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Welcome to the website for the
Slovenian Australian Institute.
This site was launched in April 2002
in Sydney Australia and very much
reflects the aims and objectives
of the Institute. It is a visual record
for all its activities, projects
and associations and is also
a bilingual site.

Visit 'About Us' to find out more
about why the Institute exists, who
we are and by visiting 'Upcoming Events and 'Events Archive', see what
the Institute has already achieved
in both Australia and Slovenia.

Feedback on this site is welcome.
Send an email to:
info@sloaus-inst.com
or if there are interesting projects,
exhibitions, points of interest that
may be included or linked to
this site.


Interested in learning Slovenian?
Visiting Slovenia for a holiday?
Want to know what is at the
Slovenian National Gallery

 




Visit the New South Wales
Migration Heritage Centre website and
learn more about the
Slovenian Australian Institute's upcoming
Project: Roundtable Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

INTERESTING EVENTS
JUNE/ JULY / AUGUST 2002

Homepage Archive
March/April/May 2002

Slovenian On-Line
Slovenian on-Line is back on the Internet.
Launched in 1997 as a trademark of Tivoli Software, this initiative by Metka Cuk offers Free access to Slovenian Language Lessons: Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Levels.

Metka Cuk a Professional English/Slovenian Translator bases this service in Batehaven Australia and offers visitors a wonderful resource for immediate access to Slovenian language aids. Check out the recently launched On-Line Magazine.

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Check it out at:
www.slovenian.com/



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THIS IS THE SLOVENIAN
MEDITERRANEAN!


9th Summer Courses of the Slovenian
Language on the Slovenian Coast


Organised by the Science and Research
Centre of the Republic of Slovenia in
Koper and the Educational Centre Modra, to
take place in Portoroz
29th July and 11 August 2002

Would you like to learn the Slovenian
Language or improve on your
basic knowledge, explore Slovenian
Culture at the same time spend two
pleasant summer weeks by the
Slovenian Sea?
Click here for more information




Eva Heimer & Liz Coats

Joint painting exhibition as seen in Galerija Equrna, Ljubljana, 2001.

24 June to 13 July 2002

SIR HERMANN BLACK GALLERY

Wentworth Building, Level 5
The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia
Tel 02 9563 6053
Fax 02 9563 6029

email: nickv@usu.usyd.edu.au

www.usu.usyd.edu.au/gallery

Visit Liz Coats own website

 



LIZ COATS
&
EVA HEIMER
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RECEPTION
FOR THE SLOVENIAN COMMUNITY


The Slovenian Community is invited to a special reception of this exhibition
to
be hosted by the Slovenian Australian Institute
at the Sir Hermann Black Gallery
on Saturday 29th June 2002
at 1.00pm


Light Refreshments will be served contact Nick Vickers
for further information
info@sloaus-inst.com



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Australian Retail Store
opening in Slovenia
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EXHIBITION OF DIGITAL ARTWORKS
by GAVIN CRICHTON at VILA BLED



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Voice Piece
Skyways to Earth
Dots & Shakers
9 in the Grove


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This exhibition by Australian artist Gaven Chrichton of digital prints opens at 6pm 6 July 2002 and runs until the end of the month at the Hotel Vlla Bled which is on the shores of Lake Bled.
Villa Bled Cesta svobode 26 SI-4260 Bled Slovenija

Phone +386 4 579 15 00 Fax +386 4 574 13 20. Of course anybody
visiting in Slovenija at the time can attend the opening would be most welcome to
attend and there will be a concert at Villa Bled following
the opening.

Any one interested in contacting the artist directly, please email him at
G.Crichton@unsw.edu.au

Visit the magnificant Vila Bled
HERE

This project is not an initative of the SloAus Institute


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Bread and Milk is a film about people living between heaven and hell.
About people we all know.
Jan CvitkovicÃ

Writter and Director
SELECTED FOR THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL, DENDY QUAY, SYDNEY 11 JUNE 2002

'Bread and Milk, a grim vision of human failings whose rigorous style and very authentic setting won director Jan Cvitkovica the Best First Feature prize at Venice Film Festival, 2001.
Variety, Deborah Young, September 2001

Image and photograph are from the following website:
www.emotionfilm.si/kruh/index1.html


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'SHOOT AT THE ARTIST'

arrives in
Adelaide, South Australia as part of the National Tour of Australia
Posters documenting the part youth
movements played during the formation
of the Republic of Slovenia.
Venue
NEXUS GALLERY
new directions for contemporary community arts
Lion Arts Centre, Cnr Morphett Street
& North Terrace, Adelaide 5000.
(08) 8212-4276 Fax 8212-3276.
Email: nexus@nexus.asn.au
Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00
Sat-Sun 2.00 to 5.00
concludes 23 June 2002

visit the opening night celebrations 23 May 2002, 6pm


Complementing this exhibition is new work by Adelaide artist Tomo Les
which is on display in the Nexus Cabaret Window

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'Happenings II & III'


DONATE YOUR OWN BUCKET
BOOTS, WATERING CAN, UMBRELLA OR HAT

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A 2002 Year of the
Outback Event

Rainforest for an
Australian Desert


by Slovenian artist
Matej Andraz Vogrincic


Here he comes - an expert
in the spectacular! He's already dressed
bananas, clothed naked houses and he
even solved parking problems in
Adelaide. Now he's bringing a rainforest
to the South Australian desert.
Matej needs is lots of old buckets,
watering cans, umbrellas, boots, hats or
anything connected with rain.

With your help he will grow a surreal
rainforest in the South Australian
desert.

Donations are needed until the end of
July 2002. Tel the South Australian Visitor and Travel Centre on
1300 655 276 to find out where to send
them to.

www.outback2000-southaustralia.com




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Representative from Slovenia
Marina Grzinic
Installation of the 'Salon de Fleurus', Curated by Marina Grzinic
Art Gallery of
New South Wales

www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

Art Gallery Road The Domain NSW 2000
10 - 5 pm
tel: 61 2 9225 1790

Exhibition Dates
15 May to 14 July 2002

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About Marina Grzinic...
Marina GRZINIC received her Ph.D in Philosophy on the topic of Philosophical Aspects of Virtual Reality and Changed Time and Space Paradigms in the 1990's at the University of Ljubljana. She works as a Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at The Scientific and Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art.

For further biographical information:

www.c3.hu/scca/butterfly/Grzinic/cv.html

Since 1973, The Biennale of Sydney has showcased new international artwork shown along side cutting edge Australian art at major art venues throughout Sydney NSW.

The themes for the Biennale of Sydney 2002 are imagination and invention. (The World May Be) Fantastic delves into the way artists explore narratives, fictions, models and fabrications to challenge and questions our interpretations of the world


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Photo reproduced from the following website:
www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si/fikcija.html

Visit:
More about 'Salon de Fleurus'



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ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Collaboration with 2nd and 3rd Generation Australian Slovenians
'Lost Generation Found'

Later this year, the Institute will convene a Roundtable Discussion to analyse the social and cultural requirements for 2nd and 3rd generation Australian Slovenians? How can the Institute foster these needs? Leading Academics will be invited to attend this event. Further details will be announced shortly.

This event will be video and audio documented for SBS Radio and National Radio, ABC. Copies will be sent to Slovenia media for further distribution. Full transcripts of the proceedings will be published on this website.


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Lujo Vodopivec

24 May - 7 June 2002

'Parcours'
Sculpture Installation



TIN SHEDS

154 City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia
email tinsheds@arch.usyd.edu.au

Installation images

Further Information
www.arch.usyd.edu.au/art_workshop/parcours.html


 

 


 
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