This month
An Attempt for a Revolution
PAINTING, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO BY THE XXL GROUP
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.
THE SERIES "DEBUTS ON THE EDGE" PRESENTS:

No Exit

THEATRE
1, 6 Dec. | 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 SERIES "IDEOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES: THE NEW DISSIDENTS" PRESENTS:

Dissidents Today – from Anti-Communism to Anti-Liberalism?
A CONVERSATION WITH DR NIKOLAY MIHAYLOV
4 Dec. | 18:30 | Red Hall | BG |Free entrance


Dr Nikolay Mihaylov is an analyst known for his often sharp critical positions going against established and prevailing beliefs. Over the years, his criticisms have been directed against both the left and the right in Bulgarian politics. Starting from his public positions, the conversation will focus on the significance of difference and disagreement in politics in the modern neoliberal age. Moderator: Iliya Valkov, journalist.
ALOS CENTRE FOR INFORMAL EDUCATION AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES PRESENTS:

Happy Beckett
THEATRE
4, 6, 11, 13 Dec. | 19:30 – premiere | Pesha Nikolova | BG | Tickets: 15/12 BGN


An interactive theatre performance inspired by the structure and imagery of Samuel Beckett's play "Happy Days". Instead of the original text of the play, the play will be based on texts of the audience on that particular evening. Each performance will have its own dramatic language, but the structure will always remain the same.
KINESTHETIC PROJECT PRESENTS:

Requiem for Two Foxes and a Piano
DANCE PERFORMANCE
5, 7 Dec. | 19:30 – premiere | Pesha Nikolova | Tickets: 12/10 BGN


The performance explores the body of the modern person beyond its social function. The project aims to undress the social shell in an elegantly poetic way and touch the naked sensitivity of modern people that is driven out by everyday life. Idea, choreography and visual solution: Miroslav Yordanov; with the participation of: Galina Borissova, Miroslava Zahova and Miroslav Yordanov.
THE GLOBAL MIGRATION FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PRESENTS:

Home in a Foreign Land

SCREENING, 80 min, documentary movie
8 Dec. | 19:00 | Red hall | BG, EN, SP SUBTITLES |Free entrance


The movie tells the stories and dreams of people forced to emigrate from Central America. It also shows the stories of those who remain in their home countries, resisting and transforming their realities. The "Casa del Migrante de Saltillo" located in Coahuila, north Mexico, is the meeting place for these stories, as it is where different migrants come together, looking for a safe place to regain their strength before attempting to cross the border to the United States.
THE GLOBAL MIGRATION FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PRESENTS:

Lost in Lebanon

SCREENING, 85 min, documentary movie; directors: Georgia Scott &
Sophia Scott
9 Dec. | 19:00 | Red hall | BG, EN, SP, FR SUBTITLES | Free entrance


"Lost in Lebanon" shows us unknown stories in a region that is on the fringes of hell. It transports us for over a year to Lebanon – in Beirut and on the borders of Syria – and tells the story of the country beyond the news reports, reflecting the lives of the people surviving in the shadow of the Syrian war.
THE GLOBAL MIGRATION FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PRESENTS:

Misafir a Guest

SCREENING, 26 min, 2017, documentary movie; director: Mariam El Marakeshy
9 Dec. | 20:30 | Red hall |BG, EN SUBTITLES | Free entrance


A documentary about the stories of three teenage refugees from war-torn countries (Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan) who flee to Istanbul in search for better
lives. The movie highlights their background, how they adapt to life in a multicultural city, their contributions, and how Istanbul embraces them as "guests" rather than "refugees".
THE GLOBAL MIGRATION FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PRESENTS:

The Sound of Torture

SCREENING, 59 min, documentary movie; director: Keren Shayo
10 Dec. | 19:00 | Red hall | BG, EN SUBTITLES | Free entrance


After Europe closed its borders in 2006, thousands of
Eritrean refugees fled their military dictator-ruled country towards Israel. The only way out was across the Sinai desert in Egypt. There, many were kidnapped by Bedouin smugglers and taken to camps where they were tortured, raped and forced to call their relatives begging for ransom for their release.
THE GLOBAL MIGRATION FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PRESENTS:

It Has Killed My Mother

SCREENING, 25 min, drama
10 Dec. | 20:15 | Red hall | BG, EN SUBTITLES | Free entrance


A story about female genital mutilation. Amina, the director of the film, is a Congolese refugee living in Kakuma. She is a shining example of someone using her skills and talents in the context where she finds herself – not only to help fellow refugees and migrants, but Kenyans too. Amina reverses the assumption that refugees simply receive aid and wait. A short interview with the director will be presented with the film.
THE DEBATE SERIES „OUR EUROPE: WHAT KIND OF EUROPE DO WE WANT"PRESENTS:

Is There a Single European Law?
DEBATE
11 Dec. | 18:30 | French Institute | FR, BG | Free entrance


Is there a single rule of law on a European scale common to all member states? If this is the case, how can the unwillingness of some countries to apply different European regulations be seen? Under what conditions is the single European legal system compatible with the national sovereignty of member states?
THE GLOBAL MIGRATION FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PRESENTS:

Shingal, Where Are You?

SCREENING, 98 min, 2016, documentary movie; director: Angelos Rallis
11 Dec. | 19:00 | Red hall | BG, EN SUBTITLES | Free entrance


Filmed in an abandoned coal mine at the Turkish border, the movie weaves together the dramatic stories of Yezidi refugees following ISIS attacks and the kidnapping of more than 3000 women and children.
IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EXHIBITION "AN ATTEMPT FOR A REVOLUTION"

Rassim – Life and Work, Fluids and Flesh (a Subjective View)

SCREENINGS, DIALOGUES
12 Dec. | 19:30 | Red hall | BG | Free entrance


A narrative / conversation / analysis of a unique artistic body. A firewalking experience recorded through video and memories. Reminiscences of decades of artistic radicalism and experiments not previously seen in Bulgarian art and a metaphor of the market worship that hit Bulgaria after the fall of the communist cult: Rassim changes his body.
THE EMBASSY OF THE NETHERLANDS AND THE RED HOUSE PRESENT:

Tickling Giants
SCREENING, 111 min, documentary film, 2016; director: Sara Taksler, USA
13 Dec. | 18:30 | Red hall | EN AND ARAB, BG SUBS | Entrance: by invitation or prior registration


On the occasion of Human Rights Day – 10 December – we invite you to a screening of the documentary Tickling Giants and a discussion on freedom of speech, humour and power. in the discussion: Dr Georgi Ezekiev, surgeon and publisher of "Zov News"; blogger and journalist Ruslan Trad. Moderator: Irina Nedeva, journalist at the Bulgarian Natinal Radio and president of the Association of European Journalists in Bulgaria.
REPLICA THEATRE AND N/TRY OUTWARD PRESENT:

Alone
DOCUMENTARY THEATRE
14 Dec. | 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.
THE EMBASSY OF THE NETHERLANDS AND THE RED HOUSE PRESENT:

Tickling Giants
SCREENING, 111 min, documentary film, 2016; director: Sara Taksler, USA
15 Dec. | 16:30 | Cat and Mouse, 14 Hristo Dyukmedzhiev Str., 4000 Kapana, Plovdiv | EN AND ARAB, BG SUBS | Entrance: by invitation or prior registration

On the occasion of Human Rights Day – 10 December – we invite you to a screening of the documentary Tickling Giants and a discussion on freedom of speech, humour and power with Ivo Dernev ("Pod Tepeto" online media), Viktor Yankov (Radio Plovdiv and Plovdiv Night) and Maria Sharkova ( medical law, lawyer).
N/TRY OUTWARD PRESENTS:

What Remains
DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE-PROMENADE
15, 18 Nov. | 19:30 | 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.
THE SOFIA LGBTI COMMUNITY FESTIVAL PRESENTS:

Gender(Fluid)
CONCERT, POETIC READING, PERFORMANCE
16 Dec. | 19:30 | Red hall |BG, EN | Tickets: 10/8 лв.


The musical-poetic-behavioural performance is like an alchemical-physical experiment with the fluid "gender" and, like all other Strawberry Finns projects, is open to audience participation. This enables each viewer to become part of the study. Gender (Fluid) is a series of entertaining actions with seven subjects aimed at exploring the theme of gender and gender roles through improvisation. Author: The Strawberry Finns – an improvisational musical underground formation.
CIVIL ASSOCIATION "LIBERTARIUM" PRESENTS:

I Will Tell You a Story

THEATRE FOR CHILDREN
17 Dec. | 16:30 | 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?
THE SOFIA LGBTI COMMUNITY FESTIVAL PRESENTS:

#Pride
VERBATIM THEATRE
17 Dec. | 19:30 | Red hall | BG, EN SUBTITLES | Tickets: 12/10 BGN

A documentary play that portrays the stories of some of the participants in the Pride parade in 2008, which was remembered as the first one in Bulgaria. Behind the media coverage, the social attention and the reactions against diversity lies the choice of people, both LGBTI and heterosexual, who dared to publicly support the idea of a Pride.
N/TRY ART DOC SPACE PRESENTS:

LOW COST

DOCUMENTARY-SENSORY PERFORMANCE
19 Dec at 19:30 |20, 21 Dec. at 18:00 and 20:00 | All halls | BG, EN | Tickets: 12/10 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 XXI-st century. The performance is a journey into different dimensions of the tourist experience.
PAVILION 19 PRESENTS:

Festive Performance

ТHEATRE, PERFORMANCES
22 Dec. | 15:00 | Red hall | Entrance: by invitation


Children and young people from local and migrant communities at the Women's Market who take part in our Pavilion 19 education and art workshops will present a festive programme of mini performances and dramatizations based on texts by Tove Jansson, Richard Bach, Charles Perrault and Erich Kästner. You will also learn more about our work in Pavilion 19 from the organizers. See the full programme below.
Past Events
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