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Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
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In 2009 the City Museum of Ljubljana and the City Art Gallery Ljubljana merged into a new public institute called the Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML). The merger was part of the Municipality of Ljubljana's cultural development plans for 2008–2011, endorsed in June 2008.
Institute of Culture and Memory Studies
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The Institute of Culture and Memory Studies at the Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), established in 2008, investigates various forms of memory practices related to events that profoundly marked Slovenia and South-East Europe in the twentieth century. Its researchers focus on the multi-layered phenomenon of memory, its social role and political relevance, and its relationship with collective visions of the future. Since 2011, the institute has published the book series Cultural Memory, which presents original scientific literature in this dynamic field. The institute also plays a key role in promoting structural changes in the Slovenian scientific sector towards gender equality and equal opportunities for all.
Alma Mater Europaea - Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (AME ISH)
updated 25 hours ago
The Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (ISH) was established in 1992 as the first and one of the few autonomous higher education institutions in the field of humanities and social sciences in Slovenia. The institute attained state recognition and was authorised to confer M.A. and Ph.D. degrees for its accredited study programmes as early as 1995. The National Board of Higher Education accredited five graduate programmes offered by ISH: Anthropology of Everyday Life (with Media Studies), Anthropology of the Ancient Worlds, Anthropology of Genders, Historical Anthropology (with Historical Anthropology of Art), Linguistics of Speech, and Theory of Social Communication.
In December 2003 the ISH opened the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the first such institution in Slovenia. The centre facilitates research of the Jewish culture, literature, history, and language.
In October 2013 Neda Pagon, who has led the institution for three decades, announced that Alma Mater Europaea, European Centre Maribor has become a new founder of the ISH. Alma Mater Europaea (AMEU) is a university programme developed by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, which has been founded in Salzburg, Austria, in 1990. The Alma Mater Europaea - European Centre Maribor is the first campus opened in 2011 by AMEU in Slovenia.
Forum Ljubljana
updated 25 hours ago
Rooted in the alternative culture of the 1980s and a successor to the ŠKD Forum (active at the end of the 60s), Forum Ljubljana formally became a non-governmental cultural institution for artistic and cultural production in 1994.
The production company covers various forms of contemporary art, multimedia and new media and consists of several sections, including the multimedia art group Strip Core, known best as the publisher of Stripburger comic magazine (and, of recently, as the organiser of the Lighting Guerrilla Festival). Forum Ljubljana has produced several new media projects, among them being the Nebo Puppet Theatre, which links comics producers, puppeteers and new technologies. Its film production unit that initially produced art video films, has produced a line of awarded long-feature films.
Theological Library Maribor
updated 28 hours ago
The Diocesan Theological Library in Maribor (Theological Library Maribor for short) is a branch of the Faculty of Theology Library in Ljubljana. It was founded the same year as the diocese – in 1859. Theological books comprise 70 per cent of its collection, the rest cover the fields of philosophy, psychology, sociology, pedagogy, history, art, and literature. It also preserves and maintains important manuscripts, rarities, and collections, such as Drobtinice, whose founder was Anton Martin Slomšek, the 1480 Biblia Sacra, Pastima, one of the first higher education textbooks in Slovenian, and one of the library’s most valuable collections, Patrologia Migne. It manages a Biblical collection, which holds archaeological finds from Jerusalem and its surrounding area, dating from the 8th century BC to the 3rd century AD.
Stična Festival
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The Stična Festival was established in 2000 as an annual autumn festival of evening musical, theatre, and visual arts events in Stična. The first idea was to organise events over four evenings but the festival was quickly extended to two weeks, and it currently takes place end of November.
The basic goals of the festival are to raise cultural consciousness, to build connections and cooperation among amateur and professional associations and individuals and also to help to support quality amateur productions.
Greening Practices in Culture: Slovenian Organisations in Action
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If you’re an artist or a CCS professional dealing with environmental sustainability in your work, then you’ll be thrilled by the wide range of cultural organisations incorporating green practices in Slovenia. Given that more and more artists and organisations are introducing sustainable practices not only in their internal operations but also in their production and other activities, you’ll surely find plenty of options for cooperation.
Tipologije umetniških rezidenc
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Mednarodni umetniški rezidenčni programi (AiR) imajo marsikaj skupnega (osnovne skupne značilnosti smo opredelili v drugem članku v tej seriji), vendar pa so si med seboj lahko zelo različni. Vsak program s svojim pristopom lahko postavi v ospredje druge sfere umetnikovega delovanja, zato jih je mogoče klasificirati na več načinov. Tipologije so denimo lahko osnovane na dejavnostih, ki jih izvaja umetnik v času rezidence, na lastnostih programov ali pa poudarjajo pričakovanja organizatorjev programov AiR. Oglejmo si, kakšne vrste programov AiR poznamo in v kakšne predalčke jih lahko pospravimo, za ilustracijo pa naj služi nekaj primerov iz slovenske krajine AiR.
Prečenje prostorskih in časovnih meja: mednarodne umetniške rezidence
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Programi mednarodnih umetniških rezidenc (AiR) so organizirane časovne in/ali prostorske priložnosti, da se umetniki ter ustvarjalci iz kulturnih in ustvarjalnih sektorjev poglobljeno posvetijo ustvarjalnemu procesu ali produkciji. Vloga teh programov je pri umetnikovem razvoju in delovanju izjemno pomembna, toda niso le infrastruktura za umetniško udejstvovanje posameznika.
Z umestitvijo v določen prostorski in/ali časovni kontekst programi AiR umetnika neizogibno povežejo z okoljem in skupnostmi. Na ta način se razvijajo v intenzivne priložnosti za medkulturno srečevanje in dialog, za izmenjavo informacij, pridobivanje veščin in znanja. Programi AiR so tako tudi stičišča, katalizatorji ustvarjalnosti določene skupnosti in gonilne sile družbene trajnostnosti. Lahko pripomorejo k oživljanju lokalne ustvarjalnosti, spodbudijo socialno kohezijo in okrepijo skrb za grajeno in naravno okolje. Da bi bolje razumeli njihovo vlogo dandanes, ta članek prikaže njihov razvoj skozi različna zgodovinska obdobja in kontekste.