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December 2008

December 2008

December 22 (Monday) 2008, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Stereo (love)
An independent theatre performance by Vesela Kazakova and Elitsa Mateeva
texts by Elitsa Mateeva and Vesela Kazakova, Director – Elitsa Mateeva, choreography – Krasen Krastev, stage design and costumes – Alexander Smolianov, composer – Vesela Kazakova, actors – Vesela Kazakova, Vezhen Velchovski and Bogdan Kazandjiev, voice – Krasen Krastev.
With the kind support of MSFT Foundation, National Centre for Theatre and Kirov Consult. A part of the Debuts on the Border project supported by The Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
Part of Small Season Sfumato Theatre Laboratory (2005), Crossroad Stage Plovdiv International Theater Festival (2005), participation in Jerzy Grotovski i Thomas Richards Centre - Pontaderra, Italy (2006) and special selection in the Balkan Black Box International Festival, Berlin (2008). The text has been nominated in the Ivan Radoev National competition for Bulgarian Dramathurgy, Pleven (2005).
In Bulgarian. Duration: 50 min.
Tickets: 7/5 BGN reserve a ticket

December 22 (Monday) 2008, 6.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Christianity and Culture Club аnd Communitas Foundation present:
Christianity and Innovation
debate
In what sense is Christianity conservative? Is Christianity really against innovation? Is innovation really a problemfree positive term? Christianity and progress.
With the participation of Prof. Tzocho Boyadjiev, Prof. Georgi Kapriev and Prof. Vladimir Gradev
Moderator - Prof. Kalin Yanakiev
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance

December 20 (Saturday) 2008, 10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Red hall
Scent of Christmas
Christmas Market - With love to the little ones
Glue wine, Christmas cookies and... unique toys, that would make your kids develop their imagination, while playing with carefully selected toys of manufacturers and famous designers from the Netherlands, France, the UK, Denmark and Germany. The selection and the entire atmosphere is brought to you by www.littleowl.bg.
Free entrance

December 17 (Wednesday) 2008, 5.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
Diplomats and Dreamers. The Stancioff Family in Bulgarian History
lecture by Mari Firkatian (University of Hartford, USA) promoting her homonymous book, publshed by University Press of America, 2008
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
In Еnglish, no interpretation in Bulgarian.
Free entrance

December 17 (Wednesday) 2008, 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
Is Reading Dying Out?
public lecture by Alexander Kiossev (Sofia University St. Climent Ohridski), followed by a discussion
In this lecture Alexander Kiossev analyses the "Fall of the Gutenberg galaxy" in the era of new media and Internet-communications and discusses the ambiguous assessments of the state of the book market, the various reading practices, the reading literacy and motivation. The core thesis that he puts forward is that there is a direct relation between the habit of reading and the values of democracy and the autonomy of the individual.
In collaboration with the Big Read campaign. More about the campaign can be found at http://4etene.bnt.bg/bg/
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN reserve a ticket

December 16 (Tuesday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Spotlight Production, Ciela Publishers and The Red House Center for Culture and Debate present:
Prague Spring 1968 Sofia Summer (dir. Nayo Titzin, documentary, 55 min., 2008, Bulgaria), followed by a book launch and discussion
A film about the contrasts between the Czech Republic and Bulgaria in 1968. A film that reveals the mechanisms of censarship and propaganda during Communism. A film about how information about the events in Czechoslovakia were twisted by the Bulgarian media. A film about the failed chance of establishing Communism with a human face.
After the film – a book launch of "Czechoslovak Diary 1968" by colonel Trifon Angelov – the confession of a Bulgarian officer that obbeyed the orders to invade Czechoslovakia, and that later on realised how wrong they were.
Two premiers and one discussion – about censarship and propaganda then and now.
In Bulgarian
Tickets: 3/2 BGN reserve a ticket

December 15 (Monday) 2008, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Momo drama group presents:
Underground Blues
а multimedia performance after Peter Handke
Director - Vesselin Dimov; The Wild Man – Alexander Mitrev; The Wild Woman – Elena Dimitrova; Passengers in the underground – extras from Artist Studio casting agency; Translation – Vladko Murdarov; Stage design – Antoaneta Kostova; Music ambience – Todor Stoyanov; Visual ambience – Ivan Nikolov.
The authors of the performance undertake an interesting stage experiment when they bring together the presence of the actor and the multimedia in a unity of time, place and action. Underground. Passengers that get on, travel, get off. There is but one real presence among them – an angry, rejected passenger that starts addressing a list of social images – modern society archetypes. At the end of the journey a surprise is awaiting him…
The performance is realized with the support of KulturKontakt Austria, The Austrian Embassy in Sofia, the Ministry of Culture and EMCO Ltd.
In the framework of the Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series, with the support of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality, in cooperation with the French Institute – Sofia and Pozor Association.
In Bulgarian. Duration: 75 min.
Tickets: 9/7 BGN reserve a ticket

December 14 (Sunday) 2008, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Momo drama group presents:
Underground Blues
а multimedia performance after Peter Handke
Director - Vesselin Dimov; The Wild Man – Alexander Mitrev; The Wild Woman – Elena Dimitrova; Passengers in the underground – extras from Artist Studio casting agency; Translation – Vladko Murdarov; Stage design – Antoaneta Kostova; Music ambience – Todor Stoyanov; Visual ambience – Ivan Nikolov.
The authors of the performance undertake an interesting stage experiment when they bring together the presence of the actor and the multimedia in a unity of time, place and action. Underground. Passengers that get on, travel, get off. There is but one real presence among them – an angry, rejected passenger that starts addressing a list of social images – modern society archetypes. At the end of the journey a surprise is awaiting him…
The performance is realized with the support of KulturKontakt Austria, The Austrian Embassy in Sofia, the Ministry of Culture and EMCO Ltd.
In the framework of the Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series, with the support of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality, in cooperation with the French Institute – Sofia and Pozor Association.
In Bulgarian. Duration: 75 min.
Tickets: 9/7 BGN reserve a ticket

December 13 (Saturday) 2008, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Destricted (dir. Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matthew Barney, Richard Prince, Marco Brambilla and Marina Abramovic, 115 min., 2006, in English with Bulgarian subtitles)
This cult compilation of distinctive and entirely uncensored shorts represents artists’ point of views on sex and pornography. Participation in The Critics’ Week, Cannes 2006 and the official selection of Sundance FF, Locano FF, Edinburgh FF and IDFAmsterdam 2006.
In the framework of the Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series, with the support of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality, in cooperation with the French Institute – Sofia and Pozor Association.
Tickets: 6/4 BGN reserve a ticket

December 13 (Saturday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Rough Cuts (dir. Ema Konstantinova, documentary, 45 min., 2008, Bulgaria, in English with Bulgarian subtitles)
a premiere screening, followed by a talk with the author about the options for artistic residence in Austria
This film was created during my two-month stay in Vienna as artist in residence. It is a video-diary in which I share in a most sincere way everything that I – an artist and person from South-East Europe, had seen and experienced in Vienna – the heart of Central European culture. I reveal the questions that are torturing me all the time – “Am I an artist”, “What is the understanding about art of the Easterners and Westerners?”, “Which are the values of contemporary art?”, “Where is our place in the European cultural puzzle?”.
In the framework of the Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series, with the support of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality, in cooperation with the French Institute – Sofia and Pozor Association.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN reserve a ticket

December 12 (Friday) 2008, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
This Body
Concept and performer - Elena Melnishka; Music: David Leahy
“A performance inspired by August Rodin, by my work as artists’ model, by the subtly perceivable things and by Berlin in the spring. In its impulse for being the embryo breaks the shell and unfolds into a human body to tell about experiences in images, movement, words and prayers. The rich palette of its nature emerges from them: its animal nature, its opennes, fragility, beauty, eroticism, transitionness, srirituality and the various looks through the body has is perceived in various situations. What kind of looks uses the audience at the moment?”
In Bulgarian. Duration: 20 min.
As Long as a Washing Machine Programme
a performance of the The Girls from Avignon group (Kameliya Peichinova, Yana Petrova, Asya Misheva, Doroteya Angelova, Raya Hristova, Ivan Krastev); Structure and text by Orlin Droryanov
The performance raises the following questions: on post modern situation which puts in doubt the ascending development of the scientific and technological progress; on the loss of corporality in the electronic era; on the optional replacement of the physical body by technological constructions; on the non/option the mind to function independently without the body.
In the framework of the Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series, with the support of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality, in cooperation with the French Institute – Sofia and Pozor Association.
There is a 15 min. break between the two performances.
In Bulgarian. Duration: 30 min.
Tickets for the whole evening: 9/7 BGN reserve a ticket

December 12 (Friday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Wide Details, On the Traces of Francis Alÿs (documentary, directed by Julien Devaux and Francis Alÿs, 52 min., 2006, France)
A film about the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs - a modern Belgian artist, is painter, video-maker and urban interventionist all rolled into one - and a resident of Mexico city for the last 15 years. He has made the sprawling city a full-scale laboratory for his strange and indefatigable quest of making walking an art. The film contains an interview with Mexican writer Carlos Monsiváis (who worked with the artist on the Mexico City historic center project), a video project by Alÿs, an introduction to Alÿs' work by Kitty Scott, and a downloadable screensaver realized by Alÿs.
He walks the roads trickling paint as he goes, trailing a magnetised toy that collects the urban scrap and pushing a block of ice until it melts. Julien Devaux delves into this unique and poetic work.
In the framework of the Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series, with the support of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality.
In French with English subtitles.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN reserve a ticket

December 11 (Thursday) 2008, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Iskrila
a debut one-woman show by Milena Dabova
Directed and choreographed by Milena Dabova; Costumes and set design by Milena Dabova, with the support of Double Edge Theatre; Sound editing by Joshua Boliver; Performed by Milena Dabova
Through dance, song and theater "Iskrila" follows the simple story of a journey through the seasons of femininity - the invisible battles between play and obedience, vanity and verve... Can the sparks of woman burn into a flame?
In Bulgarian. Duration: 21 min.
The Sheltering Sky
dance performance after the novel by Paul Bowles
Idea by Viktor and Elena Ivanov; Dramatization - Elena Koleva-Ivanova; Stage and costume design - Viktor Ivanov; Consultant - Tsvetelina Gospodinova; Performer - Elena Koleva-Ivanova
There is a story for a trip to the highest point in the desert, spending the last money to drink tea. These tree poor girls were found like this: with the kettle and the tea cups in the middle of the desert. Port and Kit (the main characters in the novel “The Sheltering Sky” by Paul Bowles) travel in the desert, because of the traveling itself or because of getting closer, nobody understands: he dies, and she, she does not know who she is.
The performance is part of the Performances Without Budget Program of the X-tendo Association for City Research by the Means of Arts.
In the framework of the Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series, with the support of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality, in cooperation with the French Institute – Sofia and Pozor Association.
In Bulgarian. Duration: 37 min.
There is a 15 minutes break between the two performances.
Tickets for the whole evening: 9/7 BGN
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December 11 (Thursday) 2008, 7.00 p.m. – opening
December 12 - 19 , between 3.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m.
Nameless hall, Gulliver hall
Horeia (Body Choreographies)
photo exhibition
Author: Liliana Dvoryanova
horeia – longing towards an impossibility – the endeavour to write and pronounce the body
horeia – a dancing body – a movement which is choreo-graphy – elusive, virtual, amorphous, a-topic, aim-less…
horeia – the body is not holistic, not the same...
horeia – a gravity-free body, a body without a topos
In the framework of the Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series, with the support of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality, in cooperation with the French Institute – Sofia and Pozor Association.
Free entrance
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December 11-15 (Thursday – Monday) 2008
Red hall
Gravity-free Art - Sofia 2008 Open Artistic Platform
mini-fest
Gravity-free Art Sofia 2008 Open Artistic Platform presents original modern projects in the sphere of drama, dance visual arts, music, literature and film. Gravity-free Art focuses on the new and the surprising, on things that provoke the borders of different genres and that cannot be seen at the habitual cultural venues in Sofia. In October, November and December 2008 the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate presents drama and dance performances, concerts, new books, first screenings of films, exhibitions of modern art (still photography, video art, collage, new media). Our partners in the upcoming mini-fest are the French Institute – Sofia and Pozor Association. Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series is supported by the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality.
December 11 (Thursday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Yves Klein – the Blue Revolution (Yves Klein La Revolution Bleue) (dir. François Levy Kuentz, 52 min., 2006, France)
A documentary about one of the leading figures in 20th century modern art, considered a genius by some and a complete lunatic by others. This film about Yves Klein, a leading light of modern art, is a documented fiction film made up of library footage, artwork and re-enactments. It follows the artist’s life in chronological order, showing the progress of his career and unravelling the mysterious correlations running through his work. The film is narrated by the artist himself, who tells his tale like a jigsaw puzzle, bringing to life the man, the artist, the work and the era.
FIPA 2007 - Situations de la création française, Prix au FIFA Montréal 2007
In the framework of the Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series, with the support of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality, in cooperation with the French Institute – Sofia and Pozor Association.
In French with English subtitles.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN
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December 11 (Thursday) 2008, 5.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Cеnter for Liberal Strategies ‘The Future through the Culture of the Past: Bulgarian Economic and Social History’ Seminar presents:
The Bulgarian Reparation Payments after World War I
lecture by Valeri Kolev (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)
The seminar is led by Roumen Avramov (CLS) and Martin Ivanov (Institute of History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance

December 10 (Wednesday) 2008, 7.30 p.m.
Red hall
The biggest short films and cartoons network Future Shorts presents its December winter program
Winter Protons
Nobody really got it, but it's December already, and we all miss the positive energy and the sunshine. Future Shorts invite you to the December selection of "Winter Protons" films, a festive winter taste, fireworks, stop-motion animation, a bit of black humor, a little digital media and at the final – take a bath in the ice water. Take your dose of the winter positive energy from the Future Shorts!
Programme:
Immerse (dir. Anton Groves, Roumania, 1 min. 55 sec., 2008)
A nano-technological take on acid-reflux relief.
A Changed Man (dir. Jens Jonsson, Sweden, 19 min., 2003)
A high school reunion has a profound influence on a middle aged man and his life.
Fireworks (dir. PES, USA, 25 sec., 2008)
Candy corn, coins and more come to life in this festive animation.
Christmas with Dad (dir. Conor McCormack, UK, 11 min., 2008)
The film follows a young man struggling to define his role as a father, haunted by his own childhood and facing an uncertain future.
Ten Thousand Pictures of You (dir. Robin King, UK, 2 min. 15 sec., 2006)
An exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the animated pictures of Sarah's world, as she seeks revenge upon the movie star who broke her heart.
At the End of the Sentence (dir. Marisa Zanotti, UK, 9 min. 32 sec., 2005)
This darkly comic film follows the emotional journey of two brothers from morning through to night as they try to come to terms with their relationship with their father who stumbles back into their lives one dark Christmas night.
Untitled No 2 (dir. Geoffrey Howell, UK, 4 min., 2006)
Japan’s military force has been forbidden to train for war since the end of World War 2. They keep busy with much more creative activities.
High Plains Winter (dir. Cindy Stillwell, USA, 9 min. 47 sec., 2006)
High Plains Winter is a film about the winter landscape and how it affects the human spirit on the high plains of Montana.
The Ice Tribe (dir. Heidi Vilkman, Finland, 7 min. 22 sec., 2006)
Whether it’s called ice hole swimming, polar bear dipping or just plain old madness, this short documentary explores an unusual, spiritual past time in the midst of an icy, Finnish landscape.
Zhanxiou Village (dir. Kaige Chen, China, 3 min., 2007)
Kaige Chen’s entry into Cannes’ “Chacun son cinema” is a touching look at a young man’s discovery of the magic of film.
The Bloody Olive (dir. Vincent Bal, Belgium, 10 min. 32 sec., 2006)
A couple welcome a guest as they prepare for Christmas. A festive noir results with twists galore.
Total duration: 80 min.
Check our web-site for more info www.futureshorts.com/bulgaria.
In English with Bulgarian subtitles.
Tickets: 6/4 BGN reserve a ticket

December 10 (Wednesday) 2008, 6.00 p.m. - opening
December 11-18 (no exclusive time for visits, while visiting other events of the programme in the same hall)
Pesha Nikolova hall and stairs
For Our Children Foundation presents:
Do Not Abandon Me!
exhibition of posters and photos of the competition of students from the Gymnasium in Poligraphics and Photography in Sofia
For ten days works of students from the Gymnasium in Poligraphic and Photography can bee seenq dedicated to the phenomenon of the nowadays Bulgarian society – leaving babies. Every year between 1500 and 2000 mothers irreparably separate from their children.
How the future citizents of our society understand the abandoness? What are their inclinations and messages? What is their personal experience about the abandoness? Can their posters and photos be part of the change of the societal way of thinking?
The event is part of the campaign of For Our Children Foundation in support to mothers who because of economic, social or other reasons leave their babies. More information on www.detebg.org
Free entrance

December 9 (Tuesday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Centre for Liberal Strategies and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
What Does Russia Think?
public lecture by Gleb Pavlovsky (Russian Institute - Moskow)
Gleb Pavlovsky is a politologist, politics analyser, Chairman of Fund for Effective Policy.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN reserve a ticket

December 8 (Monday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The French Institute - Sofia, BECSA, Centre for Liberal Strategies, The Embassy of France, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and RFI - Bulgaria present a lecture of the cycle “Europe, Here and Now”:
The European Union – a Key Crises Manager?
public lecture of Jean-Louis Bourlanges, followed by a discussion
The key moments of the lecture are closely related with the fact that EU cannot secure the necessary instruments for managing successfully an economic or international crisis. For the last six montsh despite its structural failings EU succeeded in imposing itself as a key factor in international affairs as concerns the two considerable crises – the one in Caucasus and the economic one.
Jean-Louis Bourlanges is a former Member of the European Parliament (ALDE), a graduate and now associated professor at Sciences Po, Paris.
Moderator: Toni Nikolov (editor-in-chief, RFI-Bulgaria)
In French, with simultaneous interpretation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance

December 5 (Friday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The euro-deputies Меthin Kazak and Filiz Hyuzmenova (Coalition of Liberals and Democrats on Europe ALDE) present:
The Elections Propaganda in European Capitals: How Sofia Complies With the Democracy’s Rules?
debate
The goal of this discussion is to speak out the way the citizen should be protected from the aggressive propaganda and from monopolizing the public space, and to point out a way and means for attaining tolerant and moderate electioneering environment in the eve of 2009 when we vote for following National Assembly as well as for euro-deputies. This is an attempt to promote other european capitals’ experience - what and as well how transforms during electioneering or how the tolerance is honored. The subject of the discussion is how to prevent aggression when agitating as well as the observations of the euro-deputies - liberals by other countries which are the effective instruments in city’s atmosphere and how to provide them, which agents are in charge of the peaceful coexistence of ideologies, that compete for the voter’s choice.
It is essential for the bulgarian liberals, holding this event, to find and promote a pragmatic way as well as to guarantee tolerance that is among cardinal liberal principles.
With the participation of eurodeputies, sociologists, politologists, PR specialists and journalists.
Moderator: Petko Georgiev (ProMedia)
With the media cooperation of Bulgarian National Television and 24 chasa daily newspaper.
Free entrance

December 5 (Friday) 2008, 11.00 a.m.
Red hall
Bulgarian Society of Publishers in Humanities presents:
State Support for Public Media in Bulgaria – Some Nowadays Absurds and Suggestions for Changes in Legislation
press-conference
The situation today is absurd and asks for a change: only two media operators – BNT and BNR – are privileged to receive direct state aid from the national budget, while all the others, i.e. electronic media, press, minorities’ and cultural printed media, cannot rely on any support for the creation of high quality media products of public interest. Following a careful analysis of the current state of affairs, we suggest changes in both the Law of Radio and Television and the Law of Protection and Development of Culture - strengthening the financial and content control of BNT and BNR in order that they really turn into genuinely public media; establishing a new programme for state support of media content in public interest at the National Fund Culture, which would be open on a competition basis to all the media.
With the participation of Georgi Lozanov (media expert, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski), Dimitar Vatsov (Managing Committee of Bulgarian Society of Publishers in Humanities), Antoaneta Koleva (Head of Bulgarian Society of Publishers in Humanities), Boyan Znepolski (editor of Critique & Humanism journal) and Malina Tomova (deputy editor-in-chief of Literary Newspaper)
Free entrance

December 4 (Thursday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Action for Climate Bulgaria Civil Coalition, Environmental Association Za Zemiata, Agree.Net, European Environment Festival Foundation and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
Policies and Pratcices For Fighting Against Climate Changes: Where Do We Stand?
debate
Starting from a cause nurtured and supported by the environmental NGOs, recently the fight against climate changes became the favourite issue of leading world democracies talks and their intergovernmental forums. Where do we stand in this?
With the participation of Julian Popov, adviser, Central and Eastern Europe, European Climate Foundation and Chaiman, Bulgarian School of Politics, Venelina Velichkova, EA "Za Zemiata", Arjan Visser, Ekofis Company, in which an alternative scenario for power production and use in Bulgaria till 2050, relaying fully on natural sources energy production, elaborated by Environmental Association Za Zemiata is going to be promoted. Prior to the debate we screen the film
Deserts on the Move - Europe (Written by Ingo Herbst, director - Ingo Herbst, camera - B.Gudjonsdottir, producer - Peter Borig, distributor - medi cine, Germany 2005, ZDF-ARTE, 50 min., with English subtitles)
a film giving a dire warning of the consequences of the reckless use of natural resources in Spain, which warns Bulgaria of the danger too
Most school textbooks continue to recite the conventional wisdom that Europe does not have any deserts. They are out of date. Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece are four EU countries that are already so badly affected that they have joined the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD). A fifth of Spanish land is so degraded that it is turning into desert, and in Italy tracts of land in the south are now abandoned and have also been declared desert. But the problem is not confined to these four countries. Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and Russia have all reported signs of desertification – and in the Ukraine 41% of agricultural land is at risk of erosion. In 2000, the United Nations published a report in which it stated ‘the first stages of serious soil degradation were being noted in parts of Europe and 150 million hectares are at a high risk of erosion. Deterioration is at a critical point in Mediterranean countries’.
Awards: Ekotop Filmfestival: Prize of Ministry of Environment 2007, Deutsche Umwelthilfe: Medienpreis 2007
The film has been provided by the European Environment Festival Foundation and participated in the Green Wave – 21st Century European Environment Festival 2008)
The debate is in Bulgarian.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN

December 4 (Thursday) 2008, 5.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Centre for Intercultural Daiolgue and Integration (Blagoevgrad) presents:
Cultural Policies And Educational Pracices
discussion and book presentation
The formal pretext for this discussion is the Bulgarian translation of the book “Empowering the Author: Culture and Arts Management and the Challenge of Social Inclusion” – a book that comes out of the European Programme for Arts Management Project.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance

December 3 (Wednesday) 2008, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Tuberculosis (White Plague)
a debut solo performance by Tsvetelina Stoyanova-TSV
Written and directed by Tsvetelina Stoyanova-TSV, Set Decorator and costumes - Tsvetelina Stoyanova-TSV, Kiril Naumov; Choreography – Tsvetelina Stoyanova- TSV, Kostadin Vassilev; Multimedia – Tsvetelina Stoyanova-TSV, Ognyan Golev (editing); music surround - Tsvetelina Stoyanova-TSV; With Tsvetelina Stoyanova-TSV and Kostadin Vassilev.
Various scene approaches are interwoven in the show. It is based on the doctor-patient relations. Texts by Thomas Mann, Shakespeare, Hristo Smirnenski, Anna-Maria Navales and medical literature are used. The show aims at approaching the disease as a dead end, pretext and a paradox. The organic disease itself is a secondary phenomenon. It is also a powerful learning tool – a way to man, love and death.
This show is from the programme of the Slug Theatre, New Bulgarian University and is realised with the kind collaboration of the Alexandrovska General Hospital.
In the framework of the Gravity-free Art Open Cultural Platform Sofia 2008 series, with the support of the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality.
In Bulgarian. Duration: 77 min.
Tickets: 9/6 BGN

December 1 (Monday) 2008, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Bach
dance performance by Isabelle Schad (Germany)
Bach is an investigation of pleasurable and comic situations through a physical approach, that means through body practice, movement and dance.
With the participation of Ivailo Dimitrov and Sasha Krustarska. Choreography: Isabelle Schad. Music: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Second Part.
With the support of Goethe-Institut Bulgaria.
Duration: 45 min.
Tickets: 9/6 BGN
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