A new “green edition” of Creative Europe stories has been published – Creative Europe Green Stories – focusing on best practices for (more) sustainable international (co)operation by the Cona Institute.
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Creative Europe Stories
We highlight successful initiatives supported by Creative Europe that Slovenian cultural organisation have developed together with their European partners. We invite you to take a look!
Motovila Institute, hosting Creative Europe Desk Slovenia, has produced the series called Creative Europe Stories. The aim is to promote the Creative Europe EU programme as well as highlighting successful initiatives developed by Slovenian organisations in cooperation with their European partners.
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CED Slovenia highlights Creative Europe successful initiatives.
Cona Institute
Cona, an institute for contemporary art processing, connects contemporary art with ecology and spaces. Concerts, sound walks, and reflections take place at traditional partner venues as well as in parks, gardens, and other outdoor spaces, where the importance of respectfully integrating the living beings and landscape of those places is emphasized. Audiences are invited to engage in deep listening, sound exploration, and a unique narrative language.
Watch the video story with Irena Pivka.
Ljubljana International Film Festival
For 36 years, the Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) has been bringing the most acclaimed works of world cinema to Ljubljana—from award winners at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Locarno to bold newcomers just entering the film scene. The festival is also a space where local creators encounter global trends, and dialogue becomes part of the cinematic experience.
Watch the video story with Simon Popek.
Creative Europe Green Stories
International Centre of Graphic Arts
The International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) is an artistic, educational, residential, and leisure centre that enriches the lives of all generations with its intertwining of heritage, contemporary art, and nature. The MGLC is also a specialized museum for print art with extensive international collections and an important producer of graphic art, which is created in the MGLC Graphic Studio.
Watch the video story with Lili Šturm.
Center Rog
Center Rog is a modern manufacturing space designed for anyone who enjoys creating. Nine production laboratories, which form the heart of the center, provide a space for learning and using both traditional and modern digital technologies.
Watch the video story with Maja Towndrow.
Kersnikova Institute
Kersnikova Institute is a non-profit and non-governmental cultural organisation. Due to its strong programme focus marked on the maps of the most interesting international centres dealing with contemporary investigative arts, science and cuttingedge technologies. In the video story, Simon Gmajner explains that participation in European projects has had a significant impact on the networking with scientific research institutions such as CERN or the European Space Agency, or has opened doors for them to collaborate in other sectors such as the economy.
Watch the video story (only in Slovene).
Društvo za oživljanje zgodbe 2 koluta
For more than 20 years, the Društvo 2 koluta has been organising the Animateka International Animated Film Festival. In the video story, Igor Prassel explains what Creative Europe funding means to them: from the recognition of the importance and visibility of the festival at home and abroad to the support for the professionalisation of the festival team, the strengthening of the programme and the many opportunities for international networking.
Watch the video story (only in Slovene).
Malinc Publishing House
Malinc Publishing House implements and participates in six Creative Europe projects. In this video story, Barbara Pregel explains what Creative Europe funding and international cooperation mean to the publishing house. The latter focuses on young people’s literature, targeting more the Spanish market, smaller literatures and smaller languages, while promoting and encouraging reading for all generations.
Watch the video story.
Kino Šiška
Kino Šiška is Slovenia’s leading institution in the field of contemporary concerts, complemented by visual and performing arts programmes. Since its foundation in 2009, Kino Šiška has been participating in European projects that have enabled it to establish today’s important international festivals such as the Co-festival in the field of contemporary dance, the MENT music festival or the Tinta festival in the field of comics. The participation in the Liveurope platform allows many local creators and producers to gain valuable experience and knowledge.
Watch the video story.
Creative Europe Green Stories
Green edition of Creative Europe stories is focusing on good practices for (more) sustainable international (co)operation and mobility in culture.
For their contribution, we thank Bunker (Maja Vižin), Prostorož (Zala Velkavrh), Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia – UIRS (Nina Goršič in Matej Nikšič), Otok Institute (Tanja Hladnik) and Projekt Atol (Uroš Veber)!
Druga godba
Druga godba is one of the most important (music) festivals in Central Europe, unique for its concept, new approaches and “discovery” of unknown musical themes and geographical territories. Together with their partners, they are working to reform the music sector through the international Footprints project. The aim is to help all music sector players to establish themselves in the European music market and to consolidate the European creative music community around the values of social, economic and environmental responsibility.
Watch the video story.
Projekt Atol Institute
Projekt Atol is a hub for research arts, transdisciplinary production of artistic projects, tactical media, situation building, publishing, education, community platforms, production and communication infrastructure, and scientific and technological research.
Watch the video story.
Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
The Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) is the central Slovenian research organization in the field of spatial planning and related disciplines.
Watch the video story.
Nosorogi Institute
Nosorogi Institute was founded in 2008 by colleagues that studied film directing in Ljubljana, and in the same year received support for the production of two medium-length documentary films. Producer Marina Gumzi and director Gregor Božič were supported from the Creative Europe MEDIA programme for the development of Stories from the Chestnut Woods. The film had its world premiere in September 2019 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Watch the video story.
Radio Slovenia
In a joint project led by Radio Slovenia, nine partner organisations from eight European countries are exploring how our cognitive, emotional and personal development is influenced by auditory stimuli, and what sound means to people and the world around us. The B-AIR project aims to create sound art for babies, toddlers and vulnerable groups on an artistic online radio channel supported by innovative technology.
Watch the video story.
Creative Synergies
Representatives of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška (SI), Dance Identity (AT), Croatian Cultural Center – HKD (HR) and Pro Progressione (HU) shared their experiences on different aspects of participation in Creative Europe projects, in particular on working with partners and developing relationships with audiences. The inevitable topic of discussion was also the covid-19, which has affected the organisation and delivery of (international) cultural events in 2020 and 2021. Further information about the Creative Synergy that took place on 14 May 2021, can be found here.
Iridium Film: Narrating stories
Iridium Film is a production company based in Ljubljana. In 2019, they received for the first time a MEDIA support for the development of the film NK Svoboda. Previously, they worked as a co-producer on the MEDIA-supported film Men Don’t Cry (produced by Deblokada, BiH), which also won the Vesna Award for Best Minority Co-Production at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož. Iridium Film is also active in the field of digitisation of Slovenian film. They want to restore all 185 Slovenian films that were shot on film tape and were in regular distribution.
Watch the video story.
KUD Sodobnost: Raising literally awareness
KUD Sodobnost focuses its publishing ambitions on high quality, carefully selected texts, including several award-winning and award-nominated books by national and international authors. In addition, it actively participates in the development of reading culture in Slovenia and in the promotion of Slovenian authors abroad. It also publishes Sodobnost, Slovenia’s oldest journal of literature and culture, which is also one of the four oldest journals of its kind in Europe.
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Pionirski dom: Nourishing social skills
Pionirski dom – Centre for Youth Culture is a public cultural institution and one of the leading providers of out-of-school leisure activities for children, young people and adults. Over the past few decades, almost a hundred thousand children and young people have been involved in various creative and educational programmes.
Watch the video story.
Bunker: Create to connect
Bunker is a non-profit institution for the organisation of cultural events. Bunker produces and presents contemporary theatre and dance performances, organises various workshops and other educational programmes, research and, creates one of the most prominent international festivals Mladi levi.
Watch the video story.
Aksioma – Zavod za sodobne umetnosti: Creating opportunities
Aksioma is a non-profit cultural institution from Ljubljana, active both in Slovenia and internationally, interested in projects that use new technologies to explore and address the structures of contemporary society. It focuses on artistic production that explores social, political, aesthetic and ethical issues.
Watch the video story.
Zavod Otok: Creating communities
Since 2003, Otok has been dedicated to the creation and implementation of publicly accessible programmes in the fields of art, culture and education. It places world cinema at the centre of its programming activities for all generations, creating a dialogue between the art of film and other art forms (e.g. literature, music and fine arts). Since 2004, it has organised the Kino Otok International Film Festival – Isola Cinema, and is internationally active in European film education projects.
Watch the video story.
School of Arts University of Nova Gorica: Fostering synergies
School of Arts offers study programmes in the arts and creative practices.
Watch the video story.
Slovene Animated Film Association (DSAF): Building a network
DSAF is an animation guild, bringing together authors, producers, various film professionals and others with a view to representing common interests in animated film in the national and international environment.
Watch the video story.
