Maribor, 11. February (STA) – The Lent festival was one of the key events organised as part of Maribor’s stint as the European Capital of Culture (EPK) in 2012, revealed a public opinion poll carried out by RM Plus last year. Visitors mostly remembered musical concerts, theatre performances and operas. The poll, conducted among respondents [...]

Maribor, 15. December (STA) – More than 2 million visitors attended 5,230 events organised as part of the Maribor European Culture Capital 2012 project, which will end with a closing ceremony on Saturday evening. Organisers told a press conference that the project will definitely leave a lasting positive mark on the city. Suzana Žilič Fišer, [...]

Maribor, 15. December (STA) – The Maribor-based daily Večer analyses the city’s stint as the European Capital of Culture in Saturday’s commentary, concluding that the project re-examined the past, present, future, identity and the potentials of Maribor, making it a centre of urban culture. There were high expectations for the culture capital project, the first [...]

Maribor, 14. December (STA) – Organisers of the Maribor European Capital of Culture took stock of the Cultural Embassies project on Friday. The project featured cultural highlights from 16 European and 15 other countries, the organisers said. The Cultural Embassies project linked Maribor with 80 foreign partners and 35 institutions in Maribor and the partner [...]

Novo mesto, 14. December (STA) – The string of events in Novo mesto as a partner town in Maribor’s stint as the European Capital of Culture 2012 will close on Monday with a multimedia project “Earth’s Rebellion” conceived by saxophone player Igor Lumpert, who lives and works in Novo mesto and New York. Vesna Dular [...]

Maribor, 10. December (STA) – Maribor’s stint as the 2012 European Capital of Culture is coming to a close as the city will hand over the title to France’s Marseille and Slovakia’s Košice on Saturday. The week before the ceremony will be marked by a number of events, as the organisers want to highlight the [...]

Maribor, 5. December (STA) – Protests against Maribor Mayor Franc Kangler have forced the organisers of the European Capital of Culture project to rejig plans for the closing ceremony. The event will not be cancelled but it will be “adjusted to the security situation in the city”, the STA learnt from Institute Maribor 2012 on [...]

Maribor, 4. December (STA) – The Latvian Cultural Embassy is opening its doors in Maribor on Tuesday as the last one of more than 30 cultural embassies that had been set up during Maribor’s stint as European Capital of Culture 2012. Latvia’s embassy focuses above all on Art Nouveau architecture in the capital of Riga. [...]

Maribor, 3. December (STA) – The contribution of 87 volunteers who have been an active part of Maribor’s stint as the 2012 European Capital of Culture (EPK) has helped promote voluntarism in Slovenia, Suzana Žilič Fišer, the head of Maribor 2012, the institute in charge of the culture capital, said on Monday. The project “With [...]

Maribor, 30. November (STA) – The Maribor Art Gallery will mark the end of Maribor’s stint as the European Capital of Culture with a review of the 20th century art from Impressionism to Retro Avant-garde. The exhibition dubbed “Almost Spring” will be on display from Friday until 24 February 2012 at the gallery and the [...]