Culture

An exhibition portraying fashion in Bulgaria in the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, will open on 16 May at the Archives State Agency (ASA) in Sofia.

Jason Derulo, Dubfire, Traumer, Alan Fitzpatrick and many other international stars will be on stage at the 6th edition of the VIBE Festival in Targu Mures, which will take place July 4-7, according to the organisers.

People often climb mountains for recreation, sport, entertainment, in search of fresh air or breathtaking views. But Ajdna, a tooth-shaped peak below Mount Stol in northwestern Slovenia, offers much more than a momentary respite from the world.

Another virtuoso trumpeter is joining the season of the Sofia Philharmonic. The Belgian virtuoso Jeroen Berwaerts - well-known both on the classical and jazz scene - will present on 16 May the extremely beautiful Trumpet Concerto by Herbert Willi.

Apollonia Art Foundation Executive Director Margarita Dimitrova was awarded the Chevalier des l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Culture Ministry, the Foundation told BTA on Friday.

Two new exhibitions under the title 'Connected through Good in the Past, Present and Future' opened in Europe House on 9 May, Europe Day.

Over 120 scientists from Bulgaria and ten other countries will participate in the 14th Sofia Science Festival, which is taking place on May 9-12 in Sofia Tech Park, the Beautiful Science Foundation said.

The annual Arts Festivals Summit, organized by the European Festivals Association in Usedom, Germany will be attended by 230 festival managers from 47 countries. Bulgaria will be represented by five members of the Bulgarian Festivals Association (BFA), the association announced.

"As the Holy Week is about to end, the expectation of the Resurrection fills us all with hope, strength and optimism," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined in his Easter message on Saturday."Tradition dictates that we spend these Holy Easter days together with our loved ones. Our thoughts, however, must be primarily with our weakest fellow citizens, those who more than ever need our support these days, but also to all Greek uniform personnel, those who day and night, and these Holy days, they are fighting so that we all can be safe," he added.

President Klaus Iohannis conveyed on Saturday, in a message, that the Resurrection of the Lord reminds everyone of the Christian call to love one's neighbor and the exhortation to live in peace.

Nearly every second Bulgarian trusts the Church, according to a Gallup International Balkans poll released on Thursday.

This year, Bulgaria organized the first international student Olympiad in AI, Alexander Velinov, Alexander Velinov, secretary of the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad organizing committee, told journalists.

The movie Freedom/Libertate directed by Tudor Giurgiu has won the GOPO Trophy for the best feature film at the GOPO Awards Gala, which took place on Monday evening at the Ion Caramitru Hall of the I. L. Caragiale National Theatre in Bucharest.

The Bulgarian commissioner for the 60th Venice Art Biennale, Nadezhda Dzhakova, was among a selected few to meet with Pope Francis while he was visiting this major forum of contemporary art.

The Gopo Awards Gala, now in its 18th edition, will take place on Monday night at the Ion Caramitru Hall of the I. L. Caragiale National Theater in Bucharest, where last year's cinematographic achievements will be celebrated.

Twenty-two light artworks will transform Sofia into an open-air gallery in the evenings from 9 to 12 May 2024 during the third edition of the LUNAR Festival of Light, said the organizers. The programme includes video and static projection mapping, light installations, immersive experiences and a laser show, which will illuminate some of Sofia’s signature buildings and parks.

French writer Jean-Baptiste Andrea's novel Veiller sur elle [Watching Over Her] won the 7th Choix Goncourt de la Bulgarie [the Choice of the Goncourt Prize in Bulgaria] competition, the French Institute in Sofia said.

The 14th edition of the Sofia Science Festival, organized by the Beautiful Science Foundation under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Science, will take place at Sofia Tech Park between May 9 and 12, the organizers reported.

The exhibition "The colors of 'thaw'. The Bessarabian village in the painting of the 1960s", which presents the creations of 14 masters from the left of the Prut river, who stood out for their contribution to the renewal of the plastic language of the moment, opened on Thursday in the New Gallery hall at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant.

The fantasy thriller Rozara's Trial by Bulgarian writer Nikola Chalakov was published in the US by Of Metal and Magic Publishing. Originally written in Bulgarian, the novel was translated by the author himself, the publisher said on their website.

In Sofia on April 18, Dr Charkleia Diamanti of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades will deliver a public lecture on "Aegean Pottery Production and Distribution from the End of Late Antiquity to the Dawn of the Middle Ages (c. AD 550-700)", the National Archaeological Institute with Museum, which will host the event, said on Facebook.