Kameliya Velichkova

Kameliya is the founder, publisher and creative director of ВИЖ!. She has a degree in History and Theory of Culture from Sofia University and, in addition to running the magazine, she has more than 15 years of experience in graphic and editorial design. Kameliya published more than 200 print projects and zines for cultural organizations, artists, platforms for education, environment and human rights. She is part of the team behind the Burgas International Film Festival, Darik Radio's "dolce far niente," "Scrap materials" by "Punkt workshop" and "Camera Electronica," the platform oldburgas.com, etc. With ВИЖ! team she organised several group exhibitions of contemporary visual artists, creative competitions, literary readings and book launches, film screenings, lectures, etc.

Beyond the Limits of Imagination: The Story of Meadows in the Mountains

Benjamin Sasse, founder of the cult Meadows in the Mountains, talks about the development of the festival in the last decade and why "the mountain is safe for everyone"

Music Directions Topic

Que Sakamoto and the Japanese trace on club culture

The DJ and producer Que Sakamoto comes from Tokyo's underground music scene and brings the Japanese aesthetic to clubs around the world

Music

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

Stage Topic

Music undercover

Music Topic

Todor Karastoyanov has deep connections to the stage but he does not like the spotlight. He is part of at least one project you may have heard live whose members prefer to remain anonymous. He plays for (or has co-founded) the bands 3TELETA, Lacrima Christi, Animatsionerite, Nasekomix

Chris Haughton's neon palettes

He describes his style as simple and colorful, and his characters as helpful but still missing something important. This is how the Irish illustrator, book author and social entrepreneur Chris Haughton sees himself.

Visual Arts

Blood Becomes Water

Blood is thicker than water. Not if you ask the art collective Blood Becomes Water, which has been releasing limited edition publications about contemporary art since 2010 and also works in the field of illustration and graphic design

Visual Arts

SUNNY WATERCOLORS

Mila Yaneva - Tabakova for the boutique graphic novel Souvenirs, which she self-published in a limited edition of 100 copies

Visual Arts

SABINA RADEVA AND THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE

Sabina Radeva is a graphic designer and illustrator, and – more recently – an author. Her love of art and science led to her literary debut Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which has now also been published in Bulgarian by Ciela.

Visual Arts

KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED: ROSITSA RALEVA

Visual Arts

For years, we have admired her work in graphic design and illustration, things she describes as "the most fun kind of game." We can also add her successful work in animation – especially Father, but also Traveling Country (both from Compote Collective).

IVA SASHEVA'S INVISIBLE HEROES

Thus, gradually and quite naturally, Iva became a master of the fine arts, also working as a sculptor, author and illustrator of several books, including Six Stories,The Badger and the Lonely Oak and Unloved Toys, all part of the catalog of Begemot publishing house, which she runs with her husband Nikolai Grozni

Visual Arts