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Dobrodošli doma 2025 (Welcome Home 2025)

Dobrodošli doma 2025 (Welcome Home 2025)

Welcome Home 2025 is a multi-day series of cultural, professional, and social events on both sides of the border. With the support of the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Slovenians Abroad and in cooperation with key umbrella organizations, the program will include exhibitions, concerts, round tables, business conferences, and meetings of young Slovenians from abroad.

The highlight of the event will be the main ceremony on Sunday, 22 June, at 18:00 at Bevk's Square in Nova Gorica. On the large stage, music and dance groups of Slovenians from various countries will perform, concluding with a concert by the Saša Avsenik Ensemble – the event will be free and open to all visitors.

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A conversation with one of Japan's leading contemporary artists, Tatsuo Miyajima.

Artis talk Tatsuo Miyajima

Founded in 2012, it is now one of the major automotive and sports events in Slovenia, with drivers from around the world. The race is part of the FIA...

Rally Nova Gorica

Benedetti Life brings to Nova Gorica a sustainable fashion spectacle that fuses cutting-edge technology, nature, and timeless glamour.

GO!2025 x Benedetti Life – A Visionary Fashion Spectacle in Nova Gorica

The 75th anniversary of international motorcycle events in Nova Gorica will take place on 30 and 31 August 2025.

BORDERLESS MOTOCYCLISM – 75th anniversary of the races in Nova Gorica

A roundtable discussion on the green spaces in the heart of Nova Gorica and Gorizia.

A Conurbation in the Embrace of Nature

Presentation of the artwork of August and the eighth chapter of the Episkop.

Episkop—Presentation of the Artwork of the Month

On Wednesday, 16 July, at 19:00, Knjigarna kavarna Maks will host a lecture on the topic of the Avenue of Nova Gorica’s Prominent Citizens.

Avenue of Nova Gorica's Prominent Citizens

Sapnik/Trachea is a multimedia art project that sees the two tunnels beneath Kostanjevica as a metaphorical trachea and esophagus—passageways...

Enej Gala, Tomi Novak: Sapnik / Trachea

E is a project that wants Europe. A Europe that already exists and which, at the same time, still has to be built.

e for Europe

Presentation of the artwork of July and the seventh chapter of the Episkop.

Episkop—Presentation of the Artwork of the Month

The Art of Survival is a multisensory installation, inviting visitors between 1 and 31 July 2025, to step into the shoes of the invisible—people...

Non-permanent residence - The Art of Survival

From 4 to 30 June 2025, the Frnaža Gallery in Nova Gorica will host an exhibition of photographs by Milenko Pegan (1925–2005), one of Slovenia’s...

Milenko Pegan: Photographs

In the hall of the Nova Gorica railway station, an exhibition entitled The Bohinj/Transalpina Railway: “A Track for Three Nations” along the Soča/Isonzo...

The Bohinj/Transalpina Railway: “A Track for Three Nations” along the Soča River

An exhibition by the students of the Visual Arts and Design and the Faculty of Education.

Art Fusion – Borderless

On 30 May 2025 at 19:00, the exhibition The Shining Invisible City will open at the Eda Center. The exhibition will be on display until 30 November...

The Shining Invisible City

A seedling of the bombed kaki tree from Nagasaki will be planted as a symbol of peace and proof that life always finds its way.

Revive Time: Kaki Tree Project

In Search of the Lost Language is the second part of a trilogy in collaboration with Mittelfest Festival and GO! 2025, written by Goran...

In Search of the Lost Language - Unable to die 2/3

From 1 to 20 September 2025, the streets of Nova Gorica and Gorizia will host an exhibition of works by young fashion designers, united under the...

From Waste to Beauty: Borderless Design Exhibition

Book fair and festival in the very heart of Nova Gorica.

City of Books

On Wednesday, 27 August, at 17:00, a walk among the trees will take place in Nova Gorica.

Among the Trees

On 23 August 2025, a film screening of Jože Babič's Three Quarters of the Sun will take place in Europe Square.

Jože Babič: Three Quarters of the Sun

The open-air cinema, named after the film critic and founder of the Slovenian Cinematheque, will once again transform the square in front of Nova...

Silvan Furlan Open-air Cinema

Presentation of the artwork of August and the eighth chapter of the Episkop.

Episkop—Presentation of the Artwork of the Month

A guided tour of the fresco by Slavko Pengov in the great hall of the present-day City Hall of Nova Gorica.

Pengov's Frescoes in the City Hall of Nova Gorica

On Friday, 20 June 2025, the official opening of BIEN Textile Art Biennial 2025 will take place in Nova Gorica. Exhibitions will be held...

BIEN Textile Art Biennial 2025: Nova Gorica

Replicas of Messerschmidt heads are coming to Nova Gorica and Gorizia.

Standing on Messerschmidt’s Head(s)

Piano Recital "Notes of Hope": A unique tribute to Nova Gorica – Gorizia, European Capital of Culture 2025

Notes of Hope

Formed in Los Angeles in 1998 and led by brothers Jared Leto (vocals and guitar) and Shannon Leto (drums), Thirty Seconds to Mars is one of the most important...

Thirty Seconds to Mars

Theatrical-musical event with video mapping Pre-event: “Karstic Musical Tastes” – At the Gradina Visitor Center, attendees will have the opportunity to...

Upon stone and soil

First theatre play from Dodecalogy 1972-1983 by Tomi Janežič.

Tomi Janežič: 1972

From Professor Bad Trip to the pulse of techno

Breath of the beast

Welcome to the Clowncity, a place of free, liberated play.

Clowncity

On 26 June 2025, the Xcentrum will host the opening of Mark Peljhan's exhibition Isolabs OSIVV.

Marko Peljhan: Isolabs OSIVV

A beautiful five-hour train journey through the wine region with stops along the way.

Vipava Valley Wine Train

Nova Gorica 79,00

Since its debut in 2012, the MAHLE Rally Nova Gorica has evolved from a small one-day event into one of Slovenia’s premier motorsport competitions, drawing...

MAHLE Rally Nova Gorica

The cross-border court by two of basketball's greatest legends is coming to the Slovenian-Italian border!

Opening of the GOGI & GIGI Basketball Court

Discover the history of the Jewish community in the Goriška region.

Along the Jewish Trails in Goriška Region

An exhibition of works by 22 Primorska and cross-border artists.

Collection of Graphics by Primorska Artists 1951–1989

MASSIVE ATTACK announced their live return to Italy: on 24 June 2025 they will bring the magic of trip hop to the Casa Rossa Arena in Gorizia, for their...

Massive Attack

The Mušič Room at Xcenter in Nova Gorica is a digital tribute to the Slovenian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator Zoran Mušič, whose art was celebrated...

Mušič Room

The 20 panels present the faces behind the leading projects that will take place in Nova Gorica and Gorizia this year.

The Faces of GO! 2025

EPIC is a new exhibition space in a former warehouse next to the railway station.

EPIC, European Platform for the Interpretation of the 20th Century

The 25th edition of the largest Italian film conference is coming to Nova Gorica and Gorizia.

FICE International Congress

R.o.R. Festival returns to Nova Gorica in the beginning of October.

R.o.R. Festival

Unforgettable. Grand. Magical. Borderless. STOP THE CITY! events

An Enlighted Closing GO! 2025 Ceremony

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The permanent exhibition at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum is a treasury of museum collections, showcasing the everyday and festive heritage of Slovenia...

Exhibition: Between Nature and Culture

… Gingerbread and candle products, handicraft knowledge and cooperation, friendship, love and life stories of two families connected by Ljubljana and...

Plečnik's Lectarija

Ljubljana 3,00 - 6,00

Embark on a journey at the City Museum of Ljubljana to explore the captivating history of Ljubljana, spanning from ancient prehistory to the recent 20th...

Exhibition Ljubljana. History. City.

The new permanent exhibition, created for the museum's centennial celebration, explores human perceptions of time. These perceptions significantly impact...

Man and Time

At the major new exhibition at the Maribor Art Gallery, we unfold a spectrum of views, positions, and forms in artworks from the UGM Collection...

Spekter. 70 Years of the UGM Collection

The 20 panels present the faces behind the leading projects that will take place in Nova Gorica and Gorizia this year.

The Faces of GO! 2025

An exhibition of works by 22 Primorska and cross-border artists.

Collection of Graphics by Primorska Artists 1951–1989

The "Vsemir" exhibition tells a story about the border that cut the Miren Cemetery in two in 1947, dividing it between Yugoslavia and Italy. The border...

The renovated Museum on the Border collection in Miren

First theatre play from Dodecalogy 1972-1983 by Tomi Janežič.

Tomi Janežič: 1972

The Mušič Room at Xcenter in Nova Gorica is a digital tribute to the Slovenian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator Zoran Mušič, whose art was celebrated...

Mušič Room

Launch of the Energetics and Renewable Energy Museum.

Doblar Museum – Soča, Source of Energy

Discover the history of the Jewish community in the Goriška region.

Along the Jewish Trails in Goriška Region

Exhibition of the renowned painter and printmaker Zoran Mušič at Lojze Spacal Gallery.

Replicas of Messerschmidt heads are coming to Nova Gorica and Gorizia.

Standing on Messerschmidt’s Head(s)

A beautiful five-hour train journey through the wine region with stops along the way.

Vipava Valley Wine Train

Nova Gorica 79,00

Permanent ethnological exhibition by Pavel Medvešček - Klančar at Dvorec Vogrsko.

Secret Wisdom

In the hall of the Nova Gorica railway station, an exhibition entitled The Bohinj/Transalpina Railway: “A Track for Three Nations” along the Soča/Isonzo...

The Bohinj/Transalpina Railway: “A Track for Three Nations” along the Soča River

he acclaimed Slovenian painter Apolonija Simon presents Nedokončane zgodbe (Unfinished Stories), a solo exhibition of her latest large-scale works, at...

Apolonija Simon: Nedokončane zgodbe (Unfinished Stories) – Exhibition

Kostanjevica na Krki

EPIC is a new exhibition space in a former warehouse next to the railway station.

EPIC, European Platform for the Interpretation of the 20th Century

Exhibition of the renowned painter and printmaker Zoran Mušič at Dobrovo Castle.

Mušič – Landscapes of the Bodies at Dobrovo Castle

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