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Days of Ethnographic Film

First introduced in 2007, the international Days of Ethnographic Film (DEF) are organised in a joint venture by the Slovene Ethnological Society and the Scientific Research Centre (ZRC SAZU), Slovene Academy of Science and Arts. The festival aims to bring ethnographic film, with its curious intersection of scientific research and video media, to a wider public of both professionally and casually interested viewers. Up to 2015 the festival ran annualy, now it is organised as an biennial event, with film seminars in the in-between years. DEF is a member of CAFFE, a network for coordinating anthropological film festivals in Europe.

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European Capital of Culture

Nova Gorica–Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025

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 are the first ones to turn this annual celebration of culture into a genuinely cross-border endeavour. Based on these cities' specific political, cultural and geographical context, their 2025 ECoC programme explores the concept of borders from multiple dimensions under the slogan “Go! Borderless”.

The opening event From Station to Station will take place on the Slovenian cultural holiday on 8 February.

Light markings GO!2025

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GO2025 The City Yet to Become

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.

Mardi Gras

Kurentovanje

Kurent or Korant, the most known and popular traditional carnival character in Slovenia, Kurentovanje, Ptuj 2023. Author: Stanko Vozel

The masked rite of spring known as Kurentovanje has been held since 1960, every February for 10 days leading up to Shrove Tuesday. It is the most popular Mardi Gras celebration in Slovenia, with most of the festivities centered in Ptuj, Slovenia's oldest town, which has hosted Kurentovanje for around six decades. Today the programme also includes several international groups.

The Carnival was admitted into the European Federation of Carnival Cities in 1991. In 2017, the Door-to-door rounds of the Kurent were inscribed on the UNESCO representative list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

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Slovene art abroad 2010 – 2024

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Germany Berlin Staadsballet Berlin
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Ein Sommernachtstraum: a ballet by Edward Clug, inspired by William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. With music by Milko Lazar.
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France Grenoble Esplanade of the Grenoble Museum
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Cyanometer, the new media installation by Martin Bricelj Baraga. Promoted by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Paris.
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Austria Vienna Unteres Belvedere
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"The World in Colours. Slovenian Painting 1848-1918", selected Slovenian painting of the period at the biggest exhibition of Slovenian art in Vienna to date, coorganised by National Gallery of Slovenia in collaboration with Belvedere Museum. Promoted by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Vienna.

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25 Feb 2025

United Kingdom London Rudolf Steiner House
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The Wisdom of Fairy Tales, talk with Marko Pogačnik and the launch of his new book "Grimm's Fairy Tales Decoded", offering a fresh perspective on the symbolic meanings and spiritual insights. Supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in London.
13 Apr 2025

Austria St. Johann im Rosental/Šentjanž v Rožu K&K Center
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Elder's Tale , produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre,

Festivals

Festivals in Slovenia

Festivals are up and running!

Our graphic calendar of festivals shows 168 festivals in 2024.

Explore all the upcoming festivals at the interactive Festivals in Slovenia infographic.

The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape.

Images

Museum of Modern Art is the central museum and gallery of the Slovenian art works from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Female nude, by Zdenko Kalin and Echo, by Karl Putrih.
The Stroj performing at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2014
Site-specific installation in the forest at the Floating Castle Festival in the vicinity of Snežnik Castle, 2015
The Čaplja service building at the Nordic Centre Planica designed by the STVAR architects, 2016
Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011
Pocar Homestead, Mojstrana main dwelling from the outside, built in 1775
The tank from the Ten-Day War in Slovenia (1991) in front of the National Museum of Contemporary History. On the eve of the International Women's Day in 2012 it was sprayed pink by the unknown activists and became a new popular landmark in Ljubljana. It is owned by the Military Museum of Slovenian Armed Forces and was transferred to the Park of Military History Pivka only a few months after the action. The pink paint was removed.
A Place under the Sun by students of the Chair of Textile and Fashion Design at the Department of Textiles of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Lighting Guerrilla Festival, 2011