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.