Cultural Directory of Slovakia - Bratislava

The ÚĽUV Craft School offers courses for adults and children, as well as sample work from craftsmen in its craft workshops throughout the whole year. Its facilities include a wood carving workshop equipped with both contemporary tools and heritage tools; a weaving workshop with loom and tools for fine textile techniques; a basket making workshop for working with wicker, straw and cornhusk; and a pottery workshop equipped for the production of all ceramic products, including hand turning on potter's wheel, decoration and firing in an electric kiln.

Established in 2000, Atrakt Art is an association for contemporary arts and culture based in Bratislava. It publishes 3/4 magazine, organises the Next music festival, co-organises the Digitopia music sessions and Multiplace new media culture festival and administers a range of other projects dealing with art, technology, creativity, urban environment, etc. Atrakt Art was a co-founder of the cultural centre A4 - zero space, Bratislava.

The Bratislava office of Matica slovenská, located in a a two-storey cultural monument, a Neo Rococo palace built in 1889 by the Bratislava architect J Hubert for pharmacist F Pistori.

Since the autumn of 1967, every odd year in Bratislava is connected with the world-famous international juried exhibition of originals of illustrations made for children's and juvenile books.

The Slovak section of IBBY is a national section of International Board on Books for Young People – IBBY.

Konto Orange is a non-profit organisation that implements projects supporting groups of people or communities. Established in 2002, its major objective is to implement such philanthropic activities that will help to solve the problems of different groups in society. The activities of Konto Orange cover many areas, from support for substitute families and adoptions to education and leisure activities for young people and helping abandoned people in difficulty. Konto Orange's philanthropic activities focus on problematic or in some way deficient areas of society.