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Книга на събитията 2019 / Book of Events 2019
СЛИВАНЕ FUSE
ВЪЗРАЖДАНЕ REVIVE
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ТРАНСФОРМИРАНЕ TRANSFORM
РЕЛАКСИРАНЕ RELAX
For a TOGETHER
that matters
A year and more than 320 projects, selected in open calls in accordance with the Bid Book, have been sorted chronologically and thematically into four programme platforms – Fuse, Transform, Revive, and Relax.
Plovdiv, the first Bulgarian city to become a European Capital of Culture, faced a series of challenges in order to accomplish its year of culture ‘ TOGETHER’. It had to invent and rediscover production methods in order to realize such a large-scale project in the local conditions. Plovdiv managed to achieve its goals thanks to its openness and its democratic way of programming, two approaches that enabled everyone to take part and develop ideas and events within the programme.
The Plovdiv 2019 programme kicked off as early as 2017, with extensive music festivals and upgrades to the city’s traditional cultural events. The project’s aim is to contribute to building capacity in the management of cultural projects, engage the local scene, involve large and small independent organisations and community centres, and boost the consciousness of Plovdivians’ as European citizens. To achieve these goals, starting on the first day of the preparation work, Plovdiv 2019 directed much effort and resources to educational meetings, projects about and with communities, as well as to activities that change a person’s usual experience with art, directly involving the city’s residents.
Some 20 open calls were realised for the achievement of the programme’s main ideas in the period between the city’s election to host the ECOC initiative up to the successful conclusion of the title year. More than 1,700 ideas and proposals were registered under the open calls, all of them aimed at achieving the main programme goals of fitting into the individual themes, and being in the Plovdiv region, the city suburbs, and local communities. One of the programme’s main philosophies is that unification is never a given but a conscious choice. That is why, rather than choosing the traditional division of projects by genres, the programme structure opted for a consolidation into thematic and concept clusters. In this way, more than 550 events from the various projects were connected with the four thematic platforms, allowing the involvement and enrichment of their audiences, and the incorporation of new venues. Participants were invited and partnerships expanded.
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Снимка: Alexander Богдан Thompson Credits: Alexander Богдан Thompson
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СЛИВАНЕFUSE
ТРАНСФОР- МИРАНЕ
TRANSFORM
ВЪЗРАЖДАНЕREVIVE
РЕЛАКСИРАНЕRELAX
ФОРУМ 2019FORUM 2019
ФОКУС: ЯПОНСКА КУЛТУРА
FOCUS: JAPANESE CULTURE