Commemorative celebration in St. Stanislav’s Institution on the occasion of the centennial of the Isonzo Front and the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII and post-war massacres
The commemorative celebration was to honour the memory of past events and as a warning to future generations. The celebration took place on Thursday, 18th June, 2015, beginning with mass at 8.30 p.m. in St. Stanislav’s Chapel. The military chaplain Jože Plut celebrated the mass. At 9.30 p.m. during the commemoration the lights in the building of St. Stanislav’s Institution were going out. Every dead light memorises the pain and loss of man, who had a name, family name as well as fate and light within himself. In the park surrounding St. Stanislav’s Institution the remembrance candles were lit as a reminder of past atrocities. All people throughout Slovenia were kindly invited to light the remembrance candles in their homes to commemorate the victims of WWI and WWII and post-war massacres.
Jure Rozman teaching young pianists in Music School in St. Stanislavs’ Instiutiton
All music lovers were happy to attend the concert given by pianist Jure Rozman on 11th June, 2015 at 7 p.m. in Matija Tomc Hall in St. Stanislav’s Institution. He performed a versatile programme consisting mostly of works rarely presented in Slovenia.
Jure Rozman, was born in Slovenia, where he started his musical education. He continued studies at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria), where he studied with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and graduated there in 2001. He completed his Masters and Doctoral Degrees at Louisiana State University (USA) as a student of Constance Carroll and Michael Gurt, and has won numerous awards, including the first prizes in Slovene National Piano Competition in 1995 and 2001, and second prize at the international piano competition in San Bartolomeo al Mare (Italy). He has performed as a soloist with Slovene Youth Orchestra, Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra and LSU Symphony Orchestra, and has frequently presented solo and chamber music recitals in Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Croatia and USA. He has also been active as a vocal coach. Presently he is an Assistant Professor of Piano and Music Coordinator at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale. (Florida, USA).
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of WW II, students from DCG, Prva Gimnazija Celje in Prva Gimnazija Maribor traveled together to Poland and visit the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum from 6th-20th May, 2015. Accompanied by several Slovene history experts and a witness from Auschwitz, the students had a chance to get to know and understand better circumstances and facts about the biggest concentration camp in Europe and how it is related to the Slovenes.
At the same time more than 1000 students from Belgium and other European countries were there for the commemoration. Before going to the Memorial Centre in Auschwitz, the DCG studetns met Polish students from the partner school in Krakow.
The goal of this trip was to get to know and understand the common European history, encourage tolerance and values of democracy. The coordinator of the visit in DCG was Daša Oberč.
Cordially invited to the traditional concert, which will take place on Sunday, 10th May, 2015 at 6.00 p.m. in Gallus Hall in Cankarjev Dom (Ljubljana). More than 430 singers and instrumentalists from primary school to gymnasium and alumni will present what they have been creating throughout the school year. The concert is dedicated to the centennial commemoration of the beginning of WWI and the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, that is the reason why it bears the title » I am here to love, not hate. « In the first part the musical works on war and peace by Močnik, Lebič, Mendelsson and Schnittke will be performed. In the second, the joy of music making will be presented and finally concluded with works by Karl Jenkins and all performers on the stage.
Tickets are available in St. Stanislav’s Institution (call ++386 31 708 313), or on the concert day, an hour before the beginning of the concert in the first foyer in Cankarjev dom.
Lily Schweiger Kotar
In January 2014, Alojzij Šuštar Primary School started a two-year project named Outdoor Learning. Our partners in the project are primary school Borge skole (Fredrikstad, Norway) and Slovenian Catholic Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Association.
The main goal of the project is to improve our methods in outdoor learning, to learn new approaches and techniques from the partners, to adapt and use them in working with our pupils. We are hosting teachers and pupils from Borge skole in April and we will visit them in May. Besides showing each other the improvements we have made since last year, we will spend quality time together and share new ideas and knowledge we have gained.
The project coordinator at our end is Ela Rupert.
Janko Orač, 14th Station of the Cross: Jesus is laid in the tomb, acrylic on canvas, 100×70 cm, 2009
He is laid in a tomb. The sign of a cross appears from the stone tomb, from his anointed body, It enters into the bosom of life. As a sign of birth, as a sign of death, as a sign of suffering. Suffering. As a sign of joy. And a sign of Love. So inconceivable. Endless. Incomprehensible. Eternal love. Will you, the Spirit of God, eradicate the evil rooted in our flesh?
(14th Station of the Cross, Dane Zajc)
The suffering and pain of today’s world are also filled with the joy of resurrection. May the celebration of Easter be a source of abundant hope that love is stronger than hatred, forgiveness better than revenge and life more powerful than death. We wish you a happy Easter!
From 24th – 26th March, 2015 the students of the DCG took part in the innovation camp together with other students from different Slovene high schools as well as the students from Oslo, Norway who shared share their abundant experience in entrepreneurship. The event took place under the sponsorship of Microsoft and in cooperation with the Slovene Institution for Promotion of Entrepreneurship among the Young, which functions under in the realm of the international organisation JA-YE.
Ther innovation camp is a a part of the Erasmus+ project, this time led under the mentorship of Mirjam Lindič .
Students who take French in the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium are getting ready to stage a new theatrical piece in cooperation with 14 other Slovene high schools. They have been working on it for last five months under the mentorship of a French director and an actress. They will stage a contemporary play by David Lescot L’Européenne. The mentor in the DCG is Daša Oberč.
The performance will take place on 27th March, 2015 in Slovensko ljudsko gledališče Celje. Welcome!
The exchange with fifty-one students from Horsens Statsskole took place in the DCG from 8th – 12th March, 2015. The aim of the exchange was to get to know the Slovene educational system, the country and its history.
When visiting Denmark, the DCG students got abundant information about the Second World War in Denmark, while Danish students increased their knowledge about Slovenian history of the decades following WW II. All students involved reflected on the issue of memory and remembering the past. Danish students had also an opportunity to visit Slovenian parliament and explore our capital. We look forward to further exchanges with Horsens Statsskole.
