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Current news and events related to the initative European Capital of Culture
All Together – For Better Education and Health Project
Plovdiv 2019 Foundation is partner of the Municipality of Plovdiv in the project 'All Together – For Better Education and Health" part of the Programme for Encouraging Social Inclusion of Roma and Other Vulnerable Groups of a Bulgarian-Swiss cooperation programme and focuses on the educational and health integration of Roma and other vulnerable groups living in Plovdiv's quarter of Stolipinovo as well as in the Kuklen village
International Mural Festival in Staro Zhelezare
On 29 July at 6.00 pm together with the organizers, people from the village, media and guests from Bulgaria and abroad, we opened the awkward walls of the International Mural Festival in Staro Zhelezare.
Successful concepts for management of industrial buildings in Plovdiv were presented on practical seminar and discussion
A lecture on the topic of Industrial Archeology – the Living City in the Context of Contemporary Heritage Concepts at the initiative of the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation was presented today.
FARA 2017 - Eighteenth Festival of the Bulgarian Association of Communication Agencies
The 18th edition of FARA 2017 - Festival of the Bulgarian Association of Communication Agencies has started. This year's edition is in partnership with the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation and will be held from 15 to 17 June 2017 at the Boris Hristov House of Culture
Opening of the festival Opera Open 2017
The opening of the festival Opera Open with the concert-spectacle “Orpheus and Paganini” brought more than 2000 spectators into the mythical world of the legendary Thracian singer. For the first time, the facade of the Ancient Theater “came to life” with a unique 3D mapping by Polina Gerasimova, who recreated the ancient legends of Orpheus against the background of the music of G. Arnaudov, K. Gluck, K. Monteverdi, J. Offenbach and others.
An open lesson showed the secrets of calligraphy to Plovdiv students
Dozens of students from the Tsanko Lavrenov National Art Gallery participated in a workshop devoted to calligraphic art and font. Together with students from the National Academy of Art, the students learned more about the names of different types of font, the Bulgarian system for classification of the fonts and the road of the present-day Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet.
Professional atelier for culture shows the culture economics of the future in Plovdiv
How young people and different voices to be heard to create a bottom-up culture was presented by the two leading British lecturers Peter Jenkinson and Sheila Wright at a professional atelier in Plovdiv – European Capital of Culture 2019.
Together with Bulgarian Cyrillic
Plovdiv is the first Bulgarian city in the family of European capitals of culture using the Cyrillic alphabet. There will be a series events on occasion of May 24th between May 23rd and June 10th celebrating the Cyrillic, which connects us together but also distinguishes us, expresses our individuality.
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