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!
This year's edition will be enriched by domestic and foreign guests. The four-day program will include performances, workshops, lectures and DJ parties. Among the foreign guests, the small arts will be platformed by the French collective Cirque Queer, artists of transformation Charlie d'Emilio, Olympia Bukkakis and Maria F. Scaroni, Jeremy Wade, Androkill and the queer feminist stand-up comedian Claire Lefèvre. Among the domestic guests, Poetically Uncorrect will perform, and you will once again be impressed by the festival pioneers The Feminalz, this time with guests from near and far.
Program
12 November 2025
20.00, Lower hall – Mladinsko Theatre
Cirque Queer: Cats Aren't the Only Ones with Nine Lives (circus queer cabaret)
21.30, Publika bar
Prince Lucija (DJ party)
13 November 2025
19.00, Post Office – Mladinsko Theatre
Maria F. Scaroni, Olympia Bukkakis: Unsex Me Here (drag performance)
20.30, Lower hall – Mladinsko Theatre
Charlie d’Emilio: Echoes (drag performance)
14 November 2025
16.30, Upper hall – Mladinsko Theatre
Maria F. Scaroni, Olympia Bukkakis: Somatic Drag (workshop)
19.00, Post Office – Mladinsko Theatre
Double Bill:
Poetically Uncorrect (concert) + Claire Lefèvre: Dyke Hike (stand-up performance)
21.00, Lower hall – Mladinsko Theatre
Jeremy Wade: Puddles Rising (drag musical)
15 November 2025
12.00, Upper hall – Mladinsko Theatre
Androkill: High Heels (workshop)
18.00, Post Office – Mladinsko Theatre
Jeremy Wade: Never Met A Stranger, A Love Reckoning (lecture performance)
20.00, Lower hall – Mladinsko Theatre
The Feminalz & guests: eXXXtra (queer burlesque)
22.00, Publika bar
Izae (DJ party)
Tickets
Single performance: 18 / 10 EUR ▶ https://olaii.com/organizer/891/slovensko-mladinsko-gledalisce-ljubljana
Set of two performances in a day with a discount: 28 / 15 EUR (available only at the SMG ticket office)
Festival ticket: 80 EUR ▶ https://olaii.com/event/8116/platforma-malih-umetnosti-2025-festivalska-vstopnica
Workshops, lecture performance: free admission, applications at info@emanat.si
Collaborators
Project group: Maja Delak, Maša Radi Buh, Metod Zupan, Leon Marič, Tamara Pepelnik, Linn J. Koletnik
Executive production: Ankica Radivojević
Coordination: Tamara Pepelnik
Proofreading and translation: Katja Kosi, Suzana Koncut
Graphic design: Matic Brinc
Space design: Jan Brovč
Technical support: Janko Oven, Aljaž Zaletel, Veronika Hana Grubič
Photo documentation: Nada Žgank, Asiana Jurca Avci, Marijo Zupanov
Support
Produced by: Emanat
In cooperation with: Mladinsko Theatre
Supported by: Ministry of Culture RS and City of Ljubljana
With support of Teatroskop, a program initiated by French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, French Ministry of Culture, and Institut français Paris.
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