First concert in the future premises of the Velenje Youth Centre on Šaleška cesta 3 in the Red Hall, with Res Nullius and DIG playing.
1996
Velenje Municipality passes a decree to establish the Youth Centre Velenje public institution.
1997
The Youth Centre Velenje is entered in the court register and officially starts operating, becoming the first youth centre in Slovenia to be established as a public institution.
1998
The Festival of Youth Culture Kunigunda begins, which has been held every year at the end of August until today.
2001 - 2004
2001
The Youth Day Centre programme is launched and in 2010 it moves to a new location at Efenkova 61a and is renamed the Afternoon centre for children and youth.
2001
A network of youth centres is set up together with Brežice, Celje, Maribor, Sežana, and Koper and the Mreža MaMa Institute is founded.
2002
The first international youth exchanges, still organised today, host young people from all over Europe and provide opportunities for local young people to participate in the host countries as partners in the projects.
2002
A strong student volunteer group, the Prostovoljci aktivisti, is formed, which has carried out several street awareness campaigns, high-profile charity concerts, and other events each year.
2003
Due to the renovation of the Red Hall, temporary facilities are set up for young people at the summer pool, where the Festival of youth culture Kunigunda is held.
2004 - 2014
We implement the summer events Poletje na Kotalkališču programme, which includes various creative and musical workshops, sports tournaments, and educational activities.
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2006 - 2009
2006
The first major European project, Exhibition Centre 360, funded by the Phare programme, is carried out in cooperation with MKC Maribor and Kultur und Yungen House, Klagenfurt, Austria.
2007
We become one of the first municipalities to adopt a decree on youth work and set important milestones: the Velenje Municipality commission for youth issues is established and our employee becomes one of the representatives, a local programme for the development of youth activities in the Municipality of Velenje (strategy) is adopted, funds for the co-financing of youth project activities are announced, a budget item is established for the activities of the Velenje Youth Council, and the youth graphic design (Mladi za Vele'je) is created.
2007
The Kunigunda Regional Multimedia Centre (KRMC) opens at Prešernova 8, giving young people access to computers and the internet, later it starts doing video editing as well, and in 2012 it moves to the Gaudeamus premises, where it is still operating today, renamed MMC Nukleus.
2008
The first EVS, now ESC, volunteers are welcomed. We hosted more than 30 volunteers from different countries – Spain, Turkey, Georgia, Italy, Portugal, Albania, Latvia, Serbia.
2009
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the city centre, we launch the Gremo se ušvicat! (Let's go sweat!) project and invite young people to transform the overgrown Letni kino – open-air venue at Škale lake into a new and indispensable youth infrastructure in the spirit of the youth work brigades. This was the first action, followed in 2010 by the second one, Gremo se s5 mal ušvicat! (Let’s sweat again!), when members of the Velenje Brigadiers' Association also participated with the young people. Together with the Velenje Hockey Club and the Municipality, we will build a natural ice rink for the first time at Letni kino.
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2010 - 2012
2010
Youth centre Velenje moves to a new location, Efenkova 61a, where it also starts youth tourism.
2010
Opening of the Hostel and the renovated Student dorm.
2010
With the relocation of the Youth Centre to a new location, the space at Red Hall at Šaleška 3 becomes a centre for youth culture and the eMCe Plac Club is developed – a unique product of the cooperation between the Šalek Student Club and the Velenje Youth Centre.
2010
Youth Centre Velenje and the Velenje Youth Council, in cooperation with young people, write the first strategic document, the local programme for the development of youth activities in the Velenje Municipality (Mladi v koraku s časom 2010–2015), which is also the first youth strategy in Slovenia. This is followed by a second (Mladi za Veleje 2016–2020) and a third (Mladi za Vele’je spet premikamo meje 2021–2025).
2010
First concerts at the Letni kino – open-air venue at Škale lake – performing artists Ali en (Dalaj Eegol), StrojMachine, and at the evening of electronic music Green Land – COGO DJs Lemon, Eddie F, Tonske, Qub, Brlee. Since then, there have been more than 30 artists, including Kiril Džajkovski, Repetitor, Kultur Shock, LET 3, Brkovi, Jonatan, Elemental, Edo Majka, Magnifico, Res Nuillius, Big foot Mama, Niet, MI2, Tabu, Mrfy, Vazz, Zmelkoow, Mrigz'n'Ghet, Masayah, Matter, the promo for the compilation Lignit 3…
2012
The active and coordinating role, as well as the local-linking role of MC Velenje in preparing the first draft of the application and programme for the European Capital of Culture, with several events also carried out at the 15th Festival of Youth Culture Kunigunda.
2012
Together with an enthusiastic young team, we transform the abandoned Old Bakery in Old Velenje into a space for creativity and exhibition, as well as for socialising and educating young artists.
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2014 - 2019
2014
At an intergenerational forum, young people express the need for a rehearsal space for young bands and musicians, and the municipality hands over the House of bands to the Youth Centre, where young and established musicians can rent a rehearsal space for a nominal fee.
2014
My Club, a day centre for mental health is set up and is still in operation today.
2014
The first Indicamp children's camp, attended by more than 100 children in recent years.
2015
Youth Centre Udarnik is founded which later receives the highest award of the Republic of Slovenia for achievements in the field of youth work for the implementation of a successful and high-profile project.
2015
The first House of Horror in the Old Bakery, later it moves to Castle Turn, which is completely sold out several times, people come from all over Slovenia, and in 2022 it moves to Gorica Manor for safety reasons.
2019
We become a partner in the European project konS. It joins into a consortium that has established a collaborative platform on the diagonal of the western and eastern cohesion regions of Slovenia, with the aim of creating better conditions for the maintenance and development of contemporary art research in Slovenia. We organise several konS modules.
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2021 - 2024
2021
The first mini-festival of Somethin’ of summer at Letni kino, created when measures are finally loosened after the epidemic and cultural and musical events can be performed live again under certain conditions
2021
New Vista – Park with a view venue comes to life at Lake Velenje, Youth Centre Velenje takes over the management of the sound and lighting system.
2021
We are given management of the newly constructed building on Stari trg, the Bakery of Ideas – a house of promising cultural and artistic content.
2022
Vista hosts for the first time Days of Thunder, a large meet of American cars, organised in cooperation with the Filand Auto-Moto Club.
2024
The team updates the mission, redefines the vision, sets a new communication strategy, changes the graphic identity and launches a new website. Let's move forward, focused on young people and the new era ahead!
