With enormous excitement we announce the Queer-UP! Party as part of this year's Smoqua! Are you ready?! Let’s celebrate LORI’s 20th birthday and close this year’s Smoqua with a huge celebration of love and joy in all our diversity! For the first time in Croatia, from Sweden comes the multimedia artist GNUČČI, from Rijeka DJ Mirilo, and from Belgium drag artist Eve Is Sick of Adam.

Within this year's Smoqua festival, which will take place in Rijeka from October 15th to 17th, art organisation From the Citizens to Their City presents interesting art projects and artist talks that you can follow through the festival program.

You always wanted to learn tango, but not the "classical" one? Join us for queer tango with the support of the Flame dance group at the opening of the Smoqua festival on October 15th from 14.00 o'clock, Korzo street (near City Hall). Dancer and choreographer Damian Cortes Alberti prepared a special video so we can all learn basic steps.

The Feminist Walk Around Rijeka will be held in Rijeka for the first time within this year's Smoqua festival as a common initiative of the Center for Women's Studies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka and the LORI. The guided walk intends to inform the public about the unfamiliar or tacit contributions of women for Rijeka and the wider community.

As part of this year's Smoqua, which will be held in Rijeka from October 15^th to 17^th, besides from entertaining and artistic content, you can join a discussion on the human rights of LGBTI people in Europe and Croatia and one on women's experiences in the visual industry.

At Smoqua this year (October 15^th -17^th 2020) in Rijeka, all visitors will have the opportunity to engage in several interesting workshops: from making activist jewellery, self-sustainable funding for feminist organisations and initiatives, on tactics for creative forms of protesting to sex toys. We cordially invite everyone with an open hearts and minds to Palach to develop their creative abilities and learn something on these topics under guidance of experts that conduct workshops.