More than 400 performers will take part in the evening dedicated to dance and to maestro Branko Markovich, grate coreographer and former artistic director of the Folk Dance Company of the Artistic Association of the University of Belgrade "Branko Krsmanovic".

Chants polyphoniques d'Europe de l'Est et des Balkans, chants tsiganes.

Stage dirigé par Véronique Warkentin
Prix individuel pour les 2 jours : 45 €
Renseignements : 04 74 43 99 91

The multicultural festival in Canberra is a festival for dancers, singers and musicians from Australia and around the world, who present their art to the inhabitants of the town and its visitors.

This year it will be “Varna” ensemble and ‘Jiva Voda” to represent Bulgaria.

Photos of the festival

poster concert - 10.02.2008

poster concert - 12.02.2008

poster concert - 17.02.2008

Florida annual Folk Dance Camp will be held in Kenilworth Lodge - Sebring, Florida (USA) from 15 to 18 February 2008.

The programme of the camp includes
- Armenian folk dances with Susan Lind-Sinanian
- Romanian folk dances with Cristian Florescu and Sonia Dion.

More information: www.folkdance.org

Registration Form

Second Extraordinary Meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Commitetee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage

The second extraordinary session of the Committee will be held from Monday 18 to Friday 22 February 2008 in Sofia, at the Congress Centre - National Palace of Culture (www.ndk.bg). Located in the heart of Sophia, it is one of the symbols of the city and the biggest exhibition and congress centre in Bulgaria.

The registration form should be returned before 31 January 2008 to Ms Samira ZININI:

- by e-mail (if permitted by your Acrobat version): s.zinini@unesco.org;
- by fax: +33 (0)1 45 68 57 52
- or in hard copy, addressed to:
UNESCO CLT/CIH/ITH
1 rue Miollis
75732 Paris Cedex 15
FRANCE

Carnival 2008 in the town of Lefkas 28th February - 9 March 2008

Lefkada is the fourth largest island in the Ionian Sea located between Corfu and Cephalonia . A thin strip of sea (50m) is all that separates the island from the prefecture of Akarnania . The two coasts are connected with a bridge.

For more information visit at: www.lefkasculturalcenter.gr

An international folklore festival is held too in the twon of Lefkas, Lefkada island in Greece, every year in August.