My Abundant Greek Wedding is a 2002 surprise hit about a lovable Greek-American woman who brings a non-traditional (read: non-Greek) groom into a traditional Greek family. The phenomenon from 14 years ago is getting a sequel in 2016, entitled My Abundant Greek Wedding 2, and all the famous actors are returning to the screen, including the entire Portokalos family.
Events
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Ljubljana 2016 – a premium celebration of fashion, beauty and design – is coming to the capital again in May! After the autumn 3-day event in the prestigious Cankarjev dom, which certainly did not disappoint, we will enjoy the new fashion trends for the autumn/winter 2016 season at the spring edition of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Ljubljana, which will color our capital with fashion between the 22nd and May 24, 2016.
Today, the 66th Berlinale film festival begins in Berlin. The president of the jury this year is the actress Merly Streep, and the honorary golden bear for lifetime achievements will be awarded to the German filmmaker Michael Ballhaus. The festival will be opened by the film Hail, Caesar! They will also pay tribute to the recently deceased Alan Rickman and David Bowie.
The women's ski jumping elite returns to Ljubno on Valentine's weekend, as Ljubno ob Savinja hosts the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup for women for the fifth time on February 13 and 14, 2016 (Ljubno 2016). This time the girls will fight on a new ski jump. Do you already have tickets for the women's showjumping festival?
Valentine's Day is a time for lovers and chocolate. That's why Planet Tuš Kranj organizes a Chocolate Saturday on the eve of Valentine's Day. From time immemorial, Cvetober of top Slovenian chocolate producers will offer sweet treats and spice up the sweetening with interesting local stories. You will learn that chocolate is the key to the heart in animation and prize games, and with the help of chocolate guru Gorazd Potočnik, you will be able to create a piece of this most popular dessert yourself.
On February 11, 2016 at 8 p.m. in all its cinemas across Slovenia, Cineplexx is organizing Ladies (Chick Flick) Night, an evening reserved especially for ladies. Together with their friends, they will be able to laugh to tears while watching the comedy How to Be Single with Dakota Johnson (50 Shades of Grey), Rebel Wilson (The Right Note), Leslie Mann (Pumped Up) and Alison Brie (Five-Year Engagement). .
The carnival in Cerknica will be opened today. As every year, the people of Butal will take over Cerkno on Maundy Thursday. To begin with, they will saw the baba, and then until Ash Wednesday, when they will bury the carnival, they will enjoy carnival antics, which we can also join.
Do you know where SOF 2016 will be held? The Slovenian Advertising Festival, organized by the Slovenian Advertising Chamber for the 25th consecutive year, remains in Portorož, but is moving to a new, more prestigious location. The central annual event of the advertising industry in Slovenia will take place this year on April 7 and 8 at the Kempinski Palace Hotel.
The traditional Dragon Carnival will take place in Ljubljana on Shrove Saturday. This year's event will be dedicated to Ljubljana as the green capital of Europe 2016 and will be named "In the garden" in the spirit of the green year.
The National Gallery in Ljubljana has finally been renovated. For the first time, all three building parts of the Gallery are united, a new permanent collection, a new cafe by Robb's well and a gallery shop await us. From Thursday, January 28 to Sunday, January 31, 2016, there will be open days at the National Gallery.
Peter Peter is a Slovenian animated film in a rap version, which was presented for the first time at the 18th Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož, and before coming to the regular schedule, it stopped at the 12th Animateka Animated Film Festival. A lyrically told story about childhood and growing up, which problematizes violence between children, steers between the past and the present, and relies on the wisdom of the tale of Peter Klepec.
The British quartet Clean Bandit is coming to Slovenia for the first time. The Grammy Award-winning band will be making a stop at Club Cirkus on February 27, 2016. They started their journey with club nights, but shone in full glory in 2014. Their hit "Rather Be" was, among other things, the best-selling single of the British artist of the year, and this is just one in a series of musical "scalps". Tickets are already on sale.