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Eurovision 2024: When is the final and how to watch it?
The world's biggest live music event involving 37 nations, the Eurovision Song Contest, culminates in Sweden on Saturday.
Roughly 100,000 visitors from 89 countries have descended on host city Malmo during the week for the 68th edition of the competition, which has been marked by anti-Israel protests.
Who is in the final?
Bulgarian Writer Nominated for Prestigious EU Literary Prize!
Todor P. Todorov's novel "Hagabula" has been nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature, reported BTA. Todorov is competing for the prize alongside 12 other authors from Albania, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, and Tunisia.
SHOTS ever brighter star on Slovenia’s film festival sky
SHOTS, an international short film festival taking place since 2016 in Slovenj Gradec, is increasingly becoming part of the culture tourism highlights of the northern Koroška region. This year it will delight film fans and film-making talents from 3 to 5 August.
Lake Velenje pulsating with heavy metal beats
The MetalDays festival, which used to be a music staple of the Tolmin area in northwestern Slovenia, has moved to a new venue, Lake Velenje in the north. Kicking off on 30 July, the seven-day festival will feature some 130 bands representing different subgenres of mostly heavy metal music.
Music featuring Divje Babe flute nominated for Emmy
The theme music for an episode of a British-US nature documentary on dinosaurs that also features sounds made by a replica of a Neanderthal flute found in Slovenia has been nominated for the 2023 Primetime Emmy Awards. One of the composers nominated is Slovenian Anže Rozman.
Deep pool of favourites at the Tour of Slovenia
The 29th Tour of Slovenia, the country's biggest road cycling event, kicks off in Celje on 14 June. The five-day race will not feature the No. 1 rider in the world, Slovenia's Tadej Pogačar, but the pool of favourites will be bigger than in recent years.
Park in Kranj celebrates Slovenian anthem
A park dedicated to the Slovenian anthem was inaugurated in Kranj on 1 June to celebrate both the national anthem and its precursor as well the authors of the lyrics France Prešeren and Simon Jenko.
Celebrating friendship among nations, Zdravljica (A Toast) was adopted as Slovenia's national anthem in 1989, less than two years before the country gained independence.
Patti Smith to perform on Slovenian-Italian border
Patti Smith, a celebrated punk poet, singer and artist, will perform on the border between Slovenia and Italy in October in a prelude to the 2025 European Capital of Culture hosted by Nova Gorica and Gorizia.
The 5 October concert will be held at a new venue in place of a former border crossing known as Rožna Dolina (Valley of Roses) in Slovenian or Casa Rossa in Italian.
Ljubljana lit up as work of art
Light installations exploring the subject of space have transformed Ljubljana into a venue of modern art for a month as the Lighting Guerilla festival is back in town for the 17th year.
Opening outside the Vžigalica (Match) Gallery opposite the Kržanke open-air theatre late on 22 May, the festival is running until the Summer Museum Night on 17 June.
Ceramics, from sculpture to NFTs
Ceramics by artists from 30 countries are on display at Slovenia's National Museum in a juried exhibition that provides an insight into the new and diverse ways in which this medium is being explored today.
Mime artist Andrés Valdés dies
Andrés Valdés y Fuentes, a Havana-born artist who introduced Slovenia to modern mime when he moved to the country in 1964, has died, aged 86.
Orto Fest for rockers of all ages
Ljubljana's celebrated rock club Orto Bar will host the 23rd iteration of the Orto Fest from 30 March to 29 April. The 2023 line-up features 20 Slovenian and 10 foreign bands, many of which are well-known crowd favourites.
Opening the festival will be the popular Slovenian rockers Big Foot Mama, who will soon be followed by Dan D, described by some as Slovenia's Pearl Jam.
New Maribor gallery spotlights up-and-coming artists
Young artists will take centre stage in a new gallery in Maribor, Slovenia's second largest city, that opened on 17 March. The first exhibition, by Iva Ferlinc, is entitled Transitions.
Slovenia’s first multiplex cinema closes down
Kolosej, Slovenia's first multiplex cinema, closed down on 14 March having been in operation for 22 years at Ljubljana's BTC shopping district. The new owner plans to refurbish it into a new entertainment centre.
"We would like o inform you that Kolosej is closing its doors on 14 March," the operator announced in a post to its website and social media.
Granny’s Sexual Life wins Cezar nomination
After winning the European Film Academy award for best short film, Urška Djukić's Granny's Sexual Life has now been nominated for Cezar, the French film award, for best animated short.