Events in from 4. to 10.9.2017

5.9.2017 21.00 BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE (GB) Kino Šiška - Centre for Urban Culture 5.9.2017 Benjamin Clementine is the recipient of the prestigious British Mercury Music Award and the French Grammy Award equivalent. According to several publications, he is one of the most influential British people.

6.9.2017 17.00 MINI COURSE OF SLOVENIAN LANGUAGE Slovenian Tourist Information Centre (STIC) 6.9.2017 17.00 - 18.30 Free admission The 's Centre for Slovenian as a Second/Foreign Language runs a "survival" language course offering an opportunity to get to know the basics of the Slovenian language and some common and useful expressions which can make a stay of a foreigner in more pleasant.

18.00 SUMMER CONCERTS ON RIVER City center - from to Dragon 6.9.2017 Free admission Local brass bands will be giving free concerts for the passers-by on the Ljubljanica river embankments. Concerts will be performed on the boat sailing between Prule bridge and Butcher's bridge on the Ljubljanica river.

20.00 MANOUCHE - ELECTRO GIPSY SWING Kavarna Slamič 6.9.2017 Electro gipsy swing band, Manouche, will take you back to the sounds of the 20s and 30s of the last century with a twist of the modern-dance sound.

7.9.2017 18.00 PICNICONCERT The Tivoli Park 7.9.2017 We invite you to escape the heat every Thursday afternoon in the summer months and relax on a picnic blanket under the pine trees next to the Promenade in Tivoli Park and have a bite to eat while enjoying ethno and folk concerts.

20.30 STREETWALKER: "READY-MADE" OPEN-AIR GALLERY Trg francoske revolucije square 7.9.2017 Free admission Streetwalker open air "ready-made“ gallery invites you to discover the finest artworks hiding behind every street corner of Ljubljana. Come and see a newly found Michelangelo, Pollock or even Zankič - in places where you would never expect them!

8.9.2017 10.00 OPEN KITCHEN - FOOD MARKET Central Market 8.9.2017 10.00 - 22.00 Free admission The Open Kitchen is a food market where you can experience the delights of freshly cooked food prepared by different Slovenian chefs right there in front of you, on the market stalls.

9.9.2017 09.00 ARTISH - A SELLING EXHIBITION OF ARTS AND CRAFTS Stari trg & Gornji trg squares 9.9.2017 09.00 - 18.00 Free admission The ARTish festival, held in Ljubljana on selected Saturdays at Gornji trg square, features a selling exhibition of original works by Slovenian creators.

09.00 LJUBLJANA ART MARKET Breg embankment 9.9.2017 09.00 - 16.00 Free admission Each Saturday during the warm months, Slovenian artists set up their stalls on the Breg embankment on the river Ljubljanica, where they sell and often also create their wares.

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10.00 SEM FAIR - A CREATIVE FAIR Kavarna SEM 9.9.2017 10.00 - 18.00 Free admission Home-made designers, creators and all sorts of artistic souls gather every Saturday of the summer in the garden of SEM Café (Slovenian Ethnographic Museum) to exhibit and sell their unique and creative products.

11.30 PERFORMANCES BY THE LJUBLJANA FANFARE TRUMPETERS 9.9.2017 11.30 | 11.00 Free admission The Ljubljana Fanfare Trumpeters will perform on the Town Hall balcony on Saturday mornings throughout the summer, reviving the tradition of ceremonial fanfares typical of Ljubljana.

10.9.2017 08.00 ANTIQUE FLEA MARKET Breg embankment 10.9.2017 08.00 - 14.00 Free admission Ljubljana's Antique Flea Market offers antiques, art pieces and all kinds of bric-a-brac of collectible or simply nostalgic value.

11.00 PROMENADE CONCERTS OF LOCAL BRASS BANDS The Tivoli Park 10.9.2017 Free admission Every Sunday local brass bands will be giving promenade concerts at Jakopič Promenade in front of Tivoli Mansion in Tivoli park.

18.00 SOMIRU - MUSICAL CIRCUS PERFORMANCE Roman town walls in Mirje 10.9.2017 Somiru, musical circus performance combines innovative movement on the ground and in the air, using hanging fabrics and is accompanied with live music.

19.00 M. KLEMENČIČ: DOCTOR FAUST - PUPPET SHOW Ljubljana Castle 10.9.2017 The puppet show Doctor Faust is based on a famous 1938 production of Goethe's Faust conceived by Milan Klemenčič, the founding father of Slovenian puppetry.

other NATIONAL COSTUMES AND CLOTHING HERITAGE DAYS The town of Kamnik near Ljubljana (old town centre) events 7. to 10.9.2017 Free admission The National Costumes and Clothing Heritage Days festival, held in the old town centre of Kamnik, includes costumed processions featuring folk costumes of various regions of Slovenia and other countries.

BIO 25: THE 25TH LJUBLJANA BIENNIAL OF DESIGN - FARAWAY, SO CLOSE Fužine Castle: Museum of Architecture and Design 25.5. to 29.10.2017 BIO – The Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, organized by Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), is an international platform for new approaches in design. BIO was founded back in 1963, making it the first design biennial in Europe.

DINOSAUR EXHIBITION Volčji Potok Arboretum 25.2. to 26.11.2017 Are you curious to know just how mighty the creatures that inhabited the Earth before humans were? Visit the Volčji Potok Arboretum and view its exhibition of dinosaur sculptures depicting a selection of the most iconic dinosaur species.

32ND INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF GRAPHIC ARTS Tivoli Mansion: International Centre of Graphic Arts 16.6. to 24.10.2017 Make sure not to miss Ljubljana's artistic event of the year, the International Biennial of Graphic Arts, which celebrates its 32th edition this year.

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MODELS OF AIRPLANES BY SLOVENIAN AIRCRAFT DESIGNERS - EXHIBITION Bistra Castle: Technical Museum of Slovenia 9.7.2015 to 3.12.2017 A exhebition puts on display a collection of airplane models, mainly of domestic design, donated to the museum by the pilot and model maker Albin Novak. The models illustrate the Slovenian creativity in aircraft design.

SOUND EXPLICIT - A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC CONCERTS Jakopič Gallery 4. to 5.9.2017 Sound Explicit is a cycle of live audio-visual experimental performances that presents a Diversity of genres: from sound research to various forms of improvisation and experimental sound processing, sometimes accompanied by video.

ALMOST EVERYTHING ABOUT SOUND Bistra Castle: Technical Museum of Slovenia 25.3.2016 to 3.12.2017 Sound follows humans and animals at every step and its perception is, in particular for animals, often essential for their survival. In the exhibition, visitors will learn about the mechanism of hearing, modes of sound generation, units of measurement and analyses.

LIBRARY UNDER TREETOPS Various venues 2.6. to 10.9.2017 Free admission Library under Treetops (Knjižnica pod krošnjami) is a project aimed at adding variety to the range of Ljubljana's leisure activities. It offers visitors an opportunity to borrow books, comic books, magazines and newspapers in different languages free of charge.

OUR LITTLE BIG SEA - INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION Slovenian Museum of Natural History 20.10.2016 to 30.12.2017 Although it is small, the Slovenian sea is an important part of our natural heritage. It is part of a major global sea. It created a life that has straggled incredible diversity in millions of years. Its treasures feeds us, gives us raw material and has a significant impact on the climate. All too few are aware that the big sea is vulnerable and at the same time too small to undertake and survive the human greed.

PLEČNIK ABOVE THE CITY - PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION Ljubljana Castle 25.5. to 1.10.2017 The exhibition will depicit the Ljubljana based architect Jože Plečnik's realized and unrealized architectural plans for Ljubljana Castle.

SLOVENIAN MODERNIST GLASS National Museum of Slovenia - ulica street 8.3. to 1.10.2017 An exhibition depicits a collection of modernist glass, which has a tradition in Slovenia mostly in the period between 1950s and 1980s of the 20th century. Some important objects from the 16th century to the present day, which represent an important milestone in the creation of glass, are also on display.

JUSUF HADŽIFEJZOVIĆ: DEPOTGRAPHY - INSTALLATION Museum of Modern Art 26.4. to 17.9.2017 Jusuf Hadžifejzović began his career as a painter, but since the 1970s, his main focus has been on performance and a special type of practice: he's been collecting the stored items and depositing them again, rearranged, in the form of installations in the exhibition space.

PATHS OF THE SAMURAI. JAPANESE ARMS AND MARTIAL CULTURE IN SLOVENIA National Museum of Slovenia - Metelkova ulica street 30.5. to 5.11.2017 The exhibition of the National Museum of Slovenia presents its first comprehensive exhibition of about 50 selected items of Japanese weapons and armour of the museum's as well as several private collections. In addition to samurai’s martial culture, the exhibition also depicits the world the samurai’s lived in, their worldview and ethos, and also the paths by which the legacy of the samurai’s reached the Slovenes.

GORAZD VILHAR: IN THE SPIRIT OF JAPANESE TRADITION: MATSURI - JAPANESE TRADITIONAL FESTIVALS - PHOTOGRAPHS Slovene Ethnographic Museum 17.5. to 7.9.2017 Photographs of Gorazd Vilhar depicits traditional Japanese festivals. These festivals consists of grand and magnificent prayers, processions in ancient costumes, offerings, tea ceremonies, sacred dances, martial arts demonstrations, purifications, as well as performances of N

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AFGHANISTAN - SLOVENE VIEWS Slovene Ethnographic Museum 25.5.2017 to 30.3.2018 The exhibition depicits Afghanistan, its rich cultural history and heritage, although the decades of conflict that began in the late 1970s have dramatically reshaped its cultural landscape and affected its people. The stories of more than twenty Slovenes who travelled in Afghanistan in the early 1970s are presented through photographs, memories and objects from their private collections.

SUPERLIGHT Bistra Castle: Technical Museum of Slovenia 9.5. to 3.12.2017 The exhibition, Superlight, sheds some light on the origins and development of laser technology in Slovenia, as well as the many products and their fields of application.

VANISHING CULTURES - PHOTO EXHIBITION BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SLOVENIA Ljubljana Castle 9.6. to 24.9.2017 Free admission Photographers Arne Hodalič and Katja Bidovec will exhibit photographs from the project “Vanishing Cultures”, which aims to present peoples who still live as they did centuries ago, but, according to anthropologists, are on the brink of extinction for various reasons.

ARHEOMUZIKA. THE SOUNDS AND MUSIC OF ANCIENT EUROPE National Museum of Slovenia 12.6. to 24.9.2017 The exhibition shows the links between European cultures of the past through music, the development of instruments through the ages, and their uses and meanings. The highlights of ancient European musical instruments are brought together, presented in the form of high-quality replicas and reconstructions.

LJUBLJANA, A CITY WITH PLEČNIK'S SIGNATURE The Tivoli Park 15.6. to 7.11.2017 Free admission This exhibition of large format photographs, dedicated to work by the architect Jože Plečnik, is on view at the Jakopič Promenade in Tivoli Park, which was designed by Plečnik.

ANA MROVLJE IN DAN ALLON: ANECHOIC- INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION Town Hall 8.8. to 14.9.2017 Free admission In the time of rising conflicts, author Ana Mrovlje in collaboration with an Israeli artist and a military prisoner Dan Allon, addresses in the artwork the necessity of re-evaluating war and its legacy, not only in society, but also deep in the layers of our personality.

BRANKO ČEAK, DOMEN PAL, JOŽE MAČEK: THE (UN)KNOWN LJUBLJANA - PHOTO EXHIBITION Town Hall 18.8. to 14.9.2017 Free admission The collection of photographs is the result of cooperation between three photographers whose individual approaches are otherwise strongly influenced and limited by the rules of client-oriented photography, most frequently of a promotional nature.

MARIA BONOMI: PRINTMAKING FOREVER Jakopič Gallery 16.6. to 19.10.2017 Exhibition of one of the most important representatives of Brazilian contemporary art and culture as well as an internationally renowned artist, Maria Bonomi. Her work is, regardless of its content, deeply personal and always optimistic, filled with enthusiasm, curiosity and joy for life. Her prints are expressive, yet defined by fragility and apparent simplicity.

IŠTVAN IŠT HUZJAN - SOLO EXHIBITION City Art Gallery - MGML 16.6. to 17.9.2017 Free admission On the invitation of the International Centre of Graphic Arts, the City Art Gallery of Ljubljana will host the winner of the last edition of the Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ištvan Išt Huzjan.

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HIC PROCUL A CURIS/THIS IS FAR FROM THE CARES - ART WORKS SALVAGED FROM THE FIRE-DAMAGED MANSION City Museum of Ljubljana - MGML 13.6. to 24.9.2017 The frescoes are signed – Illouscheg – and dated 1725, implying these are the earliest preserved frescoes by Franc Jelovšek known to us.

THE HERITAGE OF 1989. CASE STUDY: THE SECOND YUGOSLAV DOCUMENTS EXHIBITION Museum of Modern Art 26.4. to 17.9.2017 The Second Yugoslav Documents presents a re-enactment of the last big art exhibition in Yugoslavia. Titled Yugoslav Documents ’89, it was curated by the artists Jusuf Hadžifejzović and Rade Tadić and realized under the auspices of the ZOI ’84 Olimpijski centar Skenderija in the 8,000-square-meter Skenderija Center in Sarajevo in 1989.

DISOBEDIENT: EULALIA GRAU, KATALIN LADIK AND ŽENE U CRNOM - EXHIBITION Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM) 29.6. to 1.10.2017 The exhibition presents pioneer of feminist art Eulŕlia Grau, poet and artist Katalin Ladik and the activist group Žene u crnom / Women in Black. The thread that ties together the exhibition focusing on three “positions” of disobedience, with the disobedient in our case being women.

THE MESSENGERS: WHAT BIRDS TELL US ABOUT THREATS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE - EXHIBITION Krakovski nasip enbankment 22.7. to 6.9.2017 Free admission Birds are powerful messengers for the natural world. They provide vital insights on how climate change threatens species, habitats and communities worldwide.

ARCADE GALLERY Central Market - market halls by architect Jože Plečnik 4.7. to 25.9.2017 Free admission Arcade Gallery, under the arcades of the scenic Ljubljana market is a sound gallery, located in the first arcade between the fish market and the first loge. The gallery is an eight channel installation that allows for spatial listening while strolling under the arcades. When the market goes to sleep, the Arcade gallery wakes up and lets you explore sounds in the calm ambient of Plečnik’s market.

FIVB WOMEN'S U23 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Sport Hall Tivoli and Stožice hall 10. to 17.9.2017 Ljubljana will host the 12 best female volleyball teams in the world in the category of up to 23 years in September. The FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship is the second biggest women's volleyball competition in the world, organized by Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB).

WORK OR YOUR ART - EXHIBITION Vžigalica Gallery - MGML 6.9. to 22.10.2017 Free admission A group exhibition of the artistic group from Osaka and its surrounding offers an insight into the production of the art scene around the gallery Shimbun Onna.

FESTIVAL SPIDER Elektro Ljubljana's Old Power Station 6. to 15.9.2017 In a week, this international gathering of makers will let you see, hear and experience some of the freshest and most radical productions.

FOUR LADIES AND MARTIN KRPAN - EXHIBITION Galerija Kresija 7.9. to 1.10.2017 Free admission Exhibition in honour of the 100th anniversary of the first Slovene picture book, an illustrated story about Martin Krpan which was first published in 1917.

CERAMICS IN THE TOWN HALL Town Hall 5. to 27.9.2017 Free admission A traditional retrospective group exhibition of the Society of ceramists and potters.

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JOŽE TISNIKAR (1928-1998), BIRTH AND DEATH - EXHIBITION Bežigrajska galerija 2 6.9. to 25.10.2017 Free admission Jože Tisnikar was a self-taught painter and a phenomenon in contemporary Slovene painting. Some of the key pieces from his opus will be displayed at the exhibition.

FROM A SKETCH TO A PUPPET: PUPPET THEATRE Bežigrajska galerija 1 31.8. to 8.11.2017 Free admission The cycle of exhibitions called ‘From a Sketch To a Puppet’ is intended for the youngest visitors of the gallery.

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