Lendava-Lendva Cultural Centre

Established in 1995 as a major new cross-border collaborative building project, the Lendava-Lendva Institute for Culture and Promotion (Zavod za kulturo in promocijo Lendava, or Muvelovesi es Promocios Intezet Lendva in Hungarian) opened in 2004 in an impressive 2,400 square-metre building conceived by architect Imre Makovec. Funded by the Ministry of Culture, Lendava-Lendva Municipality, the Hungarian government and the Hungarian National Self-Governing Community of Pomurje Region Lendava-Lendva, the Institute was conceived as a multipurpose space for concerts, drama, opera and conferences.

The Centre has a 1,400 square-metre (45m x 33m) theatre/concert hall with 444 seats, plus various other spaces. It organises annual music and theatre subscription series involving both Slovene and Hungarian artists, and also hosts frequent performances by Slovene theatre houses (Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Ljubljana - Drama, Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Nova Gorica, Slovene People’s Theatre (SLG) Celje, Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana City Theatre (MGL)), as well as their counterparts in Hungary. During the summer the venue serves as an open air cinema showing the recent cinema hits.

A puppetry festival is held every Friday during the Summer months. Besides the performing arts the venue also hosts regular exhibitions of visual arts, including annual presentations of works from the Lendava-Lendva International Artists Colony, and the summer school of animated film for youngsters.

The Institute is also running the programme at the recently renovated Lendava Synagogue. More information about the Institute is available at the exhaustive and regularly updated official website.

External links

Lendava-Lendva Institute for Culture and Promotion (ZKPL-MPIL) website (in Slovenian, Hungarian and German)

Lendava-Lendva Cultural Centre

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