SECOND EDITION OF MELBA FESTIVAL
Mixing design disciplines and their reflection in our daily life it is again the core of the second edition of MELBA design festival. After a long preparation, we can now with excitement and pride share the first touches of the event program. The content is inspired by our desire to meet the audience with the qualitative, valuable, unusual, impactful and changing to a better, power of design.
The festival is structured in several basic formats:
International symposium with lectures by excellent specialists, fulfilling with knowledge and different perspectives on 9th of November /Saturday from 10:00 till 19:00 in Hall 6 at National Palace of Culture, Sofia. We are announcing the first four names of our guest lecturers, as each one of them has already left distinct and highlighting trace in contemporary visual culture. Especially for the symposium are arriving the founders and leaders of the Swiss typography studio Grilli Type, the brand identity specialists from Moscow – Shuka, and the multiple award-winning for its dedication to sustainability and organisation of material environment, Maarten Gielen from the Belgium collective ROTOR. For a first time we diversify the notion of design with a look at social activism through street art with the multimedia artist from Ireland – Joe Caslin. More details about these and other names in our program are coming soon.
As last years ambition to present significant and original projects of Bulgarian designers from the past year, we are again preparing selections of products and initiatives of forward-thinking creators in several major categories. The opening of the exhibition Review of Bulgarian design is on 7th of November, Thursday and it marks the beginning of the festival.
The new in this edition is a film program with a selection of documentaries about art and design. Among them are worldwide popular films, which will be presented for a first time in Sofia, for example Rams by Gary Hustwit with an ambitious portrait of the icon of product design Dieter Rams and the dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus movement – Bauhaus Spirit.
Early bird tickets are on sale – Festival ticket is 100 leva and includes International Symposium, five documentary films and opening party with a DJ; and Symposium ticket that includes only symposium – 80 leva. Tickets available HERE. Details will be revealed daily on the Facebook page and on melba.bg.
We will be waiting for you.
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Melba Sofia Design Festival is part of MELBA design initiatives and are continuation of the launched in the end of 2017 by Studio Komplekt in partnership with NEXT-DC and Capital Program Culture ‘’Dynamic archive for Bulgarian design MELBA ‘’ melba.bg
International Symposium 9th of November 2019 | Saturday
Exhibition Review of Bulgarian design 2019 7th of November – 17th of November 2019
Film program 8-30 November 2019 at Generator
Idea and realization festival: Studio Komplekt
Co-organizer and visual identity: NEXT-DC
Partner Archive and Exhibition: Sofia Municipality Program Culture and SiteGround
Partners Symposium:
Instituto Cervantes Sofia, Embassy of Spain
