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International Institute for Archival Science (IIAS)
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The International Institute for Archival Science (IIAS) is a successor of the Centre for Technical and Professional Problems in Archives, which was founded in 1986 in Maribor on the initiative of Peter Pavel Klasinc. Since 2005 it is hosted by the Italian State Archives in Trieste (and also named the International Institute for Archival Science of Trieste and Maribor) as a result of a protocol signed with the Italian Ministry of Culture's Department for Archives and Libraries. The institute is a volunteer-based, non-profit organisation, working in the field of archival science, training ad hoc human resources, and uniting member countries in order to best save the archival heritage. It organises the International Archival Day.
Lent Festival
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Seun Kuti and Egypt80, Jazzlent, Lent Festival 2023. Author: Blaž Črnič
Each June, the medieval Lent district along the Drava River, the historic squares, picturesque streets of the Old Town, and Maribor's majestic city park emerge as festival venues bursting with art, culture and creativity. With more than thirty years of tradition, Lent Festival is one of the oldest and largest open-air festivals in Central Europe. Every year, it welcomes thousands of visitors; almost every fourth Slovenian has visited it at least once. It celebrates the art, culture, and creativity of all genres for all generations, providing a space for discovery, learning, meeting and coexistence across various cultures. The festival transforms the city into a giant stage and a vibrant meeting point for artistic expressions. Lent is a member of the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA).
Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival
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Front@ Contemporary Dance Festival takes place annually each end of August in Murska Sobota, a town in the eastern region of Slovenia known as Prekmurje. Presenting high quality Slovene and international dance performances, the festival aims to contribute to the decentralisation of contemporary dance scene in Slovenia.
Held since 2006, Front@ is organised by the Flota Institute. Besides staging dance performances, the festival also features workshops, courses, improvised dance meetings and so on.
In 2020 the Front@ Festival consists of two parts: the Western Front@ takes place in Nova Gorica at the beginning of July, and the Eastern Front@ at the end of August, as usually, in Murska Sobota.
Festival Velenje Public Institute
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The Festival Velenje Public Institute was founded in 2008 as a platform to organise, coordinate, and promote various cultural institutions and events in the Municipality of Velenje. The institute organises year-long music, theatre, and children's cycles, operates Kino Velenje, Velenje Gallery, and the Puppet and Dance Theatre Velenje, hosts regional fairs, and oversees the biggest children's festival in Slovenia, called Pika's Festival (named after the Slovenian name for the children's character Pippi Longstocking). Additionally, the institute is responsible for the Summer in Velenje Festival and several other events.
3rdHand Association
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Established in 2005, the 3rdHand Association (Društvo Tretaroka) is an organisation of quite a diverse and elusive character. It runs a multi-disciplinary and socially engaged programme that reflects the collective's backgrounds in design, art, cultural politics and social sciences. Proactive in setting up collaborative, educational and experimental platforms, the association is responsible for the Independent Biennial and Design Biotop.
During one of the editions of Design Biotop the participants, coming from the public administrations, were joined for workshops by selected designers, artists, and entrepreneurs. Pictured here at Kino Šiška, 2015
Ukrep - Festival of Dance Perspectives
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Launched in 2008 by Dance Theatre Ljubljana, the biennial Ukrep - Festival of Dance Perspectives primarily aims to be a platform for emerging young performers in the field of contemporary dance and to address the various creative or systemic challenges and opportunities facing the development of the contemporary dance scene in Slovenia. The RAIL2DANCE4UKREP 2023 concluded the international project Rail2Dance that had started in 2022.. Local and international (Austria, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Spain, South Korea) artists were presented, in Maribor as was as in Ljubljana.
The festival tries out different programme formats; facilitates dialogue between artists, producers and theoreticians; and elaborates the neuralgic points of education, production and promotion of the contemporary dance scene.
