The Municipality of Izola has established a public competition for the best story from the Izola tradition, offering three prizes to the best literary works reviving the tradition and customs of the urban and rural areas of Izola. The aim of this pubic tender is to reinstate the cultural history of Izola and use the prize-winning works as additional tourist promotion of this coastal town.
www.izola.si

The Municipality of Trzin will carry out several programmes:

• four international literary evenings involving up to three authors, hosted by Študentska založba (ŠZ) and the Slovene PEN Centre; the first during the Slovenian Book Days 2010, when in cooperation with ŠZ an evening with Turkish authors is planned in Trzin, and the last in late March 2011, in parallel with the International Conference of the Slovene PEN Centre in Bled
• three literary evenings with performances by Slovene poets within the framework of Culture Evenings organised once a month in the winter season (from October 2010 to April 2011)
• a literary evening of Slovene authors organised by the Municipality of Trzin within the framework of the Trzin Spring Festival, planned for the second Saturday in June 2010 and
• a literary marathon coinciding with the World Book Day 2010, within the framework of a book fair in Trzin between 24 and 25 April 2010.

www.obcinatrzin.si

Adult Reading Badge – Reading Club, the Metlika Popular Library. The aim of the reading badge for adults, i.e., the reading club, is to encourage adult readers to turn to quality literary works, with an emphasis on Slovene authors and local history and heritage. Discussion of the books read inspires critical thinking and builds confidence for reaching for and grasping more demanding texts.
http://www.metlika.si/lkm/bralni%20klub.htm

Memory Lane, The Municipality of Kostanjevica. On the eve of the official announcement of Ljubljana – the World Book Capital City 2010 there will be a presentation of the latest novel in verse by the Slovene writer Feri Lainšček, interpreted by Vlado Novak.
www.kostanjevica.si

Festival ljubezni 2010 / Love Festival 2010, KID Kibla. Negova Castle. The Love Festival is a travelling festival held every year at the beginning of spring in one of the towns and cities of Eastern Slovenia, linking the sights of the forthcoming European Capital of Culture. Its rich weekend programme offers a mixture of literature and other interesting arts, mostly music and visual genres. The festival is particularly fond of composed literary texts, literary exhibitions and music with visual accompaniment. However, the author’s word remains in the forefront, heard in public readings, poetry and fiction duels, literary breakfasts and meetings with authors organised between these. A special feature of the Love Festival is its parallel programme for children, who also deserve their share of literature, either in the form of (fairy) tale readings or creative workshops. With its exciting programme, both pleasing and of extremely high quality, the Love Festival tries to attract the widest audiences and ensure that festival events reach those places which literary maps often neglect.
The first Love Festival was held in 2008 at the Stična Castle. The following year it visited the town of Ptuj and in 2010 it will take place in the Negova Castle.
www.kibla.org/festivali/festival-ljubezni

 

Kindly Invited to the Library, the Roma! Metlika Public Library. The aim of this ongoing project, which was launched in 2004, is to bring the library and the book closer to the Roma living in the Metlika Municipality, and in particular to their younger generations. The library has been organising story-time and playtime activities, as well as creative workshops for Roma children, while, during summer months, the mobile library visits Roma settlements so that children can borrow books and other reading materials. Within the project, computer literacy courses are offered to children and adults living in the Roma community. The Roma are also regularly invited to partake in other events organised by the library.
www.ljudskaknjiznicametlika.si

Lirikonfest Velenje 2010, a spring festival of lyric art held in Velenje with presentations all over Slovenia and abroad, the Velenje Literary Foundation UVKF and the Velenika Literary Association. A literary festival with 21 literary events and an accompanying programme of lyric art with Slovene and foreign performers.
Lirikonfest provides an overview of literary activities and brings the literature of the 21st century, its authors, translators, editors, publishers, international intermediaries, organisers, performers, critics and other connoisseurs closer to the general public. With original and translated modern poetry, and reflections on the cognitive, connective and critical role of artistic literature, it establishes and further promotes international literary connections.
Main Programme:

• The Herberstein Meeting of Slovene Writers (HSK) with international participants and the Herberstein Lirikonfest Literary Essay Prize for the best literary essay on a topical issue selected by the HSK assembly;
• The 7th Pretnar Prize Ceremony for ambassadors of the Slovene language and literature;
• the 6th annual issue of the poetry magazine Rp. Lirikon21 (an overview of Slovene and translated poetry of the 21st century) and the Lirikon Poetry Translation Prize Ceremony (for the best translation of modern poetry into Slovene or from Slovene into other languages), as well as Lirikon tastings of a selection of Slovene and translated poetry and other lyric arts (with presentations and readings all over Slovenia and abroad);
• The 5th Poetical Slovenia Ceremony with the Cup of Immortality / Velenjica Prize for a 10-year opus of Slovene writers who have made a significant impact on Slovene 21st century literature;
• The 4th year of the Writers in Residence Programme organised by the Velenje Literary Foundation UVKF for foreign and Slovene authors and translators of artistic literature.

www.lirikonfest.si

 

Flirtings 2010, Založba Litera. Within the Spogledi / Flirtings 2010 International Prose Festival, readings, concerts, discussions and a round table will be organised, while foreign authors will visit various Slovene towns. The accompanying programme consists of story-time activities for children and film screenings.
www.zalozba-litera.org/flirtings2010

 

An Exhibition of Miniature Books, the Valvasor Library. The smallest Slovene town, Kostanjevica na Krki, will introduce itself with an exhibition of miniature books.
www.kostanjevica.si

 

Women Writers in Minor Literatures of the 19th Century, the University of Nova Gorica.
With the emergence of nationalisms, a number of small nations dedicated themselves to literature in the 19th century, also attracting women writers. The research on women writers contributing to literatures overshadowed by the literature produced by big, politically dominant nations offers a good insight into literature and history. The aim of the scientific symposium is to show that minor literatures of the 19th century saw a significant and intense presence of women writers, whose contributions must therefore be re-inserted on the 19th century literary map.
http://www.ung.si, http://www.costwwih.net

Povest od Jožeka, pjeba štajerskega (The Tale of Jožek, a Štajerska Lad), Rogatec Culture, Tourism and Development Institute, Rogatec Library, Rogatec Primary School, Rogatec Male Choir, Rogaška Slatina Music School. Students of the Rogatec Primary School will spend a day researching the life and work of Jože Šmit, a poet born at Tlake, a village close to Rogatec. His birth house is now the main feature of the Rogatec Open-Air Museum. The day will conclude with the students giving a presentation of their findings, while the local library will be exhibiting the author’s collections of poems and the Rogatec Male Choir, together with local musicians, will carry out a recital of poems by Jože Šmit.
www.muzej-rogatec.si

 

The Gorjup Literary Evening, Jože Gorjup Primary School, Kostanjevica. Young authors from Kostanjevica will present their poems to the public.

The Municipality of Dobrovnik within the Ljubljana – World Book Capital City project, The Municipality of Dobrovnik. Reading at the local library.
www.dobrovnik.si/sl

For Better Reading Literacy, the XIV Division Senovo Primary School. Vinko Hostar, the headmaster, and
the teachers of the XIV Division Senovo Primary School will give a presentation on their project.
www.ossenovo.net

Big and Small, Maribor Regional Museum. Next to the Books for Everybody stand, the largest and the smallest book from the museum’s collection will be exhibited, i.e., Il tabernacolo della Madonna d’Orsasanmichele from 1876 (45 x 61 cm) and a 1776 Calendar (3 x 7 cm).
www.pmmuzej-mb.si

 

The publishing activity of Novo Mesto Dolenjska Museum 1950 – 2010, Dolenjska Museum. An overview of the works, such as monographs, exhibition catalogues, guides, folders, posters and tickets, published by the Dolenjska Museum from its establishment until the present day. Most of the publications reveal the research carried out by Dolenjska Museum curators.
www.dolmuzej.com

 

 

 

FestUnit 2010, The Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia, Marzio Serbo, Romance Language and Translation Student Theatre Group – Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana: Live theatre readings and dramatisation of literary works will be at the core of some major projects. April will see the second FestUniIT, a university theatre festival at which the Romance Language and Translation Student Theatre Group will stage Teo by Giorgio Manganelli.

Book Club, The Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia and the Italian Department of the Faculty of Arts (Dr Irena Prosenc Šegula and Irena Trenc Frelih). The programme envisages five 90-minute meetings every month on late Wednesday afternoons, dedicated to recent Italian works of prose fiction characterised by a great power of expression and originality. Texts will be scheduled depending on the complexity of literary structure – from the simplest to the most complex – and the publication date, starting with the most recent.

• 21 April 2010 at 6 pm (presented by T. Černe and M. Lenart) Tabucchi: Il filo dell'orizzonte (The Edge of the Horizon);
• 21 May 2010 at 6 pm (presented by J. Brenčič and A. Benedetič) - a reading circle dedicated to the adventure of reading Calvino's postmodernist meta-novel Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler)

Film Club. Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia, Faculty of Arts - University of Ljubljana (Eleonora Kolar, students of Italian Studies). Students of Italian Studies will present and lead discussions on films which are based on literary works and speak of Italian history:

• April - May: La terra trema, Il gattopardo and I viceré,
• November: Kaos,
• December: Cristo si è fermato a Eboli.

Pirandello and the Cinema, Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia, Faculty of Arts - University of Ljubljana (Eleonora Kolar): Lecture by Sergio Micheli, university professor and film critic.

 

Portraits of Italian writers - Ritratti. Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia. Exhibition of a selection of photographs of important Italian contemporary writers by Michele Corelone.

Evening dedicated to Drago Jančar and his novels translated into Italian.
Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia, Cankarjev dom. Headnoise, Northern Lights and Joyce's Pupil.

Milan Selan: Middle Italy by Bicycle - Part 1: Umbria - Cycling Guide - Nature, History, Culture, Art and Cuisine. Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia:


Pierluigi Cappello: Assetto di volo. Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia, House of Poetry:
Presentation of the poet Perluigi Cappello and the Slovenian translation of his book Assetto di volo.

Aljoša Curavić: A occhi spenti. Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia. Presentation of the book by Aljoša Curavić, published by the publishing house EDIT from Rijeka. The publisher Sivio Forza will attend the presentation.

 

From Literature to Film. Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia, Slovenska kinoteka, Experimental Film Centre from Rome. The event is dedicated to the relationship between literature and film, and to the presentation of films based on Italian novels. A series of meetings with writers and directors. The following films will be discussed: La ciocara (Vittorio de Sica, 1960), I promessi sposi (Mario Camerini, 1941), L'isola di Arturo (Damiano Damiani, 1962), Il nome delle rosa (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986), Il deserto del tartari (Valerio Zurlini, 1976), Profummo di donna (Dino Risi, 1974), Il Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971), Caro Michele (Mario Monicelli, 1976), L'innocente (Luchino Visconti, 1976), Il gattopardo (Luchino Visconti, 1963), Cristo si e fermato a Eboli (Francesco Risi, 1979), Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (Vittorio de Sica, 1970), La lupa (Gabriele Lavia, 1996), Almost blue (Alex Infascelli, 2000), Il consiglio d'Egitto (Emido Greco, 2002), Sostiene Pereira (Roberto Racusa, 1996).

Vitruvius: De Architectura. Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia. Presentation of De Architectura by Vitruvius, translated into Slovenian by Prof. Fedja Košir.

Freccia Azzurra (The Blue Arrow) & Gip in the Television. Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia, Cultural Centre Sežana. A theatrical transposition of the works Freccia Azzurra and Gip nel televisore by Giovanni Rodari, a pre-eminent writer for children, to whom the year 2010 is dedicated in Italy and around the globe. Accompanying events (exhibitions, video screenings) will take place at the seat of the Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia.

Theatrical Reading of Lei dunque capirà by Claudio Magris. Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia: Theatrical interpretation of the Slovenian translation of Lei dunque capirà by Claudio Magris, the winner of the 2009 Vilenica Literary Prize.

Dacia Maraini: Passi affrettat. Italian Institute for Culture in Slovenia, Slovenian Permanent Theatre in Trieste, Mini teater: Staging of the theatrical text Passi affrettati by Dacia Maraini, translated by Irena Trenc Frelih, on violence against women in the world.
www.iicljubljana.esteri.it

 

 

40 Books for the Ljubljana Metropolitan Library, the Embassy of Switzerland. On the occasion of Ljubljana being proclaimed the World Book Capital City 2010 by UNESCO, the Embassy will donate to the Ljubljana Metropolitan Library 40 books recently published in Switzerland.

The Writer Ilma Rakuša in Ljubljana, the Embassy of Switzerland. The Embassy of Switzerland together with the Vilenica Festival will host the writer Ilmo Rakuša. In early June 2010, she will read her works and be interviewed at the Ljubljana Castle within the framework of Vilenica in Ljubljana.

 

The Swiss comic book creator ZEP visits Ljubljana. The Embassy of Switzerland, Vale Novak Publishing House. Two-day activity programme for children and comic fans.
www.eda.admin.ch/ljubljana

 

 

The Reception of Modern Literature in the German Language, Goethe-Institut Ljubljana, German Library – The Central Technological Library at the University of Ljubljana (CTK). Discussions with Slovene, German, Swiss and Austrian authors and literature experts.

 

Youth Literature Readings, authors from Germany. Goethe Institute Ljubljana.
Readings of children's and youth literature.

 

Scholarly Literary Seminar on "Exophony". Goethe Institute Ljubljana.
The seminar will feature authors from Germany not writing in their mother language.
www.goethe.de/ljubljana

European Parliament, Information Office for Slovenia, Embassy of Spain in Slovenia and Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities Office Ivančna Gorica

 

Exhibition of Translations and Illustration of Kozlovska sodba v Višnji Gori (The Famous Goat Trial) in the House of the European Union, the European Parliament, the Information Office for Slovenia, the Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities Ivančna Gorica Office and the Embassy of Spain in Slovenia. An exhibition of translations into Spanish, French, English and German, including original illustrations of The Famous Goat Trial by Josip Jurčič. Individual translations were illustrated by Marjan Manček (English), who was also the illustrator of the Slovene original, Judita Rajnar (French) and Santiago Martin (Spanish). The work was translated by: Santiago Martin, Patrick Sunčan Stone and Florence Gacoin Marks. An accompanying publication tells more about the links between the European Parliament and Jurčič. The exhibition will be mounted by street artists and it will remain open to the general public throughout June.
www.europarl.si

 

 

Are Books Facing a Crisis? Charles Nodier French Institute, Cankarjev dom. A series of French-Slovenian meetings, sponsored by CULTURESFRANCE and in cooperation with Cankarjev dom. There are typical readers who consider the book to be a fetish object that has created their relationship to culture: they regard books containing sentiment as an antidote to that which could be called virtual dangers. However, are these defenders of the old book in the battle against "all that is digital" not forced into some sort of elitism? Is the priority they ascribe to the personal interests of the author over the common interests of the public not a kind of betrayal of the humanistic values to which they refer?
There are contemporary readers who think one has to keep up with the times and without improper sentimentality relinquish the technology which they consider over the hill. What could be more inappropriate than still using dead trees as knowledge carriers? However, the digital book is not an arbitrary network among many others, the World Wide Web is not an arbitrary network among many others: we have to question ourselves about their distinctive characteristics. Has the philosophical liberalism that contributed to the evolution of the Internet, which it originally designed as a tool of emancipation, not changed into economic liberalism, which is by some considered a system that causes inequality?

Themes:

• The Digitisation of Library Stock, Relations with Google. Director of the National Library of France (BNF) Bruno Racine and Director of the National and University Library Mateja Komel Snoj;
• The Digital Book Challenge, Copyrights in the Age of the Internet. French publisher Bertrand Py, Editor-in-Chief of Actes Sud Publishing House, and Slovenian publisher Rok Zavrtanik, Director of Sanje Publishing House;
• The Author's Website: an Independent Work of Art or its Supplement? French writer Jean-Philippe Toussaint, author of his own web page, and Slovenian writer Miha Mazzini, also author of his own web page.
• The Future of Intellectual Property, Aesthetics and the Internet. French philosopher Jacques Rancière and Slovenian philosopher Alenka Zupančič.
• Blog as a Tool for Literary Criticism, Criticism in the Age of Internet Publishing. French critic Pierre Assouline and Slovenian cultural expert Aleš Debeljak.
• Comic Strips as a Possible Area of Rebellion against "All that is Digital" or the Internet as the Future of Comic Strips? French cartoonist Joan Sfar and Slovenian cartoonist Izar Lunaček.
• Are Books and the Digital World Condemned to Mutual Exclusivity? French professor Roger Chartier and Slovenian anthropologist Drago Rotar.

www.institutfrance.si, www.cd-cc.si

 

 

Visits of acclaimed Dutch authors. The Embassy of Netherlands.
Literary evenings, lectures, readings, discussions.
www.netherlands-embassy.si