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Guest of Honor Slovenia kicks off its professional program at the Frankfurt Book Fair with a presentation of Ljubjana Reading Manifesto.

At the seventeenth session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, taking place in Morocco, the projects “Beekeeping in Slovenia, a way of life”, and “Lipizzan horse breeding traditions” have been placed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The 38th Slovenian Book Fair was opened on Tuesday, 22 November at the festival hall of the Exhibition and Convention Centre. The fair will be held until 27 November, and until 4 December online. Under the slogan Reading the World, this year’s fair will be organised as a symbol of the upcoming honorary hosting of Slovenia at the largest book fair in the world in Frankfurt, where Slovenian literature and culture will be at the forefront next year.

The Minister of Culture, Asta Vrečko, and the Minister of Economic Development and Technology, Matjaž Han, visited the filming location of the Netflix production “The Union” in Piran, which stars famous actors such as Halle Berry, Mark Wahlberg and J. K. Simmons. The Government contributed monetary compensation in the amount of EUR 2.5 million for the implementation of the film project in Slovenia. The implementation of the project in Slovenia will contribute to an estimated 30,000 overnight stays and the planned use of more than EUR 10 million of the film crew’s funds for preparations...

The director of the National Museum of Slovenia has been forced to resign after organizing an exhibition of alleged fakes.