Programme

The participants are requested to always wear their identification bracelet, provided at registration, which allows free entry to the Botanical Garden, Palace of Queen Marie, Art Gallery, Ethnographic House and Historical Museum

Thursday – First Festival Day

  Arrive in Balchik
  Registration of the choirs – Festival Centre – Community Centre “Paisi Hilendarski-1870”
14:00 Earliest Check-in at your Hotel
Free time
18:30 OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY and FIRST FESTIVAL CONCERT – Stage of  21-st September Squire in case of bad weather conditions  Community Centre “Paisii Hilendarski-1870”
  Parade of  all participants from Stage to the Yacht Port
20:30 Cocktail party for conductors, jury members and guest

 

Friday – Second Festival Day

  Breakfast at your hotel
  Group Visits of the Museum of History, the Ethnographic Museum and the Art Gallery, in suitable for choirs time
10:15 – 12:30

Beginning of the workshops, on schedule – Concert and choir hall of  Community Centre “Paisi Hilendarski-1870”;Mill Tourist Information Centre  – III floor

 

Group Visits of the Museum of History, the Ethnographic Museum and the Art Gallery, in suitable for choirs time

14:30 – 16:45

Acoustic rehearsals on schedule – Mill Tourist Information Centre  – Concert hall VI floor 

17:00 

SECOND FESTIVAL CONCERT – Mill Tourist Information Centre – Concert hall VI floor 

18:30 THIRD FESTIVAL CONCERT – COMPETITION PROGRAMME – Mill Tourist Information Centre Concert hall VI floor 
  Dinner at the hotels and Free time

Saturday – Third Festival Day

  Breakfast at the hotel
  Group Visits of the Museum of History, the Ethnographic Museum and the Art Gallery, in suitable for choirs time
10:15 – 12:30 Workshops – on schedule Concert and choir hall of Community Centre “Paisii Hilendarski-1870” and Mill Tourist Information Centre Concert hall III floor 
  Group Visits of the Museum of History, the Ethnographic Museum and the Art Gallery, in suitable for choirs time
16:30  Sound check  for the Choral workshop “Processed Bulgarian folklore” – Stage of the 21-st September Squire
16:50  Sound check  for the Choral workshop “Mixed Choirs” – Stage of the 21-st September Squire
17:10  Sound check  for the Choral workshop “Children’s Choirs” – Stage of the 21-st September Squire
17:30 Choral workshop “Hymn of the festival” sound check  -Stage of the 21-st September Squire
18:30  FORTH FESTIVAL CONCERT – GALA CONCERT and AWARD CEREMONY – 21-st September Squire in case of bad weather conditions  Community Centre “Paisii Hilendarski-1870”
20:30  Dinner party for all participants 

Sunday – Last Festival Day

  Breakfast at your Hotel
Check-Out by 12 noon, Depart Balchik

p.s. The organizers reserve their right, in case of need, to change the Program.