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Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe)
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Jure Novak, Cankarjev dom director presents the 2025 Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) edition at the press conference.
The Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) was launched in 1990 as the Film Art Festival Ljubljana. The festival is organised by the Film Department of the Cankarjev dom Cultural and Congress Centre, but films are also screened at Slovenian Cinematheque, Kinodvor Cinema, Bežigrad Cinema, Maribox, APT Novo mesto and on other locations. It can be classified as a specialised competitive festival that not only features an overview of contemporary world film production but also focuses on emerging directors and new trends in contemporary cinema.
Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices
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Opening of Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices, 2017.
The Pixxelpoint International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices, organised by Nova Gorica Arts Centre, was launched in 2000. Previously focused on computer art and up until 2016 going under the name International Festival of Computer Art, the festival is now running a broad focus that intermingles contemporary technologies (computer ones as well as others) with art, science and various societal practices.
The Nova Gorica City Gallery traditionally hosts the main exhibitions. Further locations such as TIR - Mostovna Gallery and some other spaces in Nova Gorica as well as the neighbouring Italian city of Gorizia host lectures, workshops, evening meetings, symposium on a given topic, and music concerts by well-known music performers. The internet – as a "lasting" platform – is also the venue for some projects.
Green Pathways to Slovenia: Advice for Sustainable International Mobility of Artists and Cultural Workers
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The cultural and creative sectors (CCS) are, in many ways, already ahead of other sectors when it comes to green or sustainable practices – not just because CCS budgets are scant or limited but also because of the general sensitivity to social challenges and ethical considerations among CCS professionals. Artists and cultural workers engage in non-wasteful, flexible practices; they know how to do more with less and often share or repurpose resources. However, the increasingly evident climate changes prompt us to fundamentally reconsider. One of the most important and most urgent aspects of the activities of artists and cultural workers – as well as the one that leaves the largest environmental footprint – is mobility.
DokuBazaar, Ljubljana Independent Documentary Film Festival
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DokuBazaar, Ljubljana Independent Documentary Film Festival is a transnational independent documentary film festival which took off in 2009 in Ljubljana. It is dedicated to promotion of contemporary short and feature documentaries and their authors from all over the world, striving to present the most diverse and socially engaged works, the 2021 topic being human rights education. It usually lasts about 3 or 4 days and is held sometime in early autumn. The Ljubljana International Short Film Festival is its spring counterpart, taking place in Gromka.
Drugajanje Festival
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The Drugajanje Festival is an annual festival initiated in 2002, co-organised by the Bunker Institute at the Second Grammar School in Maribor, which hosts the festival. The festival was conceived as a response to the gap in the supply of cultural content for youth in the city of Maribor and aims to affirm contemporary dance and performing arts, especially among teenage audiences, with a programme of performances, workshops and lectures.
Independent Biennial
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The Independent Biennial, originally named as the Slovenian Independent Illustrators' Biennial, was established in 2007. The biennial set out to be an answer to the burgeoning illustration scene in Slovenia that up until then had lacked the proper means of exposure, overview, and reflection of this very heterogeneous artistic practice. Due to its specific nature and relatively young protagonists, this practice had not been integrated into the established gallery networks and logics, and, furthermore, had not been properly conceptualised or even recognised as an artistic practice due to it being foremost a commercially exploitable endeavour. Consequently, cultural and educational policies often missed out on it as well.
Thus, the Independent Biennial strives to change this situation and to establish some sort of a history, a more integrated community and also itself as a platform for the promotion, collaboration, and reflection of independent illustration. That said, the biennial recognises illustration as a very wide phenomenon, featuring not only book illustration, caricature, comics, design illustration, commercial logotypes and graffiti, but also the more "dynamic" creations such as animation, multimedia interventions, and interactive websites, and many other formats. As illustration is often embedded in other artistic practices, the biennial in a way addresses the wider creative community in Slovenia.
The Independent Biennial strives to establish a more integrated community of illustrators and also position itself as a platform for the promotion, collaboration and reflection of independent illustration, 2015
Kogoj’s Days
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Organised each year in memory of the expressionistic composer Marij Kogoj (1892–1956), Kogoj’s Days is a high-quality festival of contemporary Slovene music, which takes place at different venues in the small picturesque town of Kanal ob Soči in western Slovenia.
Marijan Gabrijelčič initiated the festival in 1980, with Anton Nanut in the role of artistic director, a role he continues to fill today. In 2011 all of the free concerts took place in 6 different cities in western Slovenia and eastern Italy. Although the festival is dedicated to Kogoj, the festival includes a diverse programme of works by not only many internationally known Slovene artists such as Uroš Rojko, Lojze Lebič and Nana Forte but also works by Debussy, Mozart, Bach, Handel and others.
October Jazz
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Holding a rather suggestive name, October Jazz is an autumn festival presenting contemporary jazz music. Taking place in the city of Nova Gorica and its surrounding region, the event has been organised by the Nova Gorica Arts Centre since 2015. Distinctly international, it is co-produced with the Italian association Controtempo Cormons, otherwise responsible for the Festival of Jazz & Wine of Peace in Cormons.
The bulk of the festival programme is held at the Nova Gorica Arts Centre. Other venues include the Cultural Centre Gorizia (IT), also a co-producer, and sporadic locations such as the Castle Rubije and a manor called Villa Vipolže.
Karlheinz 'Carlitos' Miklin & Quinteto Argentina (At, AR) performing at October jazz, a small jazz festival held in the town of Nova Gorica, 2014
Stična Festival
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The Stična Festival was established in 2000 as an annual autumn festival of evening musical, theatre, and visual arts events in Stična. The first idea was to organise events over four evenings but the festival was quickly extended to two weeks, and it currently takes place end of November.
The basic goals of the festival are to raise cultural consciousness, to build connections and cooperation among amateur and professional associations and individuals and also to help to support quality amateur productions.