Bulgaria hosted the first event under the Educate project, that took place in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria on November 16th, 2017. The event was dedicated to the fall of the empires and the historic events that took place after the WWI. The title of the international workshop was “Fall of empires and 1917 social and political revolutions”. It gathered young people from the six project countries (Spain, Poland, Greece, Germany, Serbia and Bulgaria).
The event consisted of two integral parts. The first one was dedicated to the social and political revolutions at the beginning of 20th century, their reasons and circumstances and their manifestations in real societal, political and public lives. The representatives of six countries and communities shared the impact of the WWI and the fall of the world empires in their countries. Each country representatives had shared a PPP on the influence of October revolution and WW1 on the respected country political development, the preconditions and consequences. Special accent was to be found and presented the impact of the October revolution/WW1 in the country art development, movie/literature and on monuments. The first part of the international workshop took place in a special hall. The building now is the home of district governance but before the start up of the democratic transitions in Bulgaria, it was a home of the Oblast Committee of the Communist Party. Young people had the possibility to have a tour around and to get acquainted with the typical Soviet style of architecture that were typical for the administrative buildings from that period.
The second part of the international seminar was organized as a History hunt rally. The young people were divided into three international groups and had visits to find and discuss the examples of Veliko Tarnovo selected examples and pieces of art/painting, literature and monument, influenced by the WWI and the October revolution. One of the groups visited the Literature house, where the movie “The peach thief” was pictured presenting the love story between a Serbian imprisoned soldier and the wife of the head of the Bulgarian military prison. The group had the chance to follow the story on video. The second group visited the city gallery and found there examples of the influence of WWI in paintings. The third group had heard the story of the opening of the Monument Mother Bulgaria in the city centre.
After the impressive history hunt, the students gathered back in the hall and had a world coffee workshop, presenting the influence of the world revolutions in art/painting/sculpture ; in monuments and in literature and movies. The participants had a detailed presentation of comparative examples of these three impact researches.
Each one was happy to get certificate and also to have so much lovely memories.
