Slovenians in Italy to celebrate Culture Day in Gorizia
Trieste, 16 February - The Slovenian ethnic minority in Italy will gather for its main ceremony celebrating Slovenia's Culture Day, which is observed on 8 February, in Italy's Gorizia on Sunday. The event, termed To the Two Cities, will be a tribute to Gorizia and Slovenia's Nova Gorica, the bordering cities that hold the title of the 2025 European Capital of Culture.
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Gorizia, Italy
Slovenians in Italy gathering for their main ceremony marking Slovenian Culture Day.
Photo: Slovenian Office for Slovenians Abroad
Announcing the event as such, the minority's two umbrella organisations said that Gorizia and Nova Gorica would like "to be one city, a city which breathes across the border ..., which has insightful intellectuals who have lived here for a long time and young generations who would like to fill it with fresh air of new ideas and wishes to help shape a better common future".
There will be dancing and singing, including by a youth choir which will for this occasion bring together singers from various choirs from both sides of the border.
Interviews with youth from both cities and with European Capital of Culture creatives will also be heard at Kulturni Dom, one of the minority's cultural centres in Gorizia.
The minority's umbrella organisations, the SSO and the KGZS, entrusted the event to the Slovenian Catholic Cultural Association, a major hub for Slovenian societies in the areas of Gorizia and Udine.
The event will feature many young artists, "residents of an imaginary city" as imagined by set designer and director Jasmin Kovic accompanied by Sybil Calligaris's visuals.
The keynote will be delivered by Martin Lissiach from the Association of Slovenian Cultural Societies.
The umbrella organisations will take this opportunity to honour individuals whose projects and initiatives have enhanced cultural activities among Slovenians in Italy.