1. The Plovdiv City Gallery opened a retrospective exhibition of works by the eminent Plovdiv artist Prof. Ivan Kirkov. The exhibition is on the occasion of his 70th birthday. According to the art critic Svetla Moskova, ?he had devoted himself and his talent to existing by creating illustrations.? Some of his plastics facade ornaments are the mosaics of the Sofia Central Station and the murals on the facade of the Ivan Vazov National Theatre. As a teacher at the Art Academy he created a generation of the 1980s and the 1990s with a really contemporary vision. ?The exhibition is unique because Ivan Kirkov belongs to the group of the first Bulgarians to step into the world of the modern Europe already in the 1960s? , were the words of the art critic Krassimir Linkov at the opening of that exhibition. The artist himself shares the following: ?I draw slowly but I have nothing to hurry for. My life motto is to feel free.?
2. Today, at 10 am, at the Moscow Hall in the Plovdiv Novotel Hotel, the first film of the 14th Documentary Film Festival ?The Golden Rython? was released. That was the film ?The miraculous icon?. The following two documentaries are: ?Young hearts? and ?Breakfast on the grass?. The afternoon film-shows will be from 2 pm till 20 pm. The films to be shown are as follows: ?Alphabet of hope?, ?Who cares?, ?The home?, ?Merry boys?, ?Shakespeare the Balkan way?, ?The Bulgarian sergeant?s French woman?. Simultaneously, there will be an informational program presented at the Paris Hall of the Novotel Hotel. The entrance to all the film shows is free.
3. The Bulgarian Parliament took the decision to open a College of Economics and Administration in Plovdiv, offering the following majors: Business Management, Accounting and Control, Finances, Tourist Services Organization and Management and Public administration. The private college will prepare Bulgarian and foreign students, choosing between full-time and part-time studies options. Four hundred students will be accepted in the first academic year. The fees for the full-time and part-time studies are respectively 700 and 500 BGN.