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Lighting Guerrilla Festival

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.

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The light-sound installation Portal by the authorial group Beam Team (Stella Ivšek, Anja Romih, Aleš Zupanc, Črt Trkman) at the 23rd Lighting Guerrilla Festival at Match Gallery, Ljubljana 2023. Author: DK

Summer in Velenje Festival

The Summer in Velenje Festival was launched in 1984 under the name Summer Cultural Events in Velenje, marking one of the first multidisciplinary summer city festivals in Slovenia. Organized and coordinated by the Festival Velenje Public Institute, a public cultural organization since 2008, it offers a diverse program featuring music concerts, film screenings, theatre plays, children-oriented programs, and more. The festival spans throughout the summer months, from the end of June to August.

While a part of the program is organized by the institute itself, a significant portion is done in cooperation with other producers. Furthermore, a few other Velenje-based festivals, like the Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures and a Zither festival called Prešmentane citre, are also incorporated into the wider context of the Summer Cultural Events.

Some of the festival venues include the Velenje Castle, the House of Culture Velenje and its yard, the banks of the Velenje and Škale lakes, the Old square of Velenje (Stari trg), and the many streets and parks of the city.

Klemen Slakonja & Small Band at a concert in the park of Vila Hernberstein, Festival Velenje 2023. Author: Ksenija Mikor

Popular Croatian film actor and singer Rade Šerbedžija performing at the Festival Velenje in 2023. Author: Ksenija Mikor

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Sailor's Day with children's workshops and events at Pippi's House by the Lake Velenje, Festival Velenje 2023. Author: Peter Žagar

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Current events

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  Netherlands Amsterdam De Bouwput Gallery

  
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  Academic painter Nuša Smolič is inviting viewers on a profound journey through philosophy and psychology of human existence with her solo exhibition, "A Tribute to Identity".

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  Poland Krakow Kino Kijow,Mikro

  
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  Short animated film "Three Birds - Tri tičice" by director Zarja Menart, produced by Finta Film, will be first shown at the festival. The film was coproduced by RTV Slovenia and Adriatic Animation, and is supported by Slovenian Film Centre, Viba Film Studio, and Croatian Audio-Visual Centre.

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  Serbia Belgrade Kalemegdan Promenade,Museum of Applied Art

  
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  A photography exhibit of Jože Plečnik's work in Ljubljana, Vienna, Prague, and Belgrade, accompanied by a talk about his work with Tomaž Štoka, Boris Podrecca, and fra Ilija Alanđak. The event is organised and supported by Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Belgrade in collaboration with partners Austrian Cultural Forum and Embassy of the Czech Republic in Belgrade.

  
  

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• 28 May 2024

  Serbia Sarajevo Kamerni teatar 55 Sarajevo

  
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  A documentaristic play "Man Overboard - Človek v morju" by solo performer Lotos Vincenc Šparovec about a very real accident that happened to him. Produced by Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL).

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  Austria Vienna Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte Universitätscampus Wien

  
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  A projection of "Snatched from the Source - Zajeti v izviru: Slovenski otroci Lebensborna", a documentary film about last living Slovenian victims of the Nazi racial experiment: Ingrid von Oelhafen, Hay Henry Hayder, Franc Zagožen, and Ivan Acman. After the projection, there will be a talk with the director Maja Weiss, the writer Nataša Konc Lorenzutti and professor Marija Wakounig from the University of Vienna. In collaboration with Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte der Universität Wien and Bela Film.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  Serbia Novi Sad Serbian National Theatre

  
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  Two performances of "A Rainy Day in Gurlitsch", directed by Sebastijan Horvat and written by Milan Ramšak Marković. Produced by Prešeren Theatre Kranj and Ptuj City Theatre.

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Festivals

Festivals in Slovenia

Festivals are up and running!

Our graphic calendar of festivals shows almost 190 festivals in 2023.

Explore all the upcoming festivals at the interactive Festivals in Slovenia infographic.

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The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape.

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  The Stroj performing at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2014

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  Site-specific installation in the forest at the Floating Castle Festival in the vicinity of Snežnik Castle, 2015

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  The Čaplja service building at the Nordic Centre Planica designed by the STVAR architects, 2016

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  Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011

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  Pocar Homestead, Mojstrana main dwelling from the outside, built in 1775

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  The tank from the Ten-Day War in Slovenia (1991) in front of the National Museum of Contemporary History. On the eve of the International Women's Day in 2012 it was sprayed pink by the unknown activists and became a new popular landmark in Ljubljana. It is owned by the Military Museum of Slovenian Armed Forces and was transferred to the Park of Military History Pivka only a few months after the action. The pink paint was removed.

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  A Place under the Sun by students of the Chair of Textile and Fashion Design at the Department of Textiles of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011

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  Narodni dom (National House) building by František Škabrout, built in Ljubljana 1894–1896. In 1927 the National Gallery of Slovenia rented some rooms in the building that housed also sport and leisure activities. Postcard, 1910.

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  Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Maribor, designed by Styria arhitektura d.o.o.

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Overview

Fields of Experimental Music in Slovenia

Luka T. Zagoričnik

Let's take a ride on the term experimental music, which currently mainly defines certain more fringe musical practices, across the expanses of various musical plains, styles and genres. We can apply this (overly) broad term to designate the varied creative simmering in certain segments of the present-day Slovenian music scene. A scene that spans the realms of electro-acoustic music, musique concrète, experimental music in the context of modern classical music, free improvisation, experimental electronic music and sound art as well as their associated present-day trends. This scene is diverse and exceptionally agile. It has developed a strong infrastructure for itself (festivals, concert series, labels, international networks) and exists in the space between self-organising and DIY models and institutional environments.

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Žarkolom, Tadej Droljc at Lunchmeat Festival, 2020

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