Kamfest 2024 in the Intermunicipal museum Kamnik

This year, from August 9 to 17, 2024, the streets of Kamnik, for the twenty-first time in a row, will be occupied by one of the major Slovenian city festivals – KAMFEST, organized by the Cultural Association Priden možic with co-producers.

More than 60 events will take place in at least eight venues around the center of Kamnik and its immediate surroundings. In addition to the concerts in the city, there is also an interesting film program, and this year’s novelty is the venue in the Maister’s birthplace. The Children’s Stage is moving to the Creative Quarter of Barutana, where it will be joined by evening events on the Barutana Stage and various afternoon activities, all of which will be family and youth oriented. Cinema performances will be shown in the atrium of the Mekinje Monastery. This year, the Kamnik Intermunicipal Museum is also participating as a co-organizer.

And visitors can get to all of this by train – get off at the one of the four Kamnik stations that is closest to the venue they have chosen.

The complete program of Kamfest 2024 is on the website https://www.kamfest.org/en

Program in the units of the Intermunicipal Museum Kamnik:

In a joint project with the France Balantič Kamnik Library, a new courtyard and scene was discovered in the courtyard of Rudolf Maister’s Birthplace.

During the festival, from August 9 to 17, 2024, daily from 5 to 8 p.m., you can visit

Maister’s secret corner

In Maister’s secret corner, the library prepares comfortable spaces for reading and socializing with books, daily newspapers and games. The secret corner is a place for families, children and all those who want to read daily newspapers, interesting books, exchange them or immerse themselves in them in a peaceful and inspiring environment. We are also preparing special workshops: a digital corner, a memory game ect..

Saturday, August 10, 2024, at 7 p.m., on the lawn near the granaries at Zaprice Castle 

Summer astronomical observation of the night sky

RAK – The research astronomy club of the Rudolf Maister Gymnasium and Secondary School together with the Kamnik astronomers invite you to a summer observation of the night sky.

In case of bad weather, the observation will be postponed to the following evening, August 11, 2024, at 19:00.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, at 7 p.m., in the courtyard of the Maister’s House

An evening of comics from Kamnik

A conversation with Miha Hančič and Jože Urbanija, authors of the award-winning comic strip Urmal, the friend of the mammoth, and Martin Ramovš, who together with Janez Ramovš created the comic book Amerika. An evening full of contrasts would pass between words, drawings and music. The conversation will be led by Breda Podbrežnik Vukmir.

Sunday, August 11, 2024, at 7 p.m., museum – Zaprice Castle

An urban walk through Kamnik

Guided tour of the museum exhibitions Joyfull to Kamnik – mostly sixties and the recently opened Sociability in Kamnik from A to Z with Marko Kumer. This is followed by a walk through Šutna led by Goran Završnik and a visit to exhibitions at three city galleries (Miha Maleš, Dika and Prečna Galleries) of the international art project Dobre novice. In the View gallery, we will see an exhibition of contemporary portraits of Goran Medjugorac. The walk ends at 9 p.m. in the courtyard of the Prečna gallery with a solo performance by saxophonist Brina Kren with a repertoire of contemporary and improvised music.

Tuesday, August 13, 2024, at 7 p.m., in the courtyard of the Maister’s House

Kamnik’s literary horizon

A conversation with young authors from Kamnik, who have entered the Slovenian literary scene with great strides and are already reaping awards. The guests are: Ana Schnabl, Pia Prezelj and Pino Pograjc. The conversation will be led by Breda Podbrežnik Vukmir.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, at 8 p.m., Miha Maleš Gallery

Good News exhibition – management and concert

Saša Bučan, the curator of the central exhibition of the Good News project, will take visitors through three city locations – Miha Maleš Gallery, Prečna Gallery and Dika Gallery. In this last one, the performance of violist, percussionist and vocalist Ana Kravanja will conclude at 9 p.m.

Friday, August 16, 2024, at 7 p.m., in the courtyard of the Maister’s House

Thirty Maisters poems: a collection of poems on the 150th anniversary of his birth and 90th anniversary of his death.

Presentation of the poetry collection of Rudolf Maister, newly edited by Breda Podbrežnik Vukmir and Alenka Juvan and illustrated by Eva Mlinar. The foreword was written by dr. Urška Perenič. The collection on the occasion of Maister’s year brings a new, fresh view of the soldier and poet who defended Slovenia with the army and poetry.