If Goran Vojnović were a Serbian-Slovenian-Prekmurian feminist, I joked the first time I read this novel, it still wouldn’t have helped him. Because Ćrtice by Tina Perić, our former co-guide on the Ljubljana Feminist Tour, is such an astonishingly good book that it hurts. It is not “the next Southern Scum Go Home!”; it is...Continue Reading

Near the Ljubljanica River there is a container facility. Its sliding external doors allow it to be turned into three or four squares which can be opened or closed as required on the sides facing the road and the river. Until recently it was as white as snow, except for a few graffiti. In art...Continue Reading

Neža Jurman, known by her artistic pseudonym Nez Pez, is a multimedia artist working across sculpture, light art, animation, drawing, illustration, and street art. Currently, she is particularly drawn to installations exploring sound and space, abstract drawing, and zines and prints. Her work and life alternates between Berlin and Ljubljana, including mural projects often inspired...Continue Reading

The Ljubljana Feminist Bike Tour is a new take on the popular Ljubljana Feminist Tour, an educational two-hour walk around the city centre that has been run by the Urbana Vrana Institute since July 2017. Offering a gender perspective on Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana Feminist Tour has become a Ljubljana mainstay. It is a popular way...Continue Reading

In November 2019, the P74 Gallery in Ljubljana hosted RIO: Begnagrad, Srp, D’Pravda, an exhibition that covered the work of three Slovenian bands from the late seventies and early eighties that were not part of the punk and new wave scene per se, but nevertheless belonged to a circle of alternative and independent music artists...Continue Reading

Laibach is the German name for Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is however also the name of a controversial music group formed on 1 June 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia, which at the time was part of socialist Yugoslavia. Laibach were the predecessor, and the musical section, of the influential 1980s art movement Neue Slowenische...Continue Reading

[English version below] Z veseljem vas obveščamo, da smo spet začeli izvajati naše ture. Čeprav je koronavirus močno prizadel našo dejavnost in kulturno-turistični sektor na splošno, ostajamo nepopravljivi optimisti. Zavedamo se, da so časi še vedno kritični, zato pozivamo vse, da ostanete previdni, odgovorni in prijazni do sočloveka. Vsi naši sprehodi in kolesarske ture so...Continue Reading

Last week we were delighted by an unexpected invitation. The Amnesty International Slovenia team, led by director Nataša Posel, who joined  our feminist tours a few months ago, invited us to a festive event at the Ljubljana City Hall. There was also a discussion there about a topic that is very close to us: Ljubljana’s...Continue Reading

The prestigious travel publisher and online platform Lonely Planet has invited its multi-million audience to join the Ljubljana Feminist Tour, which is regularly organised by the Urbana Vrana / Ptich team in both Slovenian and English. “If you’re travelling to Slovenia, you might be interested in a new feminist tour taking place in the country’s...Continue Reading

In September and October, free graffiti workshops will take place at the Summer Garden of the Gala Hala club for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade pupils from primary schools in the City Municipality of Ljubljana, as part of the Grafitarnice project, produced by the Culturemaker Institute. Short presentation of the Grafitarnice project In Ljubljana, graffiti...Continue Reading