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World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010
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Past Events
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1 May 2010
31 Oct 2010
Slovene Pavillion at Expo 2010 Shanghai featuring Herman Potočnik Noordung, Starck with Riko, Primož Trubar and World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010, with contributions by Oskar Kogoj, Matej Andraž Vogrinčič, and Slavoj Žižek
Programme
The activities during the World Book Capital year involve several different projects aimed at increasing readership, developing a culture of reading, improving access to books and literature, and promoting the richness of literary genres and world literature.
The Book and Creativity in Cultural Fields
This series of events is the largest, it includes the widest span of diverse activities and unites books with theatre, music, film and fine art. The programme includes various workshops for children and adults, as well as exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances, etc. Its goal is to connect books with their readers using new creative methods.
The Book and the City
Traditional and innovative literary events (reading corners, public readings ...) encourage the citizens of Ljubljana to change their habits and read more. Thus, readings take place in locations such as hospitals, refugee centres, senior citizens' homes and other unconventional spots.
Ljubljana Reads/Growing up with Books
In the frame of the Ljubljana Reads/Growing up with Books project every pupil receives a book by a Slovene author as a gift. Three books have been selected, based on the age population of the students, by the authors Anja Štefan, Matjaž Schmidt, and Slavko Pregl.
Festival of Letters
The festival strived to revive the interest and knowledge on the movable type printing techniques, now widely replaced by digital technology. A 50-year-old printing press including a tonne of lead and wooden letters was installed in the Kresija Gallery to print business cards, letters and sample books. The festival took place in July and was conceived by Marko Drpić, designer and calligrapher.
World Book Summit 2011
The Book as the Bearer of Human Evolution is the title of the World Book Summit held from 31 March to 2 April 2011 at Cankarjev dom Cultural and Congress Centre. The summit will address the challenges of digitisation for the publishing industry, the role of "linear" reading in digital environment, and the issues related to translating from the world's minor to major languages and cultural interchange in book business. The Ljubljana Resolution on the Book is to be proposed to UNESCO. The event is organised by the Association of Book Publishers at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (GZS).
Books for Everyone
This project involves 21 selected titles that have been supported by the Ljubljana Urban Municipality and the Slovenian Book Agency with a print run of 8,000 copies and available for purchase for as little as 3 EUR per copy. Among some of the capital's most ambitious publishing projects are the works of Slovene authors Boris Pahor, Svetlana Makarovič, as well as Slavoj Žižek, one of the best and most notorious yet perhaps not widely read or understood Slovene theorist, as well as internationally renowned fiction writers such as Richard Flanagan, Jonathan Franzen, David Grossman, and Herta Müller.
Pogledi [Views] Newspaper
The World Book Capital in Ljubljana has been accompanied by a newly-established bimonthly cultural newspaper Pogledi published by Delo Publishing House. It is the leading (and, in fact, the only) print media in Slovenia dedicated to arts and culture. With its print run of 60,000, Pogledi was distributed as a free supplement to the main Slovene daily Delo Newspaper till Autumn, later it became a self-sustained cultural newspaper.
Trubar Literature House
Within the capital framework a new venue was opened in September 2010 in the very centre of the city. Trubar Literature House serves as a cultural and intellectual centre with a book club, exhibiting space and information point. The mission of the Trubar Literature House is to become the reference point for literature, the book and socio-critical reflection in the broad sense of the word. The Literature House offers a programme covering literary and artistic, as well as critical and reflexive topics.
See also
- Ljubljana Urban Municipality
- Chamber of Publishing, Bookselling, Graphic Industry, Radio and TV Media (GZS-ZKGM)
- Pogledi Newspaper
- Slovenia National Commission for UNESCO
- Fabula Festival of Stories
External links
- World Book Capital Ljubljana website
- World Book Summit 2011 website
- Trubar Literature House programme
- Festival of Letters website
- World Book Capital City on UNESCO website
- Candidature of Ljubljana for the UNESCO title (pdf, March 2008)
Gallery
![Niccolò Ammaniti's Jaz in ti [You and Me] book cover, 2010](/en/File:Fabula_Festival_-_11.jpg)
![Prešeren's Coat, by Andreja Brulc, art installation using passages from the poet's longest poem Krst pri Savici[Baptism at Savica] on a new robe dressing Prešeren's monument, World Literatures - Fabula Festival, 2010](/en/File:Fabula_Festival_2010_Preseren%27s_Coat_Photo_Mojca_Pisek.jpg)
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23 April 2010 - 23 April 2011 +
Since 2001 UNESCO has been nominating cities to be the annual World Book Capital City and the city of Ljubljana was already the tenth. +
Since 2001 UNESCO has been nominating cities to be the annual World Book Capital City and the city of Ljubljana was already the tenth. +
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