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Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
updated 11 hours ago
Kino Šiška is one of the main cultural centres in Ljubljana. Established in 2009, it is a highly industrious institution in terms of artistic scope, dealing with music, film, visual and new media art, theatre, and contemporary dance as well as with various other cultural endeavours. However, its main trade is that of music concerts, with the acts ranging from indie rock and alternative pop to experimental electronica and old school heavy metal.
Pišece Castle
updated 11 hours ago
Pišece Castle stands on a hill northwest of the village Pišece in Bizeljsko Hills, in the Municipality of Brežice in the south-eastern Slovenia. In Brežice and its surroundings, there are many mighty castles that are well worth visiting, most of them are refurbished and open for visitors. Pišece Castle is one of them. It was first mentioned in written sources in the early 14 th century, but it probably existed much earlier, at least in the 13th century, when its caretakers, the Knights of Pišece, are mentioned. Today, the renovated Pišece Castle is considered a cultural monument of national importance. The castle is one of the venues of the Seviqc Brežice Festival of Early Music.
Lendava Castle
updated 13 hours ago
Originally built in the 12th century as a fortification on the hill above the Lendava River, near the contemporary border with Hungary, the Lendava Castle is one of the most important historic monuments in the region. The present-day Baroque appearance of the castle dates from 1690–1707, following the withdrawal of the Turks from the area, when the Esterházys had it rebuilt to form an L-shaped building as a sign of their loyalty to the Emperor Leopold I. The castle became a show piece of Baroque architecture, and remained in the hands of the Esterhàzy family until World War I.
Since 1972 the castle houses the Lendava-Lendva Gallery and Museum and each year it hosts a restoration workshop as well as the artists from the Lendava-Lendva International Fine Arts Colony and the LindArt International Young Artists’ Fine Arts Colony.
CoolTours no 2
updated 13 hours ago
In this second instalment of her series about culture-related tours, walks and guides in Slovenia, Tea Pristolič brings the field of architecture, design and urban living alive for foreign visitors and local inhabitants. Here, she discusses unique ways of coming closer to architectural treasures throughout Slovenia.
CoolTours no 1
updated 13 hours ago
In this series, Tea Pristolič brings architecture, design and urban living alive for foreign visitors and local inhabitants. The series comprises two sections: in this first section, she looks at urban and alternative tours tied to the cultural life and heritage of Slovenian cities and the second covers unique ways of coming closer to Slovenian architectural treasures.
Books in the Time of Corona
updated 13 hours ago
How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect the publishing industry in Slovenia in terms of the production, promotion and distribution of books? Alenka Štrukelj from the blog Literarna lekarna (Literary Pharmacy) delves into the shifts in habits among readers and publishers and questions whether any of the responses to the imposed measures of social distancing during the quarantine will result in long-term practices.
Ivan Potrč Library Ptuj
updated 24 hours ago
Ivan Potrč Library in Ptuj is a regional library established in 1945 and since 2000 housed in a 13th-century building built by the Salzburg bishops. It is named after Ivan Potrč (1913–1993), a Slovene writer and playwright. Comprising 3,200 square metres of space, it has a collection of 350,000 units of book and other material and incorporates different departments and a mobile library. Today the library functions as one of most important information and cultural centres in Ptuj and offers regular educational and cultural activities. It is also one of the partners and venues of the Days of Poetry and Wine Festival.
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)
updated 3 days ago
The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (abbreviated in Slovenian as ZRC SAZU) was founded by the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) in 1981. It is a network of 18 institutes from the fields of the humanities and natural sciences. ZRC carries out the Slovene national research programme and as an independent institution in its own right, engages in research into Slovenia’s natural and cultural heritage.
Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts
updated 3 days ago
The Celeia Celje Institute - Centre for Contemporary Arts manages the Celje Gallery of Contemporary Art, Likovni salon Celje, and Račka Gallery of Erotic Art, and was the first art institution in Slovenia to systematically introduce artist-in-residence activities into its programme.
Evropska digitalna platforma Europeana
updated 3 days ago
Portal Culture.si bogati tudi Europeano - največjo evropsko spletno knjižnico kulturne dediščine! Prek Narodne in univerzitetne knjižnice kot nacionalnega agregatorja prispeva slikovno gradivo, vezano na slovensko kulturo in sodobno umetnost.