Events May 2016 Index Festivals 4 Exhibitions 6 Ljubljana Music 8 European Green Capital 2016 Opera, theatre, dance 15 Guided Tours Miscellaneous 18 Sports 19 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. 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Highlights in May Laibach: The Sound of Music 9 May 16 May - 18 Jun 26-28 May Laibach: 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. Europe's best festivals of Tour 2016. p. 7 its kind. p. 11 p. 5 www.visitljubljana.com 3 Festivals Torleif Thedéen - violoncello & Roland Pöntinen - piano (Sweden) 18 May, 19:30 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Programme: L. van Beethoven / A. Schnittke / E. Grieg RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra Daniel Raiskin - conductor Isang Enders (Germany) - 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 Vienna (Austria) 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: classical music, 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! 4 www.visitljubljana.com Festivals St Germain The Comet Is Coming 26 May, 21:00 27 May, 01:00 Kino Šiška Metelkova 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 www.visitljubljana.com 5 Exhibitions 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, Prague 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 Ljubljana Central Market, Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael at the Nikola Tesla was an ingenious National Gallery Ljubljana Marshes 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 Slovenian parliament, 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 Baroque 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 Impressionism. 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 Francesco Robba, 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 Ljubljanica. 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.