A STAGE FOR WOMEN (AND MEN) 2011

As part of
City of Women Festival and in collaboration with ŠKUC and Apokalipsa
magazine in 2003, 2004 and 2006, the Women’s
Stage became the platform for Slovenian women’s voices. During its second decade, however, the need
has emerged for writers of all genders, ages and languages to exchange
experience, know-how and critical energy to be directed to the creative
expression of the truth of the time
we live in and which will help us survive as autonomous and sovereign
individuals. 

The subject of this year’s meeting is ANGER in all its forms: as a force
that keeps us going and gives us energy to confront the innumerable (also
bureaucratic) obstacles in the social and political field; as indignation,
infuriation, satire and sarcasm, protest… anything which might serve as a
STRATEGY OF SURVIVAL. 

The stage
will be all yours for a maximum of eight minutes. You’ll have a chance to be
angry in a creative way, to be overwhelmed by anger or to take a critical stand
– to oppose it, talk about the alternatives, the need for change or maybe a
more active involvement, in any way whatsoever: you may read a poem or an
excerpt from a novel or a humorous sketch, you may simply talk about your
experience, give a performance, tell what you passionately discuss or criticise
with your friends over a cup of coffee, protest by silence, scream, be
indifferent to anger or critical… There are a number of ways and forms – the
only limit is time and space… 

“The valve bursts. / The lions are raging.” (Srečko Kosovel, Kludsky Circu 

Circus.
Gallery.
Seat No. ...
Colombine
undresses,
undresses.
Everybody
watches.
Nobody sees
that she is
hanging by her teeth.
Rising.
Already near the tent-top.
Insolent
comments.
Shameful
laughter.
Now she
sheds her last veil.
They watch
her
biting with
the eyes
They
applaud.
She has
beautiful thighs.
Wavy
breasts.
They
applaud
and mock
her
suffering
and insult
her.
See, the
animal
is
applauding the human.
The human
is animal.
The animal
is human.
The valve
bursts.
The lions
are raging.

(Translated by Bert Pribac & David Brooks)

Readings and performances will be staged in Slovene and
Croatian language and will be presented in intervals, lasting 55 minutes with
5-minute breaks in-between. Participants will appear on stage according to the
chronological order of applications' arrivals.

At 5pm:
Marinka Poštrak (poems)
 Patricija Dodič (poems)
Maca Jogan (prose)
Barbara Kapelj Osredkar
(performance)
Majda Kočar in Aynee (chansons)

At 6pm:
Milijana Babić (performance)
Miomira Šegina (prose)
Mitja Drab (poems)
Miša Gams (prose)
Zalka Drglin (appeal)
Nejc Bahor & Matjaž Zorec (poetry performance)

At 7pm:
Aljaž Koprivnikar (poetry and
prose)
Zalka Grabnar Kogoj (poetry)
Ana Porenta (poetry)
Danica Križanič Mueller (poetry)
Milica Šturm (satirical prose)
Anita Hudl (satirical prose)
Taja Kramberger
(poetry)
Barbara Korun (poetry)

At 8pm:
Ana Pisar (prose)
Vesna Lemaič (prose)
Verena Balažic (poetry)
pesniški kolektiv PRIBOR (poetry)

The participation at the marathon is free of charge. You are kindly
asked to apply for participation no later than September 25 by submitting a
brief description of what you will do, as well as its duration, to barbara.korun@gmail.com or by telephone at
040.246.538; we will inform you of the exact time of your appearance.

Concept and organisation: Barbara Korun and Sabina Potočki

Organisation: Trubar Literature House; In collaboration with: City of Women.