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November 2018 Highlights in November EventsNovember 2018 Highlights in November Festivals 4 nove ber Exhibitions 6 mmm Bryan Adams Music 8 Theatre, Opera, GRAND Dance 12 FINALE Miscellaneous 14 23. NOVEMBER 2. – 30. 11. 2018 ZAVOD BIG DUNAJSKA 123 LJUBLJANA Edited and published by: Slovenia is a hot new destination for lovers Ljubljana Tourism, Krekov of fine cuisine and wine. trg 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, T: +386 1 306 45 83, E: [email protected], So you really shouldn’t miss W: www.visitljubljana.com the second edition of November Gourmet Ljubljana. Photography: Archives of Ljubljana Tourism and A whole month of special individual event organisers culinary events, Prepress: Prajs d.o.o. happenings and tastings will culminate in Printed by: Collegium Graphicum d.o.o., Ljubljana, a one-of-a-kind November 2018 final event. Ljubljana Gourmet Bryan Adams 2 - 30 Nov (Canada) - rock Ljubljana Tourism is not The November Gourmet festival presents 22 Nov liable for any inaccurate Be there and taste Ljubljana’s top culinary offer. In addition Bryan Adams is one of the most exciting the best Slovenia to the main events, such as Ljubljana live musicians in the world and his information appearing in has to offer. Wine Route, Slovenian Wine Festival and energetic performance, effortless stage the calendar. the closing event, November Gourmet presence and incredible vocals are Finale, several venues around the city guaranteed to thrill and entertain. For more host a broad variety of exciting events, P. 10 information visit workshops and tastings. www.gourmet-lj.si P. 14 Liffe LGBT Festival 7 - 18 Nov 24 Nov - 2 Dec Committed to caring for the 29th International Film Festival Liffe Different venues environment, we print on will present the best and the latest With its more than 34rd-year history, the recycled paper. in European and international film Ljubljana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Share our commitment by production. enjoys the reputation of being Europe’s sharing this publication with P. 14 oldest festival of the kind your friends. P. 15 Ljubljana loves food. www.visitljubljana.com 3 Gourmet_148,5x210+3_Events.indd 1 17/10/2018 14:30 Festivals Exhibitions Riko Debenjak: Surway exhibition Stojan Kerbler - retrospective To mark its one hundredth 20th Slowind Festival 2018 9 Aug - 11 Nov, International Centre of 25 Oct - 27 Jan 2019, Museum of Modern anniversary, the National Gallery of 6 - 20 Nov, Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Graphic Arts Art Slovenia presents the life and work Riko Debenjak (1908-1987) established Stojan Kerbler is one of the main figures of Ivana Kobilca, one of the most himself as a leading representative in the field of Slovene photography well-known Slovenian artists of all of contemporary colour experimental over last fifty years. The present times. Together with her friends and printmaking. The beginning of retrospective covers a wide range of acquaintances like Rosa Pfäffinger, Debenjak’s “classical” work in Kerbler’s works, from the late 1950s Maria Slavona and Käthe Kollwitz, printmaking is marked by the year to the early 1990s and illustrates the she was one of the first female 1953. The exhibition is dedicated to the master photographer’s search for painters of the modern age that 110th anniversary of the artist’s birth. a suitable photographic idiom, the succeeded in a traditionally male Also displayed along with the graphic changes in and development of his field. prints are the artist’s other works: photographic expression that were Her first retrospective in forty years drawings, paintings, illustrations and the result of his uncompromising will present around 130 works of printing plates. The exhibition was vision and his humanity as well as art from all periods and of different produced in cooperation with the his inner development, which in turn genres. Besides popular works, like Debenjak family, the Kanal ob Soči Riko well serve to illustrate the inner logic Woman Drinking Coffee, Summer, Debenjak Gallery and the Museum of of his changes in style and subject Children in Grass and Mira Pintar, Modern Art. matter. The exhibition features 174 many lesser-known paintings will The wind quintet Slowind was Slowind with friends Klangforum Wien Tuesdays at 18:00 guided tours in photographs, a showcase of a rich be presented; together, the pictures established 22 years ago, and 6 Nov, 20:00 13 Nov, 20:00 English. selection of magazines, catalogues and reflect Kobilca’s creative power has become the most active new Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Open: 10:00-18:00. Closed: Mondays other publications with contributions and the influences of European art music ensemble in Slovenia. As Programme: L. Lim / B. Ferneyhough / Programme: R. Saunders / N. Šenk / B. on Kerbler’s work, as well as two centres. well as performing practically B. Alois Zimmermann / C. Czernowin / O. Furrer documentaries about the photographer. Sundays at 10:00 guided tours in all of the works of the standard Neuwirth / N. Šenk / U. Chin Klangforum Wien & Slowind Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays English. wind quintet repertoire, Slowind 15 Nov, 20:00 Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursday 10:00 - the members of Slowind 6 Nov, 22:30 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall 20:00. Closed: Mondays have developed a reputation as Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Programme: B. Furrer / E. Poppe / N. uncompromising performers of Programme: I. Mundry / M. Jarrell / G. Šenk / V. Žuraj / V. Globokar contemporary music, from the Dimitrov classics of the avant-garde to works Slowind by the youngest composers, many Jack Quartet & Klemen Leben 20 Nov, 20:00 of whom are not yet established 7 Nov, 20:00 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall but are very promising composers Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Programme: L. Lebič / U. Pompe / N. of our time. By commissioning new Programme: S. Schroeder / M. Pintscher Šenk / M. Bonin / L. Vrhunc / V. Globokar works, Slowind constantly / E. Carter / L. Lim / I. Xenakis encourages young Slovenian composers and is glad to respond to invitations to perform new compositions on many Need a ticket? European stages. Tickets are for the majority of www.slowind.eu cultural, entertainment, sports and other events available from Tourist Information Centres and online on Ivana Kobilca (1861-1926) - paintings www.visitljubljana.com. 21 Jun - 10 Feb 2019, National Gallery Recommended! 4 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 5 Exhibitions Taste Ljubljana Exhibitions Let’s Celebrate Together. Hundred art. The exhibition was produced by Food Tour Plečnik Collection Ljubljana. History. City. Years of the National Gallery of International Centre of Graphic Arts The new permanent exhibition at the Permanent exhibition at the City Slovenia in cooperation with the Institute for Wednesdays and Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the Museum of Ljubljana 4 Aug - 4 Nov, Tivoli Park, Jakopič the Protection of Cultural Heritage Saturdays at 12:00 most important projects of the late A new permanent exhibition about Prestigious exhibition of original Promenade of Slovenia, the City Museum of Other times can be arranged for architect. Plečnik’s creativity comes the history of Ljubljana. How well do artfully made jewellery, tableware, groups of more than ten people On the 18th of September, 1918, the Ljubljana and the Arrea Architecture by prior request. to life through the plans, models and you know the rich history of Slovenian and other items of artistic merit. National Gallery Society was founded - Bureau. photographs of his creations such as the capital? Pile-dwellers, Emona, Middle The gold items from the imperial having neither art holdings or exhibition Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays Zacherl House in Vienna, Prague Castle, and New Ages, the 20th and 21st treasury of the Ming dynasty, more space nor financial assets, but furnished the National and University Library in centuries… what is the history of precisely, from the Wanli period Zoran Mušič (1909-2005) with a lot of zeal. The palace of Narodni Ljubljana, the Ljubljana Central Market, Ljubljana? A chronological presentation (1573-1620), are great masterpieces Permanent exhibition at the National Dom became its home in 1925, and Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael of Ljubljana’s millennia of heritage with of gold crafts, and they show the Gallery since 1933 an extensive permanent at the Ljubljana Marshes and numerous precious authentic artefacts, like the sophisticated taste as well as the Zoran Mušič, the best known 20th art collection has been exhibited in it. other masterpieces. Several plans of world’s oldest wooden wheel with an economic power of the famous century Slovenian-born painter and a Thirteen years later the Gallery became Plečnik’s never realized visions are also axle, is now on display on Ljubljana. rulers. Jewellery, tableware, and man with more than one homeland, a state institution and a home for all on display. The Cathedral of Freedom, History. City. exhibition. In our globalised other items of artistic merit show spent most of his life between of us. the master’s vision of the Slovenian world, heritage just might be what the social position of their owners, Venice and Paris. He mostly painted Displayed along the Jakopič Promenade parliament, is especially worthy of our differentiates cities the most, and it also while depictions of dragons with landscapes, still lives, portraits, in Tivoli Park are details of works of art attention. shaped our capital’s identity. Therefore, five claws and phoenixes reveal Dalmatian donkeys and horses, trees, from the Gallery’s permanent collection Guided tours: every hour, on the hour the exhibition proudly highlights local connections with the imperial views of Venice, double portraits with which was considerably expanded (the last guided tour at 17:00). A group peculiarities, stories of everyday life in family. These items rarely leave his wife Ida, and poignant self-portraits after the renovation of the palace of may be a maximum of seven persons.
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