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ZEBRA Film Festival

The International Animation Film Festival ZEBRA, created and hosted by the team of SHOTS Film Festival, is based in the charming medieval historic town of Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia. The festival will be holding its seventh edition on July 27th, 2024.

The team members of the ZEBRA Film Festival felt the need to create a place and a film festival that would cherish beautiful animated films suited for children, kids, teens, adults, and their inner child. The festival's goal is to show films to a young audience, encouraging them through these films and hopefully giving them a new perspective on the world through different stories.

The festival, with no entrance fee, takes place in the city center of Slovenj Gradec and lasts a whole day, from 12:00 to 24:00. There are five different venues located in amazing places within different institutions: The Museum, The Art Gallery, The Pop Up Store, and the open venue in the city center. Visitors receive the Zebra Map, specially created for the festival, to help them navigate the five different festival venues throughout the day.

ZEBRA offers various activities throughout the day. Visitors are invited to attend different activities and workshops in the city center, grab a slice of delicious festival-special pizza and popcorn, and walk to different venues. There is no hurry to catch films, as the film program is repeated every 30 minutes.

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An evening venue of the ZEBRA festival in the central town square of Slovenj Gradec. Author: Aljaž Uršej

Shots International Short Film Festival

Shots International Short Film Festival was launched in 2016 in Slovenj Gradec, a town in northern Slovenia, by a young and ambitious team of film, media, and tourism professionals. It screens a diverse program of short films from all over the world on three evenings at the Rotenturn courtyard open-air venue in the center of the town. The applications for eligible films are usually open from August until May.

Shots International Short Film Festival, Rotenturn Castle in Slovenj Gradec, 2022. Photo: Nika Hölcl

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Shots International Short Film Festival, Rotenturn Castle in Slovenj Gradec, 2022. Photo: Nika Hölcl

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Austria Vienna Kunsthalle Wien

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Aleksandra Domanović will be opening her solo exhibition on intersections of technology, history and culture, considering the way that they shape our understanding of identity and contemporary society. Supported by Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA).
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Serbia Čačak Kulturni centar Čačak,National Museum Čačak

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The 6th international PrintMaking Biennial Čačak will be hosting Slovenia as the main guest country in the scope of the FOCUS-SLOVENIA project. The featured Slovene artists are the Laibach group, Marko Šajn, David Kucler, Mitja Stanek, Neža Jurman, Mladen Stropnik, Oliver Pilić, and Teodor Lovrenčić. The biennial is supported by Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Belgrade.
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29 Sep 2024

Austria Gmunden Kunstquartier Stadtgarten

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This year's Bioregional Assembly Gmunden will feature Slovenian collective Krater, represented by Andrej Koruza, Gaja Mežnarič Osole, and Danica Sretenović, with a projection of the film "Feral Practices", performative lecture "Table of Curiosities" and individual Krater's Feral Coaching sessions.

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Netherlands Doetinchem Cafe de Engelenbak

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A concert by Hellcats, an all female metal band.
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Albania Shkodër Ritual Piano Improvisation Festival

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A live performance by pianist Kaja Draksler.
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Italy Milan Teatro Dal Verme

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A live performance by the internationally renowned cellist Luka Šulić, as part of his "Life Tour".

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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

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Fields of Experimental Music in Slovenia

Luka T. Zagoričnik

Let's take a ride on the term experimental music, which currently mainly defines certain more fringe musical practices, across the expanses of various musical plains, styles and genres. We can apply this (overly) broad term to designate the varied creative simmering in certain segments of the present-day Slovenian music scene. A scene that spans the realms of electro-acoustic music, musique concrète, experimental music in the context of modern classical music, free improvisation, experimental electronic music and sound art as well as their associated present-day trends. This scene is diverse and exceptionally agile. It has developed a strong infrastructure for itself (festivals, concert series, labels, international networks) and exists in the space between self-organising and DIY models and institutional environments.

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Žarkolom, Tadej Droljc at Lunchmeat Festival, 2020

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