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   Media - The Must in Intercultural Dialogue
 
     
 
Sunday,
May 18
09:00-20:00
Arrival and registration of participants
18:00 Premiere of the 2007 Bulgarian film "Seamstresses", with the participation of its director Lyudmil Todorov, Centro Cultural Nicolas Salmeron, c/ Mantuano, 51.
 
Monday,
May 19
09:00-20:00 Arrival and registration of participants
10:30-11:15

Official opening of the Fourth World Meeting of Bulgarian Media, the Salon de Actos of the Municipality of Madrid, Palacio de Comunicaciones, Plaza de Cibeles

Welcoming addresses by Bulgarian President Georgi Purvanov, Madrid Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon Jimenez, former Bulgarian prime minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, author Anton Donchev, and Josef Vinatzer, CEO of mobile provider M-Tel

11:15-11:45 Presentatoin of Prof Nikolai OvcharovOs book "A Short History of Bulgaria" (Spanish-language version), Palacio de Comunicaciones, Plaza de Cibeles
11:45-13:30 Cocktail party by Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon Jimenez, Mayor of Madrid, Palacio de Comunicaciones, Plaza de Cibeles
13:30-15:30 First panel, Hotel Ambassador Melia, Cuesta de Santo Domingo, 5-7

Theme : "Bulgaria Between the Two Meetings: What Has Happened?" (informational discussion)

Host : Radosav Radev, Darik Radio

Novite Medii, Milen Stamatov, M-Tel

   
15:30-16:00 Coffee pause - Cocktail party in honour of the 10th anniversary of the "Bulgarski Novini" newspaper, Greece
   
16:00-17:30 Second Panel, Hotel Tryp Ambassador Melia

Theme : "Are the Media Responsible for Bulgaria Lacking a Nobel Laureate? Communications Problems Facing Bulgarian Culture"

Host : Elina Kerelezova-Barderas, "Nova Duma" newspaper, Spain

   
18:00 Unveiling of the poster exhibition "Bulgaria's Letters O Europe's New Alphabet" with the participation of artist Bozhidar Ikonomov
Centro Hispano-Bulgaro, Paseo de la Habana, 87
 
Tuesday,
May 20
9:30-11:00 Third panel, Hotel Tryp Ambassador, Melia

Theme : "Media Strategies of BulgariaOs Tourist Industry. More on BulgariaOs World Image"

Host : Polly Karastoyanova, National Tourist Board. Participants : Krasimir Gergov, Plamen Mollov, Georgi Velchev, Georgi Velchev

"Transliteration - Crossroads of Cyrillic and Roman Calligraphy,
Nikolai Vasilev, Minister of State Administration and Administrative Reform

10:30 Working breakfast with the Director of the Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Sra Carmen Caffarel (for some of the delegates), Alcala, 49
   
11:00-11:30 Coffee pause
   
11:30-13.00 Fourth panel : Hotel Tryp Ambassador Melia

Theme : "The Media and Academic Emigration. The 120-year-old Alma Mater of Sofia vs. Oxford University"

Host : Assoc Prof Georgi Lozanov, University of Sofia "St Clement of Ohrid"

   
13:00-14:30

Lunch

   
14:30-16:00 Fifth panel, Hotel Tryp Ambassador Melia

Theme : "The Way Back to Bulgaria. The GovernmentOs Programme for Bulgarians Abroad - What Else" (creative discussion)

Host : Bogdana Maradjiiska, "Nova Duma" newspaper, Spain

   
16:00-16:30 Coffee pause
   
18:00 Closing ceremony of the Fourth World Meeting of Bulgarian Media, Hotel Tryp Ambassador Melia
19:00

Official reception by Bulgarian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain - Ivan Hristov

 
Wednesday,
May 21
10:00-14:00 Free programme : excursion to Toledo
 
Thursday,
May 22
18:00-21:00 Departure of the participants

Complementary Programme

  • "The 24 Wonders of Bulgaria" - exhibition of the photojournalists of the "24 Chassa" newspaper
  • "The Rock People" - Bulgarian National Television documentary about the Thracian city of Perperikon, Southern Bulgaria
  • "Bulgarian Faces" - slide show, "Nov Zhivot" newspaper, Kurdjali, Southern Bulgaria
  • Annual meeting of Darik Radio correspondents

 

 
2008, Bulgarian News Agency