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Mariya Chukarska, a tenth-grade interior design student at the Elisaveta Vazova Vocational School of Design, has won first place in the 16-18 age category of the European scientific art project "Unfold Your World – Proteins," the Sofia City Regional Education Department announced.

The 162nd birth anniversary of renowned writer Aleko Konstantinov was celebrated in Svishtov with a series of events, culminating in the awarding of the Aleko International Short Story Competition prize and a charity concert featuring Hilda Kazasyan and the Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra.

Films by Romanian directors Tudor Giurgiu, Emanuel Pârvu, and Bogdan Mureșanu will be featured at the Palm Springs International Film Festival this January.

The Planetarium in Smolyan has launched an exhibition titled The Colours of the Universe, showcasing original space photography by Mihail Mamchurov, an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer from Varna.

On Friday, Prof. Robert Schlögl, President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, was awarded the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa by Sofia University.

Moldova's Culture Minister Sergiu Prodan and Ukraine's Deputy Culture Minister Mykola Tochytckyi recently discussed the critical state of Ukraine's cultural heritage, severely impacted by Russia's ongoing war.

The exhibition "Ancient Thrace and the Classical World: Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece" at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles remains secure despite fires in the area, according to Bulgaria's Ministry of Culture.

Films by Tudor Giurgiu, Emanuel Parvu, and Bogdan Muresanu will be showcased at the Palm Springs International Film Festival this January, according to a statement from the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.

Renowned Argentinian jazz and bossa nova artist Karen Souza will perform in Sofia as part of the celebration of Bulgarian singer Vasil Petrov's 30-year music career.

An 800-year-old ceramic fragment, believed to depict an Anatolian leopard, was discovered during excavations in Hasankeyf, a historic district in Türkiye's southeastern Batman province.

An exhibition featuring the finest metal artworks created by students of the National Academy of Art (NAA) over the past eight years has opened at Sofia's Academia Gallery.