Deuje babe Festival

Contact

Deuje babe

Močnikova 1, SI-5282 Cerkno

https://deujebabe.wordpress.com

deujebabe@gmail.com

Organised byC.M.A.K. Cerkno

Frequencyannual

Festival dates3.3.2023 - 8.3.2023

The Deuje babe Festival was set up by C.M.A.K. Cerkno in 2013 as a way to commemorate the International Women's Day. As such, the festival runs a programme that aims to highlight the work and position of women in society, presenting their artistic and cultural endeavours and promoting gender equality and feminist standpoints. Of a similar nature is also the Ljubljana-based International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns, which occasionally acts as a co-producer and takes place at roughly the same time.

The name of the festival is derived from a local archaeological site, in which – so goes local folklore – wild hags (deuje babe) used to live. Besides C.M.A.K., the festival sometimes takes place also at the Film Theatre Idrija and some other venues in the region.

Concert of the music group Tus Nua at the Deuje babe Festival at C.M.A.K. Cerkno, 2018.

Programme

The programme is comprised of painting and photography exhibitions (presenting artists like the photographer Nada Žgank, painter Petra Gorenc, illustrators Pika Terpin and Maja Poljanc, the ČIPke collective, and the Vstajniške socialne delavke, i.e., Uprising Social Workers collective), performances, talks with prominent female individuals, storytelling events, film screenings (with works like Bande de filles by Céline Sciamma and Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship by Vika Kirchenbauer) and concerts. The music often touches upon the coordinates of punk rock, with some of the invited bands being Alos (IT), R.Y.F. (IT), Žen (HR), Tús Nua (HR), Fraw Blanka (SI), Arlo Zaria (SI), All Strings Detached (SI), rouge-ah (SI), Kikimore (SI), Sequenzsiaz (DE), Aivery (AT) and Le Toy (AT). The concert programme used to be carried out in collaboration with the Austrian collective Grrrls Night Out.

See also

• C.M.A.K. Cerkno
• International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns
• City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts
• Idrija City Library and Reading Room

External links

• Deuje babe Festival website
• Grrrls Night Out website

Gallery

Book presentation Srca v igri at the 9th Deuje babe Festival, 2022.

Maja Dekleva Lapajne and Alenka Marinič performing Iz vode na kopno music theatre show at the 10th Deuje babe Festival, 2023.

Opening of the exhibition Encyclopedia Mythologica Slovenica by Maja Poljanc at the 10th Deuje babe Festival, 2023.

Pika Terpin at the opening of her exhibiton Raz-stava at the 9th Deuje babe Festival, 2022.

Poster for the 8th Deuje babe Festival, 2020.

Poster for the 9th Deuje babe Festival, 2022.

Poster for the 10th Deuje babe Festival, 2023.

The Deuje babe Festival poster, 2015 edition

The Deuje babe Festival poster, 2016 edition

The Deuje babe Festival poster, 2017 edition

Concert of the music group 7AM at the Deuje babe Festival 2018, at C.M.A.K. Cerkno.

Concert of the music group Tus Nua at the Deuje babe Festival at C.M.A.K. Cerkno, 2018.

Concert of the music group Žen from Zagreb at the Deuje babe Festival 2018, at C.M.A.K. Cerkno.

Revolt Social Workers's opening performance of the exhibition I Spit on Revolution!, Križišče Gallery, 2018; at C.M.A.K. Cerkno.

Poster for the 6th Deuje babe Festival, 2018.

Who's afraid of female artists?, discussion at Križišče Gallery, 2018; at C.M.A.K. Cerkno.