities in Europe. Five international makers and five dramaturgs will train, research, exchange and create within different local communities, and cultural and social environments. The first Training Week, hosting the five makers and the local dramaturge is taking place at City of Women Festival from 7th to 13th October.

On the last day of the training week, the international makers will share the process and their first sketches with the audience.

Admission free.
Information: info@bunker.si, 00386 51 269 906

City Of Networks

The networking of local, regional, and international feminist and LGBTIQ groups working in culture is going to start off with brief presentations of specific socio-political contexts that affect their respective thematic focuses and working methods. If political art speaks the unspeakable, envisions the unseen, how do they, as initiators and producers, navigate between the Scylla and Charybdis of institutionalisation and capitalisation of both art and gender politics?

Discussions’ Moderator: Tea Hvala

Contributors: Cultural Gender Practices Network (SI/HR/RS/BA/MK), Nordijc/Baltic Queer Art Network (Dk), Gender Bender / Il Cassero (IT)

The discussion will be in English.

Admission free.
Information: info@bunker.si, 00 386 51 269 906