25th International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns

25th festival Red Dawns

2.3. – 10.3.2024

Various locations

The Red Dawns collective invites you to join us at, our, and yours, jubilant 25th International Feminist and Queer Festival!

For 25 years, the festival has been creating spaces, possibilities, and practices for the support, presentation, and promotion of low-budget feminist and queer art in Ljubljana. The creed of the festival is that the freedom of creative expression and presentation of socio-critical thinking and active creative engagement belongs to all of us and should not be determined by class, gender, race, age, origin, social status, or any other personal and social circumstances. Our goal and vision is a correctly supported continuous cultural femme que production that represents an alternative to the exploitative, discriminatory, and elitist practices of the neoliberal cultural industry.

We see the space of art and culture as a playground for co-creating, testing, and implementing strategies to build a more just, inclusive, and supportive society, based on mutual trust and mutual help, which are characteristic of feminist and queer movements and initiatives.

March 8 is our holiday and it is right that all feminists, queer people, and queer-feminists take their place and present their artistic, intellectual, creative, and other somehow undervalued, unexposed, or invisible but important work. It’s a time to celebrate our successes and failures, to reflect, to act and to fight, to laugh and cry, kisses and hugs, it’s the right time to take time for ourselves and the community and for some hard-earned time to rest.
The Red Dawns team invites you to share your free time with us – internationally, and in a feminist and queer way!

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The traditionally diverse program of the festival consists of concerts, performances, exhibitions, get-togethers, and film screenings, which are organized or produced by and for women, non-binary, trans and queer people. With the program, we want to explore the limits of our representations, and not only our struggles and fears but also the moments of happiness, celebration, and connection that intertwine and form our lives and communities.

Pre-festival events

Screen printing workshop
Saturday, February 9, at 3 pm
Workshop
METATISK, ACC Metelkova mesto, Metelkova ulica 4, Ljubljana
Free entry – voluntary contribution recommended

Red benefit
Tuesday, February 28, at 7 pm
Pre-festival benefit
A-Infoshop, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana
Free entry – voluntary contribution recommended

Festival events

Kaja Janjić: WHY SO ANGRY? WHY NOT!?
Saturday, 2. 3. 2024, at 5 pm
Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Prijateljeva 2a, 1000 Ljubljana
Movement audiovisual performance
Tickets: 7/ 5 € (students, seniors). It is required to buy or book in advance or an hour before the performance at the Dance Theatre Ljubljana.

A program of feminist and queer short films
Saturday, 2. 3. 2024, at 7 pm
Slovenian Cinematheque, Miklošičeva street 28, 1000 Ljubljana
Film screening
The films will be shown in their original languages with English subtitles
Free Entry

A program of short queer-feminist p**n and erotic films
Saturday, 2. 3. 2024, at 9 pm
Slovenian Cinematheque, Miklošičeva street 28, 1000 Ljubljana
Film screening – the announcement of the Audience Award will take place at Club Tiffany on February 9, 2024, at 7:30 pm
The films will be shown in their original languages with English subtitles (18+)
Tickets will be on sale at the Box Office of the Slovenian Cinematheque

Area of Weaved Space
Sunday, 3. 3. 2024, at 8 pm
Glej Theatre, Gregorčičeva street 3, 1000 Ljubljana
Performative installation
English
Ticket 12€, 8€ students and seniors. Free entrance for the unemployed upon presentation of proof

Literary evening: Feminist poetry with Ana Makuc
Tuesday, 5. 3. 2024, at 6 pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova street 6, 1000 Ljubljana
Literary evening
In the Slovenian language
Free Entry

Slobodan’s New Materialisms: 40
Tuesday, 5. 3. 2024, at 7.30 pm, the installation will be on view at any time between 7:30 and 10.30 pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova street 6, 1000 Ljubljana
Interactive performative audio-corporeal installation
In the universal language of Art
Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions

Utopian round table: let’s build safer cultural spaces
Wednesday, 6. 3. 2024, at 6 pm
Project Room soba SCCA, Metelkova ulica 6, 1000 Ljubljana
Round table discussion
Slovenian
Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions

IGNOR x RZ
Wednesday, 6. 3. 2024, at 8 pm
Gromka Club, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana
Literary evening
Slovenian
Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions

Concert Dawns: Tizia Zimmermann and Pablo Lienhard (CH)
Wednesday, 6. 3. 2024, at 9 pm
Gromka Club, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana
Concert
English
Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions

Ariane Podlesny: Dawning Identity
Thursday, 7. 3. 2024, at 6 pm
Night Window Display Gallery, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana
Exhibition
Slovene and English
Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions
The exhibition will be on display until 16.5.2024.

Sara Skenderija: ZOMI
Thursday, 7. 3. 2024, at 7 pm
Alkatraz Gallery, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana
Exhibition
Slovene
Free entry – Open every day from Monday to Friday, between 11 am and 7 pm – 7..3 – 29.3.2024

Fem TV 6.0 x Thistle Anti-award
Thursday, 7. 3. 2024, at 8 pm
Gromka Club, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana
Award ceremony and performance program
Slovene
Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions. Recommended contribution 7€

Red Dawns in Maribor
Between the 7. and 9. 3. 2024
Mali oder and Club of the National House, kneza Koclja Street, 2000 Maribor
Theatre
Slovene
5 € (students, self-employed cultural workers) and 10 €

Protest March 8: If our work is worthless, we protest!
Friday, 8. 3. 2024, at 4 pm
Congress Square, 1000 Ljubljana
Protest
Slovene
Free Entry

Concert Dawns: Punx’n’Kweenz
Friday, 8. 3. 2024, at 9 pm
Gromka Club, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana
Concert
English
Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions

A program of feminist and queer short films and short queer-feminist p**n and erotic films
Sunday, 9. 3. 2024, at 7:30 pm
Club Tiffany (Lovci), Masarykova street 24, 1000 Ljubljana
Film screening
The films will be shown in their original languages with English subtitles, followed by the Audience Award
Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions

Club Dawns: Stellar Corpse
Saturday, 9. 3. 2024, at 10 pm
Club Monokel (Lovci), Masarykova street 24, 1000 Ljubljana
Concert
Slovenian, if necessary, we will directly interpret the event into English
5 € < 00:00 > 7 €

Club Dawns: Travis or Alice, Katron, Nastynancy, and Pixel Bambi
Saturday, 9. 3. 2024, from 23.00 forwards
Club Monokel (Lovci), Masarykova cesta 24, 1000 Ljubljana
Club night
In the universal language of music
5 € < 00:00 > 7 €

Brunch: Potluck
Sunday, 10. 3. 2024, at 1 pm
PLAC, Linhartova 43, 1000 Ljubljana
Brunch
Slovenian, if necessary, we will translate the event into English
Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions

Nežuljka: Workshop of protest embroideries
Sunday, 10. 3. 2024, at 2 pm
PLAC, Linhartova 43, 1000 Ljubljana
Workshop
Slovenian, if necessary, we will translate the event into English
Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions

Open training of Roller derby Ljubljana
Sunday, 10. 3. 2024, at 7 pm
Poljane Primary School gymnasium, Zemljemerska street 7, 1000 Ljubljana
Sports workshop
Slovenian, if necessary, we will translate the event into English
Free entry, sign up by email through rdece.zore@gmail.com

Welcome!

Thank you to everyone who was involved in the festival in any way – for your work, support, and cooperation. Thank you to all the spaces and collectives who welcomed us and offered us a place, to all the artists for their indispensable contribution, to all the volunteers for their selfless work, and, of course, to all the individuals who made this year’s festival possible with their contribution!

25th festival Red Dawns is realized in coproduction/co-organization with

A-Infoshop – ACC MM, Slovene Cinematheque, Glej Theatre, SCCA, Club Gromka – ACC MM, IGNOR, Institute ON Rizom, Night Window Display Gallery – ACC MM, Gallery Alkatraz – ACC MM, Fem TV Collective, spol.si, Črne Mačke Collective, ŠKUC Association: Club Tiffany – Cultural Centre Q and Club Monokel – ACC MM, PLAC, Roller Derby Ljubljana, METATISK – ACC MM, KUD ZIZ, National House Maribor, Dance Theater Ljubljana, Sophia Publishing House, Rejv Utopija Collective, Tkalka Gallery, Iskra Dofem, Matafir Association.

Financial support of particular events by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City of Ljubljana – Culture Department, and Pro Helvetia.

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<BACK	25th International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns *25th festival Red Dawns* *2.3. – 10.3.2024* *Various locations* The Red Dawns collective invites you to join us at, our, and yours, jubilant 25th International Feminist and Queer Festival! For 25 years, the festival has been creating spaces, possibilities, and practices for the support, presentation, and promotion of low-budget feminist and queer art in Ljubljana. The creed of the festival is that the freedom of creative expression and presentation of socio-critical thinking and active creative engagement belongs to all of us and should not be determined by class, gender, race, age, origin, social status, or any other personal and social circumstances. Our goal and vision is a correctly supported continuous cultural femme que production that represents an alternative to the exploitative, discriminatory, and elitist practices of the neoliberal cultural industry. We see the space of art and culture as a playground for co-creating, testing, and implementing strategies to build a more just, inclusive, and supportive society, based on mutual trust and mutual help, which are characteristic of feminist and queer movements and initiatives. March 8 is our holiday and it is right that all feminists, queer people, and queer-feminists take their place and present their artistic, intellectual, creative, and other somehow undervalued, unexposed, or invisible but important work. It’s a time to celebrate our successes and failures, to reflect, to act and to fight, to laugh and cry, kisses and hugs, it’s the right time to take time for ourselves and the community and for some hard-earned time to rest. The Red Dawns team invites you to share your free time with us – internationally, and in a feminist and queer way! _______________________________________________________ The traditionally diverse program of the festival consists of concerts, performances, exhibitions, get-togethers, and film screenings, which are organized or produced by and for women, non-binary, trans and queer people. With the program, we want to explore the limits of our representations, and not only our struggles and fears but also the moments of happiness, celebration, and connection that intertwine and form our lives and communities. *Pre-festival events* *Screen printing workshop* *Saturday, February 9, at 3 pm* *Workshop* METATISK, ACC Metelkova mesto, Metelkova ulica 4, Ljubljana Free entry – voluntary contribution recommended *Red benefit* *Tuesday, February 28, at 7 pm* *Pre-festival benefit* A-Infoshop, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana Free entry – voluntary contribution recommended *Festival events* *Kaja Janjić: WHY SO ANGRY? WHY NOT!?* *Saturday, 2. 3. 2024, at 5 pm* *Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Prijateljeva 2a, 1000 Ljubljana* Movement audiovisual performance Tickets: 7/ 5 € (students, seniors). It is required to buy or book in advance or an hour before the performance at the Dance Theatre Ljubljana. *A program of feminist and queer short films* *Saturday, 2. 3. 2024, at 7 pm* *Slovenian Cinematheque, Miklošičeva street 28, 1000 Ljubljana* Film screening The films will be shown in their original languages with English subtitles Free Entry *A program of short queer-feminist pn and erotic films* Saturday, 2. 3. 2024, at 9 pm Slovenian Cinematheque, Miklošičeva street 28, 1000 Ljubljana** Film screening – the announcement of the Audience Award will take place at Club Tiffany on February 9, 2024, at 7:30 pm The films will be shown in their original languages with English subtitles (18+) Tickets will be on sale at the Box Office of the Slovenian Cinematheque *Area of Weaved Space* *Sunday, 3. 3. 2024, at 8 pm* *Glej Theatre, Gregorčičeva street 3, 1000 Ljubljana* Performative installation English Ticket 12€, 8€ students and seniors. Free entrance for the unemployed upon presentation of proof *Literary evening: Feminist poetry with Ana Makuc* *Tuesday, 5. 3. 2024, at 6 pm* *Project Room SCCA, Metelkova street 6, 1000 Ljubljana* Literary evening In the Slovenian language Free Entry *Slobodan’s New Materialisms: 40* *Tuesday, 5. 3. 2024, at 7.30 pm, the installation will be on view at any time between 7:30 and 10.30 pm* *Project Room SCCA, Metelkova street 6, 1000 Ljubljana* Interactive performative audio-corporeal installation In the universal language of Art Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions *Utopian round table: let’s build safer cultural spaces* *Wednesday, 6. 3. 2024, at 6 pm* *Project Room soba SCCA, Metelkova ulica 6, 1000 Ljubljana* Round table discussion Slovenian Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions *IGNOR x RZ* *Wednesday, 6. 3. 2024, at 8 pm* *Gromka Club, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana* Literary evening Slovenian Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions *Concert Dawns: Tizia Zimmermann and Pablo Lienhard (CH)* *Wednesday, 6. 3. 2024, at 9 pm* *Gromka Club, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana* Concert English Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions *Ariane Podlesny: Dawning Identity* *Thursday, 7. 3. 2024, at 6 pm* *Night Window Display Gallery, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana* Exhibition Slovene and English Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions The exhibition will be on display until 16.5.2024. *Sara Skenderija: ZOMI* *Thursday, 7. 3. 2024, at 7 pm* *Alkatraz Gallery, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana* Exhibition Slovene Free entry – Open every day from Monday to Friday, between 11 am and 7 pm – 7..3 – 29.3.2024 *Fem TV 6.0 x Thistle Anti-award* *Thursday, 7. 3. 2024, at 8 pm* *Gromka Club, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana* Award ceremony and performance program Slovene Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions. Recommended contribution 7€ *Red Dawns in Maribor* *Between the 7. and 9. 3. 2024* *Mali oder and Club of the National House, kneza Koclja Street, 2000 Maribor* Theatre Slovene 5 € (students, self-employed cultural workers) and 10 € *Protest March 8: If our work is worthless, we protest!* *Friday, 8. 3. 2024, at 4 pm* *Congress Square, 1000 Ljubljana* Protest Slovene Free Entry *Concert Dawns: Punx’n’Kweenz* *Friday, 8. 3. 2024, at 9 pm* *Gromka Club, Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana* Concert English Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions *A program of feminist and queer short films and short queer-feminist pn and erotic films* Sunday, 9. 3. 2024, at 7:30 pm Club Tiffany (Lovci), Masarykova street 24, 1000 Ljubljana** Film screening The films will be shown in their original languages with English subtitles, followed by the Audience Award Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions *Club Dawns: Stellar Corpse* *Saturday, 9. 3. 2024, at 10 pm* *Club Monokel (Lovci), Masarykova street 24, 1000 Ljubljana* Concert Slovenian, if necessary, we will directly interpret the event into English 5 € < 00:00 > 7 € *Club Dawns: Travis or Alice, Katron, Nastynancy, and Pixel Bambi* *Saturday, 9. 3. 2024, from 23.00 forwards* *Club Monokel (Lovci), Masarykova cesta 24, 1000 Ljubljana* Club night In the universal language of music 5 € < 00:00 > 7 € *Brunch: Potluck* *Sunday, 10. 3. 2024, at 1 pm* *PLAC, Linhartova 43, 1000 Ljubljana* Brunch Slovenian, if necessary, we will translate the event into English Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions *Nežuljka: Workshop of protest embroideries* *Sunday, 10. 3. 2024, at 2 pm* *PLAC, Linhartova 43, 1000 Ljubljana* Workshop Slovenian, if necessary, we will translate the event into English Free entry, collection of voluntary contributions *Open training of Roller derby Ljubljana* *Sunday, 10. 3. 2024, at 7 pm* *Poljane Primary School gymnasium, Zemljemerska street 7, 1000 Ljubljana* Sports workshop Slovenian, if necessary, we will translate the event into English Free entry, sign up by email through rdece.zore@gmail.com *Welcome!* Thank you to everyone who was involved in the festival in any way – for your work, support, and cooperation. Thank you to all the spaces and collectives who welcomed us and offered us a place, to all the artists for their indispensable contribution, to all the volunteers for their selfless work, and, of course, to all the individuals who made this year’s festival possible with their contribution! *25th festival Red Dawns is realized in coproduction/co-organization with* A-Infoshop – ACC MM, Slovene Cinematheque, Glej Theatre, SCCA, Club Gromka – ACC MM, IGNOR, Institute ON Rizom, Night Window Display Gallery – ACC MM, Gallery Alkatraz – ACC MM, Fem TV Collective, spol.si, Črne Mačke Collective, ŠKUC Association: Club Tiffany – Cultural Centre Q and Club Monokel – ACC MM, PLAC, Roller Derby Ljubljana, METATISK – ACC MM, KUD ZIZ, National House Maribor, Dance Theater Ljubljana, Sophia Publishing House, Rejv Utopija Collective, Tkalka Gallery, Iskra Dofem, Matafir Association. *Financial support of particular events by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the City of Ljubljana – Culture Department, and Pro Helvetia.* _______________________________________________________ The event on Facebook _______________________________________________________