March 2018

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2 - 4 MarSnowdrops FestivalSnowdrop collection of the Botanical Garden, lectures, snowdrop exhibitions and field excursion on Galanthus nivalis localities.P. 14

11 MarThe Welcoming of Spring Traditional event taking place in Ljubljana before St. Gregory’s Day, revives the handicraftsmen’s tradition of launching wooden clogs with burning candles inside them.P. 14

14 - 21 MarDocumentary Film Festival DFF, the only regularly established and long-standing event of its kind in Slovenia, is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2018. P. 15

30 MarElectric Poppy FestivalOne of the most famous DJ’s and music producers Afrojack will perform at the Electric poppy festival. P. 11

Snowdrops Festival

City Tours

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Stritarjeva cesta street, T: 306 12 15Slovenian Tourist Information Centre - STIC

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1 Apr - 30 SepEvery day at 10:001 Oct - 31 MarEvery day at 11:00

Walking tour of Plečnik’s Ljubljana

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Taste Ljubljana culinary tour

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Croatia’s most prominent sculptor, Ivan Meštrović is “the greatest phenomenon among sculptors”, according to Auguste Rodin, an artist credited with transforming sculpture into a modern art form. Meštrović’s works have entered the collective memory of three former territorial units (the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), and co-shaped artistic scenes in several European countries and the USA, where he pursued his artistic path. The exposition, adopting an original concept by architect Filip Beusan and including discrete lighting modulations, offers a new insight into his masterful art and features over fifty works, sculptures and drawings from private and public Croatian collections. Guided tours in English by appointment. Open: 10:00 - 19:00, Thursdays 10:00 - 21:00, Sundays, holidays 10:00 - 18:00.

Stanko Kristl is considered one of the most prominent Slovenian architects, a man whose work has provoked and inspired local and international publics alike, both during the process of their creation and up to the present day. As an architect in the broadest sense of the term, Stanko Kristl uses his projects and research work to pose, at every opportunity, the fundamental question of architecture: What is architecture in relation to human? People and their perception of space is a key theme in his work, one that has left a significant mark on architect Kristl’s design research approach.Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays

Medieval Ljubljana15 Nov 2017 - 2 May 2018, City Museum of LjubljanaMore than 1000 years old wooden vessel challenges our current perspective on the emergence of medieval Ljubljana; leather products that make visiting an medieval shoemaking workshop worthwhile; the grave of a knight that attests to the prestige of the city at the time of the Turkish incursions. Learn about recent discoveries made in Ljubljana’s city centre and get first-hand experience of the stories that have been around for more than 500 years. Were the Middle Ages really as dark as we imagine them today? Who ruled the city of the three market towns united by the city walls into one medieval city? How is it that not even the ferocious Turkish incursions could weaken the city walls? And, finally, where does the name “Ljubljana” come from? Guided tours in English on Sundays at 16:30Open: 10:00 -18:00, Thursdays 10:00 -21:00. Closed: Mondays.

Švicarija: Community, Art and Nature8 Feb 2018 - 6 Jan 2019, Švicarija Creative Centre in LjubljanaThe Švicarija: Community, Art and Nature project encompasses a multifaceted exhibition and a year-long programme of events linking the past with the new vision of the Švicarija Creative Centre. Drawing from the diverse history of the building, the meeting space of various models of coexistence and cooperation, as well as the specific environment of domesticated nature, the building of Švicarija is imbued by reflection on history, architecture and art. Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays

Mario Magajna: Photographer20 Mar - 13 May, Jakopič GalleryMario Magajna (1916-2007), a photojournalist from the Slovene minority in Italy, dedicated his life to photography. His incredibly large oeuvre (more than 260,000 negatives), preserved by the Department of History and Ethnography at the National and Study Library in Trieste, stands as proof of his dedication. Magajna was one of the pioneers of professional Slovenian photojournalism, a master of his craft, a conscious Slovenian, and a man of cosmopolitan spirit and dialogue.Central Slovenian themes will actualise the retrospective exhibition of Mario Magajna, created in 2016. The exhibition is accompanied by events that precisely explain the temporal and geographical circumstances of the photographer’s work, and his importance for a wider history of photography. Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays

Boris Jesih: Connections30 Nov 2017 - 11 Mar 2018, International Centre of Graphic Arts in LjubljanaBoris Jesih (1943) established himself

as an artist at the end of the 1960s as part of the expressive figuration circle of painters. Under the influence of pop art, he responded to the characteristics of the spirit of the time with his geometric transformation of everyday objects, later also turning predominantly to landscape. As a printmaker, he excels in the techniques of relief printing and flat printing, with superior results in colour lithography. As a prize winner of the 13th International Biennial of Graphic Arts in 1979 (special prize for a young artist), he attracted attention with his series of lithographs, a set of which is part of the MGLC collection. Beside the lithographs, the retrospective exhibition also presents drawings, paintings and photographs, which highlight the connections between his creative process and his works.Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays.

Zoran Mušič (1909-2005)Permanent exhibition at the National GalleryZoran Mušič, the best known 20th century Slovenian-born painter and a man with more than one homeland, spent most of his life between Venice and Paris. He mostly painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, Dalmatian donkeys and horses, trees, views of Venice, double portraits with his wife Ida, and poignant self-portraits depicting him as an old man. His visual motifs were always related to the Slovenian region of Kras and its typical scenes. He became world famous with his series of paintings We Are Not the Last, in which he relived the scenes he experienced in the Dachau concentration camp. Ljubljana’s National Gallery displays the world’s only permanent survey exhibition of Mušič’s work, which explores the entire range of the famous

artist’s painting techniques. Open: 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00-20:00. Closed: Mondays.

Plečnik CollectionThe new permanent exhibition at the Plečnik House in Trnovo presents the most important projects of the late architect. Plečnik’s creativity comes to life through the plans, models and photographs of his creations such as the Zacherl House in Vienna, Prague Castle, the National and University Library in Ljubljana, the Ljubljana Central Market, Žale Cemetery, the Church of St. Michael at the Ljubljana Marshes and numerous other masterpieces. Several plans of Plečnik’s never realized visions are also on display. The Cathedral of Freedom, the master’s vision of the Slovenian parliament, is especially worthy of our attention.Guided tours: every hour, on the hour (the last guided tour at 17:00). A group may be a maximum of seven persons.Open: 10:00 - 18:00. Closed: Mondays, holidays

Exhibitions

Ivan Meštrović: Corporeality and Eroticism in Sculpture13 Feb - 20 may, CD Gallery

Exhibitions

Stanko Kristl, Architect: Humanity and Space19 Dec 2017 - 27 May 2018, MAO -Museum of Architecture and Design

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Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Marcelo Lehninger - conductorAndrew von Oeyen - piano1 Mar, 19:30Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centreProgramme: L. Bernstein

Katja Šulc - chanson1 Mar, 20:00SiTi teater

Laurel Halo (Germany) + Warrego Valles (Slovenia) - electro1 Mar, 20:00Kino Šiška

Dopelord (Poland), Jegulja (Slovenia) - hard rock1 Mar, 22:00Orto bar

Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Marcelo Lehninger - conductorAndrew von Oeyen - piano1 Mar, 19:30Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centreProgramme: L. Bernstein

Theresa Plut - sopranoNejc Lavrenčič - piano2 Mar, 19:30Museum of Contemprary History

Maja Keuc (Amaya) - pop, soul2 Mar, 21:00Ljubljana castle»Tribute to Soul«

The Third Guy3 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centreProgramme: M. Applebaum / M. Maierhof / The Third Guy / M. Ciciliani

RTV Slovenia Big BandImer Traja Brizani and AmalaGuest: Ferus Mustafov3 Mar, 20:00Kino ŠiškaJazz gypsy

Zmelkoow (Slovenia) - rock4 Mar, 19:00SNG Drama

Therion (Sweden) - metalImperial Age (Russia) + Null Positiv (Germany) - metal4 Mar 20:00Kino Šiška

Ditka Kobol - fluteWaldorf Quartet5 Mar 19:00 Waldorf School Ljubljana

Ponte Duo - vocal, guitar6 Mar 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

Nives ŠebjanTilen Lebar7 Mar, 19:30Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centreYoung to young concert series - Composers’ evening

Music

Bjelo Dugme is considered to be one of the most popular and one of the most important  bands of the former  Yugoslavian rock scene. The band was formed in Sarajevo in 1974 and the band’s debut album Kad bi bio bijelo dugme, released in 1974, brought them nationwide popularity with its Balkan folk-influenced hard rock sound. The band’s future several releases, featuring similar sound, maintained their huge popularity, described by the media as “Dugmemania”, and the band’s work, especially their symphonic ballads with poetic lyrics, was also widely praised by the critics.

Bijelo dugme (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - rock9 Mar, 20:00, Stožice sports hall

Nuška Drašček - vocalBlaž Jurjevčič - pianoVid Ušeničnik - drums12 Mar, 20:00SiTi Teater

Mina Fina, Primož Sukič, Maja Osojnik and Luka Prinčič12 Mar, 20:00Kino Šiška Programme: interdisciplinary sonic works by young Slovenian musicians

Ana Kravanja - pianoKristina Golob - piano13 Mar, 19:30Slovenian Philharmonic HallAdmission free

Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl (USA) - jazz13 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

Signum saxophone quartet14 Mar, 19:30 Slovenian Philharmonic HallProgramme: E. Grieg / J. Haydn / D. Shostakovich / G. Ligeti / A. Piazzolla / A. Ginastera

Music

Drago Diklić (Croatia) & Ante Gelo quartet - evergreen jazz7 Mar, 20:00Slamič Coffeehouse

Ana Kravanja & Laura Netz7 Mar, 20:00Kino ŠiškaSonic art performance series

Bartosz Skłodowski - pianoProgramme: F. Chopin

Blaž Starc - saxophoneFada Azzeh - pianoProgramme: H. Tomasi / R. Muczynski / T. Escaich / A. Piazzolla8 Mar, 19:30KrižankeYoung Virtuosi international concert seriesAdmission free

Dani Kavaš - concert and performance8 Mar, 20:00Kino Šiška

Motorpsycho (Norway) + Dope Calypso - rock - jazz8 Mar, 21:00Metelkova mesto alternative culture centre

Mi2 (Slovenia) - pop8 Mar, 21:00Cvetličarna

Bijelo dugme (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - rock9 Mar, 20:00Stožice sports hall

Jure Pukl Quartet (Slovenia/USA) - jazz9 Mar, 21:00Ljubljana castle

Metropolis (Slovenia)9 Mar, 22:00Orto bar

Gloria vocal group11 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

One of the most creative saxophonists of the younger generation of Slovenian jazz musicians will perform modern interpretations of jazz.Jure Pukl has released eight albums, which have received excellent reviews in jazz magazines. In his career he has played with many jazz stars such as: George Lewis, Dave Liebman, Maceo Parker, Branford Marsalis etc.

Jure Pukl Quartet (Slovenia/USA) - jazz9 Mar, 21:00, Ljubljana castle

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The Junge Deutsche Philharmonie consists of the best students of music academies. At the concert in Cankarjev dom they will perform with British cellist Steven Isserlis under the baton of conductor David Afkham.Programme: Olivier Messiaen, Les Offrandes oubliées (The forgotten offerings)Henri Dutilleux, Tout un monde lointain (A whole distant world...), cello concertoHector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Matej Zupan - flute; Jože Kotar – clarinet; Betka Bizjak Kotnik – saxophone; Tina Žerdin – harp14 Mar, 19:30Society of Slovenian Composers Programme: N. Firšt / M. Bella / I. Florjanc / V. Avsec / M. Wettl / B. Horváth / U. Pompe / A. G. Virágh

Students of Ljubljana Music and Ballet Conservatory jazz and popular music departments14 Mar, 19:30 Grand Hotel UnionAdmission free

Dónal Lunny - bouzouki; Pádraig Rynne - concertina (Ireland) - ethnoGuests: Noreia (Slovenia) and School of Irish dance14 Mar, 20:00Festivalna dvoranaCelebration of St. Patrick’s Day

Aleksandra Bijelić Aleksijević & Slamič jazz trio14 Mar, 20:00 Slamič Coffeehouse

Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra  Olari Elts - conductorKari Kriikku - clarinet15 Mar, 19:30Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centreProgramme: J. Sibelius / K. Saariaho / B. Britten / C. Debussy

Jani Leban - drums

Petar Kšenek - hornPetar Pleša - piano15 Mar, 19:30KrižankeProgramme: L. van Beethoven, R. Schumann, R. StraussYoung Virtuosi international concert seriesAdmission free

Bilja Krstić & Bistric Orchestra (Serbia) - ethno15 Mar, 20:00Festivalna dvorana

Big Bad Wolf (Slovenia), Mindwalk (Germany), Skyeye (Slovenia) - metal15 Mar, 21:00Orto bar

Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra  Olari Elts - conductorKari Kriikku - clarinet16 Mar, 19:30Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centreProgramme: J. Sibelius / K. Saariaho / B. Britten / C. Debussy

The Game (USA) - rap, hiphop16 Mar, 20:00Kino Šiška

David Jarh quartet (Slovenia/Italy) - latin jazz16 Mar, 21:00Ljubljana castle

Lado Kreslin and Mali bogovi - pop, rock16 Mar, 21:00Cvetličarna

Music

Mentored by Dr. Dre and part of 50 Cent’s famed G-Unit, The Game took back the throne of hip-hop for the American West Coast at the turn of the millennium with his debut album The Documentary, and crossed mics with all the biggest names in contemporary rap - from Eminem to Kendrick Lamar. Now he’s gearing up for his new album 45 and coming to Slovenia for the first time.

The Game (USA) - rap, hip hop16 Mar, 20:00, Kino Šiška

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie 23 Mar, 20:00, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

Metalsteel, Eruption, Srd, Omega Sun16 Mar, 21:00Orto bar

Nuša Derenda - pop17 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

Happy Ol’McWeasel (Slovenia) - Irish folk, metal17 Mar, 22:00Orto bar

Damir Imamović (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - sevdah18 Mar, 19:00SNT Drama

Slovenian Philharmonic ChoirInstrumentalists from the Slovenian Philharmonic OrchestraHolger Speck - conductorTatjana Kavčič - piano18 Mar, 19:30Slovenian Philharmonic Hall Programme: J. Haydn / F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy / R. Schumann / J. Brahms

Contrast brass quintet20 Mar, 19:30City Museum of LjubljanaProgramme: D. Božič / A. Hillborg / A. Makor / P. Mihelčič / P. Ramovš

Maarja Nuut (Estonia) - folk20 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

Bilbi (Slovenia) - pop, chanson21 Mar, 20:00Slamič Coffeehouse

Borut Savski & Disinformation21 Mar, 20:00 Kino ŠiškaSonic art performance series

Music

RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra Giedrė Šlekytė - conductorAleksander Gadžijev - piano22 Mar, 19:30Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centreProgramme: P. Strahovnik / S. Prokofiev / J. Brahms

Boštjan Narat (Slovenia) - chanson22 Mar, 20:00Ljubljana castle

Imperij (Slovenia) - pop-rock22 Mar, 22:00Orto bar

Veter Ljubljana mixed youth choirKoper Music School girls’ choir23 Mar, 19:30City museum of LjubljanaAdmission free

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie David Afkham - conductorSteven Isserlis - violoncello 23 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centreProgramme: O. Messiaen / H. Dutilleux / H. Berlioz

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Music

Daniel Melingo - lead voice, clarinet; Rodrigo Guerra - guitar , vocal; Romain Lécuyer - double-bass, vocal; Facundo Torres - bandoneón, vocal; Arnaldo Zanelli - piano, vocal The Argentine tango artist is making a big comeback with his new album, Anda. Like an illusionist straight out of a Borges novella, Melingo is back, with his voice, his clarinet and his sense of drama. Listening to Anda is like enjoying a Fellini film with your eyes closed, losing yourself in a display of sound designed as a suite of baroque scenes in which each piece pulsates and destabilises us.

Melingo (Argentina)29 Mar, 20:00, Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

Leyya (Austria) + Futurski (Slovenia) - electronic triphop/pop23 Mar, 20:00Kino Šiška

Jazz Ladies (Slovenia) - jazz & evergreens23 Mar, 21:00Ljubljana castle

Hellsword, Teleport, Challenger23 Mar, 21:00Orto bar

Petra van der Heide (Netherlands) - harp & Mojca Zlobko Vajgl (Slovenia) - harp 24 Mar, 19:30Ljubljana City MuseumProgramme: C. Franck / G. F. Händel / G. Pierne / G. Fauré / A. Thomas

Prismojeni profesorji bluesa (Slovenia) - blues24 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

Led Zeppelin by Kula24 Mar, 22:00Orto bar

Mamma Mia! - musical25 Mar, 18:00Tivoli sports hall

Within Destruction (Slovenia) + Walking Dead on Broadway (Germany) + Vasectomy (Slovenia) + Morywa (Slovenia) - deathcore25 Mar, 20:00Kino Šiška

Marcus & Martinus (Norway) - pop26 Mar, 19:00Tivoli sports hall

Barbara Spital - flute

Manca Rupnik - violin26 Mar, 19:30Town hallAdmission free

Persefone (Andorra), Oddland (Finland), Defecto (Denmark) - metal26 Mar, 21:00Orto bar

Lačni Franz (Slovenia) - rock-pop27 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

Akordika27 Mar, 20:00Slamič Coffeehouse»Tribute to John Kander - Don’t Tell Mama«

Vedun (Slovenia) - ethno28 Mar, 19:30Festivalna dvorana

Freedom28 Mar, 20:00Kino ŠiškaTraditional concert by City Theatre actors and students of Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television

Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and ChoirMixed Choir of the Vinko Vodopivec Music School, AjdovščinaBorut Smrekar - conductorKristina Kolar - soprano; Jadranka Juras – mezzo-soprano; Kirlianit Cortés Gálvez - tenor; Dario Bercich - baritone29 and 30 Mar, 19:30Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centreProgramme: G. Rossini: Stabat Mater

Matej Kravcar - trumpetN. N. - pianoProgramme: P. Baldassare / C. Höhne / G. Gerswhin

Ines Nedelkovska - piano29 Mar, 19:30KrižankeProgramme: J. S. Bach / F. Schubert / P. I. Tchaikovsky / F. LisztYoung Virtuosi international concert seriesAdmission free

Melingo (Argentina)29 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centreMusic of the World Series

Peter Broderick (USA) + Rok Zalokar29 Mar, 20:00Kino ŠiškaPiano Day 2018 - on the 88th day of the year, Kino Šiška will join the global Piano Day for the third time.

Shotdown, Flesh, Sonic Riot

Hamo & Tribute 2 Love (Slovenia) - rock29 Mar, 21:00Orto bar

RTV Slovenia Big Band and Marko ČrnčecLojze Krajnčan - conductor30 Mar, 19:30Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

Metod Man (Slovenia) - 70’s funk/soul/r’n’b 30 Mar, 21:00Ljubljana castle

Jasmin Stavros (Croatia) and Mladen Grdović (Croatia) - pop30 Mar, 21:00Cvetličarna

Insomnium (Finland), Tribulation (Sweden)30 Mar, 21:00Orto bar

Electric Poppy Festival of electronic music30 Mar, 22:00Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre

Partibrejkers+ Vizelj (Serbia) - rock30 Mar, 20:00Kino Šiška

Jinx (Croatia) - rock31 Mar, 22:00Orto bar

One of the most famous DJ’s and music producers Afrojack will perform at the Electric poppy festival. Electric Poppy is festival where the melodies of selected DJ’s and the fairytale story unites you in people of Poppy and takes you far beyond the clouds, into the land of the mystical magician and his mighty kingdom, Electric Poppy Festival.At the electronic music festival, beside the Grammy award-winning DJ, will also perform Ravitez, AVADOX, Jimmy Clash, Galoski, Felice, Sasa Mikac, Tricky Gullivan.

Electric Poppy 30 Mar, 22:00, Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre

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Olives - theatre performanceHaifa Theatre (Israel)2 Mar, 20:00Mini Theatre

Grounded - theatre performanceHaifa Theatre (Israel)5 Mar, 20:00Mini Theatre

P. Glass: La belle et la bête - opera premiere8 Mar, 19:30Opera housePerformed in French

P. Glass: La belle et la bête- opera 9 and 10 Mar, 19:30Opera house

M. Kagao Knez: Concert for Mam - dance-music performanceCo-created and performed by: Dalanda Diallo, Leticia Slapnik Yebuah, Irena Yebuah Tiran, Joseph Nzobandora-Jose, Murat, Maša Kagao Knez11 Mar, 20:00PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana

G. Verdi: La traviata - opera 12 Mar, 19:30Opera house

Glass’s opera Beauty and the Beast is quite different from its renowned animated and film versions. Although presented as a simple fairy tale, it soon becomes clear that it tackles a much wider and deeper theme - the nature of the creative process. Glass’s opera Beauty and the Beast is a first staging of any of the composer’s operatic pieces in our country, and an appropriate opportunity to remember the eightieth anniversary of the artist’s birth. The staging of this performance as his opera direction debut is entrusted to the acknowledged choreographer and theatre director Matjaž Farič.Soloists and orchestra of the SNT Opera and Ballet Ljubljana

Opera, theatre, dance

P. Glass: La belle et la bête - opera premiere8 Mar, 19:30 - opera house

M. Kagao Knez: Concert for Mam - dance-music performanceCo-created and performed by: Dalanda Diallo, Leticia Slapnik Yebuah, Irena Yebuah Tiran, Joseph Nzobandora- Jose, Murat, Maša Kagao Knez13 Mar, 20:00PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana

G. Verdi: La traviata - opera 14 Mar, 19:30Opera house

J. Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld - opera 15 Mar, 19:30Opera house

Firebird - flamenco dance on metal musicChoreography and dance: Ana Pandur; Giani Poposki - guitar15 and 16 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni - opera 17 Mar, 19:30Opera house

tanz.coop: Smokey Hugs and Cappuccino - a dance performance Choreographer: Gisela Elisa Heredia (Argentina)Dancers: Cäcilia Färber (Germany), Elda Gallo (Italy), Anna Possarnig (Austria), Jerca Rožnik Novak (Slovenia), Martin Wax (Germany)17 Mar, 20:00PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana

R. Risimkin, R. Hribar: Orlandina - dance performance premiereChoreography and set design: Risima RisimkinDancer: Rosana Hribar23 Mar, 20:00PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana

P. Glass: La belle et la bête - opera 24 Mar, 18:00Opera house

P. Glass: La belle et la bête - opera 25 Mar, 17:00Opera house

R. Risimkin, R. Hribar: Orlandina - dance performance premiereChoreography and set design: Risima RisimkinDancer: Rosana Hribar25 and 26 Mar, 20:00PTL - Dance Theatre Ljubljana

P. Glass: La belle et la bête - opera 27 - 29 Mar, 19:30Opera house

M. Reiter, M. Tomášik, A. Golob: Solo for two Voices - dance performance Choreography and dance: Magdalena Reiter, Milan Tomášik 28 and 29 Mar, 20:00Cankarjev dom cultural and congress centre

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Miscellaneous

57th International Home Fair (Sejem Dom)13 - 18 MarLjubljana Exhibition and Convention CentreThe Home fair is an exhibition of home and building products including woodwork, heating appliances and installations, ceramics, bathroom equipment, interior furnishings for residential and business premises, garden equipment and gardening tools, seeds and plants, and a variety of useful hobby products.Open: 9:00 - 19:00

Documentary Film Festival 14 - 21 MarCankarjev dom cultural and congress centre, Kinodvor Cinema and Slovenian CinemathequeDFF, the only regularly established and long-standing event of its kind in Slovenia, is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2018. For the past twenty years DFF has offered a diversified insight into contemporary documentary film production, which is becoming increasingly more incisive and topical, deeply stirring the nucleus of major social and political issues and probing all walks of life. In 2009, DFF introduced a competitive section that has become a permanent feature of the festival; the competitive documentary film selection continues to focus on human rights. The Best Film Award is presented by Amnesty International Slovenia.Festival’s accompanying programme will feature talks with filmmakers, a film workshop as well as international seminars and lectures

Open Kitchen23 MarPogačarjev trg squareOn Fridays from mid-March to October, the Open Kitchen, a food market, offers you an opportunity to meet Slovenian chefs, taste Slovenian and international dishes, and learn about different methods of food preparation. The choice of food on offer is wide and varied. The market features around thirty different food providers, including modern restaurants, traditional gostilnas, tourist farms, and independent chefs wanting to promote their offerings. In case of bad weather, the market may be cancelled.

Collecta - Ljubljana International Collectors’ Fair23 and 24 Mar Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention CentreCollecta brings together philatelists, numismatists, cartophiles and collectors of fossils and minerals, militaria, antiques and other small collectables from around Europe. Collecta is a unique fair in the world, gathering collectors and traders of different collectibles, publishes its own occasional philatelic material, enthuses young and new collectors and prepares different thematic exhibitions.Open: 9:00 - 19:00

Shaolin Kung Fu31 Mar, 19:00Tivoli sports hallThe Shaolin show is comprised of extreme physical stunts performed by a group of monks and masters led by a 80-year-old Shaolin temple master and a group of young monks. The show includes interaction with the audience.

Slovenia is a country where snowdrops can be found almost everywhere. At Snowdrops Festival you will see the snowdrop collection of the Botanical Garden, you will participate at the lectures, snowdrop exhibitions and you could go to field excursion on Galanthus nivalis localities. 2 Mar, 18:00 A Year of Snowdrops, lecture by Alan Street (in English)3 Mar, 10:00 Snowdrops and their Ecology, lecture by dr. Jože Bavcon (in English)Admission free to both lectures.

Miscellaneous

Snowdrops Festival2 - 4 Mar Botanical gardens

12th International Mountain Film Festival 26 Feb - 2 MarCankarjev dom cultural and congress centreThe festival programme features world-class mountaineering films from Slovenia and abroad, lectures by eminent alpinists, presentations of new books on mountaineering, and round table discussions.

The Welcoming of Spring 11 Mar, 17:00 - 20:00, Gradaščica canal Trnovo districtThe Welcoming of Spring, a traditional event taking place in Ljubljana before St. Gregory’s Day, revives the handicraftsmen’s tradition of launching wooden clogs with burning candles inside them into waters as a sign of rejoicing at no longer having to work by lights. According to folk tradition, St. Gregory brings spring. By the Julian calendar, his name day (12 March) is the first day of spring.In case of bad weather, the market may be cancelled.

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Kavalir (Gallant Helper)You can get around the city centre

pedestrian area by the so called Kavalir (Gallant Helper) - a small

electric vehicle running free of charge daily from 9:00 to 18:00.

Telephone: +386 (0)31 666 331 or +386 (0)31 666 299.

Taste LjubljanaFood Tour

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

traditional Ljubljana dishes part of the

much-acclaimed Taste Ljubljana project.

Departure point: Ljubljana Tourist Information Centre, Stritarjeva ulica street

Duration: 3 hours

Language options: English, Slovenian

Price: € 38.00 per person

You will visit five different styles of restaurants and taste five different dishes as well as five

selected drinks.

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adults children (6-14 years)

24 hours: 27.00 € 16.00 €48 hours: 34.00 € 20.00 €72 hours: 39.00 € 23.00 €

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