Reading Station

List of works:
– Stefan Boonen, Mammoet / Mamut. Translation from Dutch into Slovene by Stana Anželj.
– Zoran Penevski, Sara i zaboravljeni trg / Sara in pozabljeni trg. Translation from Serbian into Slovene by Dušanka Zabukovec.
– Darko Tuševljaković, Jaz. Translation from Serbian into Slovene by Vasja Bratina.
– Evald Flisar, Poglej skozi okno / Look Through the Window. Translation from Slovene into English by David Limon.
– Susanna Mattiangeli, Une Come Antonio / Kdo je Nino? Translation from italian into Slovene by Dušanka Zabukovec.
– Andrus Kivirähki, Oskar ja asjad / Oskar in govoreči predmeti. Translation from Estonian into Slovene by Julija Potrč Šavli.
– Ida Mlakar Črnič, Tu blizu živi deklica / Close to here. Translation from Slovene into English by David Limon.
– Kristian Bang Foss, Døden kører Audi (Death drives an Audi) / Smrt vozi Audi. Translation from Danish into Slovene by Darko Čuden.
– Linn Skåber, Til Ungdommen (Being Young) / Čez potok, ne čez most. Translation from Norwegian into Slovene by Marija Zlatnar Moe.
– Kęstutis Kasparavičius, Drebantis riteris / Drhteči vitez. Translation from Lithuanian into Slovene by Klemen Pisk.

The project Reading Station (RS) features ten excellent literary works from across Europe. RS is marked by a carefully orchestrated diversity of the chosen books, ranging from adult fiction to works for children, thus spanning all generations. The highlights include European cult authors such as children’s writer Susanna Mattiangeli or Estonian nominee for the international ALMA award Andrus Kivirähki, and the award-winning Evald Flisar from Slovenia. Also included are two winners of the EUPL.

A special feature of the project are ambitious promotional events, devised to increase the awareness of the diversity of common European culture among Slovenian readers and to improve the reading habits of all generations. The central role at promotional events will be played by the authors and translators who will introduce their work to a wider public. As an artistic society whose creative force are established literary names, our long-term aim is to familiarize book buyers, especially those who are not regular readers, with top European writers who are as yet not widely known in Slovenia. That is why we have devised promotional events that will try to attract readers from outside the established sales channels. Especially we would like to attract online readers by creating and spreading digital community Reading Train whose role will be to inform online readers about books from the project, engage them now and cultivate them for tomorrow. In other words, our strategy will be to target multiple channels for our books and integrate them with the current generation’s social lives. This means a bigger step into the digital world for our organization.

Another step for us is capacity building on two foreign markets (UK, Ireland). We cooperate with the UK distributor and marketing team who spread our activities across national borders. That will not only increase our reading audiences; it will also facilitate the enlargement of the common publishing space for European authors.

KUD Sodobnost International

(Leader) Ljubljana

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

CEE Animation Forum 2021

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!