Pomol

Tickets

Pomol

A stone pier running out into the sea at dusk, string lights over moored boats
A woman speaking into a microphone on a low stage in a stone square at night
An open-air film projected on the old harbour wall, the audience on folding chairs
People dancing by the lighthouse in red light, spray coming over the sea wall
A swimmer diving off the end of the pier at sunrise, chairs stacked on the quay

Talks, film and late music on the harbour of Piran. 3—5 September 2027.

Weekend pass, €95

Pomol is three days on one small harbour. Talks in an old salt store, films on the harbour wall, records at the lighthouse until the boats go out. Everything is a few minutes apart on foot, and the town keeps living around it: the fish market opens at six, the ferry leaves at eight.

A talk in the old salt store: rows of wooden chairs, a speaker at a table under one lamp

The salt store holds 140 people. Talks there fill up; come ten minutes early.

Programme

Five places around the harbour, a few minutes apart on foot. Everything is in English or Slovenian with English subtitles.

Friday 3 September

17:00

Opening walk along the harbour

With Nika Brenko, who keeps the town’s boat registers

The quay

18:30

Building on salt

Jurij Lah, architect of the salt store’s new roof

Salt store

20:00

Fish, by law

Elena Russo, marine biologist, on the quotas nobody reads

Tartini Square

21:30

Six short films from the Adriatic

Programme of shorts, 84 minutes, subtitled

Harbour wall

23:30

Records from the boat club

Late music until two

Punta

Saturday 4 September

10:00

Knots and nets

A morning with the fishermen’s co-op; free, bring gloves

The quay

15:00

A town without cars

Mateo Kralj, planner, on forty years of a closed centre

Salt store

17:00

Who gets the coast?

Panel: Sara Pertot, Jurij Lah, Elena Russo

Tartini Square

21:00

The Night Ferry

Feature film, 102 minutes, subtitled

Harbour wall

23:30

Brass band, then records

Late music until three

Punta

Sunday 5 September

07:00

Morning swim off the pier

Free for everyone; towels at the lighthouse

Punta

11:00

Salt, light and time

Ivo Zorn, photographer, on forty summers of the pans

Salt store

16:00

Readings on the steps

Six writers, ten minutes each; free

Tartini Square

20:00

The harbour, 1960—2027

Closing film from the town’s archive, with live piano

Harbour wall

Last
September

People listening to a reading on the stone steps by the harbour
The open-air film on the harbour wall, seen from the back rows
Dancing by the lighthouse in red light

Six thousand people, four nights, one harbour. This year runs the same way.

Who speaks

Six people who know this coast from the water, the archive and the drawing board. All talks are 40 minutes with time for questions.

Nika Brenko, a woman in her sixties in a navy sweater, holding an old ledger on the quay

Nika Brenko

Keeps the town’s boat registers

Fri 17:00 · The quay

Jurij Lah, an architect with glasses and a beard, on the harbour at evening

Jurij Lah

Architect of the salt store’s new roof

Fri 18:30 · Salt store

Elena Russo, a marine biologist with curly hair, smiling on the quay

Elena Russo

Marine biologist

Fri 20:00 · Tartini Square

Mateo Kralj, a town planner in a denim jacket, holding a paper map

Mateo Kralj

Town planner

Sat 15:00 · Salt store

Sara Pertot, a writer in a black turtleneck, with a notebook under her arm

Sara Pertot

Writer

Sat 17:00 · Tartini Square

Ivo Zorn, a photographer in his seventies in a flat cap, an old camera round his neck

Ivo Zorn

Photographer of the salt pans

Sun 11:00 · Salt store

Three days on the harbour, €95

Every talk, film and late night, Friday to Sunday. Under 26 and over 65 pay €60. The swim, the walk and the readings are free for everyone, pass or not.

Buy a weekend pass

Only one evening? A day pass is €40, sold at the salt store from noon.

Questions, press, volunteering, or a boat we should know about:

hello@pomol.example

+386 5 600 00 00 · Piran, Slovenia

Answers within two days, except during the festival.