ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
From 23.06 to 25.06.2023, our organization in partnership with the “Burgas Open Space” association, realized a youth eco fest “Greenburg Fest” in the city of Burgas.
The festival is part of the “Greenburg” project with contract number 2022-3-BG01-K154-YOU-000097409, co-financed by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union.
The fest included two parts: presentational and musical.
The presentation part was in The Regional Library” Peyo K. Yavorov” – Burgas, and the musical part at the “Papa Bira” intersection.
First Day of “Greenburg Fest”
The fest began on 23.06 (Friday) with the photo exhibition “Burgas Kaleidoscope – the ecological spectra of the city”. This was followed by film screenings: “The Voices of Sinemorets”, “Salty People” and “Nobody’s Waste”.
The first festival day ended with the green puppet theater of Vasilena Atanasova from The National School of Music and Performing Arts “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” and a concert by the bands: Cool Den, The Lefties and Predvid.
We thank Georgi Dimitrov from Sofia Film Fest for facilitating the discussions after the screenings and Remina Alexieva from “PanGeia” for the online inclusion.
Day Two of “Greenburg Fest“
On 24.06 (Saturday), the participants in the fest had the opportunity to listen to presentations about the Black Sea, Burgas waters, Black Sea birds, Burgas forests, and after the presentations, to participate in the “green” hackathon. Saturday ended with stand-up comedy with Ivana Fenerska and a concert by: Spalni Mesta, Maze Hunters and Do Not Disturb.
Благодарим на Владимир Младенов от „БДЗП“, Димитър Димитров от фондация „За нашето море“, Глория Маринова от „БФБ“ за това, че бяха част от нашия проект.
Third day of „Greenburg Fest“
On 25.06 (Sunday), the participants had the opportunity to hear presentations about green innovations in Bulgaria, how to live and travel with zero waste, why it is good to give clothes a second life and how to save food. After the presentations, the participants took part again in a “green” hackathon, and the last festival day ended with a “green” quiz, which took place in the Dragon’s Tail.
We thank Ana Kovacheva from “Zero Waste Bulgaria”, Eleonora Yosifova from “For the Earth”, Zlatena Fertunova from the Bulgarian startup LAM’ON, the team of the online second-hand clothing store Unboxd and Bilyana Taneva from foodObox for sharing their knowledge with our participants.
Parallel to the presentations, there were also workshops where young people had the opportunity to get involved and restore old furniture together with Coworking Family Burgas and make clothes for trees with Bojana Slavkova.
The library yard was also decorated with Bojana Slavkova’s art installations: “Embraced nature” and “Your are the changes”
We also thank the youth structure of WWF Bulgaria – “PanGeia” for once again taking part in the activities of our organization and sharing their experience with our participants.
The support of “Greenburg FEST”
Thank you for the support of the Municipality of Burgas, the regional library “Peyo K. Yavorov”, “Znaci” publishing house, “Goethe” German Language High School, the team of “Bulgarian Youth Red Cross – Burgas”, as well as Harmonica and Zero Wave for providing us with some of the festival food.
We also thank our volunteers for helping us implement the planned activities without any problems and for cleaning the concert location.