Small Arts Platform 2023

2-5 November 2023, Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana, SI

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, 2.11.2023
19:00, Mladinsko Theatre - Warehouse
Our Beloved Alter Idiots (Za crknt, SI), performance
20:30, Mladinsko Theatre - Publika bar
Festival opening
21.00, Mladinsko Theatre - Lower Hall
Le Cabaret de Poussière (FR), performance
After the performance we will hang out with music selection by Le Cabaret de Poussière

Friday, 3.11.2023
17:00–18:30, Studio Dansa
Vogue Fem – Nonbinary Performance (PLENVM, AT), workshop
17:30, Mladinsko Theatre - Publika bar
Peekaboo Pointe in conversation with Lina Akif* (US), talk
19:00, Mladinsko Theatre - Warehouse
ZIZ Cabaret (Društvo ZIZ, KD Priden možic SI), performance
21:00, Mladinsko Theatre - Lower Hall
Technoburlesque Image Snatchers (The Feminalz, SI with guest Peekaboo Pointe*, US), performance
After the performance we will hang out with music selection by The Feminalz

Saturday, 4.11.2023
10:00–13:00, Studio Dansa
Burlesque Act Development Intensive* (Peekaboo Pointe, US), workshop
17:30, Mladinsko Theatre - Publika bar
Panel about “Ballroom” culture with representative of local and international scene (Eat Slay Love, AT), talk
20:00, Mladinsko Theatre - Lower Hall
"Whats The Tea?" Kiki Function (Eat Slay Love, AT), kiki ball
23:00, Mladinsko Theatre - Publika bar
WERKtag Party (Eat Slay Love, AT), DJ party

Sunday, 5.11.2023
10:00–13:00, Studio Dansa
Burlesque Act Development Intensive* (Peekaboo Pointe, US), workshop
17:00–18.30, Studio Dansa
Vogue Fem – Nonbinary Performance (PLENVM, AT), workshop
19:00, Mladinsko Theatre - Lower Hall
Dioscures (Marta Izquierdo Muñoz, ES), performance
20:00, Mladinsko Theatre - Publika bar
Festival guests in conversation with Maša Radi Buh + What's So Small Here? book presentation, talk
21:00, Mladinsko Theatre - Publika bar
Eat Your Makeup (ŠKUC, SI), performance
After the performance we will hang out with music selection by local drag queens

Ticket purchase: https://smglj.mojekarte.si/si/celotna-ponudba.html
Apply for a Workshop: info@emanat.si
The programme will be held in Slovene and English.
COMPLETE PROGRAMME WITH CONTENT DESCRIPTIONS

Collaborators

Project group: Sabrina Železnik, Maša Radi Buh, Metod Zupan, Jan Rozman, Leon Marič, Maja Delak, Tamara Pepelnik, Marja Kovanda
Executive production: Sabrina Železnik
Coordination: Tamara Pepelnik
Proofreading and translation: Katja Kosi
Graphic design: Špela Drašlar
Photo documentation: Marijo Zupanov, Nada Žgank, Asiana Jurca Avci
Video documentation: Luka Prinčič
Space design: Jan Brovč
Technical suport: Janko Oven, Aljaž Zaletel

Support

Production: Emanat
In collaboration with: Mladinsko Theatre
*Peekaboo Pointe is hosted in collaboration with Maska institute n the frame of their event cycle Clitoris is an Anarchist.
Financial support: Ministry of Culture RS, City of Ljubljana