2 September - Maribor - Festival Maribor will bring classical music to Slovenia's second biggest city until 16 September

4 September - Bled - Slovenian will host the 12th Bled Strategic Forum, a high-profile two-day regional event

21 September - Lipica - The Lipica Stud Farm will host a world championship in combined horse driving; until 24 September

21 September - Ljubljana - The four-day European Jazz Conference will start at the Cankarjev dom cultural centre

30 September - Ljubljana - 25th anniversary of the first Slovenian tolar notes

20 October - Maribor - The 52nd Maribor Theatre Festival will run between 20 and 29 October

30 October - Ljubljana - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will stage a concert at the Tivoli hall

30 October - Ljubljana - The state ceremony marking 500 years of the Reformation Movement will be held on the eve of Reformation Day

5 December - Ljubljana - Legendary German rock group Scorpions will hold their first concert in Slovenia

21 December - Ljubljana - Ten years will have passed since Slovenia joined the border-free Schengen zone

22 December - Ljubljana - English classical crossover soprano Sarah Brightman will perform her first ever concert in Slovenia at the Stožice Arena

22 December - Ljubljana - President Borut Pahor's five-year term runs out

23 December - Ljubljana - Twenty-five years will have passed since the 90-strong Slovenian National Assembly met for its maiden session

30 January 2018 - Ljubljana - Ljubljana will host UEFA Futsal EURO 2018 championships until 10 February at Stožice Arena

19 May 2018 - Ljubljana - Slovenia is expected to host a world conference on honey bees