City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
History
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 Valencic, 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.