Drugajanje Festival

Since 2002 Bunker is organizing Drugajanje festival in Maribor. It started on the initiative of the headmaster of a high school II. gimnazija Maribor Ivan Lorenčič and it grew into a permanent and fruitful partnership between Bunker and the school and also built a very successful bridge between Ljubljana, the capitol of Slovenia and Maribor, the second largest city in Slovenia.

Drugajanje is a concentrated short contemporary arts festival organized in collaboration with secondary school in Maribor at their theatre and at other venues in Maribor. The focus is on performing arts, especially contemporary theatre and dance. The festival was founded with the purpose of bringing the young generation and the whole city some fresh and vibrant performance art. At the same time it enables Slovene performances to spread out from Ljubljana, where most of the national contemporary scene is being produced.

Contrary to the belief that special performances for the youth should be produced for the youth, Drugajanje has always had a strong artistic contemporary profile and the program through the years always consisted of state-of-the-art contemporary theater and dance.

In the last years the festival has developed from a Slovene focused to internationally focused festival in terms of geographical distribution and has also had a shift in the format: from merely presenting finished works of art to youth and other inhabitants of Maribor we have started developing more process oriented festivals that strongly takes into consideration the festival’s home: Maribor.

From 2012 onwards, the Drugajanje Festival is also part of the network entitled Festivals in Transition, which started the  URBAN HEAT project, bringing together thirteen European festivals. It enables participating artists to engage with the invisible communities within cities. The four year project supports artists to develop and create daring and extraordinary work that connects with the world outside the arts by addressing urgent political and social issues, and by working with audiences and communities affected by those issues. The collaborating Slovenian artist is the theatre director Mare Bulc.

Drugajanje 2018 (from 27th – 29th November)
Drugajanje 2017
Drugajanje 2016
Drugajanje 2015
Drugajanje 2014
Drugajanje 2013
Drugajanje 2012
Drugajanje 2011
Drugajanje 2010
Drugajanje 2009
Drugajanje 2008
Drugajanje 2007
Drugajanje 2006
Drugajanje 2005
Drugajanje 2004
Drugajanje 2003
Drugajanje 2002