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9 October (Thursday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Communitas Foundation and The Red House centre for Culture and Debate are pleased to invite you at the book premiere:
Three Faces of the Thyranny: Aleksander Lukashenko, Islam Karimov, Vladimir Putin
Author - prof. Evgeniy Dajnov (politologist and University Professor)
Published by Communitas Foundation
The spreading of democracy throughout the world means the integration of more and more people to civilization and maintaining a living standard in which more and more people would be happy (if they want, of course). It seemed that this was exactly what was happening during the decade after the fall of communism, the break-up of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. From the beginning of the 21st century, however, this rising tide turned into a low tide. More and more countries are becoming territories, where there is no state. Many of the countries, where a state exists, are turning either into autocratic or tyrannical regimes – in places where the state power exerts atrocity and violence upon its own population. This is precisely what Vladimir Putin in Russia, Aleksander Lukashenko in Belarus and Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan have been doing for years.
Free entrance
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15 September (Monday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Ciela Publishing House, Civic Association „Georgy Markov”, The Association of Bulgarian Writers and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
To Kill a Mockingbird
30 years after Georgy Markov’s death
For more than 30 years now people refer to the Bulgarian writer Georgy Markov more as “the assassinated writer” rather than as “the writer that has been assassinated”. On the eve of this year's anniversary of his death we would like to revive the memory of the writer Georgy Markov and of his literary works.
With the participation of Tzveta Trifonova, Hristo Hristov, Bojidar Kunchev and Svetlozar Jelev.
Moderator– Mihail Nedelchev.
Free entrance
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June 27 (Friday) 2008, 10.00 a.m.-3.00 p.m.
Red hall
Institute for Social Policy and Social Work presents:
Integrated Practices for Prevention of Violence Against Women and Children with Disabilities
a final conference of the project of the same name, funded by UNIFEM.
Research of the violence against women and children with disabilities, along with conclusions from pilot projects of the centres of social rehabilitation and integration of the Institute for Social Policy and Social Work in Pernik and Kyustendil are to be presented.
Moderator: Mila Marinova
Free entrance
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June 20 (Friday) 2008, 8.30 p.m.
Red Cafe
Classic guitar and Latino Live
with Simeon Ivanov and Tzvetan Andreev
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June 12 (Thursday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Being a Woman-Foreigner in Bulgaria
festival
Images of a Woman
premiere of Asma Burzhi, Vania Ivanova and Albena Cholakova’s book This book interwines two types of narrative - this of a Lebanese foreign woman-writer, who tells her story in French in Bulgaria; the one presented by two young women-researchers and their approach to The Other Woman, to comprehend her with the necessary distance by constructing their own image gallery of the Foreigner in Bulgaria by means of empirical data of life story interviews. This is a totally interactive work, in which the points of view of the stranger-writer and the young researches studying her and her life story meet.
Free entrance
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June 9 (Monday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Prosveta Publishing House present the Bulgarian edition of:
Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State
author - Prof. Michael Herzfeld
Michael Herzfeld is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. Among his books are Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society and The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value.
With the participation of Michael Herzfeld (Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University), Ilia Iliev (translator of the Bulgarian edition), and Alexander Kiossev (editor of the bulgarian edition).
Free entrance
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June 3 (Tuesday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
360 Degrees of Culture
presentation of The Asia-Europe Foundation by Cateleen Ferstraate (Program Director, International Relations in AEF)
360 Degrees of Culture (http://www.culture360.org), a project of ASEF, is a web site, a reference tool, and a place for dialogue: an exciting new portal that takes cultural cooperation within and between Asia and Europe to a whole new level.
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) was established in February 1997 under the framework of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process. ASEF seeks to promote mutual understanding, deeper engagement and continuing collaboration among the people of Asia and Europe through greater intellectual, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges between the two regions. Cateleen Ferstraate is the person who gives you the know-how how to implement an exchange artistic project with asian partners.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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May 27 (Tuesday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Obsidian Publishers present
Concert for Sentence
premiere of the new novel by Emilia Dvorianova
Free entrance
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May 13 (Tuseday),6.00 p.m.
Red hall
The Institute for Studies of the Recent Past, Open Society Institute, CIELA Publishers and The Red House for Culture and Debate invite you at the public presentation of the recently published book:
Bulgarian Communism. Socio-cultural Aspects and Power Trajectory
Author: Ivaylo Znepolski
Published by the Institute for Studies of the Recent Past, Open Society Institute and Ciela Publishers, Sofia 2008
The author and his book is presented by Mihail Nedelchev and Mihail Gruev followed by a discussion.
The book is result of the extensive research of Ivaylo Znepolski conducted as part of the Communism Research Project.
Free entrance
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May 7 (Wednesday) 2008, 6.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall (if weather allowing - in the garden)
Cultures in Motion
Launch of „Critics and Humanism“ journal’s new issue of on the theme “Cultures in motion“. This time we do not debate and speak, but act. Come to share with us the most mobile practice, namely cooking. We cook, using travelling recipes and products in motion. In short, we have fun, while testing in practice one open-ended understanding of culture. As for the theories and the research we let you try them in the silence of your own rooms, with the new issue of „Critics and Humanism“ in your hands.
Free entrance
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April 18 (Friday) 2008, 8.30 p.m.
Red Cafe
Classis guitar and Latino Live
with Simeon Ivanov and Tzvetan Andreev
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April 17 (Thursday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
The Institute for Studies of the Recent Past, Open Society Institute and Ciela Publishers present:
Legitimacy Machine. State Security in the Power Strategy of Bulgarian Communist Party
author– Momchil Metodiev
The author and his book are presented by Ivaylo Znepolski and Ivan Krastev, and is followed by a discussion.
The book is a result of the extensive research of Momchil Metodiev conducted as part of the Communism Research Project.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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April 8 (Tuesday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
On the occasion of the International Roma Day ECIP Foundation and Health Problems of the Minorities Foundation present:
Cases From the Practice of the Health Mediator
The publication addresses 46 cases from the practice of sixteen health mediators who were trained in the Ministry of Health approved programme and who started to work in 2006. The presentation of the book is followed by the screening of "Mission" documentary (production of AGITPROP, directed by Valentin Valchev, cameramen - Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov), depicting the profession of health mediators as a mission and as a personal fate.
Free entrance
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April 5 (Saturday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Groupe de Champ Freudien - Bulgarie, Child and Space Association, French Institute - Sofia, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate present:
The Child and Its Symptoms
book launch
Collection of papers from the first two years of the French-Bulgarian training project called The Child and Its Symptoms (2005-2007) involving professionals that take care of disabled children in Bulgaria. The collection encompasses texts of French psychoanalysts and of Bulgarian psychologists and paediatricians whose work is influenced by the famous French psychoanalyst Jacque Lakan. The book is engaged in research on themes about child’s suffering and its symptoms, sexuality, aggressiveness, psychotic dimension and autism, partners of the child.
With the support of Doctors of the World – France.
In Bulgarian and French language, with translation into Bulgarian language.
Free entrance
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March 14 (Friday) 2008, 5.00-7.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
public defence of master theses
The Fairy-Tale – the Royal Road to the Child by Dessislava Popova
and
The Theory of Jacob Levi Moreno about Social Atom and its Practical Application in Psychodrama by Petar Tzikalov
Dessislava Popova and Petar Tzikalov are graduating students from the Master Degree Programme in Artistic Psycho-Social Practices at NBU.
In Bulgarian. The number of seats is limited.
Free entrance
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March 11 (Tuesday) 2008, 8.00 p.m. - opening
March 11-20
2008, between 3.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., except Saturday and Sunday
Nameless hall, Gulliver hall
The Red House and Studio Dauhaus present:
No Place like Home/No Home like Place (sentimental and nostalgic art)
exhibition
A presentation of some of the young artists debuting in conteporary art. Some of the participants are Georgi Vodenicharov, Iva Nikolova, Mihaela Vlaseva, Nencho Balkansky, Stanimir Genov, etc.
Supported by Fund for Support of Debut Projects; National Fund „Culture”, Goethe-Institute Sofia and Cult.bg Foundation and in cooperation with the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
Curator – Yovo Panchev (Studio Dauhaus).
Free entrance
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March 8 (Saturday) 2008, 2.00-10.00 p.m.
Nameless hall; Gulliver hall (2.00-3.00 p.m.; 8.00-10.00 p.m.)
Fetishista 3
For all seduced by arts – the Third Art-Fetish Fair
The art-fetish fair Fetishista is an already recognizable event, and bears the potential of becoming the favourite place for connoisseurs and admirers of contemporary Bulgarian art, music and theater. Lacking the status and the prestige of a gallery type of event, Fetishishta unites collectors, connoisseurs and artists within a more direct and informal milieu for communication, which gives the chance of buying authentic artifacts with a fetish status, as well encountering with and sharing a glass of wine with the organizers around the recognisable bar.
Curators – Boryana Rossa and Yovo Panchev
Free entrance
3.00-8.00 p.m.
Gulliver hall
Screening of the Selection 10 Years Bulgarian Video-art
a project by Adelina Popnedeleva
Almost ten years ago, the exhibition „Video Hart“ (1995) was where Bulgarian video art was shown for the first time. Since then the number of artists working in the field has raised. The 10 Years of Bulgarian Video-art Selection (2006) gives us a broader overview of the pieces shot and screened during these 10 years.
Curator – Adelina Popnedeleva
Free entrance
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February 26 (Tuesday) 2008, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Institute for Studies of the Recent Past –Sofia, Open Society Institute and Ciela Publishers present:
The Power Structures of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1944-1989) - author Alexander Vezenkov (Bulgaria)
Reformation without Reforms. The Political Economy of Bulgarian Communism (1963 – 1989) - author Martin Ivanov (Bulgaria)
books launch
The books are presented by ot Ivailo Znepolski, Rumen Avramov and Angel Zelengora, and is followed by discussion with the authors.
Free entrance
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January 28 (Monday) 2008, 11.00 a.m.
Red hall
Access to Information Programme Foundation and Internet Society Bulgaria present:
The Big Brother Anti-Awards
official ceremony for presenting institutions, companies and persons with the annual anti-awards for the violation of the right to privacy and the protection of personal data. In the jury to decide the fourth holders are: Alexander Kashumov (Access to Information Programme), Gergana Juleva (Access to Information Programme), Georgi Lozanov (Faculty of Journalism - St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University), Zoya Dimitrova (Deputy Editor in Chief - Politika Daily), Krassimir Dimitrov (member of the Commission for Pesronal Data Protection), Fani Davidova (lawyer), Yulia Velkova (Internet Society – Bulgaria). Among the nominees for 2007 are: The Government of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Ministry of Interior Affairs, Trafic Police, the official Registry Agency and the Commission for Pesronal Data Protection itself
!Free entrance
And the winner is....
This year the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior became the winner of the Big Brother Anti-Award. The "Shame" award was carried off by the Bulgarian Government .
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January 17 (Thursday) 2008, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
“Janet 45” Publishing presents:
The King of Havana
author - Pedro Juan Gutierrez (Cuba)
book launch
The book is presented by Emi Barouh (translator), Diana Ivanova (journalist), and Manol Peykov (publisher) and is followed by discussion with Babak Salari (photographer, Canada), author of “Faces, Bodies, Personas: Tracing Cuban Stories” exhibition.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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January 17 (Thursday) 2008, 6.30 p.m. - opening
Nameless hall, Gulliver hall
January 17 - 30 2008, between 3.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., except Saturday and Sunday
CubaLibre Association presents
Faces, Bodies, Persons: Tracing Cuban Stories
photo exhibition of Babak Salari (photographer, Canada) in which he documents the culturemakers of Cuba. Bringing together 30 of Cuba’s most prominent artists, from dancers to playwrights to photographers, Salari takes on their mission to expose, explore, and defy the boundaries of sexuality and identity.
Free entrance
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December 22 (Saturday) 2007, 11.00 a.m. - 11.00 p.m.
Nameless hall, Gulliver hall and Red hall
Fetishista
For all seduced by arts – the First Art-Fetish Fair
Need a last-minute holiday gifts for your good friend or yourself? FETISHISTA is the place to go! You can find DVDs and CDs with artist’s compilations of videos and films, video and photo documentations of art shows from the beginning of the 90ies up until now, theatre spectacles, festivals and concerts, rare favorite and unknown music, postcards, posters, art books, critical books, signed books, magazines (with the status of an antique rarity), exhibition catalogues, reproductions, t - shirts and everything that comes along with art production.
Curators - Boriania Rossa i Jovo Panchev
Free entrance
10.00 p.m.
Concert of 1000names (www.myspace.com/1000names)
Tickets for the concert: 4 BGN
For purchasing commodites up to 12 BGN - free entrance for the concert
Organized by the Visual Arts Program at Red House
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December 18 (Tuesday) 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Rabotilnitza za knijnina “Vassil Stanilov” presents:
Day and night, night and day – stories, portraits, poetry
book launch
Author – Maria Shishedjieva-Popova, professor in semiotics
Illustrations – world-famous bass Nikola Ghiuzelev
Book design – Chavdar Ghiuzelev
The book is presented by Mihail Nedelchev and Yordan Eftimov. With the participation of Kamelia Todorova.
Free entrance
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December 17 (Monday) 2007, 9.00 p.m.
Red hall
Triofrio
concert
Just a few days before Christmas it is about time to start thinking the good things in life, and to give the Celebration a chance. With this concert of Biliana Vouchkouva (violin), Rosen Zahariev (trumpet and percussions) and Roumen Toskov (keyboard) we do exactly this. We celebrate the “Now” with spontaneously improvised music and a glass of wine.
Tickets: 7 BGN
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December 4 (Tuesday) 2007, 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Kolibri publihers present in its series Contemporary Bulgarian Authors:
The World Around Me
a novell by Mariana Farkova
“There are many reasons to describe The World Around Me as “the novell of the transition”, because it explores not the shell but the core of the past twenty years.” Deyan Enev.
The book is presented by Alexander Donev and Plamen Doynov.
Free entrance
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November 26 (Monday) 2007, 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Prosveta publishers present:
Bulgarian Poetry at the End of the 20th Century. Part One and Part Two
launch of a book by Plamen Doynov with the same title (in Bulgarian)
The book will be presented by Michail Nedelchev. Some of the most prominent writers and poets of the generation like Georgi Gospodinov, Boyko Penchev, Silvia Choleva, Marin Bodakov and Yordan Eftimov among others will read during the event.
Free entrance
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November 24 (Saturday) 2007, 9.00 p.m.
Red hall
Hilda Kazasyan Trio
jazz concert
With the participation of: Hilda Kazasyan - vocals and congas, Rumen Toskov - keyboard, Hristo Yotzov - drums. In the programme: pieces from Jazz & Samba, the latest album of Hilda Kazasyan, songs by A.K. Jobim and songs from Bulgarian movies.
Part of Finito ma non troppo - festival of productions and projects suppored by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria
Duration: 75 min.
Tickets: 8/5 BGN
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November 24 (Saturday) 2007, 5.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Altera Publishers present:
Pro Art/ Art Pro
collection of analytical texts
Free entrance
November 24 (Saturday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Literary Salon “Nobelized and Others: Literature on the Brink” presents within Finito ma non troppo, festival of productions and projects suppored by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria:
Literature Between Supply and Demand. Literary elite? Literary Classes? Nobel – for Whom?
final debate in the format of Dimitar Kambourov improvised by Georgi Tenev.
With the participation of the audience and people of text invited by Georgi Tenev.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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November 17 (Saturday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Swiss-Balkan Creative Music Project presents:
Free Improvisation
concert
With the participation of: Ensemble Rue du Nord-CH: Jonas Kocher (accordion), Anne Gillot (recorders), Dragos Tara (doublebass & electronics), Laurent Bruttin (clarinets)
The main purpose of the Swiss-Balkan Creative Music Project is to create a network between musicians interested in researching new music forms, mixing different media, improvising with sound. The music is made of sonic architectures, colours and textures and moves between pure sound and abstract noise complexity.
www.myspace.com/swissbalkancreativemusic
Tickets: 9/6 BGN
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November 12 (Monday), 2.00 p.m.
Assenovgrad, Community Cultural Centre “Rodoljubie”
Art for Social Change programme and the children of “Taniu Voyvoda” Social Home, Blagoevgrad invite you to:
Circus of Dreams
interactive performance-exhibition
Exhibition-performance involving you into the world of the Circus appearing through the encounter between one’s inner and outside world. The event presents the results from the psycho-social work through arts with children and young people from the orphanage.
This is the last one from three public events within the framework.
If you like to know more about what it means to live in social “Home” or something about yourself, please attend one of our public events!
The event is part of Gobul’s programme “Let’s Listen to the Children’s Dreams” that is developed in co-operation with the Bulgarian Charity Aid Foundation and the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate.
Free entrance
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November 11 (Sunday)
2007
, 11.00 a.m.
Old town of Blagoevgrad, Varosha, The 12 Chairs
Art for Social Change programme and the children from “Saint Nicolay Mirlikiyski” Social Home, Blagoevgrad present:
Silhouettes
interactive exhibition
The exhibition involves its visitors into a dialogue with the silhouettes’ authors and will reflect on their spontaneity and creativity. The exhibition presents the results from the psycho-social work through arts with children and young people from the social home.
If you like to know more about what it means to live in social “Home” or about yourself please attend one of our forthcoming public events! Coming soon: public event in Assenovgrad on 12.11.
The event is part of Gobul programme “Let’s Listen to the Children’s Dreams” that is developed in co-operation with the Bulgarian Charity Aid Foundation and the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate.
Free entrance
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October 17-19 (Wednesday–Friday) 2007
Red hall
Here/Now
second new music festival
Presented by Biliana Voutchkova. With the participation of: Duokaya (Biliana Voutchkova – violin and Aga Dziubak – cello), Mario Angelov (piano), Yassen Teodosiev (french horn), Antony Donchev (piano), Rossen Idealov (clarinet), Valentin Gerov (viola), Rossen Zahariev (trumpet) and Alexandra Spassova (dance)
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Polish Cultural Centre.
October 17 (Wednesday)
8.00 p.m.
, Red hall
Autumnal Twilight Music
Gheorghi Arnaoudov – “Podzime” for solo violin
George Crumb – From “Macrocosmos”
Oliver Knussen – “Autumnal” for violin and piano
John Harbison – “Twilight music” for violin, horn and piano
October 18 (Thursday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Mosaic
James Yannatos - Three bagatelles for violin and cello
Derek Bermel - Theme and absurdities
Wolfgang von Schweinitz - Plainsound-Litanei for solo cello
Friedrich Goldman - 3 strophes for violin and clarinet
Earl Kim - From 24 capricios for solo violin
Curtis Hughes - “Caduceus” for violin and cello
Krzisztof Penderecki - String trio
Alfred Schnittke - Stille Musik
October 19 (Friday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Trinity Vision
Biliana Voutchkova, violin
Aga Dziubak, cello
Rossen Zahariev, trumpet
Lubomir Draganov, VJ
Trinity plays improvised music of the moment, tonight with visuals same stile.
This project is depending on the consciousness of the audience and the performers in the real time of the performance.
Tickets for one night: 7 BGN
Ticket for the whole festival: 18 BGN
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October 1-5 (Monday-Friday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Sound and Relation – Sofia 07
Days of new music
A festival that seeks the connection of contemporary music to other arts. A presentation of new trends in artistic exploration of the being of sound. Intriguing series of concerts, debates and demonstrations, presented and performed by first-class musicians. A powerful set of Bulgarian premieres focusing on the work of the pioneers in the world music of the late decade of the 20th and the first years of the 21st century and world premieres of contemporary Bulgarian music. In cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, AKM – Vienna, Radio France International – Sofia, Altera – Sofia and the Counterpoint programme of the Hristo Botev station, Bulgarian National Radio.
October 1 (Monday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Gheorghita Boyadjieva – violoncello, Biliana Voutchkova – violin, Rossen Idealov – clarinet, Rossen Balkanski – guitar
Music by: Jonas Asplund, Dragomir Yossifov, Petar Doundakov, Luciano Berio, Otto Muller, Roumen Balyozov, Gheorghi Arnaoudov
October 2 (Tuesday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Yavor Jelev - flute, Biliana Voutchkova – violin, Maria Valchanova – viola, Olga Dinova - voice
Music by: Mirtru Escalona-Mijares, Sebastien Beranger, John Corigliano, Nicolas Tzortzis, Gueorgui Harizanov, Jocelyn Morlock, Arvo Pärt
October 3 (Wenesday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Albena Naydenova – soprano, Marianne Rônez– viola d'amore, Yossif Radionov – violin, Anna Atanasova – violoncello, Krassimir Taskov – piano
Music by: Dieter Kaufmann, Norbert Sterk, Wladimir Pantchev, Rene Staar, Gerald Resh, Martin Lichtfuss
October 4 (Thursday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Electroacoustic and Acousmatic music
Music by: Matias Giuliani, Sebastien Beranger, Bojidar Spassov, Heera Kim, Rafael Miranda Huereca
October 5 (Friday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Rossen Idealov - clarinet, Gheorghita Boyadjieva – cello, Dragomir Yossifov – piano, Quarto quartet: Ivan Penchev - violin, Svetlana Stancheva - violin, Tatiana Todorova - viola, Pavel Rusev - cello
Music by: Jeffrey Ryan, Tom Johnson, Vassil Kazandjiev
For more information: www.auditum.org
Tickets for one night: 7 BGN
Tickets for the whole festival: 30 BGN
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September 27 (Thursday) 2007, 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Obsidian Publishing House presents:
Come To Me
by Bogdan Russev
“Come To Me” is something like a love novel about the 90ies. Three short stories about love as an addiction, as death and reincarnation. Three stories for the quest, the finding and the loss. Three beats from an ongoing rhythm that your heart will know immediately.
Free entrance
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July 4 (Wednesday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Oratorios for Chamber Orchestra
baroque concert of Consort for antique music “Concerto Antico”
This concert presents chamber musical works from the late Baroque epoch using one of the most fascinating and typical compositional technique – the transformation of one and the same musical material from chamber to monumental, oratorial form or the so called Parodie. In the programme: Georg Philip Telemann, Georg Friedrich Haendel and Heinrich Biber.
Consort for antique music (Zephira Valova – violin, Ivan Iliev – violin , Ianko Marinov – harpsichord, Iavor Genov - citer) present Renaissance and Baroque repertoire preserving the authentic sound and playing with typical baroque instruments.
Entrance: 7/5 BGN
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July 4 (Wednesday) 2007, 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Albanian Literature in Exile
literary reading and a discussion with Bashkim Shehu, Albania/ Spain
Writer and thinker, Bashkim Shehu was born in Tirana. Like the majority of intellectuals and artists in Communist Albania, his family was repressed by the regime of Enver Hotxa: his father was assassinated, one of his brothers committed suicide while in prison, his mother died after seven years of imprisonment and he himself was arrested for a decade. Bashkim Shehu left Albania in 1997 and since then he lives in Barcelona.
The novels "The Autumn of Fear", "The Last Journey of Ago Ymeri(Writings from an Unbound Europe)" are probably Shehu's best known works.
In English, with translation into Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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June 25 (Monday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Auditum
Sound and relation
Simeon Pironkoff – the true apology
Anatoli Krastev – cello, Yossif Radionov – violin, Rossen Idealov – clarinet, presentation Gheorghi Arnaoudov, Petar Doundakoff
The music and the artistic activity of one of the charismatic representative of the Bulgarian avant-garde music – Simeon Pironkoff (1927-2000) the author of the operas “A good woman from Szechuan”, “The Motley Bird”, “The Life and the Sufferings of the Sinful Sofroni”, of “The True Apology of Socrates” and “Requiem for an Unknown Young Man”, but also the author of the music of a number cult Bulgarian films such as “The Peach-Garden Trespasser”, “On a Small Island”, “Asparouh”, “The Swimming Pool “, “The Last Word”, “The Inspector and the Night”…
Tickets: 8/6 BGN
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June 22 (Friday) 2007, 8.30 p.m.
Red hall
Onetime - Notime
...Entering into the unpredictable world of the moment with freely improvised music and dance. Our essential self is leading abandoning ambitions and expectations.
With the participation of: Biliana Voutchkova, Alexandra Spassova, Izchak Finzi, Boris Georgiev, Alexander Evtomov - Shamana.
Tickets: 7/5 BGN
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June 22 (Friday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Literary Serial and Goethe Institut present:
A Text Performance of Jürg Halter (Switzerland)
This is the fifth event of the "Page with a Stage”, series of 6 text performances by some of the best known authors of the contemporary literature - live scene in German language. Realised in partnership with The Red House and with the support of Pro Helvetia’s Cultural Programme and the Swiss Embassy in Bulgaria.
Моre information: http://www.art-21.ch/halter/
In German with Bulgarian subtitles.
Free entrance
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June 21 (Thursday) 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
"Mission “Paris”. Conversations with Evgenij Silianov"
premiere of Irina Nedeva’s book of the same title
Sema RSH Publishers, 2007
presentation of the book led by Mihail Nedeltchev followed by a discussion on “the oral history” and the validity of personal narrative. Alternative vision on Bulgaria through the eyes of an ex-diplomat and minister plenipotentiary in Paris before 1944, political emigrant and journalist in the French magazine “Paris Match” and Free Europe radio.
With the partisipation of: contemporaries and people closely related to Evgenij Silianov. Moderator: Dessislava Gavrilova
Entrance: with invitations
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June 15 (Friday) 2007, 9.00 p.m.
Red hall
TanguerIN Studio (www.tanguerin.com) presents:
Tango Nuevo Party
Milonga with tango music from different time periods – from The Golden Age orchestras to modern neo- and electrotango. Dance show by Ismael Ludman and Maria Mondino (Argentina).
Tickets: 8/6 BGN
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June 14 (Thursday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
TanguerIN Studio (www.tanguerin.com) presents:
Tango Argentino – Introduction to Tango Nuevo
dance workshop led by Ismael Ludman and Maria Mondino (Argentina)
A workshop for everyone who wants to learn more about the contemporary forms of tango dancing. Suitable for dancers of all styles and levels. The workshop will be led by a couple of dancers, choreographers, teachers and researchers of contemporary Argentine tango, famous for their creative and progressive style. Their backgrounds include also such disciplines as dance theatre, modern dance, contact improvisation, euthonia, butoh, release, body mind centering etc.
In English.
Tickets: 20/15 BGN
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9 June (Saturday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Literary Serial and Goethe - Institute, Bulgaria present:
A Text Performance of the Swiss Authors Melinda Nadj Abonji and Beatboxer Jurczok 1001 and Nadezhda Radulova, Dimiter Kenarov and Stoil Roshkev (Bulgaria)
This is the fourth event of the “Page with a Stage” series, six text performances by some of the best known authors of German contemporary literature. Despite being the fourth text performance, it is actually the second event within the framework of “Page with a Stage” series that brings together foreign and Bulgarian writers in order to create a joint text performance.
Realised in partnership with The Red House and with the support of Pro Helvetia’s Cultural Programme and the Swiss Embassy in Bulgaria.
In German, with Bulgarian subtitles.
More information:
http://bachmannpreis.orf.at/bachmannpreis/autoren/stories/11091/ and www.acoustictags.net
Free entrance
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May 31 (Thursday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Quatrio
With the participation of: Arabel Karajan (vocal, percussion), Biliana Vuchkova (violin, percussion), George Donchev (basses, percussion), Rossen Zahariev (trumpets, percussion). A group of improvisers juggles with silence and sound in territories without rules and boundaries, a world untouched by expectations and models. Momentary music in a fluid universe.
Tickets: 6/4 BGN
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May 22 (Tuesday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
GoshoRoko
With: George Donchev (basses, percussion) and
Rossen Zahariev (trumpets, percussion)
A couple of daring improvisers play with sound and silence creating music of the moment over the images of Marocco and Dominican Republic
Tickets: 6/4 BGN
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May 19 (Saturday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Literary Serial and Goethe-Institute present:
Joint Text-performance of Enthusiasten
With: Andreas Kampa & Jochen Schmidt (Germany), Art Grupa “The Mounth” with Kamelia Spasova & Maria Kalinova (Bulgaria) and Liturne with Angel Igov & VBV (Bulgaria)
This is the third event of the Page with a Stage series - six text performances by some of the best-known authors of German contemporary literature live scene.
Realised in partnership with The Red House and with the support of Pro Helvetia’s Cultural Programme and the Swiss Embassy in Bulgaria.
For more information: www.enthusiasten.de
In German and Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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May 18 (Friday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Trio C Tot de Derde (The Netherlands)
concert
On the road from India, though Pakistan, back from nine months journey through the East, an exceptional concert by the Dutch music group Trio C tot de derde is taking place at the Red House. The Dutch music group Trio C tot de derde consists of the three young musicians Carel den Hertog (violin), Coos Lettink (accordeon) and Caspar Terra (clarinet). Their music is inspired by klezmer, music from the Balkans and gypsy-styles. The music they play expresses euphoric happiness, as well as intense sadness which gives birth to an unique mix of dancing and dreaming. They perform everywhere: birthday parties, weddings, funerals, theatres, churches, festivals, in smoky pubs and on street-corners all over the world. They have performed with great Balkan musicians like Fanfare Chokarija, Taraf du Hajduks, Venci Takev, etc. The concert at the Red House is their final goodbye to the Bulgarian audience after nine-month travelling around the East and back to Europe. More information at: www.trioctotdederde.nl
Tickets: 7/5 BGN
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May 15 (Thuesday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Quatrio
With the participation of: Arabel Karajan (vocal, percussion), George Donchev (basses, percussion), Rossen Zahariev (trumpets, percussion), Alexandar Eftimov-Shamancheto (vocal, percussion) Highly combustible mix of sound and poetry improvised in the moment. Free form in free flight.
Tickets: 6/4 BGN
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April 26 (Thursday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall, Gulliver hall
Auditum
Sound and Relation
Sub Rosa Dictum
Rossen Balkanski – guitar, Dimitar Marinkev – recorders, Gheorghita Boiadjieva – Nikolova – cello, Fanny Koutzarova - cembalo
Music by: Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) and John Dowland (1562-1626) presented, commented and reflected on by Gheorghi Arnaoudov, Dragomir Yossifov, Rossen Balkanski, Petar Doundakoff, visual concept: Dessislava Staykova, stage design: Penka Kazandjieva
The private music of the Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Robert Devereux the 2nd Earle of Essex, Master Oliver Cromwell and many others, composed personally by John Dowland, and its reflections, written, heard and seen here and now in the “silence of the Rose”.
Tickets: 6/8 BGN
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April 20 (Friday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Literary Serial and Goethe-Institut present:
Text Performance by Frank Kloetgen – Slam Poet, Writer and Singer
This is the second event of the Page with a Stage series - six text performances by some of the best-known authors of German contemporary literature live scene.
The author will present texts out of his new book “Will Kacheln” released on March 21, 2007.
Realised in partnership with The Red House and with the support of Pro Helvetia Kulturprogramm and the Swiss Embassy in Bulgaria.
For more information: www.hirnpoma.de
In German, with Bulgarian subtitles.
Free entrance
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April 16 (Monday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Onetime Shamanara
Entering into the unpredictable world of the moment with freely improvised music and dance. Our essential self is leading abandoning ambitions and expectations.
With the participation of: Biliana Voutchkova, Alexandra Spassova, Arabel Karajan, Boris Georgiev, Alexandar Evtimov
Tickets: 7/5 BGN
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April 16 (Monday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
The Mask – Freedom and Prison
The identity problem in Luigi Pirandello’s work
A book premiere (and) a performance with the participation of:
The Author in search of characters – Antoaneta Doncheva
and the Characters: Miglena Nikolchina (critic), Tatyana Lolova and Georgi Kapriev (actors), Daniela Petkova and Ivelin Atanasov (musicians), Tzocho Boyadjiev (photographer) and Lyuben Kozarev (publisher)
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN
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April 11 (Wednesday) 2007, 5.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Presentation of the book:
Psycho-Physical Methods in Vocal-Speech Education of the Actor
by Krassin Jordanov
Presentation of Krassin Jordanov’s scientific research on main and subsidiary methods of voice production and training and its role in the pedagogic work with actors. Krassin (born in 1969) plays at New York’s major theatre scenes and participates in over 20 plays within four seasons. Krassin left our world on the 13th of February 2006 after a hard fight with cancer.
Free entrance
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April 6 (Friday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Sound & VJ Play
Gosho and Roko – basses, trumpets, percussion, Arabel – vocal, percussion, Liubo – Visual Jockey, Buriata and Prizraka – costumes
Trio Soundplay and Visual Jockey Liubo improvise with sounds and vision. A journey to Morocco and Dominica with stops in between.
Tickets: 6/4 BGN
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April 5 (Thursday) 2007, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Eighth (last) Literary Salon “Nobelized and Others: Literature on the Brink” presents:
The Mothers and Fathers of Teodora Dimova: “The Mothers”, “Adriana” and the Non-love Heritages in Literature
debate between a proponent, an opponent and an outsider” on the novels of Teodora Dimova
With the participation of:
Amelia Licheva - in the role of the proponent
Mihail Nedelchev - in the role of the opponent
Antonia Koleva, Nadezhda Stoyanova, Maria Shilyaeva and Stiliyan Petrov
Special guest: Teodora Dimova
Moderator (salon manager): Dimitar Kambourov
Supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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April 3 (Tuesday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Onetime
Entering into the unpredictable world of the moment with freely improvised music and dance. Our essential self is leading abandoning ambitions and expectations.
With the participation of: Biliana Voutchkova, Alexandra Spassova, Aga Dziubak, Boris Georgiev, Rossen Zahariev, George Donchev
Tickets: 7/5 BGN
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March 30 (Friday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Music, Words and Mixed Vegetables
TriniTy
Biliana Voutchkova, Agnieszka Dziubak, Rossen
Zahariev - violin, cello, trumpet and other instruments
and Virginia Zaharieva – words and mixed vegetables
TriniTy creates improvised music of the spontaneous moment – an intuitive reaction towards the all-moving power by which musicians blend together. Breaking free from their musical past, they are united in the common language of new life perception. An improvised project without ambitions depending on the consciousness of the audience and the performers in the real time of the performance.
Tickets: 8/5 BGN
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March 28-29 (Wednesday and Thursday) 2007
Red hall
50th Anniversary of Rodna Rech – Literary Magazine for Teens
Rodna Rech is one of the oldest literary magazines in Bulgaria founded in 1967. The title means literally “mother tongue”. Many of the most well known contemporary Bulgarian writers, poets and critics have made their first steps on its pages. During the years the magazine has been valuable sours of information for its young readers in various fields of art and culture. Now Rodna Rech is the place where the youngest generation of Bulgarian authors could find an open space for their creative endeavours free form ideological prejudices, taboos and cliches. The magazine appears thanks to the sponsorship of Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science.
March 28 (Wednesday), 6.00 p.m.
Opening: greeting from the Ministry of Education and words by Alek Popov, editor in chief, and Georgi Constantinov, president of Bulgarian PEN Center and ex editor-in-chief of Rodna Rech (1973-1983).
Literary happening: meet the most talented young voices from Bourgas, Plovdiv, Sliven, Sofia, Rousse, etc.
Free entrance
March 29 (Thursday)
11.30 a.m. Round Table: First steps in the world of professional writing
Dimitar Kambourov presents the first book of Rodna Rech authors: Alexander Shpatov, Ivan Bregov, Karlos Kontrera, Sibila Alekova, Vassil Balev, Vasil Touchkov, and Victoria Gotzeva.
6.00 p.m. Meeting of generations: literary reading and talks delivered by the most prominent authors who made their way through Rodna Rech: Alek Popov, Bojko Lambovski, Dejan Enev, Ecaterina Iossifova, Georgi Gospodinov, Georgi Konstantinov, Kalin Janakiev, Miglena Nikolchina, Mirela Ivanova, Roumen Leonidov, etc.
Free entrance
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March 20 (Tuesday) 2007, 8.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Dirty Havana Trilogy
literary reading and conversation - premiere of Pedro Juan Gutierrez's book (Janet-45 Publishing House)
Presented by: Manol Peykov (publisher), Elianna Lilova (translator), Emmy Barouh (editor) and Diana Ivanova (journalist)
Entrance: with invitations
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March 19-20 (Monday and Tuesday) 2007
Red hall, Gulliver hall and Pesha Nikolova hall
Cuba Libre Civic Association presents:
Why Do We Want to Talk about Cuba?
For a second year The Red House is host of the mini-festival Cuba Libre that aims to attract the attention of Bulgarian society to the events and processes in contemporary Cuba and to encourage a new dialogue between the people of Cuba and Bulgaria based on the values of freedom. Two days with Cuban documentary films, premiere of “Dirty Havana Trilogy” – first book of the publish series “New Cuban Literature” by Janet-45, conversations about Cuba…
With the partnership of Janet-45 Publishing House and Capital Weekly and the support of Pontis Foundation, Bratislava.
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March 12 (Monday) 2007, 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
Seventh Literary Salon “Nobelized and Others: Literature on the Brink” presents:
“White” between “Red” and “Black”: Nemesis Interstice of Orhan Pamuk
debate between a proponent, an opponent and an “outsider” on the novels of Orhan Pamuk: Kar (Snow), Benim Adim Kirmizi (My Name is Red) and Kara Kitap (The Black Book)
Moderator (salon manager): Dimitar Kambourov
Supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in
Bulgaria.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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February 23 (Friday), 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Literary Serial and Goethe-Institut will present in the course of 2007:
“Page with a Stage”, series of six text performances by some of the best-known authors of German contemporary literature live scene. The first event features:
This is Not a Concert |Dies ist kein Konzert|
text performance by the German slam poet Bas Boettcher
This first event will be preceded by a lecture on the slam poetry (please see the programme for 11.00 a.m.).
Realised in partnership with The Red House and with the support of Pro Helvetia Kulturprogramm and the Swiss Embassy in Bulgaria.
For more information: www.basboettcher.de
In German, with Bulgarian subtitles.
Free entrance
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February 23 (Friday), 11.00 a.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Literary Serial and Goethe-Institut present:
The Experience of ‘Poetry Slam’
lecture by Bas Boettcher
The lecture is part of the “Page with a Stage” programme, a series of six text performances by some of the best-known authors of German contemporary literature live scene, which takes place in the first half of this year.
The lecture is followed by a text performance (please see the programme for 7.00 p.m.).
Realised in partnership with The Red House and with the support of Pro Helvetia Kulturprogramm and the Swiss Embassy in Bulgaria.
For more information: www.basboettcher.de
In German, with simultaneous translation into Bulgarian and English subtitles for the video.
Free entrance
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February 22 (Thursday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Instituto Cervantes Sofia presents:
Spanish Jazz with German Diaz
German Diaz is a young musician who revitalises old traditional instruments and makes music turn into a special performance mixing contemporary streams of improvisation with the roughness of manually programmed mechanical cranks. The result is music that awakes emotions… German Diaz graduated Theory of the music at the Conservatory from the University of Valladolid, Spain, guitar in a private school, Classical philology and holds a post graduate diploma in “University Research of the Folklore Tradition”. He participates in Seminars of AIZ (Hurdy-Gurdy Iberian Asociation) in Hurdy-Gardy. He has studied Hurdy-Gardy with Laurent Tixier, Rafael Martin, Isabelle Pignol, Gilles Chabenat, Patrick Bouffard, Nigel Eaton and many others. In 1999 German Diaz was awarded musical prize “Golden Cluster” for the recompilation and distribution of traditional music.
For more information: www.germandiaz.net
Tickets: 8/5 BGN
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February 13-14, 2007
House of Cinema
Pinpinvideos presents:
Love is everything
new two-day challenge for authors of short movies
The challenge starts at 10.00 a.m. on February 13 with the announcement of the topic. The deadline is 6.00 p.m. on the next day – February 14. The screening of the movies gathered starts after 8.30 p.m. at the House of Cinema.
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January 29 (Monday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall, Gulliver hall
Auditum
Sound and Relation
'…on fractals and mirrors…'
Georgita Boyadzhieva-Nikolova – cello, Rossen Idealov – clarinet, Dessislava Staykova – visual concept
Music by: Bojidar Spassov, Luciano Berio, Dragomir Yossifov, Petar Dundakoff, Dmitri Kapirin, Francesco Landino, Andrian Pervazov, Gheorghi Arnaoudov, Isang Yun, anonymous music of the 14th century
Auditum is a project aimed at studying, propagating and exploiting the connection between music and all the other forms of creation, both verbal and visual, creation by gesture and movement, the art of being a listener, a viewer, a witness – audience. Auditum will present its philosophy and ideas in a series of six concerts organized as complete performances from November 2006 until April 2007.
Not only does the third performance of Auditum series present an unusual combination of an instrument group with its interactions with electronic sounds, sound digital processors and video art, but it also presents a different meaningful look at two mirror-periods of the development of European music, an attempt to find common ground or possible encounters in a frontier sound space.
Once again Rilke's look from Sonnets to Orpheus offers a scheme for these encounters:
'…filling the interstices of time's plane with mere holes as from a colander…"
Find more information at: www.auditum.org
Tickets: 8/6 BGN
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January 26-27 (Friday-Saturday), 10.00 a.m.-5.30 p.m.
CARE Bulgaria presents:
Human Trafficking: Prevention Kaleidoscope
Presentation of programmes and approaches for prevention of trafficking in human beings;
An attempt for discussion – what can we do and what do we know about prevention, what works and how;
Prevention materials fair.
With the participation of the team from the prevention of human trafficking program of CARE Bulgaria, representatives of the non-governmental sector, state institutions, media, embassies and donor organizations, visual artists, PR specialists and other interested parties.
With the support of the Municipality of the City of Vienna, SPÖ Frauen and CARE Austria.
Registration in advance is required: ivanka.georgieva@care-bg.org
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January 22 (Monday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Drumelodia
Arabel Karajan – percussions…, Rossen Zahariev – trumpet, percussions…, George Donchev – bass…, Alexander Petrov (Macedonia) - drum
Trio Soundplay and the Macedonian drummer Alexander Petrov cook delicious rhythms with hot percussions from all over the world. Mild music of the moment for immediate consumption.
Tickets: 6/4 BGN
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December 27 (Wednesday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Outside the Box
With the participation of: Rossen Zahariev-trumpets, Valio Gerov-viola and George Donchev-basses
Three points of view meet in the infinite sound space undisturbed by styles, trends or vogue. Three thrill seekers step outside the box of the expected in their search of the great unknown.
Tickets: 6/4 BGN
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December 22 (Friday), 8.30 p.m.
Red hall, Gulliver hall
Exclusive edition of Camera Electronica:
Shamanez / Player Sekwent
If there’s a “star” type of musicians from the underground scene in Bulgaria, that’s him: Shamanez in his full brightness. With a brand new live musical set. For more information:
http://www.cameraelectronica.redhouse-sofia.org
Tickets: 5 BGN
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December 20 (Wednesday), 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Sixth Literary Salon “Nobelized and Others: Literature on the Brink” presents:
Alek Popov and the Mission of Bulgarian Literature Abroad
debate between a proponent, an opponent and an “outsider” on the novel of Alek Popov “London Mission” and his books
Moderator (salon manager): Dimitar Kambourov
Supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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December 19 (Tuesday), 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
Discernments
Tzveta Sofronieva introduces her new collection of poetry in a multiplace, multimedia, multilingual, web-streamed event.
The event will feature the poets Bozhana Apostolova from Janet45 Publishing House (in her publisher’s role), Ekaterina Jossifova and Miglena Nikolchina (in their editors’ roles), Georgi Gospodinov (wearing a critic’s hat for the evening), the literary critic Dimitar Kambourov and, via internet bridges to London, Belgrade, Berlin, Paris and Washington DC, the guest poets Ana Seferovic, Uljana Wolf, Manja Ristic, Odile Kennel, Rufo Quintavalle, Sylvestre Clancier, Lyubomir Nikolov… to mention but a few of the participants… as well as tuning in live to the Experimental duo’s Eruption concert “Discernments” in Ozon Gallery in Belgrade.
In Bulgarian with contributions in English, French, German and Serbian.
Tickets: 1/2 BGN
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December 18 (Monday), 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Presentation of Tatiana Vaxberg’s book:
“Milosevic and the Tribunal. A Personal View of an Unfinished Trial”
With the participation of the author, Stefan Popov, Jonko Grozev (as moderators) and friends.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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December 15 (Friday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Music, Words and Mixed Vegetables
TriniTy
Biliana Voutchkova, Agnieszka Dziubak, Rossen Zahariev
violin, cello, trumpet and other instruments
and Virginia Zaharieva – words and mixed vegetables
An improvised project without ambitions depending on the consciousness of the audience and the performers in the real time of the performance.
Tickets: 8/5 BGN
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December 13 (Wednesday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall, Gulliver hall
Auditum
Sound and Relation
"…hopeful communications…”
DUOKAYA: Biliana Voutchkova - violin, Agnieszka Dziubak (Poland) - cello, with the participation of George Donchev - bass, dance improvisations: Rossen Mihailov, Milen Petrov, adviser - Mila Iskrenova
Music composed by: Vassil Kazandjiev, Ken Ueno (Japan/USA), Dinu Ghezzo (Romania/USA), Earl Kim (Korea/USA) and spontaneous improvisation
“…music is the freeway to our rarely remembered ways of communication…”
Auditum is a project aimed at studying, propagating and exploiting the connection between music and all the other forms of creation, both verbal and visual, creation by gesture and movement, the art of being a listener, a viewer, a witness – audience. Auditum will present its philosophy and ideas in a series of six concerts organized as complete performances from November 2006 until April 2007.
Find more information at: www.auditum.org
Tickets: 8/6 BGN
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November 22 (Wednesday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Fifth Literary Salon “Nobelized and Others: Literature on the Brink” presents:
Imre Kertész – Fateless Literatures
debate between a proponent, an opponent and an “outsider”
Moderator (salon manager): Dimitar Kambourov
Supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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November 21 (Tuesday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Launch of “The Socialist Book of Assets”
by Jana Genova and Georgi Gospodinov
With the participation of the authors and friends
“The Socialist Book of Assets” is an initial archive, inventory, catalogue that collects and describes over 500 everyday assets of the socialist time, items of the light industry of the time – household commodities, packages, detergents, cigarettes, foodstuffs etc.
A book about the traces that remain and the ones that don’t remain.
Part of the Scent of Socialism cycle.
Free entrance
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November 20 (Monday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
"Jazzta Prasta" Project
Petar Petrov-Parcheto - saxes, George Donchev - basses, Rossen Zahariev - trumpets
A true pioneer of Bulgarian avant-garde music meets a couple of free
thinking music makers, producing an explosive mix of sound textures and
atmospheres. A daring flight into uncharted territories.
Tickets: 6/4 BGN
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November 16 (Thursday), 6.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
Ciela Publishing House presents:
“The Island of Mists” by Julian Popov – book launch
With the participation of the author, his publishers and their friends
The Island of Mists is the story of a handsome and content with his life young Bulgarian man who unexpectedly sets of on a journey in the complex English society. The story develops on the background of some of the most dramatic changes in 20th century Europe. The hero however, involved in his social and romantic adventures, barely notices how the whole world is changing. The novel is a mild satire of the English class system and our understanding of the foreign world.
Free entrance
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November 10 - 30
Red hall, Gulliver hall, Nameless hall
Scent of Socialism
For 17 years we’ve been celebrating the 10th of November as the end of the socialist era and the beginning of the democratic transition in Bulgaria. The date provokes reflections on what we’ve accomplished, where we’re going as a country and as a civil society; it raises debates about the direction and the outcome of the transition…
Today, when a generation that hasn’t lived socialism becomes of full age, The Red House marks the 10th of November with exhibitions, lectures, documentaries and book presentations that tell the story of socialism in a non-ideological, intimate and even funny way.
November 10 -30, every day except Sunday and Monday between 3.00–7.00 p.m.
Gulliver hall
Inventory Stock of Socialism
Exhibition curated by Jana Genova and Georgi Gospodinov
Let’s enter the exemplary socialist home. Let’s sit for a while in the living room, turn on the black-and-white “Opera” TV. Let’s walk through the kitchen, peep into the “Mraz” fridge, wash some dishes with “Vero”, steal a chocolate candy from the “Chernomorets” candy box, get the “Balkan” bike out of the closet and ride away…
Exhibition of everyday assets from the near past. On stock until November 30.
With the support of “Visual seminar”, a project of the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia, The Centre for Advanced Study – Sofia and Sofia City Art Gallery.
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November 10 -30, every day
in The Red House
BT_Graffiti I Mausoleum 5
interactive Bluetooth installation by Petko Durmana
What happens to history and our memories when the buildings and symbols connecting past and present disappear? Through the Bluetooth technology this interactive art project virtually recreates the already non-existing Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov – one of the most remarkable symbols in the city environment of Sofia during Communist time.
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November 10 -30, every day except Sunday and Monday between 3.00–7.00 p.m.
Nameless hall
Cleaning Toxins from the Body
installation by Petko Durmana
A bottle of aged wine from the shelves of the local supermarket in Gerena unlocks the memory of the author of the time when wine was scanty yet it cleaned the toxins from the body…
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November 10 (Friday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
A Cold Coke in the Days of the Cold War, documentary, BNT, 56’, 2005, premiere, followed by a discussion
Documentary film on the unknown facts how Coca-Cola broke trough the Iron curtain.
This is a story of how Coca-Cola has entered Bulgaria during the time of communist regime in the mid sixties. This is a story of a battle - the battle between the propaganda type of economy and the free market economy, a battle between the ideological communist society and the entrepreneur spirit.
By Damjan Petrov, Irina Nedeva, Evgenia Atanassova, Camera: Venzizar Milenkov
After the film – presentation of “Scent of Socialism” and a discussion with the participants in the documentary, the initiator of the process Toncho Mihajlov, witnesses, people who participated in the events and the authors. With the participation of: Mila Mineva, Irina Nedeva, Evgenia Atanasova, Petko Dourmana and Georgi Gospodinov
Moderator: Dessislava Gavrilova
The film is in Bulgarian, with English subtitles.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN
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November 9 (Thursday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Bulgarian News Agency and LIK magazine present:
Literary Reading: “Golden Feathers of the Peninsula”
LIK Magazine has been presenting the most talented Balkan authors for a year in its rubric “Last Page”. The participants in the rubric will meet in Sofia and present their work: David Albahari, Serbia, Svetislav Bassara, Serbia, Asli Erdogan, Turkey, Alexandar Prokopiev, Macedonia, Dubravka Ugresic, Croatia, Nenad Velickovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Anastasis Vistonitis, Greece, Ivan Dzeparoski, Macedonia, Hasine Sen, Turkey, Ylljet Alicka, Albania, Nora Luga, Romania, Velimir Kostov, Serbia, Cezar Paul Badescu, Romania, Alek Popov, Bulgaria, Georgi Gospodinov, Bulgaria.
The participants in the literary reading at The Red House will be Nenad Velickovic, Cezar Paul Badescu, Asli Erdogan, Alexandar Prokopiev, David Albahari and Georgi Gospodinov.
Supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria and Mtel.
Free entrance
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November 1 (Wednesday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall, Gulliver hall
Auditum
Sound and Relation
Auditum is a project aimed at studying, propagating and exploiting the connection between music and all the other forms of creation, both verbal and visual, creation by gesture and movement, the art of being a listener, a viewer, a witness – audience. Auditum will present its philosophy and ideas in a series of six concerts organized as complete performances from November 2006 until April 2007. Medieval sacred music and contemporary works based on the dynamics of this gigantic leap in time will sound during the first concert of the cycle.
Idea: Gheorghi Arnaoudov, Kalina Radicheva, Alexandar Nishkov, Petar Doundakov
Concert № 1
“…Fensterrose…”*
voices from the gallery
Music by: Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), Theobald I of Navarre (1201-1253), Adam de la Halle (1220-1287), Thomas of Aquin (1225-1274), Meister Heinrich Frauenlob (1250-1318), Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Dimitar Tapkoff (1929), Gheorghi Arnaoudov (1957), Petar Doundakoff (1970), “Nasekomix”. Performed by: Rositza Panajotova-Grigorova, Rossen Idealov, Anelia Todorova, Irena Todorova; Auditum Camerata: Tammara Mavrova, Kalina Radicheva, Penka Kazandjieva, Mihaela Popsavova, Alexandra Milova, Victoria Gheorghieva, Petra Stefanova; Nasekomix: Andronia Popova, Todor Karastoyanov, Michail Yossifov;
Find more information at www.auditum.org
Supported by ALAN Photo Studio and “Ged” LTD.
* R. M. Rilke “Adam” and “Eva”, Der Neuen Gedichte anderer Teil” (1908)
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October 26-29
October 26 (Thursday), 8.00 p.m. - opening
Red hall, Gulliver hall, Nameless hall
Gay & Lesbian Fest 2
Film screenings, exhibitions, performances, debates
At the time of 28th annual ILGA-Europe (International Lesbian & Gay Association) conference thet is taking place in Sofia this year, for a second time we give a voice to the art of difference. In co-operation with BGO "Gemini", Bilitis Lesbian and Bi-women Resource Centre, De Balie – Amsterdam, LesGaiCineMad – Fundacion Triangulo, Spain, Open Mind Foundation, French Institute – Sofia, Red Bed & Breakfast and with the financial support of Bulgarian Fund for Woman. Special thanks to: Jankees Boer, De Balie - Amsterdam, Clarissa Gonzalez - Programming Coordinator LesGaiCineMad, Lucas Casanova - Supervision & Coordination LesGaiCineMad, Ivan Yankov - International Coordinator OPEN MIND
The films are in their original version with subtitles or simultaneous translation in Bulgarian.
Tickets per screening: 6/5 and 4/3 BGN
Subscription: 15/13 BGN
October 26 (Thursday)
8.00 p.m. – Opening of G&L Fest 2
10.00 p.m. – Lili Handel / Queer performance
October 27 (Friday)
4.00 p.m. – Beautiful Daughters (doc, USA, 2006, 61`)
Pashke and Sofia (doc, Germany, 2003, 28`)
6.00 p.m. – Straight Out (doc, Iceland, 2003, 60`), presented by Jankees Boer, De Balie - Amsterdam
8.30 p.m. – Drфle de Fйlix (feature, France, 2000, 95`)
October 28 (Saturday)
4.00 p.m – LesGaiCineMad Short Film Programme, 2006 - Les
Hold up – Madeleine Olnek (Canadб, 2005, 9`)
What hot guy – Mary Thompson (USA, 2006, 4`)
In memory of me – Samantha Lavin (USA, 2006, 23`)
If you lived here, you’d be home now – Tamar Glezerman (Israel, 2006, 11`)
Peace talk – Jenifer Malmqvist (Sweeden, 2004, 15`)
Je souhaite un dиsir un autre encore – Eugenio Lasserre (Argentina, 2004, 11`)
Inclinations – Jen Simmons & Shelley Barry (USA, 2005, 13`)
The piper – Abbй Robinson (UK, 2005, 11`)
6.00 p.m. – LesGaiCineMad Short Film Programme, 2006 - Gay
Eargasm – Dave Quantic (USA, 2004, 5`)
Daddy’s boy – Tristan Hamilton (Australia, 2006, 9`)
You’re such a blind fold – Tony Osso (USA, 2004, 23`)
Spaceboy – Keith Dando (UK, 2005, 7`)
No ordinary joy – Jules Nurrish (UK, 2004, 13`)
New balls please – Richard James (UK, 2003, 4`)
Older – Mark Chapman (UK, 2005, 9`)
Love never dies – Frank Aron & Eirik Tyrihjel (Norway, 2003, 3`)
Hitchcoked – David M. Young (USA, 2006, 9`)
Goodboys – Mark Chapman (UK, 2005, 12`)
Cabalerno – Jarrah Gurrie (USA, 2006, 5`)
8.30 p.m. – Tan De Repente (feature, Argentina, 2002, 94`)
10.30 p.m. – Miracle / everyone is curious what’s going on in Spain (doc, Spain, 2006, 50`)
October 29 (Sunday)
4.00 p.m. – Visibility and Media Images of LGBT / Public Debate
6.00 p.m. – A Knock Out (doc, The Netherlands, Germany, 2006, 50`), presented by Jankees Boer – De Balie - Amsterdam
8.30 p.m. - La Repetition (feature, France, 2001, 96`)
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October 23-26
Red hall, Gulliver hall, Nameless hall, Pesha Nikolova hall
Studio XX presents:
HTMlles Export 2 [06]
www.htmlles.net
The HTMlles Festival is an ongoing project of StudioXX, Montreal, Canada. A group of Canadian women artists will present a series of interactive workshops, web art projects and discussions with local artists in Bulgaria, Serbia and Turkey. Participation is open to all and collaboration is encouraged. In partnership with The Red House, The Upgrade! Sofia and The Upgrade! Skopje and Radio.cult.bg.
Supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec and The Canadian Embassy in Turkey.
October 23 (Monday)
11.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. Oral Histories: Part 1 Intro to Recording & Topics
6.00 p.m. Running web art programmes on computers Flatlandia, Distributive Justice, The Lies Project
7.00 p.m. Opening
7.30 p.m. Screening of documentary The Phantom of the Operator, intro by artist
October 24 (Tuesday)
11.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. Oral Histories: Part 2 Interviews (with young girls and older women)
11.00 a.m. Running web art programmes on computers Flatlandia, Distributive Justice, The Lies Project
12.00 p.m. Web art projects-demo by Kyd Campbell
2.00 p.m. Presentation by Macedonian curator Elena Veljanovska [LINE Initiative + Movement]
5.30 p.m. Screening: After the Feminism by Adelina Popnedeleva[BG] , presented by art historian Diana Popova[BG]
October 25 (Wednesday)
11.00 a.m. Running web art programmes on computers Flatlandia, Distributive Justice, The Lies Project
12.00 p.m. TEA BREAK with networking curator Greta Gancheva[BG]
This is an open discussion forum for local and visiting artists to meet each other in an informal and comfortable environment. This gathering is open to local artists, curators and others interested in listening or taking part in the dialog. Please come and join us and our special guests for tea.
2.00 p.m. XS Labs Electronic Textiles workshop
4.00 p.m. Presentation: Tackling Identities by Veronika Tzekova[BG]
5.00 p.m. Bioteknica Workshop
7.00 p.m. The Upgrade! Sofia – focus on Women in Technology – Yofka + Upgrade! Skopje
October 26 (Thursday)
11.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m. Oral Histories: Part 3 Presentation Recorded and live broadcasted on radio
2.00 p.m. Presentation by Yana Kostova[BG] + Vladia Mihailova[BG]
One-day ticket: 5/4 BGN
Subscription: 12/10 BGN
Free events: The Upgrade! Sofia + Yofka + The Upgrade! Skopje
Oral Histories: Only for registered participants.
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September 28 (Thursday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Gypsy Afro Carib Bulgar Project
The music like the heading suggests a tasty mix from different corners of the world (African, Caribbean and Gypsy rhythms with Bulgarian spices).
With the participation of Rossen Zahariev – trumpet, bass-trumpet and percussions, Arabel Karajan – percussions, Angel Tichaliev – trumpet, Ivan Cherkezov – baritone, Georgi Donchev – contralto clarinet and noise, Bozhko Mihajlov – large drum, Ivan Demirev – small drum, Yaya – rap and clarinet.
Tickets: 6/4 BGN
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September 21 – 22
Red hall
HereNow
new music festival
With the participation of: Biliana Voutchkova, Agnieszka Dziubak (Poland), Rossen Zahariev, Georgi Donchev, Valentin Gerov, Rossen Idealov, Juliana Saiska
September 20 (Wednesday), 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
4now
Free improvisations…
September 21 (Thursday), 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Evening News
A meeting point of contemporary music by composers and spontaneous improvisation.
Sofia Gubaidulina (Russia) - String trio
…Spontaaaneously
Improvised music of the moment
September 22 (Friday), 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Collage
“This presentation combines the talent and urge to explore of various artists from different parts of the world. The pieces you are going to hear will take you to a journey that starts in Eastern Europe, goes through Western Europe, North and Central America and finally reaches the unknown parts of your own fantasy where the collage will be completed at your own inner land depending on your own visions. With that said we leave the world of words and let you experience the one beyond…” Duo Kaya
Gheorghi Arnaoudov (Bulgaria) - Duo for cello and violin with film and dance
Witold Lutoslawski (Poland) – Sacher Variations for solo cello
Olivier Messiaen (France) – From “Quartet for the End of Time”
Claude Vivier (Canada) – A Piece for violin and clarinet
Derek Bermel (USA) – Coming Together for clarinet and cello
Joseph Maneri (USA) – Solo violin piece
Jose Elguezabal (Mexico) – Short pieces for cello, piano and tape
Kaija Saariaho (Finland) – Sept papillon for solo cello
Karlheinz Stockhausen (Germany) – Tierkreis
Tickets for one night: 8/5 BGN
Ticket for the whole festival: 18/12 BGN
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September 15 (Friday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Trio C tot de derde (The Netherlands)
concert
The Dutch music group Trio C tot de derde consists of the three young musicians Carel den Hertog (violin), Coos Lettink (accordeon) and Caspar Terra (clarinet). The music they play is inspired by klezmer, music from the Balkans and gypsy-music. The music they play expresses euphoric happiness, as well as intense sadness, which means music for dancing, but also for dreaming. They perform everywhere: birthday parties, weddings, funerals, theatres, churches, festivals, in smoky pubs and on street-corners all over the world.
From August 2006 until June 2007 Trio C tot de derde is travelling from Europe to India.
Tickets: 5/4 BGN
www.trioctotdederde.nl
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July 20 (Thursday), 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
Presentation of the Book “The Roma People and the Process of Desegregation in Education” by Dr. Josif Nunev
Josif Nunev is author of more than 20 study editorials and 3 books, dedicated to the on-going education and cultural development of the Roma people. According to Prof. Georgi Bizhkov “The Roma People and the Process of Desegregation in Education” (Kuna Publishing House) is a touch in the sore place even if it’s only within the context of improving the educational integration among the Roma people.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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June 29 (Thursday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
astro+prism (Newcastle) at Camera Electronica
electro live audio/video set
More info about the concert and the idea behind Camera Electronica: www.cameraelectronica.redhouse-sofia.org
With the support of the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN
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June 23 (Friday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Soundplay
freely improvised music experiment with Arabel Karajan, George Donchev, Rossen Zahariev
Music is the magic carpet that makes us free like children. In the end it is not us playing the music, but the music playing us.
Tickets: 6/4 BGN
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June 19 (Monday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
Lele Lele Kak Sme Go Oplele!
concert
The Bulgarian-Swedish orchestra Lele lele kak sme go oplele! (Mihail Dinchev - tambura, Bjorn Dahlberg -clarinet and saxophone, Josef Danielson - vocals, Moa Danieslon - Indian tabla, Stian Grimstad - sitar and euphonium) creates a magical mix of Bulgarian folk music and Indian classical music.
For more information visit www.lele-lele.tk and www.myspace.com/lele_lele.
Tickets for the concert: 6/4 BGN
Tickets for the workshop and the concert: 8 BGN
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May 22-29
at the Red House, 15, Ljuben Karavelov St. and in Garibaldi Sq.
Gravity-free Art 3
An international festival with which the Red House looks for the good art today. Latest discoveries in the independent experimental art scene - Here and Now and beyond the borders of the country, presented just in eight days. Performances, concerts, borderline forms, space installations, video art from Bulgaria, Croatia, Japan, France, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, Turkey. A festival you should not miss.
Opening – May 22 (Monday), 7.00 p.m. at the Red House
With the support of THEOREM (association supported by the Culture 2000 Programme of the European Union) and Sofia Municipality.
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May 22-29, everyday between 4.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m.
Nameless hall
Belo
3D video installation, 8 min.
Author: Natasa Teofilovic, Serbia and Montenegro
“Belo” is presence/absence of virtual body in real home-like space.
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May 22-29, everyday between 4.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m.
Nameless hall
Video Compilation by Bertran Berrenger Group
30 min.
Bertran Berrenger Group are Fabrice Bertran and Jean-Paul Berrenger, two French artists from Rouen. They have worked together since 1987 playing music first and went into video work after. They use any kind of material - sound, pictures, drawing, paper, and video. In their videos you can see a mix of improvisation and performance.
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May 22-29, everyday between 4.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m.
Nameless hall
Fusion
video, 10 min.
Author: Venelin Shurelov
Sometimes we are able to think not only according to our inner landscape, but also through the space around us and the objects that fill it. This meeting can happen also outside the boundaries of the body.
Free entrance I read more May 22-29, everyday between 4.00 p.m. – 10.00 p.m.
Nameless hall
Die Deutschen sterben aus?
video, 14 min.
Author: Sasa Asentic, Serbia and Montenegro
Free entance
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May 27 (Saturday), 11.00 a.m.
garden
Coffee Encounter with the Participants. About the Gravity-free Art.
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May 26 (Friday), 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
AVmotional
festival for experimental music and VJ, Romania
presentation of the festival and 3 audio-visual live projects
With: Mihaela Kavdanska, Cristian Stanciu, Dilmana Yordanova, Victor Popescu, Valentin Chincisan and Dorel Naste (Underconstruct), Mihai Salajan (Selfmademusic)
Duration: 180 min.
Tickets: 10/7 BGN
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May 25 (Thursday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
On Abstract Sentimentalism
concert-praktat in three parts by Nasekomix, Bulgaria
visualised by the Whatever-Ad Laboratory, Bulgaria
In the gourmet kitchen, as well as in the musical one, the insects are delicatessen. On the Abstract Sentimentalism records a new luxury segment from the musical migration of Andronia Popova (vocal, accordion and keyboards), Michail Yossifov (guitars, vocals, and programming), and Todor Krst (drums and structures). Abstract sentimentalism is an emotional hit without any look-back. You’ll get this clear at the place of the concert.
Laboratory surveyor on the sidelines – Boriana Pandova from “Whatever-Ad Laboratory”
Duration: 120 min.
Tickets: 5 BGN
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May 24 (Wednesday), 4.00 p.m.
Garibaldi Square
Installation on Wall
Author: Deniz Aygün
With: Deniz Aygün
This is a word installation, using language as its main medium. It is a modulation of the expression "One’s freedom stops where the other’s begins." The work aslo contains grafic elements which strenghten the meaning of the words. It questions the boundaries of freedom - where does our freedom start and where does it end? Who is the one that decides about the boundaries of our freedom? Are there universal rules applied in this sense?
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May 24 (Wednesday), 4.00-8.00 p.m.
Garibaldi Square
Drawing Machine
Performance – man and construction
Author/Director: Venelin Shurelov
With technical and creative support of Nedko Zhechev and Ilia Shurelov
Performers: Venelin Shurelov
Duration: 60 min.
The artist transforms his body into a drawing machine. The audience can take part in the process by pressing various buttons and ordering drawings. The authorship is “automized” and anonymous. Insert a coin – take away a piece of art!
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May 24-28, everyday, 11.00 a.m., 1.00 p.m., 4.00 p.m., 5.00 p.m., 7.00 p.m., 8.00 p.m.
Garibaldi Square
Clouds of Sound
sound installation, Petar Doundakov, Bulgaria
Every place in a city has its own atmosphere, colour and light. The space is filled with noise – cars, clamour, trams – sounds we have got used to, or maybe we have not?
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May 8 (Monday), 6.00 p.m.
Red hall
Third Literary Salon “Nobelized and Others: Literature on the Brink” presents:
Samuel Beckett – 100 Years of Age: Still Waiting for Godot
debate between a proponent, an opponent and an “outsider” on the works of Samuel Beckett
Ognyan Kovachev, literary theorist, takes the role of the proponent. Violeta Decheva will be the opponent.
With the participation of Georgi Tenev, writer and dramatist, Plamen Petrov, journalist, Kamelia Spassova from the MA Programme "Literature Studies" at the Sofia University and of all who have their "pros" and "cons" about one of the most absurd voices for the last century. The publisher and interpreter of Beckett in Bulgaria Maria Koeva will hand out three book prizes by FAMA Publishing House.
With the special participation of Ivaylo Hristov, actor and participator in the renowned first "Godot" from 1988 with director Leon Daniel.
The Embassy of Ireland represented by His Excellency Jeffrey Keeting will take care of the salon atmosphere after the discussion.
Moderator (salon manager): Dimitar Kambourov
With the support of the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria
In Bulgarian.
Entrance: 2/1 BGN
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May 7 (Sunday), 6.30 p.m.
Red hall
Jazz+ Festival 2006 presents:
Cinemix
Rimaki (aka DJ Laurent Feuillet & DJ Yannick Lecoeur) mix over the images of The Warriors (USA, 1979, 89’, dir. Walter Hill), banned in the USA and Western Europe. The music, inspired by the hip-hop, is a version of the newly emerging tendency in 1979 but far darker and truly syncopated. Only for self confident experiment aficionados.
B.L.A.S.T.
Having started as an Eric Truffaz warm-up band, B.L.A.S.T. reveals the secrets of jazz to the youngest fans of the new soundscapes.
Tickets for a single event: 6/4 BGN
Tickets for the whole evening: 10/7 BGN
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April 30 (Sunday), 7.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red hall
Dupini Association presents:
Scars – Projections and Concert of Nikolay Ivanov
The project reveals Bulgarian cultural scars in the region of the Balkan Mountains in Triavna and their projection in the European cultural space. Original and distinctive folk art popularizes and presents the unique cultural heritage of the neighborhood of Dupini in the Bilkinite countryside.
Supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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April 29 (Saturday), 8.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red hall
Camera Electronica presents:
Res & Mloski (jisatsuken.cult.bg)
Live intelligent e-music from Varna, Bulgaria
More info about the concert and the idea behind Camera Electronica: www.cameraelectronica.redhouse-sofia.org
With the support of the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
Tickets: 3/2 BGN
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April 18 (Tuesday), 7.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red hall
I Am But a Dream
Presentation of the collection of texts and drawings by Dafina Georgieva (Ronya) of Egmont Publishing House by Maya Novoselska.
“Every man should have a heart like that - then it would never hunger, nor grow cold...”
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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April 17 (Monday), 6.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red hall
Aboba
launch of Aboba magazine
ABOBA is a magazine dedicated to creative urban culture. It is an independent bilingual (Bulgarian - English) publication, which aims to bring awareness and debate to contemporary issues through critical texts and creative ideas and works.
In English and Bulgarian, with translation.
Invitations only
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April 13 (Thursday), 6.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red hall
Second Literary Salon “Nobelized and Others – Literature on the Brink” presents:
"Natural Novel" – Seven Years and Eight Languages Later
Debate between a proponent, an opponent and an “outsider” on the work of Georgi Gospodinov.
"Natural Novel" by Georgi Gospodinov, seven years after its publication, is undoubtedly the most translated work, as well as the most awarded, the most republished and the most popular Bulgarian novel after the changes. Albena Hranova, a literary historian, takes the role of the proponent; Darin Tenev, literary theorist, and just returning from Japan, will be the opponent. With the participation of Georgi Gospodinov, Boyko Penchev, literary and political analyst, and Maria Kalinova, poet and would-be master of arts, and of all who have their "pros" and "cons" about one of the most (in)disputable literary voices in Bulgaria recently. With the special participation of Marie Vrina, translator of "Natural Novel" in French and emissary of the Bulgarian book abroad.
Moderator: Dimitar Kambourov
Supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in Bulgaria.
In Bulgarian.
Tickets: 2/1 BGN
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April 6 (Thursday) 2006, 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
Austrian evening with two world-famous philosophers of the 20th century
Between Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Presentation of the collection of essays and lectures by Karl Popper “All Life Is Problem Solving” and the collection of texts “Ludwig Wittgenstein and Analytical Philosophy”
With the participation of Kamen Lozev and Vihren Buzov
In collaboration with the Austrian Embassy - Sofia.
In Bulgarian.
Free entrance
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March 23 - 26, 2006, 9.30 a.m.-6.00 p.m.
Youth Creative Weekend - Art in Quest for Community
International meeting of young practitioners and researchers in the field of psycho-social support through creative means for youth at risk or in disadvantage from Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland i Serbia i Montenegro. The participants will exchange experience, theories and practical models for further development and support of socially engaged artistic practices that involve young people as equal partners in the creative processes thus pro-actively reaching out different community groups.
In collaboration with Goethe-Institute Sofia, with the support of Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Sponsored by Germany and European Youth Foundation. In English.
Registration in advance only
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March 22 (Wednesday) 2006
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