June 8, 2025, from 21:00Courtyard of Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanska struga 34 DJ VENOM U ŠLJIVIKU A turntablist and a below-average accordionist, a recreational basketball player and self-proclaimed king of parikas. He mixes records with spices, produces them, and repairs turntables—truly, every mother-in-law’s dream son-in-law!
June 6 – June 8, 2025Courtyard of Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanska struga 34 Exhibition: June 6 – June 8, 2025Workshop: June 7, 2025, from 16:00 to 19:00 The term exquisite corpse refers to a form of group "automatic" creation associated with the Surrealist movement. The result is a collective work theoretically freed from the limitations individuals face. The Surrealists played this game to develop creativity through collaboration, as a tactic of resistance and deviation from ego manipulation. We are marking two decades of open Exquisite Corpse workshops & exhibitions. The method…
June 6th, 2025Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanska struga 34from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PMFee: €50 Registrations are accepted via the form: https://forms.gle/4KH7q11EFyqgyFZv6 In this workshop, Wes will guide you through his unique ball juggling techniques. Teaching you new juggling repertoire while explaining the underlying concepts behind the tricks and how to expand those ideas into other aspects of your own juggling. See how to develop new tricks, expand on traditional manipulation techniques, and transform simple ideas into juggling with surprising functions and unconventional shapes. The workshop is a playful and uplifting environment…
Dramaturgy Tricks: tools to make your shit more coherent Mentor: Darragh McLoughlin June 3rd and 4th, 11:00 AM – 02:00 PMPogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanska struga 34 Participation fee: €50 Registrations are accepted via the form: https://forms.gle/PXDkFSzEhqkLxRCD9 This workshop is designed to give creators and aspiring creators practical tools that they can use to help construct performances and work with audiences in different ways. Participants should be at least aspiring creators, and should have experience within a circus, or artistic discipline. They are asked to bring their material with them with an…
As part of the 13th edition of the Cirkobalkana Festival, we invite you to participate in the 1st Cirkolympics in Zagreb, which will take place on Saturday, June 7, 2025, in the courtyard of Pogon Jedinstvo in Zagreb and along the Sava River bank. Cirkolympics is imagined as a fun Olympic-style competition using juggling props across 7 disciplines. You can sign up for one or more disciplines you’d like to participate in – solo or in a team. The disciplines are: 100 meters juggling (individual) 1000 meters juggling (individual) Juggling…
May 31 and June 1, 2025 at 7:00 PMLocation: Big Hall of Pogon JedinstvoTrnjanska struga 34 LES VÉLOCIMANES ASSOCIÉS (BE): DER LAUF Ticket price: €15For DUSC members: €11 DER LAUF – LES VÉLOCIMANES ASSOCIÉS (BE)31.5.2025. Pogon Jedinstvo – velika dvoranahttps://app.core-event.co/events/cirko-balkana-13-manipulacije-les-ve-locimanes-assoc-ie-s-be-der-lauf-0ca9/register?lang=en DER LAUF – LES VÉLOCIMANES ASSOCIÉS (BE)1.6.2025. Pogon Jedinstvo – velika dvoranahttps://app.core-event.co/events/cirkobalkana-13-les-ve-locimanes-assoc-ie-s-be-der-lauf-ed9e/register?lang=en Duration: 55 minutes Non-verbal Recommended age: 6+ In an atmosphere halfway between David Lynch and Intervilles ( French comedy game show ), a juggler wearing a bucket on his head sets up blindly in a series of useless…
As every year so far in its 13-year-long tradition, and in the spirit of deep respect for high-quality circus entertainment, CirkoBalkana is opening a call for your acts to be part of this year’s Open Stage, which will take place during the Zagreb edition on June 8th. This year’s CirkoBalkana focus in Zagreb is on juggling and object manipulation, so we invite all beginner, intermediate, skilled, and brilliant manipulators of artistic souls to present themselves to the Zagreb audience with a short performance! Although it may sound limiting – we…
June 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM Location: CirkoBalkana Circus Tent Courtyard of Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanska struga 34 WES PEDEN (FR/USA): ROLLERCOASTER Ticket price: €15For DUSC members: €11 https://app.core-event.co/events/cirko-balkana-13-manipulacije-wes-peden-fr-sad-rollercoaster-a9d2/register?lang=en Duration: 60 minutes Suitable for all ages Language: English Ultra-modern pop-punk juggling! Surrounded by a huge inflatable blue structure and accompanied by electro beats composed of distorted rollercoaster sounds, Peden shares his cutting-edge tricks inspired by corkscrews, adrenalin, and high-tech seatbelts. The show features a 4-meter transparent tube making balls spiral around Wes’ body, contemporary spinning plate rituals, epic 3-ball disco juggling,…
June 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM Location: Big Hall of Pogon JedinstvoTrnjanska struga 34 DARRAGH MCLOUGHLIN (IR): STICKMAN Ticket price: €15For DUSC members: €11 https://app.core-event.co/events/cirko-balkana-13-manipulacije-darragh-mcloughlin-ir-stickman-d5f3/register?lang=en Duration: 45 minutes Recommended age: 10+ On stage lays a man, and a stick. In the background, a large flat-screen TV flickers. The TV reads “MAN / STICK”, as if to clear up any doubt as to what is right in front of us. This is not a story. There is no narrative. But over time, the Man and the Stick pass through forms together,…
June 5, 2025, at 20:00CirkoBalkana Circus TentCourtyard of Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanska struga 34 MISMO NISMO (SLO): JUGGLING CONCERT https://app.core-event.co/events/cirko-balkana-13-manipulacije-mismo-nismo-slo-zonglerski-koncert-b08d/register?lang=en Duration:Recommended age: 8+ This creation by the Mismo Nismo collective places a circus ensemble into the identity of a girl-boy band. In Juggling Concert, juggling joins singing, reciting, and other forms of audience interaction on equal footing. During the performance, the artists throw 18 kilometers of ball flight. Through a torn membrane, juggling moves between the role of the front(wo)man and background vocals – or rather, background jugglers. The conceptual apparatus…