A Ljubljana gallery known not just for artworks but also other antiquities, will open a branch in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on Friday. The opening exhibition will feature paintings by Mirsad Begić, one of Slovenia's best known artists.

International Jazz Day, celebrated on 30 April since 2012, will be celebrated with four concerts in Ljubljana Old Town this afternoon and evening, mostly featuring young Slovenian jazz talent.

The Berlin Philharmonic will play for the first time in mid-May Anemoi, a work by Slovenian Vito Žuraj. Inspired by Greek mythology, the composition is the first piece of music commissioned by the famed orchestra from a Slovenian composer.

The Association of Contemporary Dance is holding an event in Ljubljana on Monday to mark International Dance Day. The association, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, recently pointed out that contemporary dance is the most underfunded artistic activity in Slovenia.

A series of photos Slovenian photographer Manca Juvan took in Istanbul to draw attention to changes in urban areas will be put on show on Friday evening at the Moderna Galerija, the country's museum of modern art. Dubbed Istanbul: Faces of Freedom, the exhibition will be on show until 26 May.

An exhibition on Slovenian anti-fascist efforts in Primorska and Istria, two regions that became part of Italy after the First World War, will open at the Slovenian minority's cultural centre in the Italian city of Gorizia on Friday after it was put on show at the European Parliament in Brussels in January.

A total of 14 leading Slovenian book publishers have issued a joint call for action to enable the long-term survival of non-commercial publishing in the country. They say the sector has been struggling from the very outset and that the hope things would improve after Slovenia's successful stints at the Frankfurt and Bologna fairs had been in vain.