*This season of activities begins on
September 2024 and ends on June 2025.

**All income from the memberships goes to cultural activities at Bobbina space.

Bobbina Cultural Space is both a physical and an airy experience:


the steadiness of the architecture with the ethereal of musicality.

LIVE ELECTRONICS AT PLAY /SOFIA EXPERIMENTAL 2025 DAY 4 CONCERT


In a row of 5 provocative sound performances artists from Bulgaria, Netherlands, Italy and Germany will create the culminating night of the International Experimental Music Festival for a third year in Bobbina!

Bulgarian participation frames the evening with the opening project of Adelina Nedeva - Musika Nova Art and the closing Autonomaton. The Netherlands-based Riccardo Marogna, the Italian multi-instrumentalist Dario Lo Cicero and the Berlin experimental artist Korhan Erel (part of Sofia Experimental 2025 thanks to Goethe-Institute Bulgaria) are our dear international guests!

lineup:
Musika Nova ArtRiccardo Marogna (NL/IT)Dario Lo Cicero (IT)Korhan Erel (DE)Autonomaton


SOFIA EXPERIMENTAL

Budokan Boys is the trickster music project of two Americans, Jeff T Byrd and Michael Jeffrey Lee. The duo's songs probe loneliness, trauma, delusion, and love with an auteurist vision and brutal sense of humor; their fierce and darkly comic live sets combine off-kilter electronics, bizarre narratives, seedy saxophone and squealing slide guitar. Formed in New Orleans in 2014, they've released albums with Tymbal Tapes, Baba Vanga, Ever/Never, and Strategic Tape Reserve.


local support - Ivo Charlie (Les Animaux Savage)  / solo guitar live

BUDOKAN BOYS (US) - live

anti of the anti of the anti until the final splash, armstand before fearless twists, spinning moves before touching water in age reverse anti chicho maintenance of inner juvenility. Ropotamo CO seasonal in-house delivering endless resource of narrative sound.


ROPOTAMO CO

The Artist At Play

Happyend - 2024, Dir. Neo Sora (1hr53mins)(Subtitles in English)

Official Bulgarian Premiere Screening & Live Music Set by Yanichka Nushi

Join Crooked Cinema at Bobbina Cultural Space on WEDS 19th NOVEMBER for the BG premiere of 


Synopsis:
Director Neo Sora (son of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto) explores a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life, two rabble-rousing best friends are about to graduate high school. One night, they pull a consequential prank on their Principal, which leads to a surveillance system being installed in their school. Stuck between the oppressive security system and a darkening national political situation, the two respond in contrasting ways, leading them to confront differences they never had to face before. Tremorous subtext is abundant in Happyend. The earth-shaking threat that the film’s politicians manipulate as a means to control society, for one, is rooted in the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. One of the most destructive natural disasters in modern history, it was also a catalyst for the killing of thousands of immigrants in Japan after authorities circulated rumours accusing ethnic Koreans (whose country was a colony of Japan between 1910 and 1945) of violence, theft and arson. “The long arc of Japanese colonialism underpins the movie,” Sora says, alluding to Happyend’s explorations of xenophobia and identity while also likening this often swept-under-the-rug history to current events. “It’s intimately linked to what’s happening today in Palestine and Gaza… It’s the same structure, same issues, just playing out in different times.”
For the students of Happyend, on the other hand, techno is a benign act of rebellion in a society bent on conformity. It’s a language of resistance explicitly tied to the genre’s history, says Sora: “It’s impossible to talk about techno without talking about politics.”

Limited seating capacity - first come first served.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkPTH_gKZxw

https://theface.com/music/neo-sora-interview-happyend-ryuichi-sakamoto

Part of the event is supported by Bobbina’s independent subscription fund.

HAPPYEND / Crooked Cinema 

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