Solo female vocal artists aside, let’s check out the (post-)Yugoslav all-female bands rocking the stage since the 1960s. Beat We are kicking off with Belgrade’s Sanjalice (1965–1969), the only band from a bunch of 1960s Yugoslav all-women beat groups that back then managed to record some songs. Actually, they released several best-selling EP singles and...Continue Reading

She is dressed in black, she is unmarried and childless, her poems and literature draw topics from Slovenian folk tales, and she is a behemothic lover of cats. For the mentioned reasons she is often referred to in general public as ‘the witch’. She is also outspoken, controversial, provocative, and rebellious. Certainly not something society...Continue Reading

Only a few months ago the global media got flabbergasted by the fact that Vienna opera house for the first time in its entire 150-year history staged an opera created by a woman. Austrian composer’s name is Olga Neuwirth. Event itself was even more significant for its symbolic power as the opera was based on...Continue Reading

Slovenia’s capital boasts a venue that the so called Prince of Darkness wanted for his musical residence. Truly, the Križanke Outdoor Theatre set up inside the courtyard of the former Monastery of the Holy Cross in Ljubljana’s city centre, impressed Nick Cave so much that many years ago he fell in love with it and...Continue Reading

Ja, nikamor ne gremo. Zato se lahko že prijavite na prvo Ljubljansko feministično turo “za izven” v letu 2020! Zimskega spanja je konec in kot nekatere_i že veste, smo že v polnem pogonu. Če niste zasledili, si lahko med novicami na naši spletni strani preberete, da je Urbana Vrana soustanoviteljica Globalne mreže feminističnih tur in...Continue Reading

On International Women’s Day, the team of the Urbana Vrana Institute is preparing its first tour dedicated to women in literature, entitled The Mystery of Women’s Literary Ljubljana. The title, of course, alludes to and references the well-known work by Zofka Kveder The Mystery of a Woman, making it clear that the tour does not...Continue Reading

[Slovenian version below.] Connecting the feminist guides The Urbana Vrana association has become a co-founder of the Global Network of Feminist Tours that stretches from Chile to Thailand. How did this happen? In recent months, organisations Paseos por la ciudad from New York, FemiTours from Buenos Aires and Tours with Meaning from Santiago de Chile...Continue Reading

We warmly invite you to join a special charity edition of the Ljubljana Feminist Tour. All donations collected during this feminist exploration of Ljubljana will go directly to the newly established Feminist Library.Places are limited, so please make sure to fill out the registration form at the bottom of the page. The Feminist Tour is...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