The visual perception of the world in the modern western societies is offering just little sensuousness in everyday life: people circulate between short messages and facebook, legislative texts, e-mails and conventional correspondence with civil service institutions, youtube clips and tv images. For sure, people talk a lot, too: via the phone, in video chats, in More...
A school friend who wants to study in Germany, a cousin working as a waiter in Dresden or a father day laborer in Munich… Only last year 39 000 Bulgarians have decided to immigrate in Germany. Almost 10 per cent of the Bulgarian population lives and works abroad. Bulgaria is sometimes called "Land of Emigrants". More...
A school friend who wants to study in Germany, a cousin working as a waiter in Dresden or a father day laborer in Munich… Only last year 39 000 Bulgarians have decided to immigrate in Germany. Exactly these blurred and variable borders were the main topic of the project “border\lines”, which included a two-day workshop, a More...
Let’s restage history – this was the aim of the project >re/en/action<. From the 12th to the 14th of June the German artist Janne Schäfer and members of the German-Bulgarian Friendship Association in Ruse gave it a try. She developed the concept of this kind of art performance and place-specific workshops together with Verena Ries. We More...
Let's restage history – this was the aim of the project >re/en/action<. From the 12th to the 14th of June the German artist Janne Schäfer and members of the German-Bulgarian Friendship Association in Ruse gave it a try. It's about the subjective perspectives of the public space and the different historical layers and meanings of the sity More...
The IECS hosted the project Potential Mothers and invited on the 4th of June to the music performance of students from The National Art School “Prof. Veselin Stoyanov” in the entrance hall of the theater and to the stories of 116 women, who told in book Potential Mothers of their experience of being a mother. More...
The International Elias Canetti Society organized an eco-workshop for hand-made objects out of scrap on the 20th and the 21st of May in Canetti House. The workshop "Lets make something new out of something old" was led by Zornitza Vasileva, who lives in Vienna and has received her Master's degree in Applied Arts in the Austrian More...
Nine events, eight authors and a theatre company: The International Elias Canetti Society celebrated the arrival of the spring in Ruse with a literature festival in May. The main focus of the 4th Literary Spring Parlour was on border identities. Borders have the power to mould and change people. Any kind of borders – physical, More...
Nine events, eight authors and a theatre company: The International Elias Canetti Society celebrated the arrival of the spring in Ruse with a literature festival in May. The main focus of the 4th Literary Spring Parlour was on border identities. We invited authors and artists from Germany, Bulgaria and other European States, who ask these questions More...
The event of the year for all skater fans: Skateboard Festival „Collision Course” took place on the 30th of April, Saturday for the fifth time in Ruse. In the evening there were concerts with the German bands "Cloudberry" and "Arlito" and on the following day - a graffiti workshop with Dave in Canetti House. More...
