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 [...]

The exhibition can be visited until the end of July 2021 The National Ethnographic Museum presents its new exhibition "From the edges of embroidery", located in three halls on the first floor of the Prince's Palace. The exhibition tells the story of embroidery as a function, motifs and messages, as well as the changes that took place in the first years after the Liberation, when the embroidered parts began to be seen as Bulgarian heritage and were made into tablecloths and cushions. The main highlight of the exhibition is a map of Bulgaria in embroidery donated by Prof. Ivan Gavrilov, Head of the Breast Surgery Clinic - Oncology Hospital. Designed by his mother Velichka Kamenova and measuring 195/165 cm from a total of 144 embroideries, [...]