Vodnik Homestead

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Vodnikova domačija

Vodnikova 65, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.vodnikovadomacija.si

nabiralnik@divjamisel.org

Phone386 (0) 590 37510

Managed byDivja misel Institute

Tina Popovič, Divja misel Institute head

Events abroad

Past Events

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  International Symposium Neverending Painting with Petja Grafenaurer (Vodnik Homestead Gallery) and Nadja Gnamuš

  
  

  
  

  
  

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Vodnik Homestead, 2006

(work in progress)

The Vodnik Homestead is a multi-purpose venue located in the Ljubljana suburb of Šiška. Its basic coordinates are summed up as being the "house of reading, writing and story-telling", though music, comics art and illustration are also featured in its programme. Set up as a cultural venue back in 1984, it is currently – since 2015 – run by the Divja misel Institute, selected by the Municipality of Ljubljana upon a public call.

Alongside its programme, it is also obliged to popularise the heritage of the famed Slovene poet and polyhistor Valentin Vodnik (1758 – 1819), who was born in this house.

The place has two rooms on the ground floor, a mezzanine and a spacious attic, as well as a garden that functions along the lines of an old Divja misel Institute, the 'Knjižnica pod krošnjami (Library under the Treetops). The homestead, since 2001 a cultural monument of local significance, is also housing a music school.

Programme

The programme is quite diverse, with some of the typical events being regular plays and storytellings for children on Sundays, evening discussions with writers, poets, translators and film-makers, workshops on contemporary visual and comic art, various exhibitions dedicated to illustration, comics and, for example, to the 70th anniversary of Ciciban, Slovene cult magazine for children. There are two permanent exhibitions on Valentin Vodnik.

The Vodnik Homestead cooperates with various protagonists from the literary field, among them the I.D.I.O.T Group and Slovene Writers’ Association.

History and background

From mid-eighteenth century until the 1930s, the homestead actually used to be a tavern. Half a century later it was bought by the Municipality of Ljubljana and used for various purposes – it used to be a dislocated unit of the Šiška Library and has hosted various small performances (puppetry, theatre) and workshops, a visual arts programme and programmes for various marginal groups.

From 2012 to 2015 the Vodnik Homestead was managed by the Hanna's Atelier for Sonorous Arts, which established there a Centre for Sonorous Arts.

See also

• Šiška Cultural Quarter
• Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
• Divja misel Institute
• I.D.I.O.T Group
• Slovene Writers’ Association
• Hanna's Atelier for Sonorous Arts

External links

• Vodnik Homestead website
• Vodnik Homestead on Dedi.si (in Slovenian)

Gallery

A lecture by Center of Illustration at Vodnik Homestead

Illustration of Valentin Vodnik (3 February 1758 - 8 January 1819), Slovene priest, teacher, journalist and poet, reprinted in 1905

Vodnik Homestead, 2006