Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking Festival
The largest children's festival in Slovenia
Two litlle red pigtails, feckles on her cheeks and nose, colorful and different socks and too big shoes - it's Pika (Pippi). The Pika, which has won the hearts of small and big around the world, and the Pika, around which all revolves during the Pika festival in Velenje. Pikin festival, which has grown from one-day event into the largest children's event in Slovenia within the last fifteen years, is held in Velenje. In 1990 the coworkers of the Intercommunal Association: Friends of Youth and the cultural centre Ivan Napotnik Velenje first organized the interesting, creative and spirited day for the children, and named it after a popular book heroine. Soon events began to grow with the the new content and many new employees in the organization.
The festival has grown to the eight-day event in a number of locations in Velenje and its surroundings. The preparation and execution of events each year includes more employees, there is more and more mass interest for the festival, which has in the past few years looked even beyond national borders. Even visitors, those with pigtails, freckles, and colorful socks are coming to the festival more each year. One thing remains, the festival has always been dedicated to children and their parents, and promotes and encourages childrens creativity and imagination, offering numerous educational resources, it strengthens childrens sense of fellow human beings and humanity, makes a number of friendly connections even across borders, driven young people to tolerance and adoption of diversity and reinforces the bonds between generations. Pikin Festival is visited by more than 65 thousand in the past years, which like returning to the event scene for years.
Pikin Festival is the largest children's festival in Slovenia. During the festival more than 100 Pika creative workshops, theatrical stages, a fairytale and a concert stage, exhibitions in the city, the Pika movies, humanitarian action and other activities operate. Pikin festival ends with the Pika day.
