A major international production, I Saw Her That Night, based on the novel by Drago Jančar and directed by Janez Pipan, will open at the Slovenian National Theatre (SNG) Maribor on Friday. The show was produced in cooperation with the Vienna Burgtheater, the Yugoslavian Drama Theatre and Ljubljana's Cankarjev Dom.

Cukrarna, one of Ljubljana's first industrial complexes and once a successful sugar refinery, has been turned into a new hub for contemporary art after almost three years of renovation and will welcome first visitors today.

The Senster, the first computer-controlled sculpture Polish pioneer of robotic art Edward Ihnatowicz made in the early 1970s, will be at the centre of this year's Speculum Artium festival, which brings a mix of contemporary art and state-of-the art technology to Trbovlje for the 13th year.

Opera lovers will be able to enjoy some of the most renowned arias from Italian, French and Slovenian operas at the recently renovated main square in the centre of Maribor on Thursday evening. The Night of the Opera, hosted by the SNG Maribor theatre, will also mark the closing of the opera season.

An audiovisual services act whose core provision was a 6% levy on content providers to finance a new fund for the production of domestic content fell two votes short in a parliamentary vote on Wednesday after it was vetoed by the upper chamber of parliament.

Klavdij Palčič, a leading ethnic Slovenian artist from Italy, has died aged 81 after a long illness, Primorski Dnevnik reported. He was a politically active member of the minority and presided the Slovenian Cultural and Economic Association for several years.

After a successful international festival run and an announced distribution on three continents, Sanremo by Miroslav Mandić has been selected by a group of experts as the Slovenian entry for a nomination for the best international feature film award at the Oscars 2022, announced the Slovenian Association of Filmmakers.