The audience at the 19th International Performing Arts Festival EX PONTO, which concluded on Sunday, awarded with the highest grade the performance F. G. Lorca: THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA OR WOMEN WITHOUT A MAN AND THATS ALL.

Like every year the audience has voted for individual performances and here are the results. The highest vote 4,63 has been awarded to the Macedonian performance, directed by Sofija Ristevska and in the production of Mal drama theatre Bitola (MK). As we remember the last year winner was also a Macedonian production The Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by Martin Kočovski.

The second best performance was with 4,51 performance PATRIOTIC HYPERMARKET, directed by Dino Mustafić and in the coproduction of Asocijacija Kulturanova, Novi Sad (RS), Qendra Multimedia, Prishtinë (XK) in Bitef teatra, Beograd (RS).

The third place with average grade of 4,32 has been split between the concluding performance of this years festival, P. II P. Njegoš: THE MOUNTAIN WREATH, directed by Diego de Brea and in the production of CNP, Podgorica (ME), and the microscopic rock opera MiCRO, from choreographer and director, Pierre Rigala and in production of Compagnie dernière minute, Toulouse (FR).

On our Facebook profile you can check out photos from this years performances, workshops and after performance mingling. Find yourself!  

This year's Festival EX PONTO edition will address the subject of “New or Old Values?”

The Festival will start on Friday, 14.09.2012, in Cankarjev dom with a big Molière: DON JUAN performance, directed by A. Morfov and will continue until 23.09.2012 with brilliant foreign productions, such as F. G. Lorca: THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA OR WOMEN WITHOUT A MAN AND THAT'S ALL, directed by S. Ristevska, MISTERMISSMISSMISTER directed by A. Borralho and J. Galante, A. Urban will participate with the performance TURBO PARADISO, two performances MALE – FEMALE / FEMALE – MALE from the directors tandem of B. Bakal and K. Pejović, also two performances under the direction of D. Mustafić, PATRIOTIC HYPERMARKET and SOCRATES' DEFENSE, in the last one he is sharing the director’s chair with D. Kasapi, and director D. de Brea with performance P. P. Njegoš: THE MOUNTAIN WREATH. Last but not least is the dance musical spectacle MiCRO, from renowned French choreographer P. Rigal, with which he totally enchanted the audience at the last year’s Festival D’ Avignon.

In this year’s festival programme there have been integrated interesting Slovenian premieres from promising and well-known local artists. V. Repnik, M. Ruhsam and I. Berger Myhrewith will present performance ALSO SPRACH CAGE, B. Novakovič Kolenc with the trilogy performances SHIFT TEATRE II PLATFORM / Trilogy: SOURCE IMAGE, authors J. Smrke, R. Bobnič, A. Korsika and Z. Sajko will present performance about the CELEBRATION UPON 60^TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRIBUA STUDENT NEWSPAPER’S 1^ST ISSUE. Festival production A CRY FOR HUMANITY, directed by R. Vidic, will perform avant premiere at this year pre festival programme in Montenegro. A special two day two-day multimedia site-specific project, a theatre performance with the elements of a reality show, Ernesto Che Guevara Camp – Thirst for Life.

In addition to the meetings of several theatre artist, art directors and producers, EX PONTO Festival will offer 14 performances of selected artists from Slovenia, Austria, France, Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Russia, which will be on display at various venues in Ljubljana.

For more detailed programme click here.

September 8th – 9th 2012, Lovćen, Montenegro

This year's introduction to the 19th Ex Ponto International Performing Arts Festival will be a two-day multimedia site-specific project, a theatre performance with the elements of a reality show, Ernesto Che Guevara Camp – Thirst for Life, co-produced by Ex Ponto Festival (B-51 Cultural Society).

Due to the fact that interest in the participation at the Che Camp is also huge among the local culture fans, B-51 Cultural Society will organise bus transport from Ljubljana to Montenegro and back.

In order to participate fill in and submit the online form. For more information call +386 (1) 426 94 05 or +386 (0)41 200 390 or write an email to b51@exponto.net.

You can also check the information on the Camp on our website www.exponto.net and the project's official website on Facebook.

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With the performance A Cry for Humanity - staged poetry of Srečko Kosovel, directed by Renata Vidič and the concert of Vasko Atanasovski Trio, we successfully brought to an end the 11th Festival Kluže. 

Traditional festival took place in slightly shortened form of 20.7. till 22.07.2012 in the fortress Kluže, KD Bovec and at the central town square. Despite the financial cuts in the Cultural sector, the festival offered interesting performances for both younger and older audience and brought many visitors.

The festival was opened by the official guest of honour, respectful Slovenian writer Mr. Boris Pahor, whose speech was very well accepted by visitors before the opening performance KOBARID '38 - Chronicle of the Assassination, based on the drama by Dusan Jelinčič, directed by Jernej Kobal and performed by the Slovenian Permanent Theatre in Trieste.

Saturday and Sunday mornings were enriched with children performances from Circus Bufeto.

The festival took place for 11th year in a row and again attracted theatre art and culture lovers to the region of Posočje.

Varied program was implemented in cooperation with the Municipality of Bovec, Bovec Cultural Centre, Local tourist organization and TIC Bovec. The festival was financially supported by the municipality of Bovec and the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports RS.

For the programme of the festival click here. Some photos from the festival are shown below, for more click here.  

Last year's co-production performance "RED", directed by Martin Kočovski, is hosted by this year's edition of the JoakimInterFest under Knjaževsko-srpski Theatre, from the City of Kragujevac, Serbia.

Staging, created on the motifs of Orhan Pamuk's novel "My name is red", the last year impressed audiences with their innovative and theatrical approach to the current topic of combining different cultures in the European area.

The performance's premiere was at last year's 17th EX PONTU festival, who is also one of the co-producers.

International coproduction The Lexicon of Mythology of the Former Yugoslavia, directed by renowned Oliver Frljić, last Friday, 9^th of December 2011, in National theatre of Kosovo in Pristina, successfully concluded the tour around former Yugoslavia countries. Controversial and attractive performance, created on a parallel history of critics and gossip, aroused much attention and interest in the former Yugoslav space.

The performance attracted more than 2000 viewers at the premieres and reruns on its ten days tour in Croatia, Montenegro and Kosovo at its co-producers in INK Pula, CNP Podgorica and Teatri Kombetar i Kosoves, Pristina.

Next year the performance The Lexicon of Mythology of the Former Yugoslavia continues with its tour as it will be hosted by Macedonia in February and later on in Austria, Serbia, Germany and Russia.

Artists and producers from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia are cooperating in the performance, which was coproduced by international network NETA (New European Theatre Action).

For video trailer click here.

Goran Bertok’s photographic exhibition “Dead Nature” will be displayed on Wednesday, 28th of December 2011, from 20 pm onwards, in Galerija Močvara, Zagreb.

The selection from the series Visitors (2004), Post Mortem (2007) and Red (2009), in which Goran Bertok devotes the last stage of the human body - death.

The project is supported by Ministry of culture of Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of culture of Republic of Croatia, The city of Zagreb and The city of Ljubljana.
The exhibition was produced by Cultural Society B-51 and in cooperation with gallery Močvara.