Bitef

Student's Park Hop.La! Artistic Group, Belgrade, Serbia

Cultural Centre Dom omladine Belgrade Studio "Iskorak", Belgrade, Serbia

Little Theatre "Duško Radovič", Belgrade, Serbia Rainer Werner Fassbinder

KATZELMACHER

THE SITE

SKIES ABOVE THE CITY FRAGMENTS OF AN URBAN CHILDHOOD

Presentation of the programme and workshops in/about public spaces

Adaptation and direction:

Milena Markovič

Expert Consultant:

Ana Markovič

Authors;

Irena Ristič and Mirjana Boba Stojadinović The Site is a programme of participative art addressing the treatment of urban public spaces by young people. It is realised in Belgrade by local inhabitants and institutions and the purpose of the workshops is to encourage the participants to offer their creative answers to their experience with public spaces gone to seed. During the programme the participants suggest and put through a series of artistic actions in different forms such as processions, performances, installations, spatial interventions, stencils, live sculptures or something quite new - all that in order to establish live communication with their fellow citizens and breathe life into their neighbourhoods.

Photography:

Ema Szabo

Author:

Diana Kržanić Tepavac

Pleskonja and Helga Goran

Design of promotional material:

Ivona

Concept and creative leadership:

Ana Konstantinovi i Ana Đorđević

Participants

- Pupil of the Secondary Vocational School in Belgrade: Habib Gasi, Nemanja Oklopdžija, Aleksander Emini, Dragan Nikolič, Dragana Stankovič, Dulijana Beriša, Emran Maksutovič, Jelena Ristič, Sandra Đorđić, Tafilj Dubova. "When I got the opportunity to make a workshop with children from the Secondary Vocational School, to my mind immediately came one of my favourite dramas, Katzelmacher. I think it speaks about things of direct concern to them. In addition to the prejudice motif Ana Markovič and I developed something which was Fassbinder's favourite genre anyway - melodrama. In other words, love and betrayal, longing for the unknown, touching dreams on a roadside petrol station. Maize grows next to it and life will, perhaps, become better.” Milena Markovič Public discussion with the authors after the performance

Milan Tepavac

Costumes:

Ksenija Markovič Photography: Jovana Filipovič

Performed by Studio members:

Manja Topalovič, Kristina Radnovič, Marko Panajotović Vojislav Matič, Nikola Zablačanski.

The production emerged from work with Studio "Iskorak" attendants and is based on the examination of topics in the opus of the children's poet Dragan Lukič, the perception of the childhood at the time when this poet developed and created and the growing-up experience of Belgrade teenagers today. What does growing up in Belgrade today look like in comparison with the growing up images of the poet who talked with such rapture about trolleybuses and skyscrapers as the heroes if a growing and promising city full of challenges for the child's eyes and ears? What are the challenges facing children today? What images of childhood will today's teenagers retain who are their urban heroes, what are their fascinations, expectations, prospects? Public discussion with the authors after the performance

Moderator:

Irena Ristič

Stage "Carina", New Belgrade

Edward Bond

Direction:

Dušan Popovič

Trasnlation:

Đorđe Krivokapič

Artistic director and producer:

Nataša Milovič

Cast:

Rade Cosić and Vladimir Tešović

Like all Bond's plays which inspired the in yen face movement in Britain, Existence raises crucial questions about humanness and social injustice. How does one live with fundamental truths when faced with extreme circumstances? How does one put together again something that before its physical ruin was for years quietly undermined by the symbolic violence of the modern society? Why the conscience “has no language" but we can nevertheless hear it when we treat other people inhumanely? Does the exit from

the class order through crime become the entrance to the prison of one's own 50u1... Bond believes that we need a lot of culture to become murderers" and warns us that we must re-create drama or else our democracy begins to cease to exist as it did in Ancient Greece.

Public discussion with the authors after the performance.

Moderator:

Irena Ristič

"Šumatovačka" Centre for Artistic Education

Centre for Drama in Education and Art CEDEUM and Šumatovačka Centre for Artistic Education, Belgrade, Serbia

PERMEATIONS

Closing presentation of open artistic and creative workshops within the programme Polyphonic Narratives - Practices and Readings. Presentation of the working draft for international collaborative project that is going to be done by participants, in 2013. Poliphonic party in the garden.

dg/ ROMA

HS nOBOCMUJTE nouiKO mm

ê FOND ZA OTVORENO DRUŠTVO - SRBIJA FUND FOR AN OPEN SOCIETY - SERBIA

ASSITEJ SRBIJA

Bitef Polifonija Bitef Polyphony

Dahmwß

hi and Culture DG Culture Programme

ZVUČNA MAPA DORĆOLA

roei

»ocmNCS?

roper* C'irU/f

A.VUIKO PAAOBUR

14EHTAP 3A /IHKOBHO 05PA30BArt.E IjJ iiiy/viaTOBaMKa

epßißoaq auipeiLuo uiop

ninni

HOP. LA!