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Maribor Metropolis - A walk through town and its independent scene venuesMeeting point: Pekarna-Magdalenske mreže Interested participants
Meeting point: Pekarna-Magdalenske mreže Interested participants
Address: Ob železnici 16, 2000 Maribor | Event Map | Accessibility You could say that Maribor has everything that the greats have. A little rough around the edges - just the way we like it. There are many urban legends and clichés about this city; the walk titled Maribor - Metropolis touches on these more or less hidden stories about it. Maribor is also a city of culture, although sometimes we don't notice it at first glance. After all, in 2012, the city held the proud title of European Capital of Culture. But Maribor wouldn't be Maribor if it didn’t do something a little differently sometimes, a little in its own way with a touch of its ‘Maribor-ness’. In this session, walk through a brief overview and memory of some of the ‘pearls’ that it managed to create in the field of culture. Guides: Jure Golež, Katja Beck Kos |
| 17:30-18:45 | 21 |
TRIGGER Showcase Artistic Programme – Moment Theatre & Mala voadora - Blood StoriesLocation: GT22 Interested participants
Location: GT22 Interested participants
Address: Glavni trg 22, 2000 Maribor | Event Map | Accessibility This is a biographic show with many coincidences, blood and bloody connections, where two artists fictionalise about the past in order to better tell their story and try to understand the history of humankind. They both did a genetic test and investigated their past. One from Slovenia reached Bosnia and the other from Portugal. Intertwining both countries and their histories, they speak about migrations, trade routes, war and peace agreements, love and betrayal, baby exchange, family rivalries and long journeys. They tell us about what brings us together. Duration: 70 min Credits Author and director: Jorge Andrade Get in touchProduction contact: Nika Bezeljak, nika@moment.si |
| 19:15-20:30 | 21 |
City of Women - Nobody Whistles AnymoreLocation: SNG Maribor Interested participants
Location: SNG Maribor Interested participants
Address: Slovenska ulica 27, 2000 Maribor | Event Map | Accessibility ‘Nobody Whistles Anymore’ is a performance created as part of the international project Performing Gender. This intergenerational community has trained and formed itself over a three-year creative period and completed its final phase with theatre director Brina Klampfer Merčnik and choreographer Vita Osojnik. The central theme of all participating countries was the question of how to perform gender. A group from Slovenia, with participants aged 27 to 74, explored the theme of performing gender in different ways, in the form of workshops, conversations, homework tasks, improvisations and through dance. They explored the common movement of an intergenerational group and tried to focus on what intrigues us all, regardless of gender and age. The result is an author-based performance, a collage of scenes and of our reflections on the given theme. This performance has already been on tour in Sweden (Umea) and England (Leeds). They have also run a workshop in the Netherlands ('s-Hertogenbosch). Duration: 80 min Credits Concept: Brina Klampfer Merčnik and Vita Osojnik Get in touchProduction contact: Eva Prodan, production@cityofwomen.org |
| 21:00-22:00 | 21 |
Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana - Sex Education II - AbilityLocation: Vetrinjski dvor Interested participants
Location: Vetrinjski dvor Interested participants
Address: Vetrinjska ulica 30, 2000 Maribor | Event Map | Accessibility ‘Ability’ is based on stories of four women about their sexual coming-of-age, their relationship to their bodies, their sexuality and their relationships. What the four women have in common is that they live with a disability and are thus, as Elena Pečarič says in her essay So Beautiful, Yet Disabled, faced with double discrimination as persons with a disability and as women. In Slovenia, the sexuality of people with disabilities is overlooked at a systemic level and sex education is particularly lacking in this area, while social care workers have discretion as to whether they help women with disabilities with sexual practice, as this is not in their job description. 'In such a stifling atmosphere, a woman with a disability literally has to fight windmills to express her sexuality, femininity, well-being or satisfaction with her appearance, herself and her body. […] Why is it so difficult to understand and accept that a woman with a disability can be happy with herself or her body as it is, to feel good, to feel beautiful, attractive or sexy?' (Elena Pečarič: So Beautiful, Yet Disabled) Duration: 50 min Credits Directed by: Tjaša Črnigoj Martina Piskač (together with Uroš Sede), Nura, Suzana, Tjaša and Linda shared their experiences. Included are statements by expert-interviewees (Elena Pečarič, Jernej Hazimali and Steven De Weirdt) and excerpts from Elena Pečarič’s essay 'So Beautiful, Yet Disabled', published in the journal Social Work, Volume 44, Issue 1/2. Production: The New Post Office (Maska Ljubljana and Mladinsko Theatre) Get in touchProduction contact: Alja Lobnik, alja.lobnik@maska.si Status: Ready for touring |
| 00:00-23:59 | 21 |
Bunker - If trees would cry, we would cry tooLocation: The walk can be started from any point in the city. You will need a smartphone, access to the internet and a pair of headphones. Interested participants
Location: The walk can be started from any point in the city. You will need a smartphone, access to the internet and a pair of headphones. Interested participants
Please note that this is a site sensitive walking activity that can be done on all days of the Caravan, at any time. A site-sensitive walking activity by Tery Žeželj to recalibrate the mind and body to perceive things unmourned and unmournable along the path. What is worthy of mourning in our society? How do we collectively deal with ecological grief? How can we mourn other bodies? Duration: 30 min Credits Audio-walk: Tery Žeželj in conversation with Lea Leskovec
Get in touchProduction contact: Maja Vižin, maja.vizin@bunker.si Status: Ready for touring |
| 17:00-18:30 | 21 |
Bunker - Fun FactLocation: Old City Power Station Interested participants
Location: Old City Power Station Interested participants
Address: Slomškova ulica 18, 1000 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility ‘Fun Fact’ is based on a communal situation where, as always in theatre, questions are being asked - but this time, answers will be given. What happened in the gloomy and foggy autumn of 1981? How many centaurs were killed during a wedding party that went a bit wrong? What was here before we came and where has the old lady gone? Small dramas will be forgotten. Big dramas will be remembered. But only when they are big enough to offer some interesting stuff for us to wonder about. Duration: 90 min Credits Concept and direction: Primož Bezjak, Eero Epner, Branko Jordan, Mart Kangro, Katarina Stegnar, Juhan Ulfsak Get in touchProduction contact: Maja Vižin, maja.vizin@bunker.si Status: Ready for touring |
| 19:00-20:00 | 21 |
Via Negativa - This is my truth, tell me yoursLocation: Španski Borci Interested participants
Location: Španski Borci Interested participants
Address: Zaloška cesta 61, 1110 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility ‘This is my truth, tell me yours’ is a solo project by the dramaturg and writer Jasna Žmak, in which she explores her relationship with the artistic field, questioning the responsibilities and the anxieties that the role of the contemporary artist implies. The performance leans on her personal experience from 2011, where she began suffering from tinnitus and hyperacusis after firing a theatre gun during the performance ‘MandićMachine’. Directed by Bojan Jablanovec and performed by Marko Mandić, in this piece Žmak creates her own version of a 'ŽmakMachine' and explores the ways in which art forms the reality we are living in. Although seemingly not connected, the themes of tinnitus and patriarchy become the central motif of this work that operates at the intersection between stand-up comedy and lecture performance. Appearing on stage in the role of the performer for the first time, Žmak deals with questions of truthfulness and representation as well as participation and responsibility, guiding us through her dramaturgical and sexual experiences, asking herself and the audience questions about the importance and the meaning of artistic production in the era of wild capitalism. Duration: 60 min Credits Author and dramaturg: Jasna Žmak This project was developed during PARL – Performance Art Research Ljubljana 2022. Get in touchProduction contact: Špela Trošt spelca200@gmail.com Status: Ready for touring |
| 20:30-21:30 | 21 |
City of Women - On the GroundLocation: Španski Borci Interested participants
Location: Španski Borci Interested participants
Address: Zaloška cesta 61, 1110 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility ‘On the Ground’ is a stage creation of two artists, colleagues and friends of many years, Alenka Marinič and Maja Dekleva Lapajne. It is a down to earth concert theatre piece that deals with the themes of precarious work, feminism, motherhood and housing in late capitalism. It is a witty music and theatre event that records the present and states the obvious, makes room for collective questioning rather than imposing solutions and that looks for playfulness even in the darkest and toughest of times. Using musical and theatrical materials, the creators explore different topics by playing around with the several meanings of the title. Through the metaphor of ‘the ground’, they touch upon the themes of exhaustion, despair and hopelessness and being knocked down - in an era of a brutal and intensifying capitalism, climate change, impossibly powerful corporations and cuts in the field of social benefits. However, they also understand the ground as a supportive place where we are grounded, where we can firmly stand and from where we can leap to rebel. Finally, the ground also symbolises the possibility of new life, the soil from which fresh ideas and places can sprout. ‘On the Ground’ is the second part of a trilogy by Maja Dekleva Lapanje and Alenka Marinič. In 2017, they launched into the performance and music album ‘Underwater’ (Pod vodo) which they soon followed up with the collaborative trilogy composed of ‘Underwater’, ‘On the Ground’, and ‘In the Air’ (V zraku). They also dream of creating an epilogue titled ‘Underground’ (Pod zemljo), to be carried out by only one of them or even without the physical presence of either in this world. Duration: 60 min Credits: Concept and performing: Maja Dekleva Lapajne, Alenka Marinič
Get in touchProduction contact: Eva Prodan, production@cityofwomen.org Status: Ready for touring |
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Pekinpah - Red ForestLocation: Old City Power Station Interested participants
Location: Old City Power Station Interested participants
Address: Slomškova ulica 18, 1000 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility ‘Us humans encroach on the forest, but the power of the forest to shape people is also inevitable,’ says Leja Jurišić about the conceptual impulses that drove the creation of ‘Red Forest’. In the forest we heal our wounds, in the forest wounds are created, the silence of the forest is not non-violent and neither is the loudness of the world. A forest is mystical, dangerous, wild, powerful, lonely, idyllic and natural; an animal kingdom, a place of retreat or longing and also a place of exploitation and destruction. The attempt to stand out from the everyday realities of capitalism, its ideological and material catastrophes, and the desire to rest in the forest, turns out to be an illusion: ‘Each subject who is sent to the forest considers it an important obstacle. Even though the forest is never conquered, the subject still has to travel through it. There is always a forest between defeat and success. In fact, it is the forest that makes the subject’s success possible. Subjects enter the forest with little or no knowledge, and come out with acute self-awareness,’ says Jurišić, loosely quoting Erica Spelman. Five dancers and choreographers are faced with the Red Forest. What comes to life is an omnibus of confrontations with the Red Forest, a series of individual entries that are infused with collective actions but require strong and sensitive individuals. The human forest is a field of empty, consumer-oriented signals, empty political pamphlets, and likewise empty promises.. The Red Forest does not silence sensibility but instead welcomes its glow and constructive potential in which we devise how to withstand the intensity of the world. The Red Forest tries to establish a situation where conventional social arrangements - which are most often also social arrangements of destruction - lose their charm of instant pleasure and the sense of insufficiency that follows it. Our direction is therefore not turned towards the human forest - but to the Red Forest. Duration: 60 min Credits: Author and choreography: Leja Jurišić
Get in touchProduction contact: Žiga Predan, ziga.predan@pekinpah.com Status: Ready for touring |
| 17:00-18:00 | 21 |
Bunker - CircleLocation: The Old Power Station Interested participants
Location: The Old Power Station Interested participants
Address: Slomškova ulica 18, 1000 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility ‘Circle’ is a theatrical essay intertwining storytelling, visual art, architecture and sociological research. The space is marked by sculptural structures made of building materials, which are connected through a live narrative. It speaks of parks, which visual artist Neja Tomšič and the interdisciplinary group of artists, architects and theorists Nonument Group understand as a field of different interests, ideas and policies. Both Nonument Group and Neja Tomšič tell about political and social ideas, movements and policies, whose changes are reflected in material reality – common public areas. They began their initial research work in Cluj Napoca, in the abandoned Railway Workers’ Park, which found itself at the intersection of neoliberal city interests and the racist attitude towards Roma residents and the poor, crammed into a ghetto on the outskirts of the city. As a leitmotif, the park also accompanies other, personal stories of the narrators – as a legacy, a ‘nonument’, the trace of which remains in the memories of (former) users even after the change in land use. At the same time, ‘Circle’ remains a relevant work of art, as it contextualises time and again the place where it is staged – be it the history of the Cukrarna sugar factory, the former Tranzit House synagogue in Cluj or Ljubljana’s Old Power Station. Duration: 60 min Credits Authors: Nonument Group (Neja Tomšič, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Nika Grabar, Miloš Kosec) Get in touchProduction contact: Alma R. Selimović, alma.r.selimovic@bunker.si Status: Ready for touring |
| 20:00-21:00 | 21 |
Mladinsko Theatre and Maska Ljubljana - Sex Education II: FightLocation: The New Post Office Interested participants
Location: The New Post Office Interested participants
Address: Robbova ulica 15, 1000 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility This fifth and final part of the lecture-performance series breaks down the struggle for reproductive rights in Yugoslavia. Although it only implicitly touched upon sexual rights, it paved the path for us even being able to talk about sexual pleasure today. This struggle goes back to the time during and after World War II when the so-called epidemic of (backstreet) abortions claimed many women’s lives. At the time, abortion was illegal and carried a prison sentence, and the concept of marital rape did not legally exist. Using the biographies of Vida Tomšič, a partisan and an important Yugoslav politician, and Dr Franc Novak-Luka, a partisan, prominent gynaecologist and Vida Tomšič’s second husband, the artists outline the development of the policy. Developing the concept of family planning as a human right, and the right to sexual education that goes beyond the biologistic notion of sexuality and focuses on the so-called humane relationships between sexes, was progressive for its time. At a time when society is being re-traditionalist and policies are re-questioning the right to safe abortion and contraception, the idea that women’s bodies belong to them alone cannot be taken for granted, but instead, as something that must still – and again – be fought for. Duration: 60 min Credits Authors: Tjaša Črnigoj, Sendi Bakotić, Vanda Velagić, Tijana Todorović, Lene Lekše Sex Education II is part of the project Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem which has been conceived and is carried out by Kurziv – Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society, Stanisław Brzozowski Association / Krytyka Polityczna and Maska Ljubljana, with the support of the EU programme Creative Europe. Get in touchProduction contact: Alja Lobnik, alja.lobnik@maska.si Status: Ready for touring |
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Glej - Under ConstructionLocation: Glej theatre Interested participants
Location: Glej theatre Interested participants
Address: Gregorčičeva 3. 1000 Ljubljana | Event Map | Accessibility Baker, psychic, plumber, mayor, bell-ringer. Invisible, overlooked, broken, transcendent. Community of the city and city of community. They have gathered to judge the history - history that has broken their dreams, desires, passions. Started to reign over their time. Set the rules of the game. Spread the power. Built a claustrophobic community, full of unspoken secrets. All they are left with are memories. Painful, transient, playful, blazing, loving. Past is foggy, present is slipping through their fingers, future does not exist. Everyone is waiting for a change that never comes. Who is building a community? Who does the territory of the city belong to? Who controls the time? How is power distributed in society? How can we put down roots, when the world is constantly becoming? How can you build the territory of ‘possible’, and where can you find the space to be playful when spontaneity is forbidden? Every destruction is also a creation of something new. First non-institutional project by Počemučka. Statement of some generation about some community, some time, some city, some ideas and some anti-generation. Anti-idea. "As long as we play." Under Construction. Duration: 80 min Awards: Grand prix, best original performance and animation award and award for best original theatre play and concept at the Biennial of Puppetry Artists of Slovenia, Maribor 2023. Special jury prize for a creation that inventively combines different theatrical languages at The 52nd Week of Slovenian Drama, Kranj, 2022. Credits Authors: Počemučka / Nataša Keser, Klemen Kovačič, Karolína Kotrbová, Aljoša Lovrić Krapež, Filip Mramor, Domen Novak, Nejc Potočan, Filip Štepec, Miranda Trnjanin Get in touchProduction contact: Anja Pirnat, anja@glej.si Status: Ready for touring |
