20 years of LOKOMOTIVA

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It’s been 20 years of coexistence of the community called Lokomotiva which was, not so peacefully, steering and sailing through our macadams… but still, if we look back to some point in 2003, we see a path, a very colorful one, full of sound, filled with lots of art, breaking lances, different crosswinds, more art, conversations, laughter, research, various challenges, struggles, victories, many lessons learned, communities created, spaces and changes we wanted…
A long journey is yet ahead of us, but this year, we will take a little break to say thank you to all of us who see ourselves as part of that coexistence, as collaborators, as audience and as friends, as those without whom Lokomotiva would never have been possible.
We want to dedicate this year to what that coexistence was based on for the past 20 years, i.e. to what makes Lokomotiva what it is – the collaborations here, in the region and beyond, research in art and cultural policies, commitment to the production and presentation of contemporary art , advocating for the needs of artists and cultural workers, creating new thinking spaces and discursive perspectives, new pedagogies and methods of how we learn together, how we build the community through solidarity and spaces where we create and coexist…

Thanks to Ana Jovanovska who is behind the design of this jubilee.

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Conference: How Can We Move? Ecological Perspectives on Contemporary Dance

European Dancehouse Network/ Conference

How Can We Move? Ecological Perspectives on Contemporary Dance

14 November 2022 @ Online

 

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EDN is organizing an online conference to which artists, cultural practitioners, academics, and local and international policy makers are invited. The conference on 14 November between 10:00 and 13:00 will coincide with the release and public presentation of EDN’s upcoming research publication. Register by 10 November 2022.

How can we move? This question is a common thread running through EDN’s 2022 activities. The conference will bring together conversations, thoughts, and actions around the theme of ecological sustainability. The annual online closing event on November 14, 2022, titled “How Can We Move? Ecological Perspectives on Contemporary Dance,” will bring together participants from within and outside the network and the sector, address burning issues for the sector and for society and culture more broadly, and present the results of all annual project activities.

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Three activities as part of the (Non)Aligned Movements project organised in Struga

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Lokomotiva, Skopje in the period from 25th of August till the 3rd of September in the small city of Struga, will organize three activities as part of the project (Non)Aligned Movements:

  • from 25.08.-30.08.2022 meeting of the Nomad Dance Academy network, entitled “Summit”,
  • from 28.08.- 03.09.2022 International Summer School “Curating in Context” part of the Open Course “Curatorial Practice in Context” at the Stockholm Academy of Arts
  • “Critical movement” residencies by Frida Laux (France) and Elena Rose Light (USA) from 28.08.- 03.09.2022.

The “Summit” of the Nomad Dance Academy will be attended by individuals and organizations, members of the Nomad Dance Academy, and they will discuss the ways of cooperation in the region, networking between festivals for contemporary dance and performance, the development of residential programs in that field, and the regional archive for contemporary dance and performance on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, will be discussed as well.

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All dance professionals and others join the EDN Online Forum “Are you here? Dance and its audience”

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European Dancehouse Network/ Online Forum

“Are you here? Dance and its audience”  

October 12,  2021

Organized by EDN, The Place and Saddler’s Wells

 

Lokomotiva, Skopje as one of the members of European Dancehouse Network  is inviting you to join the EDN Online Forum “Are you here? Dance and its audience” is the online event open to all dance professionals and others who would like to delve into the complexities of the relationship between dance and its audience.

Join us online on 12 October 2021!

European Dancehouse Network together with The Place and Saddler’s Wells organize EDN Forum “Are you here? Dance and its audience”.

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OPEN CALL WUNDER DER PRÄRIE/ MIRACLE OF THE PREREQUISITE – CARE CITY by Zeitraumexit

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OPEN CALL

WUNDER DER PRÄRIE/ MIRACLE OF THE PREREQUISITE – CARE CITY

January 22, 2021 

@ Zeitraumexit

 

Zeitraumexit is artist’s run space and socio-cultural center in Mannheim for extended art and as an artist house, promotes and produces international art that occupies the gaps between genres and social fields. As a socio-cultural center, they take up socially relevant topics and influence the neighborhood with art projects and educational offers.

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Public Discussion: Crisis Ordinary, Systematic Crisis and the Future of Knowledge in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Aftermath

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International Summer School “Curating in Context”

DISSCUSION on the subject: Crisis Ordinary, Systematic Crisis and the Future of Knowledge in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Aftermath
with: Marijana Cvetković (Serbia), Rok Vevar (Slovenia), Jasmina Zaloznik (Slovenia) and Jasna Jasna Žmak (Croatia)
Тext and moderatos: Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski and Slavcho Dimitrov (North Macedonia)

 

The discussion is part of the programme of the International Summer School “Curating in Context”, programmed and organised by the citizens’ association Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Art and Culture from Skopje.

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Start of the first edition of the International Summer School “Curating in Context”

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International Summer School “Curating in Context”

Online seminars, workshops and lectures

August, 25 September, 15, 2020

 

The citizens association Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiative in Art and Culture from Skopje, programmes and organises the first International Summer School “Curating in Context”, which will be implemented from August, 25 until September, 15, 2020.

The first edition of the school is organized as part of Lokomotiva’s two-year project “Curating in Context” (2019-2021). The project is realized in partnership with the Stockholm University of Arts, the University of Zagreb (Faculty of Dramatic Art) and Tanzfabrik Berlin, and it is supported by the European Union programme for education, training, youth and sport – Erasmus+. This year, the International Summer School “Curating in Context” is also supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia.

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Lokomotiva – Kino Kultura project space – became a member of EDN – European Dancehouse Network

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EDN- European Dancehouse Network

Lokomotiva & Kino Kultura project space – became a member of EDN

 

We are delighted to announce that Kino Kultura project space, represented by Lokomotiva, became one of the members of EDN- European Dancehouse Network.

For the founders, Lokomotiva and Theatre Navigator, this is important news and is the realization of part of our goals for internationalization.

This membership in EDN, for us, means that Kino Kultura as a project space for contemporary performing arts, among what, dance and performance was recognized and supported by the international partners.

 

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