Mladi levi Festival

The Mladi levi or Young Lions Festival is part of the Junge Hunde, an international network of producers, managers, and organisers from Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Turkey, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Great Britain, France, Norway, and Slovenia. The Slovene organiser of the event is Bunker Institute, which initiated the festival in Slovenia in 1998.

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The Junge Hunde Network is dedicated to the presentation, promotion, exchange, and development of young contemporary performance artists, their new ideas and new works, by providing them with the necessary resources, support, and continuity across and beyond European borders. Every year several public events, festivals, and single presentations are organised, along with residences, co-productions, artist exchanges, workshops, seminars, and debates, in the various cities of the network.

The Young Lions Festival is presented in various old buildings of Ljubljana (first at the Railway Museum of Slovenia, later in the Old Power Station, in Tovarna Rog, as well as in other venues) with the aim of presenting new contemporary productions in juxtaposition with historical heritage. In order to create the circumstances where artists and audiences can meet, exchange experiences, and develop future collaborations, the festival invites artists to stay in Ljubljana for the entire length of the festival, giving them a chance to see each other's work, to have the time and opportunity to talk to other artists and audience members in an informal way, and to plan future collaborations.

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Young Lions 2009

The 2009 Young Lions Festival presented several firmly established authors as well as some emerging names. The 11th edition of the festival included 12 performances, among them the performances Empire (Art & Politics) by the French-Austrian collective Superamas, Mackbeth After Shakespeare by Ivica Buljan (produced by Mini Theatre, Ivana Müller' While We Were Holding It Together, the performance featuring a group of Serbian actors of a younger generation Možda smo mi Miki Maus, adaptation of the play of the same title by the Serbian playwright Maja Pelević, directed by Matjaž Pograjc and his Betontanc, the performance Sonja about a lonely middle-aged lady, dwelling on the edge of the Beckettian universe, directed by the Latvian director Alvis Hermanis, otherwise well known for inventing fresh directing approaches and theatre formats, and a series of solo performances by Katarina Stegnar, Gregor Zorc, and Boris Kadin, based on performances by Via Negativa. The festival also presented three emerging makers, former participants of the Nomad Dance Academy (project launched by the Balkan Express Network, one of the partners of Bunker Institute), namely, the American Elia Rubin Mrak Blumberg, the Macedonian Aleksander Georgiev, and the Latvian Ruta Nordmane. Further, the festival invited the ProstoRož - FlowerSpace Association to set up the installation in the Tabor area of Ljubljana as well as organised a concert of rebel songs by the female group Kombinat.

The festival also offered a T-shirt printing workshop and a workshop of DJ-ing.

In the frame of the Mediterranean experiment SOSTENUTO, this festival edition also organised the project My Street, within which a street exchange was organised to focus on all sorts of exchange and sharing on the basis of solidarity in a direct and money-free spirit.

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