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Stripolis Comic Book Store
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Stripolis is a comic book store in Ljubljana run by the Stripolis Institute and dedicated to showcasing the best new Slovenian and international comics. The bookshop also hosts occasional workshops, lectures, and interpretative comic-book readings. Once a year, it organizes Poljanskafest, a one-day festival on Poljanska Street in the front of the store. The Stripolis Institute is also one of the organizers of Tinta, the annual comic book festival.
TRIGGER Showcase Festival
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Founded in 2019, the TRIGGER Showcase Festival is dedicated to promoting Slovenian independent performing arts and strengthening their position both locally and internationally. The festival presents a selection of the most relevant productions by independent Slovenian artists and producers, alongside a programme of talks, lectures, and workshops, featuring guest curators from international festivals, agents, and experts in distribution and international collaboration. TRIGGER is part of the wider TRIGGER platform, a partnership between Glej Theatre, Bunker Institute, Maska Institute, Moment Arts and Culture Association, Motovila Institute, City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Pekinpah Association, Mladinsko Theatre, and Via Negativa. It regularly connects with various European networks such as ONDA, IETM, and EAIPA.
GuestRoomMaribor
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In 2011 the GuestRoomMaribor, the first Artist-in-Residence platform in Maribor for international artists was opened at the Pekarna Cultural Centre, run by the Pekarna Magdalena Network. During the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012 the GuestRoom hosted several young international artists with an aim of establishing Maribor as an incubator of new ideas. Today the GuestRoomMaribor is a highly profiled programme for the so-called curated residencies, local communiy-based projects and hybrids between art and research being preferred.
The project is a coproduction of Pekarna Cultural Centre, Ministry of Culture, Municipality of Maribor, and Narodni dom Maribor in collaboration with Maribor cultural producers.
Department for Cultural and Science Diplomacy
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In cooperation with other ministries, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs is also the centre of activity concerned with drafting and concluding international umbrella agreements in the fields of culture, education, and science and the related inter-governmental protocols, as well as implementing programmes.
The Department for Public Diplomacy and International Cooperation in Culture cooperates closely with Slovene diplomatic-consular representatives abroad, a network of Slovene embassies and consulates as well as with the Ministry of Culture. It also follows activities concerning the teaching of Slovenian language at foreign universities (in cooperation with the Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language).
In 2011 the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs established the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre in Vienna. In June 2016 the Slovenian Cultural Centre in Berlin was set up, it is located at the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Berlin.
Ravnikar-Potokar Architecture Bureau
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Before founding Ravnikar-Potokar Architecture Bureau in 2003, architects Vojteh Ravnikar (1943–2010) and Robert Potokar worked under KARS in Sežana and ARHE in Ljubljana. Vojteh Ravnikar was a central figure of architecture culture in Slovenia. He played a key role in establishing the Piranesi Foundation and Piran Days of Architecture.
From 2003 to 2010, the bureau consisted of its two eponymous founders. Since Ravnikar's death in 2010, it has grown to include a number of architects and external partners with the aim of covering a broad range of activities, from architectural planning to interior design and urbanism. This scale has enabled the studio to successfully carry out a number of large, complex projects throughout Slovenia.
RAVNIKAR
updated 12 hours ago
RAVNIKAR is a contemporary art gallery that represents a diverse group of internationally renowned artists while striving to promote the emerging generation of young creators. It aims to showcase a wide range of imaginative art practices by creating a platform for local and international artists, collectives, curators, and others working in the field of contemporary arts. Recognizing the increasingly important role that contemporary visual art plays in socio-political and cultural discourse, we seek dialogue between artists, the community of experts, collectors, and the general public through a range of multidisciplinary projects and initiatives.
Rampa Lab
updated 12 hours ago
Rampa Lab is a multimedia centre and a production platform that facilitates various intersections of art, technology, science and education. Alongside the core of its activities – workshops aimed at children and youth, with the participants being equipped with basic skills as well as advanced conceptions of new technologies, artistic processes and business ideas – Rampa organises art exhibitions, community meetings, film screenings, lectures, public discussions and so on.
Radojka Vrančič Award
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Named after the renowned Slovene translator of Marcel Proust's opus, the Radojka Vrančič Award has been awarded annually to a young and promising translator under 35 years. The award has been bestowed by the Slovenian Association of Literary Translators since 2002. The prize is awarded as a scholarship on the occassion of the Slovene Book Fair.
RadioCona
updated 12 hours ago
radioCona is a temporary radio project for contemporary arts established in 2008 by Cona Institute, an institute for contemporary arts processing. The radio has become an important agent in claiming public radio-frequency space for artistic and broader social contexts. It runs an occasional innovative programme of its own production and serves as a common platform for various contemporary visual or performing arts events in Ljubljana.
radioCona maintains an important online audio archive of new media art, experimental music and recorded events such as round tables and debates on the major issues concerning the free-lance and independent production in Slovenia (cultural policy, public space and copyright) as well as international symposia (Reflective Dramaturgy by Maska Institute in the frame of the 2010 Ukrep - Festival of Dance Perspectives, for example). The archive is freely accessible on the radioCona blog.