This month
THE SERIES "MEMORIAL LECTURES DJU" PRESENTS:

After Europe
LECTURE
1. Nov. | 18:30 | Red hall | BG |Free entrance

The lecture presents the main theses in the book of political scientist Ivan Krastev of the same name. For Europeans, the EU was a very natural world, Ivan Krastev writes. After Brexit and Trump's victory, this is no longer the case. Should we worry about the fragility of Europe or be impressed by its sustainability? The future of the EU, says Ivan Krastev, is a story with an open end.
DEBUTS ON THE EDGE SERIES PRESENTS:

No Exit

THEATRE
2, 10 Nov. | 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 INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART – SOFIA AND THE RED HOUSE INVITE YOU TO:

Julieta Aranda

PRESENTATION
5 Nov. | 17:00 | Red hall | EN | Free entrance


Julieta Aranda is one of the most complex and charismatic personalities in the art world today. Her practice as an artist, theoretician and editor, activist and teacher fuses into a single biography the most urgent issues engaging the attention of artistic and theoretical communities all over the world.
THE RED HOUSE PRESENTS:

Reverse Angle – a short film platform
SCREENINGS, DISCUSSION
6 Nov. | 19:00 | Red hall | BG, EN subs | Free entrance


You will see three short movies about dance and movement. We will screen "Daydream" (8 min) and "Yet Another Daydream" (9 min) by directors Petya Stoykova and Yosif Astrukov, as well as "The Woman" by Margarita Bozhilova. The screenings will be followed by a discussion with the authors led by Elena Moshovova. Our guest will be Head Assistant Professor Dr. Kamen Ivanov – actor and lecturer in "Stage Fighting Techniques" and "Jazz Dance" at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts.
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESENTS:

The Bulgarian Novel in the Years of Transition
LECTURE
6 Nov. | 19:00 | Pesha Nikolova hall | BG | Free entrance


Prof. Alexander Kyosev will talk about the Bulgarian novel in the years of transition and the changes in the last 15-20 years, which can briefly be summarized as as the globalization of Bulgarian literature. One of the themes of the lecture is the very problematic concept "Bulgarian literature" because of the tension between literary production in the country, emigrant literature written in Bulgarian and literature by Bulgarian authors written in a foreign language.
THE PROGRAMMЕ CYCLE "REVOLUTIONS AND THEIR CHILDREN" PRESENTS:

Revolutionary Legacies: 1917 and 1989
DEBATE
7 Nov. | 18:30 | Red hall |BG | Free entrance


The short XX century, an era of ideological struggle, started in November 1917 and ended in November 1989. What are the common and different things between the two revolutions that framed the "short" ХХ century? Debate participants: Valentina Georgieva, Assoc. Prof. Alexander Sivilov, Stanimir Panayotov, Evgenii Dajnov, Petko Kovachev.
The King's Disco
PHOTO EXHIBITION, MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE BY IVAYLO STOYANOV
7 Nov. | 19:00 – opening | 8-23 Nov. – every working day 10:00-19:00 | Pesha Nikolova hall | BG | Free entrance


Ivailo Stoyanov is a photography professor at New Bulgarian University and founder of the PHOTOCONCEPT Contemporary Photography Space. In 2013 he created the platform for contemporary photography Bulgarian Photography Now with photographer Nikola Mihov. Stoyanov has authored and co-authored many individual and group exhibitions attracting a lot of interest from collectors. His works are part of important contemporary collections and are featured in leading publications on modern photographic art.

Another Question 5
CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION BY VELIN PETKOV AND IVAYLO STOYANOV
7 Nov. | 19:30 – opening | 8–23 Nov – every working day 10:00–19:00 | Gulliver hall |Free entrance


The title intends to provoke the viewer to constantly ask questions: "Where am I?" "What is it?" "Is this real or not?" The authors' goal is to photograph objects that are disappearing from urban environments, which they document and digitally process. This in turn gives them new life and meaning in the modern world.
THE PROGRAMMЕ CYCLE "REVOLUTIONS AND THEIR CHILDREN" PRESENTS:

Revolutions and Avant-Guard: Visual Footnotes in the Field of the Great and the Damned October Revolution
PUBLIC LECTURE BY IARA BOUBNOVA

8 Nov. | 18:30 | Red hall | BG | Free entrance


Radical utopias are unthinkable without social, political and artistic imagination. How did the 1917 Revolution affect imagery?
THE PROGRAMMЕ CYCLE "REVOLUTIONS AND THEIR CHILDREN" PRESENTS:

The End of a Post-Revolutionary Utopia. A Central European View
PUBLIC LECTURE BY PAVEL BARSA
9 Nov. | 18:30 | Red hall |BG | Free entrance


There are two readings of today's crisis in Central Europe. According to one of them, various negative phenomena such as corruption, xenophobia and the rise of populism should be conceived as manifestations of a failed exodus from communism to the promised land of liberal democracy.
DEBUTS ON THE EDGE SERIES PRESENTS:

No Exit

THEATRE
10 Nov. | 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 INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES OF THE RECENT PAST AND THE RED HOUSE PRESENT:

Literary Scandals in the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB)
BOOK PRESENTATION
13 Nov. | 18:00 | Red hall | BG | Free entrance


Presentation of the latest book of Plamen Doinov "Literature of the Cases: from "Tobacco" to "Wolf Hunt". Case studies from the literary field of PRB." It tells of those accidents in literature that have caused the strong reactions of both critics and the government – from the activation of censorship and the secret police and the circulation of rumours to the apparent or hidden intervention of the communist leader himself.
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESENTS:

From Journalism to Literature
LECTURE
13 Nov. | 19:00 | Pesha Nikolova hall |BG | Free entrance


What is the connection between journalism and fiction? Does working as a journalist affect the style of writers and how? We will analyse examples with established authors and their works, including Ernest Hemingway, in whose words working as a journalist does not harm young writers and may even be a benefit, as long as they leave the job in time. Lecturer: Bistra Velichkova.
THE INTERACTIVE CULTURES SEMINARS PRESENT:

On Social Movements Beyond Protest Eruptions
DISCUSSION
14 Nov.| 19:00 |Gulliver | BG | Free entrance


A conversation about the book "The Multitudes of Dissent" by Valentina Georgieva, which documents the public acts of resistance in Bulgaria in the period 2009-2013. In disagreement with the government, but also among themselves, can the multitudes of dissent deal with their differences and can they last? Todor Hristov and Ruzha Smilova will take part in the conversation.
N/TRY OUTWARD PRESENTS:

What Remains
DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE-PROMENADE
14, 16, 28 Nov. | 19:30 – premiere |Free entrance with a donation following the performance

Led by the actors of Vox Populi, the audience of the performance will walk to three significant streets in Sofia to witness situations from a parallel city life. In front of memorials, garbage containers, graffiti art and invisible hiding places, they will suddenly hear the city's enigmatic inhabitants speak the people who take care of what "remains", of what we leave behind.
ACT INDEPENDENT THEATRE FESTIVAL AND N/TRY OUTWARD PRESENT:

Generation Ь
DOCUMENTARY THEATRE
15 Nov. | 19:30 | Red hall | BG | Tickets: 15/10/5 BGN.

Тhis 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.
DEBUTS ON THE EDGE SERIES PRESENTS:

Mainstream
DANCE PERFORMANCE
17 Nov. | 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...
THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART – SOFIA AND THE RED HOUSE INVITE YOU TO:

NSK: A State in Time
A PRESENTATION BY MIRAN MOHAR
18 Nov. | 17:00 | Red hall | Free entrance


Miran Mohar is an integral part of one of the most renowned East European artistic groups in the world - IRWIN, for which politics, in particular the concept of the state, is one of the main themes. The group was founded in 1983 and is part of the art conglomerate Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art).
THE BULGARIAN LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION, THE CENTRE FOR LEGAL AID "VOICE IN BULGARIA" AND THE RED HOUSE PRESENT:

The Working Migrant in Bulgaria: Opportunities and Obstacles
DISCUSSION
22 Nov. | 18:30 | Pesha Nikolova hall | BG | Free entrance

This is the first discussion of a series in which we will talk about the challenges faced by international protection seekers in Bulgaria. We will focus on situations where asylum seekers find themselves on the labour market. What are the opportunities for the state and society?
REPLICA THEATRE AND N/TRY OUTWARD PRESENT:

Alone
DOCUMENTARY THEATRE
22, 23 Nov. | 19:30 – premiere| Red hall | BG | Tickets: 12/10 BGN

Many houses. One person. Silence. If a person says something but there is no one to hear it, did they say it really? In Bulgaria there are over 60 villages with only one inhabitant. 60 other villages have two inhabitants. The performance is one of the winners of the N/TRY Small Art Doc Grant Programme. Authors and cast: Boryana Peneva, Milko Yovchev. Artist: Margarita Dancheva.
N/TRY OUTWARD PRESENTS:

Ale Hop! On a Wire Stretched High Up
VERBATIM PERFORMANCE-PROMENADE
24 Nov. | 19:30 | 25 Nov. | 12:00 | 26 Nov. | 19:30 | Ground floor | BG | Entrance: 15/10/5 BGN


"Ale hop!" is the bravest phrase in the circus. A moment of supreme concentration followed by the jump, the flight, the magic. What is it like to be born in a circus? Where does Stella keep her 40 pots of flowers? What happens when a hippopotamus escapes from its cage? Come to see the show and get insight into this and many other details from the troupe of Orient Circus.
CIVIL ASSOCIATION "LIBERTARIUM" PRESENTS:

I Will Tell You a Story

THEATRE FOR CHILDREN
26 Nov. | 11:00 – premiere| Pesha Nikolova hall | BG |
Entrance: 6/4 BGN

A show for children based on children's texts (suitable for ages over 6). The show is based on five fairy tales, each with a different perspective on the topic of diversity. The actors are seeking entrance to their own past childhood. Will the fairy tale worlds of children's imagination survive the pressure of growing up?
N/TRY OUTWARD PRESENTS:

The Invisibles No. 1
VERBATIM THEATRE
27 Nov. | 19:30 | Red hall | BG | Tickets: 15/10/5 BGN


The Invisibles No. 1 is the first of a thematic series exploring marginal and minority social groups and their problems. The Invisibles No. 1 focuses on people with physical disabilities and explores the themes of isolation, movement and the power of the spirit. The unique verbatim method helps performers present the personalities and stories of real people in an utterly realistic way and engage the audience on a deeper emotional level.
"SMISAL" CLUB, THE RED HOUSE AND THE BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PRESENT:

Universal Basic Income – a Utopia or a Necessity?
DISCUSSION
28 Nov. | 10:00-14:00 | Pesha Nikolova | BG |
Free entrance


The discussion has the ambition to address different aspects of the problem of universal basic income, which has gained popularity in Bulgaria as "unconditional basic income". The futuristic dimension will be debated – the need for universal basic income following the automation and robotization of production.
An Attempt for a Revolution
PAINTING, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO BY THE XXL GROUP
29 Nov. | 18:30 – opening | 30 Nov.–15 Dec. – every working day 10:00–19:00 | Nameless hall, Gulliver hall | Free entrance


The exhibition includes seen and unseen works by the XXL Group (1994-2017). Georgi Tenev selected the works from personal and corporate collections to share his view of the "XXL" phenomenon. This is the story and testimony of an aesthetic rebellion in the years of privatization. The exhibition also includes archives and documentation. Authors: Ivan Kyuranov, Genadi Gatev, Georgi Tushev, Rasim Krastev, Kosyo Minchev, Svilen Stefanov, Huben Cherkelov, Georgi Rujev.
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