Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures

Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures is a summer festival which takes place in the city of Velenje. As its name partly implies, the festival puts a special emphasis on the presentation and promotion of younger Slovenian artists, though it us also open to artists from abroad and of other generational strata. It brings an extremely varied programme that features current happenings in the field of non-commercial arts as well as events for children and various sports activities. Due to its imaginative programming and also its integration into the urban fabric of the city, Kunigunda is one of the better regional or "city" festivals in Slovenia.

The festival was launched in 2000 by Velenje Youth Centre (MC Velenje) in co-operation with Šaleški študentski klub (the local student club). Its venues are many and mainly open-air, yet they can also include the Velenje Castle, the Velenje Youth Centre (MC Velenje) and the Club eMC plac.

Festival KUNIGUNDA  2012 - retrospektiva by KUNIGUNDAfestival on YouTube

Programme

The programme is conceptually wide and diverse, comprising music, visual arts exhibitions modern dance, theatre, puppetry, sculptural installations, documentary film and video screenings, literary evenings, new media art events, lectures and art auctions. The events are spaced all over the city, from its park and streets (and even its lake) to the main stage in front of EMCe plac, the Pekarna exhibitions grounds (an venue created at the site of an abandoned industrial building in the course of a past festival edition) and the local skate park.

Music-wise, there is combination of well known local and foreign musicians like Lombego Surfers (US), Let 3 (HR), Kultur Shock (US), Disciplin A Kitschme (RS), Senser (UK) Bambi Molesters (HR), Damir Avdić (BA), Kiril Džajkovski (MK), Terrafolk, Demolition group, Srečna mladina and Noctiferia. This relatively rock oriented programme is accompanied by many upcoming and fresh musicians of a diverse musical expression (jazz, electronica,reggae, etc) coupled with a very strong hip hop focus with artists like General Woo (HR), Elemental (HR), Kiša metaka (HR), High 5 (HR) and stuff like a national competition in beat boxing,

Disciplin a kitschme, Golem in Stranci (31.8.2012) by KUNIGUNDAfestival on YouTube

There was a number of both temporary as well as permanent interventions into urban space like re-claiming an unused factory site, setting up artists residencies in floating dwellings in the local lake

External links

Kunigunda Festival website (in Slovenian)

Kunigunda Festival of Young Cultures

Programme

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