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Slovene Book Fair
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Readers visiting the Slovene Book Fair in 2024.
The Slovene Book Fair has been organised every November since 1993 by the Association of Book Publishers (today Chamber of Publishing and Bookselling). Activities include school presentations, exhibitions, a training programme, debates, presentations of new books and shows for children. It is the largest fair of its kind in Slovenia, each year attracting around 100 publishing houses and thousands of visitors.
Independent Biennial
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The Independent Biennial, originally named as the Slovenian Independent Illustrators' Biennial, was established in 2007. It recognises illustration as a very wide phenomenon, featuring not only book illustration, caricature, comics, design illustration, commercial logotypes and graffiti, but also the more "dynamic" creations such as animation, multimedia interventions, interactive websites, and many other formats. As illustration is often embedded in other artistic practices, the biennial in a way addresses the wider creative community in Slovenia.
Kamera, the exhibition space of Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, is regularly used to exhibit the works of the younger generation of Slovene illustrators, 2015
Glasbarium Institute
updated 15 hours ago
Glasbarium Institute was founded in 2012 by composer and musician Vasko Atanasovski. Although it was initially focused on production of music events, concert tours and music albums, it gradually expanded its activities to include musical, humanistic and cultural research and several collaborative projects. One such project, named Musicville – Green European Opera, reinvented the form of opera as a new and creative collaboration inspired by environmental awareness, nature, local crafts, and traditions. Another project, named Arthanatos, explored the subject of death by combining music, philosophy and theatre. With Magdalena Germek, Atanasovski also developed a special methodology of combining philosophy and music, named Philo Klang.
Jasa Society
updated 16 hours ago
The Jasa Society (Društvo Jasa) is primarily dedicated to book publishing, along with some other book-related activities such as promoting reading. The society’s catalogue features various children’s books (often exploring questions of beauty, morality, our relationship to nature and other philosophical topics), literary anthologies, as well as some works dealing with the questions of fashion. Several of the books were written by a well known Slovene poet Neža Maurer.
Audibook
updated 18 hours ago
Audibook is a company that, in 2017, launched an eponymous mobile and web application dedicated to audiobooks in Slovene language. The application enables browsing, downloading and listening to more than 7,500 audiobooks from various Slovene publishers, spanning numerous genres, from canonical works to crime novels, children literature, non-fiction, and more. In 2019, the service was made available to members of Slovene public libraries as well.
GO2025 The City Yet to Become
updated 2 days ago
While winning the bid for the European Capital of Culture speaks of a city's vision for the future, Miha Kosovel of Razpotja magazine introduces the term transfrontal and reminds us of how understanding the history of a region can better prepare us for the mental and physical shifts needed in co-creating a new reality.
Nova Gorica–Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025
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Since its inception in 1985, over 40 cities have won the prestigious European Capital of Culture (ECoC) title. Forty years later, however, the border cities of Nova Gorica in Slovenia and Gorizia in Italy are the first ones to turn this annual celebration of culture into a genuinely cross-border endeavour. Based on these cities' specific political, cultural and geographical context, their 2025 ECoC programme explores the concept of borders from multiple dimensions under the slogan “Go! Borderless”.
The opening event, From Station to Station, was held on 8 February, the Slovenian cultural holiday.
Nova Gorica municipal building with light installations during R.o.R festival
Skiing in the Museum
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A pair of skis, used in the Yugoslav People’s Army. From 1974 onwards, its mountain warfare forces would use the equipment produced by Elan.