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Theatre Performance: A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians

19:30, Sofia Gallery > Reserve your place here < RSVP: office@bcilondon.co.uk This performance will be in Bulgarian with English captions. Join us for the Polish hit stage production A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians by Dorota Maslowska, put on by the Bulgarian theatre company Replica (meaning: Line, as in the line that an actor speaks). The director of this production is Georg...
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Film screening: The Lesson (2014) /100 Years of Bulgarian Cinema/

19:00, Sofia Gallery >Reserve your place here< RSVP: office@bcilondon.co.uk Join us for the screening of the contemporary Bulgarian drama The Lesson directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Vulchanov. We have invited special guests Margita Gosheva and Ivan Barnev, lead actors in the film, to present their movie and speak with the audience.

The film has received...

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Exhibition opening: “Darik Radio”

19:00, Gallery Sofia Entry is free RSVP: office@bcilondon.co.uk >Reserve your place here<   Come to our next exhibition hosted by one of Bulgaria's largest radio stations, DARIK Radio. We will be displaying works by over 25 different award-winning Bulgarian artists from the personal collection of DARIK radio. Check out the full list of featured artists in the cover...
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Film Screening: Barter (2015) /Day of National Enlighteners/

18:30, Halls of the Bulgarian Embassy Entry is free, but a ticket is required. RSVP: office@bcilondon.co.uk Doors will open at 18:00, and the event will begin promptly at 18:30. Due to the high volume of guests, we will not be able to admit anybody into the halls after 18:30 This event will be in Bulgarian with English subtitles As a...
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Film Screening and Discussion: Actor Alek Aleksiev in Pavel Vesnakov’s Trilogy

Sofia Gallery, 7pm RSVP: office@bcilondon.co.uk Join us as we present the rising Bulgarian star, actor Alek Aleksiev, and the contemporary Bulgarian director, Pavel Vesnakov. Our two special guests will present three short movies by the director, in which Alek Aleksiev plays the lead role. The Bulgarian Cultural Institute will be screening the short films, “The Paraffin Prince "2012”,...

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Literary Evening with the famous Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov

Sofia Gallery, 7pm RSVP: office@bcilondon.co.uk Presentation of the English translation of the book "The Physics of Sorrow" and his new children's book "Weddings of animals and things" Special guests: Georgi Gospodinov (writer), Angela Rodel (acclaimed translator), Dimitar Kambourov (distinguished literary critic) Our three special guests will speak about Georgi Gospodinov's various works, from his first book Natural Novel, to...

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Film screening: Ukrainian Voices (documentary)

19:00, Gallery Sofia The documentary will be in English. Entry is free We invite you to a special screening of the documentary by Dolya Gavanski and Fedor Levcenko, Ukrainian Voices.   Golos – Ukrainian voices – is powerful new social style documentary by Dolya Gavanski.  The Maidan revolution where the narrative starts, creates the backdrop as we follow four cities...
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Literary Evening: “Publishing Balkan Literature”

Sofia Gallery, 6:30 PM RSVP: office@bcilondon.co.uk Special guest: Susan Curtis (ISTROS BOOKS)   Join us tonight when Susan Curtis, the founder of independent publishing house Istros Books, gives a talk about her experiences with publishing and distributing Balkan literature for a Western audience. Istros Books have published one of Bulgaria's most famous contemporary literary works, the novel Mission...
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Exhibition Opening: Human Morphs

Sofia Gallery, 7pm Exhibition opening/Private view Human Morphs We live in a world awash with information, knowledge and technology. Even data itself transforms through a series of representations thus creating new intriguing stories. We ourselves are living cells of an ever more evolving and demanding system. Little do we realize all the aspects of how our world has...

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International Poetry Evening – III Festival of Slavic Poetry, London 2015

In the midst of the Third Festival of Slavic Poetry, we will be hosting a poetry evening here at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute. Writers from all over Eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Poland and Russia will make an appearance to read from their selected works. The poets we have planned are: Lychesar Seliashki Iskra Peneva Breda Slavinec

Lev Mesengiser

Olga Riabinina

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