We are happy to share with you the publication From Praxis to Policy: Environmental Shift through Art and Culture that we developed and produced as part of the Art Climate Transition project, and our journey through it.
ACT – ART, CLIMATE, TRANSITION
Lokomotiva – Center for new initiatives in art and culture as a member of the partner network ACT ̶ Art, climate, transition that unites art and what was previously known as ecology, but now more appropriately called the climate crisis, participated in the closing event of the Mladi levi festival organized by the partner organization Bunker.
Summer School – TO KEEP IN TOUCH… – 20/08 – 25/08
The Summer School program, “To Keep In Touch…,” lasted from August 20th to August 25th and was organized by Nomad Dance Academy and Non Aligned Movements, LOKOMOTIVA-Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture, Nomad Dance Academy Croatia, Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia, ICC, Objekt plesa, CoFestival, Antisezona and guests who participated in the program.
Residences and presentations: “Queer dance art and performance” Movement Research, New York in collaboration with Lokomotiva, Skopje (21-29 June, 2023, New York)
Movement Research (NY) and Lokomotiva (MK) have been developing a long-term collaboration that gathers performance and body-based artists, theorists, and researchers from USA and the Balkans who engage deeply with issues of queerness in their work. They met in Skopje in June 2022 in the context of the Skopje Pride Weekend and Queer Arts festival, and this year their meeting in New York coincided with NYC Pride Weekend.
ACT partners meeting and Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) Symposium || 27-29.07.2023 London
From 27th – 29th ACT partners are meeting in London on the partners meeting and Art, Climate, Transition (ACT) Symposium.
The ACT Symposium will feature lectures, panel discussions, performances, audio walks, and feasts. This programme includes: a practical exploration of resilience within environmental movements with Zamzam Ibrahim, a movement workshop with Brussels-based artists Daniel Linehan & Michael Helland, a masterclass in Legislative Theatre with Katy Rubin, weaving with Sheila Ghelani, and a keynote performance lecture from Mathieu Charles, whoseinnovative performance art reflects his Mauritian Creole heritage, his stance on anti-colonialism, and his embrace of diasporic futurisms.
(NON) ALIGNED MOVEMENTS || TO KEEP IN TOUCH || summer summit 20.08 – 29.08.2023 in BERLIN!
AS PART OF THE (NON) ALIGNED MOVEMENTS PROJECT, THE NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY (NDA) IS EXCITED TO PRESENT ITS SUMMER SUMMIT FROM AUGUST 20TH TO AUGUST 29TH, 2023, IN BERLIN! Check program in details here.
Queer body programme/ Stage Performance Workshop with Simona Spirovska
/македонски подолу/
Queer body programme/ Stage Performance Workshop with Simona Spirovska
June 20, 2023, 18:00
@ Socio-cultural centre Komitet
LOKOMOTIVA-Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture the third year in the continuation organizes the program Queer body programme with the aim to enable the space for creating, sharing, and producing queer culture. The local community will have the opportunity to share their experiences with international and local artists and collaborators in opening new spaces and forms for the expression and development of dreg culture.
In the frame of the Queer body programme, Lokomotiva organizes several open workshops of lip-syncing, live singing, dance, and performance with the community, aiming to support the development of the movements and “bodies of resistance” as part of the culture. This project was created to encourage and give visibility to the local culture and its members.
The open series of workshops and performances will be led by the 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 actor, dancer and performer, and Maja Milanova make-up artist. The artists, actors, and artists, with the participants will explore the various practices related to culture and togetherness.
KULTRENING | workshops for choreography and dance Practising (re-)orienting with Nastya Dzyuban, Lee Mun Wai and Viktorija Ilioska
19.06 and 20.06.2023 @ 11.00-12.30 at UGD
Practising (re-)orienting
In this re-orienting practice, we will start with the question “what difference does it make what we are oriented toward?” and move on not only forwards, but also backwards. Moved by the Feldenkrais-inspired principle of practicing curiosity, we will together orient ourselves towards the senses, sensations, body parts, movements and sounds that are usually underrepresented and marginalised. What are the things that we are leaving behind, behind our backs? Moving in-between these questions, we will play around with scoring sensations, practicing anticipation and developing telepathic connections.
Queer body programme/ Workshop with drag performer Linda Socialista
/македонски подолу/
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…
Research RESIDENCY/ Back as in Backwards 09.06.-24.06.2023, Skopje
Nastya Dzyuban (Ukraine) together with her colleagues and collaborators Viktorija Ilioska (North Macedonia) and Lee Mun Wai (Singapore)
“What difference does it make what we are oriented toward?”, asks Sarah Ahmed. In her perspective, queer phenomenology might be the way to be facing towards the back. But what does it mean to be oriented backwards? And more generally, how do we even get oriented?