"Young Plovdiv reads" festival

The initiative "Young Plovdiv reads" by the publishing house "Jeanet" continues several months, and in 2020 the festival is held for the 18th time.
The Young Plovdiv Reads encourages reading and meeting children and young people with renowned Bulgarian writers, organizes trainings and other book-related events.

Events in February:

19 February 2020, Wednesday, 1pm and 7pm
Rosen Karamfilov returns to his beloved Plovdiv and will be a special guest at the library of the French language school for a meeting with students at 1 pm.
With the special participation of Rosen Karamfilov, the Reading Club "In the World of Books" and the Student Council at the French Language High School, READING WITH CAUSE will be held. This is the second charity event in support of the French Language School Library, which will be held on 19.02.2020 (Wednesday), 7 pm at the Vintage House, Boris Hristov Hall of Culture.
Anyone can support the initiative through a donation box, the funds raised will help the cause of the students to refresh at the FEG School Library, where they welcome their literary guests.
Free entrance for all.

20 February 2020, Thursday, 1pm to 5pm
Lecture on tools for developing children's reading intelligence.
Lecturer Valentina Stoeva has many years of experience in promoting children's reading and a PhD student in Reading Theory at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.
Venue: Ivan Vazov National Library, conference room
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The event is organized by Plovdiv also reads the Children's Books Foundation, together with the Ivan Vazov National Library.

21 February 2020, Friday, 5-17 pm
Meeting with current and new volunteers to "Plovdiv reads" Festival on February 21, 2020 (Friday) from 3 pm to 5 pm at the Center for Creative Training, Boris Hristov Hall of Culture (floor 1).
Free entry with registration
Introducing the Media Literacy Hour of ZERO 32 magazine. Panayot Stefanov will talk about the importance of information and its impact on the choices we make in our daily life. The initiative is a series of meetings in high schools in Plovdiv in which their team introduces students to the problems and dangers of misusing media content, as well as practical tips for recognizing misinformation in its various forms.

25 February 2020, Tuesday, 11am
Interview with Martin Kasabov, author of the debut collection of stories "When the Giants Walked the Earth" on February 25, 2020 at 11:00 at Ivan Vazov Language High School.
Topic: "The pleasure of writing and / or reading stories"
In partnership with the Ivan Vazov Language School.
Not so long ago, Martin Kasabov graduated from the Ivan Vazov Language School (Italian language class). You may have come across Martin Kasabov's name along with his movie reviews for "Operation Cinema" or his texts for books published in "Culture" Magazine. Martin works as a bookkeeper, where he continues to find inspirations in literary history from all past eras. "When the Giants Walked the Earth" is his debut book, with which the author hopes to surprise and amuse readers, beginning a beautiful friendship between a young writer and his audience.
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We draw attention to an important topic for education, namely the place and role of humanitarian education in the modern world. The initiative is at the St. St. Cyril and Methodius Hign School - to compile and publish a collection of articles "The Humanitarian Spirit" (ideas shared at the Round Table, held at St. St. Cyril and Methodius Hign School, Plovdiv, March 23, 2019). The publication of the book is in partnership with the "Janet 45" publishing house and aims to gather different perspectives, to seek discussion and followers who value humanitarian education.

The "Young Plovdiv reads" is part of the program of the Literary Festival "Plovdiv reads" of the Calendar of cultural events of the Municipality of Plovdiv for 2020.

Workshops for writing prose, poetry and cultural events will be held this spring as part of Young Plovdiv Reads. Last year, more than 100 people participated in the trainings.

Events can be tracked at http://plovdivchete.com. Where interest is expressed by an educational institution or an informal group, events take place at the appropriate time.

Meanwhile, the Plovdiv Read 2020 Festival Program adopts and reviews proposals for hosting various events in June: readings, book presentations, discussions, exhibitions and other literary events that qualitatively represent trends in the world books. The invitation is open until February 22 - APPLICATION.