The Zagreb Music Biennale and the Museum of Broken Relationships invite you to a mixtape workshop and remind you of the deadline for your donations for the pop-up exhibition about breakups
The Zagreb Music Biennale (5th – 12th April 2025) continues with pre-festival events organized in collaboration with this year's partner, the Museum of Broken Relationships , and invites all interested parties to register for the Collective Mixtape Making Workshop. which is held on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at 11 a.m. in the Museum and reminds you that the same Saturday is the last day to send your donations for the pop-up exhibition about interruptions that will take place from March 20 to April 20 at the Museum.
The collective mixtape making workshop will focus on the narrative potential of the mixtape using sounds, music and related stories of interruptions that participants bring. The workshop will be led by producer, composer and psychologist Ivona Eterović – tonota whose unconventional approach to club electronic music results in an interesting blend of ambient and bass music, occasionally influenced by traditional music.
A mixtape is a collage of music and sounds that make up a continuous musical journey. The goal of the workshop is to show how several individual stories and the sounds we identify with them have the potential to create an overarching narrative structure through the medium of collective storytelling. The workshop will primarily focus on the skills of arranging, conceptualizing, and narrating through the medium of sound. It is intended for individuals interested in curating, storytelling, creative approaches to DJing, radio formats or podcasting , and audio production and composition, sound and new media art, or those who simply want to experience the intimacy of sharing personal stories within a collective and find the possibility of letting go through the medium of sound.
Anyone interested in participating can register via the Google form: https://forms.gle/LvBHPFS9fPLUg1d97 . Workshop capacity is limited, and prior technical knowledge is not required. Participation in the workshop is free. The deadline for applications is Tuesday , January 21, 2025 at 12:00 (noon).
Collective mixtape jp made in the workshop will become part of a pop-up exhibition about breakups that will take place from March 20 to April 20 at the Museum of Broken Ships in Zagreb. The organizers invite you to contribute to the exhibition and donate objects, sounds or music related to your breakup story and remind you that the deadline for submitting donations is January 25, 2025. The breakup to which potential donations relate does not necessarily have to be romantic or interpersonal, it can also be a career break, a breakup of identity, and a breakup as a backbone and source of internal or social change . The donation form is available at this link . After submitting the form, donors will receive a confirmation email with a printable version of the form and further instructions. All donations are exhibited anonymously and are not returned to the donor. In case of any doubts or questions, please contact the organizers by email: charlotte@brokenships.com . All selected donations will become part of the Museum's collection and may be exhibited in Zagreb or in exhibitions around the world.
About the 33rd Zagreb Music Biennale
The thirty-third edition of the Zagreb Music Biennale will take place from April 5-12, 2025 at numerous locations in Zagreb: KD Vatroslav Lisinski, Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Museum of Contemporary Art, Močvara Club, Peti kupe, Zagreb Dance Centre, Student Centre and many others. Primarily inspired by Zagreb's Museum of Broken Relationships, MBZ 33 takes the concept of broken relationships as its thematic starting point and preoccupation and creates the program of the 33rd edition of the event, whose tradition is a break with tradition. Through creativity, collaborations and gatherings, MBZ 33 explores the complex contradictions that (re)define our positions, direction and course of movement after each form of break. The program of the 33rd MBZ will present concerts of orchestras, chamber ensembles and soloists, contemporary ballets and opera, alternative music concerts, club evenings, new media installations and other cultural programs to the audience over the course of eight days. The program concept of MBZ 33 is jointly signed by the new artistic directors, composers Ivan Josip Skender, Davor Vincze and Tomislav Oliver , and the festival is organized by the Croatian Composers' Association .