HARMONY – Art exhibition
Tuesday, 26.6.2018
16:00 – 18:00
Gosposka Street 11
Artists from the Culture and Art Association Post will set up their small gallery as part of the Live Courtyards. Creations produced by the art section of KUD Pošta are the result of love for art. A diverse group of artists with different interests, artistic languages and diversity come together to create Harmony – a wonderful piece of shapes, colours and contents.
This open space gallery nested in the shade of trees will be home to their art creations they have produced during colourful autumn, cold winter and emerging spring. The art exhibition Harmony takes us into a world of the imaginary and real, strives to see the images of the desired and the realistic, and uncovers the harmony of connection.
ART SECTION OF KUD Post: The art section was founded at the end of 1976. Since its founding until 2018, the section organized 36 exhibitions that featured over 500 artworks, mostly paintings done in various techniques. Art pedagogue Ervin Kralj was the art section’s mentor since its founding until 2002.
Aside from workshops, members of the art sections are prolific individual artists, creating on a stand-alone basis as well. Each year they hold an independent exhibitions of their pieces. This year marks the fifth iteration of their exhibitions being part of the Living Courtyards programme.
Rajzefirbčni sprehod (Rajzefiber Tour)
Maribor up close and personal
Tuesday, 26.6.2018
17:00
Meeting point: Gosposka ulica 11 (Rajzefiber)
Rajzefiber Tours are walking tours around the city where you can get to know the stories of people, courtyards, streets, buildings, and all those hidden places our beloved Maribor is so good at hiding. Rajzefiber tour guides take you through narrow alleys, hidden stairways, forgotten courtyards, and dusty rooftops. Meet Maribor and the people of Maribor, who may perhaps be known as a bit stubborn, but we’re always hospitable, soft of heart, serious, yet still cheeky. Allow us to open the doors to our city, a city that will never cease to enchant you.
Few storytellers can match the enthusiasm of Uroš Dokl from the Museum of National Liberation Maribor. His stories amaze and enthral everyone, from the youngest to the oldest listeners, taking them all into a world of heroes and heroines. A walking tour with Uroš is an unforgettable experience full of unusual stories, unexpected twists and a Maribor you have never seen before!
We are the City!
Self-organized boroughs and local communities – 5 years
Tuesday, 26.6.2018
18:00 – 21:00
Rotovški trg (Rotovž Square)
It’s clear as day that a community needs people who help shape it by opening their eyes and ears to what’s happening in their community, talking about it with their neighbours; people who know exactly what’s bothering them and what they want, and people who try to act on what they need. This is especially true in Maribor, where local policies and politics are designed without involving the people. Nobody asks us what we want, nobody hears what we have to say. Well, except when it’s election time – when they are desperate for our votes. The right to our city has been taken away from us!
Five years have passed since neighbours began to meet at assemblies of self-organized local communities of Maribor, hell-bent on having their voice heard and considered by creators of city policies and politics, no matter the colour and shape of the ruling entity. The communities of Nova vas, Studenci, the co-joined communities of CD Center and Ivan Cankar, Radvanje, Magdalena, Tabor, Pobrežje, Koroška vrata, Kamnica, and Pekre have together held a total of 900 community assemblies, all hosted by volunteers of the City Council Initiative. Slowly but surely we are building awareness that we do have the right to decide about our city, about how our common living environment is and will be built. It is a right we must exercise if we wish for the city to serve all of us who live in it.
Come and see how your neighbours spend their free time!
Everyone invited and welcome!
Hats off to you, Ladies!
Tuesday, 26 June
18:00 - 21:00
Glavni trg 7 (Main Square) – Regional Museum
In the period 1971-1974, mostly thanks to football enthusiast and coach Pepi Kirbiš, FC Maribor had a women’s football team, the s. c. Violets. We wish to commemorate this lesser known part of Maribor’s football history with an exhibition and pay homage to Mr Kirbiš and his Violets, who were the pioneers of women’s football in Slovenia. After 1974, in hopes of putting Slovenia on the map of women’s football in former Yugoslavia, the former football clubs Olimpija and the Violets merged to create a single football club, the FC Ljubljana.
As a bit of trivia: women’s football matches were usually played right before the matches of their male counterparts, so FC Ljubljana played right before the match Crvena zvezda vs. Partizan in front of a sold-out Maracana stadium in Belgrade that was able to accommodate up to 100,000 people at the time. It is safe to say that this joint football club is still the only Slovenian football team to have played in front of the largest audience in the history of Slovenian team sports.
