Description
The main objective of the project is to create an innovative cultural event – Light Festival LUMMIX, which will contribute to cultural diversity and social cohesion through cultural dialogue. The project gives the local population, and Bulgarian and foreign visitors of Plovdiv access to an enriched cultural calendar and cultural events combining various art forms using light which are unique for the country. The Roma population will be included in the cultural life of the city. The project will promote their creative thinking and skills, open the “doors” for contemporary art and its audience and directly involved them. Cultural institutions, organizations and municipal administration in the Culture Department will increase their capacity and will strengthen the image of the city as the cultural capital of Europe 2019. The light festival will include various contemporary arts exhibitions of light installations indoors and outdoors, performances, video art and other arts. The project will bring together young artists, renowned Bulgaria and foreign participants and representatives of the Roma population, which will contribute to the cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue in the Municipality of Plovdiv. The project will also involve in the cultural life socially excluded population group – the Roma by their training in the workshop of products of contemporary art and the organization of the first night of the festival in the Roma neighbourhood, bringing together contemporary art and their traditional music and dance, presented in innovative way.
Summary of project results
The main needs the project is looking to address include: - Lack of event of the type “light festival” in Bulgaria, which brings together various contemporary artists; - The inhabitants of the country and tourists in Bulgaria have access to a limited numbet of small scale cultural events using the light in the application of contemporary art. - In Plovdiv is situated the largest Roma quarter in Bulgaria and one of the largest on the Balkans – Stolipinovo. In the neighborhood of Stolipinovo are about 40 000 people, which have limited access to cultural events and are highly isolated from contemporary art. This project aims to achieve overcoming the isolation of the Roma population, ensuring access of Roma to contemporary art, provoking their creativity and open neighborhood of artists and the general public. The main objective of the project proposal is to create innovative cultural event which will to contribute to the cultural diversity and social cohesion through cultural dialogue. Specific and concrete objectives: • To provide access to isolated social groups (with focus on Roma) from Plovdiv to cultural events and ensuring their direct participation in them; • To provide an opportunity for creative expression for Bulgarian, foreign artists and representatives of the Roma ethnic group. Within the framework of the project, a new cultural event - the LUMIX Light Festival - was created and presented for the first time, which presented various forms of contemporary art such as exhibition of outdoor and indoor lighting installations, performance, concert, workshop and other works of art. different authors. The event is already included in the project "Providence - European Capital of Culture". The project united the art of young, established, Bulgarian, foreign participants and representatives of the Roma population of Plovdiv, which contributed to the cultural diversity and cultural dialogue in the city. The project included a socially excluded group of people in the cultural life of the city - the Roma through their training in the development of contemporary art products and the first evening of the festival in the Roma neighborhood. During the project, 43 Bulgarian and international artists participated, some with more than one work, 15 representatives of Plovdiv Municipality and 5 representatives of cultural institutes, NGOs in the field of culture. 12 Roma, training in making light art installations and objects.
Summary of bilateral results