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EventsDecember 2017 City Highlights in December Tours LGBT Film Festival 25 Nov -2 Dec December in Ljubljana The programme of the festival Tour of festively decorated features films by gay and Ljubljana Index lesbian filmmakers and other films dealing with themes related to homosexuality. Festivals 4 P. 14 December in Ljubljana - Exhibitions 6 open-air festival 1 Dec - 1 Jan 2018, 1 Dec - 7 Jan 2018 Music 8 Every day at 17:00 historical city centre Visit the traditional Festive Historical city centre Opera, theatre, dance 13 Fair and choose from FREE and Ljubljana Castle with a vast number of free Miscellaneous 14 entertainment events culminating in New Year’s Sports 15 Eve celebrations. P. 4 Sarah Brightman, 1 Apr - 30 Sep Every day at 10:00 Gregorian + guests 1 Oct - 31 Mar Cover photo: Shutterstock Every day at 11:00 Edited and published by: Ljubljana 22 Dec, 20:00 Gala Christmas concert Tourism, Krekov trg 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Taste Ljubljana T: +386 1 306 45 83, P. 11 culinary tour E: [email protected], Laibach and RTV Slovenia W: www.visitljubljana.com Symphony Orchestra Photography: Archives of Ljubljana Laibach will present songs Tourism and individual event organisers from their various album Prepress: Prajs d.o.o. in collaboration with Printed by: Collegium Graphicum d.o.o., RTV Slovenia Symphony Ljubljana, December 2017 Orchestra. Ljubljana Tourism is not liable for any 1 Jan - 31 Dec p. 10 Wed and Sat at 12:00 inaccurate information appearing in the calendar. Ballet Preljocaj: Romeo Information and reservation: and Juliet - ballet Committed to caring for the 31 Dec, 20:00 Ljubljana Tourist Information Centre - TIC environment, we print on Stritarjeva cesta street, T: 306 12 15 recycled paper. Choreography: A. Preljocaj Slovenian Tourist Information Centre - STIC Music: Sergei Prokofiev: Krekov trg square 10, T: 306 45 75 Share our commitment by sharing this publication with Romeo and Juliet www.visitljubljana.com your friends. P. 13 www.visitljubljana.com 3 December in Ljubljana December in LjubljanaFestivals Guided tours of Concerts at Novi trg square Street theatre performances on Špica festive Ljubljana December in Ljubljana - open-air festival 15 - 25 December, 19:00 (except 24 26 - 30 December, 18:00 - 21:00 1 Dec - 1 Jan 2018, historical city centre December) Performances by street theatre troupes, Novi trg square circus performers and other artists. Concerts featuring various pop artists. Concerts at Kongresni trg square Good Fairy 26 Dec - 30 Jan and 1 Jan, 20:00 15 - 30 Dec, 17:00 - 21:00 Concerts featuring various pop artists. (except 24, 25 Dec) Music programme in the Trg francoske Mestni trg square revolucije square Good Fairy fulfils the wishes to the 30 Dec, 20:00 passers-by. Authorial project by painter Concerts featuring various rock artists. Zmago Modic. New Year’s Eve Celebration for children Ljubljana Primary Schools Choirs 31 Dec, 16:00 18 - 21 Dec, 17:00 Kongresni trg square Mestni trg square Concert of children’s choirs, singing in New Year’s Eve Celebration in the December Tour of front of the Town Hall. Kongresni trg square Festively Decorated 31 Dec, 21:00 Christmas concert Ljubljana The programme is meant to attract 24 December, 17:00 Romantic and magical. This people of all ages and tastes. is the best description of Mestni trg square Ljubljana during the days The traditional Christmas concert in front New Year’s Eve Celebration in the of December. You will take of the Town Hall. Mestni trg square a walk through festively Experience the vibrant pulse of Ljubljana’s Festive Lights Switch-On St. Nicholas Fair 31 Dec, 21:00 decorated Ljubljana with Music programme in the Pogačar trg the festively decorated Ljubljana. Event 3 - 6 Dec, 10:00 - 20:00 The programme is traditionally meant a guide, look for a unique square Visit the traditional Festive Fair and 1 Dec, 17:15 Prešernov trg square for a bit more demanding audience. gift at the holiday fair and 25 - 30 Dec, 17:00 get to know the story and choose from a vast number of free Prešernov trg square Various goods suitable as traditional St. Pogačar trg square New Year’s Eve celebration in the concept of the decorations, entertainment events culminating Following a short festive ceremony all Nicholas gifts. Concerts featuring various pop artists Pogačar trg square the creative talent behind in New Year’s Eve celebrations. the city's festive lights will be turned on Magical Forest and pop-folk artists: 31 Dec, 21:00 which has been, for many December in Ljubljana opens with simultaneously. years, the renowned 3 - 23 Dec, 16:00 - 19:00 The programme features pop and the city’s annual Ljubljana’s Festive Grandpa Frost Procession painter Zmago Modic. Festive Fair Kongresni trg square traditional folk music singers and bands. Lights Switch-On Event. The festival’s 26 - Sat 30 Dec, 17:00 1 Dec - 2 Jan, 10:00 - 22:00/24:00 The magical events held at the Magical Schedule: 1 December - 7 diverse programme of events, Breg, Čevljarski most bridge, Mestni trg New Year’s Eve celebration in the Trg Breg, Cankarjevo nabrežje Forest hosts creative workshops of January 2018 daily at 17:00 designed to offer something for square, Stritarjeva ulica street, Prešernov francoske revolucije square Duration: Two hours. embankement, Prešernov trg square, making environmentally friendly people of all ages and tastes to trg square, Kongresni trg square A few 31 Dec, 21:30 Language options: Slovenian, Kongresni trg square Christmas decorations. English and Italian enjoy, includes four different New days before New Year, Grandpa Frost, The programme is mainly intended for Festively decorated stalls selling a Other language options are Year’s Eve celebrations held in four St Nicholas Procession the Slovenian counterpart of Santa fans of rock music. available by arrangement with selection of items suitable for Christmas of the city’s central public squares, 5 Dec, 17:00 Claus, will arrive in Ljubljana from the the tour organiser. and New Year’s gifts. Drinks and snacks Fireworks from the Ljubljana Castle Departure point: Ljubljana each featuring a different style of Krekov trg square, Ciril-Metodov trg Far North. Riding in his carriage, drawn Tourist Information Centre are also available. 1 Jan, 00:00 - 00:05 music. All events are free of charge. square, Stritarjeva ulica street, Prešernov by genuine white Lipizzaner horses Price: €13.00 www.visitljubljana.com Christmas Crib made of straw trg square and accompanied by a procession of 1 Dec - 7 Jan St Nicholas is accompanied by devils and snowmen, bears, rabbits and other Breg embankement an assembly of angels, who distribute creatures from folk and fairy tales, he An unique hand made Christmas Crib biscuits, fruits and sweets to children. will visit the old city centre’s Festive Fair created by the local artist. and venues for children’s events. www.visitljubljana.com 4 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 5 Exhibitions Exhibitions masterful projects. The exhibition Tugomir Šušnik, solo exhibition Plečnik Collection Boris Jesih (1943) established presents archival photographs by 30 Nov - 21 Jan, City Art Gallery of The new permanent exhibition at the himself as an artist at the end of Peter Naglič, a precious testimony Ljubljana - MGML Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the the 1960s as part of the expressive of the time when Plečnik’s Ljubljana Tugomir Šušnik is marked by his most important projects of the late figuration circle of painters. was being created. To contrast the expansive and colourful abstract architect. Plečnik’s creativity comes Under the influence of pop art, he archival photographs, the other side expressionist palette. This is why he to life through the plans, models and responded to the characteristics of the Jakopič Promenade displays is classified in the Abstract Colourism photographs of his creations such as the of the spirit of the time with his contemporary photographs by movement, which sprung into existence Zacherl House in Vienna, Prague Castle, geometric transformation of Matevž Paternoster, which unveil new in the Slovenian art scene in the 1970s, the National and University Library in everyday objects, later also turning perspectives of Plečnik’s artworks. as a reaction to the post-war American Ljubljana, the Ljubljana Central Market, predominantly to landscape. As abstraction. For his work he received Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael a printmaker, he excels in the Columbus’ Daughter Alma M. Karlin numerous awards, among them also the at the Ljubljana Marshes and numerous techniques of relief printing and 21 Sep -14 Jan 2018, CD Gallery Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana, other masterpieces. Several plans of flat printing, with superior results Cultural-historical and anthropological the Prešeren Fund Award and the Rihard Plečnik’s never realized visions are also in colour lithography. As a prize exhibition Jakopič Award for his oeuvre. on display. The Cathedral of Freedom, winner of the 13th International Celje-born Alma M. Karlin (1889-1950), Open: 11:00 - 19:00, 24 and 31 Dec 11:00 - the master’s vision of the Slovenian Biennial of Graphic Arts in 1979 Medieval Ljubljana globetrotter, writer, amateur explorer, 14:00. Closed: Mondays, 25 Dec and 1 Jan. parliament, is especially worthy of our (special prize for a young artist), he 15 Nov -2 May 2018, City Museum of Ljubljana polyglot and theosophist, travelled Admission free attention. attracted attention with his series all over the world between 1919 and Guided tours: every hour, on the hour of lithographs, a set of which is More than 1000 years old wooden Tihomir Pinter: The Chemistry of the 1927. She journeyed alone, for eight Zoran Mušič (1909-2005) (the last guided tour at 17:00).