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DESSA Architecture Centre
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DESSA Architecture Centre is a non-profit architecture organisation that publishes professional literature, organises lectures and excursions, and manages Architectural Gallery DESSA. DESSA is also one of the leading associations to nominate architectural achievements for the international Mies van der Rohe Prize and is involved in organisation of the Piran Days of Architecture.
LindArt International Young Artists’ Fine Arts Colony
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Based on the rich tradition of the Lendava-Lendva International Fine Arts Colony that has attracted artists to Lendava since 1973, the Lendava-Lendva Gallery and Museum and Lindart Association of young artists from Lendava introduced an innovative LindArt International Young Artists’ Fine Arts Colony in 1994. LindArt is dedicated to emerging artists and since 2007 has been focused on collaboration. Each year, from 6 to 12 participants under the age of 35 are selected and paired randomly in order to work collaboratively on a prescribed theme during the 10-day residency in July. The workshop takes place in the Lendava Castle and closes with an exhibition there.
SAXGO International Saxophone Meeting
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Organised every summer since 1997 by Nova Gorica Arts Centre at Nova Gorica Music School, the SAXGO International Saxophone Meeting is the annual gathering point for young saxophone players from Slovenia and abroad. It is in part a festival and partly a series of master classes with eminent mentors. Participants can choose between classical repertoire, jazz or a combination of both. It is led by its Art Director Matjaž Drevenšek and co-organised by the Nova Gorica Music School and the Saksofonija Music Society.
Nova Gorica Arts Centre
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The Nova Gorica Arts Centre (Kulturni dom Nova Gorica) was opened as a regional cultural and community centre back in 1980. Besides being a prominent concert and film theatre venue, it is nowadays also the most important concert producer for classical and early music in Western Slovenia. Besides using its own two event halls, the Arts Centre often sets up concerts at other venues, most regularly at the Kromberk Castle and the Franciscan Monastery at Kostanjevica, a hill just above Nova Gorica.
Its visual arts branch, the Nova Gorica City Gallery, is located within the Nova Gorica theatre building complex. The Arts Centre organises a range of other programmes, including the Pixxelpoint International Festival of Computer Art, the October Jazz festival, the International Saxophone Meeting and the Flores Musicae Festival of mediaeval and renaissance music. All in all, the Nova Gorica Arts Centre organises more than 500 events with almost 65,000 visitors per year.
Myra Locatelli Cultural Association
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The Myra Locatelli Cultural Association's starting point in 2000 was the Show Your Tongue International School of Scriptwriting. Later on its programme has developed some new initiatives which aim to connect different artistic and literary forms, and above all to develop them into interesting projects.
In the recent years the association has been organising the annual Lukatelce Festival, dedicated to ethno music and literature with a high quality programme. It takes place in the intimate atmosphere of the Locatelli homestead in Volče and is hosted by Zdravko Duša, writer, translator, and editor.
Maribor Art Gallery
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With its collection of more than 3,000 art works by Slovene artists from the end of the 19th century up to the present, the Maribor Art Gallery (Umetnostna galerija Maribor (UGM)) is one of the main museums for modern and contemporary art in Slovenia. Painting, sculpture, and prints are joined by photographs, video art, multimedia installations, and interactive art projects. UGM serves as a regional museum of modern and contemporary art in the area of the Municipality of Maribor, its founder, as well as in the greater area of north-eastern Slovenia. The museum also runs the UGM Studio and manages the Forma Viva Open Air Sculpture Collection in the City Park. The researchers can benefit from its rich Library and Archive. In 2015 UGM has been in charge of the Slovenian pavilion featuring JAŠA at the Venice Biennial.
Luksuz Production
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The Luksuz Production is the video production arm of the Society of Allies for Soft Landing, Krško (DZMP) established in 1997. Its first professional project was Boris Petković's short fiction film Forward (1998) which was invited to several international film festivals. Since 2001 Luksuz Production premises have become an important "video classroom" for young video creators and a production centre for new generations of film and videomakers. It is one of the pioneers in the democratisation of film as a medium in Slovenia.
Art Stays Cultural Association
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Officially established in 2005, the activities of the Art Stays Cultural Association (Ptuj, Kidričevo) are rooted in the ambitions of young representatives of the local art scene, putting Ptuj, one of the most impressive Slovene towns of medieval and also Roman heritage, on the international map of contemporary arts. The first activities of Art Stays realised before the official establishing of the association were featured in the Tenzor Gallery located in the Ptuj City Theatre, later the FO.VI Gallery was moved to a nearby Kidričevo. Since 2003 the association also regularly organises the summer festival in Ptuj, today named Art Stays, International Festival of Contemporary Art.
Archival Association of Slovenia (AAS)
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The Archival Association of Slovenia (AAS) is a professional association of archivists and others interested in archival science. In its fifty years of operation the number of members has grown from around a dozen to more than 230 archivists who work in the archives in Ljubljana, Maribor, Ptuj, Celje, Koper, and Nova Gorica; in two Archiepiscopal archives in Ljubljana and Maribor; and in some libraries and museums. In 2002 AAS launched the Aškerc Award for outstanding achievements in archival science.
Ana Monró Theatre
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Founded in Ljubljana in 1981, Ana Monró Theatre (or GAM, for Gledališče Ane Monró) is one of the oldest independent theatre groups in Slovenia. Focusing on contemporary street theatre and improvisational theatre, GAM has since its establishment developed into an important street theatre production house, with activities ranging from festival production, education to international networking.