As part of the 3rd international festival of queer and feminist culture Smoqua* which takes place in Rijeka, from 23 to 25 May, art organization From the Citizens to Their City presents the performances by Vlasta Delimar and Boryana Rossa, artists who examine the concepts of ‘norm’, ‘normality’, ‘normativity’ – the themes of this year’s festival.
Smoqua
Smoqua is the first regional queers and feminist festival held in Rijeka. It is organized by LORI Association in collaboration with Pariter Association, the Centre for Women Studies at the Rijeka Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Rijeka’s initiative From the Citizens to Their City.
GSG in the framework of Smoqua 2 Festival
n the scope of the second edition of queer and feminist festival Smoqua, launched by LORI Association in 2017, which this year takes place from May 17 to May 19 and deals with the topic “Pride and Prejudice”, GSG initiative is holding several events.
We are going to present the works of New York-based gender-queer artist Kris Grey and the Brazilian transdisciplinary artist Mavi Veloso, who is currently living in Holland, and learn more about their artistic-activist engagement in a talk with Zvonimir Dobrović, the director of Queer Zagreb. Our repertoire will also include the promotion of the first GSG publication that focuses on LGBTIQ and feminist issues, with textual and visual contributions of Smoqua’s collaborators. VoxFeminae.net team will presents the game “Fierce Women”, which introduces players to women who have made an outstanding contribution to society.
GSG in the framework of Smoqua 1 Festival
Exhausted Time: Drag in Times of War and Shaving Patriarchy
In the framework of Smoqua, the first regional festival of queer and feminist culture in Rijeka, organized by LORI in collaboration with different associations, cultural institutions and prominent people from local and regional queer and feminist culture, From the Citizens to Their City will be hosting three events.