EventsSeptember 2018 Highlights in September

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3 Sep 7 Sep 12 - 16 Sep Royal Concertgebouw and Lviv Spider Festival 2018 Cover photo: ProBakster Orchestra Philharmonic Orchestra This year’s 7th edition Edited and published by: Amsterdam’s Royal The performance by of Spider focuses on Tourism, Krekov trg 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Concertgebouw Orchestra Laibach accompanied practices that rely on our T: +386 1 306 45 83, is considered to be one of by the Lviv Philharmonic immeasurable capacities, E: [email protected], the finest orchestras in the Orchestra will incorporate while trying to transcend W: www.visitljubljana.com world. impressive sets and visuals. the forced means of Photography: Archives of Ljubljana P. 9 P. 10 constructing measurable Tourism and individual event organisers human inter-relations. Prepress: Prajs d.o.o. P. 4 Printed by: Collegium Graphicum d.o.o., Ljubljana, September 2018 6 - 9 Sep 8 Sep 24-29 Sep Ljubljana Tourism is not liable for any National Costumes and Ekopraznik (Organic Fair) Sonica inaccurate information appearing in the Clothing Heritage Festival Ekopraznik (Organic Fair) Sonica is a festival of calendar. Festival, held in the town in Ljubljana is the biggest contemporary electronic of Kamnik near Ljubljana, yearly open air “organic music and transitory art. Committed to caring for the includes costumed food and more” fair in P. 5 environment, we print on processions featuring folk Slovenia. recycled paper. costumes of Slovenia and P. 15 Share our commitment by other countries. sharing this publication with P. 15 your friends. www.visitljubljana.com 3

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The Khoi Khullid Coloured Swans Sote & Tarik Barri Spider Festival 2018 Presentaton: The Bridge Jason Sharp & Adam Basanta 12 - 16 Sep, Different venues Moya Michael (South Africa/Belgium) & Container Doxa Tracy Rose (South Africa) 28 Sep, 20:00 Sonica is a festival of contemporary 15 Sep, 20:00 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress electronic music and transitory Španski borci centre art. In a way, it is conceived as a Liil Actress showcase of the annual programme Elisa Zuppini (Italy/Netherlands) Ninabelle produced by MoTA - Museum of 15 Sep, 21:30 Lee Gamble Transitory Art. Its experimental Španski borci Alleged Witches nature questions exhibition and 28 Sep, 23:00 staging formats, crossing borders Kok-Lat-Vil Only Incantation + between art and theory, object and Invocation + Exorcism performance. Christian Botale Molebo (Congo) William Basinski Sonica is an attempt to transform a 15 Sep, 23:00 29 Sep, 20:00 classical exhibition space into a field Španski borci Cankarjev dom cultural and congress of events, performances, workshops, centre Together and lectures. It is a temporary

th Leja Jurišić & Marko Mandić (Slovenia) laboratory established on the This year’s 7 edition of Spider, Spider Festival Faits et gestes 16 Sep, 16:00 crossing of visual art, media and the Festival of Radical Bodies, B. Mandico: Les garçons sauvages (Wild Noé Soulier (France) Plečnikovo letno gledališče, behind the sound art and research, consisting of focuses on practices that rely on Boys), France, 2017; film 13 Sep, 20:00 Tivoli Castel production and research residencies, our immeasurable capacities, while 9 Sep, 20:00 Španski borci (in case of bad weather in Kino Šiška) exhibitions, performances, and trying to transcend the forced Plečnikovo letno gledališče, behind the public interventions, with a special Dance D&G Party (Slovenia) means of constructing measurable Tivoli Castel focus on intersections of music, Matej Kejžar (Slovenia) 16 Sep, 23:00 human inter-relations. (in case of bad weather in The Švicarija) sound and other art forms. 13 Sep, 22:00 mesto alternative culture centre Spider enables unprecedented Pre-festival event www.sonica.si Španski borci and unregulated insight into the www.spiderfestival.com Opening performance processes and strategies of cutting- Songs III/XII 12 Sep, 19:00 Sonica edge performance-making that Mala Kline (Slovenia) Sonica Plečnikovo letno gledališče, behind the 24-29 Sep, Different venues question the prevailing psycho- 14 Sep, 18:00 Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson Tivoli Castel physical and socio-economic order, International Centre of Graphic Arts Guests: Žiga Murko - trombone; including its misguided foundations. Breathcore Katarina Kozjek - cello; Anastazija Naked (RS) & Šlagwerk (Slovenia) Don’t miss this opportunity and Michael Schmid / Ictus (Belgium) Krenn - viola 14 Sep, 20:00 join the vital and vibrant crossroads 12 Sep, 20:00 24 Sep, 20:00 Metelkova mesto alternative culture between dance and speech, radical Švicarija Creative Centre Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre criticism and the embodiment of centre Hypnotic Session freedom! Artistas Sunny Sun, Woo-D, Bakto & Dulash Performative installations www.spiderontheedge.org Olja Grubić (Slovenia/Croatia) (Slovenia) 25 Sep, 20:00 15 Sep, 18:00 12 Sep, 21:00 Cukrarna Španski borci Plečnikovo letno gledališče, behind the Liffecutter Tivoli Castel Structure of a Feeling Aïsha Devi (in case of bad weather in Mladinsko Lili M. Rampre (Slovenia) Giant Swan Theatre) 15 Sep, 19:00 27 Sep, 20:00 Španski borci Kino Šiška

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on his unbelievably numerous journeys overview of the artist’s oeuvre to date to around the world. as wide an audience as possible. Saturdays at 16:30 guided tours in Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00 - English 20:00. Closed: Mondays A new permanent exhibition about Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays Zoran Mušič (1909-2005) the history of Ljubljana. How well Monument - Drago Tršar Permanent exhibition at the National do you know the rich history of 15 Jun - 30 Sep, Museum of Modern Art Gallery Slovenian capital? Pile-dwellers, Drago Tršar is unquestionably one of the Zoran Mušič, the best known 20th Emona, Middle and New Ages, the main and most prolific representatives century Slovenian-born painter 20th and 21st centuries… what is the of modernism in Slovenia. In and a man with more than one history of Ljubljana? A chronological collaboration with six other public homeland, spent most of his life presentation of Ljubljana’s millennia institutions, Museum of Modern Art between Venice and Paris. He mostly of heritage with precious authentic has conceived a project in the form of painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, artefacts, like the world’s oldest a series of retrospective and themed Dalmatian donkeys and horses, trees, wooden wheel with an axle, is now survey exhibitions across Slovenia. The views of Venice, double portraits with on display on Ljubljana. History. Ivana Kobilca (1861-1926) - paintings project, entitled Monument - Drago his wife Ida, and poignant self-portraits City. exhibition. In our globalised 21 Jun - 10 Feb 2019, National Gallery Tršar, includes monumental sculpture, depicting him as an old man. His visual world, heritage just might be what public sculptures and monuments, motifs were always related to the differentiates cities the most, and To mark its one hundredth Stanko Kristl, Architect: Humanity and of contemporary colour experimental small-scale sculpture, various series, Slovenian region of Kras and its typical it also shaped our capital’s identity. anniversary, the National Gallery of Space printmaking. The beginning of e.g. erotic works and portraits, as well scenes. He became world famous with Therefore, the exhibition proudly Slovenia presents the life and work 19 Dec 2017 – 30 Sep, MAO -Museum of Debenjak’s “classical” work in as works on Japanese paper, paintings, his series of paintings We Are Not the highlights local peculiarities, stories of Ivana Kobilca, one of the most Architecture and Design printmaking is marked by the year marine motifs and more - all the Last, in which he relived the scenes he of everyday life in the past, and the well-known Slovenian artists of all Stanko Kristl is considered one of the 1953. The exhibition is dedicated to the many threads that make up the artist’s experienced in the Dachau concentration individuals who left the strongest times. Together with her friends and most prominent Slovenian architects, 110th anniversary of the artist’s birth. oeuvre. More than just a tribute to camp. Ljubljana’s National Gallery impressions on our history. acquaintances like Rosa Pfäffinger, a man whose work has provoked and Also displayed along with the graphic Drago Tršar, the project aims to present displays the world’s only permanent Open: 10:00 – 18:00, Thursdays until Maria Slavona and Käthe Kollwitz, inspired local and international publics prints are the artist’s other works: an unprecedented, comprehensive survey exhibition of Mušič’s work, which 21:00. Closed: Mondays she was one of the first female alike, both during the process of their drawings, paintings, illustrations and painters of the modern age that creation and up to the present day. As printing plates. The exhibition was succeeded in a traditionally male an architect in the broadest sense of produced in cooperation with the field. the term, Stanko Kristl uses his projects Debenjak family, the Kanal ob Soči Riko Her first retrospective in forty years and research work to pose, at every Debenjak Gallery and the Museum of will present around 130 works of opportunity, the fundamental question Modern Art. art from all periods and of different of architecture: What is architecture in Tuesdays at 18:00 guided tours in genres. Besides popular works, like relation to human? People and their English. Woman Drinking Coffee, Summer, perception of space is a key theme in Open: 10:00-18:00. Closed: Mondays Children in Grass and Mira Pintar, his work, one that has left a significant Marc Riboud: Conscious Traveller. many lesser-known paintings will mark on architect Kristl’s design Concerned Photographer. be presented; together, the pictures research approach. 29 May - 14 Oct, Jakopič Gallery reflect Kobilca’s creative power 16 Sep at 11:00 guided tour in English Marc Riboud (1923-2016), a French and the influences of European art Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays photographer with a worldwide centres. Riko Debenjak: Surway exhibition reputation, as part of the Magnum Sundays at 10:00 guided tours in 9 Aug - 11 Nov International Centre of Photos agency, spent many years English. Graphic Arts working as a photojournalist, while Ljubljana. History. City. Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursday 10:00 - Permanent exhibiton at the City Museum of Ljubljana Riko Debenjak (1908–1987) established also building his own oeuvre of auteur 20:00. Closed: Mondays himself as a leading representative photography, which developed mostly 6 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 7 Exhibitions Taste Ljubljana Music explores the entire range of the famous The exhibition was produced by Food Tour Ljubljana Veterans’ Brass Band Bežigrad Brass Band artist’s painting techniques. International Centre of Graphic Arts 2 Sep, 11:00 4 Sep, 18:00 Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00- in cooperation with the Institute for Wednesdays and Rose garden in Tivoli Park Boat on the River 20:00. Closed: Mondays the Protection of Cultural Heritage Saturdays at 12:00 Admission free Mary Halvorson Quartet (USA) – jazz of Slovenia, the City Museum of Other times can be arranged for Plečnik Collection groups of more than ten people Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 4 Sep, 20:00 Ljubljana and the Arrea Architecture The new permanent exhibition at the by prior request. Anett Fritsch- soprano Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Bureau. Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the Daniele Gatti - conductor centre Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays most important projects of the late 3 Sep, 20:00 Širom, A.M.P. Trio architect. Plečnik’s creativity comes Let’s Celebrate Together. Hundred Cankarjev dom cultural and congress 4 Sep, 20:00 to life through the plans, models and Years of the National Gallery of centre Jakopič Gallery photographs of his creations such as the Slovenia Programme: A. Webern / A. Berg / A. Sound Explicit – a cycle of live Zacherl House in Vienna, Prague Castle, 4 Aug – 4 Nov, Tivoli Park, Jakopič Bruckner experimental sound and audio events the National and University Library in Promenade Closing of the 66th Ljubljana Festival Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Ljubljana, the , On the 18th of September, 1918, the Sankofa Choir (Slovenia) Orchestra is considered to be one of Tjaša Fajdiga - vocal; Rebeka Zajc - Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael National Gallery Society was founded – 4 Sep, 21:00 the finest orchestras in the world. piano; Bob Hoving - guitar; Tine Šinko at the Ljubljana Marshes and numerous having neither art holdings or exhibition Celica Hostel Critics describe its sound as unique - electric bas; Jakob Verlič -drums other masterpieces. Several plans of space nor financial assets, but furnished The Harmony of the World concert series and balanced. Its string section has 3 Sep, 20:00 Plečnik’s never realized visions are also with a lot of zeal. The palace of Narodni Admission free been called „velvety”, the sound of Tobačna on display. The Cathedral of Freedom, Dom became its home in 1925, and the brass is „golden”, the timbre Admission free Siddharta Preparty ft. 7 Days in May, the master’s vision of the Slovenian since 1933 an extensive permanent of the woodwinds is „distinctly MRFY & Bo (Slovenia) - rock parliament, is especially worthy of our art collection has been exhibited in it. Primož Sukič, Podgornik/Kummer Duo, personal” and the percussion have 5 Sep, 20:00 attention. Thirteen years later the Gallery became The tour will give Drašler/Jackson/Thompson Trio an international reputation. Tobačna Guided tours: every hour, on the hour a state institution and a home for all you an insight into 3 Sep, 20:00 Conductor: Daniele Gatti Admission free (the last guided tour at 17:00). A group of us. traditional Ljubljana Jakopič Gallery Soloist: Anett Fritsch – soprano may be a maximum of seven persons. Displayed along the Jakopič Promenade dishes part of the Sound Explicit – a cycle of live Programme: A. Webern, A. Berg, A. Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays, in Tivoli Park are details of works of art much-acclaimed Taste experimental sound and audio events Bruckner. holidays from the Gallery’s permanent collection Ljubljana project. which was considerably expanded The Švicarija: Community, Art and Departure point: after the renovation of the palace of Nature Ljubljana Tourist Information Narodni Dom in 2016. To recognize them 8 Feb 2018 - 6 Jan 2019, Švicarija Creative Centre, Stritarjeva ulica street as creations of our artists means to Centre belong to the Slovenian community, to Duration: The Švicarija: Community, Art and Nature participate in its happy and less happy 3 hours project encompasses a multifaceted days with that creative willpower that exhibition and a year-long programme Language options: brought into existence the National of events linking the past with the new English, Slovenian Gallery of Slovenia. vision of the Švicarija Creative Centre. Price: Drawing from the diverse history of the € 42.00 per person building, the meeting space of various models of coexistence and cooperation, You will visit five different styles of restaurants and taste four different dishes as well as five as well as the specific environment selected drinks. of domesticated nature, the building of Švicarija is imbued by reflection on history, architecture and art. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 3 Sep, 20:00, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

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Livio Minafra (Italy) - piano - jazz Barbara Jernejčič Fürst - mezzosoprano Laibach and Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra 11 Sep, 20:00 Nejc Lavrenčič - piano 7 Sep, 20:30 Križanke Summer Theatre Cankarjev dom cultural and congress 13 Sep, 19:30 centre Museum of Contemporary History Concert of lieders A vista clarinet quartet 11 Sep, 20:00 Vocal-instrumental ensemble Ridiamo Town Hall (Slovenia) Admission free 13 Sep, 20:00 Town Hall The Harmony of the World Trio Admission free 11 Sep, 21,00 Sound Explicit is a cycle of live Celica Hostel Svemirko (Croatia) - emo-macho pop + experimental sound and audio The Harmony of the World concert series Pseća Plaža (Croatia) - psychedelic surf events that represent a wide variety Admission free 13 Sep, 20:00 of genres – from sound research Kino Šiška Dixie Šok Band and various forms of improvisation 12 Sep, 20:00 Big Band KK - jazz to experimental sound projects. The Town Hall 14 Sep, 20:00 cycle was first conceived in 2003 Photo: Miro Majcen Miro Photo: Admission free in order to support independent The performance by Laibach Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Litostroj Brass Band research and creative composition Nina Strnad & Primož Grašič quartet Siddharta (Slovenia) - rock accompanied by the Lviv Marko Letonja - conductor 9 Sep, 11:00 in the field of sound art, feat. Jaka Kopač - jazz 14 Sep, 21:00 Philharmonic Orchestra will 6 Sep, 20:00 Rose garden in Tivoli Park predominantly those forms which 12 Sep, 20:00 Tivoli Hall incorporate impressive sets and Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Admission free are rarely included in Slovenian Slamič Coffeehouse visuals. centre Rok Ferengja with guests programme offerings. Sound Explicit Abbath (Norway) + Baest (Denmark) + At the prompting of the Warsaw- Programme: R. Strauss / G. Ligeti / H. 15 Sep, 20:00 presents many premieres, as well Kholn (Slovenia) - metal based Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Berlioz Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre as one-off events which are only 9 Sep, 20:00 as part of the international Season opening concert Charity concert of the Red Cross Slovenia organized once within a cycle. cultural programme Polska 100 Kino Šiška Maja Založnik & Moonshine accompanying Poland’s centenary Ursula Aščić - harp 7 Sep, 20:00 of regaining independence, the 10 Sep, 20:00 Tobačna group has prepared a unique Town Hall Admission free interpretation of Polish composer Admission free Andrzej Panufnik’s Third Symphony, Laibach and Lviv Philharmonic Mina Fina, Irena Tomažin, Maja Osojnik known as the Sinfonia Sacra. Orchestra and Primož Sukič The programme also includes an Filip Rathé - conductor Re_humanisation III. concert series adaptation of Laibach’s original 7 Sep, 20:30 10 Sep, 20:00 music for the Anton Podbevšek Križanke Summer Theatre Kino Šiška Theatre’s production of Also Sprach 66th Festival Ljubljana Zarathustra. Nina Strnad & Primož Grašič quartet The Coquette Jazz Band (Austria) feat. Jaka Kopač - jazz 8 Sep, 21:00 10 Sep, 20:00 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Slamič Coffeehouse centre SweetJazz 2018 Litostroj Brass band 11 Sep, 18:00 Boat on the Ljubljanica River

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Klapa Kampanel, klapa Iskon, Mladen Bežigrad Brass Band RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra Grdović, Meri Cetinić 23 Sep, 11:00 En Shao - conductor 19 Sep, 20:00 Rose garden in Tivoli Park Dan Zhu - violin Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre Admission free 27 Sep, 19:30 Evening of Dalmatian music Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Gala opening concert on the 100th centre Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra anniversary of the Ljubljana Opera Programme: A. Lajovic / L. Bernstein / Julian Rachlin - conductor Orchestra B. Bartók 20 Sep, 19:30 23 Sep, 19:30 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Opera house Zlatko & Optimisti - rap Programme: S. Osterc / W. A. Mozart / P. 28 Sep, 20:00 Wild Strings Trio (Slovenia) I. Tchaikovsky Ljubljana Castle 25 Sep, 21:00 Marko Hatlak explores music with Čedahuči - pop Celica Hostel Marko Hatlak Band - rock, pop, funk an accordion. He’s won us over 20 Sep, 20:00 The Harmony of the World concert series 29 Sep, 20:00 with numerous successful and SiTi Theatre Admission free Kino Šiška varied projects, collaborating with Siddharta (Slovenia) - rock String Sextet Quintet Piazzolleky (Slovenia) - tango Litostroj Brass Band acclaimed authors from all over 14 Sep, 21:00, Tivoli Hall 21 Sep, 19:30 26 Sep, 20:00 30 Sep, 11:00 – Joss Stone, Magnifico, Tommy City Museum of Ljubljana Slamič Coffeehouse Rose garden in Tivoli Park Emmanuel, Vlatko Stefanovski, Siddharta, a five-member Slovenian Ljubljana Vič Brass Band Concert in tribute to Tomaž Lorenz Admission free Stefan Milenkovich, Iztok Mlakar La Jungle (Belgium) - math, kraut, rock band,is one of the major names 16 Sep, 11:00 Admission free … Hatlak discovers music in his techno + Schnellertollermeier Ljubljana Vič Brass Band on the Slovenian music scene. It Rose garden in Tivoli Park own way, unconcerned with genre Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra (Switzerland) - rock 2 Oct, 18:00 was formed in 1995, when four Admission free labels – all that matters to him are Julian Rachlin - conductor 26 Sep, 21:00 Boat on the Ljubljanica River friends got together and named the passion and goose bumps when Altin Gün (Netherlands), funk - rock + 21 Sep, 19:30 Metelkova mesto alternative culture themselves after a well-known playing live. That’s the key he selects Igralom (Serbia) - rock Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre centre book by Hermann Hesse because the musical guests and bands he 17 Sep, 20:00 Programme: S. Osterc / W. A. Mozart / P. they liked the sound of it. Soon they performs with. started developing their own sound. Kino Šiška I. Tchaikovsky They wanted it to be different – they Cirkusz-Ka (Hungary) Severa Gjurin and the band - jazz enriched it with the saxophone and 18 Sep, 21:00 21 Sep, 20:00 keyboards. Together they developed Celica Hostel Ljubljana Castle their own sound, a sound they like The Harmony of the World concert series MRFY (Slovenia) - rock + The Mint to call Siddharta sound. Admission free (Slovenia) - grunge Philharmonia Orchestra London 21 Sep, 20:00 Esa-Pekka Salonen - conductor Kino Šiška 19 Sep, 20:00 Celebration of the 9th anniversary of Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Kino Šiška centre Čedahuči - pop Programme: A. Schönberg / A. Bruckner 21 Sep, 20:00 Eddie Luis und die Gnadenlosen XL SiTi teater (Austria) Željko Bebek (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 19 Sep, 20:00 - rock Slamič Coffeehouse Marko Hatlak Band - rock, pop, funk 21 Sep, 20:00 29 Sep, 20:00, Kino Šiška “Hot jazz 1925” Tivoli Hall Photo: Boštjan Tacol

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Ana Borralho & João Galante: Trigger Kovačič, Orešković, Šimenc, Rupnik: Nor Open Kitchen of Happiness (Portugal) Does the Lightening Travel in a Straight Fridays, 10:00 - 21:00 Anti Status Quo Companhia De Dança: Line - premiere of a dance performance Pogačarjev trg square Of Flesh and Concrete (Brazil) Authors, co-creators, performers: The Open Kitchen, a food market, offers 1 Sep, 19:30 Katjuša Kovačič, Nikola Orešković, Liza you an opportunity to meet Slovenian Mladi levi Festival Šimenc, Urša Rupnik chefs, taste Slovenian and international 13 and 14 Sep, 20:00 dishes, and learn about different N. Upper, R. Hribar: Tobelia – dance PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana methods of food preparation. In case performance of bad weather, the market may be Performers and co-creators of W. A. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro cancelled. movement: Rosana Hribar, Maša Kagao - opera Knez, Urša Rupnik 15 Sep, 19:30 The Countryside in the City 7 and 8 Sep, 22:00 Opera house 1 Sep, 9:00 - 14:00 PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana Pogačarjev trg square (Central market) J. Nadj: The Dark Connection – dance The event will present foods and Beton Ltd.: Grosse Erwartungen (Big performance traditions of the Slovenian countryside. Expectations) EnKnapGroup Farm produce and different products National Costumes and Clothing Heritage Festival 7 – 9 Sep, 20:00 24 Sep, 20:00 from different farms in Slovenia will be 6 - 9 Sep Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power Španski borci available from market stalls. Saturday Station E. Belak Gupta: Blue Ink – premiere of a stroll among the food stands at the power, rumours are a weapon. Rumours Lutke / Puppets 2018 The town of Kamnik near Ljubljana J. W. Goethe: Faust – theatre dance performance Ljubljana’s Central market will be the form the background of the creative 12 -16 Sep, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre (old town centre) performance Co-creation and dance: Jerca Rožnik opportunity to see, taste and buy many reflections that Indigo will share with 14th Biennial of Contemporary Puppetry The National Costumes and Clothing 10 Sep, 21:00 Novak and Ivanov Gábor delights from Slovenian farms. festivalgoers via exhibitions, concerts, Art Lutke 2018 Heritage Festival, held in the old SNT Drama 26 – 28 Sep, 20:00 Admission free performances, lectures and debates Every other year the International town centre of Kamnik, includes 66th Festival Ljubljana PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana with noted artists and theorists from Puppetry Art Festival hosts a selection costumed processions featuring folk Boatmen’s Fights English surtitles Slovenia and abroad. of puppet shows designed for children, costumes of different regions of Ballet 100 - ballet 2 Sep, 12:00 – 19:00 Festival programme: www.indigo.ooo young people and adults. The Festival Slovenia and other countries. France Marolt Academic Folklore Group 29 Sep, 19:30 Trnovski pristan embankment is organised by The Ljubljana Puppet The festival, first held in 1966, 13 Sep, 18:15 Opera house It used to be a tradition of the Ekopraznik (Organic Fair) Theatre. has a long history of drawing Dvorni trg square Ballet is performed to recorded music. Ljubljanica river boatmen’s guild to 8 Sep, 8:00 – 19:00 www.lgl.si attention to heritage clothing and Slovenian folk dances organize boatmen’s fights. The winners Pogačarjev trg square (Central market) emphasizing the importance of Admission free of the fights, which are first mentioned The Beer and Burger Fest Ekopraznik (Organic Fair) in Ljubljana respect for national costumes as in written records in 1092, were highly 29 Sep, 11:00 – 23:00 is the biggest yearly open air “organic part of cultural heritage. Due to regarded by other members of the Pogačarjev trg square (Central market) food and more” fair in Slovenia. The its high quality programme, it has boatmen’s guild. Come to the city’s beer and burger 17th edition of Ekopraznik will host been listed among the international Mini course of Slovenian language Admission free festival, which will bring together some 70 exhibitors, among them festivals under the patronage Wednesdays the diverse offerings from Slovenian Indigo Festival: Rumors some 50 Slovenian organic farms, of the International Council of 17:00 - 18:30 brewers and burger chefs. Beer and 5 –7 Sep offering organic food and wine, organic Organizations of Folklore Festivals at Slovenian Tourist Information burgers make a perfect combination Indigo quarter cosmetics, but also aromatherapy and and Folk Art (CIOFF). Centre, Krekov trg 10 that never goes out of fashion. The The third edition of the Indigo festival is building materials. The highlights of the The course is free of charge. No Beer and Burger Fest gives you an dedicated to rumours: a silent force that fair will be live culinary demonstrations registration is necessary for the opportunity to taste both staple affects public opinions and behaviour. and a raffle with over 40 organic prizes. course. Just come to Slovenian Slovenian burgers and beers and get Rumours affect personal decisions Entrance and raffle participation are Tourist Information Centre on to know the flavours and methods of and relations between people and free. Wednesday 5 minutes before 17:00. preparation that push the boundaries of communities. Rumours are politics,

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