TO)pot festival of radical soundwalks
Beyond Listening 2025 CENSE Symposium
23–27 Sept 2025 | Slovenia
Cukrarna Gallery, Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, City Museum of Ljubljana and public spaces
FESTIVAL CO-CREATORS
Piotr Armianovski ● Jaka Bombač ● Nikola Drole ● Lina Eržen ● Anna Friz ● Tadej Grum ● Tetiana Khoroshun ● Anna Khvyl ● Neža Knez ● Felisa Ko ● Zala Kramperšek ● Maša Milčinski ● Eva Mulej Vrabič (Oka) ● Boštjan Perovšek ● Ajda Pirtovšek ● Martyna Poznanska ● Brane Zorman
The theme of this year’s festival TO)pot with headline Walking-with-Changes, brings a special edition shaped by inspiring partnerships in co-production with Cukrarna. Alongside our well-loved program, the festival also features the CENSE network symposium Beyond Listening 2025: Walking-with-Changes, highlighted by a full-day field trip to the Sečovlje Salt a Symposium in the Field we’re especially excited.
The project Sejalke explores how festivals like TO)pot can serve as models of sustainable organization, where art functions as a means of understanding environmental challenges and promoting sustainable practices.
Beyond Listening 2025 CENSE Symposium
SYMPOSIUM CO-CREATORS
Sara Anjo ● Maria Balabas ● Maja Bjelica ● Pia Brezavšček ● Cha Caillat ● Ádám Darázs ● Kristine Diekman ● George Edmondson ● Mary Edwards ● Arthur Enguehard ● Darko Fritz ● John Grzinich ● Csaba Hajnóczy ● Ida Hiršenfelder (beepblip) ● Bálint János Kiss ● Eric Leonardson ● Hugo Lioret ● Kevin Logan ● Juan José López Díez ● Ben Pagac ● Ivan Penov Carina Pesch ● Karmen Ponikvar ● Saška Rakef ● Mersid Ramičević ● Ján Solč̌áni ● Rok Šturm ● Mike Thompson ● Madina Tlostanova ● Georgios Varoutsos ● Eva Vozárová ● Joanna Patrycja Wyrwa
SYMPOSIUM BOARD
Elena Biserna ● Maja Bjelica ● Ida Hiršenfelder (beepblip) ● Irena Pivka ● Jacek Smolicki
Cona, in collaboration with the ZRS Koper (Science and Research Centre Koper), is co-organising this year’s CENSE (Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies) symposium. The event brings together more than 30 scientists, theorists, artists and authors, selected through an open call. The programme committee has curated the symposium into three distinct formats: papers, peripatetic lectures and listening posters. The symposium forms a core part of the festival’s theoretical strand, highlighting the significance of acoustic ecology and walking as a method of inquiry and engagement.
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Symposium in the Field: Walking and Listening in the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park
The full-day experiential program includes papers, listening walks, guided tours of the park and the Museum of Saltmaking, and a presentations of contemporary saltmaking practices and ornithological guided tour.
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