Tatiana Stoitchkova, Academy of Arts, Sofia– Bulgaria, explores the development of the relationships between cultural diversity, immigration and the cultural situation in Bulgaria. Special attention is given to - how artists see migration flows. The analysis of media content and institutional arrangements reveal discrepancies between public opinion, everyday feelings and artistic solutions. Neither is the incorporation of the diversity into the traditional programming and cultural management unambiguous. Part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research networking, Brokering Intercultural Exchange: Interrogating the role of arts and cultural management. More info at www.managingculture.net

1.
ARTS
AND
IMMIGRATION
IN
PUBLIC
ENVIRONMENT
IN
BULGARIA
Brokering
Intercultural
Exchange
Hochschule
Heilbronn
16th -17th January 2017
Academy
of
Arts,
Sofia
Dr.
TaKana
Stoitchkova,
Assoc.Prof.

2. .
The
situaKon
in
Bulgaria
(BG)
has
been
characterized
by
ethnic
heterogeneity,
but
paradoxically
-­‐
also
by
cultural
homogeneity
of
the
naKonal
state
-­‐
monoculture
.
the
segments
of
tradiKonal
ethnic
and
cultural
diversity
in
Bulgaria
:
Turks
–
8,0%
Roma
–
4,4%,
Others
–
10,
6%
Bulgarians
–
76,9%
(in
2011)

3. .
Bulgarian
consKtuKon
guarantees
the
Turks,
Roma
rights
to
retain
and
develop
their
own
language
and
culture.
The
Roma
language
has
the
status
of
a
non-­‐territorial
minority
language,
and
the
Bulgarian
government
recognizes
the
Turk
and
Roma
a
community
as
naKonal
minoriKes
under
the
European
Framework
ConvenKon
for
the
ProtecKon
of
NaKonal
MinoriKes.
(Framework
convenKon
for
the
protecKon
of
naKonal
minoriKes,
COUNCIL
OF
EUROPE
European
TreaKes
ETS
No.
157)

4. .
This
has
produced
different
parallel
cultural
infrastructures
and
networks
of
voluntary
organizaKons
within
the
country.
The
Bulgarian
understanding
of
naKonal
idenKty
combines
a
sense
of
unity
between
state
cultural
policy/
naKonal
idenKty
and
the
cultural
community
and
minority
rights
in
legal
and
poliKcal
pracKce.

5. CHANGES
IN
POLICY
Cultural
policy
–
integraKon
policy,
health,
educaKon,
social
issues
Immigrant
integraKon
-­‐
sKll
not
a
priority
for
the
government.
The
minor
changes
that
have
occurred
since
2010
-­‐
mainly
in
areas
regulated
by
EU
law:
family
reunificaKon,
long-­‐term
residence
and
anK-­‐discriminaKon.
-­‐
a
very
small
number
of
non-­‐EU
ciKzens
at
the
end
of
2016
-­‐
0.5%
the
number
of
foreigners
Therefore,
the
government
does
not
invest
efforts
in
developing
integraKon
policies
responding
to
the
needs
of
the
newcomers
and
conKnues
to
target
mainly
long-­‐
term
residents,
which
have
already
integrated
in
the
country.
hcp://www.mipex.eu/bulgaria

6. BULGARIAN
CULTURAL
POLICY
AND
DIVERSITY
The
history
of
BG
cultural
policy
has
oden
been
divided
into
three
periods
–
from
the
birth
of
the
modern
state
at
the
end
of
nineteenth
century
(1878-­‐1944)
(1944-­‐1989)
–
socialist
period
,
state
fundings
to
the
1990s
–
the
adopKon
of
democraKc
consKtuKon,
EU
cultural
policy,
EU/naKonal
funds
and
legislaKon,
globalizaKon,
neo-­‐liberal
educaKon
and
pracKce
naKonal
idenKty
vs
cultural
diversity

7. BG
CULTURAL
POLICY
AND
DIVERSITY
cultural
diversity
as
a
new
framework
cultural
policy
objecKves
concerning
immigraKon
the
poliKcal
organizaKon
of
ethnic
and
cultural
diversity.
as
a
public
policy,
cultural
policy
legiKmizes,
restricts
or
prohibits
forms
of
cultural/
arts
acKviKes,
grants
resources
for
various
forms
of
acKviKes.
more,
symbolically,
-­‐
it
includes
and
excludes
forms
of
arKsKc
expressions
from
the
recognized
public
sphere
,
constructs
and
maintains
concepKons
of
normal
and
accepted
cultural
self-­‐expression
and
arKsKc
acKvity
(T.
Bennec,
St.
Hall)
the
new
framework
-­‐
cultural
diversity
cultural
rights
of
minoriKes
-­‐
less
apparent
in
the
case
of
immigrants.

8. The
Cultural
Strategic
Plan,
Sofia
2014-­‐2020
http://www.sofiacouncil.bg/content/docs/c_f25606.pdf

9. The
cultural
strategy
in
the
Program
Plovdiv
2019.
The
programe
gathers
leading
arKsts,
designers.
The
program’s
goal
-­‐
to
produce
a
vast
arKsKc
events
.

10. .
The
cultural
strategy
Plovdid
-­‐
aims
to
some
degree
at
ethnic
and
religious
communiKes.
The house of different ethnic cultures (2016) is intended to be a positive symbol of
local cultural diversity in Plovdiv’s environment.

11. .
INDEPENDENT
ART
SECTOR
The
existence
of
an
independent
art
sector
-­‐
one
of
the
main
precondiKons
for
dynamic
cultural
development
–
lively
and
varied
arts
scene,
new
urban
culture
Music
fesKvals,
Sofia
Film
Fest,
‘Transformers’,
‘Theater
nights’,
new
spaces
,
Tchitalichte
network,
Internet
plaform
for
volunteers
‘,
FoundaKon,
Urban
projects
and
research’’,
non
–formal,
etc……
Folk-­‐music
events,
an
ethno-­‐folk
fesKval
(Turnovo),
but
it
not
present
the
music
of
newcomers
-­‐
these
organizaKons
play
a
rather
significant
role
in
a
new
environment
,
the
knowledge,
skills
and
experience
are
widely
used
for
establishing
new
types
of
relaKonships,
networking,
mobility
,
internaKonal
focus

12. Being
a
cultural
manager
-­‐
implies
the
capability
to
find
soluKons
and
strategies
for
cultural
/art
organizaKons
or
for
cultural
poliKcs
in
the
towns.
Cultural
manager
as
an
agent
of
diversity
and
change
is
contradictory
.
with
the
rigid
structure
of
the
tradiKonal
organizaKons
where
they
worked.
If
the
leader
promotes
the
iniKaKve,
favors
internaKonal
Kes,
and
sKmulates
diversity
in
programming,
team
work,
audience
development
new,
ideas
and
projects,
intercultural
competences
-­‐
the
insKtuKon
can
develop
an
open
style
of
funcKoning
Because
‘’diversity
thinking’
,
it
is
a
challenge
,
a
change
of
frame
and
kind
of
a
transformaKon
of
the
ordinary.
Not
all
managers
can
understand,
accept
it.

13. .
.
globalizaKon,
migraKon
have
changed
everyday
lives,
arts,
cultural
sector.

14. .
Quo Vadis Europe? A Journey of Hope.
Sofia, 1-3 August 2016

15. .

16. .

17. And
ader/бележки
след
семинара/
heute
17.1.2017
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да
добавя
нщ
за
руските
живеещи
в
българия
–
културно
програмиране/
фестивали
• Вж
graphic
narraKves
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