Dance performance The Lost Songs at Drugajanje Festival, Maribor 2022. Author: Janez Klenovšek
The Drugajanje Festival is an annual festival initiated in 2002, co-organised by the Bunker Institute and taking place in Maribor, Celje, Ptuj, Ljutomer, Kranj, Ljubljana and other towns across Slovenia. The festival was originally conceived as a response to the gap in the supply of cultural content for youth in the city of Maribor and aims to affirm contemporary dance and performing arts, especially among teenage audiences, with a programme of performances, workshops and lectures.
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 were the first ones to turn this annual celebration of culture into a genuinely cross-border endeavour. Their 2025 ECoC programme explored the concept of borders from multiple dimensions under the slogan “Go! Borderless” and lasted from 8 February to 5 December when the title of European Capital of Culture was handed from Nova Gorica, Gorizia and Chemnitz to the cities of Trenčín (Slovakia) and Oulu (Finland).
Nova Gorica municipal building with light installations during R.o.R festival
Read up on how the regional animated film industry is driving discussions around environmentally sustainable practices and funding mechanisms that will enable the industry to grow.
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.
Established in 2007, the BUMfest International Percussion Festival stands as the sole Slovenian percussion music festival. Held in Žalec, the festival boasts a consistently successful and regularly sold-out musical programme that showcases a diverse range of percussion and drumming projects, often incorporating elements of theatre, dance, humour and sound experimentation. In addition to the evening concerts, the festival includes music workshops, matinee performances for schoolchildren, exhibitions and more.
