Slovenian artist on hunger strike to protest lack of arts funding and ‘bureaucratization of culture’

Slovenian artist Miha Tursic

This is Miha Turšič, a Slovenian artist who today spent his 15th day on a hunger strike to protest what he calls the “bureaucratization of culture” and the lack of state funding for the arts in this small alpine nation. In my experience –mainly through the stories of exasperation shared by colleagues and friends who… Continue reading →

Slovenia Day Trips: 35 Minutes in Svetina, With an Introduction to Alma Karlin

Svetina, a small settlement in Slovenia’s eastern Styria region just south of Štore, is known regionally for two things: its parish church which dates back to at least the early 15th century, and as the final resting place for Alma Karlin, Slovenia’s most renowned female traveler of the early years of the 20th century.

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