Category: 20 years Lokomotiva

Queer body programme/ Workshop with drag performer Linda Socialista

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Queer body programme/ Workshop with drag performer Linda Socialista

Be Pyg(ay)malion and create your Gaylatheia!

Јune 15, 2023, 18:00 @ KOMITET

 

LOKOMOTIVA-Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture in collaboration with the socio-cultural center Komitet, third year in the continuation organizes the program Queer body programme with aim to enable the space for creating, sharing and producing drag and queer culture. The local community will have the opportunity to share their experiences with international and local artists and collaborators and open new spaces and forms for the expression and development of drag culture… 

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THE ULTIMATE #3 – a workshop with drag performers

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Queer body program/ Dance and choreography workshop
THE ULTIMATE #3 – with drag performers Irma Swan and Tita Extra Vita
06/06/2022, 18:00
Комитет / Komitet
LOKOMOTIVA-Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture in collaboration with the socio-cultural center Komitet, third year in the continuation organizes the program Queer body programme with aim to enable the space for creating, sharing and producing drag and queer culture. The local community will have the opportunity to share their experiences with international and local artists and collaborators and open new spaces and forms for the expression and development of drag culture…

In the frame of the Queer body programme, Lokomotiva organizes several open workshops of lip-syncing, live singing, dance and performance with the drag community, aiming to support the development of the movements and “bodies of resistance” as part of the drag culture. This project was created to encourage and give the visibility of the local drag culture and its members.

The open series of workshops and performances with drag artists, actors and artists, will be led by the drag artists themselves Dario Barretto Damas (known as Irma Swan), Aleksandar Georgiev (known as Tita Extra Vita), Jana Jakimovska (known as Linda Socialista), Simona Spirovska an actress, dancer and performer and Maja Milanova make-up artist and with the participants together will explore the various practices related to the culture.

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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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