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{{Infobox
| name                = Archipelag-Archipelago Festival, Nova Gorica and Gorizia
| local name          = Festival Arhipelag-Archipelago, Nova Gorica in Gorizia
| street address      = KUD Krea, Vojkova 54, SI-5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| email               = arhipelag.go@gmail.com
| street address      = Prologo, Via Graziado Isaia, Ascoli, 8/13, I-4170 Gorizia, Italy
| telephone           = 39 04 813 2436
| email               = info@prologoart.it
| website             = http://www.arhipelag.org
| proprietor          = KUD Krea and Prologo
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Gorazd Prinčič 
| role                = Co-Artistic Director
| telephone           = 386 (0) 31 283381
}}{{Contact
| name                = Jernej Humar 
| role                = Co-Artistic Director
| telephone           = 386 (0) 40 593568
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Organised by KUD Limb from Nova Gorica, [[Archipelag-Archipelago Festival, Nova Gorica and Gorizia]] aims to take an active part in the political and artistic discourse by connecting contemporary artists from both Goricas (the Slovene Nova Gorica and the Italian Gorizia) who draw into their company also artists from other countries with the purpose of overcoming the borders in every aspect. Featured for the first time in [[Established::2005]], the festival has very spontaneous character and it is presented occasionally &ndash; further editions were realised in 2006 and 2008. In 2009, the festival was not performed. 

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==History==
Similar interventions date already back to the 1960s, when the Associazione Provinciale Artisti (Provincial Artists Association) and later the Group 2xGO organised cross border exhibitions and thus contributed to the dialogue and confrontation in the then-culturally and politically divided environment of Italy and Yugoslavia. 

The first festival was organised by the Slovenian association KREA and the Italian association PROLOGO. After a year pause, the Arhipelag was in 2008 organised by the KUD Limb in collaboration with the Association of Arts Coronini (Šempeter pri Gorici), Cultural association and fusion point, Equilibri, Arterrate active in Gorizia and Nova Gorica. 


==About==
The Arhipelag presents performances, visual artworks and concerts as well as animation, film and multimedia. It is not limited to any specific theme, it is open to all topics and encourages various forms of artistic expression. Its motto is: "Only the act of creating and the need to express artists ideas without compromise count." 

The festival welcomes artists by a call for entries usually in the middle of the year, out of which the organiser selected more than 100 artists in 2006. In 2008, the number reduced to just 59 artists. 

The third edition of the festival was inaugurated by [[Jurij Krpan], the director of [[Kapelica Gallery]] from Ljubljana. Artists from nine countries (Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Croatia, Serbia, Turkey, New Zealand, and Austria) exhibited their works including established Slovenian artists of the young generation as [[Anja Medved]], [[BridA]] (Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica), [[Damijan Karcina]], [[Gorazd Krnc]], [[Narvika Bovcon and Aleš Vaupotič]], [[Sebastjan Leban and Staš Kleindienst]] and [[Katarina Toman]]. The festival was realised on six locations on both sides of the border: in [[France Bevk Public Library Nova Gorica]], in [[Kromberk Castle]] and the castle park, in the [[Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica|SNT Nova Gorica]], in Villa Bartolomei and in the Salcano Artatelier Bernot in Gorizia.

[[Category:Festivals]]
[[Category:Multidisciplinary festivals]]

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