YEAR OF BULGARIAN CULTURE IN ARMENIA OPENS IN YEREVAN

BSANNA
May 29 2009
Ukraine

SOFIA, May 29. (BTA). Deputy Culture Minister Ivan Tokadjiev leads a
Bulgarian delegation to Armenia on May 29 to June 4 for the official
opening of the Year of Bulgarian Culture in Armenia, the Culture
Ministry said in a press release Friday.

The event takes place pursuant to a memorandum of intent between

the two countries’ culture ministries which also envisages the holding
of a Year of Armenian Culture in Bulgaria in 2010. The memorandum was
signed on December 10, 2008 by the two countries’ culture ministers,
Stefan Danailov of Bulgaria and Hasmik Poghosyan of Armenia.

The Bulgarian delegation to Yerevan includes MP Roupen Krikoryan,
Chairman of the Eparchical Council of the Armenian Apostolic Church
in Bulgaria.

The Year of Bulgarian Culture in Armenia will open with a festival of
Bulgarian culture. The events include concerts of the Sofia Soloists
Chamber Ensemble led by Conductor Plamen Djourov, performances by
the Arabesque ballet troupe, Bulgarian folk art performances, etc. A
photo exhibition on "Bulgarian Monasteries and Holy Places" by Tosho
Peikov will be unveiled in the House of Architecture in Yerevan.

A Bulgarian gala will be staged on May 30 in the Armenian
National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Yerevan Alexander
Spendiaryan. Concert swill be held in several other Armenian cities.

Tokadjiev will confer with Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosyan and
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan.

The Bulgarian delegation will also confer with members of the
Committee for Culture, Youth and Sports in the Armenian Parliament
and will attend the press-launching of a book by translator from
Bulgarian Margarete Terzyan called "Poems in the Skirts of Mount
Vitosha: Remembering Poet Peyo Yavorov" which will take place in the
Armenia-Bulgaria Friendship Society.

Tokadjiev is also scheduled to meet with the head of the Holy Armenian
Apostolic Church Catholicos Karekin II. The Bulgarian officials
will also visit the Matenadaran Institute of Ancient Manuscripts and
monuments of culture and history. A meeting is scheduled with students
of the school named after Bulgarian poet Peyo Yavorov.
From: Baghdasarian