PechaKucha Night Sofia

PechaKucha Night Sofia Monthly event for community of creative professionals to showcase their work in 20 images x 20 seconds

We are building the creative community in Sofia/Bulgaria, meeting every month on 20th night to present the most creative projects they are working on. Followed by a networking and matchmaking party and we hope to become a marketplace for creative talent, broadcasting and marketing Sofia's creativity to the world.

Rosina Pencheva will be presenting "Capturing Belonging: How Creativity Reclaims Places" this Friday at PechaKucha Night...
09/06/2026

Rosina Pencheva will be presenting "Capturing Belonging: How Creativity Reclaims Places" this Friday at PechaKucha Night Sofia #42 - BELONGING BY DESIGN June 12 +Book Signing.

Rosina is the founder of Capturing Creativity, a cultural producer and professional photographer with long-standing experience in the fields of art and culture. She is also a Bulgarian ambassador of Homo Faber, the international movement dedicated to contemporary craftsmanship.

Since 2013, Rosina has been developing her work around revealing the creative process to a wider audience, using documentary photography and storytelling to bring forward the people, ideas and invisible work behind cultural projects.

Today, Capturing Creativity has built extensive experience in bringing together artists, craftspeople, designers and cultural institutions from across Bulgaria for collaborative creative initiatives.

In her talk, she will present her driver & motivating challenge: "What makes people feel that a place belongs to them – and that they belong to it?"

Through the work of Capturing Creativity, Rosina Pencheva will share how photography, storytelling, craft, design and cultural interventions can change the perception of overlooked urban spaces. The presentation looks at creativity not only as an individual act, but as a way to build connection, attention and a renewed sense of belonging.

Here is the full program of speakers:
👉 Yanislav Rusev, "Building the Netflix of English Learning"
👉 Louise Mandel & Kalina Hristova, "B is for Britpop"
👉 Rosina Pencheva, "Capturing Belonging: How Creativity Reclaims Places"
👉 Angelina Jordanova, "My Life Experience & Challenge in Africa"
👉 Stefan Vladimirov, "Bulgaria By Design"
👉 Eleonora Carnasa, "The Most Powerful Designer: Biochemistry"
👉 Nevena Peeva-Todorova, "The Business Model Designs for the Future"
👉 Stefi Peykova Krishnan & Dobra Slavkova & Radina Doneva, "Design Intelligence: From Roots to Futures"

PechaKucha monthly events are organized by Levent Korkmaz, founder at The Creative Institute for Happiness.

Co-founders of Bulgarian Design Council will be presenting "Design Intelligence: From Roots to Futures" at PechaKucha Ni...
08/06/2026

Co-founders of Bulgarian Design Council will be presenting "Design Intelligence: From Roots to Futures" at PechaKucha Night Sofia #42 - BELONGING BY DESIGN June 12 +Book Signing.

Stefi Peykova Krishnan, Dobra Slavkova and Radina Doneva founded The Bulgarian Design Council to recognise, connect, and amplify the design intelligence as a force for public value, that
Bulgaria has always carried in its culture, crafts, rituals, systems, and ways of making.

They are guided by one challenge: how to establish design as a recognised national capability, shaping better public services, more inclusive systems, stronger organisations, and responsible innovation?

In pursuit of this vision, they are building design capability across education, government, policy, and business, helping Bulgaria create more responsible futures through design.

Join us on Friday to hear more about this worthy initiative to engage and activate the imagination of a nation at the creative level!

Невена Пеева-Тодорова (Nevena Peeva-Todorova) will present "New Business Models for the Future" at PechaKucha Night Sofi...
08/06/2026

Невена Пеева-Тодорова (Nevena Peeva-Todorova) will present "New Business Models for the Future" at PechaKucha Night Sofia #42 - BELONGING BY DESIGN June 12 +Book Signing. Nevena operates as a cross-discipline professional with engineering, economics, and workshop facilitation background. Her vast experience allows her to approach her work from various angles and land at unexpected solutions via breaking the usual thinking silos and cross-pollinating seemingly unrelated topics.

In her talk she will share her perspective on rapid shifts in technology, how regulations introduce disruptions to the business as usual model, and the next evolution of business modelling in the future.

Янислав Русев (Yanislav Rusev) will present his latest project at PechaKucha Night Sofia #42 - BELONGING BY DESIGN June...
08/06/2026

Янислав Русев (Yanislav Rusev) will present his latest project at PechaKucha Night Sofia #42 - BELONGING BY DESIGN June 12 +Book Signing. He is an English teacher and founder of English Motivator BG, an educational platform that teaches English through animated stories and series.

After years of teaching students in traditional classrooms, he started building a new learning experience where education feels more like watching a streaming platform than attending a lesson.

His work combines education, storytelling, animation, AI tools, and product design to make language learning more engaging and accessible.

He is currently "Building the Netflix of English Learning" on englishmotivator.com

Join us and discover what happens when an English teacher decides to rethink how languages are taught. In this presentation, Yanislav will share the journey behind English Motivator, a platform that transforms language learning into an experience inspired by streaming services, animated storytelling, and modern digital design.

The talk explores the intersection of education, creativity, AI, and entrepreneurship, and how a small idea evolved into a growing product used by learners around the world.

Angelina Jordanova will present her life experience and challenges in Africa at PechaKucha Night Sofia #42 - BELONGING ...
08/06/2026

Angelina Jordanova will present her life experience and challenges in Africa at PechaKucha Night Sofia #42 - BELONGING BY DESIGN June 12 +Book Signing. She is a civil hydraulic engineer with 17 years experience in Bulgaria and 21 years experience in South Africa. She used to work in projects related to river’s environment in different countries in Africa.

Eleonora Carnasa is a service designer, nutrition researcher & founder of Nora Formulas and will present the importance ...
08/06/2026

Eleonora Carnasa is a service designer, nutrition researcher & founder of Nora Formulas and will present the importance of biochemistry as a life designer at PechaKucha Night Sofia #42 - BELONGING BY DESIGN June 12 Community Hub, entitled "The Most Powerful Designer in Your Life Is Not Your Brain. It's Your Biochemistry."

Eleonora is a designer who accidentally fell in love with biochemistry. After more than twenty years in innovation and service design, a personal health crisis led her to ask a different kind of question: why do humans do what they do?

Today she studies the biology behind behavior and explores how nutrition, biochemistry, and health shape the decisions we make every day.

She is the founder of Nora Formulas and believes that the next frontier of design may not be better products, but better humans.

We like to believe that our decisions shape our lives. But what if our biology shapes many of those decisions first?

In this personal talk, Eleonora Carnasa shares how a search for answers led her from the world of design into the world of human biology, and why she now believes that biochemistry may be one of the most powerful designers of our lives.

A story about health, human behavior, and seeing ourselves through a completely different lens.

Writer and curator Louise Genova will be signing her new book "Britpop: The Story" and make a presentation together with...
08/06/2026

Writer and curator Louise Genova will be signing her new book "Britpop: The Story" and make a presentation together with the illustrator Kalina Hristova at PechaKucha Night Sofia #42 - BELONGING BY DESIGN June 12 +Book Signing.

Louise Genova is the author of two historical books: Britpop: The Story (2026) and Carl the Great (2023). She explores niche topics often overlooked in Bulgaria that prove history is engaging and even sexy when paired with compelling storytelling. Beyond her writing, she is an independent curator certified by the Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

The presentation will engage the public with the power of the Britpop movement and its immense cultural heritage, spanning music, fashion, cinema, visual arts, and literature. It will explain why this topic is important here and now, as well as its specific connection with Bulgaria.

Meet the author and the illustrator, and get your autographed copy this Friday at Barter Community Hub!

Ajaa Khalaf is an Egyptian architect forged in the desert to find herself in the Balkan mountains. For six years, she wo...
20/05/2026

Ajaa Khalaf is an Egyptian architect forged in the desert to find herself in the Balkan mountains. For six years, she worked in the field of architectural visualization both as a CGI artist and as a project manager. Currently creating art with Redvertex in Sofia. She will make a teasing presentation titled "What Are the Odds? No, Seriously!" at PechaKucha Night Sofia #41 - Human (R)evolutions May 29 @ Central Market.

She says: "Ever wondered what would happen if ...? For every action there's a reaction. And our lives are constantly shaped with actions we take that get us on new adventures. Now, what actions did I take to get here? In this presentation i will be happy to share with you the actions that shaped my current reality."

PechaKucha Night Sofia events are organized by Levent Korkmaz, founder at The Creative Institute for Happiness.

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