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Cultural diplomacy between Austria and Slovenia
AUTHOR / Pia Nikolič
The Austrian Cultural Forum has been known under this name since 2001 and is the successor of the Department of Culture at the Austrian Consulary General, founded in 1990. Also under its auspices is the Austrian library in Maribor. Both…
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Cultural diplomacy between Austria and Slovenia
AUTHOR / Pia Nikolič
The Austrian Cultural Forum has been known under this name since 2001 and is the successor of the Department of Culture at the Austrian Consulary General, founded in 1990. Also under its auspices is the Austrian library in Maribor. Both…
Film
Festival of Slovenian Film Portorož
AUTHOR / Pia Nikolič, Anže Sobočan
This year’s iteration of the Festival of Slovenian Film has added the word “Portorož” to its official name to quash the rumours and speculations that the festival would be better off elsewhere. Its not-so-new director Bojan Labović, however, went down…
Film
Sarajevo Film Festival
AUTHOR / Anže Sobočan
The 28th edition of the Sarajevo film festival took place in mid-august. There were over 50 films in the competition program, spanning from feature, documentarie, animated and short films. We spoke with two Slovenian directors who’s films were in the…
Literature
Days of Poetry and Wine 2022
AUTHOR / Sara Strajnar
“Poetry lives in the heart of many people, and has a loyal and growing audience here, in Slovenia. It connects people and sensitizes them to great challenges ahead.” With these words, programme director Aleš Šteger, who has led the festival…
Literature
Inequality Is Also Reflected In Literature
AUTHOR / Mirt Bezlaj
A former student of comparative literature and literary theory at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, she is currently writing a doctoral dissertation on Slovenian women's post-war literature at Charles University in Prague. She is exploring how the tectonic shift…
Architecture
Building Cooperative Centers, Building Communities
AUTHOR / Nuša Zupanc
Hashim Sarkis, a Lebanese architect and Dean of the Department of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT, set the question “How will we live together?” as the theme of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale already…
Visual arts
Interview with Artist Ana Sneeringer
AUTHOR / Nejc Krevs
Ana Sneeringer is a Slovenian artist residing in Montgomery AL, USA. Having started her career in documentary journalism as the director of an environmental television station, Ana’s experiences across Jordan, Russia, the USA, The Dominican Republic, The Netherlands, and India…
Visual arts
A Curator’s Working Place
AUTHOR / Pia Prezelj
Igor Zabel developed an art history that he rejuvenated, paying attention to the wider context, says Urška Jurman from the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory.
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New Programme Means better Budgets and Opportunities
AUTHOR / Patricija Maličev
Mateja Lazar on Motovila and Creative Europe Desk Slovenia (CED Slovenia): What they are, and why they are better known abroad than here at home.
Multidisciplinary
Slovenian Cultural and Creative Workers: from Feelings to Facts!
AUTHOR / Eva Matjaž
Between 17 March and 11 April 2022, the fourth survey in a little over two years examining the working and living conditions of workers in the Slovenian cultural and creative sectors was carried out. The sample comprised 1,005 workers. As…