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What is City and Can It Exists in Bulgaria?
This will be the last gathering of the seminar of City Anthropology on which the book “Spaces of Desire, Desires for Space” by Ivaylo Ditchev will be presented.
With the participation of Alexander Kiosev, Sofia University, Irena Bokova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and of course the author, Ivaylo Ditchev.
In Bulgarian
Free entrance
June 21 (Tuesday) 2005, 5.30 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate
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Feasts in the City, City Feast
Seminar on City Anthropology with the participation of Valentina Ganeva-Raicheva and Irena Bokova
The city feasts unite and divide people and spaces, reconstruct and transform spaces and identities, conquer territories and define borders...
The seminar is organized by the History and Theory of Culture Faculty, Sofia University in co-operation with the Institute of Folklore at The Bulgarian Academy of Science.
The seminar is in Bulgarian.
Free entrance
June 9 (Thursday), 2005, 5.30 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Pesha Nikolova hall

The Pains of Living Together
Seminar of City Anthropology
With the participation of Ivaylo Dichev, Svetla Paunova and Milena Yakimova from the St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University
The seminar is organised by the MA Programme in Cultural Anthropology, SU, Institute of Folklore at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
In Bulgarian
Free entrance
April 18 (Tuesday), 2005, 5.30 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Pesha Nikolova hall
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Models for Support of the NGOs Work Through Open Source Software
A seminar with the participation of Chalu Kim (Digital Cooperative, New York) and Petko Dourmana (Interspace Centre for Media Arts, Sofia).
In English, with Bulgarian translation.
Free entrance
March 24 (Friday), 6.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Pesha Nikolova hall

Regional Fund IGA – Pazardjik presents
Public-Private Partnerships in Rendering Social Services to Law Breakers
Debate with the participation of Dimitar Rusinov, Projects Manager, Regional Fund IGA, Nadya Shabani, Bulgarian Centre for Not-for-profit Law, Kiril Nikolov, Policy and Strategy of Social Protection Department at the Ministry of Labour and Social policy, Lidia Abadjieva, Labour Market Policy Department at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, Kosntantin Tomanov, Secretary of Central Commission for Combating Juvenile Anti-Social Behaviour, Georgi Vassilev M.D.
In Bulgarian
Free entrance
March 15 (Tuesday) 2005, 10.30 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Red hall
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The Immigrant and the City
A seminar with the participation of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anna Krasteva, New Bulgarian University and representatives of immigrants' groups in Bulgaria. Moderator: Ivaylo Dichev, Sofia University.
The seminar is organized by the MA in Cultural Anthropology programme, Sofia University in co-operation with the Institute of Folklore at The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Free entrance
March 14 (Monday), 5.30 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Pesha Nikolova hall

Economic (social) Bulgaria: the future through the culture of the past.
The Agrarian Question in Bulgaria, 1944 – 1960.

Mihail Gruev, Faculty of History at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
This is the seventh meeting of the seminar, organised by the Centre for Liberal Strategies.
Entrance: Invitations only
March 9 (Wednesday), 2005, 5.30 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Pesha Nikolova hall

Journalists and sociologists – “always blamed”, or how we can be mutually beneficial for each other?
Discussion in the framework of the project “Policies and Practices of Reasonable Mediation” of the Bulgarian Sociological Association, with the support of the Open Society Institute – Sofia. The project deals with the social effectiveness and the public visibility of sociological surveys. The issues about the use, interpretation and presentation of the sociological surveys will be discussed. The discussion will try to answer questions of communication, and the following among others: can the professional norms stipulated in the Code of Ethics in Journalism and the Code of Ethics of the Bulgarian Sociological Association reduce the possibility for manipulations?
The meeting is closed, in Bulgarian.
Entrance: Invitation only
February 28 (Monday), 2005, 6.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Pesha Nikolova hall

Scenography of a City Identity. The Interior
Moderator: Ivaylo Dichev (History and Theory of Culture Department of Sofia University) with an introduction speech on Customs in Transition
With the participation of:
Mila Mineva (sociologist, Sofia University): The Fight for the Furnished Entrance, or How Socialism was Inventing City Interior
Georgi Gospodinov (writer, and literary theorist form the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): Window-shop with a Gondola, or How the Modernity was Entering Bulgaria Through the Souvenir
The seminar is organized by the MA in Cultural Anthropology programme of the Sofia University in cooperation with the Institute of Folklore at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate.
February 21 (Monday), 2005, 5.30 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, 15, Ljuben Karavelov St., Pesha Nikolova hall
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Anthropology of the City: Postmodernisation of the City Space. The City-Spectacle, the City-Collage, the City - Museum of Itself.
With the participation of Lachezar Boyadjiev, artist and Svetla Kazalarska, History and Theory of Culture Department of Sofia University.
Discussion leader: Ivaylo Dichev, History and Theory of Culture Department of Sofia University.
The seminar is organised by the MA programme in Cultural Anthropolgy in partnership with the Institute of Folklore at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Visual Seminar of the ICA/CAS and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate “Andrey Nikolov”.
Free entrance
January 25 (Tuesday), 2005, 5.30 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, 15, Ljuben Karavelov St., Red Hall

Anthropology of the City: Practices, Communities, Images
Research seminar.
With the participation of Irena Bokova (Institute of Folklore, BAS), Rayna Gavrilova (“Cultural Studies” department of Sofia Universityand OSI), Maya Grekova (department of Sociology, SU).
Discussion leader: Ivaylo Ditchev (cultural studies department of Sofia University)
The seminar is organized by the MA Programme in Cultural Anthropology, SU, Institute of Folklore at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, The Visual Seminar of ICA and CAS and The Red House – Centre for Culture and Debate
November 12, 2004, 5.30 p.m.
The Red House – Centre for Culture and Debate, Ljuben Karavelov St. 15, Pesha Nikolova Hall
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August 1 – 10 , 2004
Village of Chamla , The Rodopi Mountain
Art for Social Change Programme
Thematic Seminar

The seminar is designed for participants and supervisor from the Jam Session Team in the Art for Social Change Programme
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Art for Social Change programme
Thematic seminar “Active approaches and their application in social work”
Leaders: David Ieroham, M.D., Tzvetelina Iossifova
The seminar is designed for mixed group of participants from Duga Home, Youth House, The Department for Child Protection - Dobrich, Dobrich Municipality and the Play – Dream Reality. Me and Others team of the Art for Social Change programme.
The seminar is introductory and has a practical trend. It aims at acquaintance of the participants with different expressive psycho-social approaches (psychodrama, group dynamic, sociometry, role analysis, etc.) applicable in work with people in different social contexts.
The seminar makes part of the training module of the Art for Social Change programme.
May 22, 2004 (Saturday), 10.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
May 21, 2004 (Friday), 10.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. & 3.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m.
Youth House, Chamber Hall, Dobrich
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Club Meeting “What are the Expectations of Plovdiv’s Institutions as to the Art for Social Change programme?”
Art for Social Change programme / Photodrama, Third Double project – Plovdiv and Assenovgrad
Ňhe atelier of “A 16” company (Plovdiv, 152, “Sixth of September” St., the building of the former Regional Court, floor 3, room 303)
The meeting will feature directors and psychologists from the orphan houses included in “Photodrama, Third Double” project and the project team.
October 22, 2003 – 5.30-7.00 p.m.
Free entrance
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The World of the Child
a workshop by
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schwinger, Germany
The workshop makes part of the Art for Social Change 2003 trianing module and is designed for participants, supervisors and coordinators from the present phase of the programme.
July 29-30, 2003
Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes - 1, Budapeshta St.
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May 28 - 31, 2003
InterSpace Media Art Center, Center for Culture and Debate Red House and British Council – Sofia organize
STREAMING FOR ARTISTS AND CURATORS
A technological workshop and a theoretical seminar, devoted to streaming technologies and their application in artistic and curatorial projects.
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May 22-25, 2003
Managing Performing Arts across Europe (seminar & working placements)
Co-production of The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and THEOREM (association supported by the Culture 2000 programme of EU)
The seminar aims to respond to the need for acquiring and applying practical management skills to daily activities of artists and managers working on independent projects, or artistic groups working on a project base. The seminar is focused on assisting European dimension and partnership of independent artistic projects, performing arts groups and artistic projects developed with groups at risk, to achieve effective management and sustainability.
The seminar will take place in Sofia from 22 till 25 of May.
Applicants from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro and Turkey are welcomed to apply for participation.
Deadline for applications – April 25 (Friday), 2003
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Art for Social Change – Play Against Violence
Club meeting 5
The meeting is part of the Art for Social Change - Play Against Violence trianing module and is designed for participants, supervisors and coordinators from the third phase of the programme.
March 5, 2003, 6.00-9.00 p.m.
Art-hostel “Usually we spend our time in the garden”, 21/A Angel Kanchev St.
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Art for Social Change – Play Against Violence
Club meeting 3
The meeting is part of the Art for Social Change - Play Against Violence trianing module and is designed for participants, supervisors and coordinators from the third phase of the programme.
Moderators: Irina Dragolova, Diana Tzirkova, PhD
January 29, 2003, 6.00 - 9.00 p.m.
Central Army Club, 7, Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd, Sofia
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Art for Social Change – Play Against Violence
Club meeting 2
The meeting is part of the Art for Social Change - Play Against Violence trianing module and is designed for participants, supervisors and coordinators from the third phase of the programme.
Moderators: Polyxena Kostova, Ekaterina Stoyanova
January 8, 2003, 6.00 - 9.00 p.m.
Art-hostel - Sofia, 21A Angel Kanchev St.
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Art for Social Change – Play Against Violence
Club meeting 1
The meeting is part of the Art for Social Change - Play Against Violence trianing module and is designed for participants, supervisors and coordinators from the third phase of the programme.
December 4, 2002, 6.00 - 9.00 p.m.
Art-hostel - Sofia, 21A Angel Kanchev St.
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Art for Social Change – Play Against Violence
General meeting 1 (“Opening”)
The seminar is part of the Art for Social Change - Play Against Violence training module and is designed for participants, supervisors and coordinators from the third phase of the programme (2002-2003).
Course leaders: Dr. David Ieroham, Teodor Kotov, Tzvetelina Iossifova
November 16-17, 2002
IInternational Management Centre, Bistritza
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Early Traumatic Experiences
seminar
SOCIOMETRY
lecture
A training module for participants in the third phase of the Art for Social Change – Play Against Violence programme
Course leaders: Gabrielle Wiessmann-Brun, Switzerland, prof. Bill Shutter, USA
October 25, 2002 – 10.00 a.m. – 8.00 p.m.
The office of the Red House – 70, Neofit Rilski St.
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The Museum and its Visitors: Making Exhibits that Communicate
A seminar for museum professionals organized in cooperation with the Fund for Arts & Culture in Central and Eastern Europe and the American Information Centre in Sofia
September 3 – 6, 2002
American Information Centre
18, Vitosha Blvd.
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Project Presentation
Bridging Arts and Business in the Balkans
A joint project of the Soros Centre for the Arts – Sofia, Orbitel Inc. and the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate
One Touch Balkan Network Meeting
Varna Theatre
June 7, 2002
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Art for Social Change – Play Against Violence 3
a programme of the European Cultural Foundation, the Soros Centre for the Arts – Sofia and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate
LOSS AND SEPARATION
A training seminar for participants in the 3rd phase of the programme
Workshop leader: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schwinger, Germany
June 19 – 20, 2002, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate,
15, Luben Karavelov St.
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Contemporary Dance, Mime, Physical and Visual Theatre
Recent developments and trends

Soros Open Society Club
Burgas 20, 21 May 2002
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Culture & Civil Society: "A Promising Relationship or a Missed Opportunity?"
A Seminar organised by the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, the Soros Centre for the Arts - Sofia, the Ministry of Culture and the Council of Europe.
Radisson Hotel, (November 10 - 11 2001)
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