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Workshops:
A) ‘Folk customs, handicrafts, carpet weaving’: Yulia IGNATOVA, master carpet maker.
B) ‘The garden of colouring herbs at the Katerinina House Ethnographic Museum’: Sevka BARDINSKA, master carpet and tapestry maker.
‘Touch Bulgarian rhythm and drum’: workshop for playing traditional instruments – at the meadows above Chiprovtsi.*
* Visit to the Petar Parchevich School:
Visit to the Petar Parchevich School: Workshop with students and teachers, carpet weaving workshop, the garden of natural dyes: Yulia IGNATOVA and Meeting with the headmistress and students, carpet weaving workshop, the garden of natural dyes: Svetlana TRENCHEVA, Headmistress, and Nikola NIKOLOV.
Workshop: Visit to the Community Centre, meeting with the CHAR Association, presentation of local folklore: dance, music, traditional instruments.
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Hiking to the Chiprovtsi waterfall or a trip in the mountain: Gushovski Monastery – Kopren Peak – village of Kopilovtsi – and back, or Svrachi Dol: led by Nkolai NIKOLOV. Lunch in the mountain.
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Arrival in Belogradchik, lunch at Mislen Kamak Restaurant.
Visiting the Belogradchik Rocks, a natural phenomenon, and Kaleto Fortress.
Departure from Belogradchik
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Unfortunately, there are no videos from the following events:
‘Citizens and the city: knowledge, initiatives and participation of minorities. The ‘Zhenski pazar’ case in Sofia’: Dragomir KONSTANTINOV (Zelenika Foundation), Dr. Lilia SAZONOVA (Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, BAS and Shtatslivetsa)
Meetings with the local community (representatives of civil society and the municipal authorities in Chiprovtsi) and presenting the ‘For the Balkan Mountains and for the People’ project, aimed at sustainable development of the West and Central Balkan Mountains region: funding opportunities for student fieldwork in the area, organizing volunteers to help farmers and other local businesses with the expert assistance of organizations, committed to supporting sustainable businesses and providing ecosystem benefits: led by Georgi STEFANOV (WWF Bulgaria and Shtastlivetsa), Yordanka DINEVA (For the Nature Coalition) and Rosen VASILEV (Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation)
* Chiprovtsi 2015: The topic of our next Traveling University is:
NEW AND TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE: BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE
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Dr. Rosen Tsonev Department of Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski“ and Georgi Ivanov from WWF Bulgaria instruct students of cultural studies Culture Experience the future how to plant three trees in front of the Cultural Department of the University