This month
DEBUTS ON THE EDGE SERIES PRESENTS:
No Exit
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.
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.
The verdict is free choice. A choice we have no courage to make.
Directing, adaptation and sound: Darey Chavdarov
Stage and costume design: Rositsa Grancharova
Technical management: Peter Sapondzhiev
Translation: Mariya Koeva
Cast: Radoslav Vladimirov, Martina Krasteva, Nadya Keranova.
Duration: 80 min.
The performance is produced by Other Line Theatre.
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You can also buy a ticket every working day between 9:00 and 21:00 at The Red House on 15 Ljuben Karavelov Str., Sofia 1142.
Reservations: you can reserve a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 or e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are held up to 15 minutes before the event.
Directing, adaptation and sound: Darey Chavdarov
Stage and costume design: Rositsa Grancharova
Technical management: Peter Sapondzhiev
Translation: Mariya Koeva
Cast: Radoslav Vladimirov, Martina Krasteva, Nadya Keranova.
Duration: 80 min.
The performance is produced by Other Line Theatre.
BUY A TICKET → (4 Oct.)
BUY A TICKET → (25 Oct.)
You can also buy a ticket every working day between 9:00 and 21:00 at The Red House on 15 Ljuben Karavelov Str., Sofia 1142.
Reservations: you can reserve a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 or e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are held up to 15 minutes before the event.
N/TRY ART DOC SPACE PRESENTS:
LOW COST
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.
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.
Participants: Stefan Prokorov, Martina Novakova, Kety Marinova, Georgi Atanasov and Vassilia Drebova.
BUY A TICKET → 6 Oct, 18:00 | 6 Oct, 20:00 | 7 Oct, 18:00 | Oct. 7, 20:00.
Tickets are also sold every working day between 9:00 and 21:00 at The Red House on 15 Ljuben Karavelov Str., Sofia 1142.
Reservations: You can book a seat at 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and by e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are held up to 15 minutes before the start of the event.
BUY A TICKET → 6 Oct, 18:00 | 6 Oct, 20:00 | 7 Oct, 18:00 | Oct. 7, 20:00.
Tickets are also sold every working day between 9:00 and 21:00 at The Red House on 15 Ljuben Karavelov Str., Sofia 1142.
Reservations: You can book a seat at 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and by e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are held up to 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Daryl Cagle on Political Cartoons in the USA
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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.
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.
Reservations: You can book a seat at 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and by e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are valid up to 15 minutes before the start of the event.
N/TRY ART DOC SPACE PRESENTS:
The Invisibles No. 3: HOME
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.
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.
Director: Neda Sokolovska
Dramaturgic processing: Radoslav Chichev, Neda Sokolovska
Choreography: Nikolina Todorova
Scenography: Denitza Argiropolus; processing of documentary material: Miriam Kozha
Assistant director: Stephany Hadzhiyska
Cast: Petko Kamenov, Bogdan Kazhandzhiev, Plamena Pencheva, Yordanka Stefanova, Todor Bliznakov.
N/TRY art doc space is a co-production of Documentary Theatre Studio Vox Populi and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate. Its purpose is to promote documentary and socially engaged art.
Tickets: 15/10/5 BGN. (The price of the ticket is optional. You can pay after the end of the show at The Red House reception desk.)
Reservation: You can book a place on telephone: 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and e-mail [email protected]. Reservations are valid up to 15 minutes before the start of the event
Dramaturgic processing: Radoslav Chichev, Neda Sokolovska
Choreography: Nikolina Todorova
Scenography: Denitza Argiropolus; processing of documentary material: Miriam Kozha
Assistant director: Stephany Hadzhiyska
Cast: Petko Kamenov, Bogdan Kazhandzhiev, Plamena Pencheva, Yordanka Stefanova, Todor Bliznakov.
N/TRY art doc space is a co-production of Documentary Theatre Studio Vox Populi and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate. Its purpose is to promote documentary and socially engaged art.
Tickets: 15/10/5 BGN. (The price of the ticket is optional. You can pay after the end of the show at The Red House reception desk.)
Reservation: You can book a place on telephone: 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and e-mail [email protected]. Reservations are valid up to 15 minutes before the start of the event
Planet Libel
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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.
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.
The exhibition by Spartak Dermendjiev shows how "an unreliable, but poignant and plausible text, and perhaps tolerated by society for its poignancy and plausibility, grows imperceptibly and swells from something "helpless" and "harmless" into a factor we take into consideration", Dermendjiev says of the exhibiton: "The idea is drawn from a variety of texts, notes, papers and reports owned by various government institutions, as well as from publications on various sites and comments under various articles in established media that have all acquired publicity in different ways. The texts create an avalanche of "information", which makes discerning the truth impossible. The texts create a world without truth where we are compelled to conform to libel."
The exhibition includes graphics crafted with the help of a computer and printed on paper. They are divided into several cycles. The first and main cycle – Planet Libel – follows the emergence of the new planet. "The multiple overlay of a single text turns it into a maze and a space filled with countless letters, words and signs forms where the point is lost, the signs and letters harden, outlines take shape and start to look like relief that resembles the surface of a planet." The other graphics show idyllic landscapes on Planet Libel: in the cycle" Ocean " overlaid texts remind of shadows and the glistening of an endless water surface; in "Fossils" the multiple layers look like fossils where the history of the planet is preserved.
The exhibition includes graphics crafted with the help of a computer and printed on paper. They are divided into several cycles. The first and main cycle – Planet Libel – follows the emergence of the new planet. "The multiple overlay of a single text turns it into a maze and a space filled with countless letters, words and signs forms where the point is lost, the signs and letters harden, outlines take shape and start to look like relief that resembles the surface of a planet." The other graphics show idyllic landscapes on Planet Libel: in the cycle" Ocean " overlaid texts remind of shadows and the glistening of an endless water surface; in "Fossils" the multiple layers look like fossils where the history of the planet is preserved.
Reverse angle – a short film platform
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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.
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.
More on the films:
"Zhivot v Mazeto" ("Life in the Basement")
(2013, 19 min, directed by Ivan Abadzhiev, in Bulgarian)
„Life in the Basement " is the dramatic story of a man of Roma origin who lives in a basement. You can see the movie trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8GPYDHD2mQ
"Chergodeiki" ("Carpet Makers")
(2017, 27 min., directed by Elena Stoicheva, in Bulgarian, with English subtitles)
Carpet making is a disappearing craft in Bulgaria. The movie follows the creator of the film, Elena Stoicheva, as she assembles an old loom with a group of elderly women from the Rhodope Mountain village of Dryanovo. Together, they create original rug models. During this entertaining endeavour, Stoicheva tells of the loss of traditional knowledge, of village life hardships, of the clash with new ideas and the solidarity of the women.
"Piratski Galabi sa Moite Chuvstva Raneni" ("Pirate Pigeons are my Hurt Feelings", 2017, 6 min) by Biljana Krylova
(2017, 6 min., directed by Biliana Kirilova, in English)
The film is divided into two parts – performance and documentary — and sets out to find out where the characters are more real.
Reservations: you can book a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are valid until 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Reverse Angle is a platform of The Red House for presenting Bulgarian short films through a screening and a discussion with the participation of the authors, guest professionals and the audience. The platform is funded by the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality for 2017. The screenings are in Bulgarian, with English subtitles, and the admission is always free.
DEBUTS ON THE EDGE SERIES PRESENTS:
Mainstream
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...
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...
Concept and choreography : Marion Durova
Music: Ivan Shopov COOH / BALKANSKY and Alexandar Evtimov-Shamancheto
Visual environment: Polina Stoyanova
Cast: Boris Georgiev, Hristo Ushev, Ina Gerginova
Photography: Maritza Kolcheva
The performance is created within the platform "Trizavisim" with the help of the Guild for Contemporary Performing Arts and the A25 Foundation.
Mainstream is presented within the Red House series Debuts on the Edge. The series has existed since 2005. It presents new and surprising projects that test the limits of individual genres and are hard to accommodate in traditional cultural spaces.
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Tickets are also sold every working day between 9:00 and 21:00 at The Red House on 15 Ljuben Karavelov Str., Sofia 1142.
Reservations: You can book a seat at 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and by e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are held up to 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Music: Ivan Shopov COOH / BALKANSKY and Alexandar Evtimov-Shamancheto
Visual environment: Polina Stoyanova
Cast: Boris Georgiev, Hristo Ushev, Ina Gerginova
Photography: Maritza Kolcheva
The performance is created within the platform "Trizavisim" with the help of the Guild for Contemporary Performing Arts and the A25 Foundation.
Mainstream is presented within the Red House series Debuts on the Edge. The series has existed since 2005. It presents new and surprising projects that test the limits of individual genres and are hard to accommodate in traditional cultural spaces.
BUY TICKETS →
Tickets are also sold every working day between 9:00 and 21:00 at The Red House on 15 Ljuben Karavelov Str., Sofia 1142.
Reservations: You can book a seat at 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and by e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are held up to 15 minutes before the start of the event.
POST-DIGITAL LAB PRESENTS:
Post-Digital Space
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Post-Digital Space
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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.
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.
MORE ON THE WORKS
Iliana Kuncheva | Automated Self
The interactive installation Automated Self explores our virtual identities on social networks. Through a careful selection of images and actions shared on the web, we construct the person we want to be. This person is designed to be liked and is therefore always more glamorous, more beautiful, more successful. The more "likes" he/she collects, the more he/she feeds his/her ego and grows. Its real-life reflection becomes more and more dependent on this adoration and gradually transforms and subordinates its needs to its virtual equivalent, searching for increasingly more interesting, different, sometimes even ridiculous ways to get the necessary likes.
During the event, through a specially created Instagram profile, the author will create an alternative ego, a false identity. The installation is a bot that will randomly find images in Google, integrate a portrait of the author into them, and share them on the social network. The process will start when a button is pressed by the audience. With each click, the installation will generate more and more new images that will flood the social network profile. The randomly created images will sometimes look quite plausible, sometimes quite illogical, and sometimes surreal.
Idea and realization: Iliyana Kancheva
Programming: Martin (libtec.org)
Lilly Dzhagarova
Lilly's project is related to the illegal felling of trees. Through screening on natural and inorganic materials, we will see how a tree grows and how it looks before it is cut off. The most important thing for Lilly is to make us realize what we do when we close our eyes to illegal logging.
Maya Baltaliyska
Maya's audio-visual performance examines the propensity of the body to rid itself of everything that it recognizes as different, to resist and fail, to feel, enjoy and go to extremes. The texts of Françoise Dolto, Gilles Deleuze, Stéphane Mallarmé and Boyan Manchev are the starting point for writing a Short Poem About the Flesh, which will be presented by actress Avgustina-Kalina Petkova in a team with stage designer Margarita Dancheva.
Nikul Georgiev
Nikul will show some seemingly naive stop-motion animations against a background of musical improvisation – his interpretation of the Big Bang Тheory and the creation of the universe – as well as an aquarelle remark to the Rorschach ink blots and his idea of the perfect home cinema night.
Post-digital Lab is a project of The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and the artist and curator Rene Beekman carried out with the financial support of Sofia Municipality's Culture Programme, the National Culture Fund and the Gaudenz B. Ruf Award. The project aims to develop the digital skills of Bulgarian artists and includes open lectures and workshops. For more information: http://postdigital.redhouse-sofia.org/
Iliana Kuncheva | Automated Self
The interactive installation Automated Self explores our virtual identities on social networks. Through a careful selection of images and actions shared on the web, we construct the person we want to be. This person is designed to be liked and is therefore always more glamorous, more beautiful, more successful. The more "likes" he/she collects, the more he/she feeds his/her ego and grows. Its real-life reflection becomes more and more dependent on this adoration and gradually transforms and subordinates its needs to its virtual equivalent, searching for increasingly more interesting, different, sometimes even ridiculous ways to get the necessary likes.
During the event, through a specially created Instagram profile, the author will create an alternative ego, a false identity. The installation is a bot that will randomly find images in Google, integrate a portrait of the author into them, and share them on the social network. The process will start when a button is pressed by the audience. With each click, the installation will generate more and more new images that will flood the social network profile. The randomly created images will sometimes look quite plausible, sometimes quite illogical, and sometimes surreal.
Idea and realization: Iliyana Kancheva
Programming: Martin (libtec.org)
Lilly Dzhagarova
Lilly's project is related to the illegal felling of trees. Through screening on natural and inorganic materials, we will see how a tree grows and how it looks before it is cut off. The most important thing for Lilly is to make us realize what we do when we close our eyes to illegal logging.
Maya Baltaliyska
Maya's audio-visual performance examines the propensity of the body to rid itself of everything that it recognizes as different, to resist and fail, to feel, enjoy and go to extremes. The texts of Françoise Dolto, Gilles Deleuze, Stéphane Mallarmé and Boyan Manchev are the starting point for writing a Short Poem About the Flesh, which will be presented by actress Avgustina-Kalina Petkova in a team with stage designer Margarita Dancheva.
Nikul Georgiev
Nikul will show some seemingly naive stop-motion animations against a background of musical improvisation – his interpretation of the Big Bang Тheory and the creation of the universe – as well as an aquarelle remark to the Rorschach ink blots and his idea of the perfect home cinema night.
Post-digital Lab is a project of The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate and the artist and curator Rene Beekman carried out with the financial support of Sofia Municipality's Culture Programme, the National Culture Fund and the Gaudenz B. Ruf Award. The project aims to develop the digital skills of Bulgarian artists and includes open lectures and workshops. For more information: http://postdigital.redhouse-sofia.org/
THE RED HOUSE PRESENTS:
Reverse angle – a short film platform
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.
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.
More about the films
Seraphim
(2017, 15 min.; dir.: Vanya Doneva; cast: Ivaylo Hristov, Vasil Banov, Polin Lalova)
The film is based on the eponymous story by Yordan Yovkov. Seraphim has been saving money for ten years to buy a new coat, but instead of a coat, he uses the money to give joy and sincere hope to those most in need. The film was awarded the "Grand Prix" in the category for documentary cinema and television at the Fifth International Festival "Slavyanska Prikazka" (Slavic Fairy Tale) 2017. Watch the trailer of Seraphim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YDLdJrPaAc
Jonas and Anna
(2017, 4 min.; dir.: Biliana Kirilova)
A film by Dimitar Voev based on the poem of the same name.
Waltz of Eagles
(2013, 6 min.; authors and cast: Biliyana Kirilova , Boris Kunchev)
The film is based on poems by Maria Makedonska. Its themes are sexuality, gender roles, hereditary madness, and the flip side of romantic love.
A Life of Thousand Years
(2016, 29 min.; authors: Katelina Kuncheva and Krum Yankov; screen writer and director.: Krum Yankov; cast: Katelina Kuncheva, Tigran Torosyan)
Dissatisfaction visits a young couple – they are not ready for this kind of danger. Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/151658670?ref=fb-share&1
The movies are in Bulgarian, with English subtitles.
Reservations: you can book a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are valid until 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Reverse Angle is a platform of The Red House for presenting Bulgarian short films through a screening and a discussion with the participation of the authors, guest professionals and the audience. The platform is funded by the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality for 2017. The screenings are in Bulgarian, with English subtitles, and the admission is always free.
N/TRY ART DOC SPACE PRESENTS:
GENERATION Ь
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.
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.
Generation Ь is dedicated exactly to the teenagers of the transition, the mature individuals of modern times, to their fears and loneliness wrapped in alcohol and drugs, to their musical tastes that were their most powerful attempt for rebellion. The play is a search for identity in the gravity-free 90s.
Director: Neda Sokolovska.
Cast: Tzveta Baliyska, Petyo Petkov "shaybata", Bratan Bratanov, Neda Sokolovska.
Tickets: 15/10/5 BGN. (The price is chosen by the audience. You can pay online or after the end of the show at the Red House reception desk.)
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Reservations: you can book a place on the wire. 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and e-mail [email protected]. Reservations are valid until 15 minutes before the start of the event.
N/TRY ART DOC SPACE is a co-production of Documentary Theatre Studio Vox Populi and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate. Its purpose is to promote documentary and socially engaged art.
Director: Neda Sokolovska.
Cast: Tzveta Baliyska, Petyo Petkov "shaybata", Bratan Bratanov, Neda Sokolovska.
Tickets: 15/10/5 BGN. (The price is chosen by the audience. You can pay online or after the end of the show at the Red House reception desk.)
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Reservations: you can book a place on the wire. 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and e-mail [email protected]. Reservations are valid until 15 minutes before the start of the event.
N/TRY ART DOC SPACE is a co-production of Documentary Theatre Studio Vox Populi and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate. Its purpose is to promote documentary and socially engaged art.
"OUR EUROPE: WHAT KIND OF EUROPE DO WE WANT? " PRESENTS:
Can we talk about one or more Europes?
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?
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 same dialectic between commonality and difference is at the heart of the economic and social European project: people often talk about a two-speed, even three-speed Europe. The Eurozone has clearly outlined a new border within itself, just like the Schengen Area has. At the same time, the Europe of defense affects only a few member countries on a voluntary basis. Is the gap between East and West, North and South about to disappear, or will increase immeasurably?
This is the seventh debate of the series "Our Europe: What Kind of Europe Do We Want?" organised by the French Institute – Bulgaria and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate "Andrey Nikolov". The events are held monthly in 2017. Every debate has a French participant and Bulgarian intellectuals who share their visions for the future of our Europe.
Our guests on October 25 will be Jean-Yves POTEL and Rumyana KOLAROVA.
Jean-Yves Potel is a historian and essayist and the author of nearly 15 works on the political and cultural history of Poland and Central Europe. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals and a contributor to the Holocaust Memorial in Paris. He has held a position as a cultural advisor to the Embassy of France in Warsaw (2001 – 2005). Potel is a doctor of political science and has taught at the Universities Paris VIII, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the Institute for Political Sciences in Paris and at Warsaw University for the past thirty years alongside his administrative career.
Rumyana Kolarova is a sociologist, a former education minister in the second cabinet of president Rosen Plevneliev, associate professor of Comparative Politics, head of the Political Science Department and director of the Master's Programme "European Integration" in Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". She has specialized in London (London School of Economics and Political Science), New York (New School for Social Research) and Florence (European University Institute). She is the author of over 50 scientific publications.
The debate will take place at the French Institute ("Slaveykov" Square No. 3, Sofia 1000)
There will be simultaneous translation and the entrance is free.
This is the seventh debate of the series "Our Europe: What Kind of Europe Do We Want?" organised by the French Institute – Bulgaria and The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate "Andrey Nikolov". The events are held monthly in 2017. Every debate has a French participant and Bulgarian intellectuals who share their visions for the future of our Europe.
Our guests on October 25 will be Jean-Yves POTEL and Rumyana KOLAROVA.
Jean-Yves Potel is a historian and essayist and the author of nearly 15 works on the political and cultural history of Poland and Central Europe. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals and a contributor to the Holocaust Memorial in Paris. He has held a position as a cultural advisor to the Embassy of France in Warsaw (2001 – 2005). Potel is a doctor of political science and has taught at the Universities Paris VIII, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the Institute for Political Sciences in Paris and at Warsaw University for the past thirty years alongside his administrative career.
Rumyana Kolarova is a sociologist, a former education minister in the second cabinet of president Rosen Plevneliev, associate professor of Comparative Politics, head of the Political Science Department and director of the Master's Programme "European Integration" in Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". She has specialized in London (London School of Economics and Political Science), New York (New School for Social Research) and Florence (European University Institute). She is the author of over 50 scientific publications.
The debate will take place at the French Institute ("Slaveykov" Square No. 3, Sofia 1000)
There will be simultaneous translation and the entrance is free.
THE SERIES „IDEOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES: THE NEW DISSIDENTS" PRESENTS:
The Crisis of Liberalism: a Conversation with Ognian Minchev
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?
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?
How does the rise of populist and anti-emigrant movements in Europe look compared to personal ideological developments? Are we witnessing the collapse of liberalism? The discussion is an attempt for a talk beyond value and identity confrontations.
Radical changes are taking place in political landscapes of Europe and the world. In the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Germany and the United States, new anti-elite parties and candidates with almost no background are gaining broad support and winning elections, and in general dictating the political agenda. Their positions are varied – leaning both to the left and the right; but they champion a common criticism against traditional elites who have lost touch with the majority of "ordinary voters"'s concerns and interests. These new players have their fierce opponents, they are often called populist, there are public appeals for their exclusion from politics. After decades of skepticism and apathy, confrontation and passion are returning to the core of political life. The negative side of this trend towards highly conflicting identity politics is the narrowing space for conversation.
In this series we analyze without prejudice the ideological displacements in contemporary society and the the grounds a series of prominent public figures find for them. Why do politicians and intellectuals active in the first years of democratic changes are now rebelling against European elites? What turns a convinced pro-European into an advocate of Brexit? What changes in recent years have made such ideological shifts possible? What does it cost to leave the comfort zone of your own reference group, and whether this constitutes a "new dissidence"? Is it the end of liberalism's hegemony, and the end of the "End of History"?
Moderator: Dessislava Gavrilova, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate.
The series „Ideological Trajectories: the New Dissidents" is organized by The Red House in partnership with the Europe-wide network of debating houses Time to Talk. The series is supported by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the OSIFE of the Open Society Foundations.
Reservations: you can reserve a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 or e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are valid up to 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Radical changes are taking place in political landscapes of Europe and the world. In the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Germany and the United States, new anti-elite parties and candidates with almost no background are gaining broad support and winning elections, and in general dictating the political agenda. Their positions are varied – leaning both to the left and the right; but they champion a common criticism against traditional elites who have lost touch with the majority of "ordinary voters"'s concerns and interests. These new players have their fierce opponents, they are often called populist, there are public appeals for their exclusion from politics. After decades of skepticism and apathy, confrontation and passion are returning to the core of political life. The negative side of this trend towards highly conflicting identity politics is the narrowing space for conversation.
In this series we analyze without prejudice the ideological displacements in contemporary society and the the grounds a series of prominent public figures find for them. Why do politicians and intellectuals active in the first years of democratic changes are now rebelling against European elites? What turns a convinced pro-European into an advocate of Brexit? What changes in recent years have made such ideological shifts possible? What does it cost to leave the comfort zone of your own reference group, and whether this constitutes a "new dissidence"? Is it the end of liberalism's hegemony, and the end of the "End of History"?
Moderator: Dessislava Gavrilova, The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate.
The series „Ideological Trajectories: the New Dissidents" is organized by The Red House in partnership with the Europe-wide network of debating houses Time to Talk. The series is supported by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the OSIFE of the Open Society Foundations.
Reservations: you can reserve a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 or e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are valid up to 15 minutes before the start of the event.
DEBUTS ON THE EDGE SERIES PRESENTS:
No Exit
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.
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.
The verdict is free choice. A choice we have no courage to make.
Directing, adaptation and sound: Darey Chavdarov
Stage and costume design: Rositsa Grancharova
Technical management: Peter Sapondzhiev
Translation: Mariya Koeva
Cast: Radoslav Vladimirov, Martina Krasteva, Nadya Keranova.
Duration: 80 min.
The performance is produced by Other Line Theatre.
BUY A TICKET → (25 Oct.)
You can also buy a ticket every working day between 9:00 and 21:00 at The Red House on 15 Ljuben Karavelov Str., Sofia 1142.
Reservations: you can reserve a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 or e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are held up to 15 minutes before the event.
Directing, adaptation and sound: Darey Chavdarov
Stage and costume design: Rositsa Grancharova
Technical management: Peter Sapondzhiev
Translation: Mariya Koeva
Cast: Radoslav Vladimirov, Martina Krasteva, Nadya Keranova.
Duration: 80 min.
The performance is produced by Other Line Theatre.
BUY A TICKET → (25 Oct.)
You can also buy a ticket every working day between 9:00 and 21:00 at The Red House on 15 Ljuben Karavelov Str., Sofia 1142.
Reservations: you can reserve a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 or e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are held up to 15 minutes before the event.
REVERSE ANGLE – A SHORT FILM PLATFORM PRESENTS:
Koliva
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.
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.
Screenwriter and director: Andrey I. Volashkin
Camera: Kiril Prodanov
Cast: Yoana Popovska, Labina Mitevska, Simeon Damevski.
Reservations: you can book a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are valid until 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Reverse Angle is a platform of The Red House for presenting Bulgarian short films through a screening and a discussion with the participation of the authors, guest professionals and the audience. The platform is funded by the Culture Programme of Sofia Municipality for 2017. The screenings are in Bulgarian, with English subtitles, and the admission is always free.
STUDENT COMPUTER ART SOCIETY PRESENTS:
Computer Space 2017, 29th Edition
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.
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
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.
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.
More on the lecturer: Theodora Dimova is among the most famous and read Bulgarian writers. She is the author of nine plays. In 2006, "Mothers" won the award for Eastern European literature awarded by Bank Austria and KulturKontakt. The book has 11 editions in Bulgaria and has been published in 9 languages, including German, French, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Slovenian, etc.
More on the Open University: the Open University of The Red House is a series of open lectures meant for everyone who wants to expand their knowledge of the modern world and feels that sharing knowledge is an exciting experience. It is part of the project Reality Check implemented with the support of the America for Bulgaria Foundation. The third theme of the Open University is contemporary literature. The events are organized in cooperation with Elizabeth Kostova Foundation. The three lectures that are part of the series are "The Social Function of Literature" by Theodora Dimova (30 October), "From Journalism to Literature" by Bistra Velichkova (13 November) and "The Bulgarian Novel in the Years of Transition" by Alexander Kiossev (6 November).
Reservations: you can book a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are valid until 15 minutes before the start of the event.
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).
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).
BUY A TICKET→
Tickets are also sold each working day between 9:00 and 21:00 at the reception desk of The Red House, 15 L. Karavelov Str. Sofia 1142.
Reservations: you can book a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are valid until 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Tickets are also sold each working day between 9:00 and 21:00 at the reception desk of The Red House, 15 L. Karavelov Str. Sofia 1142.
Reservations: you can book a seat by calling 02/988 8188, 0885 828 532 and e-mailing [email protected]. Reservations are valid until 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Past Events
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