Mladi Levi International Festival 2016

19^th consecutive edition of the Mladi levi international festival of contemporary arts is set and ready to perk up the late summer scene in Ljubljana and bring leading-edge stage artists from all over the world. An allegorical performance by the French director Philippe Quesne, Night of the Moles, will open the festival and have us follow gigantic magical creatures as they lead us into the cavity of the world in their search for shelter.

The festival this year also proudly presents Penny Arcade, the legend of the New York underground scene, and last year’s festival highlight, the Brazilian artist Christiane Jatahy, with video installation of the performance #thewalkingforest.doc. The festival will see the return of enfant terrible of contemporary Belgian avant-garde Benjamin Verdonck, joining forces with a young Portuguese artist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia to orchestrate poetic surprises across the city. Joris Lacoste will make an appearance with Suite N°2, one of the most exhilarating performances in its composition of musicality of the spoken language. The classical festival repertoire this year consists of the international hit performance Clean City, which shines light on cleaning ladies under the Greek directing duo Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris.

A portion of the festival programme is dedicated to young hopes with uniquely bold autopoetic expressions: Mladi levi is to play host to the young Indian-based activist performer Mallika Taneja with a surprising solo Be Careful, the Polish artist Ludomir Franczak who is to dig through the archives to bring out the memories of the “recovered ones”, and a German student collective ScriptedReality is to perform an exorcism with an entertaining Kabbalistic invention to break the curse cast upon the philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek. A renowned Polish visual artist and curator Waldemar Tatarczuk will show us Up.

Collectives representing home soil at the forthcoming festival are Beton Ltd. with their much-anticipated premiere Ich kann nicht anders and No!training collective, with their Variations on Slowness: TIME OUT 2. – unfolding an exploration of performing possibilities. Plus a concert evening to spice it all up with the real »badass gangsta rapper« Smaal Tokk.
The international Ready to Change conference with the title theme New Political Mythologies and Art will take place as part of the forthcoming festival.

Mladi levi remains the central arena of encounters and surprises, bringing together national and foreign artists in their experience of art and providing the space of mutual reflection on contemporary social and art issues. In times of all too frequent flight in nostalgic pasts and national contexts, the Mladi levi festival insists on embodying a transnational haven of uncensored thought, active presence and future horizons.

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Program

Catalogue (to view the downloaded brochures you will need Acrobat Reader)

	Friday, August 19th at 8.00 pm The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL
	Friday, August 19th at 8.00 pm Saturday, 20. avgust 2016 7.30 pm The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Philippe Quesne: NIGHT OF THE MOLES (Welcome to Caveland!) (FR)
	August 19th – August 28th, sound installation Foyer of the Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Monday, August 22nd, 7.00 pm, performance Friday, August 26th, 3.00 pm, talk The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Robertina Šebjanič & Miha Ciglar: SUBAQUATIC SOUNDSCAPE (SI)
	Saturday,  August 20th, 3.00 pm – 7.30 pm Sunday, August 21st , 3.00 pm – 7.30 pm Pedaling on the river Ljubljanica A reservation is required. Maria Lucia Cruz Correia: COMMON DREAMS (PT, BE)
	Saturday, August 20th, 9.30 pm DUM  Ludomir Franczak: THE RECOVERED ONES (PL)
	Sunday, August 21st, 8.00 pm Monday, August 22nd, 9.30 pm Glej, the Theatre Penny Arcade: LONGING LASTS LONGER (US)
	Monday, August 22nd, 7.30 pm The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Anestis Azas & Prodromos Tsinikoris: CLEAN CITY (GR)
	August 22nd at 9 pm, August 25th at 9.30 pm, August 26th at 9 pm at The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  August 23rd at 8.00 pm at Park Tabor Maria Lucia Cruz Correia and Benjamin Verdonck: THE SECRET EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATORY FOR GLOBAL MATTER (BE, PT)
	Tuesday, August 23rd, 7.30 pm Thursday, August 25th, 7.30 pm Glej, the Theatre Mallika Taneja: BE CAREFUL (IN)
	Tuesday, August 23rd, 8.30 pm Park Tabor Smaal Tokk: concert (SI)
	Thursday, August 25th, 9 pm The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana No!Training Lab: VARIATIONS TO SLOWNESS: TIME-OUT 2 (SI)
	August 26th – Avgust 27th The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana Ready to Change International Conference: NEW POLITICAL MYTHOLOGIES AND ART
	Friday, August 26th, 8 pm PREMIERE Saturday, August 27th, 9 pm ŠD Tabor Beton Ltd.: ICH KANN NICHT ANDERS (SI)
	Friday, August 26th, 9.30 pm The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana ScriptedReality: THE PIECE CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF PURPOSEFULNESS (DE)
	Saturday, August 27th, 8.00 – 8.20 pm Foyer of the Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Waldemar Tatarczuk: UP (PL)
	Sunday, August 28th, 4 pm – 8.30 pm DUM Christiane Jatahy: #THEWALKINGFOREST.DOC (BR)
	Sunday, August 28th, 9 pm The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana  Encyclopédie de la parole / Joris Lacoste: SUITE N° 2 (FR)
	August 29th 2016 – August 31st 2016 University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana, Ljubljana Marsh Nature Park, Planina Cave Imagine 2020 (2.0) – ART, ECOLOGY AND POSSIBLE FUTURES SUMMER LAB #1: TOXIC TOUR
	The Flying Academy 2016 will host: 24th–29th August International Festival Mladi Levi 10th–15th October Konfrontacje Teatralne Festival 8th–12th November Temps D’Images Festival

We reserve the right to possible programme alterations.

The tickets are free of charge. Voluntary contributions are welcome at all festival venues.
More information and ticket booking: +386 51 269 906, info@bunker.si.