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Robida
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Robida is a collective based in Topolò/Topolove, a village situated on the border between Italy and Slovenia. This region falls under Benečija, a place known for its Slovenian minority. The collective is international and multilingual and is known for its work that intersects written and spoken words. They have a range of projects, including Robida Magazine and Radio Robida, and summer schools. The collective's curatorial approach emphasizes long-term projects that explore the connection between landscape and the place of Topolò/Topolove. Robida has its headquarters in a place named Izba, located at the center of the village.
LindArt International Young Artists’ Fine Arts Colony
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Based on the rich tradition of the Lendava-Lendva International Fine Arts Colony that has attracted artists to Lendava since 1973, the Lendava-Lendva Gallery and Museum and Lindart Association of young artists from Lendava introduced an innovative LindArt International Young Artists’ Fine Arts Colony in 1994. LindArt is dedicated to emerging artists and since 2007 has been focused on collaboration. Each year, from 6 to 12 participants under the age of 35 are selected and paired randomly in order to work collaboratively on a prescribed theme during the 10-day residency in July. The workshop takes place in the Lendava Castle and closes with an exhibition there.
Cultural Garden Katzenberg
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Set in a 19th-century mansion, the Cultural Garden Katzenberg is located on the grounds of a former gun powder facility in the town of Kamnik. A multifunctional and flexible centre for artistic endeavours, Katzenberg spreads across 1800 m² with an additional enclosed garden.
The garden is used for events, from theatre performances to music concerts. Indoors (with its 70 odd rooms) there is a gallery space, several offices, a library, a common room for board and video games, and several spaces rented out to various cultural producers and individual artists as studios and storage. There are also a couple of rooms meant for resident artists, all in all, the mansion is able to host about 20 people. The facility is also used as a provisional museum, temporarily storing artefacts that relate to the former gun powder factory.
Centre for Slovenian Literature
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Established in 1999, the Centre for Slovenian Literature is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to literary and publishing activities, primarily the international promotion of Slovenian literature. The centre supplies information on contemporary Slovenian literature to its foreign partners and stimulates translations of Slovenian authors into foreign languages. It organises translators' visits to literary events and residencies, supplying them with books and literary magazines.
Since 2011, the Centre for Slovenian Literature annually publishes 10 Books from Slovenia with authors' presentations and excerpts of books in English (available also online).
Art Stays Cultural Association
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Officially established in 2005, the activities of the Art Stays Cultural Association (Ptuj, Kidričevo) are rooted in the ambitions of young representatives of the local art scene, putting Ptuj, one of the most impressive Slovene towns of medieval and also Roman heritage, on the international map of contemporary arts. The first activities of Art Stays realised before the official establishing of the association were featured in the Tenzor Gallery located in the Ptuj City Theatre, later the FO.VI Gallery was moved to a nearby Kidričevo. Since 2003 the association also regularly organises the summer festival in Ptuj, today named Art Stays, International Festival of Contemporary Art.
MoTA Museum of Transitory Art
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Dealing in experimental and technologically inquisitive arts, MoTA serves as a production vehicle for music concerts, audiovisual acts, visual art exhibitions, public interventions, art residencies and an abundance of other artistically-charged activities (as of 2017, it also bestows the TESLA Award). Its programme predominantly takes place at various Ljubljana venues, yet also on the web and very frequently around the world.
This non-profit cultural organisation was founded in 2007 as a continuation of the CodeEp art collective and enterprise. Besides partaking in various international endeavours, MoTA cooperates with dozens of Slovenian organisations, venues and festivals, among them Speculum Artium Festival, Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, Sploh Institute and Kino Šiška.
CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence
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Awarded by the Central European Initiative (CEI), a platform for regional cooperation, and the Slovene Writers’ Association, the CEI Fellowship is aimed at fostering international cooperation and stimulating young authors from the 17 CEI member states.
SKICA Berlin, Slovenian Cultural Centre
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The Slovenian Cultural Centre in Berlin (Slowenisches Kulturzentrum, or SKICA Berlin) was set up in June 2016, it operates at the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Berlin with the aim to become a central forum and a representative of Slovene cultural activities in Germany as well as a catalyst of new international projects.
Švicarija Art Centre
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Occupying the premises of a renovated, early 20th-century hotel, Švicarija Art Centre is a newly established arts venue in Ljubljana. Opening its doors in May 2017, it is managed by the International Centre of Graphic Arts, situated in its immediate vicinity – in the very heart of Ljubljana's Tivoli Park.
Set out to be a multi-purpose venue, Švicerija – with its 2 living and 3 residency apartments alongside a dozen production spaces – is foremost meant for resident and visiting artists. However, there is also an exhibition space as well as a cafeteria.
Pekarna Cultural Centre
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Pekarna ("Bakery") is the largest alternative cultural centre in north east Slovenia, located in a former military bakery on the right bank of the Drava River in the city of Maribor. Pekarna with a total area of 6,000 square metres at its disposal has become the largest alternative cultural centre in north east Slovenia. The complex consists of several concert venues (the large Gustaf Hall and some smaller concert halls), gallery spaces (Hladilnica Gallery, several studios), a second-hand bookshop called Ciproš, practice rooms, a daily information centre Infopeka, and offices.