Urban Copy: Details of Maribor with Mateja Glavica
Workshop
17:00
Kneza Koclja Street 6
Festival Lent will turn our courtyards into art studios and art galleries in the open, where imagination flies and people produce new artworks. Shielded from the elements and in the shade of trees, young and older generations of artists will create, connect, share knowledge and experience, and present themselves to you, our visitors.
Schoolbags are probably already where they belong – somewhere in the darkest corner, waiting to be picked up on the first day of autumn. Carefree holidays now await, mornings without the pesky alarm clock, and a well-deserved trip to the seaside. But before you do get away, we have prepared for you an awesome photography workshop with Mateja Glavica. Take your cameras and get after the details of Maribor. Look for little ‘diamonds’ we always walk past, yet never really get to see. Capture them with your camera and show them to us at the closing exhibition. This way we’ll get to see the details of Maribor you have captured in your lens.
Open your eyes and get your camera ready to hunt down the details with us!
We are the City!
Self-organized boroughs and local communities – 5 years
Wednesday, 27.6.2018
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!
Wednesday, 27 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.
Rajzefirbčni sprehod (Rajzefiber Tour)
Nikola Tesla and the electrification of Maribor
Wednesday, 27.6.2018
18:00
Meeting point: Gosposka Street 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.
Nikola Tesla – the genius who spent a short part of his life in Maribor. Tesla moved to the city, which was one of the commercial centres of the time, in 1878 after having to flee Graz due to excessive debts. The U.S. Life magazine listed Tesla among the 100 ‘People of Millennium’ and called him one of the most prescient inventors of the modern era. Yet despite his genius, his stay in Maribor was not one of the brightest points of his life. Few accounts and preserved urban myths suggest that he spent most of his days in the city on the Drava river playing cards and billiards. Both games were a great passion of his. It was this passion and the lack of a permanent address in Maribor that led to him being deported from Maribor back to his native Gospić in the spring of 1897.
HARMONY – Art exhibition
Wednesday, 27.6.2018
18:00 – 21:00
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.
Urban Copy: Details of Maribor with Mateja Glavica
Exhibition
Wednesday, 27. 6. 2018
18:00 - 21:00
Kneza Koclja Street 6
Festival Lent will turn our courtyards into art studios and art galleries in the open, where imagination flies and people produce new artworks. Shielded from the elements and in the shade of trees, young and older generations of artists will create, connect, share knowledge and experience, and present themselves to you, our visitors.
In the opening event of the exhibition Details of Maribor with Mateja Glavicawe will unveil the photographs shot by young photographers. During the past few days, they’ve been hard at work hunting down details of our city with their cameras, looking for little ‘diamonds’ we always walk past, yet never really get to see. Hunt them down they did, and now they’re about to show them to us at the exhibition. Come and see the detail of Maribor.
