For the fifth time in a row, the book fair in Pula hosted the Slavic Garden (Slavenski đardin) programme, organised by the FSK in cooperation with the organisers of the book fair Pula Book Fair(y). This year’s main guests were Bulgarian poet and writer Rene Karabash and Montenegrin writer Andrej Nikolaidis.

On December 3rd, for the Slovene national holiday “Ta veseli dan kulture” (This Happy Day of Culture), Villa Zlatica hosted a special tour of the city with a focus on the heritage of our former mayor, Ivan Hribar. The tour starts in front of the mayor’s workplace, the City Hall, and continues through the center all the way to Villa Zlatica in Rožna Dolina.

After a few years’ break, the Forum of Slavic Cultures presented itself at the Slovenian Book Fair. A discussion with the Director, Dr. Andrea Rihter, took place in the framework of the programme organised by Serbia, this year’s country “in focus”.

The key guests of the autumn edition of the second Festival of Slavic Literatures were Serbian writers Vladimir Pištalo and Ivan Antić.

From 28 to 30 November 2023, the Piranova International Colloquium »Museums – That Matter: Permanent Museum Exhibitions and Work with Visitors« took place in Bitola, North Macedonia. The event was organised in collaboration with the NI Institute and Museum Bitola.

Following the successful exhibition Transformations: from the Slavic Clothing Tradition to Contemporary Designs, which was in September on display in the Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade, the fashion designers participating in the Transformations project presented their creations at Belgrade Fashion Week (52nd Perwoll Fashion Week), which has a tradition of more than 20 years.

On 28 October 2023, Wim van der Weiden passed away. Van der Weiden was a distinguished personality in the European museum world and a founder of European Museum Academy (EMA) in 2009. He created the pioneering museums Museon and Naturalis.

First seminar of the International Golden Museological Programme Villa Zlatica with the title Connections and Museums facing Crises, which took place between 22 to 24 October in Villa Zlatica, Ljubljana, was focused on current crisis issues and their connections with the museum’s theory and practises. The main goal of the programme was to open the broad discourse about the role and missions of museum institutions in this unstable, critical and difficult time.

As part of the Slovenia, guest of honour programme at the 75th Frankfurt Book Fair, the FSK organised a discussion entitled Translations in times of war: Slavic literary contacts in times of armed conflicts and political confrontations, featuring Slovenian Drago Jančar, Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko, Georgi Gospodinov from Bulgaria and Serbian author Aleksandar Gatalica. The discussion was moderated by Mladen Vesković, Editor-in-Chief of the 100 Slavic Novels collection.