Bled, 8. May (STA) – The 45th International PEN Meeting will start in Bled on Wednesday, bringing together heads of International PEN committees and featuring traditional round table debates which will focus on the past and future of the writers’ association and digital media. The PEN Peace Committee will elect a new president to succeed [...]

Ljubljana, 3. May (STA) – “A Magic Flute”, revolutionary theatre director Peter Brook’s adaptation of Mozart’s legendary opera, will be staged in Ljubljana’s culture centre Cankarjev dom on 6 and 7 May. In line with Brook’s vision, the opera is trimmed to an intimate setting and a chamber ensemble of seven young opera singers, accompanied [...]

Ljubljana, 17. April (STA) – The annual Slovenian Book Days, running this year between 19 and 26 April, will offer around 300 events in nine cities and towns, including Ljubljana, Maribor and even Trieste, Italy and Laafeld, Austria, which both have strong Slovenian minorities. Organisers of the all-Slovenian festival expect to draw up to 50,000 [...]

Ljubljana, 6. March (STA) – An exhibition by Bogdan Borčić, an acclaimed Slovenian painter of the oldest generation, opened on Wednesday in the gallery of the Cankarjev dom arts centre. Showcasing paintings made in the last three years, the show is Borčić’s first major exhibition in Ljubljana in over 20 years. According to art historian [...]

Vancouver, 5. March (STA) – Jože Možina has picked up another award overseas for his documentary about Slovenian missionary Pedro Opeka. “Pedro Opeka – the Friend of the Poor” has won the award of excellence in film making at the Canadian International Film Festival. Možina will receive the accolade in Vancouver on 6 April. The [...]

Ljubljana, 1. March (STA) – Perpetuum Jazzile, a popular Slovenian a capella group, will mark its 30th anniversary this year with tours of the US and Germany and an extravagant concert in the Ljubljana’s Stožice arena on 9 November. Next week, the group comprised of more than 50 singers, will present a new video for [...]

Ljubljana, 1. March (STA) – The Slovenian National Museum has joined the international Cultureshutdown project raising awareness of the crisis of cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina. To show solidarity with the Bosnian National Museum, the museum in Ljubljana will symbolically erase from its collection one of its most precious pieces, Vaška situla. The Slovenian and Bosnian [...]

Ljubljana, 21. February (STA) – Dance performance “Dvojnik” (Double) directed by Snježana Premuš will open on Thursday afternoon the sixth Gibanica festival of Slovenian modern dance. After touring the country last year, Gibanica is returning to the capital, bringing 11 dance shows, 3 round tables, a two-day workshop and a photography exhibition. Taking place at [...]

Ljubljana, 20. February (STA) – The 15th Festival of Documentary Film, which will take place at three venues in Ljubljana between 1 and 8 March, will be devoted to Frederick Wiseman, which the festival director Simon Popek labelled as the most prominent still living US documentary filmmaker. The festival will bring eight Wisaman’s films in [...]

Ljubljana, 19. February (STA) – An exhibition dedicated to the work of acclaimed author William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) opened at the Ljubljana International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) on Tuesday. Dubbed “Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs”, the show is the first display of Burroughs’s visual oeuvre in Slovenia. The display features a selection of Burroughs’s work created [...]