Etnika International World Music Festival
updated 23 hours ago
Etnika embarked on its mission of bringing fresh music from around the world to the city of Maribor in 2005. Since then, the festival has been presenting a continuously broad and inquisitive array of musical expression, featuring not only artists from the so-called world music circuit but also musicians who play jazz, rock and hip hop.
The festival is produced by the Etnika Institute and it annually takes place at various Maribor venues, chief among them the Gustaf Hall and the Club KGB Maribor. Some other venues used in the past are Narodni dom Maribor and the Satchmo Jazz Club.
Pranger Festival
updated 23 hours ago
The Pranger Festival setting in 2011
The international Pranger Festival, a meeting of poets, critics, and poetry translators, has been organised every summer since 2004 in Rogaška Slatina and Šmarje pri Jelšah by the KUD Pranger Cultural Association.
Festival of Slovenian Jazz
updated 23 hours ago
The ever lively drummer Marjan Stanić performing with Vasko Atanasovski Trio at the Festival of Slovenian Jazz, 2013
The Festival of Slovenian Jazz is an annual presentation of the current creative endeavours among the Slovenian jazz musicians of various musical orientations. Taking place since 2003, it is hosting big bands, contemporary jazz collectives, free jazz practitioners and all sorts of other creative musicians, many of them often playing with an international cast, thus giving the festival a somewhat international character.
The festival takes place in the Kompleks Youth Culture Centre in Ravne na Koroškem and partially also in the Cultural centre Ravne.
Federacija Institute
updated 11 hours ago
Treating contemporary dance and theatre performances as a starting point – yet not an end in itself – the Federacija Institute is a quite peculiar production house. Established in 2009, it is used as a means to refresh the established formats of performance practices as well as to experiment with socially innovative artistic projects.
Biennial of Design (BIO)
updated 35 hours ago
The Biennial of Design, known also by its Slovene acronym BIO, explores and reflects contemporary developments in international design through a collaborative process; questioning and analysing current conditions in industrial production, public and private space, systems and networks. The Biennial operates under the aegis of the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) since the museum’s founding in 1972.
BIO, which celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2024, is organized by MAO in cooperation with the Centre for Creativity (CzK). The 28th edition of the Biennial of Design (BIO) is held between 21 November 2024 and 6 April 2025. Under the title Double Agent - Do You Speak Flower? the BIO28 is curated by Professor Alexandra Midal.
Culture.si
updated 8 days ago
Culture.si offers information on Slovene cultural producers, venues, festivals and support services, all in one place. It encourages international cultural exchange in the fields of arts, culture and heritage. The portal and its content is owned and funded by the Ministry of Culture and the European Union Recovery and Resilience Plan. It was developed and edited by the team of the Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory in the period 2009–2020 and again in 2024.
Piran Days of Architecture
updated 10 days ago
An Piran Days of Architecture exhibition conducted at the former salt storehouse Monfort , now an exhibition and event space.
Piran Days of Architecture, 2016
Organised by Obalne galerije - Coastal Galleries and, as of recently, also the DESSA Architecture Centre, the international conference Piran Days of Architecture has been going on annually since 1983. Mostly taking place in in the medieval coastal town of Piran, the conference aims to assess current trends in architecture and present the most progressive and innovative ideas of architectural and spatial production. It consists of lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and a competitive programme of architectural solutions.
Festivals in Slovenia
updated 8 days ago
The printed version of the calendar of Festivals in Slovenia in 2012 contains 141 festivals. Later on, in 2019, the festival number rose to 199. Check out the current annual festivalscape!
Since 2012, the annual festivalscapes are provided as an infographic, conceived by the Culture.si team at the Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory.
The interactive calendars include the festivals from the Culture.si database arranged by weeks and by field. You can see specific types of festivals, e.g., music festivals only, by clicking on the corresponding artistic field.
Take a look at the Festivals in Slovenia infographic.
