Beton Ltd. are a collective of authors: Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak and Branko Jordan. Große Erwartungen|Great Expectations is their sixth performance, second in their so called Geman cycle. They say they always begin a performance from ground zero, but for a performance to emerge from nothing, personal grips are almost always of key importance for them. They do not enter narrations and dilemmas through individual stories alone, but also through personal ones. »We can only legitimately speak about ourselves.« After ecology, transitional/growing up loss of illusions, the impotency of resistance, generational angst, they are now dealing with the topic of great expectations and future. And what are expectations if not projections of present desires? »The desires of a European, white, heterosexual, urban, cosmopolitan, overrepresented generation. But we must not forget: Katarina, Primož, Branko … we were all children once. Slovenian children. Some still are.«Concept, direction: Beton Ltd.Performers: Katarina Stegnar, Primož Bezjak, Branko JordanMusic: VIS U$IŁ (Maksim Špelko, Janez Weiss) featuring DEAD TONGUESSet, lighting and costume design: Toni Soprano Meneglejte + Sonda 57Sound design: Jure VlahovičVisuals: Toni Soprano MeneglejteDramaturgical collaborator: Urška BrodarStage manager: Andrej PetrovčičExecutive producer: Maja VižinPublic relations: Tamara Bračič VidmarProduced by: Bunker, LjubljanaSupported by: Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Mestna…

Theater Playground 2.0 is a pilot project of cultural and artistic education for the young, which aims to integrate contemporary art and formal education through the development of learning models involving artists. One of the most interesting activities of the project is Culture Camp – there will be one such Camp organized also within the festival. This year’s Culture Camp for primary schools Košana and Prestranek as part of the Drugajanje Festival is led by Teja Bitenc and Tajša Perović.More about the project: Culture Camp

The selection of the performance Poíesis of Self is the result of a three year educational process of the joint educational program for emerging artistic curators of the Glej Theatre and Bunker Institute, led by Samo Selimović. The three year educational practicum combined tours of performances in Slovenia with lectures by curators and selectors, as well as theoretical seminars on theatre, art, and curation processes.The team, which evolved during the three years of the program into the Young Selectors Club, was given the opportunity to choose a part of the program of the Drugajanje festival. The selection was based on the premise that young people see and experience theatre differently, and that the program designed and signed off by a youth selection team would address the young in a different way, more honestly, more authentically, more directly than the program designed by a trained professional theater selector. The selection team appreciates this position, as it is the reason for the existence of the Young Selectors Club, a unique format in the field of culture and youth work in Slovenia, however, they have repeatedly problematized it in the selection process. In the course of the selection process, the team was repeatedly…

Parallel to Drugajanje, international contemporary dance festival CoFestival is taking place in Ljubljana. Drugajanje invites you for a trip to CoFestival.The bus will depart at 5 p.m. There will be a snack on the bus, and introduction to the performances and the film (tickets included). We will depart back to Maribor from Ljubljana’s Kino Šiška at 11 p.m.Mandatory resevations: info@bunker.siKino Šiška, Komuna, at 7. p.m.James Batchelor: Hyperspacesolo dance performanceKino Šiška, Katedrala, at 8 p.m.Florencia Demestri, Samuel Lefeuvre: Glitchdance performanceKino Šiška, Katedrala, at 9.30 p.m.Alla Kovgan: Cunninghamdocumentary film

Presentation of the Performing Sound and Music workshopWe will make use of the music and stage workshop to look into the question »What is music?«. Similarly to contemporary music, the workshop will raise questions and search for answers.Contemporary music expects an active listener. It stimulates curiosity, addresses imagination, requires thinking, incites perception, disturbs the obvious, fuels skepticism, breaks rules, multiplies readings, critically comments, plays with expectations, provokes associations , and risks failure. Contemporary music is not necessarily pleasant, and does not try to please at all costs.The visitor is left with the role of co creator through direct response, their own experience and interpretation.We will prepare a public presentation – a sound performance event together with students, in which we will use various sound sources, electronic devices, video, body, etc.APPLICATIONS FOR THE WORKSHOP: info@bunker.siThe number of applicants is limited.The ŠIFT workshop lasts 3 days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (26., 27. in 28.) – every day from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., in od 16h do 19h,  in the music classroom II. gimnazije Maribor.On the last day, November 28, from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., the workshop will be publicly presented.Leaders of workshops and public presentations: Tomaž Grom and Loup AbramoviciCoordinator and…

Physical Traces is a participatory format designed for the audience, which invites the viewer to reflect on the viewing experience. Following guiding instructions, we take a slow journey through our memory, our impressions and feeling that remain in us after the performance. Physical experience opens up a space of the non verbal, a space where impressions and meanings flow through our bodies. This time, the latter guide us through the embodied »conversation« with the performance. What do viewers’ bodies feel when we focus our attention on them?Physical traces are a part of the Nagib to reflection programme and Drugajanje Festival.Concept and perform: Anja BornšekProduced by: Društvo NagibSupported by: Mestna občina MariborPhysical traces are a part of the “Nagib to reflection” programme and Drugajanje Festival.

Who and what becomes of Heroes when they arrive beyond words?We know that they are just white, heterosexual, cissexual, middle class, family men. One is married, the other one has a real estate.The audience is absolutely convinced that they are best friends not only on stage, but also in their private lives. But Vito and Uroš do not get together for a barbecue, they don’t go on family holidays together, they don’t share a boat, they don’t meet for a game of basketball, they listen to different music, OK, there is a formal picnic or a family lunch once a year … But this is it.And yet there is something between them that they don’t dare to admit. Well, not out loud, at least. So they decided they will end the dictate of the word. It is something they cannot accept. Words became unnecessary and intrusive.Only on stage and in front of witnesses do they dare to cut into the fabric of the unspeakable, making use of the excuse that the stage allows everything, that everything is fake and nothing is real.But it remains to be seen how much of it the audience can digest, without forever losing the fantasy…

Derrida’s ambivalent use of the French word »hôte«, meaning »host«, but also »guest«, is a conceptual starting point for the creation of textile products and bags under the brand Hôte, part of an emerging ethical brand. Thus, Hôte bags are not simply the final goals or the end product of the bigger Akupara project, which featured various creators making and designing bags with immigrants and refugees. The aim of the project is to establish a common space between »hosts« and »guests«, an intersection of experiences, practices and skills of both »hosts« and »guests«, while developing an ethical and »zero waste« brand which could be used by refugees and migrants to express their creativity and thus enter the labour market themselves.The installation Emotional Landscapes is also part of the larger project, Akupara: The Incubator of Handicrafts, Social Cooperatives and Cultural Productions for immigrants and refugees, run by the Terra Vera Association from Kostanjevica na Krki in collaboration with partners: Association Nagib, CAAP and The Space In Between.Author of installation: Tomaž TomljanovićConcept of Hôte textiles: Tomaž Tomljanović / Dualik,  Nina Holc Ni-nikoli istoTheoretical concept and text: dr. Jovita PristovšekPhoto and visuals: Toni Soprano MeneglejteProduction of installation: Tomaž Tomljanović, Društvo NagibPartners of Akupara…

The program of this year's festival Drugajanje  in Maribor, 25.–28. November 2019, is knownMonday, November 25 from 5 p.m. ► Center za kreativnost MariborEMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES, installation7 p.m. ► ll. gimnazija MariborBeton Ltd.: GREAT EXPECTATIONS ǀ GROSSE ERWARTUNGENTuesday, November 26 from 5 p.m. ► Center za kreativnost MariborEMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES, installation7 p.m. ► ll. gimnazija MariborVito Weis, Uroš Kaurin: HEROES 3 (premiere)Wednesday, November 27 from 5 p.m. ► Center za kreativnost MariborEMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES, installation7 p.m. ► ll. gimnazija MariborMaja Delak: JUST FOR TODAY (in collaboration with the programme: NAGIB)8 p.m. ► ll. gimnazija MariborAnja Bornšek: PHYSICAL TRACES (in the frame of the programme: NAGIB k refleksiji)Thursday, November 28 from 5 p.m. ► Center za kreativnost MariborEMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES, installation6.30 p.m. ► ll. gimnazija MariborŠIFT workshop, public presentation7 p.m. ► ll. gimnazija MariborSnježana Premuš, Rok Vevar: POÍESIS OF SELFTickets for the festival are 1 “cultural” EUR, reservations and information at info@bunker.si.