• a place where the pleasure of communicating with people on absorbing topics, interesting to all the participants, is a value;
• a place where analysing, re-thinking, debating in the no-man’s land between the arts contributes to a new vision, reading, interpretation and understanding of the events in arts and culture within the context of the present socio-political realities;
• a place of bringing up-to-date and changing the artists’ vision, as well as that of the audience;
• a place where understanding happens via communication;
• a place where the borders among the different kinds of art are blurred.

We believe that there is a time and a place for:

• a discussion and criticism over the present state, creation and use of the visual today;
• an analysis and reflection on the present visual by representatives from different fields of culture;
• a chance for adaptable visions about understanding of contemporary art as a part of the social process;
• creation of a free area for sharing of ideas.

The Place
The Granary (Hambara),
22, 6th September Str.

Time
Every Thursday – 6.30 p.m.

The club is opened for new and different topics, ideas and participants.
The club is opened for projects in progress.
The club is opened for you.
The club is opened.

Preliminary programme for the period January 22nd– February 19th, 2004*

January 22nd, 2004
"Where Is the Kunst?"
Presentation by Boris Misirkov and Georgi Bogdanov

January 29th, 2004
"A Little Money – Many Ideas? What’s the Perfect Clip?"
Presentation by Milen Marchev

February 5th, 2004
"Do the Robots Need Souls?"
Presentation by Boriana Dragoeva
"Programming through Kabbalah"
Presentation by Oleg Mavromati

February 12th, 2004
"Post-finepainting – Between the Hypertext and Intermedia"
Presentation by Petar Tzanev

February 19th, 2004
"What Happened to the Bulgarian Video Art"
Presentation by Boris Kostadinov

February 26th, 2004
Reality or Illusions - a Look at the Reality, Once More
A screening of short documentaries and a conversation with the director Svetoslav Draganov - directed the films "Life Is Wonderful, Isn't It?", "Water Goblins", "The Merry Guys" and "Young Hearts".

March 4th, 2004
Art in Hard Times - Actions and Performances
Gabriela and Boris Serginovi present "To Vomit in Red", Krakow and "Adultery", Sofia.
A conversation about "Fluxus" and contemporary art.

March 11th, 2004
Forms in Cinema – Possibilities and Potentialities of the Short Film. Two Cases.
Presentation by David D. Jeroham

March 18th, 2004
Imagine Being a Bulgarian
Presentation by Diana Ivanova

March 25th, 2004
"Illegal – Extreme" Physical Theatre
Presentation by Ivo Dimchev

April 1, 2004
Agression, Auto-agression, Accident
Presentation by Ventzislav Zankov
Ventzislav Zankov works in the field of performance, new media, fine painting and sculpture.

April 8, 2004
Possible Interpretations of Contemporaneity
Presentation by Svilen Stefanov, PhD

April 15, 2004
Contemporary Bulgarian Animated Films
A sellection-presentation by Boris Despodov

April 22, 2004
Pardon me, Which is This City?
A Multidemia project - presentation by Krassimir Terziev

April 29, 2004,
Children Television
The team of the Jam Session Project of the Art for Social Chang Programme will present the one-hour show realised in December 2003

May 13, 2004
Spirit and Flesh – Andrey Nikolov's Art
A lecture by associate professor Nikolay Boshev, dedicated to the 126 anniversary of Andrey Nikolov's birth.

May 20, 2004
The Media Image of the Bulgarian Painter
Presentation by Ivana Mourdzheva

May 27, 2004
Within the frames of the Goat Milk Memories Festival
The Bela Rechka Project - Rustic Memories and Mew Media – What Makes Sense?

June 3, 2004
Europe Screening
28 short films, 68 min presented by the author Jaap de Ruig.
For more information about the "Europe Screening" and Jaap de Ruig, please check the his website www.jaapderuig.nl

June 10, 200
Videots - the Eccentric Bulgarian Cinema from the Middle Nineties
A screening of "If You've Got Problems", 40 min., directed by Svetoslav Draganov, cameraman Martin Chichov, in the title roles Iva Sveshtarova, Aleksander Bonchev, Velery Milev etc.
"Bighead Carp", 20 min., directed by Valery Milev, cameraman Vlado Shumnaliev, in the title roles Elena Drumeva and Boris Zdravkov.

June 17, 2004
The TAKA visual arts company will present two documentaries about the projecst "Men Only Exhibition" and "Route 9".

June 24, 2004
Moving Wooden Machinery
A multimedia presentation by Ljuben Kostov.

July 1, 2004
Fernando Baredo will present the founded by him circle called
Art Circle in Toledo
Fernando Baredi will present the second issue of the “EnCultura” magazine dedicated to the joint Bulgarian-Spanish project "Toledo-Sofia. Two CVities, Three Cultures", as well as the international project “Capturing Europe”.

July 15, 2004
North Korea Between Marx and Confucius
A discussion with Momchil Metodiev, Phd in History, about the reasons, internal dynamics and sustainability of the "confuciansim communism" on North Korea. Pictures and video films taken during a visit to North Korea in the Spring of 2004 will be presented.

July 22, 2004
Media–Intervention
Daniela Kostova will present a video compilation of American artists works in the field of experimental documentary video and expressing themselves by intervention in the open places. The works of the American art-groups “Institute of Applied Authonomy”, “The Yes Men”, as well as the documentary “Don't Call Me Crazy at the 4th of July” by Richard Pell are part of the presentation.

*We apologise in advance for any changes in the preliminary programme that might occur.

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