MKC WP

The main objective of World Book Day on April 23^rd is the promotion of reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. To honour this day, various events and activities take place in Maribor, in many other cities of Slovenia and all over the world, dedicated to the book, literature, readers and literary authors.

April 23^rd was proclaimed as World Book Day by UNESCO, which chose this date because April 23^rd is associated with the names of many famous literary authors (Cervantes, Shakespeare, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Rupert Brooke, William Wordsworth, Maurice Druon, Vladimir Nabokov, Manuel Mejía Vallejo and others who were born or died on this day). The idea of a holiday for the book has its origins in Catalonia, where April 23^rd is celebrated as the feast of Saint George, when they traditionally give a flower to everybody who buys a book on that day.

Since 1997, the Youth Cultural Centre Maribor (Mladinski kulturni center Maribor) has been organizer and coordinator of the events in Maribor, that take place during the programme entitled Slovenian Book Days in Maribor (Slovenski dnevi knjige v Mariboru), running several days under the slogan When a book writes you (Ko te napiše knjiga). The initiators of the project were the writers Tomaž Brenk, Borut Gombač and Zdenko Kodrič, who created a festival from the example of an event, organized two years earlier by the Slovenian Writers’ Association in Ljubljana. Since 2004 Petra Kolmančič has managed the festival, during this period for 2007 Jasmina Založnik coordinated the festival and Nino Flisar for 2009. The city centre is enlivened with books, literary authors and literature for the whole week. The festival programme is set in cooperation with many organisations (over 30 local, regional and national associations, institutes, libraries, bookstores, publishing houses, schools), which are in one way or another connected with literature and books.

Festival gatherings of authors, organizers and audience are always perfect bywords for discourse and reflexion as well as a starting point for many subsequent stories and collaborations.

The specific subject of the festival in Maribor is each year’s leading theme. The main themes of previous festivals were:

2012 – metaphor

2011 – literature and music
2010 – literature and humour, electronic and audio books
2009 – literature and movie
2008 – literature of minorities and ethnic groups
2007 – literary translation
2006 – youth literature
2005 – dramatics in 2004 – literature in exile
2003 – life as a way of art – art as a way of life
2002 – here and everywhere 2001 – order and chaos
2000 – relationship between the literary futurism and erotica in literature
1999 – literature and Internet 1998 – When a book writes you, writers of Maribor

During recent years a special day has been dedicated to discussions about the current situation and the future as well as the strategy of electronic publishing and of e-books in Slovenia.

Extent and types of events: literary performances of individual artists on open stage, round table discussions on literature and literary theory, thematic book exhibitions in UKM, poetry tournament – competition of selected poems tournament for the title of Knight of poetry, literary symposium, connected to the main annual theme, the campaign Give away a book, literary-musical performances and evenings of musical poetry, performances of plays for children, evening of aphorism and satire, young people and literature: rap poetry and high school literary-musical marathon, foreign literary guests, a major guest, book fair and presentations of book publishing houses, open literary microphone in the main square, discussions on literature, literary group marathons, lectures, literary prize contest in interpreting own poetry. All together, more than 50 individual literary and para-literary events.

Program coordination: Petra Kolmančič

Program committee: Dragica Haramija, Nino Flisar, Borut Gombač, Petra Kolmančič, Milena Pivec, Marjan Pungartnik, Vlasta Stavbar, Klemen Brvar

Program staff: Darka Tancer Kajnih, Zora A. Jurič, Vesna Spreitzer

Svetovni dan knjige, 23. april, je namenjen promociji branja, založništva in zaščiti intelektualne lastnine in avtorskih pravic. V počastitev tega dneva se v Mariboru, številnih drugih slovenskih mestih in različnih krajih po vsem svetu odvijajo prireditve in aktivnosti, posvečene knjigi, literaturi, bralcem in literarnim ustvarjalcem.

23. april je bil za svetovni dan knjige razglašen s strani organizacije UNESCO, ki je ta datum izbrala zato, ker je 23. april povezan z imeni številnih znanih književnih ustvarjalcev (na ta dan so se rodili ali umrli Cervantes, Shakespeare, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Rupert Broke, William Wordsworth, Maurice Druon, Vladimir Nabokov, Manuel Mejía Vallejo …). Zamisel o prazniku knjige pa izvira iz Katalonije, kjer 23. april praznujejo kot praznik sv. Jurija, tradicionalno pa podarijo rožo vsakomur, ki na ta dan kupi knjigo.

V Mariboru je Mladinski kulturni center Maribor že od leta 1997 nosilec in koordinator prireditev, ki v sklopu večdnevnega programa potekajo pod imenom Slovenski dnevi knjige v Mariboru pod geslom Ko te napiše knjiga. Pobudniki projekta so bili literati Tomaž Brenk, Borut Gombač in Zdenko Kodrič, ki so festival zasnovali po zgledu prireditve, ki jo je dve leti prej v Ljubljani izvedlo Društvo slovenskih pisateljev. Od leta 2004 festival vodi Petra Kolmančič, vmes je eno leto festival koordinirala Jasmina Založnik (2007) in eno leto Nino Flisar (2009). Center mesta za cel teden zaživi s knjigami, literarnimi ustvarjalci in literaturo. Program festivala nastaja v sodelovanju s številnimi organizacijami (več kot tridesetimi lokalnimi, regionalnimi in nacionalnimi društvi, zavodi, knjižnicami, knjigarnami, založbami, šolami), ki so tako ali drugače povezane z literaturo in s knjigo.

Festivalsko druženje med ustvarjalci, organizatorji, občinstvom je zmeraj odlična iztočnica za diskurz in refleksijo ter izhodišče mnogih nadaljnjih zgodb in sodelovanj.

Specifika festivala v Mariboru je vsakoletna vodilna tema. Osrednje teme dosedanjih festivalov:

2015 – kultne, prepovedane in trendovske knjige

2014 – tabuji v sodobni slovenski literaturi

2012 – metafora,

2011 – literatura in glasba
2010 – literatura in humor, elektronske in zvočne knjige
2009 – literatura in film
2008 – literature manjšin in etničnih skupin
2007 – književno prevajanje
2006 – mladinska književnost
2005 – dramatika 2004 – literatura v eksilu
2003 – življenje kot način umetnosti – umetnost kot način življenja
2002 – tukaj in povsod 2001 – red in kaos
2000 – razmerje med literarnim futurizmom in erotiko v literaturi
1999 – literatura in internet 1998 – Ko te napiše knjiga, mariborski književniki

Zadnja leta je poseben dan posvečen tudi razpravam o trenutnemu stanju in prihodnosti ter strategiji e-založništva in e-knjig v Sloveniji.

Obseg in zvrsti prireditev: literarni nastopi posameznikov na odprtem odru, okrogle mize o literaturi in literarni teoriji, tematske knjižne razstave v UKM, pesniški turnir – tekmovanje izbranih pesnikov za naziv Vitez pesniškega turnirja, literarni simpozij, povezan z vsakoletno osrednjo temo, akcija Podarimo knjigo, literarno-glasbeni nastopi in večeri uglasbljene poezije, izvedbe dramskih del za otroke, večer aforizmov in satire, mladi in literatura: rap poezija in srednješolski literarno-glasbeni maraton, tuji literarni gostje, osrednji gost, knjižni sejem in predstavitve knjižnih založb, odprti literarni mikrofon na glavnem trgu, pogovori o literaturi, skupinski literarni maratoni, predavanja, nagradni literarni natečaj v interpretaciji lastne poezije. Skupaj več kot 50 posameznih literarnih in paraliterarnih dogodkov.

Programska koordinacija: Petra Kolmančič

Programski odbor: Zora A. Jurič, Dragica Haramija, Nino Flisar, Borut Gombač, Petra Kolmančič, Milena Pivec, Marjan Pungartnik, Vlasta Stavbar, Darka Tancer-Kajnih, Klemen Brvar