Events May 2017 Sightseeing Tours Highlights in May Historical city centre and Ljubljana castle Take a walk around the historical city centre, explore major attractions and Ljubljana Castle. 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 Ljubljanica 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 Slovenia 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) Metelkova 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 history of Slovenia 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, Prague 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 Ljubljana Central Market, 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.