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Eye of the Word Festival
updated 4 days ago
Established in 1995, the Eye of the Word Festival (Oko besede) is an annual traditional gathering of Slovene writers of children's and youth literature, as well as literary theorists, critics, librarians, and pedagogues. During the festival, writers pay visits to schools and participate in symposia, round tables, and readings. The festival was managed by Franc-Franc Publishing until 2015. Since 2016, the festival organizer has been Argo, Society for Humanities (NGO). Traditionally, it is held in autumn in Murska Sobota in Prekmurje.
Maribor Public Library
updated 3 days ago
The Maribor Public Library, established in 1949, functions as the regional library for the Podravje Region. Its main founder was the Municipality of Maribor, while other municipalities were either co-founders (Duplek, Hoče-Slivnica, Miklavž na Dravskem polju, Rače-Fram, Starše) or partners (Kungota, Lovrenc na Pohorju, Pesnica, Ruše, Selnica ob Dravi, Šentilj).
The Maribor Public Library manages a network of 22 branches and a mobile library service. The library is committed to offering its users access to information, education, and culture in the broadest possible sense. The main unit and its branches comprise several departments and collections, such as a toy collection, a sheet music collection, music, and video collections, as well as audio book and large print book collections. To reach all its members, the library provides home and hospital library services to individuals unable to visit the library in person.
Big Architecture Festival
updated 2 days ago
First held in 2008, the Big Architecture Festival is an international architectural event managed by Zavod Big – Center for Creative Economy of Southeast Europe, originally known simply as Zavod Big, these days as BIG SEE. In 2018, with the ambitious transformation of the organizer into a creative hub serving the broader Southeast Europe (SEE) region, the festival took on a new role. It now takes place twice a year, in May and October. The May event highlights architecture's relationship not only to design but also to the economy and culture of the region and beyond; the October event happens during the Month of Design and is devoted to interiors.
The festival now hosts a broad range of events - predominantly educational - aimed at promoting, researching, and evaluating architecture in the Southeast Europe region. Billed as something of a hybrid trade fair/festival, it also features activities and presentations that put architects and interior designers in direct contact with engineering companies, construction manufacturers, and other stakeholders from the private sector. Each event culminates in a ceremony announcing the BigSEE Awards for Architecture and Interior Design, respectively.
Naša pesem Choir Competition
updated 5 days ago
Launched in 1989 by the Maribor branch office of the Public Fund for Cultural Activities (JSKD - Javni sklad RS za kulturne dejavnosti), the Naša pesem (Our song) choral competition is a national event held annually with the support of the Municipality of Maribor. In 1992, the organizers extended the competition to the international level. The competition was then upgraded with the International Choral Competition Gallus, with which it alternates every two years.
Panč Festival
updated 4 days ago
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The laughing audience at the international stand-up comedy festival Panč, Ljubljana 2022. Author: Jaka Škrlep
Panč Festival is an international stand-up comedy festival which was established in 2008 in Ljubljana by the Kurz Rock Vibe crew, that later become Ceh za smeh (Association of Laugh). This several-day-long event usually takes place at the Ljubljana Castle courtyard and is the central stand-up occasion in Slovenia. It has hosted most, if not all, of the leading Slovene performers from this field as well as a strong international line-up, with the guests being invited from all over the world. The name of the festival is a derivative of the term punchline, which connotes a joke's climax.
Since 2010, in addition to the main summer event, a winter edition of the festival has also been taking place, a slightly more low-key evening called Zimski Panč (Winter Panč). Held at different Ljubljana venues like Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Cvetličarna, and the Festival Hall, it was for a time also simultaneously organised in Maribor at Narodni dom Maribor. The festival also had an over the border venture in Zagreb, Croatia, where a sister event, Pančić, was organised.
Slovenian Computer History Museum
updated 4 days ago
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The building of the Slovenian Computer History Museum, Ljubljana.
The Slovenian Computer History Museum's collection of old hardware and software has grown since 2004. It kicked off in the now defunct Cyberpipe community hackerspace where the exhibited configurations were also interactive. The many kind donations helped build a remarkable collection of over 300 computer hardware and software items, computer magazines, manuals etc. A non-profit association was established in 2013 in order to open the museum as a permanent venue with its own educational and participatory programmes, focused on challenges of the information society's fast changes. Since getting its own permanent venue in Šiška in 2019 and having officially opened in 2022 the collection has grown to more than 6500 different objects.
Loka in the Snow Festival
updated 5 days ago
Loka in the Snow Festival (Loka v snegu) is a local festival that takes place at various locations in Škofja Loka in December. Initially a rather modest festival, it began in 2010 and has since grown into an annual event that lasts a whole month. It encompasses music, theater, urban sports, stand-up comedy, children's programs, film screenings, and more.
The festival venues are numerous, including the Sokolski dom Cultural Centre, Pri Rdeči Ostrigi, a tent at the Štemarje parking lot, the outdoor areas of various local bars, several smaller squares, and the main square of the old town center (one of the best-preserved medieval squares in Slovenia).
Culture.si
updated 2 weeks ago
Culture.si offers information on Slovene cultural producers, venues, festivals and support services, all in one place. It encourages international cultural exchange in the fields of arts, culture and heritage. The portal and its content is owned and funded by the Ministry of Culture and the European Union Recovery and Resilience Plan. It was developed and edited by the team of the Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory in the period 2009–2020 and again in 2024.
Lighting Guerrilla Festival
updated 8 days ago
First held in 2008, the Lighting Guerrilla (Svetlobna gverila) is a quite special festival that explores, elaborates, and sheds light on the myriad relations between light, the public space, and the "confines" of the gallery walls. Initiated a year earlier as a workshop at the festival Lighting Detectives (Detektivi svetlobe), it is founded and run by Strip Core, otherwise predominantly active as the comic art section of Forum Ljubljana.
The festival is well-known for its luminous, site-specific "exhibition objects" presented at several public locations, mainly in Ljubljana; its streets and gardens, the Ljubljanica bridges and quays, the French Revolution Square, the Tivoli Park, etc. By way of exhibitions, installations, workshops, and performances, each year's programme is dedicated to a certain topic - among them the concept of shimmering, the functioning of darkness, and the role of light in shaping the urban experience.
