Program – Shipka Fest’25

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For the daily program click the dates below:

Friday, 05 September

National Academy of Arts, Academy Gallery, ul. Shipka 1

16:00 – Doors Open
18:00 Festival Opening with the Exhibition The Beginning//Le Debut. Strengthening the Torrents and Afforestation. Felix Vogeli, Petar Mandjoukov” by Alexander Ivanov

National Palace of Culture, A4 Singles Hall – Music Program

Saturday, 06 September

National Academy of Arts, Academy Gallery, ul. Shipka 1

Lecture Program

13:00 Changes in the water cycle, causes of changes in rains, drought and torrents, climate warming, as well as the main solutions to these problems and practices for the restoration of water resources – rivers, lakes and streams. Veselin Spasov
14:00 Natural disasters in the Shipka Mountain 2014, 2024. Civic participation in the protection and restoration of the forest. Svetoslav Todorov
14:45 Soil Microbiome: The Role of Soil in Erosion Control. Regenerative Agriculture Petya Ivanova
16:00 Relationship between soil microbiome and body microbiome. The health of the planet and the health of people. Nadezhda Maksimova
17:30 Communication from the heart – a craft for every day with Non-Violent Communication (NSC) Nikola Dimov, “Semicolon”

National Palace of Culture, A4 Singles Hall – Music Program

SUPER 8 CINEMA CLUB, 42 Dunav Str.

20:30 – Projection of family 8 mm films from the 70s and 80s (with old school analog projector)

Sunday, 07 September

National Academy of Arts, Academy Gallery, ul. Shipka 1

10:30 – 19:00
- Exhibition The Beginning//Le Debut. Strengthening the Torrents and Afforestation. Felix Vogely. Petar Mandjoukov” by Alexander Ivanov
- Audio-visual exhibition “Chinari” by Linda Barbara Karl Vaculka

National Palace of Culture – Craft Program (behind Pyloni & in front of A4)

11:00 – 18:00

Workshops with Specific Times

12:00 – 13:00 – Wet felting – Boudica Birch
11:00 – 14:00 – Bulgarian embroidery – Trufka Dimitrova, SediankaTa (embroider a bookmark)
11:00-15:00 – Demonstration of frivolité – Yordanka Nikolova, SediankaTa
11:00 – 15:00 – Demonstration of Kene – Yordanka Nikolova, and Ivanka Genova, Shipka
14:00 – 17:00 – Finger knitting – Stanka Bozhinova, SediankaTa
15:00 – 17:00 – Candle making – Deyana Takieva
16:00 – 17:30 – Making toys from recycled materials – Nellie Borisova

National Palace of Culture, A4 Singles Hall – Cinema Program

11:00 – “2222” – A film by children for children and adults
- Director: Maria Stoyanova
- Short, fantastic, 25 min, 2023
- The film was realized by the team of Cinema for the Little Ones and the children of “Cinema for the Youngest” at KinoKlas
- The year is 2222. Empty and lonely is planet Earth. It is no longer fit for life. People have strangled her with garbage. On a small asteroid in space, a group of young scientists are developing a new generation of robots. They dream of cleaning up their home planet and returning life and people to it.
12:00 p.m. – “Infinity Wall,” directed by Taco Mladenov, documentary, 20 min, 2020.

The film follows the ascent of three Bulgarians—Tako Mladenov, Nikola Levakov, and Stoyan Todorov—of the 1,600-meter west face of Fitz Roy (3,405 m) in the Patagonian Andes.
13:00 p.m. – Sharing about Erasmus, volunteering with European Solidarity Corps and Open Mind project – Tirsa Montgomery

Music & Artistic Program

20:00 Doors Open
20:30 – 21:30 – ETHNOLOGICAL project – Konstantin Kuchev (BG), Saeed Beyran (Iran), Pavel Stoychev (BG)
21:30 – 21:45 – Prema Fire Artist (in front of the hall)
22:00 – 23:15 – SURBAHAR Live Band

SUPER 8 CINEMA CLUB, 42 Dunav Str.

20:30 – Screening of a short film by Neda Milanova, music and sound design by Saturated Pixels – Lyubomir Brashnenkov and Angel Dodov. Footage from the archive of the Bulgarian poetess Stanka Pencheva

Monday, 08 September

National Palace of Culture, A4 Singles Hall

Crafts
- 11:00 – 18:00 – Weaving, knife making, coppersmithing, Kalofer lace, basketry, nomadic loom weaving
- 11:00 – 14:00 – Bulgarian embroidery – Trufka Dimitrova, Sedyanka (embroider a bookmark)
- 14:00 – 17:00 – Finger knitting – Stanka Bozhinova, Sedyanka
- 15:00 – 17:00 – Candle making – Deyana Takieva
Workshops
14:00 – 16:00 – Non-Violent Communication workshop – Radi & Sylvia (“Full stop, comma”)
16:30 – Singing workshop, devoted to the beauty of the Bulgarian song with Desislava Petrova

Cinema
- 11:00 ” Soul Beyond Measure“, Sofia Stoycheva – screenwriter and director of the film
- Documentary feature, 109 min., 2023, producer – Martichka Bozhilova – Agitprop
- with the support of the National Film Center and the Sofia Culture Program – Mobility.
- The documentary “The Unequal Soul” is a film about foreigners who carry Bulgaria in their hearts – an emotional story about people of different nationalities who have turned their interest in Bulgarian and Balkan folklore into their passion and way of life. Their heart dances every time they catch up in the dance, when they sing a Bulgarian folk song or play the complex uneven rhythms. They live with this music – they fall in love, love and suffer, from it they draw inspiration and strength for difficult moments in life. They have brought not only our folklore tradition to their distant countries, but also a piece of the unequal Bulgarian soul.

The project Shipka Fest’25 is realized with the financial support of Национален фонд „Култура“/ National Culture Fund, Bulgaria under Program “Festivals” — 2024 г.

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