Lent Festival

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Festival Lent

Lent Festival, Narodni dom, Kulturno prireditveni center, Kneza Koclja 9, SI-2000 Maribor

http://lent.slovenija.net

Phone386 (0) 2 229 4000

Organised byNarodni dom Maribor

Established in 1993, the international Lent Festival is among the largest open-air festivals in Europe and the most massive festival of its kind in Slovenia. Each year it presents around 300 different cultural performances and events on different stages, including various styles of popular music, opera, rock, ballet, jazz, classical music, street theatre, chanson, folklore and revivalist folk, theatre, busking music, events for children, dance performances and musicals, children workshops and also sport events.

Programme

In 2007 the 26-day Lent Festival presented 400 musical, theatrical and literary events involving 3,900 performers from 36 countries, among them the band Living Colour and Maceo Parker. The Festival also included the Maribor component of the Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival and stand-up comedy performances by Slovene and Croatian comedians, the Jazzlent and the Folkart International Folklore Festival.

The Festival is a member of the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA) and the Association of Slovene Festivals (SloFA).

The festival regularly attracts around 500,000 spectators, dispersed during the 3-weeks long event at over 23 venues, improvised stages, reshaped old spaces at the banks of the Drava river.

See also

• Lent Festival Stages

External links

• Lent Festival website (in English)