Dear countrymen and friends,

Please do not miss this year’s 13th Annual three-day long BULGARIAN St’s. KIRIL & METHODY CULTURAL FESTIVAL, San Francisco!

For the first time the Bulgarian and Slavic communities will celebrate MAY 24th as AN OFFICIAL HOLIDAY IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA thanks to the lobbying efforts of Bulgarian attorney Ognian Gavrilov and Sergey Terebkov!

Event Schedule:

7th Annual BULGARIAN & SLAVIC CLASSICAL & TRADITIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
May 24

The 13Th Annual BULGARIAN CULTURAL St’s. KIRIL & METHODY FESTIVAL
May 25

The 13Th Annual BULGARIAN CULTURAL St’s. KIRIL & METHODY FESTIVAL
May 26

CELEBRATORY BILYNKAS/ ПРАЗНИЧНИ БИЛЯНКИ
June 1

Also:

An Evening with J. Brahms and A. Dvorak String Sextets
June 7

7Th Annual BULGARIAN & SLAVIC CLASSICAL & TRADITIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT AND PARTY TO CELEBRATE 24 of MAY – The Bulgarian Cultural National Holiday

May 24, Friday 7.30pm – 11.00pm
Arlington Community Church, 52 Arlington Ave, Kensington, CA

7Th Annual CONCERT of SLAVIC CLASSICAL & TRADITIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC and PARTY to celebrate MAY 24th as AN OFFICIAL HOLIDAY IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA and to honor St’s. KIRIL & METHODY and their followers.

Address:  Arlington Community Church, 52 Arlington Ave, Kensington, CA

The Concert features:

SLAVIC Bay Area STRINGS ORCHESTRA ANTIKA, Artistic director EMANUELA NIKIFOROVA

The Bulgarian master Jazz musicians: HRISTO VICHEV, guitar & LIUBOMIR KRASTEV, clarinet

Chamber traditional music by: RUMEN SHOPOV, tambura, drum,

RADKA VARIMEZOVA, vocal and more.

BRUCE CHOCRAN, Rhodope gajda

THE BULGARIAN Folk Ens. ANTIKA, San Francisco

TANYA KOSTOVA, creative director

Please RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/454951194591710/

Suggested donations – $15.00 – $25.00 for each of the events. Kids free.

$35.00 3-day PASS available, call Tanya at 510-666-7701.

The 13th Annual BULGARIAN CULTURAL St’s. KIRIL & METHODY FESTIVAL

May 25, Saturday 3.00pm – 11.30pm
Croatian American Cultural Center, 60 Onondaga Ave, San Francisco, CA

sts kiril metody icon raising 2012

The program:

·         3.00pm Doors open, Food available. Small VILLAGE BAND with Ivan Velev, Dena Bjornle, and Corinne Sykes.

·         3.30pm Presentations and Singing workshop – learn and sing a long together the most beloved Bulgarian anthems for the BG May celebration

·         3.00pm Children’s Show “KIDS HONOR BULGARIAN/SLAVIC ARTS&CULTURE”

·         5.30pm Music, singing and dancing with ZABAVA IZVORNO,

http://www.balkantunes.org/zabava/

·         6.30pm RITUAL ASCENSION of THE GOLDEN ICON of Sts KIRIL and METHODY

·         6.45pm ANTIKA BULGARIA presents for the first time

·         “Bay Area BULGARIA – SONG & DANCE” Fest featuring:

o    АNТIКА BG Folk Ensemble, San Francisco,

o    RIPNI KALINKE Folk Formation, San Jose,

o    THE LOWICZANIE Polish Folk Dance Ensemble

o    MARTENICKI BG Art School.

…followed by CONCERT and Grand MUSIC & DANCE PARTY with SPECIAL GUESTS:

BG Orchestra NESTINARI –

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nestinari/111661894374

ZABAVA IZVORNO and more!

CLOSING RITUAl & AFTER PARTY- Returning the GOLDEN ICON of St’s. KIRIL & METHODY to the Holy Cross Monastery

May 26th, SUNDAY, 11.00am

The  Holy Cross Monastery 34580 Palomares Rd.  Castro Valley, CA 94552

Suggested donations – $15.00 – $25.00 for each of the events. Kids free.

$35.00 3-day PASS available, call Tanya at 510-666-7701.

The closing event of BG May 2013 :

“CELEBRATORY BILYANKAS/ ПРАЗНИЧНИ БИЛЯНКИ” 

Saturday, June 1, 2013 3-6pm

Sweet Adeline, 3350 Adeline Street (at 63rd Street) in Berkeley.

Two-day exhibit of artworks by BILIANA STREMSKA, Art Reception:

http://bilyankas.blogspot.com/

Also:

EMANUELA NIKIFOROVA and Members of ANTIKA SLAVIC STRINGS present

An Evening with J. Brahms and A. Dvorak String Sextets

Friday, June 7th, 8pm

Garden Gate Creativity Center.

Event is kids friendly.

More info @  www.gardengatecreate.com

Thank you for reading!

MANY THANKS  to our sponsors and supporters:

JOHN DALEY – Croation American Center,

HRISTO KOLEV – Bulgarian food,

ORLIN MIRTCHEV- Visit Bulgaria,

EMILIA GEORGIEVA – Bulgaria Air USA,

VENTCI PETRUNOV – Bulgarian wine,

OGNIAN GAVRILOV, Bulgarian Attorney

Holy Cross Monastery, Castro Valley, CA

Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, CA

All of my beautiful students, friends and colleagues from ANTIKA BULGARIA Cultural Club/Chitalishte and all of the volunteers and supporters of The Bulgarian May 2013!

To donate and become volunteer please call 510 666 7701.

Any donations are much needed and appreciated!

THANK YOU ALL!

Please check out these links:

(in BG) https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151542972937350.1073741826.669087349&type=3

About Hristo Vitchev and his RODOPA Progect: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=42309#.UcONSjdtzAl

Meet our co-founder, Vice-President and member, Ognian Gavrilov, Esq. We are exceptionally proud to announce today that…

Posted by Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco, CA on Friday, May 3, 2013

Please RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/520143788045131/?ref=22

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Tanya Kostova, Founder, Creative director

Cell: 510 666 7701

E-mail: antika_bulgaria@yahoo.com

ANTIKA BULGARIA Int. Cultural Club/Chitalishte, San Francisco

San Francisco BULGARIAN Folk Ensemble ANTIKA

The Bulgarian Art School MARTENICHKI, San Francisko

http://www.martenichki-school.com/