23.09.2020, Wednesday

14:00 – 19:00 – Hotel accommodation. Hotel NORD, 33 IBAR Str. www.hotelnord-bg.com, + 359 898 65 68 72

19:00 – 22:00 – Dinner at Saint Nicola Restaurant. Free recitations and singing.

 

24.09.2020, Thursday

08.00 – 09.00 - Breakfast at hotel NORD.

09.00 – 12.30 - A walk along the Main Street, Central Square, the Roman Stadium, The Odeon, meeting with the writters of Plovdiv at the office of The Association of Plovdiv Writers.

13.00 – 14.00 – Lunch at Saint Nicola Restaurant. Free time for preparing for the Opening ceremony.

17.00 – Leaving hotel NORD for the Little Early Christian Bazilica.

18.00 – Festival Opening Night in the Little Early Christian Bazilica of  Philipopolis. Presenting the guests and the hosts with a poetry reading. 11 poets from 9 countries reading poetry in 9 languages with a translation in Bulgarian. Free entrance.

19.30 – 20.30 – A promotion of the novel I Went Out by Father Pimen, the Metropolitan of the Еuropean Diocese of the Macedonian Orthodox Church based in Malmö, Sweden. With the special participation of the author. The Little Early Christian Bazilica. Free entrance.

21.00 – Dinner at Saint Nicola Restaurant. Free recitations and singing.

 

25.09.2020, Friday

08.00 – 9.00 – Breakfast at hotel NORD.

09.30 – A walk from hotel NORD to the Little Early Christian Bazililica.

10.30 – 12.00 – Lectures with presentations dedicated to the Thracian cultural heritage and history of Plovdiv. Writers forum „The Figure of Orpheus – Between Myth and Moment”. Presentations of the essays of the participant in the festival. Round table for the festival guests with students in the Little Early Christian Bazilica and writers from Plovdiv.

12.30 – 14.00 – Lunch at Saint Nicola Restaurant.

14.00 – 17.00 – A tour guide walk in Old Plovdiv. Free time.

17.00 – Leaving hotel NORD for the Little Early Christian Bazilica.

18.00 – 20.00 – Poetic reading in the Little Early Christian Bazilica. Award ceremony.

20.30 - Dinner at Saint Nicola Restaurant. Free recitations and singing.

 

26.09.2020, Saturday

08.00 – 09.00 – Breakfast at hotel NORD.

9.00 – 12.00 – Getting to know travel to Bachkovo Monastery.

12.30 – 13.30 – Lunch at Saint Nicola Restaurant.

13.30 – 18.30 – Getting to know travel to Thracian Tomb in Starosel.

18.30 - Dinner at Saint Nicola Restaurant. Free recitations and singing.

 

27.09.2020, Sunday

08.00 – 8.30 – Breakfast at hotel NORD. Departure from the hotel.