 Oct 4 - Oct 13

 Ljubljana, Celje

The City of Women, an international festival of contemporary arts, will feature exhibitions, theatre and dance productions, concerts, films and book launches involving more than 80 artists, both female and male. It will be held at 11 venues in Ljubljana and in Celje.

The theme of the 30th edition is sisterhood, which programme curator Iva Kovač says is because the concept has gained traction in recent times, including with events such as the Women's March Global and rallies for reproductive rights in Poland.

The opening event, We Dream Together, is an exhibition of the latest films and installations by up-an-coming Slovenian filmmaker Katarina Jazbec at the ŠKUC Gallery. For her, sisterhood is a kinship that transcends the familial or sexual meanings of the word.

Non-binary black artist Naledi Majola looks at sisterhood through the lens of race through movement and clothing in her show In Flux.

Sisterly bonds are also present in Anna Konjetzky's Songs of Absence, while Icelandic dancer Lovisa Osk Gunnarsdottir's show When the Bleeding Stops touches on the experience of menopausal women and the related taboos.

Varja Hrvatin examines sexism and patriarchy in the online environment presenting it in an interactive way in Sukeban, a production of the festival.

The film programme will see the 1983 cult feminist movie Born in Flames, about women's rebellion in America ten years after the Second American Revolution, Daughters of the Dust, a 1991 portrait of several generations of Gullah women, and Silence of Reason, a 2023 "forensic video essay" about sexual slavery in Foča during the Bosnia War.

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