EventsFebruary 2019 8th February - Prešeren Day The Slovenian Cultural Holiday Taste Food Highlights in February Ljubljana Tour Ljubljana Winter Festivalxyz Index Festivals 4 Exhibitions 6 Music 8 Opera, theatre, dance 14 Miscellaneous 15 Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12:00 Other times can be arranged for groups of more than ten people by prior request. The tour will give you an insight into Cover photo: Shutterstock traditional Ljubljana dishes part of the Edited and published by: Ljubljana much-acclaimed Taste Ljubljana project. Tourism, Krekov trg 10, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Departure point: T: +386 1 306 45 83, Ljubljana Tourist Information Centre, E: [email protected], Stritarjeva ulica street W: www.visitljubljana.com Photography: Archives of Ljubljana Duration: 21 Jun - 10 Feb 2 - 6 Feb 27 Feb - 2 Mar 1 - 3 Mar Tourism and individual event organisers 3 hours Prepress: Prajs d.o.o. Ivana Kobilca (1861- Ljubljana Winter Gibanica Snowdrops Festival Gibanica, the At the beginning Language options: Printed by: Collegium Graphicum d.o.o., 1926) - paintings Festival To mark its The Ljubljana biennial of of March, the English, Slovenian Ljubljana, February 2019 one hundredth Festival, contributes contemporary traditional Price: Ljubljana Tourism is not liable for any anniversary, the significantly to Slovenian dance Snowdrops Festival €42.00 per person inaccurate information appearing in the National Gallery of the cultural life of art, has provided a will take place at You will visit five different styles of restaurants and taste five calendar. different dishes as well as five selected drinks. Slovenia presents Ljubljana in the biennial selection Ljubljana University the life and work of summer. Its shorter of the best Botanic Gardens. Committed to caring for the Ivana Kobilca, one winter edition is contemporary P. 15 environment, we print on recycled paper. of the most well- a new addition, dance productions Share our commitment by known Slovenian established in 2017. of local artists. sharing this publication with artists of all times. P. 4 P. 5 your friends. P. 6 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 3 KRALJEVSKA VO KALNA ZASEDBA THE QUEEN’S SIX www.ljubljanafestival.si, Križanke, Eventim, Petrol Oglas KAM_100x210mm_3 Zimski festival.indd 5 20.12.2018 13:10:38 Festivals Festivals Ž. Krajnčan, G. Kunšek, J. Krmelj: Chorus M. Mandić, L. Jurišić, B. Jablanovec, S. - dance performance Osmanagić: Together - performance Co-creators and performers: Sara Performers: Marko Mandić and Leja Janašković, Teja Modrijan, Kristýna Jurišić Šajtošová, Alex Tesch, Gregor 1 Mar, 18:00 9th Biennial of Slovenian Luštek, Kaja Lorenci, Ivan Mijačević, Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power Station Contemporary Dance Art Borut Bučinel, Kristijan Krajnčan, Gibanica offers a selection of S. Premuš: Poíesis of Self Gašper Kunšek, Žigan Krajnčan, Nejc the best contemporary dance Co-creators and performers: Snježana Osovnikar, Andraž Prokofijev, Bor production by domestic producers Premuš and Rok Vevar Prokofijev, Branko Potočan and is considered the most 2 Mar, 16:00 28 Feb, 20:30 significant contemporary dance Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre platform in Slovenia. Since 2003, M. Kagao Knez: Concert for Mam Gibanica represents Slovenian Radio Hit Co-creators and performers: Dalanda contemporary dance production, Choreography and performance: Urša Diallo, Leticia Slapnik Yebuah, Irena which is always selected by the Sekirnik Yebuah Tiran, Joseph Nzobandora - three-member selection team Ljubljana Winter Festival 28 Feb, 22:00 Jose, Murat, Maša Kagao Knez especially for the festival. Of the 38 2 - 6 Feb, 19:00 Slovenian Philharmonic Hall, Union Hall Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre 2Mar, 18:00 contestants, artists and groups, 9 Body Concert PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana performances were picked for the The Ljubljana Festival and the Ljubljana Winter Festival Gibanica Choreography and performance: Ana competition and additional one the Slovenian Philharmonic mark Rinnat Moriah - soprano Lasting - Passing and video sketch I. Tomažin Zagoričnik: Moved by Voice Romih and Beno Novak accompanying programme. The the opening of the Ljubljana Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Opening of Gibanica 2019 Co-creators and performers: Adriana Locked selected competition performances Winter Festival with a special Boris Ostan - narrator Artistic guidance of the opening: Josipović, Nika Rozman, Irena Tomažin Choreography, dance: Veronika Valdés will compete for Gibanica concert entitled Quiet, Please! Gregor Mayrhofer - conductor Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik Zagoričnik, Nataša Živković 1 Mar, 16:00 2019 Audience Award for Best The programme includes cult 2 Feb, 19:00 Ksenija Hribar award giving ceremony 2 Mar, 20:00 PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana Performance and for Gibanica 2019 works by the twentieth-century Slovenian Philharmonic Hall for lifetime achievement Stara mestna elektrarna- Elektro Ljubljana Jury Award for Best Performance. composers. The orchestra will be Cult works by the twentieth-century 27 Feb, 19:00 http://www.sodobniples.si conducted by Gregor Mayrhofer composers. Museum of Modern Art while the outstanding young Israeli José Cura - tenor and conductor Image Snatchers present: Matilda and soprano Rinnat Moriah will offers us Elvira Hasanagić - soprano Her Buns performances of Zerbinetta’s aria Monika Bohinec - mezzo-soprano Author and performer: Urška Vohar 27 from Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf SNT Maribor Symphony Orchestra Feb, 21:30 Naxos and Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Simon Krečič - conductor Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre Macabre. 4 Feb, 19:00 On 4 February the famous Argentine J. Konjar, A. Podrzavnik, J. Šimenc, B. Union Hall tenor José Cura will appear with the Celarec: Thursday at Five Concert of opera arias SNT Maribor Symphony Orchestra, Performers: Andreja Podrzavnik Rauch conducted by Simon Krečič. The Queen’s Six (G. Britain) and Jurij Konjar (movement), Jaka A vocal spectacular featuring six 6 Feb, 19:00 Šimenc (light), Blaž Celarec (sound) male voices awaits us on 6 February. Union Hall 28 Feb, 17:00 Their repertoire extends from Crossover concert Španski borci austere early chant, Renaissance Staging a Play: Antigona polyphony, madrigals and folk Choreography and performance: Matija songs, to upbeat jazz and pop Ferlin Gibanica arrangements. 27 Feb - 2 Mar, various locations 28 Feb, 19:00 www.ljubljanafestival.si Stara mestna elektrarna/Old Power Station 4 www.visitljubljana.com www.visitljubljana.com 5 Exhibitions Exhibitions Experience Prešeren Day, the Slovenian Cultural Holiday, for FREE Let’s Celebrate Together. Hundred Plečnik Collection Every year on 8 February, Slovenia celebrates its National Day of Culture in honour of the great 19th-century poet and cultural Years of the National Gallery of The new permanent exhibition at the iconic France Prešeren, which is not only a work-free holiday but among other events and festivities the vast majority of the Slovenia Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the The permanent exhibition about country’s cultural institutions offer free admission to the public. 15 Jan - 15 Mar, Tivoli Park, Jakopič most important projects of the late the history of Ljubljana. How well Promenade architect. Plečnik’s creativity comes do you know the rich history of Milton Glaser: Posters Displayed along the Jakopič Promenade to life through the plans, models and Slovenian capital? Pile-dwellers, 23 Nov 2018 - 3 Mar 2019, International in Tivoli Park are details of works of art photographs of his creations such as the Emona, Middle and New Ages, the Centre of Graphic Arts from the Gallery’s permanent collection Zacherl House in Vienna, Prague Castle, 20th and 21st centuries… what is the Milton Glaser (1929, New York) is which was considerably expanded the National and University Library in history of Ljubljana? A chronological one of the most important graphic after the renovation of the palace of Ljubljana, the Ljubljana Central Market, presentation of Ljubljana’s millennia designers in the world, who has Narodni Dom in 2016. To recognize them Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael of heritage with precious authentic designed hundreds of corporate images, as creations of our artists means to at the Ljubljana Marshes and numerous artefacts, like the world’s oldest magazines, newspapers, books, LP belong to the Slovenian community, to other masterpieces. Several plans of wooden wheel with an axle aged covers, and has created thousands of participate in its happy and less happy Plečnik’s never realized visions are also 5,200 years, is on display on posters during his career spanning over days with that creative willpower that on display. The Cathedral of Freedom, Ljubljana. History. City. exhibition. fifty years. He has been inscribed into brought into existence the National the master’s vision of the Slovenian In our globalised world, heritage the world history of design with his Gallery of Slovenia. parliament, is especially worthy of our just might be what differentiates iconic “I love NY” logo. Milton Glaser attention. cities the most, and it also shaped has decided to donate thirty-five Zoran Mušič (1909-2005) Guided tours: every hour, on the hour our capital’s identity. Therefore, the original posters (created between Permanent exhibition at the National (the last guided tour at 17:00). A group exhibition proudly highlights local 1966 and 2016) to the City of Ljubljana, Gallery Ivana Kobilca (1861-1926) - paintings may be a maximum of seven persons. peculiarities, stories of everyday life which will enrich the collection of the Zoran Mušič, the best known 20th 21 Jun - 10 Feb 2019, National Gallery Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays in the past, and the individuals who International Centre of Graphic Arts after century Slovenian-born painter and a Admission free on 8 February. left the strongest impressions on the exhibition. man with more than one homeland, To mark its one hundredth The Gold of Chinese Emperor our history. Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays spent most of his life between anniversary, the National Gallery of 16 Aug 2018 - 15 Feb 2019, National Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays until Admission free on 8 February.