Events

We warmly invite you to join us from 12 noon on Sunday 7th July for the Annual Picnic in the Oxford University Arboretum at Nuneham Courtenay. We will meet again by the kozolec (Slovene hay rack).

Bring your own picnic and drinks, deckchairs, picnic blankets, your kids, grandchildren and friends. As is usual among Slovenes, we encourage you to bring plenty to eat and drink and share it with everyone!

His Excellency the Ambassador of Slovenia, Iztok Jarc, and his wife Helena will again be with us.

This splendid Arboretum is close to Nuneham Courtenay House, where Lewis Carroll would row the young Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland) and her sisters on the River Thames on a summer afternoon.

It is situated just south of the village of Nuneham Courtenay on the A4074 road from Reading, eight miles south of Oxford. The postal code is OX44 9PX. From London it can be reached by the M40, exit 8, A40 to Oxford, then southwards round the Ring Road (A4142) on to the A4074 towards Reading.

If you intend to come to Oxford by train and need transport to the Arboretum, please mail to evelina@ferrar.org.uk or call 07584 199 177 and we will do what we can to help.

The Arboretum has kindly agreed to mow the area around the hayrack. Adults attending the British-Slovene picnic need pay only half the entry fee i.e. £2 instead of £4. Children and Members of Oxford University enter for free.

More information on the Arboretum can be found at https://www.harcourt-arboretum.ox.ac.uk/.

We hope we can welcome many of you as we celebrate and enjoy an afternoon around the kozolec – one of the most traditional symbols of Slovenia and its culture.

Come and join in painting Easter eggs with the Toddler Playgroup on Saturday 30 March. There will be a little Easter feast including potica. This is organised by Mojca Sanjenbam, a member of the British-Slovene Society.

The Toddler Group is meeting every Saturday at Coram Fields Children’s Centre, 93 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1DN from 10:15 to 11:45.

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Children need to be supervised by their parent or carer. If one of the parents or carers is not Slovenian, he/she can take part in a lesson of conversational Slovene, being held from 10.30 to 11.30 in basement rooms of Costa Coffee at the crossroads of Guilford Street and Grays Inn Road. The price for the lesson taught by Andreja Jankov  is £10 per person.

For more information contact: mummy_mox@hotmail.co.uk

To follow the updates about the activities of the group please request to join Facebook page: Slovenska Otroska Igralna Skupina London

The London Gallus Consort choir will perform music by the Slovene Jacobus Gallus, as well as other renaissance and medieval composers from across Europe. The group has specialised in the work of Gallus since the mid-1990s; many of you will know them from their appearances at the Society’s carol service.

They will be accompanied on authentic instruments from the period by the Sicut Vox wind ensemble.

The concert is in the Church of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe (near St Paul’s, the same place as the annual carol service) at 7.30 p.m. on 1 March.

Tickets are £10 (£8 for concessions) with proceeds going to the Barka charity in Slovenia and the Multiple Sclerosis Society in the UK.

How to get to the Church of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe:

The Annual Dinner of the Society will this year be held on Saturday, 9th February at 6.30 pm (welcome drinks) for a 7.20 pm start.

The location is Hotel Russell, Russell Square, London WC1B 5BE

(nearest stations: Russell Square, Holborn and Euston)

There will be the usual tombola in support of the charity Barka in Slovenia and speeches, poetry and music.

Ticket prices are £33 for members, £35 for non-members, £23 for fulltime students and free for members aged over 80 (a donation of £10 would be welcomed).

An application form for tickets can be obtained from Anica Page, 7 Hampton, Great
Holm, Milton Keynes, Bucks MK8 9EP and forms should be returned by no later
than Saturday, 2^nd February 2013.

The London church of Saint Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe was filled by a throng of Britons and Slovenes celebrating Christmas with carols and Bible readings on Friday 7^th December.

Wren’s church is hard to find among the City of London’s busy roads and little lanes leading down to the Thames, but this annual event organised by the British-Slovene Society attracts an increasing number of participants, young and old.

In a service conducted by the Reverend Guy Treweek, the London Renaissance Singers sang in English and impeccable Slovene. Members of the congregation read the Bible’s nine traditional accounts of Christmas in both languages. All joined in singing the familiar carols in an elegant historical setting.

Then the congregation repaired to the sacristy to catch up on news, drink Slovene wine (courtesy of the Embassy) and tuck into delicious potica cake, baked by Slovenes in Slovenia and England.

Participants contributed £307.50 to the Barka charity in Slovenia, which has long received support from the British-Slovene Society – and needs it all the more now due to Slovenia’s economic difficulties.

17. junija smo priredili  tradicionalni piknik pod slovenskim kozolcem v arboretumu blizu Oxforda. Kozolec so izdelali v Domžalah za razstavo v blagovnici Liberty v Londonu leta 1993. Ko je tam odigral svojo vlogo, so ga postavili na zemljišče antropološkega muzeja Pitt Rivers v Oxfordu, zdaj pa stoji v arboretumu Oxfordske univerze blizu Oxforda. Kozolec je postavljen čisto ob vhodu v arboretum, tako da si ga lahko ogleda vsak obiskovalec. Seno je bilo malce kratko za spravljanje na svoje mesto, otroci pa so dobro vedeli, čemu lahko kozolec tudi služi. Veleposlaništvo se je odrezalo z dobro zastopanostjo, košaro slovenskih dobrot in praktičnostjo že pri postavljanju baldahina za zaščito hrane pred morebitnimi padavinami. Prišlo nas je okoli 40 in je bilo tako živahno, da ni bilo možno vsega predebatirati. Ves dan ni padla niti kaplja dežja. Več slikovnega gradiva v galeriji.

Otroci so vedeli, čemu služi kozolec