VIA Studios

Mobile Studios

The mobile studios represent a traveling art platform, which will visit three towns – Samokov, Radomir and Ihtiman, and it will temporarily use their town environment for artistic interventions. They will include a permanent program by professional actors who will
present contemporary performing and visual arts. Consists of three modules:

Visual Studio

The Visual Studio will be used for post-production and documentation. The studio
will be placed at the disposal of the actors, performers or curators, who will have the
opportunity to create, recreate, and process the material from the Action Studio. It will be a
starting point for all interventions in the town environment and a tool for communication,
distribution, and a connection between the public and the virtual space.

Ideal Studio

The Ideal Studio will be a multifunctional place with utilitarian equipment intended for creative work, discussion, and preparation of performances. It will be a temporary working platform for the local artists, which they would use for presentation of their work in
accordance to the specific requirements of the public space.

Action Studio

The Action Studio will serve as a space for exhibitions and live performances. It will be the module, in which the interdisciplinary artistic approach – archived in various multimedia formats – will be demonstrated. The artists and the curators will be able to turn the studio into their own creative space.

PROGRAM BG08

The project Mobile studios – traveling interdisciplinary platform for contemporary performing and visual arts is being realized with the support of Program BG08 “Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Arts” according to the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area, 2009–2014.

The rich cultural, historical and natural heritage of Bulgaria offers great potential for economic growth, raised employment, and increased social rapprochement. In order to use this potential, investments are needed, through which the process of worsening of the condition of the cultural heritage could be stopped, and a part of it could be revived so that the present and the future generations could use it. Except for investments for preservation of the Bulgarian cultural heritage, there is also an urgent need to increase the extent of participation of the people in art and culture; the support needs to be directed to measures, which will provide the people with more access to Bulgarian art, culture and heritage – both physical and digital.

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Locations

Samokov is a town in Southwestern Bulgaria, Sofia region, 55 km away from the city of Sofia. It is the biggest town in the region, and it is the administrative center of Samokov Municipality. The proximity of Samokov Municipality to the capital, the traditions in the trade and craft services, the industrial production, the international tourist resort Borovets, the tourist complex Malyovitsa and the balneological center Belchin Baths represent an excellent potential for sustainable economic development of the region. Samokov Municipality has a
favorable location towards two of the common European transport corridors passing through the country.

Samokov

Radomir is a town in Western Bulgaria, Pernik region. It is the second biggest city in the region after Pernik, and it is the administrative center of Radomir Municipality. It is the center of the historical and geographical region Mrakata. Today Radomir is a contemporary
town, which has its own face, economic infrastructure, natural landmarks, and cultural institutions.

Radomir

Ihtiman is a town in Western Bulgaria, in Sofia region, and it is the administrative center of Ihtiman Municipality. There is a history museum in the town, where different stages of the town history can be traced. Both the exposition and the building where the local art
gallery is housed – a recently restored old Turkish public bath – are interesting and remarkable.

Ihtiman

About Us

Stephan A. Shtereff

Stephan A. Shtereff is an actor and producer, Bachelor of Performing Arts, and graduate of the University of Arts at Novi Sad, Serbia. He has specialized at AMSU- Amsterdam, ISTA – Copenhagen, SAPAS – Sofia, etc. He is among the founders, and a member of the board, of the international network for contemporary dance Nomad dance academy, co-founder of “Informbureau Association”- partner of the festival for contemporary dance and performance “Antistatic”, the initiative “Night of the Theatres”, main partner of Sofia Municipality for the third edition of the festival for art in public space “West park”. He participates in many stage projects, movie and television productions in Bulgaria and abroad. He has realized many projects behind him, jointly with Bulgarian cultural institutions and organizations, international cultural institutions and companies in the field of the contemporary performing and visual arts.

Miroslava Madzharova

Miroslava Madzharova has professional qualification as Master of Engineering. She has more than 10 years experience in projects management, excellent leader skills for team work, experience in the marketing of products at the Bulgarian and the international market, experience in risk management and the control of projects, creative project solving, innovation, serious analytical skills, and experience in national and international funds and projects as well as training in various cultural environments (Europe, USA).

Mila Gilardi

Mila Gilardi is an actress and producer, Bachelor of Arts, specialty Synthetic Stage Strategies and Management in the Field of the Arts. She has successfully gained a master degree in Production and Audiovisual Management at Media Business School, Spain. She has specialized European Co-production at Erich Pommer Institut, Berlin. She is a co-founder of the production company Odavision. She has realized a range of performing and visual projects in cooperation with institutions like Goethe Institut, National Film Center, Bulgarian National Television, Dance WEB – Wien, Work center of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards – Italy, and many others.

Contacts

Christina Ivanova
Mobile: 0888 360 170
Email: viastudios.org@gmail.com