Red Dawns: Saturday, October 26th 2013

The program on Saturday, October 26th, is going to wrap-up the special autumn edition of Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns, organized in collaboration with City of Women - 19th International Festival of Contemporary Art as part of our joined project Red Dawn above the City of Women.

You can check the whole program at our website. This Saturday, you are invited to the following events:


13.00, Mesarski most, Central market, Ljubljana
Street dance performance
ACT Women (Serbia): My Body, My Territory

  















A socially engaged performance about sexual violence against women. It is dedicated to sexual abuse survivors and addresses the complex process that women who have experienced it go through: from the moment of rape to the point when they decide to report it to the police and dare to say: »Rape is never a woman's fault. The perpetrator is the one who should be ashamed.«

No entrance fee

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16.30, in front of Menza pri koritu, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana

Performance

Ana Čigon (Slovenia): Dear Ladies, Thank You

An evolving performance that has been presented in several variations. The common thread that connects all versions is the discourse of the under-representation of women in art history, art theory, art institutions, and in the broader collective memory.

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The performance is a part of Urban Art Projects, produced by KUD Mreža. Supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City Municipality of Ljubljana.

No entrance fee

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18.00, Menza pri koritu, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana

Lectures and workshop
Jasmina Husanović (BiH): Doing a double-take through BiH lenses: Materialising feminist and anticapitalist critique and practice
Lilijana Burcar (Slovenia): From an orchestrated destruction of socialism back to capitalist barbarism: imposition of regressive socio-economic status for women

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21.00, start in Menza pri koritu, follow-up in A-Infoshop, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana
Reading performance

Bibliothèque Érotique (The Netherlands): The Empire of the Senses

 

Bibliothèque Érotique will start with a short reading performance in Menza pri koritu and continue their erotic readings (Henry Miller, Marquis de Sade, Audre Lorde, Anaïs Nin ...) in a more intimate manner in A-Infoshop, which will get a make-over for this special occasion, arranged by Ljubljana's own Red Cabaret. The audience is invited to discover, through sight, taste, touch and sound, an enhanced experience for their erotic fantasies. Consensus, respect and enjoyment will constitute the precepts of ‘Boudoir des Sens’.
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Price for both events in Menza: 7 eur, 5 eur (students upon submission of an identity card, pensioners, persons with disabilities, unemployed and self-employed in culture).

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22.00, Menza pri koritu, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana
Sound performance
chra & Cherry Sunkist (Austria): black black black black nr.1

The sound performance takes place in complete darkness, allowing the listener to rely on her ears and imagination, rather than her eyes; to experience sound in a public, yet intimate, setting. Their experimental mix of pop, dub, minimal techno, and ambiental electronic music is played at different volumes, and from different angles, encouraging the audience to approach this ever-changing soundscape actively, by moving through space and in between other listeners. .
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Price for both events in Menza: 7 eur, 5 eur (students upon submission of an identity card, pensioners, persons with disabilities, unemployed and self-employed in culture). Supported by the City Municipality of Ljubljana - Department of Culture
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The program will continue with DJane Vaservaga's & DJ Augenmas' (Slovenia) "Kein spass, bitte!" DJ program, featuring electro music, Syrian techno and Youtube extravaganza.
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All events, except for Ana Čigon's performance, are supported by Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.

Red Dawns: Special October Edition 2013

 

Welcome to the special October edition of Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns. For this occasion, we have allied with the 19th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women.

Our joint project Red Dawn above the City of Women continues our locally situated feminist and queer politics. We look across national borders, because we believe that patriarchy is transnational. We are convinced that borders between genders as well as between nations and classes can be crossed, moved, and demolished with art, activism, and theory; that these forms of expression intertwine in our struggle for the ‘impossible’ – for that which is yet to come.

From October 3rd to 13th 2013, you could visit City of Women whose 2013 slogan Let’s Create a Place for Ourselves invited you to a variety of interdisciplinary, multicultural and multimedia events.

From October 12th to 26th 2013, Red Dawns welcome you to the special 2013 edition. Click here to access the full program.

Festival concept:
Tea Hvala: Red Dawn above the City of Women
Mara Vujič: All Different, All Equal!
Vesna Leskošek: Personal is Political and Public Privatised


To access the schedule for all events, click here (PDF).

Catalogues:

City of Women, October 2nd – 13th 2013
PDF version

Red Dawns, October 12th – 26th 2013
SWF version (to browse, click on any corner of the page)

As part of the Red Dawns Festival, two events will be held on the occasion of the reissue of the Simone de Beauvoir’s book The Second Sex.

We hope that our festival reaches you. And we hope that the critical insights and pleasurable experiences we offer in our program are going to help you live – not only survive, but live in hope that one day, the sun is going to really rise above the City of Women.