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Festivals in Slovenia
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The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape!
Since 2012, the annual festivalscapes are provided as an infographic, conceived by the Culture.si team at the Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory. The interactive calendars include the festivals from the Culture.si database arranged by weeks and by field. You can see specific types of festivals, e.g., music festivals only, by clicking on the corresponding artistic field. Take a look at the Festivals in Slovenia infographic.
Come autumn the festival fever subsides
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The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape!
According to the interactive infographic on how Slovenian festivals are dispersed throughout the year, we can now make a rather qualified announcement that the festive season is (finally) about to be over. Culture is once again blissfully sliding into the blandness of the everyday, and most of the 217 active festivals in our database have already happened for 2015.
The Festival Quest 2016
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Ljudmila in lights, Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, the predecessor of Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory.
Some days ago, the winter still trembling in its last dying breaths, a Culture.si editor embarked on a daring quest, one that led him to many a desolate corner of the World Wide Web. He went to gather the dates of the internationally-minded festivals due to happen in Slovenia in 2016.
Virtual Guide to Slovene Museums and Galleries
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The Virtual Guide to Slovene Museums and Galleries website comprises virtual reality panoramic views and a virtual guide with Slovenian and English information about a hundred of Slovene museums, galleries, and museum sites.
IPoP - Institute for Spatial Policies
updated 19 hours ago
The Institute for Spatial Policies (IPoP), established in 2006, is an independent research institute. Its mission is to achieve synergies across a range of disciplines and practices that deal with space and place, to raise awareness of the spatial dimension, and to consider the possibilities to guide policies of space.
House! Society for People and Spaces
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Set up in 2010, House! produces and fosters several culturally and socially invigorating programmes. As its full name – Society for people and spaces – implies, their activities often tend to address public spaces, foremost those in the city of Maribor. It is involved in the Actors of Urban Change project, led by the Robert Bosch Foundation, and its aim of achieving "sustainable and participatory urban development through cultural activities" holds for House! as well.
Its first and still ongoing enterprise is the Living courtyards, reviving various urban spots with creative interventions. It is integrated into the summer festival Lent, as are some other society's initiatives. Among these one can mention street performances, for which House! also collaborates with the Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival.
A poetry reading and painting exhibition, held in one of the courtyards in Maribor and organised by the House! Society, 2017
CoolTours no 1
updated 20 hours ago
In this series, Tea Pristolič brings architecture, design and urban living alive for foreign visitors and local inhabitants. The series comprises two sections: in this first section, she looks at urban and alternative tours tied to the cultural life and heritage of Slovenian cities and the second covers unique ways of coming closer to Slovenian architectural treasures.
CoolTours no 2
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The renovation and modification of the Slovenska Boulevard in Ljubljana was a joint enterprise undertaken by several architecture studios. The realisation was finished in 2015.
In this second instalment of her series about culture-related tours, walks and guides in Slovenia, Tea Pristolič brings the field of architecture, design and urban living alive for foreign visitors and local inhabitants. Here, she discusses unique ways of coming closer to architectural treasures throughout Slovenia.
Predjama Castle
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Predjama Castle, annual medieval tournament, 2006
One of the most picturesque castles in Slovenia, Predjama Castle is built into an overhanging rock in front of a karst cave hall that is connected with a cave system underneath the castle. It is situated just a a few kilometres from the entrance to the Postojna Cave. The castle is now a museum on five floors that shows the life in the 16th century, with an armoury, dungeon, halls, living quarters and other castle facilities. Interesting is the dialogue between man-made architecture and natural structures that combine into the castle's fortification system.