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Murska Sobota Development Centre
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Murska Sobota Development Centre is a regional institution dedicated to enabling balanced economic, social, and cultural development in the Pomurje region and its administrative center, the city municipality of Murska Sobota. The center is helping local organizations with the implementation of various regional projects while encouraging sustainable use of resources, strengthening competitiveness of the economy and increasing the quality of life of all residents of Pomurje. Many of these projects involve cross-border cooperation with neighbour countries of Croatia, Austria and Italy, as well as with other European countries.
Slovenia – Guest of Honour Country at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023
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In October 2023, Slovenia is the Guest of Honour of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest trade fair for books, under the slogan "Honeycomb of Words". Slovenia's exposure at the Frankfurt Book Fair is an opportunity to strengthen the export potential of national book creativity in the field of literature and illustration, meanwhile the effects can be seen in both the cultural and tourism sector.
Slovenian Book Agency is in charge of the project organisation. It has already intensified the translation of Slovenian books, mostly to German. The program has been curated by Miha Kovač and Matthias Göritz.
International awards
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Culture.si lists a selection of significant international awards bestowed to artists, cultural workers, and cultural organisations from Slovenia. Please, let us know about important awards we might have overlooked.
Culture from Slovenia World Map
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Culture from Slovenia Worldwide, the printed version of the world map with the 950 events in 2013.
Culture.si collects information about upcoming cultural events and activities abroad, involving Slovene artists and researchers. The Culture from Slovenia interactive World Map is a unique source of information that offers a preview of future events around the world and a growing archive of international activity in the field of arts and culture.
Since 2010 we have published news about circa 7000 events in 100 countries. Our archive of events can be filtered by year, country, and discipline. Search the events 2010–2021.
Kurentovanje
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Kurent or Korant, the most known and popular traditional carnival character in Slovenia, Kurentovanje, Ptuj 2023. Author: Stanko Vozel
The masked rite of spring known as Kurentovanje has been held since 1960, every February for 10 days leading up to Shrove Tuesday. It is the most popular Mardi Gras celebration in Slovenia, with most of the festivities centred in Ptuj, Slovenia's oldest town, which has hosted Kurentovanje since the beginning. Today, the programme also includes several international groups.
This popular Carnival celebration was admitted into the European Federation of Carnival Cities in 1991. In 2017, the Door-to-Door Rounds of the Kurent were inscribed on the UNESCO representative list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
Mountain Film Festival
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Dedicated to exploring and presenting various facets of mountain culture, the Mountain Film Festival was established in 2007. Since then, it has been running a strong international programme that encompasses various films about mountain sports (mountaineering, mountain running, B.A.S.E jumping, etc.), different types of climbing (from bouldering to ice climbing), mountain wildlife, and the lives of Indigenous mountain dwellers, among other topics. Since its inception, the festival has been led by its founder, the legendary mountaineer Silvo Karo.
Over the years, the festival has grown to be comparable with the biggest and most relevant mountain film festivals worldwide. In 2010, the Mountain Film Festival became a member of the International Alliance for Mountain Film.
Creative Jazz Clinic Velenje
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Creative Jazz Clinic Velenje is a series of workshops and masterclasses started in 2016 by Slovenian musician, teacher and Prešeren Award recipient Jure Pukl, who was raised in the town and is widely regarded as one of the best young saxophonists in the world. The huge roster of musicians with whom he has collaborated over the last two decades means that Pukl has been able to attract many top names from the world of jazz to teach and perform at the clinic, which generally takes places over five days at the end of February.
Although he has lived in New York City since 2013, Pukl continues to take a keen interest in the jazz scene in his homeland, and was also instrumental in reviving the Max Club Jazz Festival in 2012 after a hiatus of ten years.
Mardi Gras at Cerknica
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Mardi Gras at Cerknica is one of the most popular and well-known Mardi Gras (Pust) carnivals in Slovenia. It consists of a week-long programme of events that commemorate the upcoming spring and feature various festivities and re-enactments of traditional rituals such as the burning of the Pust figure. The carnival's main attraction is a procession featuring numerous masked participants and giant papier-mâché sculptures of witches and monsters.
The timing of the carnival moves from year to year. Starting on Thursday, it ends a week later on Ash Wednesday – the day that marks the start of the 40-days of fasting preceding Easter.