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The [[City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts]] presents women artists from Slovenia and abroad working in different disciplines and contexts. Held annually in Ljubljana over a period of 10 to 14 days in October, the festival presents some 40 events – including theatre, visual arts, performance art, dance, film, video, literature, and multimedia – which relate or reflect the selected theme of each year’s festival.
  
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[[City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts]] was first organised in [[established::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]].  
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In 2017, the festival was awarded the EFFE Label 2017–2018, marking it as one of the "remarkable festivals" in Europe.
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The festival presents women artists from Slovenia and abroad working in different disciplines and contexts. In October over the 10 days of the festival some 40 events are presented, including film, video, theatre, visual arts, performance art, dance, literature and multimedia.
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== Background ==
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The festival was first organised in [[established::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]].
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== Programme ==
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The City of Women celebrates diversity. The festival is a platform for a variety of opinions and perspectives of artists and theorists from all around the world. It 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. The festival offers an increasing number of its own productions and co-productions in the fields of performing arts, dance as well as film and music.
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== Venues and locations ==
  
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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 several countries. Events are held at various sites around town. Apart from performances and exhibitions, each festival features round-table debates, lectures and workshops, focusing on themes dealing with key problems of modern women. Some of the themes: ''Lough Out Loud'' (2007), ''Raw Symbiosis'' (2008), ''Global South'' (2009).
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Events are held at various sites around Ljubljana and in recent years also other Slovenian cities, such as Maribor, ranging from established cultural institutions to alternative spaces. Apart from films, 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.
  
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The 12th City of Women Festival of 2006 presented artists from 13 countries and focused on the meaning of history and memory. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), a special tribute was paid to this German political theorist of Jewish origin whose works the organisers said 'created one of the most influential works of reference on political thinking of the 20th century'. A performance reconstructing a 1972 conference on her work, followed by a debate, was staged at Metelkova. The festival was opened by Germaine Dulac's Smiling Madame Beudet, a silent film screened to live music accompaniment. Joseph Valenčič, who is involved with Slovene-American immigration history and popular culture, gave a lecture on Slovene women in American arts. Some 50 archival photographs from his private collection were put on display under the title We Are Bold American Women. Slovene women and their descendants in the US were also portrayed in the documentary 100% Slovenian by Mirjam M. Hladnik and Hanna A. W. Slak. The festival also featured Life Differently, a documentary by Loredana Bianconi (Italy) which depicts four Moroccan-born Belgian women, and One Point Two by Silvia Ferreri (Italy), which deals with the problem of declining birth rates in contemporary western society. Italian journalist Sabina Guzzanti also showed her ''Viva Zapatero!'', a satire of the Berlusconi government. In 2006 one of the debates, themed ''Gender, Literature and Cultural Memory in the Context of South Eastern Europe'', compared two periods: the era of Yugoslavia, with its common literary market and inter-textual and intercultural links, which were broken as a result of the disintegration of the common state, and the post-conflict literary milieux that exist today in Yugoslavia's successor states. A party dubbed ''Valpurgis Night with City of Women Witches'' closed the 2006 festival at [[Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone]].
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Furthermore, the City of Woman is also active throughout the year, organising lectures, public discussions, civic initiatives, and so on. Its important programme activities are also international collaborations, networking and the promotion of Slovenian artists abroad within partnerships and/or international co-productions.
  
 
==See also==
 
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* [[City of Women Association for Promotion of Women in Culture]]
 
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* [http://hackfemeast.org/web/?page_id=52 ''Humour Works'' project at Women, Technology, and Networks in Eastern Europe]
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* [http://www.cityofwomen.org/en/content/international-cooperation International cooperation projects list at City of Women website]
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Mesto žensk, Mednarodni festival sodobnih umetnosti
Kersnikova 4 (Office: Metelkova 6), SI-1000 Ljubljana
http://www.cityofwomen.org
info@cityofwomen.org
Phone386 (0) 1 438 1585
Organised byCity of Women Association for Promotion of Women in Culture
Iva Kovač, Programme Director



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The City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts presents women artists from Slovenia and abroad working in different disciplines and contexts. Held annually in Ljubljana over a period of 10 to 14 days in October, the festival presents some 40 events – including theatre, visual arts, performance art, dance, film, video, literature, and multimedia – which relate or reflect the selected theme of each year’s festival.

In 2017, the festival was awarded the EFFE Label 2017–2018, marking it as one of the "remarkable festivals" in Europe. 


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Background

The festival 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.

Programme

The City of Women celebrates diversity. The festival is a platform for a variety of opinions and perspectives of artists and theorists from all around the world. It 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. The festival offers an increasing number of its own productions and co-productions in the fields of performing arts, dance as well as film and music.


Venues and locations

Events are held at various sites around Ljubljana and in recent years also other Slovenian cities, such as Maribor, ranging from established cultural institutions to alternative spaces. Apart from films, 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.


Other activities

Furthermore, the City of Woman is also active throughout the year, organising lectures, public discussions, civic initiatives, and so on. Its important programme activities are also international collaborations, networking and the promotion of Slovenian artists abroad within partnerships and/or international co-productions.

See also

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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 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

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

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

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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