Family Day and Summer Museum Night at GBJ

On Saturday, June 20, as part of Family Day at the GBJ, admission will be free for families between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., and after 6:00 p.m. for all visitors as part of the Summer Museum Night.

All events on this day are free of charge and will take place even in case of bad weather.

FAMILY DAY AT THE FORMA VIVA SCULPTURE PARK
between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., free admission for families

Stalls by local producers
Treasure Hunt: Guardians of the Monastery (self-guided exploration for families)

The Goblin’s Corner from the Kostanjevica Library (Valvasor Library Krško)

Outdoor Knitting (Kostanjevica na Krki Tourism Association)

5:00 PM / Fabric Movement, workshop

SUMMER MUSEUM NIGHT
between 6:00 PM and midnight, free admission

6:00 PM / Puppet show by the Zapik Theater (Zoran Didek Exhibition Hall)

7:00 PM / Nika Batista: Angles Morts  (performance in the Abbot’s Hall)
Amid all the noise, thoughts begin to form their own connections. Silence does not remain empty for long; it is filled by what has been waiting to be heard — an echo accentuated by the presence that confirms it. Human presence shapes space; we are both containers and connectors. Through our entanglement, the space between bodies becomes palpable. The project maps the body and stretches it beyond its physical boundaries. It explores connections that extend beyond ourselves — threads that speak a language composed of tensions and relation. These ntangible networks form a living diagram of human interaction.

7:30 PM / AnimotMUZIK: Lecture by Katarina Radaljac Jazbec
This lecture explores how to think about the sounds of birds and other animals beyond mere distant observation, and what it means to enter a space as an equal participant.

8:30 PM / AnimotMUZIK: ecological concert with birds (Forma viva sculpture park)
Performers: birds, Jure Boršič, Vita Kobal, Alja Petric, Tea Vidmar, Brane Zorman
The concert will translate the theoretical framework of the lecture into practice. The performers will construct a non-hierarchical, polyphonic sound structure in which the human contribution does not arise in isolation, but rather opens up a space into which the ecosystem enters as an equal partner in the co-creation of a sound composition. The AnimotMUZIK series explores the relationships between human and non-human beings through listening, responding, and improvisation.

*You can register for the event on this link: https://pretix.eu/cona/animotmuzik26-bj/

10:00 PM / Public guided tour of the exhibition Jaka Babnik: A Matter of View
The tour will be led by curator Miha Colner.
The exhibition presents an overview of nearly two decades of work by photographer and artist Jaka Babnik, who created and presented a series of notable art projects between 2007 and 2026. In his artistic practice, he analyzes a wide variety of contemporary social phenomena through images.

On the Family Day and Summer Museum Night, we are also reopening the renovated exhibition space dedicated to Jože Gorjup and France Gorše.