The Izidor Cankar Award has been bestowed for special achievements, significant contributions, and investigations in the field of Slovene art heritage on professionals, individuals, or groups from Slovenia or abroad since 1999. +
The Izola Centre for Culture, Sport and Events runs three venues – Izola Cultural Centre, Alga Gallery, and Art kino Odeon Izola – and organises regular events in the coastal town of Izola-Isola. +
The Jablje Castle, with the German name Habach, is believed to have been erected around 1530, although the first written references date back to 1268. +
Jakac House in Novo mesto houses a collection of works by Božidar Jakac (1899–1989), a Slovene painter, graphic artist, art teacher, photographer, and filmmaker, who was also instrumental in establishing the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and the Biennial of Graphic Arts. +
The Novo mesto Cultural Centre is a multi-purpose municipal venue which presents a performing arts and music programme, with special activities for children such as puppetry, drama, dance and film screenings, and music lessons. +
Established in February 2001 within the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), the Janez Vajkard Valvasor Foundation promotes the research and preservation of the Slovene cultural heritage. +
Since his first performance in 1976 at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Jani Kovačič has been an engaged song writer, an urban troubadour with his own aphoristic style full of ironic syllogisms and anti-heroism, a musician who follows an eclectic mixture of genres in alternative performance, recorded in several albums and collected in some books of lyrics. +
The Jararaja band was established in 2002, when its acclaimed 4 young musicians - "a melancholic violin player, a metal clarinet player, a rasta accordion player and a girl with the double bass, the strongest member" – started to play together focusing on traditional Slovene folk songs. +
Located within Kozjansko Park, some 3 kilometres from Podsreda the birthplace of Tito's mother Marija Broz, born Javeršek, is a well-preserved peasant house, locals call it "Pri Lapu". +
Opened in May 2001, this authentic raftsman's house of the Šarman family is located on the banks of the River Drava close to the Dravograd-Maribor main road. +