The Fabula 2020 festival is coming to the capital between February 26 and March 8, and this time it is focusing on power plays.
The Fabula Festival, the most high-profile literary festival in Slovenia, which will be held for the 18th year in 2020, will focus on power plays this year: economic, sexual, emotional, social, geographical, ethnic. If we are all equal, why aren't we all allowed the same decisions and choices? If we are all equal, why don't we all have equal opportunities? Is it possible to get through life other than through power games, in which we are sometimes winners and other times losers?
At the same time, there will be a performance in Cankarjev dom five world-renowned writers, each with a brand new translation of a book published especially for the festival: Bernhard Schlink with Olga, Christian Novak with a gypsy, Sara Stridsberg with Beckomberg, Sheila Heti with Maternity and Édouard Louis z To do with Eddy.
However, power games are not only personal, they are also structural, the kind that define the environment in which we live and limit our possibilities in the future. Such a powerhouse is, for example, the city that will be at the center of this year's event Fables before Fables, the central theoretical pre-event of the festival. American architect, urban planner and lecturer at Yale University Keller Easterling deals with public space and the question of how positions of power are manifested in it. And what will the city of the future be like? Elvia Wilk and Simon Sellars will talk about the connections between literary and real-life utopias, dystopias and utopias.
More information:
festival-fabula.org
