FESTIVITIES UNDER SIEGE
Following our ideas on planetary comradeship, during the last months we have talked to allies from six continents about what besieges them and what festivities keep them going, despite the unbearable state of matter at the moment. They are gathering in Ljubljana, to speak not from margins, not from alternative practices but right from the center of the world that knows how to coexist with and despite the siege.
May 20-22
From 9.00AM-10.00PM straight
Krater and its sister feral lands: The Mladinsko Theatre, MAO Slovenia, Plava Laguna, Bežigrad Library, Ulca, Tivoli kare
Across three days, the feral grounds will open to celebrate unruly kin: architects holding parks open through occupation, lawyers plotting paths toward nature’s liberation, artists dwelling in the neglected zones of administration, landscape architects guiding walks through the feral undergrowth, curators turning residencies into commons, tiger mosquitoes redrawing the city with their bites, and many others — all reclaiming the city and its many natures otherwise.
With voices arriving from Colombia, Brazil, Europe, and Ghana, we will gather and swing through times of multiple siege — ecological, media, political, and personal — turning festivity into a form of resistance to apocalypse and resignation, especially when the world insists there is so little left to celebrate.
Festivities under siege is an ongoing invitation to keep producing the worlds, where we don't give up on festivities, take inspiration seriously, stand for tenderness, speak up, show up, plot and conspire, rely on critical thought, feral tactics, and trust in creativity. Festivities are not oblivious to sieges; they live despite and in parallel with global, structural, systemic, and personal sieges.
Next week, watch out for conference tickets around the city! They might be magnetic. See you around at the festivities under siege!
FESTIVITIES DAY 1, 20.5.2026
9.00-9.30 Registration + Breakfast (upon reservation)
9.30-13.00 Move, Where Movement is Restricted
Kate Rich
Tatiana Pinto
Arh Politične
9.30-13.00 Affective infrastructures
Maja Smrekar, Four Waters: Jelena Prljević, Jovana Timotijević
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-19.00 Carneval, Fence & Unstable Grounds
Ajda Kadunc
Ahim & Danica
Feral Flowershop
Robin Winogrond, Thilo Folkerts
19.00-19.30 Feral Banquet at Mladinsko theatre (upon reservation)
19.00-21.30 Unruly Kin: Acts at Twilight
Krater Model
Åsa Ståhl
FESTIVITIES DAY 2, 21.5.2026
9.00-9.30 Registration + Breakfast (upon reservation)
9.30-14.00 Organising Commonalities
Practice Matters: Magnus Ericson & Eylül Şenses
Merje Laiapea
Laëtitia Manach
9.30-13.00 What do We Forget to Remember
Hana Ćurak
Patrick Nii Okanta Ankrah
Anđelka Bnin-Bninski
13.30-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-19.00 Celebrating disobedience! We make space, we take space, we hold grief
Gabriela De Matos
Ministarstvo prostora
Zdenka Badovinac
Pan Tzannetakis, Anna De Mezzo, Andreea Iager
Feral Cartographies
19.00-19.30 Dinner Courtyard Tivoli (upon reservation)
19.30-20.30 Laughs, Rugs and Courtyards: Where is Solidarity in Neighbourhoods?
Sonja Dragović, Lea Topolovec
21.00-22.00 Soundbites on Peace
Gilly Karjevsky
FESTIVITIES DAY 3, 22.5.2026
9.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-14.00 Choreographies for Multispecies Liberation
Debra Solomon, Mathilde Vrignaud
Maja Vardjan
Ludovica Battista, Sabina R.van der Hammen, Jure Tuš: Legal Network for the Protection of Democracy
14.00-15.00 Lunch break MAO (upon registration)
10-00-14.00 Soil Assembly: workshops
Bokashi
Knotweed fertilizer
Enja Grabrijan
15.30-17.30 Soil Assembly: guided tour
Julia Udall, Altan Jurca Avci, Tina Božak
18.00-19.00 Vanishing act
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh
19.00-19.45 Dinner at Krater (upon reservation)
19.00-21.30 Soil Assembly: Off the Books Tasting
NOTNOT Atelier
19.30-21.00 Future Forecast & Hibernation
Jana Prepeluh
Elke Krasny
Brett Gillman
Nastja Ambrožič
21.00-22.00
Feral cocktails and hugs
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Festivities Under Siege is co-created by many.
Curatorial, editorial & art direction: Danica Sretenović and Gaja Mežnarić Osole
Soil Assembly curators: Andrej Koruza and Gaja Mežnarić Osole
Project lead: Aljaž Rudolf
SM visual identity: Renata Šifrar; Mainly Afternoon
Criptic communication: Kaja Kisilak
Orientation around festivites: Urška Alič
Special thanks to Krater residents:
Reverse Coreography: Mathilde Vrignaud
Path and landscape design: Brett Gilman
Way-finding and Costumes: Zala Žagar
Drinks magician: Laura Schmidt
Product design: Tianlong Mu, Andrej Koruza
City teasers design: Klara Maček, Ahim
Photography: Amadeja Smrekar
Ambience and wellbeing: Krater multispecies communities