We are most thrilled to invite you to join us in celebrating the opening of the European Capital of Culture 2019!
The most attractive and momentous highlight in our programme - the "WE ARE ALL COLORS" show will happen on 12th of January from 7pm. on Tsar Boris III Obedinitel Blvd.
Over the course of an extended weekend a series of events will take place at various in- and outdoor spaces across the city. Check the full programme here: http://bit.ly/Opening2019
11th of JANUARY: https://bit.ly/2CfwhNO
📅9.00 – 17.30 - Ungraspable for Kolyo K.
City Art Gallery (15 Alexander I Battenberg Str.)
A large retrospective ( 7 – 30 January 2019) at the City Art Gallery presents the multifaceted work of the renowned Plovdiv artist Kolyo Karamfilov.
📅10.00 – 17.30 -Children’s Programme of City Art Gallery Plovdiv
City Art Gallery (15 Alexander I Battenberg Str.)
Inspired by the works of Kolyo Karamfilov, children paint in the City Art Gallery. This is an accompanying event to the exhibition Ungraspable for Kolyo K.
📅11.00 – 21.00 - Cinema Programme
Lucky House of Cinema
Special winter selection of some of the most award-winning new Bulgarian films (English subtitles).
📅17.00 - The Song of the Wood (Opening)
Regional Ethnographic Museum
The exhibition presents traditional folk musical instruments alongside some newer ones (violin, viola, zither, mandolin), which became popular after the Bulgarian Liberation of 1878.
📅17.30 - Plovdiv Artists (Opening)
Plovdiv City Art Gallery (20 Avksentii Veleshki Str.)
The exhibition (11 – 31 January) collects 30 works of artists from the Union of Plovdiv Artists.
📅 17.30 - From Antiquity to the Present (Opening)
Balabanova House
Exhibition (11 – 31 January 2019) of paintings, drawings and sculpture by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Georgi Trifonov.
📅18.00 - Smoke. Tobacco Stories (Opening)
SKLAD (16 Ekzarh Yosif Str.)
This is an exhibition produced especially for the opening of Plovdiv – European Capital of Culture 2019 and dedicated to Tobacco City, one of ECOC’s flagship projects. This exposition, by some of the most renowned Bulgarian artists, features archives, photography, video, films, and art works that explore the history of Plovdiv through the tobacco industry. The exhibition is from 11th of January to 30th of March 2019.
📅18.00 "Anniversaries" - Balabanova House
A chamber concert commemorating the 120th and 110th anniversaries of, respectively, Pancho Vladigerov and Marin Goleminov.
📅18.00 - Rediscovery of Heritage (Opening)
Regional Ethnographic Museum (2 Dr Stoyan Chomakov Str.)
The photos in the exhibition (11 – 31 January 2019) reflect cityscapes, and offer glimpse into the atmosphere of a Balkan urban environment.
📅19.00 - Eurydice
Drama Theatre Plovdiv (38 Knyaz Alexander I Battenberg Str.)
With this theater performance the audience travels into the crepuscular lands of passion, crosses the Lethean stream and learns the language of inexplicable and eternal love.
📅20.00 -Kapana 2019 THE BEGINNING
Yadroto Open-Air Stage at Kapana Creative District (14 Zagreb Str.)
The music programme presents live performances of prominent Bulgarian musicians.
12th of JANUARY - https://bit.ly/2F7QUhF
📅9.00 – 17.30
Ungraspable for Kolyo K.
City Art Gallery (15 Alexander I Battenberg Str.)
A large retrospective ( 7 – 30 January 2019) at the City Art Gallery presents the multifaceted work of the renowned Plovdiv artist Kolyo Karamfilov.
📅 10.00 – 17.30
Children’s Programme of City Art Gallery Plovdiv
City Art Gallery (15 Alexander I Battenberg Str.)
Inspired by the works of Kolyo Karamfilov, children paint in the City Art Gallery. This is an accompanying event to the exhibition Ungraspable for Kolyo K.
📅10.00 - 18.00 - The Living Planet
Plovdiv Regional Museum of Natural History (34 Hristo G. Danov Str.)
The Dondukova Garden (Weather permitting) will offer games for children.
Admission is free for children! Two-metre-long fish will be ‘swimming’ in the air, and a towering light installation - a 3-metre-high ‘Earth’ balloon - will fill the dome of the planetarium.
📅11.00 - 21.00 - Movie Programme
LUCKY Cinema (1 Gladstone Str.)
A special winter selection of some of the most award-winning new Bulgarian films. The films have English subtitles.
📅12.00 - Kapana 2019 THE BEGINNING
Yadroto Open-air Stage At Kapana Creative District (14 Zagreb Str.)
A music programme of prominent Bulgarian artists.
📅12.00 – 13.00 - Chitalishta Plovdiv
Open-air Stage (Stefan Stambolov Sq.)
Plovdiv-based Chitalishta (community centres) will present at the stage in front of the Plovdiv Municipality a multi-coloured selection of music and dance, recreating the richness and beauty of Bulgarian traditions and folklore.
📅14.00 - 16.00 - RegionalЕ Programme
Open-air Stage (Stefan Stambolov Sq.)
Chitalishta (community centres) from the entire South Central Region (which are some of our most active partners during the European Capital of Culture 2019) will also take part in the programme.
📅16.00 -Programme in Old Plovdiv
Balabanova House
Chamber Symphonic Concert ‘Traditions’.
📅16.30 - Art Liberty – From the Berlin Wall to Street Art (Opening)
Stefan Stambolov Square
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2019, the only traveling collection of original fragments of the Berlin Wall is coming to Plovdiv (12 January - 30 March 2019).
📅17.00 - Programme in Old Plovdiv
Balabanova House
Movie screening of ‘The Old Album’ - a film dedicated to the life and work of Prof. Nikolay Stoikov.
📅17.00 - D'Ambrosio Wind Orchestra from Matera
Open-air Stage (Stefan Stambolov Sq.)
#Together with Matera 2019 during the Opening Weekend! The D'Ambrosio Wind Orchestra from Montescaglioso, Matera, will bring liveliness and colour accompanied by the rich sound of brass instruments.
📅18.00 - Programme in Old Plovdiv
Zlatyu Boyadzhiev Gallery
‘Bulgarian Mysteries’ - a music and laser-beam show.
📅19.00 - We Are All Colors (Opening of Plovdiv European Capital of Culture 2019)
Tsar Boris III Obedinitel Blvd.
The show, combining music, light and dance, will give the key to the whole year ahead and to the basic concept of the European Capital of Culture project, in which the citizens themselves are not only audiences and actors, but also creators of events. More than 1500 participants from Bulgaria and abroad will recreate on the open stage a large and colorful metaphor for all the main themes of the programme ‘Plovdiv 2019’ and their relationships under the motto ‘Together’. After the show, the German electronic musician Schiller will begin a multihour set.
📅21.00 - 21.40 - Fireter and Fire Theatre TOGETHER In One Fire Performance
Singing Fountains (Tsar Simeonova Garden)
The performance with fire effects, puppets, fire installations, and stilts presented by Shade and Fire theatre ‘Fireter’ and FIRE THEATRE Mime Company, will transform this emblematic Plovdiv space.
13th of JANUARY - https://bit.ly/2s6McIC
Sunday #together With the Children (Programme for 13 January 2019)
📅9.00 – 17.30 -Ungraspable for Kolyo K.
City Art Gallery (15 Alexander I Battenberg Str.)
A large retrospective ( 7 – 30 January 2019) at the City Art Gallery presents the multifaceted work of the renowned Plovdiv artist Kolyo Karamfilov.
📅10.00 – 17.30
Children’s Programme of City Art Gallery Plovdiv
City Art Gallery (15 Alexander I Battenberg Str.)
Inspired by the works of Kolyo Karamfilov, children paint in the City Art Gallery. This is an accompanying event to the exhibition Ungraspable for Kolyo K.
📅10.00 - 17.30 - Children’s Programme of City Art Gallery Plovdiv
Encho Pironkov Collection
1 Vasil Kanchev Str. (Old Plovdiv)
A drawing workshop in the halls of the gallery under the direction of an artist.
📅10.00 – 17.30 - Children’s Programme of City Art Gallery Plovdiv
Mexican Art Collection
11 Artin Gidikov Str.
An accompanying event to the January - The Month of Radichkov exhibition.
📅10.00 - 18.00 - The Living Planet
Plovdiv Regional Museum of Natural History (34 Hristo G. Danov Str.)
The Dondukova Garden (Weather permitting) will offer games for children.
Admission is free for children! Two-metre-long fish will be ‘swimming’ in the air, and a towering light installation - a 3-metre-high ‘Earth’ balloon - will fill the dome of the planetarium.
📅11.00 – 17.00 - Eureca! Travelling Exhibition
Plovdiv Regional History Museum (Museum Centre Of Modern History)
14 Angel Bukoreshtliev Str.
‘Muzeiko’ comes to Plovdiv to present some of the most popular discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition remains in Plovdiv throughout the year.
📅11.00 – 16.00 -How can we make a musical instrument?
Regional Ethnographic Museum
Children's workshop accompanying The Song Of The Tree exhibition.
📅11.00, 13.00, 15.00 - Movie Programme for Children
LUCKY Cinema (1 Gladstone Str.)
Film programme for kids. Free entrance for children!
📅11.00 - Young Instrumentalists
Balabanova House
Chamber concert.
📅11.15 – 13.00 - Ivan Vazov National Library, Children's Programme (17 Avksentii Veleshki Str.)
Cyrillic Exhibition (exhibits from the Slavic hand-writing collection of Plovdiv's National Library).
Do you know that? Interesting facts about all the European Capital of Culture since 1985. There will be a short quiz on the European capitals, as well as prizes for all the children.
📅12.00 - Kapana 2019 THE BEGINNING
Yadroto Open-air Stage At Kapana Creative District (14 Zagreb Str.)
The programme presents jazz, folk and ethnic music. From 16.00 - Teodosii Spassov folk quintet.
📅16.00 - January - The Month Of Radichkov (Opening)
City Art Gallery - Mexican Art Collection (11 Artin Gidikov Str.)
On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Bulgarian writer Yordan Radichkov, Plovdiv will host the one-of-a-kind exhibition dedicated to the author - ‘Neosvetenite dvorove’ (13 - 27 January 2019). ‘Cherkaski Hroniki’ movie screening: FARGO Club (1 Gladston Str.), at 14.00. Admission free!
📅19.00 - María de Buenos Aires
State Opera Plovdiv (15 Gladston Str.)
Premiere for Bulgaria of the Astor Piazzolla’s tango opera. Conductor: Konstantin Dobroikov. Director: Vesela Kuncheva. Choreography: Yavor Kunchev. Stage design: Marieta Golomehova. Soloists: Lucy Dyakovska, Atanas Srebrev, Momchil Karaivanov, Zhivko Dzhuranov. Bandoneon: Stoyan Karaivanov. Orchestra, choir and ballet of Opera Plovdiv.