Events October 2016 Index Ljubljana European Green Capital 2016 Festivals 4 Exhibitions 7 Music 9 Opera, theatre, dance 15 Miscellaneous 17 Sports 18 Cover photo: J. Skok Edited and published by: Ljubljana Tourism, Krekov trg 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, www.visitljubljana.com T: +386 1 306 45 83, E: [email protected], Get to know Ljubljana, the European Green Capital 2016, on a special city tour run as part W: www.visitljubljana.com of a series of green, sustainability-themed tours of Ljubljana. Photography: Archives of Ljubljana The tours will take visitors to Tivoli Park or the Ljubljana Botanic Garden, two of the city’s Tourism and individual event organisers major green attractions. On each tour, a Ljubljana Tourism guide will introduce visitors to Prepress: Prajs d.o.o. the sustainability projects while taking them around the city’s green nooks and crannies. Printed by: Partner Graf d.o.o., Ljubljana, October 2016 15 October Ljubljana Tourism is not liable for any Wood - a precious gift of nature inaccurate information appearing in the (Jesenko Forest Trail) calendar. Departure point: at 10:00 from Ljubljana Tourist Information Centre - TIC, next to the Triple Bridge. Language options: Slovenian, English Committed to caring for the environment, we print on Price: adults € 10.00, children from 4 to 12 years € 5.00 recycled paper. Information: Ljubljana Tourist Information Centre - TIC, Tel. 306 12 35, Share our commitment by [email protected], www.visitljubljana.com sharing this publication with your friends. Highlights in October Medieval Day 1 Oct 14 Oct 30 Oct Medieval Day Cirque du Soleil: Varekai Ljubljana Marathon The Medieval Day Don’t miss the famous The Ljubljana Marathon is features a large costumed Canadian artistic ensemble a mammoth celebration of procession of medieval who “reinvented the circus” running. More and more noblemen, ladies, knights, with their new production runners from all corners of and other medieval entitled Varekai. the world participate in it characters through the p. 17 each year. streets of the historical city p. 18 centre. p. 17 www.visitljubljana.com 3 Festivals City of Women Festival of Contemporary Arts 3 - 16 Oct, various venues The City of Women (Mesto žensk) City of Women Laura Olalde and participants: Mural of festival is dedicated to presenting Women - collective mural painting Yoon Ga-eun: The World of Us (U-ri- contemporary women’s art practice, 5 - 16 Oct, 9:00 - 13:00, 15:00 - 19:00 deul) - film 8+ with a special emphasis on the Metelkova mesto alternative culture 3 Oct, 17:00 socially conscious part of it. Each centre Kinodvor year, it features a programme of Work in progress events relevant to a particular Chantal Akerman: No Home Movie - film Connections Beetwen Fragmented theme in the fields of art, culture 3 Oct, 20:30 Histories - opening or society. Kinodvor Ida Hiršenfelder: Digital Museum - www.cityofwomen.org Repeat projections: 8 Oct at 16:00 and 9 introduction Oct at 15:00 6 Oct, 16:00 Chantal Akerman »La chambre/The ŠKUC Gallery Room« - installation Simone Aughterlony & Phil Hayes: 4 Oct, 18:00 Show & Tell - performance Museum of Contemporary Art - MSUM 6 Oct, 20:00 Opening of the installation. Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power Kaja Lorenci: Just in Appearance Station Sometimes as Everyone Else - dance Dina Rončević & participants: premiere Car Deconstruction - durational 4 Oct, 20.30 performance/workshop 10+ Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power 7 Oct, 14:00 - 20:00 Station Srednja poklicna in strokovna šola T. Davies: A Quiet Passion - film Bežigrad 5 Oct, 19:00 Repeat performances: 8 Oct, 10:00 - Kinodvor 16:00 and 9 Oct 9:00 - 15:00 4 www.visitljubljana.com Festivals Hahn Rowe: Sound and Performance - Simone Aughterlony & Hahn Rowe: Ida Hiršenfelder, Saša Špacal, Ana presentation of workshop Biofiction - performance Čigon: Flow - documentary film 16+ 7 Oct, 19:00 9 Oct, 20:00 12 Oct, 19:00 Španski borci Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power Ljubljana Puppet Theatre Station Ria Hartley: Recall - one-to-one Marcie Farquhar artist talk performance Maja Petrović-Šteger and Tania El 14 Oct, 18:00 7 Oct, 15:00 - 20:00 Khoury: How Do We Think the Dead, ŠKUC Gallery ŠKUC Gallery Their Bodies and Bodily Remains? - talk Repeat performances: 8 and 9 Oct, 10 Oct, 19:00 Damaris - DJ Night 12:00 - 17:00 ŠKUC Gallery 14 Oct, 23:00 Pritličje Rosana Cade: Walking:Holding - one- Olja Grubić & Živa Petrič: The Red Web to-one performance - digital performance/installation Maja Smrekar: Requiem for the Future - 7 Oct, 16:00 - 19:00 10 - 13 Oct, 17:00 - 24:00 hybrid performance 16+, premiere Pritličje Aksioma - Projet space 14 and 15 Oct, 20:30/19:00 Repeat performances: 8 and 9 Oct, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre Ana Čigon: Feminist WikiMarathon 2016 11:00 - 19:00 - intermedia event Marcia Farquhar: Acts of Clothing - Simone Aughterlony & Nic Lloyd: After 10 and 16 Oct, 12:00 - 17:00 performance life - performance ŠKUC Gallery 15 Oct, 21:00 7 Oct, 21:00 ŠKUC Gallery Lana Zdravković: How to perform Life Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power or is There Life Outside the Art - talk NinaBelle, Blönduós, Nova deViator: Station 11 Oct, 18:00 Electro Installation 2.0. - DJ night Tristiana: Nulla - DJ night ŠKUC Gallery 15 Oct, 23:00 7 Oct, 23:00 Pritličje Ana Dubljević in Milan Marković Pritljičje Matthis: Let’s Take It From the Top - Closing party Ch. Akerman: Jeanne Dielman, 23 performance 16 Oct, 18:00 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels - film 11 Oct, 20:00 Metelkova mesto alternative culture Ch. Akerman: Blow Up My Town (Saute ŠKUC Gallery centre ma ville) - film Tina Valentan: Calypso - dance 8 Oct, 15:00 performance Slovenian Cinematheque 11 Oct, 21:00 Simone Aughterlony: Everything Fits in PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana the Room - choreographic workshop Ana Dubljević, Milan Marković 8 Oct, 12:00 - 15:00 Matthis: Strawberry Fields Forever - PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana performance Liz Allbee: Imaginary Being Nina and Milan Marković Matthis: Birgit Ulher: Radio Silence No More A Letter to Haseeba - one-to-one Need a ticket? 8 Oct, 22:00 performance Tickets are for the majority of Metelkova mesto alternative culture Tania El Khoury: Gardens Speak - sound cultural, entertainment, sports and centre installation opening other events available from Tourist Concert/double bill 12 Oct, 16:00 - 20:00 Information Centres and online on Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power www.visitljubljana.com Station Recommended! www.visitljubljana.com 5 Festivals Festivals Slowind Festival 22 - 29 Oct, various venues Slowind Festival, organised by the SloWind festival Sculpting the sound and projecting Slovenian wind quintet Slowind, is music - international workshop Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Aldo Orvieto - dedicated to contemporary music. 25 Oct piano The quintet in collaboration with Ljubljana, University of Ljubljana, Dario Savron, Simone Beneventi - various guest musicians perform Facultuy of Arts, Department of percussion new or rarely performed works of Musicology Alvise Vidolin - live electronics, Luca music in which wind instruments Richelli - assistant Valentina Coladonato - soprano, play the leading role. This year’s 22 Oct, 20:00 Quartetto Prometeo 18th Festival Slowind 2016 is under Slovenian Philharmonic Hall 25 Oct, 20:00 artistic direction of Ivan Fedele Programme: I. Fedele Slovenian Philharmonic Hall (Italy) and will be a showcase of Programme: I. Fedele / G. Ligeti many of Ivan Fedele’s compositions Francesco D’Orazio - violin, Francesco created in the last twenty years. Abbrescia - live electronics Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra www.slowind.org 23 Oct, 20:00 Pierre-André Valade - conductor Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Francesco D’Orazio - violin Programme: I. Fedele / L. Berio / P. 27 and 28 Oct Boulez Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Programme: E. Satie / I. Fedele / S. Slowind Rachmaninov-O. Respighi / O. Respighi 24 Oct, 20:00 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Ex Novo Ensemble, Slowind with guests Programme: A. Manzoli / N. Hall / L. Francesco D’Orazio - violin Juhart / N. Šenk / I. Fedele Pasquale Corrado - conductor 29 Oct, 20:00 Bor Turel, Gregor Pirš - pre-recorded Slovenian Philharmonic Hall sound installation Programme: I. Fedele / L. Lebič / P. 24 Oct, 23:00 Corrado Slovenian Philharmonic Hall 6 www.visitljubljana.com Exhibitions Doors: Spatial and Symbolic of holes. It conveys messages of its Nikola Tesla was an ingenious Passageways of Life manufacturing techniques and structure, scientist, engineer, and inventor 11 Oct 2015 - 30 Oct, Slovene use, temporal and spatial changes, and dedicated to discovering natural Ethnographic Museum diverse meanings. It also symbolizes the laws and principles. He received his This exhibition presents doors as a invisible links between different time education in Europe, but he spent part of cultural heritage, an element periods, places, and people. most of his career in the USA, where of everyday life, and an object that has The exhibition presents a great variety he developed a large number of his many different symbolic meanings. It of museum laces and others by which inventions. He took out a total of brings together all kinds of doors and the basic typology of ornamental about three hundred patents in the related objects, from the oldest known techniques, traditional and other fields of electrical and mechanical doors, keys and locks sourced from contemporary applications and multiple engineering. various museums and private collections dimensions of their use is shown. The exhibition Nikola Tesla - A Man to state- of- the- art objects. Among others, there is a collection of the Future is divided into the Exhibited doors tell stories about of laces presented of the Slovene following themed sections: The families of different social and Ethnographic Museum, which is one of System of Production, Transmission professional backgrounds from various the largest in Slovenia and Use of Alternating Current, The parts of Slovenia, both those who the Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Sundays 10:00 - Principles of Wireless Transmission doors were made by and those who 14:00 of Electrical Energy, The Bladeless used them in daily life.