Two annual colloquia.
In September 2006 the Society will organize the III Mediterranean Congress for Aesthetics.

Our main activities deals with: culture, informal education, information and counseling, kids, sport, international cooperation.
Culture is a part of MC´s monthly programme, featuring various concerts, plays, exibitions, readings, themed events In addition, culture is a part of all the rooms where the equipment and knowledge give young people a chance to be cerative.
Our weekly programme consists of exhibitions in our galleries, music and film nights, different courses.
Youth centre develops appropriate facilities, encourages young professionals to pass their knowledge on to others and organizes various useful courses open to youg people of all interests.
Our previous courses focused on foreign languages, computing, music, dance, sound engineering, architecture, drawing, drama, photography and video. We also offered classes and trainings in youth volunteer work.

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In the more recent period, these included the problems te?ated to the “erased” (inhabitants not given residence), the position of the Roma, the visibility of ethnic and other minorities in the media, the position of new unrecognized minorities, intimate citizenship, contradictions within cultural policy, the relationship between the EU and the USA, the constitutional process in the EU, EU enlargement (the Balkan states, Turkey, Ukraine), the accomplishment of the Hague Tribunal (ICTY), and other.

We organise creative text writing workshops among our association and everywhere around. In the period of 22 years we have developed unique methods to stimulate creativity and writing.
We publish books and make other products with our slogans.
We also organise seminars and exchanges on local and international level.

The association increasingly produces contemporary public programmes in literature. With a wide array of programmes, it represents the most active organisation and the main centre of literary activity in Slovenia. Its projects and activities include: the Vilenica International Literary Festival, the Trubar Foundation which supports translations of Slovene authors, the fair Slovene Book Days, literary readings etc. It presents literary awards and prizes.
The Vilenica festival, the major international event of the SWA is a gathering of poets, prose writers, dramatists and essayists. Since the first festival in1986, the climax of the event has been the presentation of the Vilenica Prize.

We run a few youth projects, which are held out of our infrastructure places in the other parts of the town. We organize at least fifteen different kinds of youth projects per year, which are not a part of our regular activities. Some of our significant events:
Grajski vitraž – set of concerts held in premises of Škofja Loka castle (2008/2009 - ninth season), Mesto v Barvah – parade of art exhibitions, workshops and sport activities for children, theater, concerts in main square of Škofja Loka. Dijaški živ žav – big parade organized every year in the end of school year for high school students. The program is composed of different sport activities, social program and concerts. Attendance: 700 people. Povečava – presentations of interesting artists.

The issues are thematically designed: Between the Sky and Earth; Arte-fact?, Women in Art; Microutopias; Views on Contemporary Slovenian Art; Art and Time; Dreams, Psychoanalysis and Art; Travelling … In regular rubriques Round Table and Interview we are publishing the conversations with domestic and foreign visual artists, curators, theoreticians … We are publishing fine art reviews, essays, interpretations, theory, and also artists notes (diaries, reflections) and exclusive artist author pages, designed especially for our magazine. In this way we are establishing the inspiring field for the creative practice. In the Theoretical Supplement we are translating key texts in the field of art theory and art history, in line with the thematics of a particular issue. The rubrique Contributions to the Slovenian Dictionary of Art Terms is regular as well.
The magazine is designed to serve the visual artists, art theorists, art historians, fine art teachers, collectors and art lovers. We want to bring the content closer to the broader reading public.

MOTA- Museum of Transitory Art is the first Artist in Residency program in Ljubljana.
Starting from October 2008, MOTA will invite artists on a monthly basis, based on applicant’s
project proposal for the residency. MOTA will present creators within broad range of art practices
but will focus on intermedia, visual and sound art and new forms of artistic language (livecinema,
temporary installations…).
- Spring Festival, an open air festival of music and visual culture. Spring Festival includes workshops for children and multimedia workshops, lectures by artists, cultural producers, musicians etc, exhibitions.
- Project RoboVox, an interactive public installation in form of a giant robot, is an attempt to reconsider methods of free speech and consciousness about freedom of speech and encourages expression of opinions.
- Live cinema nights, where we invite artists, who research in their work the relationships between image and sound in experimental and poetic way.

book publishing, music publishing, cultural production (events), Bookstore, children education