The New Year's jump into the sea is an event on New Year's Day that you simply cannot miss! It is an event that has become as big as Triglav. Hundreds of participants, thousands of curious people. And just as every true Slovene must be at Triglav at least once in their life, every true Slovene must jump into the sea at least once in their life on January 1st. The next opportunity will be on January 1, 2016 at 2 p.m. in Portorož on the central beach. The event will be held for the 12th time!
Events
The Ljubljana Holiday Fair has always been the first harbinger and concept of a happy December. In 2015, nothing will be different, except that the "Olympic flame" will be lit together with the lighting of the festive lights and that it will start already in November 2015. We are entering the happy December this year, when technically we are not yet in the last month of the year. The traditional Ljubljana Holiday Fair 2015 with the lighting of the lights starts on November 27, and will last until January 3, 2016, when the curtain will once again fall on the wide range of products, food and drinks.
Between November 20 and 23, Ljubljana will live and pulsate with fashion, as Ljubljana Fashion Week (LJFW) returns to the center of the capital! Check which clothing collections for spring-summer 2016 will be presented on the banks of the Ljubljanica as part of Ljubljana Fashion Week, and we also reveal the date of the spring edition of Ljubljana Fashion Week, where video projections will complement live fashion shows.
Michaelmas and the Saint Nicholas Procession 2015 in Ljubljana will traditionally be marked by the Saint Nicholas Fair and Saint Nicholas Procession, which honor the arrival of the first of the three good men who come to Ljubljana to visit in December. The fair will start on December 3, 2015, and the procession with Santa accompanied by hooves, devils and little angels, who will distribute candies, pastries and fruit to children, will take place on the eve of Saint Nicholas Day, December 5, 2015.
The hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who comes from Seattle, won the Grammy for best rap album last year with their studio album The Heist (2012), and they impressed the whole world with the song Thrift Shop. In March of next year, we will be able to see them on their first real European tour in Vienna, where they will present the upcoming second studio album, announced by the mega-successful Downtown. Do you already have tickets?
Irish musician Andrew Hozier-Byrne, who is known to the music public as a sensation of indie rock, soul and blues music, for which he writes the lyrics himself, will also stop near us with his concert tour. On February 25, 2016, he will perform in Vienna's Gasometer. Tickets are already on sale.
The successful British band Mumford & Sons, which has been constantly touring since its foundation in 2007 and has already played countless sold-out concerts and festivals around the world, and has also received a Grammy Award, is coming to Vienna in May 2016 with its new sound.
Do you love dancing but can't find the right opportunity to twirl on the dance floor in your favorite outfit? Do not miss the opportunity to take part in the Great City Dance, which will take place on November 14. 2015 in the Salon of Applied Arts.
Bluesman Zucchero is returning to Slovenia next year, spoiling the Italian and world music scene with his passionate music, unforgettable duets and exceptional stage presence. We will be able to see and hear him in Stožice on October 8 next year.
You will be able to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Queen together with The Bohemians, a Queen tribute band to which Brian May, the guitarist of the original line-up, also gives a nod. If you want to relive this famous British group on this bohemian rhapsody to the sounds of hits such as "Radio Gaga", "We Are the Champions", "Somebody to Love", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Don't Stop Me Now" and "We Will Rock You", which will resonate on December 5, 2015 in Cirkus, simply cannot be missed. Tickets are already on sale.
Successful Slovenian fashion designer Nina Šušnjara and her Susnyara team presented the Kardia collection, which is the first collection of the new Susnyara brand, at one of the parallel fashion events during this year's New York Fashion Week. After returning from the city that never sleeps, the team is not resting, but is already preparing the attractive, artistic and unexpected fashion exhibition Susnyara aft'r NY, which we will be able to see between November 13 and 17 at the Situla premises.
If bells are the harbingers of spring, the biggest ski fair SK Snežinka is the harbinger of the ski season. Before the ski resorts open their doors, the largest ski fair in Slovenia is traditionally held in Ljubljana every year, which has been on the scene for 45 years under different names! This year will be no different. Ski fair SK Snežinka 2015 will take place between November 26 and 29, 2015.