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Явлението Воев П Канев за 30 май 25 Плакат11

The Dimitar Voev Phenomenon – performance and book presentation by Petar Kanev May 30, 2025

May 30 6:30 PM The Voev Phenomenon by P. Kanev at Art Bar 158 Between Bach and swing – an undiscovered, unknown, unrecognized or forgotten Dimitar Voev – come and discover and rediscover or remember him together in a performance with a presentation of the book “The Dimitar Voev Phenomenon. The Transformation of the End of the World”,

Dimitar Voev (1965-1992) is known to some as a “cult figure” of the latest Bulgarian culture; to others – as a musician from the late 1980s and frontman of the legendary bands “Kale”, “Wocek and Chugra” and “New Generation”; to others – as an inimitable poet and author of strange, “surrealistic” texts, defying genre definitions; to others he is almost an idol; and to many people he is actually completely unknown.

The spectacle “The Voev Phenomenon” on May 30, 2025 will immerse us in the inimitable poetic world of one of the brightest representatives of “alternative culture” in Bulgaria. And the alternative that Dimitar Voev embodies in his work and in his seemingly short life has already passed the “test of time” and continues to be relevant even after the end of the twentieth century, perhaps because in its essence it is “beyond time”. It stands for:
- painful truthfulness as an alternative to lies;
- radical honesty as an alternative to hypocrisy and amorality;
- boundless imagination as an alternative to stupidity;
- personal position as an alternative to the herd position;
- personal dreams (dreams and nightmares) as an alternative to “greenhouse life”;
- sarcastic to the point of absurd humor as an alternative to “stupidity on a throne”;
- the suffering in the soul as an alternative to soullessness and spirituallessness.
Contrary to superficial opinions, Dimitar Voev is not and has never aspired to be a “subcultural artist”. The cultural alternative that he defends and represents is Culture itself as an alternative to vulgarity. Although associated with legendary scandals and “informality”, as he matures he strives to achieve increasingly “serious” classical perfection in his art and as much publicity as possible in his appearances – concerts, festivals, interviews, sound recordings, videos, drawings, stories, poetry, drawings, strange surrealistic tales and photographs. The watershed of the change in his aspirations for self-expression is also directly stated on May 30, 1987 in his “programmatic” poem “New Generation Forever”: the goal is “to enter the cultural temple”; and at the same time, to enter there not alone:

,,I waited so long,
five, six centuries.
I am coming with you.
Give your hands, everyone!
Kneeling, standing, walking,
crying, real, flying.
Let us all together make
one Great,
who will enter the cultural temple.
And so, holding hands together,
we begin to howl
like a herd of hyenas,
which remained:

Always!

Always!

The purpose of my book “The Phenomenon of Dimitar Voev” is to draw attention to the “unknown” and “underrecognized” dimensions of a significant and unique creator of symbols, who has become both a symbol “beyond his time” and a cultural phenomenon of recent Bulgarian history.
Voev’s fairy-tale world humanizes by cultivating the spirit. But why does it happen that Voev becomes a phenomenon? What he has done so much, isn’t it the same thing that is characteristic of every authentic artist – including the completely unknown, and in general for every mentally and spiritually healthy person – and there are thousands of such. Why then did Voev become a cultural phenomenon? Maybe because of the peculiarities of his personality and character, maybe because of his great love, maybe because of his great misfortune, maybe because of the need to have just such a hero as Voev – and most likely because of all of this, taken together. And maybe it is also because of a howling prophecy, a testament from the future. Like every great Poet, Voev also has clairvoyant insights. But what is even more significant in this case is that he without a shred of doubt believed in them as a child – that is why they turned into truths. But it is hardly only because of that – it is certainly also because of personal morality, a worthy personal character. And the “probable improbability” is not excluded, as Chugra says in the film “Voev”: – “that there is such a thing as genius, I know.”
“Paper boats in the basin are jumping… Let’s give them freedom…”

We will hear an echo of his voice together – in a different reading, never heard before, we will immerse ourselves and experience his creativity and personality, and his dream, we will remember Words and stories that we seem to have heard and others that we haven’t, in images that seem to have dreamed, in thoughts that shake and shake the dormant feelings and make them dance – on the way to the horizon, “in the direction of the sunset”…

Beyond death. Something.

I

In an ancient manuscript found in a cave somewhere in Judea, it is written:
“From the egg of the sacred bird, as big as the sun, a boy and a girl will hatch. They will be brother and sister, man and woman, and they will mark the beginning of the new humanity. They will have a gender, but they will not know it and use it, because their meaning will be different. All worthy people will be their children, because they will not have children. Their names are Jon and Anna. They will be birds, but no one will know, because they will be human in appearance. Only one will recognize them and want to destroy them…”
Here the manuscript ends. Too bad.

II

- How will we know the end of the world? – the students ask.
- You will know by this, when Nature begins to prostitute herself
then the end has come – the teacher answered.
- She was rich. Enviably rich, he continued. But for a long time Nature has been progressively impoverishing. The time has come when she begs. She knocks from door to door and begs for alms. That is now. But people give her very little. Most of them simply reject her. They are so used to seeing her on television and on colored cards that when they see her at their own door they do not believe her at all and are rude to her. I met her on the street once. She looked quite bad. Dressed in old clothes with greasy stains on them, she was stretching out her hand. It seemed to me that most people passed her by. I passed her by too. Later I regretted it. I have never seen her again. Now I know that people are afraid of her. She is moving further and further away from them. The time will come, and this is certain because I have read it, but I will not tell you where, when Nature will start to prostitute herself. This will be her last attempt to become rich again and be with people. Then the end of the world will come.

Dimitar Voev, from: Beyond Death (1992)

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“Stories from the Invisible” – poetic-musical artistic-educational series

The series of events entitled “Stories from the Invisible” started with 2 performances on March 9 and 10. The performance unites poets, actors lecturers and musicians on one stage. The initiative was taken by the poet and cultural anthropologist Petar Kanev, and the idea is for artists to get stage time for a more in-depth presentation of their ideas.

featuring: Violeta Zlatareva, Dimitar Petrov-Regin, Denis Olegov, Dimitra Kaneva (poetry); Violina Dotseva, Miroslav Moravski-Moro (author’s songs); arch. Gergana Stefanova and Ivan Popov-Ivo (Hellion Stone and Sdruzenie Stastlivetsa) – favorite songs for guitar and vocals; Petar Kanev (clever words and riddles) With the support of Shtastlivetsa Sofia Civic Association and the Place for Future Transdisciplinary Educational Network .

 

 

 

Emmanuel HUSSENET, Journalist & Adventurer: La COP21 à Paris pourrait-elle changer le monde ? Face à un enjeu universel, les limites du pouvoir politique ?

Within the framework of the project “Enabling students and citizens to realize their global environmental and social footprint” (CEE Bankwatch Network (No 681/15)in May 2016, Shtastlivetsa Association invited the French polar explorer, journalist and writer Emmanuel Hussenet from the organisation “Robinsons of Ice” to Bulgaria.

Since his youth, Mr. Hussenet has been familiar with the polar ice sheet problems caused by climate change. In the past few years, Emmanuel Hussenet had embarked on an international political initiative to declare the disappearing island Hans in the northern polar circle as an international zone, a symbol of awareness of developmental impacts caused by the global climate change.

Those who are nicknamed the Robinsons on Ice or the voluntary shipwrecked men are in fact called Emmanuel HUSSENET (Expedition Leader, Journalist & Adventurer), Luc Dénoyer (Logistics, Photographer), Anne Quéméré (Scientific Reports) and Gauthier Mesnil-Blanc (illustrations).

Hussenet has just set up a programme that will proceed over five years. Its objective is to testify to the evolution of the polar icecap. The programme is articulated around three axes: sporting adventure, scientific study and environmental teaching.

On May 16, 2016, the project team organised and held a seminar with international participation “Can the climate conference in Paris change the world ?: Is the global political system able to cope with a planetary problem?” (Aka La COP21 à Paris pourrait-elle changer le monde? À à un enjeu universel, les limites du pouvoir politique?) at the French Cultural Institute in Sofia.

Emmanuel HUSSENET, French writer, journalist and researcher of the Far North, Georgi STEFANOV, Climate Coalition – Bulgaria and WWF-Bulgaria, Gennady Kondarev, Ecological Association “Za Zamyata/For the Earth”, participated in the discussion, led by Dr. Radosveta KRASTANOVA, New Bulgarian University and Educational Network PLACE OF FUTURE.

The problems that the melting of ice on the poles caused greatly impressed the participants in the discussion. The question of whether the decisions of the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris will lead to effective policies provokes a lively debate between the representatives of various academic and scientific institutions, civic initiatives and NGOs, students and lecturers from different universities (New Bulgarian University, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, University of Library and Information Technology, etc.), journalists, politicians and diplomats.

Ce n’est qu’une partie des questions auxquelles Emmanuel HUSSENET,

explorateur français du Grand Nord, écrivain et journaliste,

Le débat est organisé par l’Institut français de Bulgarie, en partenariat avec la

le Réseau éducationnel PLACE FOR FUTURE, WWF-Bulgarie,

et sera modéré par Radosveta KRASTANOVA

(Nouvelle université bulgare et Réseau éducationnel PLACE FOR FUTURE).

La COP21 à Paris pourrait-elle changer le monde ?

Face à un enjeu universel, les limites du pouvoir politique ?

Emmanuel HUSSENET, French writer, journalist and researcher of the Far North, Georgi STEFANOV, Climate Coalition – Bulgaria and WWF-Bulgaria, Gennady Kondarev, Ecological Association “Za Zamyata/For the Earth”, participated in the discussion, led by Dr. Radosveta KRASTANOVA, New Bulgarian University and Educational Network PLACE OF FUTURE. The problems that the melting of ice on the poles caused greatly impressed the participants in the discussion. The question of whether the decisions of the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris will lead to effective policies provokes a lively debate. Representatives of various academic and scientific institutions, civic initiatives and NGOs, students and lecturers from different universities (New Bulgarian University, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, University of Library and Information Technology, etc.), journalists, Politicians and diplomats.

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The Climate Problems and our Common Future:

On 17 May 2016 the team of SCA-Shtastlivetsa organised a discussion with the French polar researcher Emmanuel Hussenet in the Alma Mater of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski “.

Co-organizers and participants in the discussion were Ecoclub “UNECO” at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski “,” S.K.O.R.E.T.S. Club” at Sofia University” St. Kliment Ohridski “, Environmental Association” For the Earth “, Educational Network” PLACE OF FUTURE “.

The melting of the glaciers, as well as the problems they led, excited the participants in the seminar. The students were most impressed by Mr. Hussenet’s initiative to make the polar island Hans an international area, and that provoked many questions and a lively discussion.

Watch the entire video of the event here:

The two debates are carried out with the financial support of the European Union.

The content of the debates is entirely the responsibility of Shtatslivetsa Sofia Civic Association, Enironmental Association “Za Zemyata/For the Earth” and PLACE FOR FUTURE Educational Network and in no way can it be considered to reflect the positions of the European Union.

Filip KIRILOV – Biodynamic Gardening and Sustainable Agriculture – lecture at International Spring University Europe on the Go

The Place for Future Interdisciplinary Education Network’ and the partcipants of the Spring University ‘Europe on the Go’ in the village of Zhelen: Visiting the Centre of the Trinoga (Tripod) Association for Sustainable Development, lecture on and demonstration of Biodynamic Gardening and Sustainable Agriculture: Filip KIRILOV.

Anyuta BORIN, Director of Chiprovtsi Historical Museum – Local and global – Europe, Chiprovtsi and the Bulgarian Northwest Region

Seminar at the International Spring University Europe on the Go – Cityzen’s Enpowerment and Sustainable Development in Chiprovtsi 2014 May, organized by Shtastlivetsa Civic Assotiacion and Place for Future Interdisciplinary Education Network with support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation Sofia and French Institute Bulgaria