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Festivals 4

Exhibitions 6 Music 8 European Green Capital 2016 Opera, theatre, dance 15 Guided Tours Miscellaneous 18

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Cover photo: D. Wedam Edited and published by: Ljubljana Tourism, Krekov trg 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, T: +386 1 306 45 83, www.visitljubljana.com E: [email protected], W: www.visitljubljana.com Get to know Ljubljana, the European Green Capital 2016, on a special city tour run as Photography: Archives of Ljubljana part of a series of green, sustainability-themed tours of Ljubljana. Tourism and individual event organisers The tours will take visitors to Tivoli Park or the Ljubljana Botanic Garden, two of the Prepress: Prajs d.o.o. city’s major green attractions. On each tour, a Ljubljana Tourism guide will introduce Printed by: Partner Graf d.o.o., Ljubljana, visitors to the sustainability projects while taking them around the city’s green nooks May 2016 and crannies. Ljubljana Tourism is not liable for any inaccurate information appearing in the 21 May at 10:00 calendar. Ljubljana’s green spaces Departure point: at 10:00 from Ljubljana Tourist Information Centre - TIC, Committed to caring for the next to the . Language options: Slovenian, English environment, we print on recycled paper. Price: adults € 10.00 €, children from 4 to 12 years € 5.00 € Share our commitment by Information: Ljubljana Tourist Information Centre - TIC, tel. 306 12 35, sharing this publication with [email protected], www.visitljubljana.com your friends. Highlights in May

Laibach: The Sound of Music

9 May 16 May - 18 Jun 26-28 May : The Sound of Lighting Guerrilla Druga Godba Festival Music Ljubljana's public spaces A special treat for the Ljubljana will host a concert will once again come alive lovers world music and by the cult Slovenian with lighting objects and various forms of alternative alternative music band site-specific installations music difficult to fit neatly Laibach. The concert will exhibited as part of the into musical categories will be the finale of the band's annual Lighting Guerrilla be Druga Godba, one of European Sound of Music festival. 's best festivals of Tour 2016. p. 7 its kind. p. 11 p. 5

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Torleif Thedéen - violoncello & Roland Pöntinen - piano () 18 May, 19:30 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Programme: L. van Beethoven / A. Schnittke / E. Grieg RTV Symphony Orchestra Daniel Raiskin - conductor Isang Enders () - violoncello 19 May, 19:30 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Programme: P. Vasks / R. Schumann / P. I. Tchaikovsky Ansambel musica cubicularis Cellofest Ljubljana 2016 20 May, 20:00 16-20 May, various venues ZRC SAZU/SASA - Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg square 2 Cellofest Ensemble with Gal Gjurin Cellofest Ljubljana, the city's new Programme: J. Jenkins / C. Simpson / Zala Vidic - violoncello; Izak Hudnik - festival dedicated to the cello, will W. Lawes / G. Coprario / M. Locke / O. violoncello bring together top cellists from Gibbons / T. Tomkins 16 May, 20:00 Slovenia and abroad. Apart from Slovenian Philharmonic Hall a programme of concerts, it will Programme: A. Vivaldi / F. Schubert / Z. present a series of seminars and Kodaly / I. Kuljerić / G. Gjurin free accompanying events. Cellofest Ljubljana 2016 - opening The programme of concerts will concert feature highly accomplished Slovenian and international cellists, Bartolomey Bittmann - Progressive whose concerts will take place as Strings () part of several well-established 17 May, 20:00 subscription series and concert Cankarjev dom cultural and congress cycles. centre The programme of accompanying Programme: , jazz, ethno, events will include a presentation rock titled How a Cello is Made, which will take place in the Zvezda Park Pavilion in the Kongresni trg square, and a series of free concerts by young cellists, held at various Need a ticket? locations across the city at 11:00 and Tickets are for the majority of 18:00 daily throughout the festival. cultural, entertainment, sports and other events available from Tourist Information Centres and online on www.visitljubljana.com. Recommended!

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St Germain The Comet Is Coming 26 May, 21:00 27 May, 01:00 Kino Šiška mesto alternative culture centre Druga Godba, held for the 32nd Katja Šulc Afroville year running, is a festival of world 26 May, 23:00 27 May, 23:00 music and, to a lesser extent, Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre contemporary jazz. It ranks among Europe's best festivals of alternative Saul Williams Accordionduo Dinovski & Schubert music difficult to fit neatly into 27 May, 19:00 28 May, 14:30 musical categories. Kino Šiška Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Druga Godba is well known for Nneka Aman bringing to Ljubljana leading 27 May, 20:30 28 May, 16:00 artists from different backgrounds Kino Šiška Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre and musical traditions who draw inspiration from traditional musics Pat Thomas Dom La Nena from around the world and are 27 May, 22:00 28 May, 19:30 committed to creative musical Kino Šiška Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre exploration. Due to its enthusiasm uKanDanZ for ‘discovering’ less well-known DJ intro and Magnetic Ensamble 27 May, 23:30 music from around the globe, its 28 May, 22:00 Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre line-up is often ahead of trends. Stara mestna elektrarna — Elektro The influential British magazine Orkesta Mendoza Ljubljana Songlines has ranked Druga 27 May, 00:15 Godba among the world's 25 best Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre international music festivals several times. www.drugagodba.si

32nd International Druga Godba Festival 26-28 May, various venues

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Gallery houses a room called Gal’s Room, where children’s and family events are held on a regular basis, an extensive library, a gallery shop with a reading corner, and a café. Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00- 20:00. Closed: Mondays, 1 May Plečnik Collection The new permanent exhibition at the Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the most important projects of the late architect. Plečnik's creativity comes to life through the plans, models and photographs of his creations such as the Zacherl House in Vienna, Castle, the National Nikola Tesla - A Man of the Future and University Library in Ljubljana, 11 Apr - 6 Nov, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre the , Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael at the Nikola Tesla was an ingenious National Gallery and numerous other scientist, engineer, and inventor The National Gallery, Slovenia’s foremost masterpieces. Several plans of Plečnik’s dedicated to discovering natural museum of historical art, holds the never realized visions are also on display. laws and principles. He received his country’s largest collection of fine art The Cathedral of Freedom, the master's education in Europe, but he spent from the High Middle Ages to the 20th vision of the , is most of his career in the USA, where century. It also houses a permanent especially worthy of our attention. he developed a large number of his exhibition of works by Zoran Mušič Guided tours: every hour, on the hour (the inventions. He took out a total of (1909-2005), one of Europe’s leading last guided tour at 17:00). Groups must about three hundred patents in the modernist painters, and various not contain more than seven people. fields of electrical and mechanical temporary exhibitions. Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays engineering. The National Gallery’s permanent Water The exhibition Nikola Tesla - A Man collection, divided into sections 24 Jun 2015 - 8 May 2016, City Museum of the Future is divided into the according to historical periods, is of Ljubljana following themed sections: The comprised of nearly 600 works by Through four main themes and various System of Production, Transmission Slovenian and European artists. Among timelines, the exhibition presents the and Use of Alternating Current, The other things, it includes medieval sacred importance of water. It is essential for our Principles of Wireless Transmission art, works of art by the artists, survival, the mobility of humans, goods, of Electrical Energy, The Bladeless neoclassical paintings, works by the ideas and knowledge, our mythologies Turbine, Energy - The Main Subject Realists, and the famous masterpieces and beliefs, art and language. The of Tesla’s Research, Tesla’s Doctrine, of Slovenian . exhibition is also discussing water cycles and Tesla - A Modern Subcultural The gallery also keeps one of the largest in nature, their meaning and ecology. Hero. Exhibits include multimedia pieces of Baroque art in Ljubljana, the The first three themes build their stories information boards, models of Fountain of Three Carniolan Rivers by through museum artefacts among which inventions, working interactive 3D , whose original site in a larger wooden boat, presented to the digital models, and much more. front of the Town Hall is now occupied public for the very first time, deserves Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Sundays 10:00 - 14:00 by its replica. a special mention. Other artefacts also Apart from the above, the National include a rich glass collection, famous 6 www.visitljubljana.com ExhibitionsFestivals artworks by Slovenian artists and a your hand at puppeteering skills. The Catalan painter, sculptor, selection of the most important artefacts Open: 9:00 - 18:00 daily and printmaker Antoni Tàpies from the collection of the Potočnik family, (1923−2012) was one of the greatest Lighting Guerrilla Festival: Nature originating from the riverbed of the European artists of his generation. 16 May 18 Jun, various venues . The fourth theme is presented - The exhibition brings together Ljubljana's annual Lighting Guerrilla with an interactive experimental a selection of his prints and art festival presents a programme of light element, primary intended for children’s objects. Antoni Tàpies was present installations set up in the city's streets, experiential workshops. on the international scene from parks, and galleries. 8 May at 11:00 free guided tour in English the mid-1950s. His early work was The festival makes public spaces across Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00 - influenced by Surrealism, but he Ljubljana come alive with all kinds of 21:00. Closed: Mondays later switched to abstract art and lighting objects, exhibitions, video and was, among other things, a notable Slovenian History site-specific installations, screenings, member of the art movement performances, and art workshops aimed known as Art Informel. Tàpies was Slovenian History Ljubljana Castle’s at redefining the role of public spaces , attracted to relief forms and the permanent exhibition, shows the and artists in contemporary society. expressive value of non-traditional dynamic and The upcoming 10th edition of the art materials such as marble dust, Ljubljana. Slovenian territory, lying at the festival, held in the year of Ljubljana's sand, and soil, which he introduced junction of natural routes between the tenure as the European Green Capital, into printmaking and developed a , the and the Pannonian will be dedicated to the theme of nature number of new techniques. Tàpies Plain, has been the point of convergence in today's modern technological society. participated in several editions of of different peoples and cultures since the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic prehistory. The exhibition covers the Arts, for the first time in 1967, when Slovenian history from the earliest traces he was awarded the Biennial’s of human presence (200,000 BC) to the Grand Prize. His art influenced a landmark events following Slovenia’s number of Slovenian artists. independence in 1991 and presents the Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays societies of the different periods, the state formations, the political, social and economic circumstances, migrations, transport, culture, architecture and the everyday life. Open: 10:00 - 18:00 daily Puppet Museum at Ljubljana Castle Slovenia is a country with a rich tradition of puppeteering. The Puppet Museum's permanent exhibition, set up by the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, introduces you to the history of puppeteering in Slovenia and the creativity of contemporary Slovenian puppeteers, presents the most popular puppet characters, and gives you an insight into puppeteering techniques and the Antoni Tàpies: Prints 1959-1987 process of creating a puppet show. 23 Feb - 4 Jun, International Centre of Graphic Arts After viewing the exhibition, you can try www.visitljubljana.com 7 Music

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra 2 May, 20:00, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

The Swedish Radio Symphony Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Beat Degeneration () - rock Orchestra, operating as part of the Daniel Harding - conductor 4 May, 20:00 Swedish Radio, has for decades Veronica Eberle - violin Prulček bar been contributing to the diversity 2 May, 20:00 Vladimir Kostadinović - jazz of the Swedish Radio's P2 channel, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress 4 May, 20:00 while at the same time touring centre Slovenia Coffeehouse successfully throughout the world Programme: J. Brahms: Violin Concerto and recording in collaboration in D major, Op. 77; Symphony No. 2 in D Denise Dantas Quartet - Brasilian music, with world famous conductors and major, Op. 73 jazz, Balkan music soloists. Since 2007, the orchestra 4 May, 20:00 BiK 3 (Slovenia) - electronics-jazz has been led by the renowned ZOO Club 2 May, 20:00 British conductor Daniel Harding. Admission free ZOO Club Its Ljubljana concert will feature Admission free Masayoshi Fujita (Japan) - vibraphone Brahms's Symphony No. 2. 4 May, 21:00 Conductor: Daniel Harding Fuck the 5th (Slovenia) - blues-rock, Kino Šiška Soloist: Veronica Eberle (violin) grunge Programme: Johannes Brahms 2 May, 20:00 Zlatko Kaučič & Cerkno Jubileum Prulček bar Orchestra - jazz 5 May, 20:00 Jazz Jam Kino Šiška 3 May, 20:00 Prulček bar BluesRock Jam 5 May, 20:00 Jararaja - ethno Prulček bar 3 May, 21:00 Celica Hostel Sara Renar () - rock Admission free 6 May, 20:00 Prulček bar

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Me First and The Gimme Gimmes (USA) The Capitols (Germany) - alternative, - indie rock 6 May, 21:00 8 May, 20:00 Kino Šiška Prulček bar Mario Biondi (Italy) - soul Rik Kuppen - piano RTV Slovenia BIG Band Jelmer de Moed - clarinet 7 May, 20:00 Laura Lunansky - violin Kino Šiška 9 May, 20:00 City Museum Media Stres (Croatia) - alternative rock Programme: T. Keuris / L. Janáček / D. 7 May, 20:00 Milhaud / S. Prokofiev / A. Khachaturian Prulček bar Concerty by the winners of The Prinses Liamere (Slovenia) - future garage Christina Concours (). Tribute Me First and the Gimme Gimmes 7 May, 22:00 to Europe Day. are an all-star American punk band Orto Club consisting of members of renowned Laibach (Slovenia) - rock bands such as NOFX, , RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra Guests: Silence Foo Fighters, and Swingin' Utters. Steven Loy - conductor 9 May, 20:00 What is special about them is that Yasumichi Iwaki - viola Cankarjev dom cultural and congress they only do covers of other bands' 8 May, 11:00 centre songs. Slovenian Philharmonic Hall »The Sound of Music Tour 2016« Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Programme: J. Haydn / F. A. Hoffmeister started off in 1995 as a side / L. Farrenc project, but they have released a Mozartine - Sunday matinees concert considerable number of albums, all series of which have been received with popular acclaim.

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (USA) 6 May, 21:00, Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture

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Mario Biondi (Italy) with the RTV Slovenia Big Band 7 May, 20:00, Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture

Mario Biondi is a renowned Italian Tomaž Gajšt - trumpet; Jani Moder - Avant-Gardeners (Slovenia) - rock, soul singer who has often been guitare; Jani Hace - doulbe bas; Ratko blues, pop compared to Barry White due to Divjak - drums 11 May, 20:00 his velvety voice. At his upcoming 9 May, 20:00 Prulček bar concert in Ljubljana, he will be ZOO Club Ervin Baučič & The Players (Croatia) - joined by the RTV Slovenia Big Band. Admission free jazz - rock Biondi learned to sing in church Izidor Ostan - organ 11 May, 20:00 choirs. A major breakthrough in Stina Strehar - organ Slovenia Coffeehouse his career came with the Japanese 10 May, 19:30 release of his single This Is What You Raketkanon () - rock Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Are, which was promoted by the 11 May, 20:00 Young to young concert series BBC Radio 1 DJ Norman Jay, who fell Kino Šiška in love with the song and played it Marko Brdnik - accordion Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra across Europe. Biondi's first album, Uroš Rakovec - guitar Uroš Lajovic - conductor Handful of Soul, saw the light of 10 May, 20:00 Reinhold Friedrich - trumpet day in 2006 and was certified Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Slovenian Philharmonic Choir four times platinum in just a few Najoua - calimbe and Ryuzo Fukuhara 12 May, 19:30 months. Biondi is also well-known - dance Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre for his collaborations with a range 10 May, 21:00 Programme: W. A. Mozart / J. Haydn / of renowned music artists such as Celica Hostel J. Brahms Amalia Grè, Karima Ammar, Duke Admission free Orchestra, and Renato Zero, among Nova String Quartet others. Toundra () - post-rock 12 May, 19:30 10 May, 21:00 Russian Center for Science and Culture Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre Admission free

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Erik Truffaz Quartet (France) & Sophie Slovenian Philharmonic Wind Ensemble Hunger - jazz-rock Reinhold Friedrich - trumpet 12 May, 20:00 14 May, 19:30 Kino Šiška Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Programme: N. Šenk / P. I. Tchaikovsky - Magic Jam (Slovenia) - blues arrr. S. Verhaert / D. Shostakovich - arr. S. 12 May, 20:00 Verhaert / G. Gershwin - arr. A. Fernie, M. Prulček bar Eberhardt, S. Verhaert Katalena - ethno-pop The Tiger Lillies (G. Britain) - punk- 12 May, 20:30 cabaret SiTi Theatre 14 May, 20:00 Troja (Kosovo) - rock Kino Šiška Laibach's upcoming Ljubljana 12 May, 22:00 concert will be the finale of the PostArt Ensemble Orto Club band's European Sound of Music 14 May, 20:00 Tour 2016. Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Prulček bar The concert will feature a part of the Uroš Lajovic - conductor Prljavo kazalište (Croatia) - rock programme that Laibach performed Reinhold Friedrich - trumpet 14 May, 21:00 at their much talked-about concert Slovenian Philharmonic Choir Cvetličarna in North Korea last year, which 13 May, 19:30 included reinterpreted songs from Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre The Sticky Liks (Slovenia) - rock the musical The Sound of Music and Programme: W. A. Mozart / J. Haydn / 14 May, 22:00 a few of the band's older songs, J. Brahms Orto Club such as those from the album Alkimija - chanson-pop WAT (2003), which have regained 13 May, 20:00 relevance in the face of the current Prulček bar refugee crisis in Europe.

Laibach: The Sound of Music 9 May, 20:00, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

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Poltrona Express - blues 18 May, 20:00 Prulček bar Goodivas String Quartet Matej Šarc - oboe 18 May, 20:00 Slovenia Coffeehouse Ethnusiasm - world music, Macedonian music 18 May, 20:00 ZOO Club Admission free BluesRock Jam 19 May, 20:00 The Tiger Lillies (UK) - cabaret music Prulček bar 14 May, 20:00, Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture James Chance & Les Contortions (USA) 19 May, 20:00 The British band The Tiger Lillies play St. Stanislaus Institute Choir and Kino Šiška alternative cabaret music. Both their Orchestra style and stage performance are 15 May, 18:00 Blooming (Slovenia) - pop rock original and unique. Their surrealist Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre 19 May, 22:00 approach to music is characterised Orto Club Nikolić - double bass; Milan by black humour and grotesque Stanisavljević - keyboards; Anđelko Bliss Art jokes fused with cabaret elements Stupar - drums 20 May, 19:00 and the savage edge of punk. 16 May, 20:00 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre ZOO Club Students of Academy for Music and Admission free Musicology Psychic TV / PTV3 (G. Britain) - electronic 20 May, 19:30 dance music Španski boric 17 May, 20:00 Zvokotok - Contemporary music concert Kino Šiška series InBetween Band (Slovenia) - rock, Ansambel musica cubicularis hard roc 20 May, 20:00 17 May, 20:00 Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Prulček bar Programme: J. Jenkins / C. Simpson / W. Lawes / G. Coprario / M. Locke / O. Daniel Ganz - guitar Gibbons / T. Tomkins 17 May, 21:00 »Harmonia Concertans - Old Music on Celica Hostel Novi trg square« concert series Admission free Toxine (Slovenia) Prekmurska Brass Band Bakovci 20 May, 20:00 18 May, 19:30 Prulček bar Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre 12 www.visitljubljana.com Music

RTV Slovenia Big Band and Boštjan Andrej Provotorov - violin Gombač Sae Lee - piano Lojze Krajnčan - conductor 22 May, 16:00 20 May, 20:30 Španski borci SiTi teater Slovenian Philharmonic Choir Sadni dan (Slovenia) - rock Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra 20 May, 22:00 Ivan Repušić - conductor Orto Club Martina Burger - soprano, Diana Haller, alt; Aco Biščević - tenore; Peter Academic Choir Tone Tomšič University Martinčič, bas of Ljubljana 22 May, 19:30 21 May, 19:30 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall The Sounds of Slovenia is the title Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre At 18:30 pre concert talk of a gala concert that Ljubljana's The gala concert commemorating the Programme: W. A. Mozart: Great Mass in Academy Choir Tone Tomšič 90th anniversary of the APZ Tone Tomšič C minor, KV 427 (417a) will give in Choir. celebration of its 90th anniversary. Vevče Brass Band Up N’ downs (Slovenia) - rock The first part of the concert will 22 May, 20:00 21 May, 20:00 feature new works by Slovenian Španski borci Prulček bar choral composers. In the second Mandolina Ljubljana Orchestra part, the choir will perform Le Serpetine (Slovenia) - indie rock Andrej Zupan - conductor selected pieces from the treasury 21 May, 22:00 23 May, 19:30 of Slovenian choral music, including Orto Club Slovenian Philharmonic Hall some of the finest Slovenian South American mandolin classic music traditional and composed songs that have long been a cornerstone of the choir’s repertoire.

Academic Choir Tone Tomšič University of Ljubljana 21 May, 19:30, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

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Marko Crncec New Trio feat. Damion Marko Hatlak & Funtango - tango Mišel Ristov-Amo (Slovenia) - hip-hop REID & Burniss Travis crossover 28 May, 22:00 23 May, 20:00 25 May, 20:00 Orto Club ZOO Club Slovenia Coffeehouse Academy for Music organ students Admission free Elevators - funky, acid jazz, jazz rock 30 May, 19:30 Slovene Philharmonic String Chamber 25 May, 20:00 Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Orchestra ZOO Club Free tickets 24 May, 19:30 Admission free Uroš Perić - keyboards; Primož Grašič - National Gallery Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra guitar; Ratko Divjak - drums Lecture before the concert Ivan Repušić - conductor 30 May, 20:00 Maria Pönicke - soprano; Klemen Slovenian Philharmonic Percussionists ZOO Club Leben - accordion; Domen Gantar - 26 and 27 May, 19:30 Admission free trombone Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra Programme: T. Bajželj / L. Lebič / U. Programme: O. Respighi / N. Šenk / P. I. En Shao - conductor Pompe / K. Stockhausen / N. Šenk / T. Tchaikovsky 31 May, 19:30 Vulc BluesRock Jam Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre 24 May, 19:30 26 May, 20:00 Programme: F. von Suppé / P. I. Association of Slovene Composers Prulček bar Tchaikovsky / I. Stravinski / A. Hačaturjan Screaming Headless Torsos (USA) - / J. Offenbach Souled Out (Slovenia) - soul jazz-rock 27 May, 20:00 Jazz Jam 24 May, 21:00 Prulček bar 31 May, 20:00 Cvetličarna Prulček bar Petar Grašo & guests (Croatia) - pop Jazz Jam 27 May, 21:00 Simona 24 May, 20:00 Križanke 31 May, 21:00 Prulček bar Celica Hostel Nirvana - unplugged tribute Divje jezero - jazz-rock, pop Admission free 28 May, 20:00 24 May, 21:00 Prulček bar Ute Lemper (Germany) - chanson Celica Hostel 1 Jun, 20:00 Admission free Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Hex + oOo freeo - anti-rock Random Phase Band (Slovenia) - hard 28 May, 21:00 rock Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre 25 May, 20:00 Prulček bar Neofonía Steven Loy - conductor 25 May, 20:00 Kavalir (Gallant Helper) Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre During summer, you can get Programme: B. Ferneyhough / D. around the Fujikura / T. Murail / F. Romitelli / P. area by the so called Kavalir Jodlowski (Gallant Helper) - a small electric vehicle running daily from 9:00 to 18:00. Telephone: +386 (0)31 666 331 or +386 (0)31 666 332. Recommended!

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K. Perat, K. Rešek, J. Rusjan: ÜberŠkrip - E. Jelinek: The Princess Dramas - theatre theatre performance performance 6 May, 17:00 7 May, 20:00 Mladinsko Theatre Mladinsko Theatre Mladinsko Showcase Mladinsko Showcase English surtitles English surtitles E. Filipčič - M. Derganc: Butnskala - The Republic of Slovenia - theatre theatre performance performance 6 May, 20:00 8 May, 20:00 Mladinsko Theatre Mladinsko Theatre Alonzo King Lines Ballet is a famous Mladinsko Showcase Mladinsko Showcase contemporary dance company English surtitles English surtitles following the artistic vision of Alonzo King, once a member of the The Ristić Complex - theatre A. Pandur: Syncopation - dance-music distinguished Alvin Ailey’s dance performance performance troupe. 7 May, 18:00 Performer: Ana Pandur In 1982, King established his Mladinsko Theatre 3 and 5 May, 20:00 own dance company, which he Mladinsko Showcase PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana developed in close collaboration English surtitles L. Janáček: Katya Kabanova - opera with a range of different musicians Concerto for Two Violins, Men’s premiere and visual artists. Combining their Quintet, Writing Ground - modern 12 May, 19:30 influences, he has since been dance Opera house creating works that draw on a Alonzo King Lines Ballet (USA) diverse set of deeply rooted cultural Alonzo King - choreographer traditions from around the world, 7 May, 20:00 imbuing classical ballet with new Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre expressive potential.

Alonzo King Lines Ballet (USA): Concerto for Two Violins, Men’s Quintet, Writing Ground 7 May, 20:00, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

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A. Hod: Pearl V. Osojnik: Othe Peoples’ Children - G. Nader, M. Campos: Loop de Loop dance performance premiere EnKnapGroup Performer: Vita Osojnik 12 May, 20:00 19 May, 21:00 Španski borci PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana Premiere of a double dance G. Bizet: Carmen - opera performance 20 May, 18:00 Academy Folklore Group Marolt Opera house 14 May, 19:30 V. Osojnik: Othe Peoples’ Children - Cankarjev dom cultural and congress dance performance premiere centre Performer: Vita Osojnik Mladinsko Showcase is a mini 68th annual production - 20 and 21 May, 21:00 festival organized by Ljubljana’s reinterpretation of traditional , PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana Mladinsko Theatre, which has built music and costumes with contemporary its reputation by constantly offering performing art Call Centre - documentary-theatre unusual, provocative, and subversive performance L. Janáček: Katya Kabanova - opera productions and looking for new Performers: Ibrahim Nouhoum and 14 May, 19:30 forms of theatrical expression. Idrissa Wade Opera house Regularly touring its productions 24 May, 17:00 internationally, the Mladinsko Academy Folklore Group France Marolt Mini Theatre Theatre has achieved huge acclaim 15 May, 18:00 Perfotrmance is in French, Italian, Wolof, across Europe, the USA, and South Cankarjev dom cultural and congress Songoy, English, German and Slovenian America, also due to the fact that centre language it is one of the few theatres to 68th annual production - In honour of Africa Day. have introduced foreign-language reinterpretation of traditional folk dance, Free tickets surtitles to some of its productions music and costumes with contemporary Heartmeat/Cacti - ballet in order to bring them closer to performing art 24 - 26 May, 19:30 international audiences. L. Janáček: Katya Kabanova - opera Opera house The Mladinsko Showcase festival will 16 and 17 May, 19:30 feature five of Mladinsko Theatre’s L. P. Ternovšek: Nótt - dance Opera house currently most relevant productions, performance complete with English surtitles. B. Mezei: Utopinow (in a search for a Choreography and dance: Lada beautiful life) and Plesna Vesna Petrovski Ternovšek EnKnapGroup 24 and 26 May, 21:00 18 May, 20:00 PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana Španski borci T. Reba: Made with Love - dance The Rehearsal performance The Umbilical Brothers (Australia) Dancers: Teja Reba and Loup 18 May, 20:00 Abramovici SiTi Theatre 25 May, 20.00 Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power L. Janáček: Katya Kabanova - opera Station 19 May, 19:30 Opera house

16 www.visitljubljana.com Opera, theatre, dance Taste Ljubljana The Sound of the Planet Food Tour Dénes Döbrei (France) - dancer and Yoko Higashi (Japan) - dancer, musician Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12:00 26 May, 20:00 Other times can be arranged for groups of more than Španski borci ten people by prior request. Information: Tourist Information Centre, Nonform 49 - series of music-dance Stritarjeva Street, Tel. 306 12 15, [email protected] improvisations L. Janáček: Katya Kabanova - opera 27 May, 19:30 Opera house G. Bizet: Carmen - opera 28 May, 19:30 Opera house U. Adamič, N. Šorak: Where Was I? - theatre-movement performance Performers: Marinka Štern and Iztok Drabik Jug 28 May, 20:00 PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana M. Kagao Knez: Momentum - dance- theatre performance Performers: Murat & Jose, Irena Yebuah Explore the flavours of Ljubljana. Join a guided city tour including tasting Tiran, Leticia Slapnik Yebuah, Gerard sessions of traditional Ljubljana dishes and get to know the city's culinary Diby, Urša Rupnik, Liza Šimenc, Maša offerings and their historical tradition. Kagao Knez, Vesna Bizjak, Emina Baj, Tjaša Jerak, Lea Menard, Kristina Sicherl, The tour will give you an insight into traditional Ljubljana dishes, which are Ajda and Eva Žagar. today mostly prepared using modern cooking methods and have recently 28 and 29 May, 19:30 been given a new life as part of the much-acclaimed Taste project. You will visit five different styles of restaurants and taste five different dishes as well as five selected drinks. C. Gouzelis, P. Blackman: Fragile Matter – Today, traditional Ljubljana food and drinks are coming alive in widely dance performance differing ways, for which reason the tour will take you to a street food S. Ostheime: Ubuntu – dance performance outlet, a traditional 'gostilna' restaurant with a historical concept, a modern Bodhi Project (Austria) restaurant, another modern restaurant, this one following the model of 30 May, 20:00 socially responsible entrepreneurship and a catering outlet located at a Španski borci popular lookout point. To learn about Ljubljana dishes' locally sourced ingredients, you will also visit the Ljubljana Central Market and the vegetable gardens located in the Krakovo area of Ljubljana.

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The Countryside in the City: Gastronomy Save the Bees - exhibition Products from Slovenian Farms 21 May - 25 Sep Ljubljana Castle, Casemate 14 May, 8:00 do 14:00 Pogačarjev trg square This event will present foods and traditions of the Slovenian countryside. Gastronomic products from different Slovenian farms will be available from market stalls. Castle Days 15-17 May, 9:00 – 20:00 Ljubljana Castle The annual Castle Days festival offers a programme of events for the entire family. It rounds off with an open-doors day, when visitors to Ljubljana Castle can view the exhibition Slovenian History, see the Virtual Castle projection, and The exhibition draws attention to Open Kitchen - food market visit the Outlook Tower free of charge. the general threat to bees and other Fridays, 8:00-20:00 The festival, traditionally held around 16 pollinators in ensuring biological Ljubljana Central Market May, commemorates the date in 1905 diversity, and thus indirectly to the The Open Kitchen is a food market when the mayor of Ljubljana threat to the existence of mankind and where you can experience the delights purchased Ljubljana Castle on behalf of the all life on our planet. of freshly cooked food prepared by city from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. In terms of content, the exhibition different Slovenian chefs right there in Admission free is divided into three parts. The first front of you, on the market stalls. The Salt of the Earth - European Green presents the classification of bees and On Fridays from mid-March to October, Capital 2016 their distribution on Earth, the the Open Kitchen offers you an 1 Jun, 21:00, Tivoli Park of honey-bearing bees and their way opportunity to taste Slovenian and As part of the opening of the exhibition of life, as well as the extraordinary international dishes, meet Slovenian “Genesis” by the world-renowned importance of bees for the existence chefs, and learn about different photographer Sebastião Salgado, of mankind. The second part of the methods of food preparation. organized by the Museum & galleries exhibition presents bee products and The choice of food on offer is wide of Ljubljana in cooperation with Slovenian beekeeping as a commercial and varied. Each Friday, the market Ljubljana - European Green Capital 2016 activity, while the third part presents features around thirty different food , the city cinema Kinodvor offers a free the rich heritage that is reflected in providers, including modern restaurants, admission, open-air screening of The specialised and literary publications, in traditional ‘gostilnas’, tourist farms, and Salt of the Earth in the town’s Tivoli the cultural landscape, in the material independent chefs wanting to promote park. This intimate documentary about and immaterial heritage, and in their offerings. The cooking is done Salgado’s life and work was co-directed contemporary art. The exhibition will to the accompaniment of music and by filmmaker-photographer Wim be accompanied by numerous events, entertainment. Wenders and the artist’s son Juliano. and guided tours will be organised In case of bad weather, the market may The Salt of the Earth will be screened on Saturdays and Sundays for the be cancelled. in its original version with Slovenian duration of the exhibition. subtitles. Open: 9:00 - 20:00 Admission free 18 www.visitljubljana.com Sports

Recreational March around Ljubljana and Three-Member Team Run 7 May, Path of Remembrance and Comradeship

ACH Volley : Calcit - Speedway European Cup, semifinale The annual March around Ljubljana, 3 May, 18:00 14 May held along the circular Path of Tivoli sports hall Ilirija stadium Remembrance and Comradeship, is one of Slovenia’s largest recreational Zelena jame 2016 Cup - gymnastics Harness racing for City of Ljubljana Cup events, attracting more than 7 May 21 May 30,000 participants each year. It Ljubljana Gymnastics Centre Stožice hypodrome promotes universal values such KK Union Olimpija : KK - NK Olimpija Ljubljana : NK Krka - as camaraderie and solidarity and basketball football encourages a healthy lifestyle. 7 May, 20:00 21 May Those wanting more strenuous Stožice sports hall Stožice stadium exercise than the March can provide can choose to join the Three- NK Olimpija Ljubljana : NK - RK Ljubljana : French XV - rugby Member Team Run, held along football 28 May the eastern section of the Path of 7 May Oval Stanežiče playground Remembrance and Comradeship Stožice stadium with the finish line at the central Slovenia : Austria - rugby Kongresni trg square. 7 May Start of the Recreational March: 6:00 Športni park Ljubljana - 8:00, different locations across Ljubljana Wings for Life Start of the Three-Member Team 8 May, 10:00 Run: 9:30 for the 29km run, 9:00 The Slovenian track of Wings for Life for the 12.5km run; Stritarjeva ulica World Run will, for the third time in row, street start at the . Three-Member Team Run closing www.wingsforlifeworldrun.com ceremony: 10:30 - 13:30, Kongresni trg square

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