Small Arts Platform 2025
The Small Arts Platform is an international festival of urban performance genres, bold entities and humor. Cabaret, queer burlesque, stand-up, clowning and the weird unclassified hybrids of all have existed for so long that we hardly remember their beginnings. And they are still emerging – stubbornly imbued with the spirit of survival without subscriptions, institutional repertoires and big PR – which is why they often remain invisible, “small”. At the Small Arts Platform, we are putting them under the spotlight for the eighth time. To shine in their declarative or meta-staging criticism of the status quo – be it social, political, economic, aesthetic or any other. There is still too much material for criticism, but on stage we take it with pleasure: light on the heavy, frivolous on the serious, serious on the delusions. Unlike recent editions, instead of the glitter of glamour, the program will be coated with a polish remover that will reveal the rawness of subcultural and fringe artistic practices. Life is a small arts platform – come to the platform!
PROGRAMME:
Wednesday, 12. 11.
- at 20:00, Lower Hall
Cats Aren't the Only Ones with Nine Lives
(circus queer cabaret) - at 21:30, Publika Bar
Prince Lucija (DJ party)
Thursday, 13. 11.
- at 19:00, Post Office
Unsex Me Here
(drag performance) - at 20:30, Lower Hall
Echoes
(drag performance)
Friday, 14. 11.
- at 16:30, Upper Hall
Somatic Drag (workshop) - at 19:00, Post Office
Double Bill:
Poetically Uncorrect (concert)
+ Dyke Hike (stand-up performance) - at 21:00, Lower Hall
Puddles Rising
(drag musical)
Saturday, 15. 11.
- at 12:00, Upper Hall
High Heels (workshop) - at 18:00, Post Office
Never Met A Stranger, A Love Reckoning
(lecture performance) - at 20:00, Lower Hall
eXXXtra
(queer burlesque) - at 22:00, Publika Bar
Izae (DJ party)
Tickets (18/10 €), festival ticket (80 €) and a set of two performances in a day with a discount available only at the Mladinsko Theatre Main Box Office. Free admission for lecture performance and workshops (applications at info@emanat.si).
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Project group: Maja Delak, Maša Radi Buh, Metod Zupan, Leon Marič, Tamara Pepelnik, Linn J. Koletnik
Executive production: Ankica Radivojević
Coordination: Tamara Pepelnik
Produced by: Emanat in cooperation with Mladinsko Theatre
With support of Teatroskop, a program initiated by French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, French Ministry of Culture, and Institut français Paris.