In Plovdiv, the Regional Ethnographic Museum will display belongings of Metropolitan Natanail Ohridski. A book about art in the 1960s will be presented in the City Art Gallery
From 1922 until now, with an interruption during the communist regime, Bulgaria honors November 1 the folk alarmists.
These are all these wise and event-sensitive few men who show the way when the people have resigned themselves to sleep. When he accepts life only as an opportunity to acquire material goods. When he resignedly lets evil, greed, unforgiveness, selfishness and lies run rampant. In such a timelessness, only the wakers can awaken the majority and lead it to the exit from the quagmire in which it has responded. It is precisely at such times that the fog of delusion hangs over the homeland, and therefore the task of enlightening the truth is not at all easy when people’s eyes are closed.
Today’s holiday was originally dedicated to the educators, writers and revolutionaries from the time of the Bulgarian Revival, Liberation and the first decades after it (until the 20s of the 20th century). Later, its scope was extended to cultural figures and personalities with a significant contribution to the rise and preservation of the people in general, including from previous eras, as well as from more recent times.
November 1 was established as a national holiday in 1922, when the Ministry of Public Education embraced the idea proposed by an initiative group. It includes Ivan Vazov, Dr. Mihail Arnaudov, Stiliyan Chilingirov, Adriana Budevska and others. The following year, Tsar Boris III signed a law introducing the Day of the People’s Alarm Clocks into our calendar.
On the Day of the People’s Awakeners today, the President and Commander-in-Chief Rumen Radev will accept the formation of the National Guard unit.
The history of the holiday begins in Plovdiv.
The Day of Alarm Clocks was canceled during the years of socialism, but since 1992, on the idea of the writer Petar Konstantinov, it has been restored.
Since 1991, the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria has been celebrating the Day of People’s Awakeners and as Day of Bulgarian science. By decision of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists, this day also becomes Bulgarian Journalism Day.
In Plovdiv, the holiday began on October 31 and continues today. On November 1, the Regional Ethnographic Museum in the city of the hills is organizing an event from the series “Exhibit in Focus”. Valuable and little-known items that belonged to the prominent Plovdiv Metropolitan Natanail Ohridski (1820-1906) will be presented. One of them is a one-of-a-kind wooden chest decorated with the marquetry technique. The guest speaker at the event will be the artist Mihaela Danailova, who will reveal more about the history and meaning of the depicted symbols. Entrance is free.
Again today at 5 p.m. in the City Art Gallery on Gladstone Street, the art critic Assoc. Dr. Boyka Donevska, professor of art history at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, will present to the Plovdiv public his new book “The National Tradition in Bulgarian Art in the 1960s”. The event will take place among the paintings of Ioan Leviev – one of the most prominent artists of the period, the subject of research in the book.
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