From March 29 to April 28 this year, the 19th Orto Fest will take place. As many as 21 local and 7 foreign music groups and performers will perform at Orto Fest this year, and it is extremely colorful this year as well. Among others, you will be able to see groups and performers: Hamo & Tribute 2 Love (SLO), Laibach (SLO), Jinx (HR), Gutalax (CZ), Slon in Sadež (SLO), Klemen Klemen (SLO), Adi Smolar (SLO), Panda (SLO), Zmelkoow (SLO), The Toasters (USA), Flirrt (SLO), Zlatko in Optimisti (SLO) and, to close the festival, Omar Naber & Band (SLO).
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Imagine a piece of sweet pleasure slowly melting in your mouth while the most spicy thoughts are darting to and fro. Your dreams can come true right at the International Chili & Chocolate Festival 2018. More than 35 different creators of chili and chocolate creations from Slovenia and abroad come to it.
The international film festival Kinotrip 2018 will once again bring selected films for the most diverse movie tastes. In four days, films of different types, genres, contents, lengths and countries of the world will be shown.
On March 30, the Electric Poppy electronic music festival will stop in Ljubljana. The famous DJ and producer Afrojack will perform at the Electric Poppy 2018 electronic music festival.
The International Mountain Film Festival aims to bring mountain nature and culture (remote mountains, diverse cultures, adrenaline climbs, mystical nature...) closer to many international visitors. This year it will take place from February 26 to March 4.
After last year's successful concert by one of the most prestigious and high-quality philharmonic orchestras in the world, the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the upcoming Winter Festival will offer an even larger selection of world-renowned musicians. Between February 10 and 14, 2018, the versatile musician and violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy will perform, after a long hiatus the New Swing Quartet is returning with a concert celebrating their 50th anniversary, and the festival will be rounded off with an evening of opera arias by one of the world's leading tenors, Ramón Vargas and internationally renowned soprano Elvira Hasanagić.
Flamenco as a genre or artistic genre and also as a way of being is still alive. Its creators are infinitely far from merely recreating ossified musical and dance forms covered with the dust of history. Flamenco is a current that is fueled by contemporary and related creativity, and at the same time it is an inspiration itself.
This year, the winter edition of the famous Metal Days festival returns to the Bohinjska Valley - Winter Days of Metal 2018 will take place between January 31 and February 4, 2018. The main concerts will take place in the Danica Hall in Bohinjska Bistrica. On the stages we expect Fleshless, Arkona, Dropkick Murphys, Ritual Day, Ahab and Immorgon, among others. Tickets are already on sale.
Ljubljana will be the gastronomic capital in November. In the company of master chefs and winemakers, the November Gourmet Ljubljana festival will feature interesting culinary events throughout the month, and the climax will be the final event in the City of Design on Dunajska cesta, which will not lack entertainment and, of course, good food.
On Friday, September 29 and Saturday, September 30, Maribor will host the fourth, now traditional, microbrewing festival - Makro Beer Fest 2017, a large festival of small breweries, where 30 brewers from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. Visitors will be able to choose from about 100 types of beer, different styles of "pale ale", "indian pale ale", "porter", "stout" and the increasingly popular "sour" and "gose".
Be in the center of the most unusual, current and engaged happenings in October, when performances, exhibitions, concerts, films, discussions and parties will take place all over Ljubljana. This year, the City of Women invites you to the company of excellent female artists from all over the world, who will provoke and inspire under the common slogan "nacija_natura_norma" with a focus on the theme of reproductive freedom, the right to abortion, family forms and gender representation. The 23rd International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women will conquer Ljubljana from October 6 to 14, 2017.
The long and hot summer will end this year in Ljubljana with a long and hot weekend, when the sky above Pogačarjev trg will once again be filled with intoxicating aromas at the second and last Beer and Burger Fest of the year. On Saturday and Sunday, October 14 and 15, beers will collide here in all their coldness and burgers in all their deliciousness.