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La fabrique des résidences
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The art residency programme La fabrique des résidences was established in 2025 by Ljubljana, UNESCO City of literature in collaboration with the French Institute in Slovenia and the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée in Angoulême. The aim of the programme is to offer residency opportunities to the comic book creators who are often excluded from literature-related open calls and to strengthen cooperation between Ljubljana and Angoulême as the two Cities of Literature.
Kamnik Cultural AiR Programme
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Kamnik Cultural AiR Programme was established in 2020 in Mekinje Monastery in the city of Kamnik. In 2016, the Ursuline sisters donated the Mekinje Monastery to the Municipality of Kamnik. Over the course of five years, 19 rooms were established within the monastery, enabling the development of art residency programmes.
ELIAS Art Residency
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ELIAS 2069, established in 2022, is an interdisciplinary art and research institute located in a renovated former village school in the village Mohorje. The space functions simultaneously as an art residence, an educational platform and a long-term experimental project dedicated to developing new cultural, ecological and social imaginaries.
Pr’ Lenart Homestead
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Pr’ Lenart Homestead, located in the heart of the Polhov Gradec Dolomites Landscape Park, was declared a cultural monument in 2005 due to its rich ethnological and historical heritage. The homestead runs a diverse cultural programme and offers short-term arts residencies to artists, researchers and cultural workers from a wide range of artistic fields. The residencies offer them the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of how independent cultural spaces operate outside urban centres, to connect and collaborate with local communities, to develop projects and to gain new perspectives on contemporary cultural production.
ART CIRCLE International Visual Arts Festival
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ART CIRCLE International Visual Arts Festival was founded in 2011 in the Goriška region and was from the outset conceived as a visual arts festival and art residency programme, connecting artistic creation with the local environment, cultural heritage and international collaboration. It gradually evolved into an international platform hosting artists from numerous countries. A distinctive feature of the festival is the concept of “cultural embassies”, specific residencies dedicated to individual countries, developed in collaboration with diplomatic representations, cultural institutions and other partners.
Kontrastika
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Kontrastika is an awarded design studio offering a range of services, such as brand building, content creation, user interface design, print and packaging design, textile design, illustration and animated video. Their past projects include the dragon mascot Dragomir the Great for the series of Ljubljana souvenirs, ecological slippers CopaCopa and Slovenian state portal eUprava. In addition to Slovenian clients, the studio also works with international clients from four continents.
Plečnik Auditorium
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The renowned Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik built the auditorium in the Tivoli park in 1933. The auditorium was originally intended as a venue for summer theatre performances and included a stage, stands for the visitors and a fountain at the top of the stands. The venue was later repurposed as a summer cinema and, even later, as an outdoor disco club. In the 1970s, most of the activities at the venue came to a halt. The fountain was moved to Ljubljana’s Ribji trg (“Fish Square”).
Kosovel Homestead
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Kosovel Homestead in the village of Tomaj (situated in the Slovenian Karst region) was built in the beginning of the 1920s by the teacher Anton Kosovel after he was made redundant by the Italian government and had to move out of his previous apartment. This is also the house where Anton’s son, the renowned avantgarde poet Srečko Kosovel, died on 27th May 1926, when he was only 22 years old. However, Srečko wasn’t the only significant member of the Kosovel family: his older brother Stano, for instance, was an important journalist and editor at the newspaper Jutro, while his sister Karmela was a pianist who studied in Trieste and Munich. Kosovel Homestead was also an important meeting place for numerous intellectuals of that time.
Embassy of the Republic of Albania in Slovenia
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The Embassy of the Republic of Albania in Slovenia provides consular, economical and cultural services. Consular affairs consist of providing information and assistance to Albanian citizens residing in or visiting Slovenia and visa services.
The embassy supports cultural links between Albania and Slovenia. The Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and the Government of the Republic of Albania on Cooperation in the Fields of Education, Culture and Science was signed in Tirana in 1994, while the Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and Council of Ministers of the Republic of Albania was signed in 2005.
Rafut Park
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The Rafut Park is a park on Pristava near Nova Gorica. In the beginning of the 20th century, the previous owners of the park sold its eastern part to Anton Laščak, who had previously worked as a royal court architect. As a consequence, Laščak built a villa in the neo-oriental style and carefully designed its surroundings, planting numerous exotic plants such as cork oak, cypresses, false cypresses, cedars, sequoias, bamboo, and more. Many of the plants are still present in the park today. The western part of the park came into the ownership of the Gorizian Hribar family who preserved a few exceptional trees and rare exotic plants as well.
In 2025, as part of the European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica - Gorizia, the experience of the Rafut Park was enhanced by the Symfo mobile app, created in collaboration by the Dresden Symphony Orchestra. Using the app, the visitors can transform the park into an interactive soundscape, where the “tree orchestra” performs a forest symphony.