Festival of Alternative Theatre Forms Opened in Zagreb

For the eight year in a row, the Attack! Autonomous Cultural Centre opens the FAKI - Festival of Alternative Theatre Forms in Zagreb. This year, FAKI will host over 100 participants from Croatia, Serbina and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the UK, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Germany. FAKI Street performance FAKI was created in a protest against similar festivals for non-professionals, with their focus on the institutionalized theatrical forms, complemented by the criticism and remarks of a jury. FAKI is, therefore, a festival of the low-budget, unconventional, street, “different” theatre, but also of other forms of artistic expression. The goal of the festival is to provide the space to all authors that do not consider themselves part of the theatre mainstream and rarely have an opportunity to present their work to foreign audiences, with the basic conceptual idea to provide visibility to all those that want to express themselves, regardless of their age or past experience. The Festival fosters engagement, protest, diversity of expression, provocation, with a fair share of humour, of course. For the second year in a row, the members of Attack! are forced to reduce their activities to several festivals and events. The bulk of the related events take place at the facilities of the abandoned building of the “Borba” printing press, with the purpose to attract the public attention to the eternal problem of lacking proper space for independent culture, with so many thousands of square meters of unused former industrial facilities in the city.

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