Spain's 'Cultural Earthquake' to Rock Sofia in 2015

Society » CULTURE | Author: Angel Petrov |December 18, 2014, Thursday // 09:13
Bulgaria: Spain's 'Cultural Earthquake' to Rock Sofia in 2015 File photo

An exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso will be one of the central events in the 2015 cultural calendar organized by the Cervantes Institute and the Spanish Embassy in Sofia.

This was officially announced by Javier Valdivielso, the head of Cervantes Institute in Sofia, during a Wednesday event unveiling the Spanish cultural program for next year.

Valdivielso made clear the Institute was offering an "ambitious" cultural program aimed at producing a "cultural earthquake" in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in 2015, with some events also taking place in the country's second-biggest city Plovdiv.

Works from the collection of Malaga-based Picasso Foundation will be on display in the National Art Gallery in Sofia starting October 25.

But the schedule for the first half of 2015 sounds promising as well.

Literary meetings will take place with both Bulgarian and Spanish writers. Basque novelist Bernardo Atxaga's visit on January 29 will dominate the first quarter of next year. Atxaga, one of whose books (Obabakoak) has been translated into Bulgarian, is to meet readers in the Greenwich Book Center in downtown Sofia to speak of his views on literary creation in the Basque language. Other authors such as Francisco Ferrer Ler?n and Juan Antonio Vernier will also be Sofia and Plovdiv's guests later on in 2015.

Spanish-language social circles will be hosted by the Institute dedicated to subjects like Ladino culture in Bulgaria, but also "the experience of Spanish football players and specialists working in Bulgaria," Valdivielso explained.

In February and March the Institute's Cervantes Space will offer cinema evenings, with recent Spanish movies screened every Wednesday. Throughout the year there more films from Spain and Latin America, especially in June when a festival including tens of movies from Spanish-speaking nations, already a traditional event, will take place.

June's last Saturday will offer quite a different kind of event: for a single day the Institute will "move outdoors" will a social performance on the St Sofia Street where it is currently based.

The Institute will cooperate with musical festivals such as the European Musical Festival and Piano Extravaganza, and also the one dedicated to classical music in Varna.

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