{"id":9589,"date":"2018-08-10T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/?p=9589"},"modified":"2018-08-10T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:10:07","slug":"bee-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/bee-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee Happy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cankarjev dom has been cultivating bees since spring 2011 and is considered to be a pioneer of Slovenia\u2019s urban beekeeping.In December 2017, the UN General Assembly endorsed Slovenia\u2019s initiative to declare 20 May World Bee Day.\u00a0 On this occasion, a special programme was presented to introduce CD\u2019s beekeeping to the public \u2013 a relatively uncommon activity for a modern congress centre located in the heart of Slovenia\u2019s capital, Ljubljana.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The diversified roof of Slovenia\u2019s largest congress and cultural centre offers exceptional views of the capital, so if you\u2019re keen to visit it you can do so on World Bee Day. On 20 May, a tour of the beehives was conducted by CD\u2019s in-house beekeeper and the visitors enjoyed a degustation of CD\u2019s honey \u2013 a delicacy and a unique gift.<\/p>\n<p>For the daring, a visit of the Bees\u2019 World interactive pavilion was a must. Installed in the Grand Reception Hall throughout the last two weeks in May, this interesting exhibition tool delighted visitors with a VR simulation of a bee\u2019s flight over flowery meadows of Slovenia, as well as high-tech information on the importance of pollination, the role of bees in a healthy environment and global food security.<\/p>\n<p>The Bee Day concluded with ascreening of <strong><em>More than Honey\u00a0<\/em>by Markus Imhoof<\/strong> (Switzerland), and a talk on apiculture and the importance of bees for the survival of mankind with the highest-ranking officials from the Slovenian government and the Vice-President of <strong>APIMONDIA<\/strong>, an international beekeeping organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre Ljubljana, is a <strong>vital point of\u00a0Ljubljana\u2019s Bee Path, connecting 35 institutions<\/strong> with the aim of informing the public on apicultural heritage and the importance of bees. More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cd-cc.si\/\">www.cd-cc.si<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cankarjev dom has been cultivating bees since spring 2011 and is considered to be a pioneer of Slovenia\u2019s urban beekeeping.In December 2017, the UN General Assembly endorsed Slovenia\u2019s initiative to declare 20 May World Bee Day.\u00a0 On this occasion, a special programme was presented to introduce CD\u2019s beekeeping to the public \u2013 a relatively uncommon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[458,99],"class_list":["post-9589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-member-news","tag-bee","tag-cankarjev-dom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovenia-convention.com\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}