DRUGAJANJE 2023

Monday 13th – Friday 17th November 2023
and
Tuesday 23rd – Wednesday 24th January 2024

Although the name Drugajanje is based on a linguistic reference to The Second Gymnasium Maribor, where the festival began 21 years ago in collaboration with the Bunker Institute (Slov. druga_i = “second”, “other”), today, as the festival expands to other cities, the name opens up new semantic references – for example, the notion of the Other, which constitutively shapes the Self by holding up a mirror to it. Since contemporary productions often elude classical formats and genre norms, it is often theatre, or rather the performing arts, that find themselves in this position of mirroring the society of the Selves. This is why the Drugajanje festival, aiming to bring contemporary performing arts closer to young people, also features diverse and atypical performance formats. For example, the theatrical essay, as we could describe Gregor Moder’s Antigone and Neja Tomšič’s The Circle, Lea Kukovičič’s artist talk, Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells’ audio performance, and devised and documentary theatre by Filip Mramor, Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere.
This year’s Drugajanje festival, which will be organised in two parts (November 2023 and January 2024) and in five cities (Celje, Ljutomer, Nova Gorica, Ptuj and Maribor), remains faithful to the close cooperation with secondary schools and local organisations in the cities. In addition, this year’s festival places a strong emphasis on workshops, where students will learn about theatre theory and practice, criticism, stage design, directing, contemporary dance, storytelling, and film and visual arts. And although the festival is primarily aimed at secondary school students, performances are also open to outside audiences – so welcome all!

tickets

Tickets for the festival performances are free of charge (except for all evening performances in Celje).
The workshops are open for students only.
Reservations and information at : +386 51 269 906, info@bunker.si

credits

Programme and executive production: Ajda Koloini
Programme advisors: Alma R. Selimović, Mojca Jug
Producers: Anja Vrhovšek, Špela Kopitar
Public relations: Klara Drnovšek Solina, Tamara Bračič Vidmar
Design: Anja Vrhovšek
Technical director: Igor Remeta
Technical coordinators: Andrej Petrovčič, Sani Smajić
Technicians: Duško Pušica, Vid Starman

Partner schools:
II. gimnazija Maribor
Trg Miloša Zidanška 1, 2000 Maribor
www.druga.si

Gimnazija Nova Gorica
Delpinova ulica 9, 5000 Nova Gorica
www.gimng.si

Gimnazija Ptuj
Volkmerjeva cesta 15, 2250 Ptuj
www.gimptuj.si

Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer
Prešernova ulica 34, 9240 Ljutomer
www.gfml.si

Hiša kulture Celje
Savinjsko nabrežje 3, 3000 Celje
www.hisakulture.si

Drugajanje was made possible by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Thanks to: Nuša Komplet

FESTIVAL PROGRAM 2023

Tuesday,
14.11.2023

celje

Narodni dom Celje / at 10 p.m.
Neja Tomšič / Nonument Group
CIRCLE
theatre essay

Narodni dom Celje / at 7.30 p.m.
Neja Tomšič / Nonument Group
CIRCLE
theatre essay

WEDNESDAY,
15.11.2023

celje

Glavni trg 8 / at 10.00 a.m.
Nuša Komplet Peperko, Urška Majcen, Nuša Ofentavšek
ROSA

audio collage

Thursday, 16.11.2023

lJutomer

Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer / from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tim Etchells, Ant Hampton
NOT TO SCALE
audio performance

friday,
17.11.2023

nova gorica

Gimnazija Nova Gorica / at 3 p.m.
Gregor Moder
ANTIGONE
theatre essay

ptuj

Gimnazija Ptuj / at 3 p.m.
Lea Kukovičič
FORSALE
artist talk

celje

Glavni trg 8 / at 7.30 p.m.
Nuša Komplet Peperko, Urška Majcen, Nuša Ofentavšek
ROSA

audio collage

tuesday,
23.1.2024

maribor

II. gimnazija Maribor / at 7 p.m.
Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere / Campo
OUT OF THE BLUE
documentary performance

wednesday, 24.1.2024

maribor

II. gimnazija Maribor / at 7 p.m.
Neja Tomšič / Nonument Group
CIRCLE
theatre essay

FESTIVAL PROGRAM 2023 - workshops

friday, november 17th

Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer

Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer / at 10 a.m.
Tjaša Črnigoj
Workshop for students

Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer / at 10 a.m.
Neja Tomšič
Tea for Five: OPIUM CLIPPERS
Workchop and visual essay

friday, november 17th

gimnazija nova gorica

Gimnazija Nova Gorica / at 8 a.m.
Olja Grubić
Workshop for students

Gimnazija Nova Gorica / at 8 a.m.
Zala Dobovšek
Workshop for students

Gimnazija Nova Gorica / at 8 a.m.
Andreja Kopač
Workshop for students

Gimnazija Nova Gorica / at 8 p.m.
Ester Ivakić
Workshop for students

friday, november 17th

gimnazija ptuj

Gimnazija Ptuj / at 10 a.m.
Lea Kukovičič
Workshop for students

Gimnazija Ptuj / at 10 a.m.
Barbara Kukovec
Workshop for students

Gimnazija Ptuj / at 10 a.m.
Tanja Radež
Workshop for students

Gimnazija Ptuj / at 10 a.m.
Dora Kaštrun
Workshop for students

More about drugajanje

Since 2001 Bunker is organizing Drugajanje festival in Maribor. It started on the initiative of the headmaster of a high school II. gimnazija Maribor Ivan Lorenčič and it grew into a permanent and fruitful partnership between Bunker and the school and also built a very successful bridge between Ljubljana, the capitol of Slovenia and Maribor, the second largest city in Slovenia.

Drugajanje is a concentrated short contemporary arts festival organized in collaboration with secondary school in Maribor at their theatre and at other venues in Maribor. The focus is on performing arts, especially contemporary theatre and dance. The festival was founded with the purpose of bringing the young generation and the whole city some fresh and vibrant performance art. At the same time it enables Slovene performances to spread out from Ljubljana, where most of the national contemporary scene is being produced.

Contrary to the belief that special performances for the youth should be produced for the youth, Drugajanje has always had a strong artistic contemporary profile and the program through the years always consisted of state-of-the-art contemporary theater and dance.

In the last years the festival has developed from a Slovene focused to internationally focused festival in terms of geographical distribution and has also had a shift in the format: from merely presenting finished works of art to youth and other inhabitants of Maribor we have started developing more process oriented festivals that strongly takes into consideration the festival’s home: Maribor.