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
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Find our more about the
Historical Archives of Slovenian
Australians (HASA)
  
Visit
the New South Wales
Migration
Heritage Centre website and
learn more about the
Slovenian Australian Institute's upcoming
Project: Roundtable Discussion
Interesting Websites to visit
Visit the Slovenian Cultural Profile website launched in Dec 04. This site brings together relevant information about the people and organisations working in the cultural sector in Slovenia.
The Cultural Profile is a searchable website database designed to encourage international cultural exchange and collaboration between the Slovenian cultural sector, the U.K. and the rest of the world.
This is the most comprehensive online directory of Slovenia's cultural sector ever produced - there are detailed entries ranging from national concert halls to independent artist groups, from pupperty festivals to intermedia research centres.
Visit 'Sinfo', the new monthly on-line magazine bringing news from Slovenia on politics, environment, culture, business and sports. First issued on 24 November 2004. English edition.
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VISIT PAST EVENTS
Homepage
Archive
2005
2004
2003
Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec
2002
June/July/August 2002
March/April/May 2002
2006
Upcoming Event in Melbourne
Jurij Konjar and Gabrielle Nankivell
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Slovenian born Jurij Konjar currently in Melbourne
for the production of Open Space Hotel.
Slovenian born contemporary dancer Jurij Konjar is currently based in Melbourne Australia to premier the production of Open Space Hotel in Melbourne on the 28th May at North Melbourne Town Hall.
Arts House
North Melbourne Town Hall
521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
About OX...
In 2003, Jurij Konjar and Gabrielle Nankivell decided to realise a performance that would fuse on stage the politically correct ways of approaching Contemporary dance and the »other«, by combining pop, ethnical or seriously kitsch, which they were unable to do in regular dance companies. Furthermore, they decided to fund the project themselves with support from friends.
This performance was intended for the public of all ages, street performance as well as the theatre; ,an audience that would go to a live performance for the first time as well as regular theatre go'ers.
With the performance titled The Right Mistakes, OX was born in October 2003, and toured Andalusian villages and towns in 2004 with great success as street performance as well as in theatres. Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia as well as in Brussels, Belgium and with other current projects OX refuses being classified and continues evolving with the idea not to make the division between the »high« art and the »pop« art, street art and theatre, but to perform to the public anywhere and to use a variety of forms of communciation.
Open Space Hotel, the creation of which will begin on the 20th of March 2006, Composed for five Australian and European performers at the Body Corporate season at Melbourne Town Hall will premiere on the 28th of May 2006.
Arts House
North Melbourne Town Hall
521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Bookings via www.easytix.com.au/artshouse
8th June, PREMIER of Open Space Hotel, North Melbourne Town Hall, Body Corporate season, Melbourne
9-11th June, performances of Open Space Hotel at North Melbourne Town Hall
13th October, European premiere of Open Space Hotel, Cankarjev Dom, Linhartova Dvorana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Slovenia | Croatia: GRAVEHOPPING
Monday June 19, 2006 at 8:40pm
State Theatre,49 Market Street Sydney NSW 2000
Screens with: Dupe
Thursday June 22, 2006 at 10:00am
State Theatre, 49 Market Street Sydney NSW 2000
Screens with: Dupe
For more information visit the Sydney Film Festival website.
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SYNOPSIS
Hangdog hero Pero is a professional funeral orator who likes to quote Australia's Mark 'Chopper' Read - 'Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.' So now we know Australian movies reach Slovenia! In all other respects this hilarious black comedy (think a more controlled Emir Kusturica) is a Balkan thoroughbred. With delicious deadpan humour the film explores the lives of a group of eccentric villagers including Pero's suicidal grandfather, who never somehow manages to die, and Pero's best mate, who worships sword and sandal movies. The horrors of the Balkans are never far away, however, and in the final scenes the film turns shockingly dark before delivering one of the year's most memorable endings.
FILMMAKER BIOGRAPHY
Jan Cvitkovic was born in Slovenia in 1966. He is a scriptwriter, director, actor and archaeologist. His first feature, Bread and Milk (2001) was programmed at the 2002 Sydney Film Festival and was awarded the Lion of the Future at the Venice International Film Festival. Previous credits include; Death is Far Away (2002) and Heart is a Piece of Meat (2003). Gravehopping is his second feature.
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Grafton Regional Gallery
Admission to the Gallery is by donation Open Tuesday to Sunday 10.00am - 4.00pm. Gallery is wheelchair accessible 158 Fitzroy Street Grafton. Tel 02 6642 3177 Fax 02 6643 2663 mail@graftongalley.nsw.gov.au www.graftongallery.nsw.gov.au
IRWIN WORKS ON PAPER 5 July to 13 August 2006 Opening 12 noon Sunday 30th July as part of Slovenian Soup Day
IRWIN is a group of five artists from Slovenia.
Their international success has been sustained by representations in almost every major conference, Biennale or exhibition around the world. Within the history of their time together they have exhibited under a number of different monikers, the best known of which have been Laibach( the German name for the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana) and NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst).
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JANUARY 2006
Exhibition of Slovenian born artist Gregor Kregar at the Criterion Gallery
Hobert Tasmania, Australia
Matthew 12/12 2005
A graduate of the University of Ljubljana's Academy of Fine Arts, Gregor Kregar relocated to New Zealand in
1997 to complete an MFA at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland.
While Kregar has been formally trained as a sculptor, he does not confine his work to this medium.
Most recently he has incorporated video, ceramics and photography into his artistic practice.
In his current exhibition, Kregar has created a flock of ceramic sheep dressed in brightly coloured woollen jumpers.
The kitch appeal of the ceramic animals snugly fitted with apparel made from a
product of their own body, neatly explores the economic
and political significance of the sheep while the corresponding photographs
subtly play on the nature of portrait photography.
Exhibition Details:
Gregor Kregar
Matthew 12/12
8 December - 10 January 2006
12 Criterion Street
Hobart 2000 Tasmania Australia
www.criteriongallery.com.au
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Centre
for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language
Slovene
Language
Courses 2006
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Organiser
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
Department of Slovene Studies
Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language
The
Centre for Slovene as a Second/Foreign Language
has organised Slovene Language Courses forover
20 years.
The Mission of the Slovene Language Courses program
is to provide high-quality knowledge of Slovene
to all those who wish to learn it and whose first
language is not Slovene, in Slovenia and exceptionally,
abroad.
The majority of people join courses where language
learning is combined with learning about the contemporary
culture and civilisation os Slovenia: the Summer
and Winter Schools and the One-Year Course of
Slovene Language.
Detailed information on courses, enrolment options
and procedures, fees and payment conditions, and
scholarships can be found on the following web
page:
www.ff.uni-lj.si/center-slo
email:
center-slo@ff.uni-lj.si
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| You can choose between two- and four-week courses: Two-week course: 3 - 14 July 2006 and 17 - 28 July 2006;four-week course: 3 - 28 July 2006.The courses consist of four 45-minute lessons each day for a to
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A total of 20 lessons a week. You will be taught by experienced teachers from the University of Ljubljana.
Before you begin the course, we will test your knowledge of Slovene and, depending on the results, place you in an appropriate group at one of the three levels - beginner, intermediate and advanced. Morning courses run from 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. in groups of between 8 and 12 students. The classes are held in Slovene; in beginners' groups, however, teachers sometimes resort to English for certain explanations.The course will be held at Srednja zdravstvena šola, Poljanska cesta 61, Ljubljana, Slovenia. www.ff.uni-lj.si/center-slo |
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Slovenian
Language Reference Material
Colloquial Slovene
The Complete Course for Beginners,
www.routledge.com
Colloquial
Slovene CD and Cassette Pack
by ANDREA ALBRETTI ( Cassette Pack - January 1995 AUS
)
Usually ships within 24 hoursAUD $97.00
Available in Australia at:
Abbey's
Bookshops 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9264 3111 or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 426 657)
Fax: +61 2 9264 8993
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Want to know more about the Slovenian Raba Region
visit
vendvidek.com/indexe.htm
What is the "Vendvidék"?
“Vendvidék” is a Hungarian expression and means “the country of the Wends / Windish-land”. This term means respectively meant the Slavs/Slovenes living in the south-eastern Germanic language area. As a consequence of the immigration of the Slavs in the German-speaking part in the 7th and 8th century, the Germans used this term as a synonym for the foreign
. This expression became a loan word of the Hungarian language, and even today it is still a term to describe the Slovenes living on Hungarian soil (Hungarian = vendek*). This region got the name “Raba Region” and “Slovene Raba Region” (Slov. = Porabje / Slovensko Porabje) respectively. The term and the appellation of the Slovenes as “Slovenes from the Raba region” in Hungary come from Slovenia itself. Already after the First World War the term “Slovenes from the Raba” for the Slovenes living in the Monošter / Szentgotthárd area could be read in the Slovene press. After the Second World War they were called “Slovenes from the Raba river bank”.
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