This month
DEBUTS ON THE EDGE SERIES PRESENTS:

No Exit

THEATRE
4, 25 Oct. | 19:30 | Red hall | BG | Tickets: 12/10 BGN


No Exit is a theatre adaptation of a play written by Jean- Paul Sartre – philosopher, writer and Nobel Prize winner. Three strangers are damned in Hell. Striving for salvation makes them face their own weaknesses and leads them to extremes. Hell is a place where life, character and existence are unthinkable unless we have a mirror to reflect us. The corrective is other people. No Exit is a provocation to reach for our goals and search ways to achieve them.
N/TRY ART DOC SPACE PRESENTS:

LOW COST

DOCUMENTARY-SENSORY PERFORMANCE
6, 7 Oct. | 18:00, 20:00 | All halls | BG | Tickets: 12 BGN


LOW COST is inspired by the social dimensions of tourism in Bulgaria. Questions like how we present ourselves to the outside world, how we think of the separations "abroad" and "at home", what kind of mask we create and what personality hides beneath it, are the basis for exploring the symptoms of the national identity problem and its presentation in the XXIth century. The performance is a journey into different dimensions of the tourist experience.
Daryl Cagle on Political Cartoons in the USA

LECTURE
9 Oct. | 18:30 | Red hall | BG, EN |Free entrance


Daryl Cagle is one of the most outstanding American cartoonists. He has worked for The Muppet Show for 15 years, illustrating a number of books, magazines and other products. His works are in hundreds of American media such as Slate.com, msnbc.com and NBCnews.com. In his lecture, Cagle will talk about the role of political cartoons in US media and about freedom of speech and the press.
N/TRY ART DOC SPACE PRESENTS:

The Invisibles No. 3: HOME
VERBATIM THEATRE
10 Oct. | 19:30 | Red hall | BG | Tickets: 15/10 BGN.


The performance is built on interviews with homeless people conducted in winter, when they are most vulnerable. The actors reproduce verbatim (from Latin, "word for word") their thoughts on what home, the street, love, family and dreams mean to them. What does their life turn into once they end up on the street? Why is Alastor, the spirit of solitude, their constant companion? This is the third show of the series The Invisibles by Documentary Theatre Studio Vox Populi. It explores the lives of unknown and marginalized groups and minorities.
Planet Libel
GRAPHIC DESIGN EXHIBITION | SPARTAK DERMENDJIEV
11 Oct. | 18:30 – opening | 12–31 Oct. | every working day
10:00 to 17:30 | Pesha Nikolova hall| Free entrance


Parts of manuscripts, repeatedly published and tendentiously manipulated, create a parallel reality – compelling, funny, poignant, and sometimes scandalous, but entirely false. The repeated overlay of a text transforms it into a maze of countless words where meaning is lost, the letters ossify, and the image with its embossed outlines starts to resemble the surface of a planet. Probably our planet, probably our world.


Reverse angle – a short film platform
SCREENING, DISCUSSION
11 Oct. | 19:00 | Red hall | BG, EN subs| Free entrance


You will see three Bulgarian short documentaries in three different genres – three attempts "against" the reality movement. These are "Zhivot v mazeto" ("Life in the Basement", 2013, 19 min) by Ivan Abadzhiev, "Chergodeiki" ("Carpet Makers", 2017, 27 min) by Elena Stoycheva and "Piratski Galabi sa Moite Chuvstva Raneni" ("Pirate Pigeons are my Hurt Feelings", 2017, 6 min) by Biljana Krylova. We will continue with a discussion of the movies with Elena Mosholova and our guest Neda Sokolovska, director and manager of the platform for documentary art N/TRY.
DEBUTS ON THE EDGE SERIES PRESENTS:

Mainstream
DANCE PERFORMANCE
12 Oct. | 19:30 | Red hall| Entrance: 12/10 BGN


Mainstream deals with the almost invisible, subconscious obsession of man with the momentum in which life falls. Where is the totality of our existence, where is our true, unaltered nature? Sometimes it appears for a moment, only to disappear again...
POST-DIGITAL LAB PRESENTS:

Post-Digital Space

EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES
13 Oct. | 19:00 – opening | 14–16 Oct. | 10:00–19:00 | Red hall, Gulliver hall,
Nameless hall | BG | Free entrace


You will see the works of four young artists who participated in the platform for developing digital art "Post-Digital Lab" – Lilly Dzhagarova, Maya Baltaliyska, Nikul Georgiev and Iliana Kuncheva.
THE RED HOUSE PRESENTS:

Reverse angle – a short film platform

PROJECTION, DISCUSSION
18 Oct.
| 19:00 | Red hall | BG, EN sub. | Free entrance


You will see four films – feature films and video art. These are "Seraphim" (dir. Vanya Doneva), "Jonas and Anna" (dir. Biliyana Kirilova), "Waltz of Eagles" (authors and actors: Biliyana Kirilova and Boris Kunchev) and "A Life of Thousand Years" (dir. Krum Yankov). The discussion will be led by Elena Mosholova. The artist Georgi Todoro-Zhozi will be our guest.
N/TRY ART DOC SPACE PRESENTS:

GENERATION Ь
DOCUMENTARY THEATRE
20 Oct. | 19:30 | Red hall | BG | Tickets: 15/10/5 BGN.

Тhe latest play by Documentary Theatre Studio Vox Populi is dedicated to the Bulgarian transition – the years from 1989 to 1997. Extreme, contradictory, uncertain, this period proved decisive for the generation growing up at the time.
"OUR EUROPE: WHAT KIND OF EUROPE DO WE WANT? " PRESENTS:

Can we talk about one or more Europes?

DEBATE
25 Oct. | 18:30 | French Institute | FR, BG | Free entrance


Does culture really unite Europe? Will the European Union manage to overcome its divisions and take the road to integration and how should it be organized, having in mind the growing diversity?
THE SERIES „IDEOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES: THE NEW DISSIDENTS" PRESENTS:

The Crisis of Liberalism: a Conversation with Ognian Minchev

DISCUSSION
25 Oct. | 19:30 | Red hall | BG |Free entrance

Ognian Minchev is one of the key public intellectuals interpreting the processes of democratic transformation in Bulgaria since 1989. But with the onset of the so-called "refugee crisis" he has become increasingly critical of European Union policies. Is this the result of ideological repositioning or a rational political analysis?
DEBUTS ON THE EDGE SERIES PRESENTS:

No Exit

THEATRE
25 Oct. | 19:30 | Red hall | BG | Tickets: 12/10 BGN


No Exit is a theatre adaptation of a play written by Jean- Paul Sartre – philosopher, writer and Nobel Prize winner. Three strangers are damned in Hell. Striving for salvation makes them face their own weaknesses and leads them to extremes. Hell is a place where life, character and existence are unthinkable unless we have a mirror to reflect us. The corrective is other people. No Exit is a provocation to reach for our goals and search ways to achieve them.
REVERSE ANGLE – A SHORT FILM PLATFORM PRESENTS:

Koliva
PREMIERE SCREENING, DISCUSSION
26 Oct. | 19:00 | Red hall | BG, EN subs |
Free entrance

Dana is a housewife who lives with her mother, husband and three children in a forgotten Macedonian village. On the day when they slaughter their pig in the middle of winter, Dana's great love from the past, Marco, comes to their house instead of the usual butcher, and Dana misses the chance to say goodbye to her sick mother, Persa.
STUDENT COMPUTER ART SOCIETY PRESENTS:

Computer Space 2017, 29th Edition
FESTIVAL
27–28 Oct. | 10:00–18:00 | Red hall, Gulliver hall, Nameless hall, Andrey Nikolov hall


Computer Space is an international forum for computer arts with a competition and a festival programme. The Red House will host the festival part of the forum, which includes seminars, meetings with artists and exhibitions. The full programme can be found here.
OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESENTS:

The Social Function of Literature
LECTURE
30 Oct.| 19:00 | Pesha Nikolova hall | BG | Free entrance


Did the novel "Mothers" by Theodora Dimova succeeded in changing anything in the relationship between parents and children and in the legal relationships between divorced parents? Lecturer: Teodora Dimova. The lecture is organised in cooperation with the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation.
Yа Devi Sarvabhuteshu
DANCE PERFORMANCE
31 Oct. | 19:00 |Red hall| Entrance: 12/10 BGN.


Starring: Nivedita Badve (India), Victoria Daniels (Dipavali – school for classical Indian dance in the Bharatnatyam style), Katia Tosheva (Kaya Dance School), Margie Hristova (violin), Rossen Genkov (tabla), Lilia Dimitrova (narrator).
Past Events
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