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International Ceramics Triennial Unicum
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The first International Ceramics Triennial Unicum kicked off in 2009 with the central exhibition in the National Museum of Slovenia. Established within the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies (ZDSLU) the triennial is dedicated to contemporary ceramic arts and strives to popularise this medium among the Slovene and international audience. Its core event is the exhibition of the works selected on the basis of an international competition. The call is released a year prior to the triennial. The programme also includes an exhibition of selected works by the students of art schools and academies and accompanying curated events on various locations throughout Slovenia. In 2012 the main exhibition took place in the Betnava Mansion on the outskirts of Maribor and in 2015 it will be hosted again by the National Museum of Slovenia.
Across Borders and Time: International Arts Residencies
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Artist-in-residence (AiR) programmes are organised temporal and/or spatial opportunities that allow artists and creators from the cultural and creative sectors to focus on the research or production process. The role of these programmes in an artist's development and practice is paramount, but they do not merely provide infrastructure for an individual's artistic engagement. By placing the artist in a specific spatial and/or temporal context, AiR programmes inevitably connect him/her to the environment and communities. In this way, they develop into intensive opportunities for intercultural encounters and dialogue, the exchange of information and the acquisition of skills and knowledge. AiR programmes are thus also meeting points, catalysts of creativity in a community and drivers of social sustainability. They can help revitalise local creativity, encourage social cohesion and enhance care for the built and natural environment. To better understand their role today, this article traces their development across different historical periods and contexts.
SPIRIT Slovenia Public Agency
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The Public Agency for Entrepreneurship, Internationalization, Foreign Investments and Technology, abbreviated as the SPIRIT Slovenia was established in 2012, first merged three organisations: Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Entrepreneurship and Foreign Investments (JAPTI), the Slovenian Tourist Board and the Public Agency for Technological Development of the Republic of Slovenia (TIA). In August 2015 the Slovenian Tourist Board was reestablished as an independent unit.
The new public agency should boost competitiveness of the Slovenian economy, develop entrepreneurship and promote innovation, technological development, foreign investments and the internationalisation of companies.
Sovre Award
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Named after the renowned ancient languages translator Anton Sovre (1895–1963), the Sovre Award is granted annually in recognition of the best work within the field of translating literary works. The award has been bestowed by the Slovenian Association of Literary Translators since 1969.
Sound Disobedience
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Launched in 2012, the music series Sound Disobedience (in Slovenian, Neposlušno) describes its creed as an aim to facilitate conditions for music risk-taking and improvisation. It was founded by Sploh Institute, which has been working on improvised music and theatre performing arts production since 1999. By way of concerts, workshops, lectures, and other forms of communicating musical ideas and ideas about music, Sound Disobedience annually creates an international programme, which is co-produced by the Španski borci Culture Centre.
Sophia Publishing House
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Originally established as the Research and Publishing Centre in 1990 and renamed in 2002, Sophia Publishing House has published more than 170 titles in the field of social sciences theory. Their publishing programme is composed of several collections. The collection Forward! (Naprej!) is dedicated to humanities, Surviving storms (Previharimo viharje) to essays and historical fiction, and Theory/Reflection (Teorija/Refleksija) to theory.
Occasionally, the Sophia Publishing House also organises roundtables and readings of authors from its catalogue, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts and the Slovenian Book Agency.
Sonica International Festival of Transitory Art
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Sonica is a festival of (electronic) music as well as sound and experimental art. In a way, it is conceived as a showcase of the annual programme produced by the hyperactive MoTA Museum of Transitory Art. Its experimental nature questions exhibition and staging formats, crossing borders between art and theory, object and performance. Sonica was launched in the year 2009.
In the past, Sonica has presented artists like Tim Hecker, Rashad Becker, Emptyset, Marina Rosenfeld, Herman Kolgen, Ryoichi Kurokawa and Random Logic.
Sodobnost Magazine
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Sodobnost was founded in 1933, following the collapse of an earlier magazine, Ljubljanski zvon, and is the oldest Slovene magazine dedicated to literature and culture. It has since been published regularly, though during World War II it was off the shelves for 3 years. Since 2004, it has been published by the Sodobnost International Cultural Society. Sodobnost also confers the Best Short Story Award, jointly with the Slovene Writers’ Association, and the Best Slovene Essay Award.
Sodobnost International Cultural Society
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Book publishing is the primary activity of the Sodobnost International Cultural Society (KUD Sodobnost), dealing both in literature for children (picture books as well as regular works of youth literature) and for adults (classical alongside contemporary works). It publishes authors from Slovenia and from abroad, many of them being highly renowned and awarded. The society – formally established in 2004 – also issues the Sodobnost Magazine, a monthly literary and cultural journal that is one of the four oldest such magazines in Europe.
In addition to that, Sodobnost is actively involved in developing reading culture in Slovenia and in promoting its authors abroad. As a direct result of deals that Sodobnost has with foreign publishers, anthologies of contemporary Slovene short fiction have been published abroad.
Sociomedical Institute
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The Sociomedical Institute at the Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU) of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) has operated since 1981. Although it initially existed only de jure, the Sociomedical Institute subsequently organised a series of discussions addressing controversial issues in the studies of medicine and health care. The Sociomedical Institute researches within the fields of social studies, humanities, and medical sciences.