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Strip Core
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Founded from the ashes of the Hard Core Kolektiv (HCK) in 1989, Strip Core primarily functions as the comic arts production arm of Forum Ljubljana. It creates Slovenia's only comic art magazine, publishes comic books and frequently presents Slovene comic art at numerous international events and exhibitions, from the Salao Lisboa Biennial to the prestigious Frankfurt Book Fair. Alongside its publishing activities, Strip Core organises workshops, lectures, exhibitions, multimedia projects and, since 2008, the Lighting Guerrilla Festival.
Uniting various fields of art – visual art, video, music and live performances – since its inception, Strip Core regularly collaborates with other protagonists in the cultural field, among them the Animateka Festival, Rdeči revirji!, ZARŠ Records, RogLab (workshops) and galleries and venues all around Slovenia. Some of the regular artists that work with Strip Core are DK (photography), Andrej Štular (comics, objects, installations, puppets), Matej Stupica (installations, paintings, stage sets), Marko A. Kovačič (video, installations, sculpture), Kaja Avberšek (drawings, illustration, visual arts), David Krančan (comics and illustration), etc.
Avsenik Festival
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Avsenik Festival was launched in 2008 as a way to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the legendary Avsenik Ensemble. It is held on a somewhat sporadic basis in Begunje, where the founder of the ensemble Slavko Avsenik (1929–2015) was born and where in recent years he and his family have established a diverse enterprise featuring a music school, a gallery, a publishing house, a museum with a shop and also a restaurant with regular concert evenings.
The festival takes place under a marquee at a nearby meadow and in 3 days (5 in 2008) presents an international line-up of about 30 ensembles, each offering its take on either the music of the Avsenik Ensemble or on the music which they've pioneered into the world.
Avsenik Ensemble
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The history of the Avsenik Ensemble goes back to 1953, when the accordion player Slavko Avsenik (1929–2015) formed his first trio and later regrouped it into a quartet that also featured his older brother Vilko Ovsenik (who had changed his name to the pre-WWI spelling of the family's last name). Together they embarked on a path which led them – more or less single-handedly – to create and develop a whole new musical style, the so-called Oberkrainer music (in Slovenian called narodno–zabavna glasba, a term roughly translatable as "folk pop music"), today included in the register of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Slovenia. With stellar success soon following, they quickly popularised this polka and waltz based genre around the world and incessantly toured Europe and North America up until 1989.
About Slovenia
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This section looks at the long history of the country, spanning from Roman times to the third millennium, and stretching between the Alps, the Adriatic and the Pannonian Plain. It presents its land and peoples as well as its political, economic and cultural structures.
Ministry of Culture
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The Ministry of Culture is responsible for cultural matters in the public interest, including the coordinated cultural development of Slovenia, protection of cultural heritage, plurality of the media landscape, suitable conditions for the creation, dissemination, and accessibility of cultural assets, cultural rights of minorities, international cultural cooperation, and the promotion of culture both domestically and internationally.
Academic Choir Tone Tomšič, University of Ljubljana
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The Academic Choir Tone Tomšič (APZ Tone Tomšič) is a long-established, versatile and internationally successful choir, mostly made up of students from the University of Ljubljana. The choir has performed in almost all European countries, in North and South America, in Africa and Asia.
A.biro
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A.biro engages in a wide range of projects in a number of fields, although the studio is currently not involved in urban planning. The team works on around 15–20 architectural projects annually and is active throughout Slovenia. A.biro's approach highlights a deeper understanding of the space in which a project is situated and seeks to draw on the meanings and nuance of specific spaces which give their work a sense of permanence.
International Film Festivals in Slovenia
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International festivals share at least one thing in common, regardless of how different they are or how diverse the groups they target. Whatever their audience, they are designed and organised to create, in a specific place and at a specific time, a community to which they offer meaningful content, while also fostering inclusion and the well-being of every participant. These are spaces that enable shared moments between different people and ideas – spaces of coexistence and (inter)cultural exchange.
The same applies to film festivals, whether aimed primarily at film audiences or industry professionals, whether their programmes focus mainly on curated selections or competitive strands and whether they prioritise marketing, training or audience development. What role, then, do the most prominent film festivals in Slovenia play? Whom do they bring together and what kinds of communities do they create?
Beyond the Sale of Book Rights
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In June 2025, the International Publishers’ Meeting (Encontro Internacional de Editores) took place in Lisbon, gathering thirteen publishing sector experts from Armenia, Czechia, Denmark, France, Ireland, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain. The event, organised by the Creative Europe Desk (CED) Portugal and the Portuguese Trade and Investment Agency (AICEP), was dedicated to building publishing and institutional partnerships, encouraging translation and circulation of literary works, as well as increasing access to national and European funding for translation and publishing projects.
Among the participants was Mitja Ličen, the director of Goga Publishing House, with whom we talked about his impressions, findings and opportunities from the meeting, about the role of Goga in connecting the Balkans with the larger international literary space and about the common practices of small European publishers.
Bologna Children's Book Fair 2025
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Every year, for four exciting days, Bologna becomes the world capital for book publishing, illustration, animation, multimedia and licensing. Three distinct yet interconnected events unfold simultaneously: the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the world’s largest and most significant fair dedicated to children’s and youth literature; BolognaBookPlus, focused on general book publishing; and the Bologna Licensing Trade Fair/Kid, highlighting brands and content for children, teens and young adults.