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Slovene Book Fair
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The Slovene Book Fair has been organised every November since 1993 by the Association of Book Publishers (today Chamber of Publishing and Bookselling), either at Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre or at Gospodarsko razstavišče - Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre. Activities include school presentations, exhibitions, a training programme, debates, presentations of new books and shows for children. It is the largest fair of its kind in Slovenia, each year attracting around 100 publishing houses and thousands of visitors.
Glasbarium Institute
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Glasbarium Institute was founded in 2012 by composer and musician Vasko Atanasovski. Although it was initially focused on production of music events, concert tours and music albums, it gradually expanded its activities to include musical, humanistic and cultural research and several collaborative projects. One such project, named Musicville – Green European Opera, reinvented the form of opera as a new and creative collaboration inspired by environmental awareness, nature, local crafts, and traditions. Another project, named Arthanatos, explored the subject of death by combining music, philosophy and theatre. With Magdalena Germek, Atanasovski also developed a special methodology of combining philosophy and music, named Philo Klang.
Jasa Society
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The Jasa Society (Društvo Jasa) is primarily dedicated to book publishing, along with some other book-related activities such as promoting reading. The society’s catalogue features various children’s books (often exploring questions of beauty, morality, our relationship to nature and other philosophical topics), literary anthologies, as well as some works dealing with the questions of fashion. Several of the books were written by a well known Slovene poet Neža Maurer.
Audibook
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Audibook is a company that, in 2017, launched an eponymous mobile and web application dedicated to audiobooks in Slovene language. The application enables browsing, downloading and listening to more than 7,500 audiobooks from various Slovene publishers, spanning numerous genres, from canonical works to crime novels, children literature, non-fiction, and more. In 2019, the service was made available to members of Slovene public libraries as well.
GO2025 The City Yet to Become
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While winning the bid for the European Capital of Culture speaks of a city's vision for the future, Miha Kosovel of Razpotja magazine introduces the term transfrontal and reminds us of how understanding the history of a region can better prepare us for the mental and physical shifts needed in co-creating a new reality.
Nova Gorica–Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025
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Since its inception in 1985, over 40 cities have won the prestigious European Capital of Culture (ECoC) title. Forty years later, however, the border cities of Nova Gorica in Slovenia and Gorizia in Italy are the first ones to turn this annual celebration of culture into a genuinely cross-border endeavour. Based on these cities' specific political, cultural and geographical context, their 2025 ECoC programme explores the concept of borders from multiple dimensions under the slogan “Go! Borderless”.
The opening event, From Station to Station, was held on 8 February, the Slovenian cultural holiday.
Nova Gorica municipal building with light installations during R.o.R festival
Skiing in the Museum
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A pair of skis, used in the Yugoslav People’s Army. From 1974 onwards, its mountain warfare forces would use the equipment produced by Elan.
The Rebirth of Industrial Spaces through the Prism of Culture and Creativity
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From London and Paris to Berlin and Amsterdam, if we mention only Europe, some of the best contemporary museums and galleries are set in former industrial buildings, taking advantage of vast spaces, preserving cultural heritage and giving back to people what they had been creating before in a different manner.
Slovenia stepped on this path in the early 2000s and is committed to renovating, rebuilding and breathing new life into such buildings. Through revitalisation, cities, townships and private organisations are transforming these sites and structures into places that offer platforms for creative industries. However, the means towards this goal and the results vary distinctively.
Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, 2006
Experimental Theatre in the 1950s and 1960s
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Primož Jesenko provides a brief sketch of the developments of experimental theatre in Slovenia of the 1950s and 1960s. In this post-war time of the newly-established Yugoslavia, we see how experimental practices became a way for theatre artists working to link to the international, avant-garde space in Europe and beyond. The next questions became: in which spaces could such activities be carried out and how to blend the "institutional and non-institutional"?