FAKI 20 – The 20th International Festival of Alternative Theatrical Expression
AKC, Pierottijeva 11, Zagreb [CRO]
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Festival: May 23rd – 27th 2017
Art residencies: May 15th – 27th 2017
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PROGRAM:
http://attack.hr/faki20
Admission to all performances is free!
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As a festival of alternative theatre, street theatre, performance, off- and low-budget theatre, FAKI had, in the past few years, become a central place for an overview of innovative, critical and independent, international theatre and performance scene, maintained by traveling artists and groups whose research on original, experimental and research models of art expression generates universal existential spectacles and performances. The presented aesthetics and poetics are being upgraded in a comparative process, thereby establishing new performance styles and criterias. Another important aspect of FAKI is political activism towards more just, more independent and more authentic social resonance, towards a ‘humanely shared planet’ (Steve Biko). Every year FAKI chooses a festival theme that will draw attention to the deeply rooted, rotten, mutating, narrow-minded and primitive socio-political issues. In the current human rights factual dark, we have dedicated this jubilee issue of the festival to the fight against racial discrimination, memory of apartheid and one of its big rebels – writer and activist Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in the mid 1960s.
This, 20th FAKI iteration is traditionally built via an inclusive thematic open call, and, in this occasion, realized in a dialogue with 8 versed artists and artist groups connecting a large span of The Republic of South Africa, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy and up to UK – whilst utilizing the space of the postindustrial Autonomous Cultural Centre as a place of artistic co-existence, co-creation and communication.
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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
• AZULTEATRO (IT)
• BLACKISM (DE)
• NARANJAZUL THEATER COMPANY (FR)
• NASHEEKA NEDSREAL (DE)
• SIFISO SELEME (RSA)
• SKARAVENTER PROJECT (IT)
• WADDAH SINADA (UK)
• RICHARD PETTIFER (DE)
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FAKI is a non-profit theatre festival, organized by Autonomous Cultural Centre Attack!. The festival is financially supported by Republic of Croatia – Ministry of Culture, The Zagreb City Office of Culture, Education and Sports, ‘Kultura Nova’ Foundation, and the National Foundation for Civil Society Development.FAKI 20 – The 20th International Festival of Alternative Theatrical Expression
AKC, Pierottijeva 11, Zagreb [CRO]
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Festival: May 23rd – 27th 2017
Art residencies: May 15th – 27th 2017
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PROGRAM:
http://attack.hr/faki20
Admission to all performances is free!
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As a festival of alternative theatre, street theatre, performance, off- and low-budget theatre, FAKI had, in the past few years, become a central place for an overview of innovative, critical and independent, international theatre and performance scene, maintained by traveling artists and groups whose research on original, experimental and research models of art expression generates universal existential spectacles and performances. The presented aesthetics and poetics are being upgraded in a comparative process, thereby establishing new performance styles and criterias. Another important aspect of FAKI is political activism towards more just, more independent and more authentic social resonance, towards a ‘humanely shared planet’ (Steve Biko). Every year FAKI chooses a festival theme that will draw attention to the deeply rooted, rotten, mutating, narrow-minded and primitive socio-political issues. In the current human rights factual dark, we have dedicated this jubilee issue of the festival to the fight against racial discrimination, memory of apartheid and one of its big rebels – writer and activist Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in the mid 1960s.
This, 20th FAKI iteration is traditionally built via an inclusive thematic open call, and, in this occasion, realized in a dialogue with 8 versed artists and artist groups connecting a large span of The Republic of South Africa, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy and up to UK – whilst utilizing the space of the postindustrial Autonomous Cultural Centre as a place of artistic co-existence, co-creation and communication.
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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
• AZULTEATRO (IT)
• BLACKISM (DE)
• NARANJAZUL THEATER COMPANY (FR)
• NASHEEKA NEDSREAL (DE)
• SIFISO SELEME (RSA)
• SKARAVENTER PROJECT (IT)
• WADDAH SINADA (UK)
• RICHARD PETTIFER (DE)
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FAKI is a non-profit theatre festival, organized by Autonomous Cultural Centre Attack!. The festival is financially supported by Republic of Croatia – Ministry of Culture, The Zagreb City Office of Culture, Education and Sports, ‘Kultura Nova’ Foundation, and the National Foundation for Civil Society Development.