site.btaLiteracy Is Only Achieved by Reading Books, Says LIK Magazine Editor-In-Chief
Literacy is only achieved by reading books, editor-in-chief of LIK magazine Assoc. Prof. Georgi Lozanov said here on Friday during the presentation of the magazine's new issue on chitalishte community centres.
"Books are territories of what we call great stories about the world. The Bulgarian chitalishte community centre is associated with reading, but not just with reading, because now we read on all sorts of screens, but with reading books. This is a space-time, the basis of which is reading books and, more generally, literacy. The community centre was created at the time by literate people and in the name of literacy," Lozanov notes.
Titled "Chitalishta: Past and Future", the latest LIK issue marks the 170th anniversary of the first Bulgarian chitalishte, founded on January 30, 1856 in the northern town of Svishtov. Drawing on highlights from BTA’s rich archive, the magazine explores the history and future of these cultural institutions, often described as a uniquely Bulgarian phenomenon.
Lozanov emphasized that the future tense in the title of the issue is written in larger letters than the past tense and stated that he believes that community centres will be reborn in the future, with a very key role in culture. "The community centre is actually a cultural space that brings together various cultural activities and artistic performances, but in addition to a cultural space, the community centre is a chronotope," Lozanov noted, adding that a chronotope is a term that connects space with time.
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