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Pr’ Lenart Homestead
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Pr’ Lenart Homestead, located in the heart of the Polhov Gradec Dolomites Landscape Park, was declared a cultural monument in 2005 due to its rich ethnological and historical heritage. The homestead runs a diverse cultural programme and offers short-term arts residencies to artists, researchers and cultural workers from a wide range of artistic fields. The residencies offer them the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of how independent cultural spaces operate outside urban centres, to connect and collaborate with local communities, to develop projects and to gain new perspectives on contemporary cultural production.
Center Rog
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Center Rog is a production space and creative hub founded by the Municipality of Ljubljana in 2021. It brings together traditional craftsmanship and contemporary innovation based on the concept of creative industries. Located in the renovated former bicycle factory Tovarna Rog and opened in 2023, it is organised around a network of workshops where members can learn to use a wide range of tools and technologies across nine specialised labs, including the Textile Lab, Wood Lab, Metal Lab, and Food Lab. The complex also features nineteen project studios and five residential apartments, which regularly host international artists, researchers, and lecturers.
Residencies at Center Rog
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Center Rog offers three separate residence opportunities. "The Designer in Residency" and "Makers in Residency" schemes invite international artists from the field of design, architecture, craft, and related disciplines for 3–6-month-long residencies that address with specific issues, e.g., overheating of urban environments or relationships with non-human agents. The residents receive free accommodation in the center, free use of the nine production labs for the duration of the residency, mentorship and support from Center Rog technologists, coverage of material expenses, training for independent use of equipment and reimbursement of travel and visa costs. They are obliged to publicly present their artistic project during the stay.
Center Rog also offers "Study visits", short-term, two-week residencies to Slovenian creatives who live outside of the Central Slovenia region or right beyond the country's borders. The candidates for all the residencies are selected through regular open calls.
Šempeter Studio Residency
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Šempeter Studio, established in 2021 and managed by KUD Manifest cultural society, is a fully equipped artistic space for creative experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration and connection with the local community, intended for visual arts, intermedia projects, sound and light art, as well as film and music projects. The space, which connects the live-in studio and a separate project studio, serves as a year-round art residence.
KUD Manifest
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KUD Manifest, i.e. Cultural Society ("kulturno društvo" in Slovenian) Manifest was established in 2011 and includes members from municipalities of Nova Gorica and Brda. The society actively organises cultural exchanges between Slovenian artists and international cultural institutions. It also prepares curated art exhibitions, often in international venues. It is the organiser of the ART CIRCLE International Visual Arts Festival and the art residency in Šempeter Studio.
Festivals in Slovenia
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Since 2012, the annual festivalscapes are provided as an infographic, conceived by the Culture.si team at the Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory. The interactive calendars include the festivals from the Culture.si database arranged by weeks and by field. You can see specific types of festivals, e.g., music festivals only, by clicking on the corresponding artistic field.
Take a look at the Festivals in Slovenia infographics.
Stoptrik International Film Festival
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Stoptrik International Film Festival was launched in 2011 by Pekarna Magdalena Network. Taking its name from the Serbo-Croatian word for stop-motion video techniques, Stoptrik is one of four worldwide festivals dedicated solely to stop-motion animation, featuring both screenings of recent productions as well as selected retrospectives. Via workshops and panel discussions, it also presents and develops various approaches to the stop-motion animation technique and is, in short, "an annual celebration of all things photographed one painstaking frame at a time".
Kontrada Festival
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Kontrada Festival was originally organised by KKM (Klub kanalske mladine) from 1996 to 2000. After a three-year hiatus the festival was revived in 2003 under the name 'Kontrada after Kontrada'. Festival events take place in the open air, with theatre performances and concerts being held in the square and also in the attic of the 'Gothic House' (film screenings with live music) as well as at the Cultural House in nearby Deskle. In 2003 the latter included a concert by eminent Macedonian singer Esma Redžepova, 'queen of gypsy music'. The 2003 Autumn sequel of the festival presented various music genres in the town square, and ranged from an oudo solo concert to choral singing and jazz. After a long pause, the Kontrada Festival was revived in 2022.
Krawal Festival
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Krawal Festival is an annual two-day open-air festival that takes place in the last half of July on a meadow in Jesenovec, close to Železniki. Since 1993 it has been organised by the cultural club Rov and a team of volunteers. The stage and bar of the festival are part of a big roofed hay-rack, which you can easily spot from the road on your left when driving from Železniki.
The name of the festival translates as "tumult", which captures the genres of music you can hear on the festival as well as the commotion that happens in the front lines of the audience below the stage. The festival is known as a relaxed summer punk weekend, which offers cacophonous music, free camping along with food and drinks. When attending the festival, ordering limonce at the bar is a must. Not far from the festival's site the bravest can swim in the Sora River, for it is not one of the cleanest waters.
Mladinsko Showcase
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In 2007, the Mladinsko Theatre launched a festival overview of its annual production under the title Prelet (Overflight), later renamed the Mladinsko Showcase. Conceived as an outward-looking, internationally oriented project, with performances surtitled in English, it revisits and brings together standout productions from the theatre’s previous season.