TO)pot Festival of radical soundwalks
Beyond Listening 2025 CENSE Symposium
23–27 Sept 2025
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
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
The Festival of radical soundwalks TO)pot, a festival of soundwalks, concerts and critical reflection, brings together artists, theorists and curious walkers in dialogue with spaces, their temporalities and more-than-human entities. The festival’s subtitle, Walking-with Changes, points to the potential of walking and listening as practices that foster a deeper understanding of place and its shifting constant.
Through attentive listening, walkers are invited to adopt a critical approach to the environments they inhabit – or, in the context of migration, are still learning to inhabit – and to attune themselves to both local and global landscapes.
Beyond Listening 2025 CENSE Symposium is embedded within the broader framework of the TO)pot festival. The CENSE Symposium is produced by Cona Institute, co-organised by the Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, and facilitated by the Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies.
The Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies (CENSE) is a network of diverse voices from the fields of arts, science, and activism. The network works towards an increased awareness of developments in the social and cultural spheres of Central Europe (and beyond) with a particular focus on environmental transformations and their wide-ranging effects.
More information about the artists and programme will be announced soon.
Sejalke_ Green Collaborations of the TO)pot festival
The Sejalke project is conceived as a strategic approach to raising ecological awareness among the stakeholders involved in the festival of radical sound walking, TO)pot. The aim of the project is to explore 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.
On the project website, we have published the first carbon footprint measurements of the TO)pot festival in 2024, along with the Analysis of Existing Policies for the Reduction of Noise Pollution, conducted earlier this year (in Slovene).
Festival partners: Ljubljana City Gallery; soundwalks partner: Akademije za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo, National Institute of Biology, Krater Creative Laboratory, Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy and the Slovenian Environment Agency (ARSO); festival Coproduction: Cukrarna; festival produced and organised by: Cona, for the Steklenik Gallery.
Symposium in the Field: Walking and Listening in the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, the whole-day experiential happening of the symposium is supported and implemented by the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park (KPSS), Soline Pridelava soli d.o.o., Maritime Museum “Sergej Mašera” Piran–Pirano, the Slovenian Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (ZVKDS) and Muzofil Association.
The CENSE Symposium Beyond Listening 2025: Walking-with Changes is financially supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) through the research project “Grain of Salt, Crystallising Cohabitation: Salt-Making as Experiential Environmental Wisdom” (J6-50196), implemented at the Science and Research Centre Koper.
