2. Opening of the Water Tower in Lozenets, opening at VIVACOM Art Hall, curatorial workshop with Garreth Bell Jones, creativity workshop with Katya Stoycheva and Lili Angelova

3. Opening of Laboratory Bulgarian Rose, picnic at Pancharevo lake, opening special venue Serdica basement, opening at Lavele hostel, concert + crooked cinema at club Twins

Water Tower Art Fest 2012 follows the White Rabbit – Teaser

Direction and Edit: Denitsa Toneva
Special effects: Hristo Kolev – Christobel (Laboratory of Biocoordination and Bioanalytical Chemistry, University of Sofia)
Camera: Nia Pushkarova
Sound: Mara Goldwyn/DJ SEEKS SAME

Venues: http://goo.gl/maps/4QR2

Address:
Sofia, Lozenets, the corner of Galichitsa Str. and Sv. Tedosiy Tarnovski Str.

Working hours for the period 23.06-30.06 are 15:00 – 20:00 h.

Music:
Munsee & Dichkata – Jam session (Bulgaria)

Artists:
Cathrine Constanse Gjelsnes (Norway): Installation in Yard “1793 lights”
Nevena Atanasova (Bulgaria): “Flowers of Evil”
Madoka Chiba (Japan/Germany): “Utopia” LED light installation
Pat Arnao (USA): “The Suspension of Disbelief”
Frode Sten Jacobsen (Norway) – Video Cycle: Water, Summer
With kind support of the Embassy of Norway
Juha van Ingen (Finland): ”I’ll Make Yours If You Make Mine”

21:30 – Screening of “Wonderland” (38′), directed by Dana Al Mojil (Kuwait)

22:00 – After Party (22.06) – World Ethno Jam at Club Twins

Presentations & Workshops:

Water Tower in Lozenets
25 – 27 June 2012, 11:00 – 14:00
Garreth Bell Jones (UK)
Curatorial workshop with final presentation on the 27th (Wednesday) from 15:00 h
In partnership with the British Council

Water Tower in Lozenets
28 June 2012, 14:00
Martin Mikush Presentation and discussion
Design charrette
or a quick community visualization

Address:
4 Gurko Str.

Working hours for the period 24.06 – 29.06 are 15:00 – 20:00

Artists:
Andy Broadey (UK): Sight Seeing – Photography
Georgi Yamaliev (Bulgaria): Caught on a Hook (video installation)
Vanessa Daws (Ireland): Swimming #1 (Performance)
Ilina Konsulova – Butzi (Bulgaria): Evolutionary art
Ivelina Mineva & Georgi Vassilev (Bulgaria): “HOP” installation
Irina Georgieva (Bulgaria): Legal Alien по Кирил и Методий – pictures + neon
Irene Anton (Germany): “United Colors of Capitalism”
Iskra Nikolova (Bulgaria): “Under the Mask’s Disguise”
Kalin Plugchiev (Bulgaria): “Sede Vacante” diptych
Leyla Rodriguez and Cristian Straub (Germany): “Isle of Lox” video
Mariana Toneva (Bulgaria): Research on our Ability to Choose Between the Positive and the Negative
Maria Gouveli (Greece) – Interactive Painting Installation
Matthew Martin (USA, Bulgaria): “The Supporter” painting
Mariana Tancheva and Neli Borisova (Bulgaria): “Predetermined?” installation
Matthias Roth (Germany): “Bedtime Story for p” / With the kind support of the Goethe-Institut
Pila Rusjan (Slovenia): “Bedtime Stories”
Sara Sinclair (Scotland): “Untitled”
SOCHATA – SOFAR Channel Telegraph Agency – Max Gassmann and Mara Goldwyn (USA, Germany) – Interactive installation / With the kind support of the Embassy of USA
Tsvetelina Borissova (Bulgaria): After the End of Life
Hristo Kolev (Bulgaria): “The Drosophilla Effect”, “Conserved Technology”
Professor Kеnneth .G.Hay/Moorland productions (UK) – Absent Zen Garden
Roni Ben-Ari, Multi-Media Photographer (Israel) – video – “I’ve been there”
With the kind support of the Embassy of Israel

Presentations & Workshops:

Vivacom Art Hall
23 June 2012 (Saturday)
14:00 h
Alice Vaughan (UK) – Presentation & Discussion

Vivacom Art Hall
26 June 2012 (Tuesday)
16:00 h
Vladiya Mihaylova – Presentation & Discussion

Vivacom Art Hall
26 June 2012 (Tuesday)
17:00 h
Rositsa Marinova
presentation of “Parallel Steps, Parallel Spaces” project

Vivacom Art Hall
27 June 2012 (Wednesday)
17:00 ч.
Katya Stoycheva, Lili Angelova
Digging Deeper / Creativity Workshop

Address:
3 Ivan Vazov str., on the corner with Rakovski str.

Working hours for the period 24-30 June are 15:00 – 20:00 h.

Music:
The Shadow Government (Bulgaria)

Artists:
Anika Weshinskey (USA, Turkey) & Arni Gudmundsson (Iceland, Sweden): “American Girl” performance
Galina Yotova (Bulgaria): “Abandoned and Seduced” photographs
Chris Swoon and Chris Fellner (Austria): “Rabbits and Queens” sound installation
With kind support of the Embassy of Austria
Georgi Stamenov (Bulgaria): “Room Way”
Nikola Minchev (Bulgaria): “Do-Undo” video installation
Lilla von Puttkamer and Karen Bösser (Germany): “The Slide Touch of an Animal” video installation
Maddalena Mauri – “A Past that Sometimes Makes it Difficult to Build the Present” wall drawing with colored earth
With the kind support of the Italian Cultural Institute
Stela Vassileva (Bulgaria): Installation
Stina Pehrsdotter and Niclas Hallberg (Sweden): “Wonderland”
Hitomi Kammai (Japan): “Rose Garden” installation
Francisca Ribeiro (Portugal): “Tales of Hope” photography
Yasen Gyuzelev (Bulgaria): “Alice in Wonderland” illustration
Julie Upmeyer (USA/Turkey): “Eat Me!” installation
Mia Momchilova – Performance fashion review start 20:00h. (23.06)

21:00 – 1 hour of UAMO City Tour – Skype conversation with UAMO City Tour 2012/13, Sofia

Sofia is part of the UAMO city tour 2012/13. In 9 cities worldwide artists are presenting their works connected to the theme “PLAY TIME”.
UAMO is happy to connect with wtaf in sofia.
UAMO considers itself as a platform for artists of all kinds, and thus, since the first festival in 2004 up till now,
more than 300 artists from over 20 countries have presented their works.
The festival’s theme to which the artists can present their works varies each year.
Since 2011, apart from the annual art festival in Munich, the UAMO City Tour also takes place focusing on local artists of the respective cities.
All works shown on site can also be seen at the annual UAMO Art Festival.
Each city tour event will be transmitted through a live skype connection to a parallel event in Munich.
more info: www.uamo.info

After 22:00 Party @ Blue Lion

Laboratory Bulgarian Rose, 2nd floor
25 June 2012 (Monday) – 11:00 – 14:00 h
26 June 2012 (Tuesday) – 11:00 – 14:00 h
Vanessa Daws (Ireland) – Stop motion animation workshop

Laboratory Bulgarian Rose
26 June 2012 (Tuesday) – 15:00 – 18:00 h
27 June 2012 (Wednesday) – 15:00 – 18:00 h
Lisa Hinterreithner (Austria) – Performance

Artists:
Jan Doms (Netherlands): Pancharevo Balloon Party – “BBQ” at the lake installation performance
Lusina Terziyan (Bulgaria): “Kitsch and Vulgarity – Nowadays Alice and What She is After…” installation and performance