Premiere of the book “Unity Makes Strength. Bulgarian recipients of Belgian National Orders in the 21st Century” (Tendril Publishing House) took place in the Regional History Museum – Sofia on 13 July. Its author is Prof. Dr. Alexandre Kostov from the Institute of Balkan Studies with Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences who presented the exhibition. The event was organized by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium and was attended by representatives of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other institutions, foreign diplomats, scholars and public figures. A welcome speech was given by H.E. Ambassador Frédéric Meurice. […]

The embroidered animated film “Marmalade” directed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Radostina Neikova from the Institute of Art Studies of BAS has been selected in the official programme of one of the most prestigious world festivals for animated cinema – the 31st  edition of Animafest Zagreb, World Animation Film Festival (7-12.06.2021) in Croatia. It has also been selected to participate in the oldest and largest children’s film festival – the 61st Zlin Film Festival – International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Czech Republic (9-15.09.2021). […]

The Dictionary of New Words in the Bulgarian Language (from the First Two Decades of the 21st Century) has been published (Sofia, Nauka i Izkustvo Publishing House, 2021). The dictionary is the work of a team of authors from the Institute of Bulgarian Language "Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin”. It is the third part of a series of lexicographical reference books published since 2001, documenting the latest additions to the Bulgarian lexicon. It presents both words that have entered from other languages at the beginning of the new century (such as emoji, vlogger, blockchain) and neologisms formed on Bulgarian soil (such as blogoroman, e-identity). Also included are semantically updated words (such as cloud), new compound names and terminological combinations (such as secure school, digital inequality, circular economy, [...]

On 26 May 2021, Wednesday, the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM at BAS) opened the exhibition “Stream Through Time: Rescue Archaeological Excavations along the Extension of the Gas Transmission Network of Bulgartransgaz EAD”. It presents over 400 finds from dozens of archaeological sites under the route of the gas pipeline and its accompanying structures. […]

The book by Assoc. Rumyana Nikolova "Functioning Mode of the Bulgarian theatre in the period 1944-1989", "P. Venedikov" Publishing House 2020, was awarded the ICARUS for 2021 for a critical text by the Theatre Historians, Critics and Dramatists Guild at the Union of Bulgarian Actors. In it, the author explores theatre in Bulgaria during the communist period. The communist government carried out a total transformation in all spheres of social life. In the theatre the aspiration was its subordination to the communist ideology and its Sovietization. This goal dominated repertory choices, new Bulgarian drama, and the completed productions. The main characteristics of the model of the Bulgarian theatre in the years of communism were formulated by 1956. The period between 1948 and 1956 saw a [...]