SomaHut festival 2025
SomaHut is an initiative launched in 2020 under the auspices of the artistic organization Multimedijalna koliba from Zagreb. It is focused on mutual connection as well as the development and dissemination of knowledge derived from the exploration of the phenomena of body and movement through various approaches, disciplines, and fields of human activity: art, science, education, care…
This year’s SomaHut Festival is a two-day event taking place on May 24 and 25 at the KONTEJNER space in Zagreb, Odranska 1, offering a rich workshop–performance–discussion program, from Saturday at 10 a.m. to Sunday at 10 p.m.
The program gathers artists from various media to share with each other and with visitors their experience, practice, results of long-term artistic processes, inspirations, and questions that guide their research, sharing, and public engagement. The assembled titles revolve around the themes of boundaries, identity, immunity, the quality of space – between the personal and the collective, the indivisible and the shared – grounded in the experience of the body as movement and change, potential or impossibility, trauma and healing.
SCHEDULE
Saturday, May 24, 2025
10.00 Gathering
10.30 – 12.30 IMMUNITY AS PROCESS, workshop with Zrinka Šimičić, dance artist, somatic practitioner, educator in somatic and developmental movement through the BMC® approach, and Ana Jelušić, dance artist and Feldenkrais practitioner
13.00 – 15.00 ALCHEMY OF THE VOICE, workshop with Melita Lovričević, jazz vocalist, music educator, and music therapist
16.00 – 17.30 TRACING EACH OTHER, interdisciplinary workshop of movement and animation with animation artist Michaela Müller and Zrinka Šimičić
20.00 THE RAIN THAT FALLS ON NO ONE, performance, author: Margareta Sinković
Sunday, May 25, 2025
12.30 – 19.00 WHITE FLAG / Little School, video work, author: Tonka Maleković
13.00 – 15.00 HOW ORGANS SOUND, workshop with Mia Štark and Ivona Eterović
15.15 – 16.45 THE WOUND THAT WRITES, THE BODY THAT SPEAKS, presentation of artistic research through a workshop approach by Kristina Marić
17.00 – 18.30 SPACES OF TOGETHERNESS, presentation of artistic research by Tonka Maleković
18.30 – 19.30 Discussion between participants and visitors of the SomaHut Festival
20.00 CANOPY SHYNESS, performance, authors: Dubravko Mihanović, Michaela Müller, Zrinka Šimičić, Filip Šovagović
Participation in workshops requires registration via email: somahut.mmk@gmail.com.
For the performance The Shyness of Trees, due to limited seating, reservation is required via the same email.
The recommended participation fee for workshops is €10–20, depending on possibilities. The recommended donation for performances is €10, or according to possibilities.
Program and organization of SomaHut Festival 2025:
Mia Štark and Zrinka Šimičić
Initiator and program director of SomaHut:
Zrinka Šimičić
Production: Multimedijalna koliba in collaboration with KONTEJNER
Visual identity: Vanja Cuculić (Studio Cuculić)
Production: Multimedijalna koliba
The SomaHut 2025 program is co-financed by the City of Zagreb, the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, and the European Union.
The views and opinions expressed in this program belong solely to the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union nor of the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). The European Union and EACEA cannot be held responsible for them.
