Program of the Festival

12.05.2021, Wednesday

14:00 – 19:00 – Hotel accommodation. Hotel REAL, 2 Georgi Voiteh Str. www.real-hotel.com,  00359 884 161 167, 00359 32 27 81 30

19:00 – 22:00 – Dinner at Saint Nicola Restaurant. Free recitations and singing.

13.05.2021, Thursday

08.00 – 09.00 – Breakfast at hotel REAL.

09.00 – 12.30 – A walk along the Main Street, Central Square, the Roman Stadium, The Odeon, meeting with the writters of Plovdiv at the office of The Association of Plovdiv Writers.

13.00 – 14.00 – Lunch at Saint Nicola Restaurant. Free time for preparing for the Opening ceremony.

17.30 – Leaving hotel REAL for the Little Early Christian Bazilica.

18.00 – Festival Opening Night in the Little Early Christian Bazilica of  Philipopolis. Presenting the guests and the hosts with a poetry reading. 11 poets from 9 countries reading poetry in 9 languages with a translation in Bulgarian. Free entrance.

19:00 – Promotion of the poetry collection “Orpheus Songs and Other Poems” by Hava Pinhas Cohen with the special participation of the author from Israel.

20.00 – Dinner at Saint Nicola Restaurant. Free recitations and singing.

14.05.2021, Friday

08.00 – 9.00 – Breakfast at hotel REAL.

10.00 – A walk from hotel REAL to the Little Early Christian Bazililica.

10.30 – 12.00 – Lectures with presentations dedicated to the Thracian cultural heritage and history of Plovdiv. Writers forum „The Figure of Orpheus – Between Myth and Moment”. Presentations of the essays of the participant in the festival. Round table for the festival guests with students in the Little Early Christian Bazilica and writers from Plovdiv.

12.30 – 14.00 – Lunch at Saint Nicola Restaurant.

14.00 – 17.00 – A tour guide walk in Old Plovdiv. Free time.

17.00 – Leaving hotel REAL for the Little Early Christian Bazilica.

18.00 – 20.00 – Poetic reading in the Little Early Christian BazilicaAward ceremony.

20.30 – Dinner at Saint Nicola Restaurant. Free recitations and singing.

15.05.2021, Saturday

08.00 – 09.00 – Breakfast at hotel REAL.

9.00 – 12.00 – Getting to know travel to Bachkovo Monastery.

12.30 – 13.30 – Lunch at Saint Nicola Restaurant.

13.30 – 18.30 – Getting to know travel to Thracian Tomb in Starosel.

18.30 – Dinner at Saint Nicola Restaurant. Free recitations and singing.

16.05.2021, Sunday

08.00 – 8.30 – Breakfast at hotel REAL. Departure from the hotel.