Latest Entries

From Culture.si
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre

updated 2 days ago


Cankarjev dom Cultural and Congress Centre 2013 01.jpgCankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre with a monument to Ivan Cankar (by Slavko Tihec) on the main platform, 2013. The centre was designed by Slovenian architect Edvard Ravnikar in 1977, and constructed in the early 1980s.

Cankarjev dom (CD) in Ljubljana is the country's largest cultural and congress centre, and one of the largest in the Balkan and SEE region. It provides around 36,000 square metres of space, and holds over 1,200 events annually. CD opened in 1980 and was the last part of the Revolution Square (Trg revolucije) complex to be completed. Like the rest of the complex, it was designed by renowned Slovenian architect Edvard Ravnikar, who had been a student of Jože Plečnik and, briefly, Le Corbusier in the late 1930s.

In common with most state-funded national cultural centres elsewhere in the world, CD provides a space for almost all major art forms, with a particular emphasis on music and the performing arts. It is also Slovenia's premier conference and convention centre.

Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory

updated 2 days ago


Set up in the mid-1990s, Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory has been bringing together technology, art, science and civil society ever since. As such, it is not only a place where hackers, researchers and artists meet, but also a platform for reflecting and modifying culture through the lens of politics, as generated by the developments in communications technologies.

Municipality of Hrastnik

updated 3 days ago


The Municipality of Hrastnik covers a total area of 59 square kilometres and has a population of 9,188 (STAT January 2018) (10,096 people according to the 2002 Census), living in 19 settlements.

The Social Activities and Economic Department of Hrastnik Municipality is responsible for social and health care, education and sports, as well as for public culture and cultural heritage preservation.

Week of Slovenian Drama

updated 2 days ago


Organised annually by the Prešeren Theatre Kranj since 1971, the prestigious theatre festival Week of Slovenian Drama presents the most successful performances based on a Slovene play or text and staged in the last season by Slovene theatres. The festival, which usually runs for nearly 2 weeks, concludes with a ceremony at which several awards are bestowed. The Grum Award is given for the best original Slovene play and the Award for a young playwright is given to the best play written by a young Slovene playwright. The Grün-Filipič Award is awarded for excellence in dramaturgy. Two awards are given for the best staging of a Slovene play appearing at the festival: the Šeligo Award, decided on by an expert jury, and the Audience Award, voted for by the festival audience.

Culture of Slovenia

updated 2 days ago



Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre

updated 3 days ago


The Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre Society was established in 1996 with a purpose to stage chamber and theatre music works from all periods, especially ones from Baroque and modern works. Its members are mostly famous Slovenian musicians and actors, such as Mirjam Kalin, Andrej Debevc, Tomaž Habe, Marko Hribernik and Andrej Misson.

TRESK Festival

updated 2 days ago


Under the auspices of Radio Študent, The TRESK Festival has been presenting a confrontation of music and publishing for fifteen years. Through visual competitions, discussions, concerts, and club events, TRESK addresses the independent music scene and weaves a social network of musicians, visual creators, publishers, distributors, organizers, media, traders, and, last but not least, supporters and listeners.

MENT Ljubljana

updated 2 days ago


Established in 2015, MENT Ljubljana is an international music showcase festival taking place at various Ljubljana venues beginning of February. It is comprised of a series of music acts (fresh artists joined by established head-liners), a conference programme dealing with the intricacies of music businesses, and additional events such as exhibitions or workshops on new art and media technologies. Moreover, MENT is a year-long project intended to help Slovene musicians and music professionals with promotion and networking. To this end, MENT enlists and accompanies them to other showcase festivals.

Slovene People’s Theatre (SLG) Celje

updated 48 minutes ago


Druga preteklost-foto Uros Hocevar-kolektiff UH12400 1.jpgStage adaptation of Vinko Möderndorfer's novel A Second Past, directed by Luka Marcen, Slovene People’s Theatre (SLG) Celje 2023. Photo: Uroš Hočevar

The Slovene People’s Theatre (SLG) Celje (Slovensko ljudsko gledališče Celje) was founded by Municipality of Celje in 1950 as a professional theatre company with resident artistic and technical crew, and agile administration. The artistic team consists of app. twenty resident actors, a dramaturg, a speech adviser, and the artistic director. In all, the theatre team includes 70 employees.

Annually, it produces up to 6 new productions, one of them dedicated to young audience, and present over 220 performances at home and on tours in Slovenia and internationally, for about 60,000 spectators. SLG Celje remains firmly committed to meeting and exceeding the audiences’ expectations and creating contemporary theatre of highest quality and artistic excellence.

Since 1992, the theatre organizes a yearly festival Days of Comedy and a biennial public call for a Gracious Comedy Quill Award to an original Slovenian comedy text.

KAMERAT Labour Film Festival

updated 2 weeks ago


Kamerat6.jpgScreening of the film at the KAMERAT Labour Film Festival.

KAMERAT Labour Film Festival is the first and the only labor film festival in Slovenia and among the few around the world. Friends of culture, film, and dignified, decent work have been inspired by the 1934 workers’ strike in the Slovenian city of Hrastnik, when workers from across sectors jointly demanded and achieved better working conditions. It is no coincidence that the festival takes place on the anniversary of the strike when the local community celebrates solidarity, comradeship, and the importance of organizing for common goals. The festival, named after how workers in the mine used to call each other (kamerat means comrade), calls out not only a fellow worker but much more: from comradeship and solidarity to organizing for common goals – values that are nowadays pushed aside.

The unique features of the festival are also its venues in a no longer operational coal mine – film projections take place in the old compressor station as well as in the tunnel, 40 meters underground. These locations add to the festival’s distinctive value, bringing workers’ films to spaces where generations of workers labored for decades and that continue to impress themselves on visitors.

The purpose of the KAMERAT is to use film as a mode of social criticism to investigate the position of workers at the crossroads of history and the future, changing concepts of work, and workers’ rights in various social, economic, and technological contexts. These topics are further explored through accompanying round tables, conversations with international and local workers in art, workshops, exhibitions, and educational events. As such, the festival brings together and joins forces with trade unions, movements, activists, artists, and other workers in the field of culture.

Plakat 2023.jpgPoster for the KAMERAT Labour Film Festival in 2023. Author: Aljaž Košir

... further results