Slavko Ludvik Šuklar is this year's winner of the Kozina Award, the country's top honour for composers given out by the Slovenian Composers' Association, for his extensive chamber music oeuvre and other types of music compositions. He will receive the accolade at the association's headquarters in Ljubljana on Friday.

The Ljubljana District Court on Monday opened a criminal investigation targeting Dušan Smodej, a Novo Mesto artist and manager of the Ljubljana gallery Fotopub, on suspicion of crimes ranging from sexual violence to serious bodily harm, Žurnal24 reports.

The 16th Godibodi, a world and popular music festival, will kick off at Ljubljana Castle on Thursday, bringing six concerts in three days.

Intermedia artist Ana Likar has won the 2023 OHO Group Award for up-and-coming Slovenian visual artists, given out by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E Institute, for her work focusing on witchcraft and reflecting on a feminist discourse rooted in the local tales of the past.

The second International Sports Film Festival in Slovenia (ISFF Slovenia) will be held in the spa town of Rogaška Slatina in eastern Slovenia between 14 and 17 June. The programme will feature 30 films, talks with Slovenian Olympians and other top athletes, and sports activities.

Patti Smith, a celebrated punk poet, singer and artist, will give a concert at a new venue at the former border crossing of Rožna Dolina/Casa Rossa between the Italian and Slovenian cities of Gorizia and Nova Gorica. The 5 October concert is part of events in the run up to the two cities' 2025 European Capital of Culture project.

Slovenian artist Oto Rimele is featured in the sixth book of the series Top 10 Contemporary Artists, published by Masters of Today in London. Rimele is represented by two series of his artworks that play with light and shadow, accompanied by short texts written by the artist. His work is also featured on the cover.