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Accreditation and information desk
Location: Lobby, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Lobby, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Collect your badges and ask any questions about the programme or about how to get around Belgrade.
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| 10:00-10:45 |
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Morning moves
Location: In front of MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: In front of MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Start your day in the right way with this morning outdoor activity where you will go through a contemporary dance routine, slowly waking up and starting your day with a smile.
Choreographer
Dušan Murić, Choreographer, Serbia
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| 10:30-11:00 |
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IETM Info cell
Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Fifteen minutes of valuable information about IETM's recent and upcoming activities and advocacy work, followed by a Q&A.
Speaker
Ása Richardsdóttir, IETM, Belgium
This session will have live captions in English.
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| 11:00-12:00 |
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‘Your Money or your life!’ by Jelena Vesić [Talk of the day]
Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
19:00 - 20:00 AEDT | 18:00 - 19:00 JST/KST | 17:00 - 18:00 SGT | 11:00 - 12:00 EET | 10:00 - 11:00 CEST | 09:00 - 10:00 BST | 05:00 - 06:00 EST | 02:00 - 03:00 PST
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“Today a true artist is only the artist who can say, ‘for everything else, please address my manager’.
In such contrasting, antagonistic, and variable attempts to remove money, labour, and labour relations from the stage of art representation, there are obvious consensual efforts to explain that art cannot be understood as business as usual, as labour or work – but rather as something completely different. At this point, money appears as creative shame. [...]
However, [...] what will we find if we try to get closer to economic reality of ‘workers’ active in the ever expanding ‘world of art’ in all its domains of (self-)critical negations, transformations, excesses, inclusions, and exclusions only to focus on the very moment when projects and collaborations come to life? How does art-as-ideology inhabit speech used on such occasions?”
Vesić, J. (2016, September 29). »Administration of Aesthetics« or: On Underground Currents of Negotiating Artistic Jobs; Between Love and Money, Money and Love. Retrieved from schloss-post.com.
Join us for our Saturday keynote speech, where we will reflect on the discourse around love and money in the arts.
Speakers
Jelena Vesić, Independent Curator, Writer, Editor and Lecturer, Serbia
This session will be captioned and broadcasted online.
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| 12:00-13:00 |
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Artistic Walk #4 Graffiti battles
Meeting point: In front of MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Meeting point: In front of MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
This walk around the city will follow a recent political dialogue happening on Belgrade’s walls. A dramaturg and a graffiti artist will show how this conversation has generated a massive citizens’ response to right wing rewriting of history.
Attendance by pre-registration only. Maximum number of participants: 20
Reserve your spot
Guides
Nikola Pavlović, Street Artist, Serbia
Ognjen Obradović, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Serbia
Jana Danilović, Serbia
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| 12:15-13:30 |
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Anti-burnout hour
Location: Konferencijski Centar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Konferencijski Centar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
What are the practical ways to deal with burnout? What tools do we need to do so on a daily basis?
According to a 2021 survey, over two thirds of artists have experienced a burnout at least once in their career. This shows us that it is crucial to be able to understand its causes from an individual perspective, and to recognise the signs early on.
This session will tackle strategies and techniques for burnout prevention and recovery with a certified professional, a graduate in psychology at the University of Belgrade with a masters degree in Counselling Psychology from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Facilitator
Olivera Živanović, psychologist, Serbia
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| 12:15-14:15 |
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Participatory and Immersive Creation group session
Location: Lisabon Bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Lisabon Bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
The Participatory and Immersive Creation group (PIC) aims to provide a space for IETM members to tackle the central issues we have in creating, presenting and producing this genre of work, through open discussions, experience sharing, and creative exchanges.
On this occasion, participants will engage in an interactive session that will carry the meeting’s main topic of “Work Hard, Live Harder!” through to their experiences and future perspectives. The session will be facilitated by Simón Adinia Hanukai, Artistic Director of Kaimera Productions, and Isadora Bigazzi of Effetto Larsen.
Moderators
Nicky Tsianti, Kaimera Productions, Belgium
Isadora Bigazzi, Effetto Larsen, Italy
Paolo Pezzana, On Srl Impresa Sociale, Italy
Patrizia Cappelletti, On Srl Impresa Sociale, Italy
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| 12:30-14:00 |
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Feminist leadership
Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
How can a position of power influence our ability to make changes? Are we ready to give up the position of power in order to create something democratic, diverse, participative? What are the alternative models of management in culture, and how can feminist theories guide us into finding a new approach?
Moderator
Markiza de Sada, Independent curator and Drag Artist, Serbia
Speakers
Isa Köhler, nrw landesbuero tanz, Germany
Ksenija Đurović, Bitef, Serbia
Lisa Marie DiLiberto, Theatre Direct Canada, Canada
This session will have live captions in English.
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| 13:30-14:30 |
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Advisors Corner
Location: Lobby, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Lobby, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Meet the members of the IETM Advisory Committee in this cosy corner of the daytime meeting space and ask everything you always wanted to know about our network, its activities, strategies, governance, membership and more.
The IETM Communications and Membership team will also be present to answer any technical questions about the IETM membership and to discuss all the benefits and rights that the membership entitles. They will also be available to talk through the functionalities of the networking and promotional tools of the IETM website, as well as give our members the opportunity to discuss any issues or feedback they may have.
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| 14:00-15:30 |
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Working in the arts: a safe(r) space?
Location: Konferencijski Centar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Konferencijski Centar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
How do we lack, experience or fail to create safe(r) spaces when working in the arts? What are the difficult conversations that need to be had, and how do we create an environment of trust in which we can have them? What does it mean to have a concrete appreciation for each other's aspirations, identities and integrity? What are the ideal expressions of safe(r) spaces, and how can we practically create one in our work environment?
This will be a participatory session which will draw from each other’s experience of safe or unsafe spaces while working in the arts.
Moderator
Sedina Fiati, Artist-Producer & Facilitator, Canada
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| 14:00-16:00 |
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Towards feminist dramaturgical thinking [workshop]
Location: Maršalov Salon, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Maršalov Salon, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
In this workshop, Ana Dubljević invites us to view (feminist) dramaturgy - not only how it produces a meaning on stage, but also as the common practice of thinking and feeling within the process of creation, organisation, production and dissemination of a performance.
If in our relationship with the audience, we leave the authority of a central viewing point, can the feminist dramaturgical thinking help us to also leave it in the working process, both intentionally and simultaneously? How can we lead processes based on the practices of pleasure and care? How can we lead processes not with efficiency, but through co-existing in disagreement and with those that provide space for uncertainties despite the fear, because they see space as freedom? Can those different processes produce different shows, and if so how?
Participants are invited to reflect and share examples of their own artistic and cultural practices and map the problems and possibilities of this type of approach.
This session will be based texts from the book by Ana Dubljević - “The Feminist Pornscapes. On Feminist Dramaturgical Thinking in Dance and Performance Practice”
This workshop has a limited capacity of 20 participants. Registrations are first come, first served.
The exact same session will be held on Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October.
RESERVE YOUR SPOT
Facilitator
Ana Dubljević, Choreographer / Dramaturge, Serbia
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| 14:30-15:30 |
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Who's there?
Location: Lisabon Bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Lisabon Bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
One last opportunity for speed-meeting lovers!
Moderator
Bek Berger, New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Latvia
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| 14:30-16:00 |
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Art is not alone
Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Labour unions are losing ground in the arts. Less and less artists are becoming members of unions and are rather opting for self-organising methods. Self organised methods come with their own challenges, and in some regions, being part of a union is not an option. How can we as artists and artistic workers reclaim our position and work on policies for improved labour conditions within our sector? This session will attempt to answer this question, as well as offer participants a comparison of union activities in different local contexts.
Moderator
Vida Knežević, Kontekst, Serbia
Speakers
Kasia Wolinska, Choreographer, Germany
Fabiola Fiocco, Arts workers Italia, Italy
This session will have live captions in English.
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| 16:30-18:00 |
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Talks & Listens
Location: start in Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana) and then spreading in small groups, to other rooms
Location: start in Sala 6, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana) and then spreading in small groups, to other rooms
An interactive discussion in which IETM members get to express their views on the role of art in society and the strategies that will help our sector survive and thrive.
Moderated by the members of the IETM Advisory committee.
The introduction of this session will have live captions in English.
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| 17:00-18:30 |
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Love [Bitef main programme]
Location: Luka Beograd, Blue hall
Location: Luka Beograd, Blue hall
Address: Luka Beograd, Blue hall, 37 Zorza Klemansoa St, 11000, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.
"Love", one of the most wanted productions in the world, written and directed by Alexander Zeldin, follows the destinies of several people driven to a homeless shelter by adverse circumstances and loss of home, homeland, or job.
Duration: 1 hour 30 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: 2000 RSD (17 €)
Credits:
- Text and direction: Alexander Zeldin
- Production: A Zeldin Company, London, United Kingdom, in coproduction with Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris, France Original production: National Theatre of Great Britain in co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre
How to book?
Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.
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| 20:00-21:15 |
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Crises [Bitef main programme]
Location: Bitef Theatre
Address: Skver Mire Trailović 1, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.
The performance "Crises" concludes the programme of the festival, whose mission is to promote new names. This performance is deliberately put at the end of the 56th Bitef as it expands the topical frame of the main programme: it tackles not only the social issues related to work but also the philosophical phenomenon of crisis.
Duration: 1 hour 15 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: 2000 RSD (17€)
Credits:
- Direction: Žiga Divjak
- Production: Nova Pošta (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska)
How to book?
Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.
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| 20:00-21:20 |
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Cement Beograd [Local showcase]
Location: Belgrade Drama Theatre
Location: Belgrade Drama Theatre
Address: Milesevska St. No.64a, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles
Following the performances at the Zagreb Youth Theatre and at the Slovenian National Theatre Drama in Ljubljana, director Sebastijan Horvat is ending the year with Heiner Müller’s Cement at the Belgrade Drama Theatre.
Cement is a piece about turmoil; from the revolutionary times that it treats, the struggle between the emancipatory aspirations of his characters and their anchoring in the traditional family relationships they grew up in, to the romantic relationship between the main characters, reflecting the impact of social circumstances on the most intimate level.
This third performance in Belgrade, inspired by the great East German playwright Cement, will be based on an original play by Milan Ramšak Marković, in which the place and time of the story moves to Belgrade in the present day.
The relationship between trauma, memory and political dementia that we gradually get lost in and the conflict that is encoded in our bodies are just some of the motifs introduced by this last act of a conversation with Heiner Müller.
Duration: 140 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: 1.500 RSD (13€)
Credits:
- Written by: Milan Ramšak Marković, inspired by Heiner Müller
- Direction: Sebastijan Horvat
- Costume Designer: Belinda Radulović
- Composer: Drago Ivanuša
- Choreography and Stage Movement: Ana Dubljević
- Set Designer, Author of Video materials: Igor Vasiljev
- Lighting Designer: Aleksandar Čavlek
- Cast: Milena Župančič, Miodrag Miki Krstović, Bojana Stojković, Emir Ćatović / Milan Zaric, Ivan Zablaćanski, Isidora Simijonović, Marija Pikić, Nedim Nezirović
How to book?
Tickets are already available for purchase through the National Theatre of Belgrade’s website here.
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| 20:00-21:25 |
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Right you are, if you think so [Local showcase]
Location: Yugoslav Drama Theatre
Location: Yugoslav Drama Theatre
Address: Kralja Milana 50, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles
Who is the mysterious Lady Frola who moved into our neighbourhood? And why doesn’t she live with the son-in-law who visits all the time, or with her daughter who never goes out and no one has ever seen! What secret are they hiding, and what misfortune drove them here from the town where they lived before?
These are the questions that trouble the characters of this play by Pirandello. Having nothing – except emptiness – behind the respectable and important social masks that they wear, they become obsessive and tireless in digging around and analysing other people’s lives, in the firm belief that they can get to the truth.
‘Right you are, if you think so’ is a humorous, cynical and wise play by the Nobel Prize laureate and famous Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, one of the most important reformers of drama theatre in the 20th century. It contains motifs and ideas that resonate with the times we live in, where truth equals information, and compassion for those closest to us wanes and disappears before the desire for sensation.
Duration: 85 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: 10-12€
Credits:
- Drama: Luigi Pirandelo
- Direction: Jagoš Marković
- Adaptation, Set Design, Music Selection: Jagoš Marković
- Translation: Jugana Stojanović
- Costume Design: Bojana Nikitović
- Vocal Coach: Ljiljana Mrkić Popović
- Lighting Design: Dejan Draganov
- Sound Design: Igor Bošković
- Stage Manager: Dušan Milosavljević
- Prompter: Ksenija Ćirica
Cast:
- Lamberto Laudisi: Vojislav Brajović
- Lady Frola: Jelisaveta Sablić
- Mr Ponza: Marko Janketić
- Lady Ponza: Jelena Trkulja
- Advisor Agazzi: Branislav Lečić
- Lady Amalia: Jasmina Avramović/ Nataša Tapušković
- Dino: Lazar Đukić
- Lady Sirelli: Vesna Stanković
- Mr Sirelli: Nenad Jezdić
- Mayor: Irfan Mensur
- Lady Cini: Rada Djuričin/ Cvijeta Mesić
- A waiter in the Agazzi's home: Slobodan Tešić
How to book?
Tickets are available for purchase through Yugoslav Drama Theatre’s website here.
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| 20:30-21:45 |
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A Lullaby For Aleksija Rajčić [Local showcase]
Location: National Theatre in Belgrade
Location: National Theatre in Belgrade
Address: Francuska 3, Beograd | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles
Aleksija Rajčić, the main heroine of Đorđe Kosić's play, has not had many choices in her life. Like all the other women, she is surrounded by those whose lives represent the model through which hers is expected to function. In a world steeped by the patriarchy, the only thing expected from Aleksija is to keep silent and endure hardships. The only alternative to a life that was predestined for violence and deprived of any choice, happiness or possibility of emancipation, even before it began, is death.
Through a specific stylistic intervention in which he combines all the supporting characters in a male and female choir, the author of the play singles out Aleksija and her experience, putting them in focus alongside the depersonalised characters of this story, i.e. society, which is the biggest obstacle in this woman’s search for freedom and happiness.
In addition to the formal shaping of the text, the playwright also plays with the language, skillfully depicting the traumatic life story of a woman who, paradoxically, finds a way out of the vicious circle of violence and ultimate freedom in prison.
Duration: 75 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: 1.500-2.000 RSD ( around 12-18€)
Credits
- Drama: Đorđe Kosić
- Premiere 30.04.2022. ,,Raša Plaović” stage
- Directed by: Jug Đorđević
- Composer: Nevena Glušica
- Dramaturge: Tijana Grumić
- Set Design: Andrea Rondović
- Costume Design: Vеlimirka Damjanović
- Choreographer: Damjan Kecojević
- Vocal Coach: Ljiljana Mrkić Popović
- Associate Ethnomusicologist: Danica Krstić
- Producer: Jasmina Urošević
- Stage Manager: Sandra Rokvić
- Prompter: Danica Stevanović
- Cast: AleksijaRajčić Vanja Ejdus
- Choirmasters: Iva Milanović, Novak Radulović
- Choir: Sara Ristić, Nevena Milošević, Vera Zečević, Danijela Milošević, Mladen Lukić, Goran Milošević
- Light Operator: Srđan Mićević
- Make-Up: Marko Dukić
- Stage crew: Chief Zoran Mirić
- Sound Operator: Roko Mimica, Dejan Dražić
How to book?
Tickets will be available for purchase through the National Theatre of Belgrade’s website here in September.
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| 21:00-01:00 |
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Closing party
Location: Lisabon bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
Location: Lisabon bar, MTS Dvorana (Kombank Dvorana)
A celebration to mark the closing of what we hope will have been a stimulating plenary meeting in Belgrade.
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| 21:00-22:30 |
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Love [Bitef main programme]
Location: Luka Beograd, Blue hall
Location: Luka Beograd, Blue hall
Address: Luka Beograd, Blue hall, 37 Zorza Klemansoa St, 11000, Belgrade | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.
"Love", one of the most wanted productions in the world, written and directed by Alexander Zeldin, follows the destinies of several people driven to a homeless shelter by adverse circumstances and loss of home, homeland, or job.
Duration: 1 hour 30 min
Genre: Theatre
Price: 2000 RSD (17 €)
Credits:
- Text and direction: Alexander Zeldin
- Production: A Zeldin Company, London, United Kingdom, in coproduction with Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris, France Original production: National Theatre of Great Britain in co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre
How to book?
Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.
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