With its uniquely assembled programmes and settings, the Maribor Festival offers numerous challenges and opportunities for creative writing.

In 2011, lectures and workshops will be organized for students of music and musicology who will have the opportunity to test themselves in creative concert review writing.

The review writing workshops will be led by the acknowledged musicologists, publicists and reviewers, Dr. Gregor Pompe from Slovenia and Bosiljka Perič-Kempf from Croatia. Both of the mentioned mentors are highly experienced, interesting and admired writers in this part of Europe and are also very supportive tutors.

Our festival's goal is to help students develop their creative and critical abilities with language - to become productive review writers and insightful thinkers.

The workshop will among others develop writing skills by introducing the practice of hearing students' work read by others, and responding critically to their own and others' writing. They will be introduced to tools used in writing a concert review. The workshop will stress the importance of documenting, developing and communicating ideas through writing.

A selection of the workshop reviews will be posted on the official Festival website and published in the print and internet media.