Events April 2016 Index Festivals 4 Exhibitions 5 Music 7 Ljubljana Opera, theatre, dance 13 European Green Capital 2016 Miscellaneous 14 Sports 15 Cover photo: D.Wedam Edited and published by: Ljubljana Tourism, Krekov trg 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, T: +386 1 306 45 83, E: [email protected], W: www.visitljubljana.com Photography: Archives of Ljubljana www.visitljubljana.com Tourism and individual event organisers Prepress: Prajs d.o.o. Get to know Ljubljana, the European Green Capital 2016, on a special city tour run as part Printed by: Collegium Graphicum d.o.o., of a series of green, sustainability-themed tours of Ljubljana. The tours will take visitors Ljubljana, April 2016 to Tivoli Park or the Ljubljana Botanic Garden, two of the city’s major green attractions. Ljubljana Tourism is not liable for any inaccurate information appearing in the 16 April at 10:00 calendar. The widening of the area closed to general traffic Duration: two hours. 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Highlights in April Open Kitchen Fridays 11 Apr - 6 Nov 19 Apr Open Kitchen Nikola Tesla - A Man of the Mariza Visit the Open Kitchen Future To experience Portuguese food market, where you Make sure not to miss the fado music at its best, can experience the delights exhibition exploring the spend an evening with the of freshly cooked food remarkable genius of Nikola Mozambique-born singer prepared by different Tesla, a famous scientist, Mariza, who is considered Slovenian chefs right there engineer, and inventor to be the leading in front of you, on the who dedicated his life to Portuguese fado singer. market stalls. electricity. p. 11 p. 14 p. 5 www.visitljubljana.com 3 Festivals Musical Migrations: Crossroads of European Musical Diversity - international musicological symposium Head of Symposium: Jernej Weiss 16 - 19 Apr Križanke Matjaž Robavs - baritone Andreja Kosmač - piano 17 Apr, 11:00 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Programme: Slovenian lieder Admission free Matej Šarc - oboe Ursula Aščić - harp 18 Apr, 19:30 Slovenian Music Days Slovenian Philharmonic Hall 10 - 17 Mar, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Programme: L. Berio / M. Bonin / H. Holliger / I. Petrić / P. Ramovš / L. Vrhunc Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra The programme of the annual Admission free Slovenian Music Days festival Melina Todorovska - English horn; prominently features concerts of Martin Sušnik - tenor “I express myself with my hands” contemporary classical music by Simon Krečič - conductor 19 Apr, 13:00 Slovenian composers performed by 15 Apr, 19:30 Križanke renowned Slovenian orchestras and Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Presentation of the biography of soloists. Programme: L. Berio / P. Mihelčič / W. conductor Marko Munih by Sonja Kralj The festival revives the creative Lutosławski Bervar. legacy of Slovenian music of the Opening of the 31st Slovenian Music Days Admission free Free tickets recent past, while at the same RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra time offering a string of concerts Big Band RTV Slovenia with guests Lovorka Nemeš Dular - piano; Karmen showcasing music by younger Klemen Smolej - guitar; Lenart Krečič - Pečar - violoncello composers and first performances of saxophone; Lovro Ravbar - saxophone; Živa Ploj Peršuh - conductor newly written works. Lojze Krajnčan - conductor 19 Apr, 19:30 www.ljubljanafestival.si 16 Apr, 19:30 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Kino Šiška Programme: J. Matičič Programme: L. Ravbar / K. Smolej / L. Closing of the 31st Slovensan Music Days Krečič / T. Tomšič Free tickets Admission free Need a ticket? Tickets are for the majority of cultural, entertainment, sports and other events available from Tourist Information Centres and online on www.visitljubljana.com. Recommended! 4 www.visitljubljana.com ExhibitionsFestivals Water Plečnik Collection Nikola Tesla was an ingenious 24 Jun 2015 - 8 May 2016, City Museum The new permanent exhibition at the scientist, engineer, and inventor of Ljubljana Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the dedicated to discovering natural Through four main themes and various most important projects of the late laws and principles. He received his timelines, the exhibition presents the architect. Plečnik’s creativity comes education in Europe, but he spent importance of water. The exhibition is to life through the plans, models and most of his career in the USA, where also discussing water cycles in nature, photographs of his creations such as the he developed a large number of his their meaning and ecology. The first Zacherl House in Vienna, Prague Castle, inventions. He took out a total of three themes build their stories through the National and University Library in about three hundred patents in the museum artefacts among which a Ljubljana, the Ljubljana Central Market, fields of electrical and mechanical larger wooden boat, presented to the Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael engineering. public for the very first time, deserves at the Ljubljana Marshes and numerous The exhibition Nikola Tesla - A Man a special mention. Other artefacts other masterpieces. Several plans of of the Future is divided into the also include a rich glass collection, Plečnik’s never realized visions are also following themed sections: The famous artworks by Slovenian artists on display. The Cathedral of Freedom, System of Production, Transmission and a selection of the most important the master’s vision of the Slovenian and Use of Alternating Current, The artefacts from the collection of the parliament, is especially worthy of our Principles of Wireless Transmission Potočnik family, originating from the attention. of Electrical Energy, The Bladeless riverbed of the Ljubljanica. The fourth Guided tours: every hour, on the hour Turbine, Energy - The Main Subject theme is presented with an interactive (the last guided tour at 17:00). Groups of Tesla’s Research, Tesla’s Doctrine, experimental element, primary intended must not contain more than seven and Tesla - A Modern Subcultural for children’s experiential workshops. people. Hero. Exhibits include multimedia 3 April at 13:00 free guided tour in Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays information boards, models of English inventions, working interactive 3D Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00 - digital models, and much more. 21:00. Closed: Mondays Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Sundays 10:00 - 14:00 Nikola Tesla - A Man of the Future 11 Apr - 6 Nov, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre www.visitljubljana.com 5 Exhibitions Antoni Tàpies: Prints 1959-1987 23 Feb - 4 Jun, International Centre of Graphic Arts The Catalan painter, sculptor, Slovenian History Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, introduces and printmaker Antoni Tàpies Ljubljana Castle you to the history of puppeteering (1923−2012) was one of the greatest Slovenian History, Ljubljana Castle’s in Slovenia and the creativity of European artists of his generation. permanent exhibition, shows the contemporary Slovenian puppeteers, The exhibition brings together dynamic history of Slovenia and presents the most popular puppet a selection of his prints and art Ljubljana. Slovenian territory, lying at characters, and gives you an insight objects. Antoni Tàpies was present the junction of natural routes between into puppeteering techniques and the on the international scene from the Alps, the Adriatic Sea and the process of creating a puppet show. the mid-1950s. His early work was Pannonian Plain, has been the point of After viewing the exhibition, you can try influenced by Surrealism, but he convergence of different peoples and your hand at puppeteering skills. later switched to abstract art and cultures since prehistory. The exhibition Open: 9:00 - 18:00 daily was, among other things, a notable covers the Slovenian history from the Crises and New Beginnings: Art in member of the art movement earliest traces of human presence Slovenia 2005-2015 known as Art Informel. Tàpies was (200,000 BC) to the landmark events 22 Dec 2015 - 3 Apr 2016, Museum of attracted to relief forms and the following Slovenia’s independence in Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM) expressive value of non-traditional 1991 The exhibition Crises and New art materials such as marble dust, and presents the societies of the Beginnings aims to present a selective sand, and soil, which he introduced different periods, the state formations, overview of recent and current into printmaking and developed a the political, social and economic developments in contemporary art in number of new techniques. Tàpies circumstances, migrations, transport, Slovenia and attempts to define the participated in several editions of culture, architecture and the everyday main phenomena and trends observed the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic life. in Slovenian art over the last decade. Arts, for the first time in 1967, when Open: 10:00 - 18:00 daily It covers a wide range of different art he was awarded the Biennial’s Puppet Museum at Ljubljana Castle forms and involves the collaboration of Grand Prize. His art influenced a Slovenia is a country with a rich tradition many art professionals and experts. number of Slovenian artists. of puppeteering. The Puppet Museum’s Creating their works, artists react Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays permanent exhibition, set up by the critically to the numerous contradictions 6 www.visitljubljana.com ExhibitionsFestivals Music of the ideological and cultural discourses Nejc Lavrenčič - piano Galmet (Japan) - death metal around them. The new generation of Vito Weis - voice 3 Apr, 22:00 Slovenian artists has replaced nostalgia 1 Apr, 19:30 Orto Club with melancholy, the banality of the National Museum of Contemporary Nejc Rupnik - violoncello everyday with an elevated pathos, and History Hermina Hudnik - piano realistic expectations with overblown Admission free Jure Robek - bass clarinet ambitions. Dan D (Slovenia) - rock 4 Apr, 19:30 Open: 10:00 - 18:00.