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Workshops for Traditional Carpet-Making, Rituals and Traditional Music, Crafts and Arts in Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria, at the Spring University ‘Europe on the Go’ 2014

1. Visit to the Petar Parchevich School: Workshop with students and teacehras, carpet weaving workshop, the garden for natural dyes: Yulia Ignatova and Nikola Nikolov.

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2. Folk customs, handicrafts, carpet weaving’: Yulia IGNATOVA, master carpet maker.

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3. Workshop Touch Bulgarian Rythm and Drum Spring University Europe on the Go Chiprovtsi 2014 – Rozko ZAMFIROV

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4. Workshop: Visit to the Community Centre, meeting with the CHAR Association, presentation of local folklore: dance, music, traditional instruments.

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The region of Chiprovtsi and Western Stara Planina has often been labelled as the poorest one in the European Union. At the same time, it is one of the richest in ancient nature, history and culture in all of Europe. Chiprovtsi is unique in that its link between past and future has never been broken over the millennia. It gives us an opportunity to recall who we are and ask where we are headed. The site from where we human beings once entered Europe is also a site where we may look for an answer: which way now? And we may find this answer: in the air of sensitivity and mysterious depth that permeates everything; in the old houses and pristine mountains with their spirit that captures the ancient symbols, still alive in the tradition of Chiprovtsi carpet-making and the ancient local rites: the immaterial treasures that we can discover, not by digging the earth, but by looking around ourselves with enlightened eyes and minds. The pristine state of the Chiprovtsi Municipality is a unique opportunity for developing the entire region in a sustainable way, towards our common future on planet Earth.

Traditional Rituals and Traditional Music, Crafts and Arts in Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria and Student’s Arts and Songs, at the Spring University ‘Europe on the Go’ 2014

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1. Workshop Touch Bulgarian Rythm and Drum Spring University Europe on the Go Chiprovtsi 2014 – Rozko ZAMFIROV

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2. Workshop: Visit to the Community Centre, meeting with the CHAR Association, presentation of local folklore: dance, music, traditional instruments.

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… And the … partcipants at the Spring University ‘Europe on the Go’ – … dancing … and …acting … and … singing:

Yulia IGNATOVA – Workshops for Traditional Carpet-Making, Rituals and Traditional Music, Crafts and Arts in Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria, at the Spring University ‘Europe on the Go’ 2014

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1. Folk customs, handicrafts, carpet weaving’: Yulia IGNATOVA, master carpet maker.

2. Visit to the Petar Parchevich School: Workshop with students and teacehras, carpet weaving workshop, the garden for natural dyes: Yulia Ignatova and Nikola Nikolov.

Vera PETKANCHIN and dr. Desislava ALEKSOVA – The Civic Green Movement in Bulgaria from 2005 until 2014: Successes, Problems and Perspectives for Citizens’ Empowerment’

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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.

Desislava ALEKSOVA, International Business School Botevgrad, Bulgarian Chamber of Tourism and ‘Shtatlivetsa’ Civic Association

Vera PETKANCHIN, Coalition ” For the Nature in Bulgaria” and ‘Shtatlivetsa’ Civic Association

For eight years now, Shtastlivetsa Sofia Civic Association has organized interdisciplinary events, lectures, seminars, student practices and internships, film screenings, debates, artistic happenings—all dedicated to the new paradigm of sustainable development, eco-humanism, new science, alternative culture and education, innovative forms of democracy and civic participation, ecology and creating a quality environment for everyone. Thus, as the years roll by, we have been weaving, like a Chiprovtsi carpet, the Place for Future education network, a community drawing its inspiration and invigoration from a young tradition: the international travelling universities in the Municipality of Chiprovtsi and the region of Western Stara Planina.

The Chiprovtsi 2014 European interdisciplinary university focuses on these problems, since we can no longer hide from them. They flood us from all directions: they cry from Gezy Park, from downtown Madrid, Athens, Paris and London, from every part of Germany, Poland and Hungary, from Rosia Montana in Romania and Eagles’ Bridge in Sofia, from the everyday concerns of people in cities such as Dijon, Grenoble, Banská Bystrica, Krakow and Chiprovtsi, from across the EU.

Radosveta KRASTANOVA and Stoil TSITSELKOV – Europe on a crossroad: from the EP elections towards European Citizens’ Initiative

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Radosveta KRASTANOVA is the chair person of ‘Shtatlivetsa’ Sofia Civic Association and also assistant professor and phd student in political sciences in New Bulgarian University and in the University of Burgundy, France

Stoil TSITSELKOV is expert and active member of European Association for the Protection of Human Rights and ‘Shtatlivetsa’ Civic Association