The most high-profile literary festival, which has attracted many modern classics and the most penetrating thinkers of our time to Slovenia, will take place for the sixteenth time this year. The participants will be able to listen to eight foreign guests and guests, and the central ones will also get Slovenian translations of their books, which you can buy at the festival price. The rich program will start with Fabula before Fabula (from February 27 to 28.) and the Fabula 2019 festival will open on March 3. The event is intended for all generations and is widely accessible to visitors, and you can get free tickets at the box office of Cankarjev dom.
Events
The Dukes of Prunes is a continuation of the project that Boštjan Andrejc and Samo Turk started at the Koper School of Music, when they and selected students put together a larger band that performed the repertoire from Frank Zappa's opus. 25 years after the death of this elusive artist, they gathered a new band, with which they prepared a striking repertoire from Zappa's extensive oeuvre.
Tom Jones, one of the greatest living legends, a great charmer and brilliant performer, is starting an American-European tour in April, as part of which he will perform on June 18, 2019 in Ljubljana's Stožice Hall.
Soon, the snow cover will be just a sweet memory of winter days, because nature will wake up and the little bells are the first to peek out from under the snow. At the Bell Festival in the Botanical Garden 2019, you will be able to learn more about the little bell, namely you will be able to attend lectures, workshops and performances, you will be able to buy bells and take part in a free guided tour of the Botanical Garden on Saturday and Sunday.
Spring 2018. Coast. The girls, musicians by heart and profile, came up with the idea of a big band. The boys, locals from Marezig, came to their aid with a space for rehearsals, first notes and experience. The internationally renowned saxophonist Lovro Ravbar took over the artistic direction of the newly formed big band, and the group of "bandits and bandits" has been creating together for a good half year.
As we enter the new year, we all eagerly await the arrival of spring. In addition to the Kurents, she will also be summoned and greeted this year by children and adults, who will drop the small Saint Gregory's barges into Gradaščica. Decorate your paper or wooden houses with paper flowers and prepare a candle to light on the day when, according to St. Gregory, spring is supposed to begin. We all can't wait.
Carnival days in Ljubljana are marked every year by the Dragon Carnival (2019), which will also this year offer a carnival procession and an entertainment program. We will admire traditional, ethnological, children's and many other carnival masks, which will walk around the city center - they will additionally brighten the carnival Saturday with their unique performances on the Congress Square.
Sergej Polunin provoked controversial reactions from the public in 2012 when, as the youngest principal dancer of London's Royal Ballet, he simply resigned after two years in this prestigious position.
Mountains, nature and adventure are calling for the mountain film festival, which will start its thirteenth edition in style - with the screening of the most desired film of this year, Free Solo, at three venues at the same time, in Ljubljana, Celje and Radovljica. In these three places and also in Domžale, visitors will be able to watch 32 films about alpinism, climbing, adventure, mountain nature and culture, and in Ljubljana there will be six more lectures, a book presentation and a round table.
The end of February this year also marks the end of winter and the call of spring. Kurents will dance in the oldest Slovenian city on February 23 and start calling for spring and all good things. During the 59th Kurentovanje 2019, as part of Artfest, Etnofest and Karnevalfest, you will be part of ethnographic and carnival processions, concerts, masked dances, you will also be able to see exhibitions, ethnographic characters, carnival baskets and much more.
The AntiValentine's Party is a two-day concert event that will please all the alternative people who need their own event in the name of love. After three years of entertaining the Zagreb audience, the AntiValentino concert will take place in our region for the fourth year. LET 3, TBF and Vojko V will perform in Cvetličarna on the first evening. On Thursday, the audience will be entertained by Edo Maajka, Klemen Klemen and the group Elemental, which operates under the slogan "Everything, only romance".
In March, those of you planning, building or renovating will be able to visit the 58th Dom Fair 2019 - 500 companies from more than 30 countries will be presented at it. At this year's fair, the topics of sustainable construction, comprehensive energy renovation of buildings and the zero-energy standard, which came into force on January 1st, are at the center. Companies will thus present trends in various fields, and you will be able to take part in free advice from experts on all days of the fair.