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| dates and duration  = August, late, 7 days
 
| dates and duration  = August, late, 7 days
 
| duration weeks      = 34,35 (2012) 34,35 (2013) 34,35 (2014)
 
| duration weeks      = 34,35 (2012) 34,35 (2013) 34,35 (2014)
| festival dates      = 21.8.2015 - 29.8.2015, 19.8.2016 - 27.8.2016, 25.8.2017 - 2.9.2017, 24.8.2018 - 1.9.2018, 23.8.2019 - 31.8.2019, 21.8.2020 - 29.8.2020
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| festival dates      = 21.8.2015 - 29.8.2015, 19.8.2016 - 27.8.2016, 25.8.2017 - 2.9.2017, 24.8.2018 - 1.9.2018, 23.8.2019 - 31.8.2019, 21.8.2020 - 30.8.2020, 13.8.2021 - 28.8.2021, 19.8.2022 - 27.8.2022, 21.7.2023 - 2.9.2023, 23.8.2024 - 31.8.2024
 
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[[Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures]] is a nine-day event with a 26-year tradition, taking place in the second half of August at various locations throughout Velenje. Its name originates from local folklore, narrating the tale of a beautiful young girl who supposedly lived in [[Velenje Castle]]. She was a castle maiden accused of witchcraft and thrown into the castle well as punishment, rumored to have haunted the castle hallways since then. However, the festival, organized since 1998, aims to honor the innocent girl with a celebration of young people's culture, challenging the misconception that they are not cultured enough. Like Kunigunda, alternative culture seeks its place under the sun. The festival does not judge but offers an opportunity for it to flourish with charm and youthful enthusiasm. Kunigunda evolves and improves each year, allowing visitors to get to know, befriend, and enjoy it.
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Every year, the festival adopts a new visual identity and logo, considering its promotion and brand identity as a work of art. The heart has been Kunigunda's official logo since its early days, symbolizing a rhythmically pulsating organ that drives the body, the motor of life, and a symbol of love. It communicates that everything at [[Kunigunda Festival]] is done with love and comes from the heart.
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The [[Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures]] is a summer festival launched in the city of [[Municipality of Velenje|Velenje]] in [[established::1998]]. The festival puts a special emphasis on the presentation and promotion of younger Slovene artists as well as international ones, of all generations. The festival's extremely varied programme features current happenings in the field of alternative arts as well as events for children, various sports activities, and some occasional mainstream-profiled acts. Thanks to its imaginative programming and its integration into the urban fabric of the city, Kunigunda is one of the more popular regional or "city" festivals in Slovenia.
 
 
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== Background ==
 
== Background ==
  
The festival was launched by [[Velenje Youth Centre (MC Velenje)]] in cooperation with the local student club, Šaleški študentski klub. Its venues are many and mainly open-air, yet can also include the [[Velenje Castle]], the [[Velenje Youth Centre (MC Velenje)]], and the [[Club eMCe plac]].  
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The festival began in 1998 when three founders, with great aspirations but almost no funding, started laying the foundation. Their efforts, with a strong focus on alternative culture, turned Kunigunda into one of the driving forces of the youth scene in Velenje. Graffiti art adorned the Red Hall, and local bands increasingly gained opportunities to perform on the big stage. As early as the second year, the team organized an international camp, gradually acquired their equipment, and involved enthusiastic youth in leaving their mark on the local cultural scene.
  
The festival's name has its origins in local folklore story about Kunigunda, a beautiful young girl who supposedly lived in Velenje Castle. She was a castle maiden, accused of witchcraft and thrown into the castle well to die. There is a rumour that she has been haunting the castle hallways ever since.
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The festival honours the innocent girl with a celebration of young people’s culture, since they are also often mistakenly accused of not being cultural enough. Like Kunigunda, alternative culture is searching for its place under the sun. Kunigunda gives its visitors a chance to get to know it and enjoy it.
 
  
 
==Programme==
 
==Programme==
  
The programme is conceptually wide and diverse, comprising music, visual arts, contemporary dance, theatre, puppetry, sculptural installations, documentary film and video screenings, literary evenings, new media art events, lectures, and art auctions. The events are spread throughout the city, from its parks and streets (and even its lake) to the main stage in the city centre, the local skate park and the ''Pekarna'' exhibitions grounds (a venue created at the site of an abandoned industrial building in the course of a past festival edition).
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Now in its late twenties, [[Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures]] is a symbol of young alternative culture in Velenje. The mosaic of local subcultures that gets shaped during the year on the local cultural scene is reflected in the festival’s program. It wouldn’t be wrong to describe its creators as a group of people who represent the passing of knowledge between generations of young, eager, socially critical, and informed individuals who care about events in Šalek Valley and the surrounding area. It was the passing of knowledge, combined with spending quality time and ensuring employment opportunities for those who want to work, that became a value that the festival began to emphasize as soon as the concept spread its wings. Interested and promising individuals are getting irreplaceable work opportunities in all areas that the organization of such a festival entail.
  
There are also other, more temporary interventions into urban space like setting up artist residencies at floating dwellings on the local lake and transforming one of the city parks into a creative polygon. The streets also hold theatre shows and arts performances (for example, ''Pocestnica'' by [[KUD Ljud]]), slack-line and roller-blade gatherings, photography exhibitions, and so on.  
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The program is conceptually wide and diverse, comprising music, visual arts, dance, theatre, puppetry, installations, film and video screenings, literary evenings, new media art events, lectures, different own productions and urban sports.
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The events are spread throughout the city, from its parks and streets, from caves to museums and elsewhere, to the main stage at the Youth cultural club eMCe and the Open-air cinema at Škale lake.
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We hosted big names in music and other areas – from Dragan Živadinov, Gašper Tič and Sebastian Cavazza, to Borut Veselko, Uroš Kuzman, Aleksandar Perišić, Mitja Obed, Pia Zemljič, Janez Škof, Jože Slaček, Staša Guček, Saša Spačal and others. Along with top artists, Kunigunda’s organizational team is getting increasingly involved in the program. Projects like the national beatboxing championship and ''City on Water'' found their place at Kunigunda, while our own team produced projects critical to society, like ''Experiment: Tito’s Velenje'', ''The Wedding: a celebration of love'', ''Kunigudra and founding of the Autonomous Republic of Kunigunda (ARK)''.
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Kunigunda is constantly evolving, reconstructing, and reconfiguring itself, injecting culture in veins, slapping the faces of the prepared and unprepared alike. And will continue to do so in the years to come.
  
The festival also holds lectures on topics like the American poet Walt Whitman, appearances of artists like [[Dragan Živadinov]], workshops on sound sculpting and other arts performances and installations that are rather atypical for this type of a festival.
 
  
Kunigunda has produced also projects critical to society, like ''Experiment: Tito’s Velenje'', ''The Wedding: a celebration of love'', ''Kunigudra and founding of the Autonomous Republic of Kunigunda'' (ARK). Kunigunda is constantly evolving, reconstructing and reconfiguring itself.
 
  
 
===Music===
 
===Music===
  
Music-wise, there is combination of well-known local and foreign musicians like Lombego Surfers (US), Let 3 (HR), Kultur Shock (US), Disciplin A Kitschme (RS), Senser (UK) Bambi Molesters (HR), Damir Avdić (BA), Kiril Džajkovski (MK), [[Terrafolk]], [[Torul]], [[Demolition Group]], [[Srečna mladina]], [[Noctiferia]], [[The Stroj]], [[Matter]], etc. This relatively rock-oriented programme is accompanied by many upcoming and fresh musicians of diverse musical expressions (jazz, electronica, reggae, etc.), coupled with a very strong hip hop focus with artists like General Woo (HR), Elemental (HR), Kiša metaka (HR), High 5 (HR) and even a national competition in beat boxing.
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Kunigunda’s stage was a host to many well-known artists from all directions (in an abstract as well as artistic sense). In the spirit of emphasizing all cultures and musical genres, we headbanged with metal heads, banged with rappers and MC’s, raved with DJ’s, danced to reggae and ska and enjoyed everything that fits anywhere in between.
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Bands like S.A.R.S, Dubioza Kolektiv and Kultur Shock visited the castle maiden before they put their names up with those most well-known. The festival hosted many other famous artists – Jeru the Damaja, Senser, Edo Maajka, Kiril Džajkovski, Torul, Elemental, Dječaci, Matter, Let 3, Sassja, Kandžija i gole Žene, Within Destruction, General WOO, Velebor, The Stroj, Ana Pupedan, Kiša Metaka, Anja Bukovec and Terrafolk, Raggalution, Vojko V, Brkovi, Koikoi, Smoke Mardeljano, Ajs Nigrutin, Stoka, King Buffalo, Demolition Group, Nervecell, Niko Novak, Battalion of Saints, Vazz, Masayah, Noctiferia, Repetitor, Kaoz, Bakalina Velika and many others – all of which shaped the musical image of Kunigunda.
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Kunigunda, Festival mladih kultur, Velenje
Šaleška cesta 3, SI-3320 Velenje
Phone386 (0) 3 898 1922, 386 (0) 3 898 1920
Frequencyannual
Festival dates23.8.2024 - 31.8.2024



Audience, Staš Gregorič, 2. 9. 2023.jpgAudience at the 26th Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures in Velenje. Photo: Staš Gregorič


Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures is a nine-day event with a 26-year tradition, taking place in the second half of August at various locations throughout Velenje. Its name originates from local folklore, narrating the tale of a beautiful young girl who supposedly lived in Velenje Castle. She was a castle maiden accused of witchcraft and thrown into the castle well as punishment, rumored to have haunted the castle hallways since then. However, the festival, organized since 1998, aims to honor the innocent girl with a celebration of young people's culture, challenging the misconception that they are not cultured enough. Like Kunigunda, alternative culture seeks its place under the sun. The festival does not judge but offers an opportunity for it to flourish with charm and youthful enthusiasm. Kunigunda evolves and improves each year, allowing visitors to get to know, befriend, and enjoy it.

Every year, the festival adopts a new visual identity and logo, considering its promotion and brand identity as a work of art. The heart has been Kunigunda's official logo since its early days, symbolizing a rhythmically pulsating organ that drives the body, the motor of life, and a symbol of love. It communicates that everything at Kunigunda Festival is done with love and comes from the heart.

Intermedia music workshop Creating music with (un)ordinary object, F Lara Lukše, 29. 8. 2023.jpgCreating music with (un)ordinary object, music workshop at the 26th Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures in Velenje. Photo: Lara Lukše

Drag Queen show, F Staš Gregorič, 30. 8. 2023.jpgDrag Queen show at the 26th Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures in Velenje. Photo: Staš Gregorič

Tito's skate (and bike) contest, F Staš Gregorič, 26. 8. 2023.jpgSkate and bike contest, 26th Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures in Velenje, 2023. Photo: Staš Gregorič




Background

The festival began in 1998 when three founders, with great aspirations but almost no funding, started laying the foundation. Their efforts, with a strong focus on alternative culture, turned Kunigunda into one of the driving forces of the youth scene in Velenje. Graffiti art adorned the Red Hall, and local bands increasingly gained opportunities to perform on the big stage. As early as the second year, the team organized an international camp, gradually acquired their equipment, and involved enthusiastic youth in leaving their mark on the local cultural scene.

Interactive programe activities, F Staš gregorič, 24. 8. 2023.jpgInteractive programme activities at the 26th Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures in Velenje. Photo: Staš Gregorič

Programme

Now in its late twenties, Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures is a symbol of young alternative culture in Velenje. The mosaic of local subcultures that gets shaped during the year on the local cultural scene is reflected in the festival’s program. It wouldn’t be wrong to describe its creators as a group of people who represent the passing of knowledge between generations of young, eager, socially critical, and informed individuals who care about events in Šalek Valley and the surrounding area. It was the passing of knowledge, combined with spending quality time and ensuring employment opportunities for those who want to work, that became a value that the festival began to emphasize as soon as the concept spread its wings. Interested and promising individuals are getting irreplaceable work opportunities in all areas that the organization of such a festival entail.

The program is conceptually wide and diverse, comprising music, visual arts, dance, theatre, puppetry, installations, film and video screenings, literary evenings, new media art events, lectures, different own productions and urban sports.

The events are spread throughout the city, from its parks and streets, from caves to museums and elsewhere, to the main stage at the Youth cultural club eMCe and the Open-air cinema at Škale lake.

We hosted big names in music and other areas – from Dragan Živadinov, Gašper Tič and Sebastian Cavazza, to Borut Veselko, Uroš Kuzman, Aleksandar Perišić, Mitja Obed, Pia Zemljič, Janez Škof, Jože Slaček, Staša Guček, Saša Spačal and others. Along with top artists, Kunigunda’s organizational team is getting increasingly involved in the program. Projects like the national beatboxing championship and City on Water found their place at Kunigunda, while our own team produced projects critical to society, like Experiment: Tito’s Velenje, The Wedding: a celebration of love, Kunigudra and founding of the Autonomous Republic of Kunigunda (ARK).

Concert in Summer cinema near Škale lake - Brkovi, F Lara Lukše 1. 9. 2023 (1).jpgCroatian band Brkovi performing at the 26th Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures in Open-air cinema at Škale lake, Velenje 2023. Photo: Lara Lukše

Kunigunda is constantly evolving, reconstructing, and reconfiguring itself, injecting culture in veins, slapping the faces of the prepared and unprepared alike. And will continue to do so in the years to come.


Music

Kunigunda’s stage was a host to many well-known artists from all directions (in an abstract as well as artistic sense). In the spirit of emphasizing all cultures and musical genres, we headbanged with metal heads, banged with rappers and MC’s, raved with DJ’s, danced to reggae and ska and enjoyed everything that fits anywhere in between.

Bands like S.A.R.S, Dubioza Kolektiv and Kultur Shock visited the castle maiden before they put their names up with those most well-known. The festival hosted many other famous artists – Jeru the Damaja, Senser, Edo Maajka, Kiril Džajkovski, Torul, Elemental, Dječaci, Matter, Let 3, Sassja, Kandžija i gole Žene, Within Destruction, General WOO, Velebor, The Stroj, Ana Pupedan, Kiša Metaka, Anja Bukovec and Terrafolk, Raggalution, Vojko V, Brkovi, Koikoi, Smoke Mardeljano, Ajs Nigrutin, Stoka, King Buffalo, Demolition Group, Nervecell, Niko Novak, Battalion of Saints, Vazz, Masayah, Noctiferia, Repetitor, Kaoz, Bakalina Velika and many others – all of which shaped the musical image of Kunigunda.

Vibe at the concert; F Lara Lukše 1. 9. 2023.jpgConcert atmosphere at the 26th Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures, Velenje 2023. Photo: Lara Lukše

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