Events December 2016 Guided tours of festive Ljubljana Highlights in December Festive Ljubljana Index December in Ljubljana 4 Exhibitions 6 Music 9 Opera, theatre, dance 15 Miscellaneous 18 December Tour of Festively Decorated Ljubljana Sports 19 Romantic and magical. This is the best description of Ljubljana during the days of December. You will take a walk through festively decorated Ljubljana with a guide, look for a unique gift at the holiday fair and get to know the story and concept of the decorations, the creative talent behind Cover photo: D. Wedam which has been, for many years, the renowned painter Edited and published by: Ljubljana Zmago Modic. Tourism, Krekov trg 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Schedule: 26 November 2016 - 8 January 2017 daily at 17:00 T: +386 1 306 45 83, Duration: Two hours. E: [email protected], Language options: Slovenian, English and Italian Other language options are available by arrangement with the tour W: www.visitljubljana.com organiser. Photography: Archives of Ljubljana Departure point: Ljubljana Tourist Information Centre Tourism and individual event organisers (Stritarjeva ulica street) Price: €10.00 for adults, €5.00 for children aged between 4 and 12 Prepress: Prajs d.o.o. Printed by: Partner Graf d.o.o., Ljubljana, December 2016 Ljubljana Tourism is not liable for any Kurzschluss 27 Nov -3 Jan 27 Nov -3 Jan inaccurate information appearing in the The Kurzschluss festival of calendar. December in Ljubljana Festive Fair electronic music presents The festively decorated Each year in December, a string of top-quality old city centre will see Ljubljana’s Festive Fair Committed to caring for the club events featuring a range of free open-air becomes the centre of the environment, we print on recycled paper. internationally awarded entertainment events city’s social life. Share our commitment by bands, solo artists, and DJs. intended for people of all p. 18 sharing this publication with p. 9 ages and different tastes. your friends. p. 4 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 3 December in Ljubljana December in LjubljanaFestivals Ljubljana Primary Schools Choirs and accompanied by a procession of unforgettable New Year's Eve experience December in Ljubljana 13 - 15 Dec, 17:00 snowmen, bears, rabbits and other for children, the celebration will feature 25 Nov - 1 Jan, historical city centre Mestni trg square creatures from folk and fairy tales, he popular festive characters, children's The festive atmosphere in the old city will visit the old city centre’s Festive Fair performances, and the arrival of centre will be enhanced by a series of and venues for children’s events. Grandpa Frost. short concerts by children's choirs. Music programme in the Kongresni trg New Year’s Eve Celebration in the Street Theatre square Kongresni trg square 16 - 20 Dec, 19:00 26 Dec - 2 Jan, 20:00 31 Dec, 21:00 Kongresni trg square Concerts featuring various pop rock The programme is meant to attract Performances by clowns, jugglers artists, among them Perpetuum Jazzile people of all ages and tastes. and circus performers for adults and on 2 Jan. New Year’s Eve Celebration in the children. Music programme in the Pogačar trg Mestni trg square Good Fairy square 31 Dec, 21:00 13 - 30 Dec, 17:00 - 21:00 27 - 30 Dec, 17:00 The programme is traditionally meant (except 24, 25 Dec) Concerts featuring various pop and for Slovene popular and classical music Mestni trg square pop-folk artists. lovers. Good Fairy fulfils the wishes to the Slovene Police Orchestra with Alenka New Year’s Eve celebration in the passers-by. Authorial project by painter Experience the vibrant pulse of Ljubljana’s Festive Lights Switch-On Magical Forest Godec Pogačar trg square Zmago Modic. the festively decorated Ljubljana. Event 3 - 23 Dec, 16:30 - 19:00 Nejc Bečan - conductor 31 Dec, 21:00 Visit the traditional Festive Fair and 25 Nov, 17:15 Kongresni trg square pavilion Music programme in the Novi trg 28 Dec, 18:00 The programme features pop and choose from a vast number of free Prešernov trg square The magical events held at the Magical square Krekov trg square parking traditional folk music singers and bands. entertainment events culminating Forest will host creative workshops 16 - 25 Dec, 19:00 10th anniversary of funicular to the Festive Fair New Year’s Eve celebration in the Trg in New Year’s Eve celebrations. of making environmentally friendly (except 24 Dec) Ljubljana castle 25 Nov - 1 Jan 2017, 10:00 - 23:00/24:00 francoske revolucije square December in Ljubljana was opened Christmas decorations. Novi trg square Breg, Cankarjevo nabrežje Music programme in the Trg francoske 31 Dec, 21:30 on 25 November with the city’s Concerts featuring various Slovene pop embankement, Prešernov trg square, St. Nicholas Fair revolucije square The programme is mainly intended for annual Ljubljana’s Festive Lights artists Kongresni trg square 3 - 6 Dec, 10:00 - 20:00 30 Dec, 20:00 fans of rock music. Switch-On Event. The festival’s Festively decorated stalls selling a Prešernov trg square Ljubljanski madrigalisti choir Concerts featuring various rock artists. diverse programme of events, Fireworks display selection of items suitable for Christmas The festively decorated stalls at St. Marta Burger - soprano designed to offer something for New Year’s Eve Celebration for children 1 Jan, 00:00 and New Year’s gifts. Drinks and snacks Nicholas Fair offer various goods Matej Volk - tenore people of all ages and tastes to 31 Dec, 16:00 The fireworks is launched from the are available till 8 January. suitable for traditional St. Nicholas gifts. Aleksandra Naumovski Potis - piano enjoy, will include four different Kongresni trg square Ljubljana Castle hill. 24 Dec, 17:00 New Year’s Eve celebrations held Festive Fair St Nicholas Procession In order to create a magical and Traditional Christmas concert in front of in four of the city’s central public 25 Nov -1 Jan 2017, 10:00 - 22:00/24:00 5 Dec, 17:00 the Town Hall squares, each featuring a different Pogačarjev trg square Krekov trg square, Ciril-Metodov trg style of music. Festively decorated stalls selling a square, Stritarjeva ulica street, Prešernov Grandpa Frost Procession www.visitljubljana.com selection of items suitable for Christmas trg square 26 - Sat 30 Dec, 17:00 and New Year’s gifts. Drinks and snacks St Nicholas is accompanied by devils and Breg, Čevljarski most bridge, Mestni trg are available till 8 January. an assembly of angels, who distribute square, Stritarjeva ulica street, Prešernov Need a ticket? Tickets are for the majority of biscuits, fruits and sweets to children. trg square, Kongresni trg square Christmas Crib made of straw cultural, entertainment, sports and A few days before New Year, Grandpa 25 Nov -8 Jan other events available from Tourist Frost, the Slovenian counterpart of Santa Breg embankement Information Centres and online on Claus, will arrive in Ljubljana from the A unique hand-made straw Christmas www.visitljubljana.com. Far North. Riding in his carriage, drawn crib created by the local artist Anton Recommended! by genuine white Lipizzaner horses Kravanja. The figures are life-size. 4 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 5 Exhibitions Exhibitions The Vugrinec Collection. Croatian Frano Kršinić and others. Modern Art 1880 - 1945 Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00 10 Nov - 12 Mar 2017 National Gallery of - 20:00, 24 and 31 Dec 10:00 - 15:00. Slovenia Closed: Mondays, 25 Dec and 1 Jan. The collection of Davor Vugrinec Plečnik Collection presented for the first time to the public Retrospective exhibition by Tone The new permanent exhibition at the in 2015 at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb Lapajne, an important Slovenian Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the most as the collection of “masterpieces artist with an impressive oeuvre, important projects of the late architect. of Croatian Modernism”. As a but who has yet to get his due. The Plečnik’s creativity comes to life through demonstration of the requirements that exhibition Memory of Eart presents the plans, models and photographs of make up a successful collecting policy, the highlights of his oeuvre in his creations such as the Zacherl House the collection is an excellent example of various art mediums. Tone Lapajne, in Vienna, Prague Castle, the National ambitious determination that surpasses as an academic sculptor, created and University Library in Ljubljana, even some museum collections. The a vast but so far little known opus the Ljubljana Central Market, Žale exhibition presents contemporaries, of sculptures in concrete, iron and Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael at the friends, and fellow students of Slovenian wood. Today, he is best known as a Ljubljana Marshes and numerous other 12th Slovenian Biennial of llustration artists, from the Šubic brothers, Anton painter, especially for his paintings, 18 Nov - 19 Marc 2017 Cankarjev dom Gallery masterpieces. Several plans of Plečnik’s Ažbe, and the Impressionists onwards. which he created with the help of never realized visions are also on display. Especially storied is the founding era of soil, usually that from the marshes The central overview of Slovenian The Centres of Printmaking: At the The Cathedral of Freedom, the master’s InterLACEd the “Zagreb School”. The exhibition of or saltpans. With them he formed illustration, the Biennial unites Intersection of Knowledge, Learning vision of the Slovenian parliament, is 21 Jun - 31 Dec Slovene Ethnographic sixsty-five paintings and works on paper one of the most recognisable and older and younger generations and Cooperation especially worthy of our attention. Museum and twelve sculptures includes works by intimate variations of Informel Art. of illustrators employing diverse 11 Oct - 8 Feb 2017 International Centre of Guided tours: every hour, on the hour Temporary exhibition by SEM Mato Celestin Medović, Vlaho Bukovac, Saturdays at 16:30 guided tours in artistic methods and rewards their Graphic Arts (the last guided tour at 17:00).