Small Arts Platform 2023
For the sixth year running, the Small Arts Platform welcomes all those forms of performance that are often considered "small" in the context of theatre because of their racy content, social commentary, provocation and pop-cultural appropriation.
As we discuss how big the small arts are, national and international names are dressing up in snazzy costumes to spice up this year’s programme with performances, workshops, discussions and, of course, an unlimited amount of conspiratorial mischief. For an added oddment of luxury, for 4/7 of the week we will transform the underground of the Mladinsko Theatre into a paradise of glamour, a place of acceptance. There we will bring to the stage the cabaret delicacy Le Cabaret de Poussière from Paris, the drop dead funny Our Beloved Alter Idiots, androgynous dance of Castor and Pollux by a Spanish choreographer Marta Izquierdo Muñoz, Styrian cabaret ZIZ, local drag queens with the performance Eat your make-up, and in collaboration with Eat Slay Love and vogueing emanation PLENVM from Vienna we will organize an international Kiki Function. The Small Arts Platform will also be pushing everything out of the box with our old friends The Feminalz, this time particulary spicy due to a guest burlesque act by Peekaboo Pointe from New York*.
Enough with the small talk and inverted commas, we welcome you to an event with extra pzazz.
PROGRAMME:
Thursday, 2. 11.
- at 19:00, Theatre storage (next to the New Post Office)
Our Beloved Alter Idiots (performance) - at 20:30, Publika bar
Festival opening - at 21:00, Lower Hall
Le Cabaret de Poussière (performance)
After the performance we will hang out with music selection by Le Cabaret de Poussière.
Friday, 3. 11.
- at 17:00, Studio Dansa
Vogue Fem – Nonbinary Performance (workshop) - at 17:30, Publika bar
Peekaboo Pointe in conversation with Lina Akif (talk) - at 19:00, Theatre storage (next to the New Post Office)
ZIZ Cabaret (performance) - at 21:00, Lower Hall
Technoburlesque Image Snatchers (performance)
After the performance we will hang out with music selection by The Feminalz.
Saturday, 4. 11.
- at 10:00, Studio Dansa
Burlesque Act Development Intensive (workshop) - at 17:30, Publika bar
Panel about “Ballroom” culture with representative of local and international scene (talk) - at 20:00, Lower Hall
"Whats The Tea?" Kiki Function (kiki ball) - at 23:00, Publika bar
WERKtag Party (DJ pary)
Sunday, 5. 11.
- at 10:00, Studio Dansa
Burlesque Act Development Intensive (workshop) - at 17:00, Studio Dansa
Vogue Fem – Nonbinary Performance (workshop) - at 19:00, Upper Hall
Dioscures (performance) - at 20:00, Publika bar
Festival guests in conversation with Maša Radi Buh and What's So Small Here? book presentation (talk) - at 21:00, Publika bar
Eat Your Makeup (performance)
After the performance we will hang out with music selection by local drag queens.
The programme will be held in Slovene and English.
Ticket purchase: www.mladinsko.com/en/
Apply for a Workshop: info@emanat.si
Talks: Free entry
Project group: Sabrina Železnik, Maša Radi Buh, Metod Zupan, Jan Rozman, Leon Marič, Maja Delak, Tamara Pepelnik
Executive production: Sabrina Železnik
Coordination: Tamara Pepelnik
Proofreading and translation: Katja Kosi
Graphic design: Špela Drašlar
Photo documentation: Marijo Zupanov, Nada Žgank
Video documentation: Luka Prinčič
Space and uniform design: Jan Brovč
Technical suport: Janko Oven, Aljaž Zaletel, Damjan Delak
Production: Emanat
In collaboration with: Mladinsko Theatre
Peekaboo Pointe is hosted in collaboration with Maska institute in the frame of their event cycle Clitoris is an Anarchist.
Financial support: Ministry of Culture RS, City of Ljubljana