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Centre for Slovene as a Second and Foreign Language
updated 11 hours ago
The Centre for Slovene as a Second and Foreign Language came into existence in 1965 and nowadays operates in the framework of the Department of Slovenian Studies at the University of Ljubljana. Its chief aim is to promote knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the Slovenian language, literature and culture on an international level. In addition to a bevy of scientific publications as well as conference and seminar proceedings, the centre also publishes textbooks for foreign learners of Slovenian. In 2014 the Pocket Slovene, a bilingual language phrase book, was prepared in 22 languages.
Teatro matita
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Teatro matita was established in 2002 by musician and puppeteer Matija Solce after he completed his studies at Bruno Leone's traditional Italian hand puppet school in Naples. Solce tries to stimulate the audience's imagination with his belief that everything can be a puppet (from the most usual everyday object such as a bicycle bell to the more unusual such as a bone), performing all over the world in all kinds of places (theatres, outdoor stages, prisons, schools ...). Considering his musical education and collaboration with folk musicians, it is not surprising that music plays an important role in his work. His productions are often a combination of puppet show, folk music performance and acting (an actor is also a puppet).
A founder of the International Centre of Puppetry Arts in 2005, Matija Solce is head of the Cultural Association for Puppetry, Folk Music and Ecology Matita established in 2007 and collaborates closely with Lutkarnica - Koper Puppetry Studio.
Teatro matita collaborates with the PUF Festival as an organiser of presentations of student productions of the DAMU Academy in Prague and various other European puppetry schools. Solce started also the HISTeRIA Festival in the Istrian village Gračišče. As an activist he introduced puppetry into a special form of political rally – the "Protestival".
Maska Institute
updated 20 hours ago
Known for integrating innovative and socially engaged approaches to contemporary art practice since 1993, Maska Institute engages in contemporary art production, publishing, education, research, and activism.
Slovenian Theatre Institute
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The Slovenian Theatre Institute (SLOGI) was founded in 2014 as the successor to the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia. The institute is engaged in collecting, preserving, documenting, researching, interpreting, presenting and promoting Slovenian theatre culture, performing arts heritage as well as contemporary theatre practices, both at the national and international level.
SLOGI organises exhibitions and presents virtual exhibitions, publishes books from the field of theatre, organises various events (symposia, round tables, lectures, etc.) and educational activities, houses theatre performances, etc.
SLOGI manages the web portal Kritika with theatre reviews of most theatre productions in Slovenia. Besides, Slovenian Theatre News is published twice a season, with a selection of ten performances, providing reviews in English, photos and videos of the performances. See the web links below.
The institute has participated in several international projects. In the period 2019–2023 a new EU supported project was launched: Classics in the Graphic Novel: A pilot model of new high school culture education through graphic novels coordinated by SLOGI, in collaboration with partners from Poland and Slovakia.
SLOGI is also a national coordinator for arts and cultural education in the field of theatre, nominated by the Ministry of Culture.
Contemporary Slovene theatre
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Theatre is an art form that has been shaping Slovenia's image abroad, with several successful guest appearances and individual artists gaining international acclaim. The independent sector, comprising a range of non-governmental performing arts organisations, was established in Ljubljana in the late 1980s and 1990s and has since produced primarily visual and physical theatre, experimental drama theatre, street theatre and other interdisciplinary theatre forms. Slovenia has also gained international recognition for performing arts theory, research, publishing and documentation initiatives.
Experimental Theatre in the 1950s and 1960s
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Primož Jesenko provides a brief sketch of the developments of experimental theatre in Slovenia of the 1950s and 1960s. In this post-war time of the newly-established Yugoslavia, we see how experimental practices became a way for theatre artists working to link to the international, avant-garde space in Europe and beyond. The next questions became: in which spaces could such activities be carried out and how to blend the "institutional and non-institutional"?
Adela International Festival of Generative Arts
updated 31 hours ago
Adela is an international festival founded in 2023 by Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory and dedicated to the exploration of the practices arising in the expanded field of generative arts. It considers artworks as algorithms embedded in (im)material infrastructures and observes them as emergent machines and open systems in which human and other agents engage in the production of possible worlds. Through this perspective, it aims to establish transformative practices and aesthetics to counter the dominant techno-cultural currents.
The festival features various discussions and workshops, as well as the Parameter Fair, dedicated to presenting and selling works that imaginatively engage generative methods, and Algorave, an evening of experimental live-coded music and visuals.