The 21th Young Lions international performing arts festival, running in Ljubljana from 24 August to 1 September, will explore the "intermediate spaces between the personal and the common". Rich in independent Slovenian productions, the programme is rather interactive as well as bodily this year, the organisers announced on Thursday.

A guest exhibition of gold jewellery and tableware from the Ming dynasty era (1368-1644) will open on Thursday evening at the National Museum in Ljubljana, featuring 145 selected items made during the reign of the Wanli Emperor (1573-1620).

The summer edition of Animateka will bring film screenings and animation workshops to the streets and squares of Ljubljana until Wednesday. The prelude to the winter animated film festival starts this afternoon.

The 19th Jazzinty, an international festival best known for its workshop, will start in Novo Mesto on Monday. About 100 young jazz musicians from 15 European countries will work with ten mentors until Saturday.

The Ljubljana open air theatre Križanke will welcome visitors after renovation this month, the Ljubljana Municipality said on Friday. The facelift of the auditorium was to be concluded a few months ago but was delayed because of surprise archaeological finds.

A selection of more than 100 prints, paintings and illustrations by Riko Debenjak (1908-1987) will be on display at the International Centre for Graphic Arts as of this evening. The retrospective exhibition, open until mid-November, will mark the 110th anniversary of the artist's birth.

Tugo Štiglic, a director and screenwriter, whose list of films includes the iconic 1980s coming-of-age duology Poletje v Školjki (A Summer in a Sea Shell), has been picked to receive the Badjura life-time achievement award at the outset of the 21st Slovenian Film Festival in September.