From 10 to 13 June, Ljubljana hosts the latest edition of PASS – one of Europe’s most dynamic street art initiatives. The main public program runs on 11 and 12 June, bringing together artists, designers and community members for two full days of mural creation, workshops, performance and open dialogue.
PASS is built on a simple idea: public space belongs to everyone, and art is most powerful when it grows from the community it lives in. The Ljubljana edition puts that principle into practice through a program that actively invites participation from people whose voices are too often absent from public space. Migrants, members of ethnic and cultural minorities, and persons with disabilities, as well as all other interested people, are warmly invited to register, take part in the workshops and join the conversations. Your presence and perspective are central to what this festival is about.
The Ljubljana program is distinctive in its range: alongside live mural painting, it brings in textile work, fashion, skate culture and performance as equal parts of a shared creative conversation about who shapes public space and how.
11 June / BAZA / from 13:00
Vitness mural’s creation live on the outside wall, feeding into a textile workshop linking artists, migrants and locals into a shared woven piece. Designers’ pop-up ahead of the next day’s fashion show, a ground drawing growing on site, and a PASS performance folding movement, image and space into one. Open conversation with the artists after.
12 June / BAZA / from 12:00
The mural co-creation, DJ sets and discussions are building into a fifteen-minute fashion show that brings Day 1 designers to a bigger crowd. A conversation at the mural about the work and its context, before dance interventions and direct performer-audience contact push toward a collective skate, dance and music moment and a peak closing hour. Throughout, deliberate space for voices from migrant communities, minority groups and disability organisations.
Both days are free and open to the public. If you would like to take part in the discussions or co-creation sessions, please register your attendance here – your participation shapes what this festival becomes and what it leaves behind.
The festival is organised within the “PASS The Street Art, Shake the Hand” project, implemented by partners from North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia, with an aim to bring artists and communities together to co-create murals, graffiti, performances and other forms of street art that celebrate diversity and strengthen social cohesion across Europe. The project is co-funded by the European Union.
