Events October 2016 Index Ljubljana European Green Capital 2016 Festivals 4
Exhibitions 7
Music 9
Opera, theatre, dance 15
Miscellaneous 17
Sports 18
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Medieval Day
1 Oct 14 Oct 30 Oct Medieval Day Cirque du Soleil: Varekai Ljubljana Marathon The Medieval Day Don’t miss the famous The Ljubljana Marathon is features a large costumed Canadian artistic ensemble a mammoth celebration of procession of medieval who “reinvented the circus” running. More and more noblemen, ladies, knights, with their new production runners from all corners of and other medieval entitled Varekai. the world participate in it characters through the p. 17 each year. streets of the historical city p. 18 centre. p. 17 www.visitljubljana.com 3 Festivals
City of Women Festival of Contemporary Arts 3 - 16 Oct, various venues
The City of Women (Mesto žensk) City of Women Laura Olalde and participants: Mural of festival is dedicated to presenting Women - collective mural painting Yoon Ga-eun: The World of Us (U-ri- contemporary women’s art practice, 5 - 16 Oct, 9:00 - 13:00, 15:00 - 19:00 deul) - film 8+ with a special emphasis on the Metelkova mesto alternative culture 3 Oct, 17:00 socially conscious part of it. Each centre Kinodvor year, it features a programme of Work in progress events relevant to a particular Chantal Akerman: No Home Movie - film Connections Beetwen Fragmented theme in the fields of art, culture 3 Oct, 20:30 Histories - opening or society. Kinodvor Ida Hiršenfelder: Digital Museum - www.cityofwomen.org Repeat projections: 8 Oct at 16:00 and 9 introduction Oct at 15:00 6 Oct, 16:00 Chantal Akerman »La chambre/The ŠKUC Gallery Room« - installation Simone Aughterlony & Phil Hayes: 4 Oct, 18:00 Show & Tell - performance Museum of Contemporary Art - MSUM 6 Oct, 20:00 Opening of the installation. Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power Kaja Lorenci: Just in Appearance Station Sometimes as Everyone Else - dance Dina Rončević & participants: premiere Car Deconstruction - durational 4 Oct, 20.30 performance/workshop 10+ Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power 7 Oct, 14:00 - 20:00 Station Srednja poklicna in strokovna šola T. Davies: A Quiet Passion - film Bežigrad 5 Oct, 19:00 Repeat performances: 8 Oct, 10:00 - Kinodvor 16:00 and 9 Oct 9:00 - 15:00
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Hahn Rowe: Sound and Performance - Simone Aughterlony & Hahn Rowe: Ida Hiršenfelder, Saša Špacal, Ana presentation of workshop Biofiction - performance Čigon: Flow - documentary film 16+ 7 Oct, 19:00 9 Oct, 20:00 12 Oct, 19:00 Španski borci Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power Ljubljana Puppet Theatre Station Ria Hartley: Recall - one-to-one Marcie Farquhar artist talk performance Maja Petrović-Šteger and Tania El 14 Oct, 18:00 7 Oct, 15:00 - 20:00 Khoury: How Do We Think the Dead, ŠKUC Gallery ŠKUC Gallery Their Bodies and Bodily Remains? - talk Repeat performances: 8 and 9 Oct, 10 Oct, 19:00 Damaris - DJ Night 12:00 - 17:00 ŠKUC Gallery 14 Oct, 23:00 Pritličje Rosana Cade: Walking:Holding - one- Olja Grubić & Živa Petrič: The Red Web to-one performance - digital performance/installation Maja Smrekar: Requiem for the Future - 7 Oct, 16:00 - 19:00 10 - 13 Oct, 17:00 - 24:00 hybrid performance 16+, premiere Pritličje Aksioma - Projet space 14 and 15 Oct, 20:30/19:00 Repeat performances: 8 and 9 Oct, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre Ana Čigon: Feminist WikiMarathon 2016 11:00 - 19:00 - intermedia event Marcia Farquhar: Acts of Clothing - Simone Aughterlony & Nic Lloyd: After 10 and 16 Oct, 12:00 - 17:00 performance life - performance ŠKUC Gallery 15 Oct, 21:00 7 Oct, 21:00 ŠKUC Gallery Lana Zdravković: How to perform Life Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power or is There Life Outside the Art - talk NinaBelle, Blönduós, Nova deViator: Station 11 Oct, 18:00 Electro Installation 2.0. - DJ night Tristiana: Nulla - DJ night ŠKUC Gallery 15 Oct, 23:00 7 Oct, 23:00 Pritličje Ana Dubljević in Milan Marković Pritljičje Matthis: Let’s Take It From the Top - Closing party Ch. Akerman: Jeanne Dielman, 23 performance 16 Oct, 18:00 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels - film 11 Oct, 20:00 Metelkova mesto alternative culture Ch. Akerman: Blow Up My Town (Saute ŠKUC Gallery centre ma ville) - film Tina Valentan: Calypso - dance 8 Oct, 15:00 performance Slovenian Cinematheque 11 Oct, 21:00 Simone Aughterlony: Everything Fits in PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana the Room - choreographic workshop Ana Dubljević, Milan Marković 8 Oct, 12:00 - 15:00 Matthis: Strawberry Fields Forever - PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana performance Liz Allbee: Imaginary Being Nina and Milan Marković Matthis: Birgit Ulher: Radio Silence No More A Letter to Haseeba - one-to-one Need a ticket? 8 Oct, 22:00 performance Tickets are for the majority of Metelkova mesto alternative culture Tania El Khoury: Gardens Speak - sound cultural, entertainment, sports and centre installation opening other events available from Tourist Concert/double bill 12 Oct, 16:00 - 20:00 Information Centres and online on Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power www.visitljubljana.com Station Recommended!
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Slowind Festival 22 - 29 Oct, various venues
Slowind Festival, organised by the SloWind festival Sculpting the sound and projecting Slovenian wind quintet Slowind, is music - international workshop Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Aldo Orvieto - dedicated to contemporary music. 25 Oct piano The quintet in collaboration with Ljubljana, University of Ljubljana, Dario Savron, Simone Beneventi - various guest musicians perform Facultuy of Arts, Department of percussion new or rarely performed works of Musicology Alvise Vidolin - live electronics, Luca music in which wind instruments Richelli - assistant Valentina Coladonato - soprano, play the leading role. This year’s 22 Oct, 20:00 Quartetto Prometeo 18th Festival Slowind 2016 is under Slovenian Philharmonic Hall 25 Oct, 20:00 artistic direction of Ivan Fedele Programme: I. Fedele Slovenian Philharmonic Hall (Italy) and will be a showcase of Programme: I. Fedele / G. Ligeti many of Ivan Fedele’s compositions Francesco D’Orazio - violin, Francesco created in the last twenty years. Abbrescia - live electronics Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra www.slowind.org 23 Oct, 20:00 Pierre-André Valade - conductor Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Francesco D’Orazio - violin Programme: I. Fedele / L. Berio / P. 27 and 28 Oct Boulez Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Programme: E. Satie / I. Fedele / S. Slowind Rachmaninov-O. Respighi / O. Respighi 24 Oct, 20:00 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Ex Novo Ensemble, Slowind with guests Programme: A. Manzoli / N. Hall / L. Francesco D’Orazio - violin Juhart / N. Šenk / I. Fedele Pasquale Corrado - conductor 29 Oct, 20:00 Bor Turel, Gregor Pirš - pre-recorded Slovenian Philharmonic Hall sound installation Programme: I. Fedele / L. Lebič / P. 24 Oct, 23:00 Corrado Slovenian Philharmonic Hall
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Doors: Spatial and Symbolic of holes. It conveys messages of its Nikola Tesla was an ingenious Passageways of Life manufacturing techniques and structure, scientist, engineer, and inventor 11 Oct 2015 - 30 Oct, Slovene use, temporal and spatial changes, and dedicated to discovering natural Ethnographic Museum diverse meanings. It also symbolizes the laws and principles. He received his This exhibition presents doors as a invisible links between different time education in Europe, but he spent part of cultural heritage, an element periods, places, and people. most of his career in the USA, where of everyday life, and an object that has The exhibition presents a great variety he developed a large number of his many different symbolic meanings. It of museum laces and others by which inventions. He took out a total of brings together all kinds of doors and the basic typology of ornamental about three hundred patents in the related objects, from the oldest known techniques, traditional and other fields of electrical and mechanical doors, keys and locks sourced from contemporary applications and multiple engineering. various museums and private collections dimensions of their use is shown. The exhibition Nikola Tesla - A Man to state- of- the- art objects. Among others, there is a collection of the Future is divided into the Exhibited doors tell stories about of laces presented of the Slovene following themed sections: The families of different social and Ethnographic Museum, which is one of System of Production, Transmission professional backgrounds from various the largest in Slovenia and Use of Alternating Current, The parts of Slovenia, both those who the Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Sundays 10:00 - Principles of Wireless Transmission doors were made by and those who 14:00 of Electrical Energy, The Bladeless used them in daily life. Turbine, Energy - The Main Subject Plečnik Collection Open 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays of Tesla’s Research, Tesla’s Doctrine, The new permanent exhibition at the and Tesla - A Modern Subcultural InterLACEd Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the Hero. Exhibits include multimedia 21 Jun - Dec Slovene Ethnographic most important projects of the late information boards, models of Museum architect. Plečnik’s creativity comes inventions, working interactive 3D Temporary exhibition by SEM to life through the plans, models and digital models, and much more. Lace is a perforated fabric made of photographs of his creations such as the Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Sundays 10:00 - textile or similar threads with patterns Zacherl House in Vienna, Prague Castle, 14:00. Closed: Mondays
Nikola Tesla - A Man of the Future 11 Apr - 6 Nov, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre
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Zoran Mušič (1909-2005) Permanent exhibition at the National Gallery
Zoran Mušič, the best known 20th the National and University Library in After viewing the exhibition, you can try century Slovenian-born painter Ljubljana, the Ljubljana Central Market, your hand at puppeteering skills. and a man with more than one Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael Open: 9:00 - 18:00 daily homeland, spent most of his life at the Ljubljana Marshes and numerous Andraž Šalamun: Paintings between Venice and Paris. He other masterpieces. Several plans of 7 Sep - 19 Oct, Bežigrad Gallery 2 mostly painted landscapes, still Plečnik’s never realized visions are also One of Slovenia’s most important artists lifes, portraits, Dalmatian donkeys on display. The Cathedral of Freedom, presents a selection of works from the and horses, trees, views of Venice, the master’s vision of the Slovenian 2014. 16 larger works on acrylic and jute double portraits with his wife parliament, is especially worthy of our are displayed. His paintings explore Ida, and poignant self-portraits attention. realms between gestural abstraction depicting him as an old man. His Guided tours: every hour, on the hour and expressiveness. visual motifs were always related (the last guided tour at 17:00). Groups Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Saturdays 10:00 - to the Slovenian region of Kras and must not contain more than seven 14:00. Closed: Sundays, Mondays its typical scenes. He became world people. famous with his series of paintings Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays We Are Not the Last, in which he Puppet Museum at Ljubljana Castle relived the scenes he experienced Slovenia is a country with a rich tradition in the Dachau concentration camp. of puppeteering. The Puppet Museum’s Ljubljana’s National Gallery displays permanent exhibition, set up by the the world’s only permanent survey Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, introduces exhibition of Mušič’s work. The you to the history of puppeteering majority of exhibited works come in Slovenia and the creativity of from the Ljuban, Milada and Vanda contemporary Slovenian puppeteers, Mušič Collection, owned by the presents the most popular puppet family of the artist’s brother. characters, and gives you an insight Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00- into puppeteering techniques and the 20:00. Closed: Mondays process of creating a puppet show. 8 www.visitljubljana.com Music
Svetlana Makarovič with guests - Kris Defoort Diving Poet Society chansons (Hungary) - world music 1 Oct, 20:00 4 Oct, 20:00 Ljubljana Puppet Theatre Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Vevče Brass band 2 Oct, 11:00 Haze’evot (Israel) - indie rock Novi trg square 4 Oct, 20:00 Bar Prulček Slim Cessna’s Auto Club (USA) - country 2 Oct, 20:00 Ricardo & Aldemaromania trio - Latino Kino Šiška jazz 5 Oct, 20:00 PianLola (Germany) - Berlin chanson/ Slamič Coffeehouse tango music 2 Oct, 20:00 Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Grand Hotel Union Uroš Lajovic - conductor Michael Martin Kofler - flute Sex Demons (Slovenia) - rock The world famous Italian singer 6 Oct, 19:30 Attic Mist (Slovenia) - hard rock Zucchero started his career in the Cankarjev dom cultural and congress 3 Oct, 20:00 1970s as a singer in various bands. centre Bar Prulček Zucchero is not only renowned Programme: J. Mihevec / B. Romberg / L. for his numerous hits, but also Temple Song Hearts van Beethoven for his collaboration with famous 4 Oct, 19:30 international musicians. The Grand Hotel Union turning point in his career was his appearance at the San Remo Festival in 1985, when his debut hit Donna won him second place.
Zucchero (Italy) - pop rock concert 8 Oct at 20:00, Stožice Sports Park Arena
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GoGo Penguin (UK) - electro acoustic music concert 19 Oct at 20:00, Kino Šiška
GoGo Penguin have dazzled the BluesRock Jam Talita Sofija Komelj - soprano; British music scene with their bold Le Serpentine (Slovenia) - rock Branislava Sara Mitrović - soprano; new sound combining elements of 6 Oct, 20:00 Tina Debevec - soprano; Gregor Ravnik electronica, trip-hop, jazz - rock and Bar Prulček - tenor; Jaka Mihelač - baritone; Tanja classical music. They are praised as Šterman - piano Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra one of most exciting new British 8 Oct, 19:30 Uroš Lajovic - conductor bands. Križanke Michael Martin Kofler - flute Their second album v2.0 was Concert by young singers 7 Oct, 19:30 shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Admission free Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Prize Album of the Year. Their centre Zucchero (Italy) - rock third and latest album, Man Made Programme: J. Mihevec / B. Romberg / L. 8 Oct, 20:00 Object (2016) was released by the van Beethoven Stožice sports hall legendary jazz label Blue Note Records. Pridjevi (Croatia) - psychedelic Alvaro Barbosa - electornics; Carina 7 Oct, 20:00 Albuquerque - cello; Ingrid Mačus - Bar Prulček piano Programme: Journey to the Last Frontier Katarina Avbar Frederic Blondy - piano; Diemo Scwarz 7 Oct, 20:00 - electornics SiTi Theatre Emanuele Torquati - piano Guns 2 Roses (G. Britain) - rock Programme: P. Ablinger 7 Oct, 20:00 8 Oct, 20:00 Cvetličarna Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre: free tickets Torul (Slovenia) - electro pop 7 Oct, 21:00 Kino Šiška
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Operators (Canada) + Karamakoma Nuška Drašček - vocal (Slovenia) Blaž Jurjevčič - piano 8 Oct, 21:00 Vid Ušeničnik - drums Kino Šiška 12 Oct, 20:00 Slamič Coffeehouse Cameron Carpenter – portable organ Dedicated to Edith Piaf 9 Oct, 19:30 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Vasko Atanasovski - vocal, saxophone centre - flute At 18:30 presentation of the portable Dejan Lapajna - guitar; Marjan Stanić organ; free tickets - drums 13 Oct, 19:00 Boštjan Gombač - clarinet, flutes, Ljubljana Castle musical saw, teremin, ocarins Balkan music Luka Juhart - accordion 10 Oct, 19:30 RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana City Museum New Symphony Orchestra Sofia Programme: A. Fuentes / M. Lazar / U. Petko Dimitrov - conductor Rojko / Ž. Stanič / B. Šaljić Podešva Tanja Sonc - violin 13 Oct, 19:00 Popjazziada - a cappella festival Cankarjev dom cultural and congress The John Powell Singers have 11 Oct, 20:00 centre performed music for chamber choir Kino Šiška Programme: J. S. Bach / E. Elgar / S. and opera in concerts, religious Jazz Jam Prokofiev services, on BBC radio and a number 11 Oct, 20:00 of recordings. Composers who have Bar Prulček written for the choir include Colin Touchin, Michael Ball, Giles Swayne, Adrian Self and Martin Lessons.
John Powell Singers (UK) - choral music concert 23 Oct at 19:30, Cathedral of St. Nicholas
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Swans (USA) - avant-garde rock concert 24 Oct at 20:00, Kino Šiška
The cult New York-based avant- Leonel Morales Herrero - piano Tretji Kanu - pop garde rock band Swans was Programme: W. A. Mozart / F. Liszt 14 Oct, 20:00 founded in 1982 by the singer Rupnik Piano Trio Bar Prulček Michael Gira. The band soon made Programme: F. Schubert / A. Piazzolla Slovenian Childrens’ Choir a name for themselves for their 13 Oct, 19:30 Martina Batič, Damijan Močnik - extreme and often dark musical Križanke conductor expression, which, among other Admission free Tilen Bajec - organ things, influenced the development Avtomobili - rock-pop Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra of industrial music. Later the band’s 13 Oct, 20:00 soloists music progressed through different Kino Šiška 16 Oct, 19:30 creative phases and underwent Slovenian Philharmonic Hall several transformations. BluesRock Jam Programme: B. Britten / D. Močnik The Swans disbanded in 1997, Buh Blues Project (Slovenia) - blues after the release of the album 13 Oct, 20:00 Kar Češ Brass Bend - jazz Soundtracks for the Blind, on which Bar Prulček 16 Oct, 19:30 they combined all their musical SNT Drama Big Band RTV Slovenia and Boštjan elements. In 2010 they unexpectedly Gombač Astrid Ana Kljun - harp reformed and released the album Lojze Krajnčan - conductor Maja Vrbnik - guitar My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope Nino Mureškič - drums 17 Oct, 19:30 to the Sky. In 2012, they acchieved a 14 Oct, 20:00 SNT Opera large critical acclaim with the album Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Admission free The Seer, this year they released centre the ultimate album entitled The Glowing Man. Battleme (USA) + And The Kid (Croatia) 14 Oct, 20:00 Kino Šiška
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Ana Plahutnik, Anea Mercedes Klemen Šubic - piano Anžlovar, Jaka Mihelač, Nadia Ternifi, Empathie Piano Trio Domen Križaj, Maja Ceglar, Marko Kete 18 Oct, 19:30 17 Oct, 19:30 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Križanke Admission free Concert by young singers Žan Tetičkovič - drums Admission free 18 Oct, 20:00 Slovenian Army Orchestra SiTi Theatre 17 Oct, 19:30 Jazz Concert Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Jazz Jam centre Just Friends 4tet - jazz Tomaž Grom - double bass 18 Oct, 20:00 The Slovenian Philharmonic 17 Oct, 20:30 Bar Prulček Orchestra has a proud tradition as ŠKUC Gallery the country’s leading symphony GoGo Penguin (G. Britain) - electro orchestra. This concert, taking place Mount Kimbie (G. Britain) - electronics acoustic within the Slowind festival, will be 17 Oct, 21:00 19 Oct, 20:00 conducted by the Italian composer Kino Šiška Kino Šiška Ivan Fedele, who also currently Sabine Lutzenberger Akordika works as the Director of the Music 18 Oct, 20.00 19 Oct, 20:00 section of the Venice Biennale. ZRC SAZU/SASA - Slovenian Academy of Slamič Coffeehouse Conductor: Pierre-André Valade Sciences and Arts Music from musicals Soloist: Francesco D’Orazio, violin Programme: songs of St.Hildegard of Programme: Erik Satie, Ivan Fedele, Bingen Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ottorino Respighi Part of the Slowind 2016 Festival
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra 27 and 28 Oct at 19:30, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre
China National Opera House: Turandot 1-2 Sep, 19:30, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre
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Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra International Youth Project Choir Maja Ceglar - soprano and Marko Kete Uroš Lajovic - conductor Choir leaders: Ragnar Rasmussen and - tenor Elvira Hasanagić - soprano Urša Lah 27 Oct, 19:30 Programme: A. Lajovic / R. Strauss / B. 23 Oct, 19:30 Križanke Bartók Križankah Programme: W. A. Mozart / V. Bellini / 20 Oct, 19:30 Admission free Ch. Gounod / A. Dvořák / G. Puccini Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Young virtuosi music series Enslaved (Norway) - black metal centre Admission free Ne Obliviscarsi (Australia) and Oceans Repetitor (Serbia) + Niki Louder of Slumber (USA) Punčke (Croatia) + Dandelion Children (Slovenia) - garage rock 24 Oct, 19:00 (Slovenia) 20 Oct, 20:00 Kino Šiška 27 Oct, 20:00 Kino Šiška Kino Šiška Moreno Veloso (Brazil) BluesRock Jam 25 Oct, 20:00 Mlada Zarja - ethno THeWET Cankarjev dom cultural and congress 27 Oct, 20:00 20 Oct, 20:00 centre Grand Hotel Union Bar Prulček Musical evening with Slovenian folk The Swans (USA) - rock singers and ethnomusicologist Urša Šivic. Severa Gjurin - vocal 25 Oct, 20:00 Admission free 20 and 21 Oct, 20:30 Kino Šiška Cankarjev dom cultural and congress BluesRock Jam Coffee Or Not (Belgium) - electronics centre Sky Smokers & The Breaks 25 Oct, 20:00 Authorial music 27 Oct, 20:00 Bar Prulček Bar Prulček Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Rok Zaletel Černoš - violin Uroš Lajovic - conductor Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Urban Marinko - violoncello Elvira Hasanagić - soprano Pierre-André Valade - conductor 26 Oct, 19:30 Programme: A. Lajovic / R. Strauss / B. Francesco D’Orazio - violin Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Bartók Programme: E. Satie / I. Fedele / S. centre 21 Oct, 19:30 Rahmaninov - O. Respighi / O. Respighi Youth to Youth concert series Cankarjev dom cultural and congress 28 Oct, 19:30 centre Milko Lazar - piano and Bojan Gorišek Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre - piano Open Source Trio (Bulgaria, Curacao, Jinx (Croatia) - pop/rock 26 Oct, 20:30 Germany) - jazz 29 Oct, 20:00 Kino Šiška 21 Oct, 20:00 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Contemporary piano music Bar Prulček Dan D - rock Quintet Piazzolleky - tango Lačni Franc - rock 30 Oct, 20:00 26 Oct, 20:00 22 Oct, 20:00 SNT Drama Slamič Coffeehouse Kino Šiška Mahotella Queens and Nomfusi Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra John Powell Singers (G. Britain) 31 Oct, 20:00 Pierre-André Valade - conductor 23 Oct, 19:30 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Francesco D’Orazio - violin Cathedral centre Programme: E. Satie / I. Fedele / S. Admission free South African traditional and popular Rahmaninov - O. Respighi / O. Respighi music 27 Oct, 19:30 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre 14 www.visitljubljana.com Opera, theatre, dance
G. Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Il Evergreen - opera barbiere di Siviglia) - opera Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the SNT Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the SNT Opera and Ballet Ljubljana Opera and Ballet Ljubljana 9 Oct, 16:00 1 Oct, 19:30 Opera house Opera house National Dance Gathering S. Ožbolt: Welfare to the Nation - 9 Oct, 20:00 dance-theatre Španski boric Co-creators and performers: Ana Čigon, Professionals in contemporary dance Sara Janašković, Sabina Schwenner, present short excerpts from their latest Dušan Teropšič, Matija Udovič, Eni Vesović works or works in progress. 3 and 4 Oct, 20:00 Evergreen - opera PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the SNT Bolero - Extremalism (fragments) - ballet Opera and Ballet Ljubljana National Ballet of Marseille 11 Oct, 19:30 4 Oct, 19:30 Opera house The new vocal theatre project by Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Solo 2016 - dance premiere renowned Slovenian composer Choreographer: Emio Greco, Pieter C. Dancer Milan Tomášik (Slovakia) Karmina Šilec tells the story of Scholten 11 Oct, 20:00 musicians on the Titanic, who kept Evergreen - opera Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre playing until the end, while the Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the SNT largest ship ever built was sinking. T. Valentan: Calypso - performance Opera and Ballet Ljubljana Their music became a way of taking Author and performer: Tina Valentan 6 Oct, 19:30 over control in the middle of chaos 11 Oct, 21:00 Opera house and in the middle of the unknown; PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana A world premiere of an original musical it maintained hope and embraced City of Women Festival play by Karmina Šilec what was inevitable - the death. Ž. Božić: Dream Job - dance premiere Dancers: Michal Rynia, Miljan Nojić, Karmina Šilec: Evergreen 6, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 14 Oct, SNT Opera and Ballet Theatre Ljubljana Marko Brdnik, Matej Bedič, Željko Božić 6 Oct, 20:00 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Dance performance based on the book Let Me Tell You a Story by Jorge Bucay. Ž. Božić: Dream Job - dance Dancers: Michal Rynia, Miljan Nojić, Marko Brdnik, Matej Bedič, Željko Božić 7 Oct, 20:00 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Evergreen - opera Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the SNT Opera and Ballet Ljubljana 8 Oct, 19:30 Opera house www.visitljubljana.com 15 Opera, theatre, dance
V. Osojnik: Other Peoples’ Children - dance premiere Authorship, choreography and performance: Vita Osojnik Co-creation of movement and performance: Nina Fajdiga / Kaja Lorenci 20 - 22 Oct, 20:00 PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana So? - stand up Daniel Sloss (G. Britain) 21 Oct, 21.00 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Doctor Faustus - miniature puppet theatre Puppet Theatre Blank Page, Carta blanca (Spain) - flamenco 23 Oct, 19:00 26 Oct at 20:00, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Ljubljana castle Puppet performance for young and Andrés Marín comes from Seville Solo 2016 - dance adults and together with singers and Dancer Milan Tomášik (Slovakia) English surtitles musicians, he presents flamenco in 12 and 13 Oct, 20:00 his own way. With his show titled Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Eva Duda Dance Company/Move in Carta Blanca, he portraits a unique Mission: Breathe! Evergreen - opera image of flamenco, sometimes Rosana Hribar and Gregor Luštek: Does Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the SNT primitive, sometimes classical, It Start With a Kiss? Opera and Ballet Ljubljana baroque and avant-garde. To Marín, 25 Oct, 20:00 13 and 14 Oct, 19:30/18:00 flamenco presents a personal prayer, Španski borci Opera house an honest expression, which does Double dance evening not seek to enforce and therefore A. Hód: Pearl Blank Page, Carta blanca - flamenco hits straight in the heart. G. Nader, M. Campos: Loop de Loop Andrés Marín Flamenco Abierto EnKnapGroup Company (Spain) 14 and 15 Oct, 20:00 26 Oct, 20:00 Španski borci Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Dance performances S. S. Prokofiev:Romeo and Juliet - ballet G. Verdi: La Traviata - opera Ballet Ensemble and Orchestra of the Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the SNT SNT Opera and Ballet Ljubljana Opera and Ballet Ljubljana 27 Oct, 19:30 15 Oct, 19:30 Opera house Opera house S. S. Prokofiev:Romeo and Juliet - ballet Synaesthesia - dance performance Ballet Ensemble and Orchestra of the Flota Ljubljana SNT Opera and Ballet Ljubljana 19 Oct, 20:00 28 and 29 Oct, 18:00/19:30 Španski borci Opera house
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Open Kitchen - food market Čokoljana 2016 - chocolate fair Cirque du Soleil, the famous Fridays, 8:00-20:00 15 and 16 Oct Canadian artistic ensemble who Ljubljana Central Market Pogačarjev trg square “reinvented the circus” will perform The Open Kitchen is a food market Ljubljana Central Market in Ljubljana for the first time with where you can experience the delights Čokoljana will bring together large their production entitled Varekai. of freshly cooked food prepared by and renowned chocolate producers, Deep in the woods at the top of different Slovenian chefs right there boutique chocolate manufacturers,cake a volcano, there is a magnificent in front of you, on the market stalls. shops. Apart from chocolate made with world where everything is possible. Each Friday, the market features a variety of different ingredients, visitors It is called Varekai (meaning around thirty different food providers, will also be able to taste and purchase “anywhere” in the Romani including modern restaurants, pralines, various kinds of hot chocolate language). A lonesome young traditional “gostilnas”, tourist farms, and and other products made with or fellow arrives there and starts to independent chefs wanting to promote related to chocolate. unravel the colourful world full of their offerings. Admission free phantasy creatures. He flies away In case of bad weather, the market may Wine fair to experience an unforgettable be cancelled. 20 and 21 Oct adventure, encountering on his Medieval Day Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention way the wonders and secrets of the 1 Oct, 10:00 - 18:00 Centre world and mind. Križevniška ulica street, old city centre 52nd Vino Ljubljana International Wine Fair This spectacular production, with The Medieval Day, conceived as an The Vino Ljubljana international wine its explosive mixture of drama openair living history event, will fair is one of Slovenia’s oldest fairs. Each and acrobatic tricks directed by try to evoke an authentic medieval year, it brings together Slovenian and Dominic Champagne, pays a special atmosphere in the midst of the historical international wine-makers offering their tribute to nomadic souls, the artistic city centre of Ljubljana. The programme wines for tasting and organizing various spirit of the circus tradition, and includes medieval-costumed wine-themed workshops. to all those who are passionately performances, creative workshops, Open: 15:00 - 22:00 (21 Oct, 15:00 - 23:00) engaged upon the search for the entertainment games, and dance path to the unknown. performances. A costumed procession through old city centre will take place along with street performances at Križevniška quarter, Prešernov trg square and Trg francoske revolucije square. Admission free Cirque du Soleil: Varekai 14 Oct, 20:00 Stožice sports hall Repeat performances: 15 Oct at 16:30 and 20:00, 16 Oct at 16:30
Cirque du Soleil: Varekai 14 - 16 Oct, Stožice sports hall
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Olimpija Ljubljana : NK Aluminij - football Pokal Slovenije 19 Oct | Stadion Stožice ACH Volley : Panvita Pomgrad - volleyball 19 Oct, 19:00 | Tivoli sports hall RK Krim Mercator : Larvik (Norway) - handball 22 Oct, 17:00 | Kodeljevo sports hall HDD Olimpija Ljubljana : HC Bolzano (Italy) - hockey 23 Oct, 17:30 | Tivoli sports hall HDD Olimpija Ljubljana : EC Dornbirn Volkswagen Ljubljana Marathon (Austria) - hockey 30 Oct at 10:30, streets of Ljubljana 24 Oct, 19.15 | Tivoli sports hall The Ljubljana Marathon is the largest ACH Volley : Fužinar Metal Ravne - KK Union Olimpija : Hapoel Jerusalem running event held in Slovenia. Its volleyball B.C. (Israel) - basketball great international recognition is 8 Oct, 18:00 | Tivoli sports hall Europe Cup largely due to its highly attractive 26 Oct, 20:30 | Stožice sports hall KK Union Olimpija: KK Mornar Bar course, running through the streets (Monte Negro) - basketball Olimpija Ljubljana : NK Domžale - of Ljubljana. 9 Oct, 19:00 | Stožice sports hall football The two main races held as part 29 Oct | Stožice stadium of the event, a marathon (42km) KK Union Olimpija : Lokomotiv Kuban and a half marathon (21km), are Krasnodar (Russia) - basketball ACH Volley : Calcit Volleyball - volleyball accompanied by recreational runs Europe Cup 29 Oct, 18:00 | Tivoli sports hall of varying lengths and degrees of 12 Oct, 20:30 | Stožice sports hall RK Krim Mercator : IK Sävehof (Sweden) difficulty, a half-marathon inline HDD Olimpija Ljubljana : EC Moser - handball skating race, and a half-marathon Medical Graz 99ers (Austria) - hockey Liga prvakinj handcycling race so that over the 14 Oct, 19.15 29 Oct, 17:00 | Kodeljevo sports hall event weekend, runners of all ages Tivoli sports hall are able to find something suitable Slovenia : Serbia - rugby for their fitness level. Olimpija Ljubljana : NK Maribor - 29 Oct, 14:00 football Ljubljana sports park 15 Oct | Stožice stadium RK Ljubljana : RT Dalmacija (Croatia) 21st Volkswagen Ljubljana Marathon - rugby RK Ljubljana : RK Zagreb (Croatia) - 30 Oct | Streets of Ljubljana 1 Oct, 14:00 | Oval Stanežiče rugby HDD Olimpija Ljubljana : EC Red Bull 15 Oct, 14:00 | Oval Stanežiče KK Union Olimpija : KK Krka - Salzburg (Austria) - hockey basketball HDD Olimpija Ljubljana : EC KAC 30 Oct, 17:30 | Tivoli sports hall 3 Oct, 18:00 | Stožice sports hall (Austria) - hockey 18 Oct, 19.15 | Tivoli sports hall
18 www.visitljubljana.com During the tour, you will visit five different drink outlets, including A beer lover’s a pub, where you will taste eight experience of Ljubljana different beers made by five different breweries, two based in Ljubljana and three in other parts of the Central Slovenia region. You will also visit the Brewery Museum, set up by the Pivovarna Union brewery, where the popular Union beer has been brewed since 1864, and round off your experience at the Pivnica Union pub. Notes: The price includes expert guidance, beer tasting sessions, snacks, and a tour of Pivovarna Union’s Brewery Museum. The tour is only suitable for people aged 18 and over.
Price: 35€ per person Schedule: 18:00 Mondays and Fridays. | Duration: 3 hours | Starting point: STIC, Krekov trg 10 | Language options: Slovenian, English
Your tour will begin in the city centre Exploring Ljubljana and continue along a circular route around the city centre’s perimeter, introducing you to all the city’s major by bicycle sights along the way. You will pedal along the pleasant embankments on the river Ljubljanica all the way to the Ljubljana Botanic Garden, take a garden tour, and continue through the famous vegetable gardens of Krakovo towards Tivoli Park to enjoy a rest and a picnic snack there. On the last leg of the tour, you will visit the Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre and then return to the tour starting point, the Slovenian Tourist Information Centre.
Price: 20€ per person Schedule: Thursdays at 16:00, Sundays at 10:00. | Duration: 3 hours | Starting point: STIC, Krekov trg 10 | Language options: Slovenian, English
Information: Ljubljana Tourist Information Centre - TIC, tel. 306 12 35, [email protected], www.visitljubljana.com Explore with Ljubljana card & save money