Category:Showcase

Looking for a artistic or cultural collaboration in/with Slovenia? Check out these curated shortcuts to the main promotional vehicles featuring showcase festivals, professional arts and culture intermediaries and additional web resources. Get on board!

International showcase festivals and platforms

Curated programmes with emerging and established artists, usually accompanied with lively debates on the development of particular cultural and creative sectors:

• Architecture & design: BIG SEE Festival in Portorož (usually in May)
• Dance: Gibanica Biennial of Slovenian Contemporary Dance Art at various venues in Ljubljana
• Film: Festival of Slovenian Film at the Portorož Auditorium (usually in October)
• Music: MENT Ljubljana at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture (usually in February)
• Theatre: Maribor Theatre Festival at the Slovene National Theatre Maribor (in June)
• Theatre: Crossings International Festival of Independent Performing Arts at various venues in Maribor
• Theatre: Mladinsko Showcase at the Mladinsko Theatre (usually in April)
• Visual arts: Annual Etc magazine in connection with the Ljubljana Art Weekend (usually in May)
• Visual arts - comics: Tinta Festival at the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture (usually in October)

Facilitating international collaboration on a national level

Ministries

• Ministry of Culture
  • European Affairs and International Cooperation Service
• Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
  • Department for Cultural and Scientific Diplomacy cooperates also with a network of Slovene embassies and consulates.

Agencies and hubs

These specialised organisations or programmes on a national level engage in information dissemination, professional advice, various grants programmes, participation at the international fairs or festivals, or subsidies for international cooperation abroad.

• Design: Centre for Creativity
• Film: Slovenian Film Centre (SFC)
• Literature: Slovenian Book Agency (JAK)
• Music: SIGIC, Slovene Music Information Centre
• Creative Europe Desk Slovenia

Useful online resources

We highly recommend you to explore these excellent websites with accurate and up-to-date information on the activities and protagonists within particular cultural and creative fields.

• Dance: Choreographers Directory Slovenia by Emanat Institute
• Design: Made in Slovenia, a curated collection of original Slovenian gifts and souvenirs by the Centre for Creativity
• Film: Slovenian Film Database by the Filmoteka Institute for Promotion of Film Culture
• Film: Slovenian Film Guide by the Slovenian Film Centre
• Literature: Database of Translations by the Slovenian Book Agency
• Music: Musicslovenia.si, platform for the promotion of music from Slovenia by a consortium, represented by SIGIC
• Music: Odzven.si, a showcase music magazine by SIGIC
• Theatre: Sigledal.org, Slovene theatre portal by Novi ZATO. Institute in collaboration with the Slovenian Theatre Institute
• Visual arts: DIVA Station, a research and study archive of video and new media art by the SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts
• Visual arts: Web Museum, a repository for digital AV contemporary art and time-based art by the Museum of Modern Art
• Visual arts: Raz_Ume Database of artists and exhibitions of the 20th and 21st century by the Museum of Modern Art