The new format of cultural events at the St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library is called "Etnocafe". In it we present intellectuals and prominent creative personalities from the Bulgarian minority, as well as authors who research and write about the Bulgarian minorities. For the first event we invited Albert Benbasat. In 2020 His collection "Izgubeni veshti"...

The second participant in our Ethnocafe series is Georgi Georgiev. A native of Byala Slatina, he lived and worked in Germany, today he is a bachelor of history and a master's student in the Bulgarian Revival program at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". is on a postgraduate qualification in Ottoman studies at the National Library...

The third participant in "Ethnocafe" is Eddy Rumyan. He was born in 1978 in Sofia. Author of two collections of short stories "Banitsa s Lokum" (2019) and "Last Chance" (2022). His short stories have participated in literary formats such as Writers Without Books, Mailbox for Tales, etc. In 2018, the short story "Banitsa with Lokum"...

In the fourth event of the activity "Ethnocafe" on the project "United in diversity" the joint book of prof. Dr. Hristo Kyuchukov and Maria Kasimova-Moase "The Romani Woman and the Second World War". Acad. Hristo Kyuchukov is the author of dozens of research projects and hundreds of publications in the field of Roma, Turkish and...

Project partners invite you to the 3-day Festival "Roma Culture Day" on 29-31.07.2023 in the courtyard of the United School "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" - Aprilovo village, Gorna Malina municipality. Programme of the event   29 July 2023 15.00: Official opening with the hymn "Jhelem, Jhelem". 15.30: A poem performed by students 16.00: Roma dance performance with...

In the fifth event of the "Ethnocafe" activity under the "United in Diversity" project, Emil Bassat's new book "The Joys and Sorrows of Bulgarian Bohemianism" will be presented. Emil Bassat was born in 1949 in Sofia. He graduated in Bulgarian philology at the University of St. Kliment Ohridski". Literary journalist and translation historian. He is...

The new reference book "Who's who in the Armenian community in Bulgaria - figures of culture, art and science" will be presented during the sixth event of the "Ethnocafe" activity under the "United in Diversity" project. It was composed by Prof. Garo Mardirosyan, Vartanush Topakbashyan and Vartanush Zadikyan.

At the event, the thematic bibliographic index "Publications from the collection of the National Library "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" for the Armenian, Jewish and Roma ethnic groups". Chronologically, the bibliographic array covers the period from 1822 to 2023. During the event, emphasis will be placed on the production of this type of bibliographic indexes...

The last Ethnocafene will focus on Roma literature through the monographic book "Roma Literature" ("Paradigm") by Sofia Zakhova created under the "Unity in Diversity" project. She is part of the team of the Icelandic project partner - Vigdís International Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Understanding. "Roma literature" reveals the history of an unknown literature from...

The National Library "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" and the partners of the "Unity in Difference" project (No. BGCULTURE-3.001-0044-C01) will present key achievements and results of the project implementation, including the developed educational materials, prepared thematic publications and organized cultural events and meetings with representatives of the three ethnic groups (Armenians, Jews and Roma). Partner...