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successful and enjoyable years in The festival started on October 9 Current Events the . and will continue until November 9, 2008. September 25 - November At a Wednesday reception, 10 - A River's Gifts: Ambassador to UN Sanja Štiglic Archeological Excavation of the and Charge d'Affairs to US Ljubljanica River in Miriam Možgan thanked Ms Photographs. Embassy of Suhadolnik for her dedicated , Washington, DC, work in putting together great cultural, promotional and October 9 - November 9 academic programs during those - Kids Euro Festival 2008: A past 4 years. celebration of European Arts Roza and Culture for Kids! Washington, DC (various Slovenian children performers, venues). See the article below who are scheduled this year, are or check the official website. Mr. Andrej Rozman Roza and Ms. Lila Prap, who both enjoy great October 22 – November 30 – recognition among Slovenian "Honey Brown Eyes”, play about young generations. two soldiers during the conflict in Bosnia. Written by Stefanie Their acts are Zadravec. Theater J, titled How Oscar From left: Štiglic, Možgan and Washington, DC. Became a Suhadolnik at the reception Detective and November 19 – Screening of a Why Crocodiles Alenka and her small but hard- documentary on life and work of Cry. Oscar the working team have managed to Janko Lavrin “All Slovene, all Detective - written raise Slovenia's visibility in New Russian, all English, and all and performed by York and to present Slovenia as a cosmopolitan - the portrait of Andrej Rozman place of beauty, talented Janko Lavrin (1887 – 1986)”, Roza - is a story individuals and great artistic with author Dragan as guest. about a boy named energy. Embassy of Slovenia, Oscar, who is Washington, DC, Nov. 19, afraid that he is not smart We wish Alenka all the best in 2008, 7 p.m. Free, open for the enough to become a detective. her future endeavors, and that public. And if you have ever wondered, her skills, talents, and character Why do crocodiles cry or Why would continue to shine. are zebras striped, you may be * interested in finding out the answers in the funny and Kids Euro Festival 2008 Consul General Suhadolnik educational tales of Lila Prap. Bids Farewell The Euro Kids Festival 2008 is in We offer you an updated full swing, with more than 100 scheduled of their performances New York, October 29 - Over performances scheduled to take on the Embassy’s web site. 130 people bid farewell to place around D.C. metro area. Slovenian Consul General in New The Festival’s official web site York, Ms Alenka Suhadolnik, who with additional information is is leaving New York after four available at

www.washington.embassy.si Newsletter October 31, 2008 Page 2 at http://kidseurofestival.org/. Guest at the event was a curator universities in Great Britain, e.g., Eda Čufar, who is also a in Glasgow and London. You may also stop by at the drmaturg and an NSK collective Slovenian Embassy to pick up a member. For Slovenians, he was especially program of scheduled events. important as the ambassador of The book is edited by Markus the Slovene literature. Miessen and has been published by Sternberg Press, Berlin & New York, and co-published by Založba ZRC, Ljubljana.

More at www .sternberg-press.com .

Screening of a Lila Prap Documentary on Life of Janko Lavrin We hope to see you there! November 19, 2008 – Embassy of Slovenia will host a screening EAST COAST EUROPE of a documentary on life of Janko Book Launch Lavrin on November 19, 2008 at Janko Lavrin 7 pm. This documentary was produced New York, October 28 – One by the screen writer and director night only, Slovenian Consulate The documentary “All Slovene, Ana Nuša Dragan, who will be in New York took over the Swiss all Russian, all English, and all present at the screening. The Institute to celebrate the launch cosmopolitan - the portrait of event is free and open for the of EAST COAST EUROPE, a book Janko Lavrin (1887 – 1986)” public. of conversations between tells the life story of a Slovene curators, critics, artists, and intellectual, who spent most of philosophers. his time abroad, first in Russia and then in Great Britain; but in East Coast Europe investigates never forgot that he was a Washington National contemporary European identity Slovene, born in Krupa, Bela Opera and its relation to spatial krajina. practices and international Washington, November 8, politics as seen from the two East In 1915, as a young journalist he 2008 - Slovenian soprano Coasts - of the United States of reported from the Balkan about Sabina Cvilak will be for the America and the countries in the World War I. second year in a row part of a European Union and its vicinity. performance, marking the Although Lavrin continued his opening of the fall season at the journalistic career in England, he Washington National Opera. soon found his life’s calling as a literary historian, essayist and Starting next week, Cvilak will translator of Slavic literature. perform as Micaёla in Georges Bizet’s Carmen. Next to such From 1923 until his retirement in great name as Denyce Graves, 1953, Lavrin was professor of who is known around the world modern Russian literature at the for her portrayal of Carmen, University of Nottingham. Sabina Cvilak’s performance is highly anticipated by opera He was actively involved in lovers. organizing Slavic studies at other

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The purpose of these events is to has enveloped the sense of focus on the types of identity of Slovenes and Croats. and urbanism in Croatia and Slovenia while addressing how Perhaps Petra Čeferin of these dynamic regions have Ljubljana, an architect and undergone radical political, social architectural critic, put it best and economic (more so Slovenia) when she encapsulated the changes over the last fifteen purpose of the exhibition, stating years. Slovenia and Croatia “The architects succeeded in responding to the changes, not Sabina Cvilak represent the cutting-edge architecture that has become simply to adjust to them, but, in Cvilak’s last year performances such an integral part of the a radical way, to trigger a as a second cast for Mimi in La representation of both countries change in their own field.” Bohème were remarkable. The in the wake of the break-up of reviews were extremely in favor Yugoslavia. of a young and promising NBA League Season 63 Slovenian soprano, describing her The development of proliferation Begins this Week efforts with “Second Cast Gives of new ideas is meant to First-Rate Account Of La illustrate how these countries New York, Oct. 27, 2008 Bohème” (Washington Post, have become members of a new (STA) - A new season of NBA Sept. 21, 07). Europe without losing their long- league began on Tuesday, standing architectural ties to marking its 63rd year. Sport The schedule for Carmen is provinces like Vienna. While experts are all united in their available on the web site of the Slovenia and Croatia were in a predictions of this year's Washington National Opera. state of transition, there was favorites, which happen to be opportunity for the establishment last year’s finalists Boston Celtics If you wish to read more on of young professionals, who and Los Angeles Lakers. Sabina Cvilak, we suggest you pioneered a new vision for the Slovenes will this time have four visit the archives of the architecture defining the future of representatives in the league. September 2007 Embassy’s their cities. Newsletter on our web site. After Primož Brezec’s (Lottomatica) and Boštjan Nachbar’s (Dinamo Moskva) New Trajectories: departures at the end of the last Contemporary Architecture NBA’s season, Slovenian colors in Croatia and Slovenia will be represented in the NBA league by Radoslav Nesterovič (Indiana Pacers), Beno Udrih The Graduate School of Design (Sacramento Kings), Goran (GSD) at Harvard University Dragič (Phoenix Suns) and Saša decided to put on an exhibit this Vujačič (Los Angeles Lakers). September titled New Petra Čeferin was one of the panelists. Trajectories: Contemporary The later has the biggest Architecture in Croatia and The architects who were featured opportunity to become a third Slovenia, exploring innovative in this exhibit began their career Slovenian basketball player after displays of architecture in a state of transition from Nesterovič and Udrih with an throughout these countries. The communist Yugoslavia to a NBA League Championship Ring. exhibit was intended to capitalist society comprised of Vujačič’s team from Los Angeles encompass a series of lectures in independent nations. The work of is namely the biggest favorite for hopes of becoming an annual the architects in this exhibit winning the Championship title event. personifies the intense, inspiring beside Boston. and productive architecture that

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