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The City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts was first organised in 1995 in Ljubljana as an initiative of the Governmental Women's Policy Office (later renamed as the Equal Opportunities Office) in order to draw attention to the relative lack of participation and presentation of women in the arts. Since 1996 it has been organised as an annual international festival of contemporary arts by the City of Women Association for Promotion of Women in Culture.

The festival presents women artists from Slovenia and abroad working in different disciplines and contexts. Held annually in Ljubljana over a period of 10 days in October, the festival presents some 40 events, including theatre, visual arts, performance art, dance, film, video, literature, and multimedia, which relate to and discuss the selected theme of each year’s festival. In 2016 the 22th edition of the festival takes place.

City of Women - Festival Trailer 2015 - My Body - My Territory by TinyarVisuals on YouTube

Programme

City of Women celebrates diversity. The festival is a platform for a variety of opinions and perspectives of artists and theoreticians from all around the world. The festival aims to articulate the position of women in contemporary society through marginalised perspectives as well as attempts to bring different political and social emphases to the established conceptions of modernity. Thus, the 2007 edition of the festival, entitled Laugh Out Loud!, among others presented the international curatorial and artistic project Humour Works, which dealt with the positive and negative consequences of precarious working conditions in the context of "Eastern" Europe, while the 2008 edition, titled Raw Symbiosis, focused on the understanding of culture and the legitimation of power relations through discourses about nature, to man's relation to animals, and to technology as the new nature of man.

Mesto žensk, promocijski material by Tadej Kreft on YouTube

The 17th edition of the festival in October 2011 was called Abrakadabra featuring the secrecy, illusions, rites and pure imagination that actually reflect the social, political and individual transformations. Further editions of the festival were Aging (2012), Let's create a place for ourselves (2013), Survival Tactics (2014), and The Body - My Territory (2015).

City of Women - Festival Trailer 2014 - Survival Tactics by TinyarVisuals on YouTube

Venues and locations

Events are held at various sites around town, ranging from established cultural institutions to alternative spaces. Apart from performances and exhibitions, the festival features round-table debates, lectures, and workshops, focusing on themes dealing with key problems of modern women and highlighting other marginalised social phenomena.

During the last years, the festival offers an increasing number of its own productions and co-productions, mainly from the field of performing arts and dance.

COWeb

Since 2005, the festival also maintains a web platform COWeb - City of Women Goes Web!, intended to be an ad-hoc publication of critical writing in relation to the festival's events and to art in general. Each year a number of establishing critics join the team and covers the events.

External links

Gallery

Drage drage (Expensive Darlings), choreographed by Maja Delak, premiering at Dance Theatre Ljubljana co-produced by Emanat Institute and City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts, 2007.

Drage drage [Expensive darlings], choreographed by Maja Delak, premiering at Dance Theatre Ljubljana during City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts, 2007

My Body, My Territory, a street performance by the ACT Women group at the October special festival edition Red Dawn above the City of Women in 2013

Ana Čigon's performance Thank you, dear Ladies at the October special festival edition Red Dawn above the City of Women in 2013

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 City of Women celebrates diversity. The festival is a platform for a variety of opinions and perspectives of artists and theoreticians from all around the world. The festival aims to articulate the position of women in contemporary society through marginalised perspectives as well as attempts to bring different political and social emphases to the established conceptions of modernity. Thus, the 2007 edition of the festival, entitled ''Laugh Out Loud!'', among others presented the international curatorial and artistic project ''Humour Works'', which dealt with the positive and negative consequences of precarious working conditions in the context of "Eastern" Europe, while the 2008 edition, titled ''Raw Symbiosis'', focused on the understanding of culture and the legitimation of power relations through discourses about nature, to man's relation to animals, and to technology as the new nature of man.
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Difference between revisions of "City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts"

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Contents

Programme

Venues and locations

COWeb

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External links

Gallery

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