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| festival dates    = 4.2.2015 - 6.2.2015, 3.2.2016 - 5.2.2016
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| festival dates    = 4.2.2015 - 6.2.2015, 3.2.2016 - 5.2.2016, 1.2.2017 - 3.2.2017, 31.1.2018 - 2.2.2018, 30.1.2019 - 1.2.2019, 5.2.2020 - 7.2.2020, 3.6.2021 – 11.6.2021, 8.6.2022 – 10.6.2022, 29.03.2023 - 31.03.2023, 21.02.2024 - 24.02.2024
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   | name        = Matjaž Manček
 
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Established in [[established::2015]], [[MENT Ljubljana]] is an international music showcase festival taking place at various Ljubljana venues. Produced by [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]] in collaboration with [[SIGIC, Slovene Music Information Centre]] and the ''Multipraktik'' collective, MENT is comprised of a series of music acts, a conference programme dealing with the intricacies of music businesses and additional events such as workshops on new art and media technologies.  
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Established in [[established::2015]], [[MENT Ljubljana]] is an international music showcase festival taking place at various Ljubljana venues beginning of February. It is comprised of a series of music acts (fresh artists joined by established head-liners), a conference programme dealing with the intricacies of music businesses, and additional events such as exhibitions or workshops on new art and media technologies. Moreover, MENT is a year-long project intended to help Slovene musicians and music professionals with promotion and networking. To this end, MENT enlists and accompanies them to other showcase festivals.
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Yet, MENT is also a year-long project meant to help Slovenian musicians and music professionals with promotion and networking, and is for example enlisting and accompanying them to other showcase festivals.
 
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==The agenda==
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==Mission and strategy==
  
MENT was set up foremost to be a platform for improving the ways in which Slovenian music scene relates with the international music businesses circuit. As such, it is working to equip those active in this field in Slovenia with the necessary understanding and skills for optimally crafting their careers and offering them various networking opportunities. This is served not only at the time of the festival, but also through a year-long set of activities. An example of this is a workshops series co-organized with [[SIGIC, Slovene Music Information Centre|SIGIC]], which has featured foreign mentors like Sanjin Đukić (Los Angeles Agency, HR), Login Kočiški (Password Agency, MK) and Hannes Tschürtz (INK Music, AT).
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MENT was set up foremost to be a platform for improving the ways in which the Slovene music scene relates with the international music business circuit. As such, it works to equip those active in this field in Slovenia with the necessary understanding and skills for optimally crafting their careers as well as offers various networking opportunities. This mission is served not only through the festival, but through activities year-round. For example, a workshop series co-organised with [[SIGIC, Slovene Music Information Centre|SIGIC]], which has featured foreign mentors like Sanjin Đukić (Los Angeles Agency, HR), Login Kočiški (Password Agency, MK), and Hannes Tschürtz (INK Music, AT). Last but not least, MENT acquaints the Slovene audiences with exceptional, if slightly less recognised, musicians from around Europe as well as from the USA.
  
Last but not least, MENT is presenting exceptional, if slightly less recognised musicians from around Europe, and occasionally elsewhere as well, to Slovenian audiences.  
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MENT Ljubljana is produced by [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]] and co-produced by [[SIGIC, Slovene Music Information Centre]]. In 2017 it won the prestigious European Festival Award in two categories: The Best Indoor Festival and The Best Small Festival. [[MENT Ljubljana]] is a member of the ''Innovation Network of European Showcases'' (INES), a platform led by GET a GIG GmbH (DE).
  
===Locations===
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===Venues===
  
The locations of the festival happenings are the [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]] and its adjacent hotel, the clubs in [[Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone]] ([[Klub Menza pri koritu]], [[Klub Channel Zero]], [[Gala Hala]], [[Klub Gromka]]), the [[Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station]], the cafeteria of [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]] and, for the purposes of film screenings, also the [[Kinodvor Cinema]].
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Festival happenings take place at the [[Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture]] and the adjacent M Hotel, the clubs in [[Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone]] ([[Klub Menza pri koritu]], [[Klub Channel Zero]], [[Gala Hala]], [[Klub Gromka]]), the [[Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station]], [[Klub K4]], [[Pritličje]], the [[DobraVaga]] gallery, the cafeteria of the [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]], and also [[Kinodvor Cinema]] for film screenings.
  
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===Music programme===
 
===Music programme===
  
The showcase usually features about 50 musicians and bends invited from all over Europe, with a somewhat special bias made on the Balkans and the Baltic and some additional guests coming from the USA.  
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The showcase usually presents about 50 musicians and bands invited from all over Europe, with a somewhat special bias toward the Balkans and the Baltic and some additional guests coming from the USA.  
  
A significant portion of the acts are local artists of a varies musical persuasions, from big bands and rock acts to techno producers. Some of them are [[Jardier]], [[Your Gay Thoughts]], [[Werefox]], [[The Canyon Observer]], [[Koala Voice]], [[Nina Bulatovix]], [[It's Everyone Else]], [[Moveknowledgement]], [[Štefan Kovač Marko Banda|ŠKM Banda]] and [[Ludovik Material]].
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A significant portion of the acts are local artists of varied musical persuasions, from big bands and rock acts to techno producers. Some of them are [[Jardier]], [[Your Gay Thoughts]], [[Werefox]], [[The Canyon Observer]], [[Koala Voice]], [[Nina Bulatovix]], [[It's Everyone Else]], [[Moveknowledgement]], [[Štefan Kovač Marko Banda|ŠKM Banda]], and [[Ludovik Material]].
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{{Image|Ment Ljubljana 2015 New Wave Syria.jpg}}
  
Coming from abroad are Miki Solus (HR), Repetitor (RS), Lord Raja (USA), Manu Delago Handmade (AT), Elektro Guzzi (AT), Erotic Market (FR), Anton Maskeliade (RU), Lovely Quinces (HR) and Shigeto (US). These relatively fresh acts are also joined by established festival head-liners like Rober Henke a.k.a Monolake (DE)).
 
  
 
===Conference programme===
 
===Conference programme===
  
The conference events take the form of either lectures and speaker panels, with the topics varying from discussing festival strategies, analysing business models and explaining digital marketing, to introducing less known music scenes (such as Belarus) and organizing listening sessionsm where an elected cast comments on anonymous tracks presented to them. The 2016 edition is having a special focus on the Balkans region and among other things features a networking session with that specific market in mind.  
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The conference events mostly take the form of either lectures or speaker panels, with the topics varying from discussing festival strategies, analysing business models and explaining digital marketing, to introducing lesser known music scenes (such as the Belarus one) and organising listening sessions where an elected cast comments on anonymous tracks. The 2016 edition has a special focus on the Balkans region and among other things features a networking session with that specific market in mind.  
  
Some of the keynote speakers and guests whom MENT has invited are Scott Cohen (The Orchard, UK), Chris Eckman (GlitterBeat Records, SI/US), Helen Sildna (Tallinn Music Week, EE), Ruud Berends (Eurosonic Noorderslag, NL), John Robb (LouderThanWar, UK), Michal Kaščák (Pohoda, SK), Ivan Novak ([[Laibach]], SI), Andrej Sevšek ([[Punk Rock Holiday]], SI), Dan Panaitescu (Sziget, HU), Richard Foster (The Quietus, WORM, Smikkelbaard, NL), Martin Elbourne (Glastonbury Festival, UK) and Jeff Owens (Ghostly International, US).
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Some of the keynote speakers and guests whom MENT has invited include Scott Cohen (The Orchard, UK), Chris Eckman (GlitterBeat Records, SI/US), Helen Sildna (Tallinn Music Week, EE), Ruud Berends (Eurosonic Noorderslag, NL), John Robb (LouderThanWar, UK), Michal Kaščák (Pohoda, SK), Ivan Novak ([[Laibach]], SI), Andrej Sevšek ([[Punk Rock Holiday]], SI), Dan Panaitescu (Sziget, HU), Martin Elbourne (Glastonbury Festival, UK), Jeff Owens (Ghostly International, US), Sasho Yerchenko (tlas Weekend Festival) and Dartsya Tarkovska (Soundbuzz Records)(UA).
  
 
==International activities==
 
==International activities==
  
In a way acting as a Slovenian music export agency, MENT has been crucial in enlisting Slovenian performers to international festivals and showcase events such as Tallinn Music Week, INmusic Festival, Reeperbahn Festival, Eurosonic Noorderslag, Waves Vienna & Bratislava ( in collaboration with the [[Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA)]]), Liverpool Sound City and Taksirat Festival. In 2015, twelve acts carried out 31 performances at these events via MENT, which also sent its own delegations  
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In a way acting as a Slovene music export agency, MENT has been crucial in enlisting Slovene performers to international festivals and showcase events such as Tallinn Music Week, INmusic Festival, Reeperbahn Festival, Eurosonic Noorderslag, Waves Vienna & Bratislava (in collaboration with the [[Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA)]]), Liverpool Sound City, and Taksirat Festival. In 2015, 12 acts carried out 31 performances at these events via MENT, which also sent its own delegations.
  
MENT is also partaking in the European Talent Exchange Programme (ETEP), a network of ninety European festivals that encourages the flow of new talent among European festivals.
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MENT participates in the European Talent Exchange Programme (ETEP), a network of 90 European festivals that encourages the flow of new talent among European festivals.
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MENT is a member of the Innovation Network of European Showcases (INES), next to 7 showcase festivals: Budapest Showcase Hub (HU), Enea Spring Break (PO), Linecheck (IT), Live at Heart (SE), Liverpool Sound City (UK), Monkey Week (ES), Nouvelle Prague (CZ), Sonic Visions (LX), Waves, Vienna (AT), Westway LAB (PT). One of its subprogrammes is the INES#talent program, in 2018 among the selected 104 new #talents are 10 bands from Slovenia: [[Blaž]], [[čunfa]], [[Leni Kravac]], [[Lynch]], [[MRFY]], [[Natriletno kolobarjenje s praho]], [[NOAIR]], [[Werefox]], [[Zala Kralj]] & [[Gašper Šantl]] and [[КУКЛА]].
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==See also==
 
==See also==
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==External links==
 
==External links==
 
*[http://www.ment.si/ MENT Ljubljana website]
 
*[http://www.ment.si/ MENT Ljubljana website]
*[http://www.etep.nl/en/ ETEP website]
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*[http://www.sigic.si/?lang=en Sigic website]
*[http://www.multipraktik.com/ Multipraktik website]
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*[https://www.etep.nl ETEP website]
*[https://mentljubljana.bandcamp.com/releases A compilation featuring songs of 2015 Slovenian participants at Ment]
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*[https://www.ines-festivals.eu/ INES website]
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*[https://mentljubljana.bandcamp.com/releases Compilations featuring songs of Slovene participants at MENT 2020]
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[[Category:Workshop organisers]]
 
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MENT 2023 photos by Konstantin Kondrukhov 2023 photo by Konstantin KondrukhovIMG 7686 70.JPGMENT Ljubljana at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2023.

Established in 2015, MENT Ljubljana is an international music showcase festival taking place at various Ljubljana venues beginning of February. It is comprised of a series of music acts (fresh artists joined by established head-liners), a conference programme dealing with the intricacies of music businesses, and additional events such as exhibitions or workshops on new art and media technologies. Moreover, MENT is a year-long project intended to help Slovene musicians and music professionals with promotion and networking. To this end, MENT enlists and accompanies them to other showcase festivals.



Mission and strategy

MENT was set up foremost to be a platform for improving the ways in which the Slovene music scene relates with the international music business circuit. As such, it works to equip those active in this field in Slovenia with the necessary understanding and skills for optimally crafting their careers as well as offers various networking opportunities. This mission is served not only through the festival, but through activities year-round. For example, a workshop series co-organised with SIGIC, which has featured foreign mentors like Sanjin Đukić (Los Angeles Agency, HR), Login Kočiški (Password Agency, MK), and Hannes Tschürtz (INK Music, AT). Last but not least, MENT acquaints the Slovene audiences with exceptional, if slightly less recognised, musicians from around Europe as well as from the USA.

MENT Ljubljana is produced by Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture and co-produced by SIGIC, Slovene Music Information Centre. In 2017 it won the prestigious European Festival Award in two categories: The Best Indoor Festival and The Best Small Festival. MENT Ljubljana is a member of the Innovation Network of European Showcases (INES), a platform led by GET a GIG GmbH (DE).

Venues

Festival happenings take place at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture and the adjacent M Hotel, the clubs in Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone (Klub Menza pri koritu, Klub Channel Zero, Gala Hala, Klub Gromka), the Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, Klub K4, Pritličje, the DobraVaga gallery, the cafeteria of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, and also Kinodvor Cinema for film screenings.


Music programme

The showcase usually presents about 50 musicians and bands invited from all over Europe, with a somewhat special bias toward the Balkans and the Baltic and some additional guests coming from the USA.

A significant portion of the acts are local artists of varied musical persuasions, from big bands and rock acts to techno producers. Some of them are Jardier, Your Gay Thoughts, Werefox, The Canyon Observer, Koala Voice, Nina Bulatovix, It's Everyone Else, Moveknowledgement, ŠKM Banda, and Ludovik Material.

Ment Ljubljana 2015 New Wave Syria Photo Ales Rosa.jpgNew Wave Syria performing in Klub Channel Zero at MENT Ljubljana, 2015


Conference programme

The conference events mostly take the form of either lectures or speaker panels, with the topics varying from discussing festival strategies, analysing business models and explaining digital marketing, to introducing lesser known music scenes (such as the Belarus one) and organising listening sessions where an elected cast comments on anonymous tracks. The 2016 edition has a special focus on the Balkans region and among other things features a networking session with that specific market in mind.

Some of the keynote speakers and guests whom MENT has invited include Scott Cohen (The Orchard, UK), Chris Eckman (GlitterBeat Records, SI/US), Helen Sildna (Tallinn Music Week, EE), Ruud Berends (Eurosonic Noorderslag, NL), John Robb (LouderThanWar, UK), Michal Kaščák (Pohoda, SK), Ivan Novak (Laibach, SI), Andrej Sevšek (Punk Rock Holiday, SI), Dan Panaitescu (Sziget, HU), Martin Elbourne (Glastonbury Festival, UK), Jeff Owens (Ghostly International, US), Sasho Yerchenko (tlas Weekend Festival) and Dartsya Tarkovska (Soundbuzz Records)(UA).

International activities

In a way acting as a Slovene music export agency, MENT has been crucial in enlisting Slovene performers to international festivals and showcase events such as Tallinn Music Week, INmusic Festival, Reeperbahn Festival, Eurosonic Noorderslag, Waves Vienna & Bratislava (in collaboration with the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA)), Liverpool Sound City, and Taksirat Festival. In 2015, 12 acts carried out 31 performances at these events via MENT, which also sent its own delegations.

MENT participates in the European Talent Exchange Programme (ETEP), a network of 90 European festivals that encourages the flow of new talent among European festivals.


MENT is a member of the Innovation Network of European Showcases (INES), next to 7 showcase festivals: Budapest Showcase Hub (HU), Enea Spring Break (PO), Linecheck (IT), Live at Heart (SE), Liverpool Sound City (UK), Monkey Week (ES), Nouvelle Prague (CZ), Sonic Visions (LX), Waves, Vienna (AT), Westway LAB (PT). One of its subprogrammes is the INES#talent program, in 2018 among the selected 104 new #talents are 10 bands from Slovenia: Blaž, Čunfa, Leni Kravac, Lynch, MRFY, Natriletno kolobarjenje s praho, NOAIR, Werefox, Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl and КУКЛА.


See also

External links


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