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The [[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]]. | The [[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]]. | ||
− | 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. | + | 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. |
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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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+ | 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). | ||
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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. | 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. |
25 May 2024
A solo performance of "this is my truth, tell me yours" by Jasna Jasna Žmak. Produced by Via Negativa, City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts, and Center for Drama Art Zagreb.
at the Festival of Monodrama Zagreb
25 May 2024
"Sex Education II: Fight - Spolna vzgoja II: Borba" is a lecture-performance about the fight for reproductive rights in Yugoslavia. Directed by Tjaša Črnigoj and coproduced by Mladinsko Theatre, Maska Institute, and City of Women.
at the ZOOM festival
14 May 2024
A solo performance of "this is my truth, tell me yours" by Jasna Jasna Žmak. Produced by Via Negativa, City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts, and Center for Drama Art Zagreb.
2 May 2024
5 May 2024
Slovene choreovocalist Irena Z. Tomažin and German vocal dancer (TonTanz) Jule Flierl will be honoring the avantgarde poet and performer Katalin Ladik with "U.F.O. - Hommage to Katalin Ladik". After the performance, there will be a talk with the artists and with Slovene philosopher and dramaturg Bojana Kunst, joined by dramaturg and crator Mateusz Szymanówka.
Produced by Irena Z. Tomažin and Jule Flierl in coproduction with Sophiensæle, Sploh Institute, CharleroiDanse, PACT Zollverein, and City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts. Supported by Creative Europe, Hauptstadtkulturfonds and HKF-Wiederaufnahmefonds, and SKICA Berlin, Slovenian Cultural Centre.
14 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024
A performance of "Sex Education II: FIGHT - Spolna vzgoja II: Borba", a final part of a cycle of performative lectures on women's sexual pleasure, reconstructing the struggle for reproductive freedom in Yugoslavia. Directed by Tjaša Črnigoj and coproduced by Mladinsko Theatre, Maska Institute, and City of Women.
23 Nov 2023
"this is my truth tell me yours" - a solo performance by Jasna Žmak, co-produced by Via Negativa, Center for Drama Art and City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts.
8 Jan 2021
31 Jan 2021
Sine, performance by Nataša Živković, produced by City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts and Bunker Institute, presented at the SPILL Open named January Blues online programme
at the SPILL Performance Festival
8 Mar 2020
A performance Sonny by Nataša Živković, produced by City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts and supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Belgrade, in the frame of BeFem - Bring The Noize event,
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.
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).
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.
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.
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