Events May 2017 Sightseeing Tours Highlights in May

Historical city centre and castle Take a walk around the historical city centre, explore major attractions and . Daily at 11:00 Index From: in front the Town Hall (duration 2 hours) Language: Slovene, English Price: adults € 13, children € 6,5, with Ljubljana Tourist card free of charge.

Walking tour of Plečnik’s Ljubljana Festivals 4 An exploration of the life and work of the greatest Slovene architect. Exhibitions 5 Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12:00 From: Tourist Information Centre – TIC (duration 3 hours) Language: Slovene, English Price: € 20 Music 8

Taste Ljubljana food tour Opera, theatre, dance 12 Taste of 5 different dishes and 5 selected drinks included. Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12:00 Miscellaneous 13 From: Tourist Information Centre - TIC (duration 3 hours) Language: Slovene, English Price: € 38 Sports 15 Ljubljana beer lover’s experience Taste of 8 different beers and 3 snacks included, visit to Brewery Museum. Mondays and Fridays at 18:00 From: Slovenian Tourist Information Centre – STIC (duration 3 hours) Cover photo: D. Wedam 14 May 17 May – 17 June 25 – 27 May 25 May – 29 Oct Language: Slovene, English Edited and published by: Ljubljana Price: € 35 Tourism, Krekov trg 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Depeche Mode Lighting Guerrilla Druga Godba Biennial of Design Depeche Mode Ljubljana’s public Druga Godba T: +386 1 306 45 83, (BIO) Town Hall tour are considered spaces will once Festival BIO – The Biennial E: [email protected], Saturdays at 13:00 to be among the again come alive A special treat for of Design in From: in front of the Town Hall (duration 1 hour) W: www.visitljubljana.com originators of with lighting the lovers of world Ljubljana, organized Language: Slovene, English Photography: Archives of Ljubljana Price: € 5 electronic pop objects and site- music and various by Museum of Tourism and individual event organisers music. In the 1990s specific installations forms of alternative Architecture and Prepress: Prajs d.o.o. they made a name exhibited as part of music difficult to fit Design (MAO), is Printed by: Collegium Graphicum d.o.o., for themselves as the annual Lighting neatly into musical an international Ljubljana, May 2017 one of the most Guerrilla festival. categories. Druga platform for new Ljubljana Tourism is not liable for any successful bands Godba is one of approaches in inaccurate information appearing in the p. 14 of the past few Europe’s best design. calendar. decades. festivals of its kind. p. 5 p. 10 p. 4 Committed to caring for the environment, we print on recycled paper. Share our commitment by Information and ticket sale: Tourist Information Centre - TIC and sharing this publication with Slovenian Tourist Information Centre – STIC your friends. www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 3 Festivals Exhibitions

A New Age is Coming! Industry - Damjan Gale: The Architect of Light, a 33nd International Druga Godba Festival Labour - Capital retrospective photography exhibition 25-27 May, various venues 25 Oct - 21 May, City Museum of Ljubljana 28 Mar - 4 Jun, Jakopič Gallery The exhibition on industry in Ljubljana Damjan Gale was an architect that BIO, organized by Museum of also topicalizes the ever changing photographed and a photographer Architecture and Design, is an relations between labour and capital. that put architecture in the focus of international platform for new It depicts how Ljubljana dealt with his interests. He knew and understood approaches in design. BIO was new industries as they arrived. The architecture in the entirety of its process founded back in 1963, making it the show starts off with the sugar refinery of creation. The same can be said for first design biennial in Europe. Today on the banks of the river. his photography - from the process of BIO is structured as a long-term It goes on to depict capitalists of the taking photographs, setting up motifs, collaborative process, where teams time, businessmen whose vision made work in the darkroom and all the way of designers and multidisciplinary Ljubljana into an industrial hub. At the to the final presentation - there were agents develop alternatives to same time, the exhibits tell the story no coincidences in this process, and the established systems. With curators of the life of the proletariat. The rise final result always had a sublime sense like Jan Boelen, Angela Rui and of industry in the late 19th and early of balance between the aesthetic and Maja Vardjan, BIO works as a testing 20th century takes a sharp turn after documentary. ground, where design is employed WWII, when factories were nationalised His photographic oeuvre consists as a tool to question and improve and many capitalists chased out of the of interpretations of contemporary our daily life, among different and Druga Godba, held for the 33nd Druga godba Drago Ivanuša »The Raising of the country. The end of the war marked the Slovenian architecture, the baroque multidisciplinary design approaches year running, is a festival of world Jenny Hval Voice« beginning of the ascent of large socialist in and works of Jože Plečnik. that touch systems, production, music and, to a lesser extent, 26 May, 20:00 27 May, 15:00 enterprises. The next break came in the Especially important in his oeuvre are services, scientific research, contemporary jazz. It ranks among Kino Šiška Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre 1990s, when Slovenia shed socialism and Plečnik’s columns, with which Gale was humanistic issues, unexpected Europe’s best festivals of alternative enterprises were privatised. a regular guest of exhibitions at home conditions for the production of our music difficult to fit neatly into Inna Modja Bratko Bibič, Otto Lechner & Die Wiener Sundays at 16:30 guided tours in English. and abroad. During his lifetime and habitat. musical categories. 26 May, 21:30 Ziehharmoniker Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00 - after his premature death, Gale never Open: 10:00 – 18:00. Closed: Druga Godba is well known for Kino Šiška 27 May, 16:30 21:00. Closed: Mondays received an expert evaluation and a Mondays bringing to Ljubljana leading Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Gaye Su Akyol artists from different backgrounds 26 May, 23:15 Derek Gripper and musical traditions who draw Biennial of Design (BIO) mesto alternative culture centre 27 May, 18:00 inspiration from traditional musics 25 May – 29 Oct, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre from around the world and are Black String Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) committed to creative musical 26 May, 00:00 Širom exploration. Due to its enthusiasm Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre 27 May, 20:30 for ‘discovering’ less well-known Kino Šiška Pixvae music from around the globe, its 26 May, 00:45 Yasmine Hamdan line-up is often ahead of trends. Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre 27 May, 21.45 The influential British magazine Kino Šiška Songlines has ranked Druga Kondi Band Godba among the world’s 25 best 26 May, 1:30 Love & Revenge international music festivals several Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre 27 May, 23:15 times. Kino Šiška Danilo Ivanuša: Knedl www.drugagodba.si Predstava za otroke od 3. leta 27 May, 11:00 Park pri CD Admission free 4 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 5 Exhibitions Exhibitions

detailed overview of his work. However, everyday tools that began back in 2012 Realists, and the famous masterpieces Slovenian History Plečnik Collection due to the extraordinary quality and and is still going on. The series consists of Slovenian Impressionism. Ljubljana Castle The new permanent exhibition at the Capa’s retrospective exhibition the wealth of his oeuvre, it is necessary of portraits of street sellers carrying The gallery also keeps one of the largest Slovenian History, Ljubljana Castle’s Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the features 97 black-and-white to understand the author as a key their own goods, slum dwellers, and still pieces of Baroque art in Ljubljana, the permanent exhibition, shows the most important projects of the late photographs showing pivotal events representative of Slovenian architectural lifes of common daily utensils. The idea Fountain of Three Carniolan Rivers by dynamic and architect. Plečnik’s creativity comes from the five wars he documented photography. is to enrich the series with everyday Francesco Robba, whose original site in Ljubljana. Slovenian territory, lying at to life through the plans, models and in his brief life: from the Spanish Civil Sundays at 16:30 guided tours in English. objects from the people of Ljubljana, front of the Town Hall is now occupied the junction of natural routes between photographs of his creations such as the War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays with a special focus on local minorities. by its replica. the Alps, the Adriatic Sea and the Zacherl House in Vienna, Castle, World War II including the Battle of For three days, Filippo Romano and Apart from the above, the National Pannonian Plain, has been the point of the National and University Library in Normandy on Omaha Beach and the Gionata Gatto: GeoMerce: Turning Silvia Orazi will go around Ljubljana Gallery houses a room called Gal’s convergence of different peoples and Ljubljana, the , liberation of Paris, the 1948 Arab- Plants into Miners portraying and interviewing people, Room, where children’s and family cultures since prehistory. The exhibition Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael Israeli War, and the First Indochina BIO 25: Associated Project asking them to choose and pose with events are held on a regular basis, an covers the Slovenian history from the at the Ljubljana Marshes and numerous War. The exhibition also presents a 24 – 28 May, Kresija Gallery their own everyday object. extensive library, a gallery shop with a earliest traces of human presence other masterpieces. Several plans of series of portraits of his friends and Certain plants absorb heavy metals Open: 10:00 - 13.00 and 14.00 - 18.00, reading corner, and a café. (200,000 BC) to the landmark events Plečnik’s never realized visions are also artists, including Ernest Hemingway, from the soil, and accumulate them Saturdays 10.00 - 12.00 and 12.30 - 14.00, Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00- following Slovenia’s independence in on display. The Cathedral of Freedom, William Faulkner, Henri Matisse and in their leaves. Starting from there, Sundays 10.00 - 13.00. Closed: holidays 20:00. Closed: Mondays, 1 May 1991 and presents the societies of the the master’s vision of the Slovenian Pablo Picasso. GeoMerce reimagines the way we think Admission free different periods, the state formations, parliament, is especially worthy of our Apart from Henri Cartier-Bresson, of agriculture. Given that some heavy Zoran Mušič (1909-2005) the political, social and economic attention. Capa was one of the most celebrated metals are also listed on international National Gallery Permanent exhibition at the National circumstances, migrations, transport, Guided tours: every hour, on the hour founding members of the Magnum commodities markets, this project The National Gallery, Slovenia’s foremost Gallery culture, architecture and the everyday (the last guided tour at 17:00). A group Photos agency in Paris in 1947; reinterprets fields and crops as financial museum of historical art, holds the Zoran Mušič, the best known 20th life. may be a maximum of seven persons. in commemoration of the 70th assets. In the installation, the absorption country’s largest collection of fine art century Slovenian-born painter Open: 10:00 - 20:00 daily Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Sundays 10:00 - anniversary of its existence the process of plants is tracked and crossed- from the High Middle Ages to the 20th and a man with more than one 14:00. Closed: Mondays, holidays exhibition materials are being referenced with the real-time values century. It also houses a permanent homeland, spent most of his life supplied by this notable photo of the accumulated metals, imagining exhibition of works by Zoran Mušič between Venice and Paris. He mostly agency. a future in which the lines between (1909-2005), one of Europe’s leading painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Sundays 10:00 - agriculture and finance are blurred. modernist painters, and various Dalmatian donkeys and horses, trees, 14:00. Closed: Mondays, holidays temporary exhibitions. views of Venice, double portraits with The Common\Uncommon Object © The National Gallery’s permanent his wife Ida, and poignant self-portraits Liveinslums collection, divided into sections depicting him as an old man. His visual Robert Capa - Retrospective photo exhibition BIO 25: Associated Project according to historical periods, is motifs were always related to the 5 Apr - 27 Aug, CD Gallery 29 May – 11 June, Kresija Gallery comprised of nearly 600 works by Slovenian region of Kras and its typical Installation is putting on display some Slovenian and European artists. Among scenes. He became world famous with elements from the Liveinslums Ngo’s other things, it includes medieval sacred his series of paintings We Are Not the collection of daily objects from the art, works of art by the Baroque artists, Last, in which he relived the scenes he Mathare ghetto in Nairobi, an archive of neoclassical paintings, works by the experienced in the Dachau concentration camp. Ljubljana’s National Gallery displays the world’s only permanent survey exhibition of Mušič’s work, which explores the entire range of the famous Need a ticket? artist’s painting techniques. Tickets are for the majority of Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00- cultural, entertainment, sports and 20:00. Closed: Mondays other events available from Tourist Information Centres and online on www.visitljubljana.com. Recommended!

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Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Two Year Vacation (Sweden) - disco Romana Krajnčan & Jure Ivanušič - pop Simon Krečič – conductor 8 May, 21:00 11 May, 20:30 Peter Šavli - moderator Prulček Bar SiTi theatre 5 May, 15:30 Svetlana Makarovič and guests - Shadows Play (Slovenia) - rock’n blues Slovenian Philharmonic Hall chanson 11 May, 21:00 Programme: D. Bavdek / T. Burkat / N. 9 May, 20:30 Prulček Bar Firšt / B. Glavina / R. Kamplet / Ž. Stanič Anoushka Shankar - sitar; Manu SiTi theatre / D. Veber Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Delago - hang & electronic drums; Slovene composers to the youth Myriad3 (Canada) - jazz Stefanos Tsialis - conductor Sanjeev Shankar - shehnai; Tom 9 May, 21:00 Tina Žerdin - harp Farmer - double bass & keyboards Urška Majdič – soul-rock Prulček Bar Sera Goesch - soprano Anoushka Shankar, who is also 5 May, 20:00 12 May, 19:30 as innovative as the father, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Mak Grgić - guitar Cankarjev dom cultural and congress the legendary Ravi Shankar in centre 10 May, 19:30 centre performing her music, by breaking Society of Slovene Composers Jadranka Juras Jazz Quintet Programme: D. Škerl / R. Glière / S. boundaries between traditional Programme: L. Berio / H. Cengiz Eren / N. 5 May, 20:00 Prokofiev Indian classical music and working Salif Keita (Mali) - afro pop Kuhar / I. Lunder / P. Šavli / N. Šenk Stari trg street with new sounds and art forms. She 10 May, 20:00, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Admission free Hulahoop (Slovenia) - pop, UNESCO International Jazz Day won no fewer than five Grammy® 12 May, 21:00 Admission free Salif Keita (Mali) - afro pop nominations. Following the One of the most prominent African Lilly Hates Roses (Poland) - indie-pop Prulček Bar 10 May, 20:00 success of her 2013 album, Traces musicians of all time and one of the 2 May, 21:00 Markus Krispel / Matija Schellander / Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Academy Choir Tone Tomšič University of You, Anoushka Shankar returns most distinguished voices of West Prulček Bar Szilveszter Miklós (Austria/Slovenia/ centre of Ljubljana with an innovative, cutting-edge African music since the 1970s. Keita, Hungary), Philippe Lauzier / Éric Mr No Money (Italy) - rock’n roll 13 May, 19:30 programme addressing themes who first appeared in Ljubljana at Normand (Canada) Kukushai (Slovenia/) - jazz- 3 May, 21:00 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall of movement, asylum, refugees; the Druga Godba Festival in Križanke 5 May, 20:00 pop-punk-experimental music Prulček Bar a topic that deeply inspired the in 1996, has not aged a day. Salif’s Vodnikova domačija 10 May, 21:00 creative process whilst composing new album, produced by Michael Ljubljanski solisti Improvised music Kino Šiška the music for Land of Gold. League of Snarky Puppy, bears Žiga Petrič - drums; Aris Vehovec - Lube Duše - funk Infuzija Funk - funk eloquent testimony to his undying oboe; Mihael Mitev - bassoon 5 May, 21:00 10 May, 21:00 youth. 4 May, 19:30 Prulček Bar Prulček Bar Salif Keita, vocal; Bah Kouyate, Slovenian Philharmonic Hall backing vocal; Aminata Dante, Programme: E. Séjourné / A. Pasculli / H. St. Stanislaus’ Institute choirs and Annemarie Glavič – flute backing vocal; Djessou Mory Kante, Villa-Lobos / B. Bartók orchestra Nika Deželak – saxophone guitar; Harounah Samake, N’goni; 6 May, 18:00 11 May, 19:30 Buh Blues Project - blues Molobaly Kone, drums; Abou Cisse, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress 4 May, 21:00 sequencer centre Sounds of the youth in Union Hotel Prulček Bar Admission free Neofonía Nikola Matošič Trio - jazz Steven Loy - conductor Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra 5 May, 14:00 7 May, 20:00 Stefanos Tsialis - conductor Street food market BTC Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Tina Žerdin - harp UNESCO International Jazz Day centre Sera Goesch - soprano Admission free Programme: Ch. Bertrand / M. Feldman 11 May, 19:30 / C. de Castellarnau / U. Pompe / Ch. Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Anoushka Shankar Bertrand centre 13 May, 20.00 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Programme: D. Škerl / R. Glière / S. Prokofiev 8 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 9 Music Music

Oren Ambarchi (Australia) Mart (Estonia) - pop Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and Keiji Haino (Japan) + Cadlag (Slovenia) Depeche Mode 16 May, 21:00 18 May, 21:00 Choir & Slovenian National Theatre + Dave Phillips (Switzerland) – 14 May, Stožice sports hall Kino Šiška Prulček Bar Maribor Choir experimental music Sonica Series XIX Theodor Guschlbauer - conductor 29 May, 20:00 Ethnofil music group (Hungary) Petra Froese - soprano; Marko Fink Kino Šiška Cintare vocal group – folk songs 19 May, 19:00 - bass; Nuška Drašček Rojko - alto; 16 May, 21:00 In front of Town Hall Seul Océan (Slovenia) - post rock, metal Domagoj Dorotić - tenor Pri kolovratu guesthouse Admission free 29 May, 21:00 25 May, 19:30 Admission free Budapest Days in Ljubljana Prulček Bar Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Mandolina Ljubljana Orchestra Veter Ljubljana youth choir centre Slovene Philharmonic String Chamber Andrej Zupan - conductor 19 May, 20:00 Programme: A. Bruckner: Symphony Orchestra 17 May, 19:30 Ljubljana City Museum No. 9 in D minor; Te Deum in C major, 30 May, 19:30 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Free tickets WAB 45 National Gallery Programme: pop-rock, folk, ethno and Programme: I. Kocen / D. B. Vincze / I. Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra Sóley (Iceland) - indie pop classical music Kuljerić-I. Bilić / N. Rota Gintaras Rinkevičius - conductor Josin (Germany) - vokal Lecture before the concert Mabiisi (Ghana) - hip-hop Vadim Repin - violin 25 May, 20:00 17 May, 21:00 19 May, 20:00 Kino Šiška Laurylin Band (Slovenia) - rock-metal Prulček Bar Cankarjev dom cultural and congress 30 May, 21:00 Fish on Mars (Slovenia) - Depeche Mode began their career Kreativo vocal group centre Prulček Bar Janez Dovč and Boštjan Gombač 25 May, 21:00 in 1980, when the band, originally 13 May, 19:30 Programme: P. I. Tchaikovsky / S. 18 May, 19:00 Prulček Bar Organ students of Academy of Music named Composition Of Sound, was Cankarjev dom Prokofiev / N. Rimsky-Korsakov Pri kolovratu guesthouse 31 May, 19:30 joined by the singer Dave Gahan. Slovenian Philharmony Choir and Anoushka Shankar (G. Britain) - sitar Slovene contemporary and Đavoli (Croatia) - rock-pop Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Depeche Mode are considered to be Orchestra 13 May, 20:00 humorous way 19 May, 21:00 centre among the originators of electronic SNT Maribor Choir Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Cvetličarna Free tickets pop music. RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra Theodor Guschlbauer - conductor centre After having left a significant mark Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Concrete Jelly (Italy) - blues-rock Petra Froese - soprano; Marko Fink, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra on the sound of the 1980s, they Slovenian Philharmonic Choir Orchestra (Czech republic) 19 May, 21:00 bas; Nuška Drašček Rojko - alt; Alejandro Posada - conductor further broadened the scope of their Johannes Prinz - conductor En Sha - conductor Prulček Bar Domagoj Dorotić - tenor Peter Jablonski - piano musical expression in the 1990s and Tatjana Kaučič - piano; NN - alt Igor Ardašev - piano 26 May, 19:30 Programme: S. Rahmaninov / W. Wovenhand (USA) - alter country made a name for themselves as 14 May, 19:30 18 May, 19:30 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Lutosławski / H. Villa-Lobos / A. 20 May, 20:00 one of the most successful bands of Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Márquez Kino Šiška the past few decades. In May 2017 Programme: F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy centre Programme: A. Bruckner: Symphony 1 and 2 Jun, 19:30 they are going on a world tour in / U. Krek / B. Britten / J. Brahms / R. Programme: G. Gershwin / M. Ravel Boring couple (Slovenia) – folk, jazz, No. 9 in D minor; Te Deum in C major, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress the Global Spirit Tour which will also Schumann / M. György Seiber / F. funk WAB 45 centre Gergő Kováts/Margarethe Maierhofer- promote their new album Spirit. Schubert / B. Bartók ... 20 May, 22:00 Lischka/Vid Drašler (Austria/Slovenia/ Big Band RTV Slovenia and Artbeaters Pat Metheny (USA) - jazz Vodnikova domačija Depeche Mode (G. Britain) – elektronic Hungary) Peter Ugrin - conductor 3 Jun, 19:00 music 18 May, 20:00 Supersunset (Slovenia) - rock 26 May, 20:00 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress 14 May, 20:00 Vodnikova domačija 22 May, 21:00 SiTi teater centre Stožice sports hall Improvised music Prulček Bar Stino (Slovenia) - rock Troet Band (France) - hard rock Disciplin A Kitschme () - rock Suuns (Canada) – electronics 26 May, 21:00 15 May, 21:00 Igralom (Serbia) - afro funk Haiku Garden (Slovenia) Prulček Bar Prulček Bar 18 May, 20:00 24 May, 20:00 Kino Šiška Kino Šiška

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G. Bogdanovski: 2:0 - dance performance G. Verdi: Nabucco - opera The Open Kitchen Performers: Goran Bogdanovski, Dejan 27 May, 18:00 Fridays, 10:00 - 20:00 Srhoj, Goran Tatar and Damjan Mohorko Opera house Pogačarjev trg square 13 May, 20:00 The Open Kitchen is a food market France Marolt Academy Folklore Group Kino Šiška where you can experience the delights 27 May, 19:30 of freshly cooked food prepared by L. van Beethoven: Fidelio – opera Cankarjev dom cultural and congress different Slovenian chefs right there in premiere centre front of you, on the market stalls. In case 18 May, 19:30 Tine Rožanc folklore group – veterans of bad weather, the market Opera house and Szélrózsa folklore group (Hungary) may be cancelled. J. R. Novak & L. Marič: Hweōl – dance 28 May, 10:00 – 19:00 Budapest Days in Ljubljana - „The gift debut In front of the Town Hall of Budapest to Ljubljana” Authorship, choreography, performance: Admission free 9 May, 9:00 – 20.30 Jerca Rožnik Novak and Leon Marič France Marolt Academy Folklore Group In front of the Town Hall 18 May, 20:00 28 May, 18:30 Joint concert of the students of the Liszt PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana Carmen, Favn, Bolero - ballet Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Ferenc Music Academy and the Music 9 May, 19.30, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre L. van Beethoven: Fidelio – opera centre Academy of Ljubljana, concert of the 20 and 22 May, 19:30 Youth Rajkó Ensemble (folk music), L. van Beethoven: Fidelio - opera Ballet Ensemble and Orchestra of I’ve got this really funny joke about M. Reiter: Close Ups – dance Opera house interactive sport programme of the 28 and 30 May, 19:30 the SNG Opera in balet Maribor rape... performance Hungarian Gymnastics Association, A.Kravitz: The Jewish Dog – theatre Opera house present three-piece programme performance, reflections, discussion Choreography and dance: Magdalena Street Art project 20, joint concert of performance celebrating the modern ballet of the Performance by Vanessa Place and Reiter N. Upper / R. Hribar: Tobelija – dance- the students of the Liszt Ferenc Music Miha Rodman - actor 20th century. The neoclassical ballet discussion with Mladen Dolar. 10 May, 20:00 theatre performance Academy and the Music Academy of 24 May, 20:00 evening presents choreographic 5 May, 19:00 PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana Performers and co-creators of Ljubljana, concert of the Youth Rajkó Mini Theatre creations that are either captured or Kino Šiška movement: Rosana Hribar, Maša Kagao Ensemble (folk music) at 19:00 concert B. Britten: The Turn of the Screw - opera In English language revived ballet art of the 20th century In English language Knez, Urša Rupnik of the Ethnofil Ensemble Simon Dvoršak - conductor and are prepared by reputable Admission free L. van Beethoven: Fidelio - opera 29 and 30 May, 20:00 During the day street food (Budapest Students of Academy of Music and international choreographers: 26 May, 18:00 PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana Bagel) selling, and tourist info point next G. Puccini: Madama Butterfly - opera Academy of Music chamber orchestra Valentina Turcu, Edward Clug and Opera house to the stage. 5 May, 19:30 11 - 13 May, 19:00 G. Bizet: Carmen - opera Swedish dance artist Johan Inger. Opera house Cankarjev dom cultural and congress H. Lindsay-R. Crouse: The Sound of 31 May, 19:30 Music: R. Schedrin, C. Debussy, M. centre Music - musical Opera house Ravel G. Verdi: La Traviata - opera 26 May, 19:30 Conductor: Simon Robinson 6 May, 19:30 Somiru – circus-music performance Tivoli sports hall Opera house Performers: Dana Auguštin and Thierno Musical with more than 50 singers and Diallo Carmen, Favn, Bolero - ballet actors 13 May, 18:00 Ballet Ensemble and Orchestra of the Roman wall by Mirje ulica and Barjanska N. Upper / R. Hribar: Tobelija – dance- SNG Opera in balet Maribor cesta street theatre performance premiere 9 May, 19.30 Performers and co-creators of Cankarjev dom cultural and congress G. Puccini: Madama Butterfly - opera movement: Rosana Hribar, Maša Kagao Kavalir (Gallant Helper) centre 13 May, 19:30 Knez, Urša Rupnik During summer, you can get Choreographers: V. Turcu, E. Clug, J. Inger Opera house 26 May, 20:00 around the city centre pedestrian area Triple bill of some of the most thrilling PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana by the so called Kavalir (Gallant Helper) - a small electric twentieth-century ballets vehicle running free of charge daily from 9:00 to 18:00. Telephone: +386 (0)31 666 331 or +386 (0)31 666 332. Recommended!

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Castle Days Slovenia : Germany - handball NK Olimpija Ljubljana : NK Domžale - 19 - 21 May, 9:00 – 20:00 3 May, 20:00 football The traditional march around Ljubljana Castle Stožice sports hall 13 May, 20:15 Ljubljana is one of the largest The annual Castle Days festival offers European championship qualifications Stožice stadium recreational events in Slovenia, a programme of events for the entire attracting more than 30,000 Wings for Life World Run Triglav the Rock Ljubljana - climbing family. It rounds off with an open-doors participants each year. The march 7 May, 13:00 20 May day, when visitors to Ljubljana Castle can emphasizes universal values such as The Slovenian track of Wings for Life Kongresni trg square view the exhibition Slovenian History, comradery and solidarity as well as World Run will, for the third time in row, International climbing competition see the Virtual Castle projection, and healthy lifestyle. start at the . visit the Outlook Tower free of charge. Zelena jama 2017 Cup - gymnastics The recreational Path around www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com The festival, traditionally held around 20 May Ljubljana, where the march is 16 May, commemorates the date in 1905 Harness racing for City of Ljubljana Cup Ljubljana Gymnastics Centre taking place, is a unique cultural when the mayor of Ljubljana Ivan Hribar 7 May monument. It runs along the RK Ljubljana : RAK Olimpija - rugby purchased Ljubljana Castle on behalf Stožice hypodrome course of the barb wire fence which 20 May of the city from the Austro-Hungarian surrounded Ljubljana during World Best of Snooker Oval Stanežiče playground Lighting Guerrilla Festival Monarchy. War II. The fence was built in 1942 in 17 May – 17 June, Vžigalica Gallery and surrounding area Judd Trump versus Ronnie O’Sullivan Admission free NK Olimpija Ljubljana : NK Aluminij - order to prevent contacts between 11 May, 19:00 football the city and its hinterland. Hug Tivoli sports hall 27 May Start of the Recreational March: 6:00 In 2017 the international Lighting The Secondary School Graduates’ 27 May, 9:00 – 13:00 Competition in rhytmics gymnastics Stadion Stožice - 8:00, different locations across Guerrilla festival is turning on the Parade Stritarjeva ulica street and in front of the 13 May, 10:00 Ljubljana. Start of the Three-Member lights on different streets and 19 May, 12:00 Town Hall European Cup on Wilde Waters – Ljubljana Gymnastics Centre Team Run: 9:30 for the 29km run, Ljubljana galleries for the eleventh Slovenska cesta street Lions all over the world are celebrating kayak-kanoe 9:00 for the 12.5km run; Stritarjeva consecutive year. The festival is An annual event featuring a quadrille 100th anniversary of Lions clubs RK Ljubljana : RK Maribor - rugby 31 May do 4.6. ulica street. Three-Member Team dedicated to the presentation dance performed by secondary school International, largest humanitarian 13 May Ljubljana- canoe slalom venue Run closing ceremony: 10:30 - 13:30, and popularization of works of graduates in the streets of different volunteer organisation in the world. Oval Stanežiče playground Kongresni trg square contemporary visual art where the cities in Slovenia and its neighbouring In Ljubljana 55 Lions clubs and 24 www.pohod.si main vehicle of expression is the countries, entered several editions of the Leo clubs of Slovenia will represent medium of light. This year’s festival Guinness Book of Records as a world- their rich humanitarian service, along Recreational March around Ljubljana and edition will address the theme of record-breaking synchronous dance. with special local food and dishes. Three-Member Team Run Memories. Artworks presented At 11:00 special Lions parade will be The Countryside in the City: 6 May, Path of Remembrance and Comradeship during the festival will explore held in different streets in the centre Gastronomy Products from Slovenian subjective and collective memories of Ljubljana, and special entertaining Farms as well as cultural and technical Programme with famous Slovenian 13 May, 8:00 - 14:00 heritage. Festival thus aims to stress artists Gal Gjurin, Tinkara Kovač, Nina Pogačarjev trg square various aspects of the reflection Pušlar and Aleksander Novak will take This event will present foods and of the past seen through the lens place, and at 12:15 all Lions activities traditions of the Slovenian countryside. of the present, thus encouraging will end with symbolic joined Hug, as a Gastronomic products from different viewer to question deceptiveness symbol of partnership and cooperation Slovenian farms will be available from and consistency of recollection and in humanitarian service in the past, market stalls. Those attending the event memories. present and future of lionism. will be able to purchase and taste a variety of different traditional culinary delights as well as fresh fruits and vegetables, farm cheeses, dry-cured meat products, bread and bakery products, wines, and spirits. 14 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 15 Explore with Ljubljana card & save money • admission to 15+ attractions • travel on city buses • guided city tour • 24-hour internet access

adults children (6-14 years) 24 hours: 27.00 € 16.00 € 48 hours: 34.00 € 20.00 € 72 hours: 39.00 € 23.00 €