Boryana Pandova

photographer

Boryana Pandova is a visual artist working in photography and video and a participant in various projects focusing on social issues. Her educational background includes theater, and her engagement with that discipline led to her love of photography and video. She has a degree in Artistic and Applied Photography from the National Theater Academy Krastyo Sarafov and a master's degree in Photography from the National Academy of Arts. She is part of the core team of the "Na zhivo" project, which is part of the "Art for Social Change – Games Against Violence" program. Boryana also has over 200 hours of experience working with psychosocial interventions. She has been teaching at NATFIZ Krastyo Sarafov since 2019.

GENERATION K

How K-pop became a global phenomenon, why the Bulgarian dance community is one of the largest in Europe, and the fans for whom this is a way of life

Jun First

Jun Yoshida takes us on a quick tour of his childhood kitchen and gives us a crash course in Japanese cuisine and its local roots

The Extenuating Circumstances of Samuel Finzi

After January and before his March visit to Sofia with A Horse Walks into a Bar, Samuel Finzi tells us why thinking and acting are more important than feeling when you’re on stage

Over 15 years, Metheor has built a different type of thinking about the art of theater

Alexander Evtimov - Shamancheto on the generation that stopped waiting

The core member of the BigBanda community finds new challenges in writing for the stage and believes that courage pays off

"Kino Club Super 8” digitizes old home movies and they’ll tell you why

For the team behind the project, the preservation of found family movies and amateur footage is a way to access authentic stories – and authentic history

The Other Memory

In her first novel, Justine Toms tells the story of the women's camps in the early years of the totalitarian regime in Bulgaria, and now she is working on the second one – about how those who were different lived in the 50s and 60s

Punkt and the Tree of Life

Over the last twelve years, the workshop has been developing its signature aesthetic, and recently its foreign client list has been growing

Jewelry designer Neva Balnikova and the moment of creation

Architectural Gargle

Three young Bulgarian architectural studios on how to create a distinctive vibe at home, in the office and in public space