Events in Ljubljana from 18. to 24.1.2016

18.1.2016 20.00 METOD BANKO & TONČ FEINIG & ROBERT JUKIČ & RATKO DIVJAK Klub Zoo 18.1.2016 Free admission Every Monday Club ZOO hosts free jazz concerts

21.00 SIBERIAN MEAT GRINDER (RUSSIA) Klub Gromka (Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre) 18.1.2016 Siberian Meat Grinder is a hardcore-metal band from Russia which plays fast and adrenaline-charged crossover thrash music blended with rap, power metal, black metal, stoner rock and other genres.

19.1.2016 19.30 NACE SLAK IN MIJA NOVAK Slovenian Philharmonic 19.1.2016 Nace slak is one of the most talented young Slovenian pianists.

20.1.2016 19.30 MARTINA BURGER, SOPRANO AND ALEKSANDRA NAUMOVSKI POTISK, PIANO Križanke Summer Theatre 20.1.2016 During her studies, Martina Burger performed in leading roles of Pamina, Queen of the Night, Madame Herz, Laurette, baroness Sue Ellen de Gondremarck. She participated in many international festivals and performed with different orchestras in Slovenia and abroad.

20.00 MOONLIGHT SKY (SLOVENIA) Klub Zoo 20.1.2016 Free admission Moonlight Sky is a Slovenian group, formed in the year 2000. Their members are recognized composers and arrangers. The group is preparing for the release of their new, fourth album. In the honor of their 15th anniversary, the group is organizing a jubilee concert with their musical guests.

21.1.2016 19.30 SLOVENIAN NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET THEATRE OF LJUBLJANA: OTELLO Cankarjev dom (cultural and congress centre) 21.1.2016 This new production of Verdi's opera Otello is directed by Manfred Schweigkofler, who staged a hit production of The Nymphs of the Rhine at Ljubljana's Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre a few years ago.

20.00 BALLAKE SISSOKO & VINCENT SEGAL (MALI/FRANCE) Cankarjev dom (cultural and congress centre) 21.1.2016 The astounding crossover between traditional West African musical idiom and classical music is an expedition through uncharted depths of sound. The brilliant duo consisting of kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and cello will play compositions from their second joint album.

21.00 MANU DELAGO HANDMADE (GB) Kino Šiška - Centre for Urban Culture 21.1.2016 Manu is a master of the hang and a drummer for the notorious Björk. He has worked with names such as The Cinematic Orchestra and Anoushka Shankar as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

22.00 LIAMERE (SLOVENIA) Gala hala (Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre) 21.1.2016 Free admission Liamere was formed with a vision to create a distinctive mixture of darker electronic, incorporating it with classical mellow pop structures. Their self titled debut is a mixture of atmospheric trip-hop, dark garage and alternative electronic.

22.1.2016 19.30 HUNGARIAN RADIO CHOIR Slovenian Philharmonic 22.1.2016 Hungarian Radio Choir will perform songs from three leading Hungarian composers of the 20th Century: Bartók, Kodály and Ligeti.

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19.30 SLOVENIAN NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET THEATRE OF LJUBLJANA: OTELLO Cankarjev dom (cultural and congress centre) 22.1.2016 This new production of Verdi's opera Otello is directed by Manfred Schweigkofler, who staged a hit production of The Nymphs of the Rhine at Ljubljana's Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre a few years ago.

23.00 MUCHA LUCHA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA) Gala hala (Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre) 22.1.2016 Mucha Lucha is a series of musical events in Sarajevo, which first occurred in 2010. Local music expert and DJ Mr. Mehikano began to organize club events which soon developed into real block partys taking place every month in the center of Sarajevo in the parking lot in front of a popular bar. In January this block party will be held for the first time in Ljubljana.

23.1.2016 19.30 SLOVENIAN NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET THEATRE OF LJUBLJANA: OTELLO Cankarjev dom (cultural and congress centre) 23.1.2016 This new production of Verdi's opera Otello is directed by Manfred Schweigkofler, who staged a hit production of The Nymphs of the Rhine at Ljubljana's Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre a few years ago.

22.00 ZMELKOOW (SLOVENIJA) Orto bar 23.1.2016 Zmelkoow is a Slovenian comedy rock band, founded in 1992. They are known for a distinctive humor in most of their songs' lyrics, spanning from philosophical to ironic.

22.30 REPLICUNTS (SERBIA) & ONCE WAS NEVER (SLOVENIA) Menza pri koritu (Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre) 23.1.2016 Replicunts are an all female punk group, which is distinguished by energetic performances. The Serbian band will present their self titled album Replicunts, which was released in November 2015. Once Was Never is Slovenian group from Sežana. Recently they released their first album, Lighthouse and the abyss, which will also be presented to the Metelkova audience.

other LONG LIVE THE EVOLUTION! Slovenian Museum of Natural History events 25.11.2013 to 30.6.2016 This interactive exhibition gives you an insight into how the immense diversity of life on Earth evolved over more than three and a half billion years.

THE LAND OF ICE Vodno mesto Atlantis (water park) 13.11.2015 to 28.2.2016 Be marvelled by the wonderful ice sculptures in the Land of Ice, which opened its doors at the BTC City shopping centre.

WATER City Museum of Ljubljana - MGML 24.6.2015 to 8.5.2016 This exhibition deals with one of the big themes of our time, the importance of water as a source of life, its significance for the mobility of people, goods, ideas, and knowledge, and its importance for religion, art, and language. The exhibition also focuses on water as part of the water circle and explores its role in ecology.

ONE PLANET, ONE WATER - PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION The Tivoli Park 3.12.2015 to 1.2.2016 Free admission This open-air photographic exhibition, part of the Museum and Galleries of the City of Ljubljana's project Water, is the first in the series of events set to be held in celebration of Ljubljana as the European Green Capital 2016.

COMING HOME Cekin Mansion: National Museum of Contemporary History 20.6.2015 to 1.9.2016 In cooperation with seventeen Slovene museums, the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana prepared an exhibition project entitled Coming Home dedicated to stories and memory of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Isonzo front (1915) and the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2 (1945).

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SAŠA J. MÄCHTIG: SYSTEMS, STRUCTURES, STRATEGIES - RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION Fužine Castle: Museum of Architecture and Design 26.11.2015 to 20.3.2016 The designer and architect Saša J. Mächtig is considered to be one of the most important figures in Slovenian industrial design. His best known work is the K67 kiosk, a multi-purpose modular unit that became a familiar feature of cities and towns across Slovenia and a number of other central European cities in the second half of the 20th century.

FURNITURE. SKILLS AND SECRETS OF MASTER CARPENTERS - EXHIBITION National Museum of Slovenia - Metelkova ulica street 6.10.2015 to 9.2.2016 Didacticly designed exhibition presents unprecedented collection of furniture from a slightly different angle. Regional Museum Ptuj Ormož houses one of the three most important collections of aristocratic and bourgeois furniture in Slovenia.

RIHARD JAKOPIČ: SKETCHBOOKS - EXHEBITION National Gallery 18.11.2015 to 28.2.2016 In the second half of the 19th century, the functional use of drawing waned. Its role was in many ways taken over by photography, while drawing became a separate creative field. On the one hand, drawing became an independent medium, and on the other hand a "notebook".

STANE JERKO: ONE (LADIES) - PHOTO EXHIBITION Cankarjev dom (cultural and congress centre) 16.12.2015 to 24.1.2016 Free admission A major landmark in Jerko’s career was photographs of hats by Alja Košak, which the Ljubljana-based milliner designed for Jovanka Broz and the Queen of England. Since then, he has specialised mainly in fashion and commercial photography. His exquisite photographs evoke the golden era of Slovenia’s fashion and entertainment circles.

ZVONKO ČOH: I DOODLE OVER WHATEVER I SEE - SOLO EXHIBITION City Art Gallery - MGML 3.12.2015 to 8.2.2016 Free admission Overall exhibition of the academic painter Zvonko Čoh. The complete selection of exhibited artworks aims at four substantially and technically formally explicit and fundamental lines that reinforce and underscore all essential features of Čoh’s artistic poetics.

KISS WITH LANGUAGE - EXHIBITION National and University Library 19.11.2015 to 30.1.2016 Free admission For the first time, visitors of the exhibition will have the opportunity to see the earliest and the latest grammar books and dictionaries of the Slovenian language in one place.

BOGOSLAV KALAŠ: THE PAINTING MACHINE - SURVEY EXHIBITION Museum of Modern Art 17.12.2015 to 20.3.2016 The exhibition is a comprehensive overview of Bogoslav Kalaš's opus. The creative part of Kalaš’s biography is the fact that he developed his own painting procedure or technique, which he calls aerography and has been continuously developing since 1971, with a view to solving certain issues connected with the painting process.

FALLOPIA JAPONICA (JAPANESE KNOTWEED): FRIENDLY ENEMY - EXHIBITION Fužine Castle: Museum of Architecture and Design 11.12.2015 to 28.2.2016 Free admission The exhibition presents a potential in Japanese knotweed as a source of cellulose and cellulose-based materials. The exhibition presents a selection of materials, and prototypes. It identifies the opportunities posed by this invasive plant, only if we can look past its destructive nature and recognize it as a new asset and an opportunity for integration and development.

EQURNA POP! - GROUP EXHIBITION Galerija Equrna 23.12.2015 to 10.2.2016 Free admission Group exhibition about Pop Art in Slovenia. Curator of the exhibition is Arne Brejc and Vasja Cenčič.

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ACADEMY'S ART COLLECTION Recctorate of the University of Ljubljana, Kongresni trg square 12 8.11.2015 to 28.9.2016 The Academy's collection is the third-richest public art collection in Ljubljana. Its body of graphic works of art is especially valuable as no other institution keeps these paintings.

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30 YEARS OF THE MUSEUM OF POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS - EXHIBITION Technical museum of Slovenia 17.12.2015 to 27.11.2016 This year the Museum of Post and Telecommunications is celebrating its 30 anniversary. To honour this jubilee, a special exhibition will present all the important landmarks in the history of post and telecommunications for the last thirty years of the museum. The Slovenian Philatelic Association will also participate at the exhibition with its collections.

CRISES AND NEW BEGINNINGS: ART IN SLOVENIA 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM) 22.12.2015 to 3.4.2016 The exhibition aims to present a selective overview of developments just past or still taking place, and attempts to define the main phenomena and trends in contemporary art in Slovenia over the past decade. Covering a wide range of fields and thus also involving the collaboration of several professionals and experts.

OLD / NEW (CONSTRUCTIONS) - EXHIBITION Photon Gallery - contemporary photography centre 19.12.2015 to 22.1.2016 Exhibition Old / New (Constructions) represents the latest work by Bojan Salaj. Despite the minimal and formal images, Salaj is clinging to the wider socio-political context in his latest works.

HAMLET IN SLOVENIA Cankarjev dom (cultural and congress centre) 11.1. to 14.3.2016 To mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Slovenian Theatre Institute in cooperation with Cankarjev dom presents cultural and historical exhibition.

MGLC COLLECTION Tivoli Mansion: International Centre of Graphic Arts 19.1. to 14.2.2016 The exhibition focuses on the new MGLC acquisitions from the last three years.

SELLING EXHIBITION OF PRINTS FROM THE PRODUCTION MGLC Tivoli Mansion: International Centre of Graphic Arts 1.12.2015 to 31.1.2016 Free admission A sale exhibition of fine art prints from the MGLC production has been prepared for all those with a sense of curiosity and a love of art. All publications in the MGLC publishing programme can be purchased with a 15% discount during December.

CITY UNDER BOOTS Cekin Mansion: National Museum of Contemporary History 1.11.2015 to 30.1.2016 The exhibition presents images of war by Josip Pelikan (1885-1977), recorded between 1941 and 1945 in the occupied Celje and the photography by Robert Hutinski, which shows reflection on the period of the Second World War.

JASNA KRALJ PAVLOVEC: LJUBA ANA! URBAN RECORDS OF LJUBLJANA ON LIGHT BODIES Town Hall 13. to 31.1.2016 Free admission An exhibition of five lighting bodies trapped in the pentagram marked with historical reviews of urban people and the city of Ljubljana. Compositional records are intuitively drawn on to the canvas which show the human longing for prolongation of the day and the receiving of external light.

JUBILEE INTERNATIONAL AWARDS MAKS FABIANI - EXHIBITION Town Hall 14.1. to 4.2.2016 Free admission The exhibition will present the work of the winners of the Maks Fabiani prize for outstanding work in the field of urban, regional and spatial planning.

ERNEST PIRNAT: UNIQUE HAND ENGRAVING ON GLASS Slovene Ethnographic Museum 12.11.2015 to 15.2.2016 This personal exhibition highlights the authors, somewhat special, expressive way of hand engraving on glass.

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ZORAN GRGIČ: MY CAR MODELS Slovene Ethnographic Museum 26.11.2015 to 15.2.2016 The exhibition presents a selection from the private collection of car models.

ALUO LXX: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE Jakopič Gallery 19.1. to 23.4.2016 The exhibition’s opening will coincide with the 70th anniversary of full-time academic classes at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of Ljubljana (ALUO).

ASTRIT ISMAILI - SOLO EXHIBITION Tobačna 001 (cultural centre) 7. to 29.1.2016 Free admission Astrit Ismaili (Priština, 1991), a multidisciplinary artist working with performance. He performs form intimate experiences that operate on themes as family, gender issues, perception and transformation. His work connects to ritualistic and transgressive body performances that violate social taboos by allowing an experience of personal transformation during the event.

LEA CULETTO, BLAŽKA KRIŽAN IN NIKA VUČKO Bežigrajska galerija 1 13.1. to 9.2.2016 Three young artists will show their works at the exhibition for the first time.

CZECH MARIONETTES - EXHIBITION Ljubljana Castle 11. to 31.1.2016 An extensive exhibition of Czech marionettes from the end of the 19th century, typical instances of "family theater" by the mid-20th century and contemporary puppets by Buchty a Loutky theater.

CELTS FROM EMERALD MOUNTAINS - EXHIBITION National Museum of Slovenia - Metelkova ulica street 2.1. to 30.3.2016 The extraordinary exhibition tells the story of the Celts in the east Alps. It will be possible to admire finds related to Celtic presence in relation to a wide area between Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Carinthia and Western Slovenia.

BOJAN BRECELJ: WATER DRAGON OF VENICE Galerija Fotografija 19.1. to 20.2.2016 The image of Venice by Bojan Brecelj lead us to the hybrid dimension, engraved both in the stone and in people’s minds. Maybe it is nothing more than another attempt to solve the mystery of the Lagoon, this time by way of the Water Dragon, which can be the source of life and inspiration on an almost hypnotical journey back.

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