The celebration of 24 May - Day of Bulgarian education and culture is the biggest event in the calendar of Burgas this year. Every year it fills the streets of the city center with more than 50 000 people and holiday mood.
This year in the holiday procession 1492 kids from 28 kindergartens will participate, as well as 4271 students from 33 schools - professional and specialized High schools and Primary schools. Their teachers will also be a part of the festivities.
The representative blocks of the participating schools and kindergartens will have new "personal faces" - a sign, holiday uniforms, flags, cheer-leading squads and school music. The holiday procession begins at 10.30, starts at square "Troykata", passes in Aleksandrovska str., Bogoridi str. and ends at the Sea garden. There from 11.00 starts the holiday concert on open-air stage "Ohluva".
Meanwhile starts the holiday program of Municipality Burgas, devoted to 24 May. It features lots of events, among which exhibitions, concerts, creative meetings, presentations of books and dancing. Here is the program:
12 - 27 May
Cultural center "Sea casino", hall "Al. Georgiev Kodjakafaliyata"
Exhibition "School symbols and rituals"
19 May /Tuesday/, 18:00 hours
Cultural center "Sea casino", hall "Petya Dubarova"
"Svyato slovo - May meetings of Slavic authors"
Organizer: Community center "Lyuben Karavelov 1940"
21 May /Thursday/, 11:00 hours
Island St. Anastasia
"Island Poetry", The Slavic writing and the bridges of spirituality
Literature reading
22 May /Friday/, 11:00 hours
Open-air stage "Ohluva"
Holiday concert
With the participation of: Trio "Manista", kids' folklore ensemble "Lazur" and bagpipe orchestra "Strandjanski motiv" from Military club Burgas
22 May /Friday/, 18:30 hours
District "Lozovo", in front of Community center "Trakiya 1930"
Concert on occasion the holiday of the district and 24 May - Day of Bulgarian education and culture and of Slavic writing
With the participation of: folklore formation "Trakiyche", dance troupe "Trakiyska daga" and club "Sezoni"
Organizer: Community center "Trakiya 1930"
23 May /Saturday/, 17:00 hours
District "Gorno Ezerovo", in front of Community center "Vasil Levski 1937"
Concert on occasion the holiday of the district and 24 May - Day of Bulgarian education and culture and of Slavic writing
With the participation of: dance formation "Petlite", folklore formation "Trakiyche" and dance troupe of Community center "Vasil Levski 1937"
Organizer: Community center "Vasil Levski 1937"
24 May /Sunday/, 10:30 hours
From square "Troykata" to Cultural center "Sea casino"
Holiday procession on occasion 24 May - Day of Bulgarian education and culture and of Slavic writing
24 May /Sunday/, 11:00 hours
Open-air stage "Ohluva"
Show "In the beginning was the word"
With the participation of: kids choir "Milka Stoeva", mixed choir "Burgas", ballet "Dune" and choir of the teachers with director Pepa Zapryanova
Anchormen: Valeri Elichov and Plamen Karov
24 May /Sunday/, 12:00 hours
Association of painters Burgas, str. Aleksandrovska 22
Exhibition of the Burgas painters
24 May /Sunday/, 12:30 hours
Square "Troykata"
Initiative "The longest horo in Burgas"
24 May /Sunday/, 18:00 hours
Cultural center "Sea casino", hall "Petya Dubarova"
Holiday concert
With the participation of: Smilena Smilkova - piano, Elena Velichkova - accordion and Radoslav Haralampiev - percussions
24 May /Sunday/, 18:00 hours
District "Safarovo", in front of Community center "Angel Dimitrov 1929"
Holiday concert
With the participation of: folklore formation "Ruja" and children from kindergarten "Alen Mak"
Organizer: Community center "Angel Dimitrov 1929"
26 May /Tuesday/, 18:00 hours
Cultural center "Sea casino", hall "Georgi Baev"
Presentation of the book "The Hesychasm, St. Grigorii Sinait and the monasteries in Paroriya"
Author: Milen Nikolov - Director of Regional History Museum - Burgas
Presenting: prof. Diana Radoynova
1 June /Monday/, 19:00 hours
Cultural home of the oil chemist
One man show "The path of Aphrodite"
With Boyka Velkova
Free entry