View source for Mini Summer - International Festival for Children

{{Article
| status       = 
| maintainer   = Anže Zorman
}}
{{Infobox
| name                = Mini Summer - International Festival for Children
| localname           = Mini poletje - Mednarodni festival za otroke
| street              = Križevniška 1
| town                = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| telephone           = 386 (0) 1 425 6060, 386 (0) 41 314 414
| email               = info@mini-teater.si
| website             = http://www.mini-teater.si/si/articles/10/mini-poletje
| organised by        = Mini Theatre
| frequency = annual
| dates and duration  = Annual, in summer, weekends (2019 date not fully confirmed)
| duration weeks      = 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,34,35 (2012) 26,27,28,29,30,31,32,34,35 (2013) 25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,34,36 (2014)
| festival dates      = 19.7.2015 - 16.8.2015, 23.6.2016 - 28.8.2016, 24.6.2017 - 27.8.2017, 23.6.2018 - 2.9.2018, 26.6.2019 - 1.9.2019
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Robert Waltl
| role                = Festival Director, Artistic Director and Programme Selector
| telephone           = 386 (0) 31 330 600
| email               = 
}}
{{Contact
| name                = Dejan Tesovic
| role                = Festival Organizer
| telephone           = 
| email               = 
}}
}}

{{Teaser|

{{wide image|Mini Summer - International Festival for Children 2014 opening.jpg}}

Organised by [[Mini Theatre]] since [[established::1999]], the [[Mini Summer - International Festival for Children]] is one of the oldest festivals aimed at younger audiences in Slovenia. Held on Sundays from early July through to early September at Mini Theatre and on Križevniška street in Ljubljana, the festivals brings an international selection of top-quality puppetry performances for children and adults alike as well as a varied programme of children's workshops.
}}

==International programme==
In its long years of activity, the festival has gained a high number of spectators of all ages and an international reputation and featured intriguing performances for children by international groups and theatres from Poland, Spain, Italy, Israel, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Belarus, Belgium, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Chile, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Germany, and Russia.
The festival regularly features [[Mini Theatre]]'s productions.

==Workshops==
Various creative workshops for children (visual arts, multimedia, puppetry, etc.) are conducted and exhibitions of puppets presented. The festival traditionally holds a workshop in chivalry skills, namely, "Pageants School for Young Pages and Dames". 

== See also ==
*[[Mini Theatre]]
*[[House of Tolerance Festival]]

== External links ==
*[https://www.mini-teater.si/client.en/articles/10/mini-summer-festival Mini Summer Festival website] 

{{gallery}}

[[Category:Festivals]]
[[Category:Theatre festivals]]
[[Category:Festivals in July]]
[[Category:Festivals in September]]
[[Category:Theatre]]
[[Category:Theatre & Dance]]