BTURN magazine & SHARE Conference present: ACTRESS (live), REDSHAPE (live) Saturday, 28 Apr 2012, 23:00h / The Tube – 21 Simina, Belgrade (SER) Actress Music of this enigmatic London-based producer is pretty much based on the elements of lo-fi aesthetics,…
Apr 28 – May 05, Krems (Austria) Die Vertreibung Ins Paradies / The Expulsion Into Paradise Donaufestival focuses mainly on music but also includes theater and performance: on the first weekend CocoRosie will perform an extensive show, adapting to the…
Monday, April 23, 2012, 8:00 pm Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco(US) God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse / Crucified Subject: Without Grail. In Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. His books include…
6-8th April, Neurotitan Galerie, Rosenthaler Strasse 39 im Haus Schwarzenberg, Berlin (GER) Grand opening 7 PM! ALL YOU CAN EAT! If you’re not sick of it by now, this could be the right time! The Laser Summit of Cheap Graphics…
Apr 6, 19:30h, REX Cultural Center, Belgrade (SER) Let’s Talk About Last Year’s Big Bad Crises Balkans Beyond Borders is an organization headquartered in Greece, a country increasingly synonymous with the word “crisis”. Last year, in response to the growing…
June 29-July 01 2012 Zrce beach, Island of Pag, Croatia Situated on the beautiful Isle of Pag, Zrce beach is one of the most stunning locations a festival could hope for. Surrounded by mountains and right next to the deep…
March 22- 29 at Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana A diversified insight into contemporary world documentary film production, which is becoming increasingly more incisive and topical, deeply stirring the nucleus of major social and political issues and probing all walks of life. Festival…
22 March, 20h Dom Omladine Belgrade, Serbia Tinariwen a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed around 1979 in refugee camps in Libya but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s. The group first started to gain a following outside the Sahara…
Sat, March 17, 2012 9:00 pm BRASS MENAZERI, DJ Zeljko “Best Crazed Gypsy Brass Band Dance Party in SF: Yes, this occasional Kafana Balkan party is pretty much the only crazed Gypsy brass band dance party in town, but that…
16-17 March 2012 Belgrade, Serbia Resonate is a new platform for networking, knowledge sharing and education bringing together world class artists to drive a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture. Core aim of “RESONATE” is…
McDonald’s in the Balkans: a brief history From a source of national pride to a symbol of US imperialism, the American fast food chain has left its mark in the Balkans
In March...
Yu-Mex: Yugoslav Mexican Music of the 1950’s After the Yugo-Soviet relations broke down in 1948, the Yugoslav authorities were looking for an alternative source of cultural inspiration....
The Soviet erotic alphabet picture book from 1931 This precious discovery from the vaults of Stalinism sheds new light on the supposedly sexually repressive communist society of the former S...
Geeks behind the Iron Curtain: Yugoslav tech-socialism and the imaginary future Kristian Benic’s book digs out an impressive bulk of geeky stories not just about Commodores and Spectrums, but the Socialist Federal Republ...
