TRIGGER 2022

Announcing the programme!We are happy to announce the full programme for this year’s TRIGGER showcase platform of Slovenian independent performing arts. We can’t wait to see you, so take the last chance to apply no later than March 6, 2022!TRIGGER is a platform for internationalization of contemporary independent performing arts. We are developing TRIGGER in co-production with Centre for Creativity and in partnership with Bunker, Glej Theatre, City of Women, Moment, Pekinpah, Mladinsko Theatre and Maska (Nova pošta programme). Each year the showcase features productions from several other Slovenian producers. This year we will show works produced by Delak, Emanat and Sploh.The fourth edition of TRIGGER platform is opening the question of the future of international collaboration and artistic distribution under new circumstances, brought about by health, ecological and social crises. Besides the showcase we will also offer an extensive discourse programme, focusing on decolonization of aesthetics.LAST CHANCE: APPLY NOW!We are closing applications for TRIGGER 2022 on March 6. We are offering free admission to all events. And tones of art that will TRIGGER your mind.If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to reach us on info@glej.si.Your TRIGGER teamPROGRAMMEDiscursive programme is in English with an option of…

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Happy 2022!

The transition to a new year is an agreed turning point - people have agreed to count the time in this way, and now we respect the transition. People from the theater world are counting years by seasons, and the Mladi Levi festival that happened in August seems to has happened already a year ago, because now we are in the preparation for the new one! Some transitions are not agreed, they surprise us, they come at the wrong time, they overtake us - but we still have to respect them. We wish you to find your way in all the new circumstances. May the New Year, even if it is only a symbolic transition, be a beginning of new and better times for all. Happy 2022! The Bunker team

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Calendar of Hopes 2021

For the year 2021 the partners of Create to Connect -> Create to Impact invited Adela Giurgiu, a Romanian illustrator, to prepare the "Calendar of Hopes 2021" with our hopes for the forthcoming months…You can download the calendar in .pdf format, print it out and hang it on your wall. We wish you a happy, healthy and free 2021! CALENDAR OF HOPES.pdf 

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Climate Crisis

Press conference & petition + media campaign 18th September 2019, in the Old Power Station Video: Hana Vodeb Children's call out:https://vimeo.com/362369940/8a04bed7edhttps://vimeo.com/362370103/35ade3cc73https://vimeo.com/362370274/928fb1508fhttps://vimeo.com/362370418/abe07a7e30 Call to action – Climate Strike!https://vimeo.com/364736474

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Criterion – INVITATION TO WRITERS

Dear writers, dear colleagues! As everything else, the programme at the Old Power Station has been temporarily coronically ground to a halt – and with it, Criterion (www.kriterij.si). The last performance, Station Selbstsein by Klemen Janežič, was probably one of the last shows performed on the eve the epidemic was declared. Muanis Sinanović already wrote about the performance and captured the unusual situation in which it took place: http://www.kriterij.si/node/116. The aim of Criterion is to reflect on the Old Power Station’s programme, which is currently nonexistent. Since we want to keep the medium alive and offering work opportunities, we invite you to write, taking into account the following three subject areas: Theatre is moving online – many theatres are currently offering their production online. What does this mean for the future of the art that is so profoundly marked by its ephemerality, live presence, physicality? What does this mean in terms of evaluation of such works?Reviews of online performances performed in the Old Power Station or produced by Bunker – we are currently publishing our production online; you are invited to write about the performances, e.g. about the Lyrical Minutes in the City phenomenon, performances by Beton Ltd., etc., or…

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Couch Theatre – View shows online
Beton Ltd.: ICH KANN NICHT ANDERS, Dvorana športnega društva Tabor, 24.8.2016, 19. mednarodni festival Mladi levi

Couch Theatre – View shows online

Because there is the new #coronavirus around and because we #stayathome, we decided to post links to full length videos of our shows or other events on social media so that you could watch it right from your couch. We are collecting these posts here, so you don't lose track. #theatrequest #couchtheatre // March 14, 2020 Nine years ago, we invited the British art collective Station House Opera with the director Julian Maynard Smith (Artsadmin’s production) to create a wonderful community art event in Ljubljana with many local collaborators and volunteers. It was titled DOMINOES. We share with you this video that vibrates with us in these weird yet interesting times of today – together we can do it. 💜 LINK: https://vimeo.com/29250411 When the first domino falls ... #mladilevi #festivalmladilevi 2. // March 16, 2020 Bunker's most performed productions are the LYRICAL MOMENTS IN THE CITY, which were created by Belgian director Dirk Opstaele & Ensemble Leporello together with Slovenian opera singers and musicians Irena Yebuah-Tiran, Katja Konvalinka, Diego Barrios Ross, Jure Počkaj and Jure Vlahovič in 2011! It was premiered at the Mladi levi Festival, and has since surprised thousands of people on the streets of Ljubljana, Vienna, Hanover,…

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Coronavirus Notice: Cancellation of Public Events at Old Power Station
Stara mestna elektrarna Ljubljana, avgust 2019

Coronavirus Notice: Cancellation of Public Events at Old Power Station

A new coronavirus is rapidly spreading across Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the world. In order not to spread the virus further, we have to give up all forms of socializing, and this includes performances, rehearsals, workshops… That is why we have cancelled all artistic program we have prepared at the Old Power Station until the end of March. We know we will meet soon and it will be a happy time! But until then we #stayhome. In order for days not to be too monotonous at home, we decided to post links to full length videos of our performances and lectures on our social media so that you can watch it right from your couch. And here we are collecting all these links, so you don’t lose track. #theatrequest #couchtheatre Photo: Nada Žgank

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New LP released by Beton Ltd. MAHLZEIT

  A new LP was released in the frame of the music performance event Beton Ltd. MAHLZEIT, a new chapter of the German cycle, started by the Beton Ltd. collective with Ich kann nicht anders (2016) and Große Erwartungen (2018). In Mahlzeit, dedicated to dining, feeding, snacking and socializing, the spotlight turns on music. The one Jure Vlahovič and Janez Weiss of the Dead Tongues duo have been creating for Beton Ltd. for the past ten years, and the one that is becoming – disguised and seemingly unrecognizable, with the collaboration of Maksim Špelko and Marko Brdnik – a stepping stone for the sequel, Hoppla, wir leben. It is time to listen and marvel. Selling now at the box office of the Old Power Station (Slomškova 18, Ljubljana). One vinyl record: 10 EUR You can buy it also online: https://betonltdmahlzeit.bandcamp.com/releases Concept, idea and performance: BETON Ltd. MAHLZEITMusic written by Janez Weiss, Maksim Špelko and Marko BrdnikAll lyrics by BETON Ltd. MAHLZEIT except Sivina by Daša DoberšekRecorded by Jure Vlahovič and Robi Belušić in BearTracks Recording Studio and Penrose RecordingMixed by Jure VlahovičMastered by Gregor Zemljič Produced by BETON Ltd. MAHLZEITArtwork by Toni Soprano MeneglejteBETON Ltd. MAHLZEIT are:Maksim Špelko (drums and percussion)Marko…

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