site.btaBTA to Present LIK Magazine at Apollonia Art Festival

The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) will present seven special issues of its LIK magazine, released since September 2023.

The event will take place within the Price of Success Format at the 40th Apollonia Festival of Arts on September 7. The special issues of the magazine, dedicated to poet Atanas Dalchev, composer Pancho Vladigerov, artist Dechko Uzunov, writer Aleko Konstantinov, public radio pioneer Sirak Skitnik and actors Nevena Kokanova and Stefan Danailov, will be presented by BTA Director General Kiril Valchev and Assoc. Prof. Georgi Lozanov, Head of the BTA Culture, Science and Education (LIK) Directorate. 

This is the second BTA event at the 2024 edition of Apollonia, after a press launch on August 30 of News on File: 1899-2023, a book presenting each of the 125 years since the BTA's establishment by one major domestic and international development.

At the opening of the Festival on August 29, BTA received the 2024 Apollo Toxophoros Award of the Apollonia Foundation for its overall contribution in covering the 40 editions of Apollonia.

The Apollonia Festival of Arts is organized by the Apollonia Foundation, which was established in 1991. The first edition of the Festival took place in 1984. Apollonia aims to preserve cultural traditions and to support new talents across the spectrum of arts, the organizers point out. BTA is a media partner of the event.