April 2017 Events
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Events April 2017 Sightseeing Tours Highlights in April Historical city centre and Ljubljana castle Take a walk around the historical city centre, explore major Open Kitchen attractions and Ljubljana Castle. Daily at 11:00 Index From: in front the Town Hall (duration 2 hours) Language: Slovene, English Price: adults € 13, children € 6,5, with Ljubljana Tourist card free of charge. Walking tour of Plečnik’s Ljubljana Festivals 4 An exploration of the life and work of the greatest Slovene architect. Exhibitions 5 Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12:00 From: Tourist Information Centre – TIC (duration 3 hours) Language: Slovene, English Price: € 20 Music 8 Taste Ljubljana food tour Opera, theatre, dance 13 Taste of 5 different dishes and 5 selected drinks included. Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12:00 Miscellaneous 14 From: Tourist Information Centre - TIC (duration 3 hours) Language: Slovene, English Price: € 38 Sports 15 Ljubljana beer lover’s experience Taste of 8 different beers and 3 snacks included, visit to Brewery Museum. Mondays and Fridays at 18:00 From: Slovenian Tourist Information Centre – STIC (duration 3 hours) Cover photo: D. Wedam Language: Slovene, English Edited and published by: Ljubljana Price: € 35 Tourism, Krekov trg 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Town Hall tour T: +386 1 306 45 83, E: [email protected], Saturdays at 13:00 Fridays 2 Apr 5 Apr - 27 Aug 7 and 8 Apr From: in front of the Town Hall (duration 1 hour) W: www.visitljubljana.com Language: Slovene, English Photography: Archives of Ljubljana Open Kitchen Budapest Festival Robert Capa - 2 Cellos Price: € 5 Visit the Open Orchestra Concert by the Tourism and individual event organisers Retrospective Kitchen food (Budapesti famous duo Prepress: Prajs d.o.o. photo exhibition market, where you Fesztiválzenekar) One of the most 2Cellos, consisting Printed by: Partner Graf d.o.o., Ljubljana, can experience The Budapest prominent war of classically April 2017 the delights of Festival Orchestra photographers of all trained Luka Ljubljana Tourism is not liable for any freshly cooked is one of Hungarian time, Robert Capa’s Šulić and Stjepan inaccurate information appearing in the food prepared by music scene’s major legacy includes over Hauser. They calendar. different Slovenian success stories, 70,000 negatives play instrumental chefs right there in being rated among that provide a arrangements of Committed to caring for the front of you, on the the world’s top ten unique insight into well-known pop environment, we print on recycled paper. market stalls. orchestras. the turbulent history and rock songs as Share our commitment by p. 14 p. 7 of the twentieth well as classical and Information and ticket sale: Tourist Information Centre - TIC and sharing this publication with century. film music. Slovenian Tourist Information Centre – STIC your friends. p. 5 p. 8 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 3 Festivals Exhibitions Torul (Slovenia) - alternative rock A New Age is Coming! Industry - Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00 - Orto Fest 12 Apr, 22:00 Labour - Capital 21:00. Closed: Mondays Capa’s retrospective exhibition 1 - 29 Apr, Orto Bar 25 Oct - 21 May, City Museum of Ljubljana features 97 black-and-white Avven (Slovenia) - folk-metal-rock Damjan Gale: The Architect of Light, a The exhibition on industry in Ljubljana photographs showing pivotal events Spotless Minds (Slovenia) - rock retrospective photography exhibition also topicalizes the ever changing from the five wars he documented 13 Apr, 21:00 28 Mar - 4 Jun, Jakopič Gallery relations between labour and capital. It in his brief life: from the Spanish Civil Damjan Gale was an architect that Elvis Jackson (Slovenia) - ska-punk- depicts how Ljubljana dealt with new War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, photographed and a photographer reggae-metal-rock industries as they arrived and offers World War II including the Battle of that put architecture in the focus of 14 Apr, 22:00 the experience of “travel through time Normandy on Omaha Beach and the his interests. He knew and understood and space”. The show starts off with liberation of Paris, the 1948 Arab- Zmelkoow (Slovenia) - pop-rock architecture in the entirety of its process the sugar refinery on the banks of the Israeli War, and the First Indochina 15 Apr, 22:00 of creation. The same can be said for Ljubljanica river. It goes on to depict War. The exhibition also presents a his photography - from the process of Manouche (Slovenia) - swing-jazz capitalists of the time, businessmen series of portraits of his friends and taking photographs, setting up motifs, 17 Apr, 22:00 whose vision made Ljubljana into an artists, including Ernest Hemingway, work in the darkroom and all the way industrial hub. At the same time, the William Faulkner, Henri Matisse and Los Ventilos (Slovenia) - rock to the final presentation - there were exhibits tell the story of the life of the Pablo Picasso. 18 Apr, 22:00 no coincidences in this process, and the proletariat. The rise of industry in the Apart from Henri Cartier-Bresson, final result always had a sublime sense Cowboys from Hell (Slovenia) - metal late 19th and early 20th century takes a Capa was one of the most celebrated of balance between the aesthetic and 19 Apr, 22:00 sharp turn after WWII, when factories founding members of the Magnum Established in 1999 and regularly documentary. Orto Fest were nationalised and many capitalists Photos agency in Paris in 1947; held since 2001, Orto Fest is an Havok (USA), Warbringer (USA), Gorod His photographic oeuvre consists Lačni Franz (Slovenia) - rock chased out of the country. The end of in commemoration of the 70th ambitious festival with a wide (France), ExMortus (USA) - thrash metal of interpretations of contemporary 1 Apr, 22:00 the war marked the beginning of the anniversary of its existence the ranging scope of its musical 20 Apr, 21:00 Slovenian architecture, the baroque ascent of large socialist enterprises. The exhibition materials are being programme. It takes place in Kontradikshn (Slovenia) and Onubo in Slovenia and works of Jože Plečnik. Opća Opasnost (Croatia) - hard rock next break came in the 1990s, when supplied by this notable photo Orto Bar, a legendary bar for rock (Slovenia) - electronic rock Especially important in his oeuvre are 21 Apr, 22:00 Slovenia shed socialism and enterprises agency. aficionados. Even though rock 3 Apr, 22:00 Plečnik’s columns, with which Gale was were privatised. Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Sundays 10:00 - music is its predominant sound, Messerschmitt (Croatia) - garage rock a regular guest of exhibitions at home Bohem (Slovenia) - rock Sundays at 16:30 guided tours in English. 14:00. Closed: Mondays, holidays the festival also offers pop(-rock), 22 Apr, 22:00 and abroad. During his lifetime and 5 Apr, 22:00 metal, hip hop, and folk acts. Rudi Bučar and Istrabend - rock-pop Besides regularly staging foreign Nocturnal Depression (France) - black Robert Capa - Retrospective photo exhibition 24 Apr, 22:00 musicians, who are coming from all metal, Psychonaut 4 (Georgia) - black 5 Apr - 27 Aug, CD Gallery over the world, the festival mostly metal, Demolition Group (Slovenia) - rock Seventh Station (Slovenia) - metal hosts Slovene musicians and its 6 Apr, 21:00 25 Apr, 22:00 yearly selection always features Dog Eat Dog (USA) - hardcore punk Blazea Bayleyja (G. Britain) - metal a combination of some older, cult 7 Apr, 22:00 Vigilance (Slovenia) artists with a showing of what is 26 Apr, 21:00 currently happening on the different Severa Gjurin (Slovenia) - rock-pop local music scenes. 8 Apr, 22:00 Benighted (France), Wormed (Spain), Unfathomable Ruination (G. Britain), Koala Voice (Slovenia) - rock-pop-punk Omophagia (Switzerland) - death metal Mrfy (Slovenia) 27 Apr, 21:00 10 Apr, 22:00 Stray Train (Slovenia) - blues rock Soen (USA/Sweden) and Madder 28 Apr, 22:00 Mortem ( ) - progressive rock 11 Apr, 21:00 Nipke & The Nipples (Slovenia) - hip-hop 29 Apr, 22:00 4 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 5 Exhibitions Music Kolenik, Samo, Kamila Volčanšek. Brain Holidays (Croatia) - dub-reggae Peter Dekleva and Bilbi - pop Plečnik House Open: 11:00 - 19:00. Closed: Mondays 1 Apr, 21:00 4 Apr, 20:00 Admission free Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Puppet Museum at Ljubljana Castle Budapest Festival Orchestra (Budapesti The Indicals (Slovenia) - ska-reggae- The Budapest Festival Orchestra is Slovenia is a country with a rich tradition Fesztiválzenekar) rock one of Hungarian music scene’s of puppeteering. The Puppet Museum’s Iván Fischer - conductor 4 Apr, 20:00 major success stories, being permanent exhibition, set up by the Dejan Lazić - piano; Oszkár Ökrös - Prulček Bar rated among the world’s top ten Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, introduces cimbalom New Zealand Chamber Orchestra orchestras. One of the secrets of its you to the history of puppeteering 2 Apr, 20:00 5 Apr, 19:30 success lies in the way Iván Fischer in Slovenia and the creativity of Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Slovenian Philharmonic Hall and his musicians are constantly contemporary Slovenian puppeteers, Programme: F. Liszt / R. Strauss Programme: W. A. Mozart / G. Farr / J. on the lookout for new paths; presents the most popular puppet Luka Poljanec - percussion Body / F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy never sticking to one method, era, characters, and gives you an insight Sara Čano - violoncello composer or approach. Iván Fischer into puppeteering techniques and the Prekmurska godba Bakovci - ethno Beata Ilona Barcza