MELBA Festival vol.2
Just a few days left till the second edition of the festival for design in Sofia MELBA. See the full program on our new website and save the dates for:
The opening of the exhibition Review of Bulgarian Design 2019 on 7th of November at 18:00 at Port.A on 5 Triaditsa street, Sofia. The exhibition is a selection of works of 30 Bulgarian artists and designers from different fields, such as graphic design, product design, fashion and others.
The exhibition is with free entrance.
Voood
Maria Nalbantova
Twisted Mud – ceramics
Punkt – Regionale Plovdiv
The International Symposium with exclusive in their field lecturers, which presents diverse perspective of design in one day. Find out more about the lecturers on our website. We end the symposium day with a great party of the Canadian DJ Heidy P at bar TELL ME, see more here.
Tickets for the symposium you can find here.
Tickets for the full program of the festival, including symposium, party and films you can find here.
Dean Brown – Product design, Installations, Material experimentations.
Grilli Type – Typography
Rotor – Sustainability, Re-use of Materials, Consultancy, Curatorial work
Shuka Design – Brand design, Visual identity, Campaigns
Joe Caslin – Street art, Activism
Zupagrafika – Graphic design, Publishing
IAM – Internet, Digital Culture, Media
Calvert Journal – Visual culture, Editorial Work, Media
The film program which begins on 10th of November with a good coffee and the film The Aeropress, followed by the film Rams. The rest of the movies are scattered till the end of November. All the projections will held place at Generator.
The festival ticket which you can buy here, includes the film program.
Films can also be watched without festival pass, on the price of 5 leva, payment on the date and place of the projection.
Aeropress
10th of November, Sunday at 18:00
Rams
10th of November, Sunday at 18:00
Design Canada
12th of November, Tuesday at 19:00
Graphic Means
22nd of November, Friday at 19:00
BAUHAUS SPIRIT: 100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS;
27th of November, Wednesday at 19:00
Kusama; Infinity
3oth of November, Saturday at 18:00
And some more extras, such as:
The exhibition Young Balkan Designers, part of one of our partnerships, opening on 11th of November at Missia 23.
Visitation of the new building of Site Ground – a great example how to create sustainable and humane working spaces, as well as an occasion to see the periphery of the city differently – with the guest lecture – Elitza Panajotova.
We have no patience to share everything we have worked on for the past few months.
Tickets can be found here.
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Melba Sofia Design Festival is part of Melba design initiatives and it is continuation of the launched at the end of 2017 by Studio Komplekt in partnership with Next DC and Sofia Municipality’s Culture Program ” Dynamic archive for Bulgarian Design MELBA” | melba.bg.
Idea and realization of the festival:
Studio Komplekt
Co-organizer and visual identity:
NEXT-DC
Partners:
The project is financed by
Sofia Municipality’s Culture Program
Digital partner archive and exhibition:
SiteGround
Partners symposium:
EPAY GO
Fontfabric
Embassy of Ireland Sofia
Polish Cultural Institute
National Palace of Culture, Sofia
IKEA
Official transport:
Bulgaria Air
Partner film program:
Fashion Days
Гьоте-институт България
Генератор
