Latest Entries
Mladifest
updated 5 minutes ago
The local summer festival Mladifest was launched in 1995 and is currently organised by the Student Club Sežana, with its main partners being theKosovel Culture House Sežana and MC Podlaga. It is mostly held at different outside venues around the town of Sežana and has an extensive and very diverse programme that addresses the whole of the local community, though mostly it is aimed at the younger generations.
TRESK Festival
updated 12 minutes in the future
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.
Sound Disobedience
updated 18 minutes ago
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. Founded by Sploh Institute, which has been working on improvised music and theatre performing arts production since 1999, the series follows on the heels of the institute's other successful projects of recent years, the Con-Fine Aperto concert series and the regular workshop called Search and Reflect (in Slovenian: RR–Raziskava, refleksija). The festival is an extension of both of these projects, presenting the two in a somewhat condensed form.
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.
DOKUDOC International Documentary Film Festival
updated 2 seconds in the future
DOKUDOC International Documentary Film Festival, Sodni stolp (Judgement Tower), 2016.
DOKUDOC International Documentary Film Festival taking place in the medieval Judgement Tower in Maribor
DOKUDOC International Documentary Film Festival is a mostly Slovenian documentary focused festival, established in 2012. The main venue is the so called Judgement Tower, an old tower from 14th century, located in the city centre, just along the Drava river. Other occasional venues are the Gustaf Hall, Pekarna, Vetrinjski dvor, and (the now defunct) Kino Udarnik Maribor. The call for eligible films is usually open from May till August.
International awards
updated 34 minutes ago
Culture.si lists a selection of significant international awards. Please let us know about important awards we might have overlooked.
Snowdrops and Primroses Festival
updated 20 minutes ago
Festival of Slovenian Jazz Creativity Snowdrops and Primroses in Cankarjev dom, 2020.
The Snowdrops and Primroses Festival, taking place annually in Club Cankarjev dom, is dedicated to Slovenian jazz creativity and reflects the ongoing evolution of composition, methodology, and performance of new music, both locally and internationally, regardless of the location of the leading protagonists' established domicile. Although started with a view to providing a yearly insight into the evolving Slovenian jazz scene, the organizers had to acknowledge the fact that the country’s output is deeply embedded in international jazz currents. Recognizing this important feature, the festival seeks to provide a platform for creative processes that transcend both conceptual and territorial boundaries. Moreover, Snowdrops and Primroses Festival is not a festival of newcomers; it’s only the concepts and the compositions that are fresh.
Creative Jazz Clinic Velenje
updated 22 minutes ago
Creative Jazz Clinic Velenje is a series of workshops and masterclasses started in 2016 by Slovenian musician, teacher and Prešeren Award recipient Jure Pukl, who was raised in the town and is widely regarded as one of the best young saxophonists in the world. The huge roster of musicians with whom he has collaborated over the last two decades means that Pukl has been able to attract many top names from the world of jazz to teach and perform at the clinic, which generally takes places over five days at the end of February.
Although he has lived in New York City since 2013, Pukl continues to take a keen interest in the jazz scene in his homeland, and was also instrumental in reviving the Max Club Jazz Festival in 2012 after a hiatus of ten years.
Tolminator Festival
updated 8 minutes ago
The new festival Tolminator builds on the tradition of metal festivals in Tolmin, which has long been considered one of the epicentres of the European metal scene, attracting thousands of people from all over the world. Limiting its capacity to 5000 visitors, Tolminator brings a new focus on fans with the aim to provide a unique festival experience in the most spectacular festival location in Europe.
Beer and Flower Festival
updated 19 hours ago
The Gibonni band performance at the Beer and Flower Festival in the old town center of Laško, 2016
Beer and Flowers festival that started in the year 1964 is one of the biggest festival events in Slovenia with a long tradition. Every July the town of Laško in Savinja Region (Eastern Slovenia), with the hops-growing tradition, presents all genres of music, from brass music to blues, and introduces several international guests.
During five decades the festival has featured around 1,000 music bands and individual performers, among them numerous ethnic/world music groups, local brass bands, artists as well as floral professionals. The rich summertime programme and the high-quality Laško beer Zlatorog has attracted several million visitors, and its popularity is growing.
Lent Festival
updated 3 days ago
Each June, the medieval Lent district along the Drava River, the historic squares, picturesque streets of the Old Town, and even the mighty city park emerge as festival venues bursting with art, culture, and creativity. With thirty years of tradition, Lent Festival is one of the oldest and largest open-air festivals in Central Europe. Every year, it welcomes about two hundred thousand visitors; almost every fourth Slovene has visited it at least once. It celebrates art, culture, and creativity of all genres for all generations, providing a space for discovery, learning, meeting, and coexisting in a variety of cultures. For the thirtieth time, the festival will transform the city into a giant stage and a vibrant meeting point for artistic expressions. Lent is a member of the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA) and the Association of Slovene Festivals (SloFA).
