Run-Down Cinema to Reopen as Centre of Urban Culture

Ljubljana, 20 August - A concert by Slovenian punk-rock legends Pankrti will relaunch the long-dead cinema hall Kino Siska as a new centre of urban culture in Ljubljana on 28 August. The renovated venue will host alternatively-themed events with up to 800 spectators as well as small-scale literary readings, director of the centre Simon Kardum told STA.

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Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Kino Siska; a refurbishment turns a former cinema into an urban culture centre.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

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Simon Kardum, director of the new Kino Siska urban culture centre.
Photo: Bojan Sustar/STA

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