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Sound Disobedience

Neža Naglič and Jošt Drašler at the Sound Disobedience festival in 2012

Launched in 2012, the music series Sound Disobedience (in Slovenian, Neposlušno) describes its creed as an aim to facilitate conditions for music risk-taking and improvisation. It was founded by Sploh Institute, which has been working on improvised music and theatre performing arts production since 1999. By way of concerts, workshops, lectures, and other forms of communicating musical ideas and ideas about music, Sound Disobedience annually creates an international programme, which is co-produced by the Španski borci Culture Centre.

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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, was held on 8 February, the Slovenian cultural holiday.

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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.

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Week of Slovenian Drama

Photo of the author's project, based on the motifs of Slovenian folk songs, titled Women in dough, directed by Živa Bizovičar, Slovenian National Theatre Drama Ljubljana. The play was honored with the Šeligo Award at the Week of Slovenian Drama in 2023. Photo: Peter Uhan

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 Slovenian text and staged in the last season by Slovenian or foreign theatres. The festival, which runs for nearly 2 weeks, concludes with an awards ceremony. Among the bestowed awards are two distinguished ones supporting playwriting, the Slavko Grum Award for the best new Slovenian play and the Young Playwright Award, as well as the Grün-Filipič Award for excellence in dramaturgy. In addition, two awards are given for the best performances at the festival: the Šeligo Award, decided by an expert jury, and the Audience Award, voted by the festival audience.

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Slovenian Art Abroad 2010–2024

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Czech Republic Broumov Educational and Cultural Center Broumov
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Six illustrators, including Matija Medved, create one artwork each for the final exhibition, work on individual projects, and engage with the local community as part of a residency at Broumov Monastery. Organized in collaboration with LUSTR, Czech Illustrators, and the Educational and Cultural Center Broumov.
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Croatia Zagreb Bogdan Ogrizović Library and Reading Room
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The exhibition "Out of context" by the Slovenian visual artist and author Samira Kentrić, focusing on the position of women in Western society and other social events. Supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Zagreb.
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28 May 2025

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 Paris Galerie - Cité internationale des arts
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Tjaša Črnigoj, Slovenian theatre director participates together with Tijana Todorović at the exhibition "D'ici 60 ans: relayer", on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Cité internationale des arts, co-curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Arts and Culture Programme Manager at the Cité internationale des arts. Promoted by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Paris.

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France Paris Centquatre-Paris
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Lucija Rosc presents her photo work the "Heirloom" and Ana Zibelnik together with Jakob Ganslmeier (Germany) the work "Bereitschaft". Promoted by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Paris. at the Circulations Festival of Young European Photography
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United Arab Emirates Dubai Dubai Opera
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Edward Clug’s innovative reinterpretation of Carl Orff’s "Carmina Burana" in a modern ballet, performed by the ballet ensemble of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor.

Festivals

Festivals in Slovenia

Festivals are up and running!

Our graphic calendar of festivals provides an attractive overview of festivals by discipline and date.

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. In 2019, the number of festivals 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
Sad sam almost, performed by Matija Ferlin at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, produced by Emanat Institute, 2009
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Maribor, designed by Styria arhitektura d.o.o.
Leonce and Lena by Bárka Theatre, Maribor Theatre Festival, 2010.
Turjak Castle view from the village
A small stable in the basement of France Bevk Homestead, suitable for a few domestic animals, 2005
Postojna Cave, White chamber, 2007