On June 5 and 6, 2026, Veliko Tarnovo was once again filled with music, colors and children’s voices. The twenty-first edition of the Children’s Roma Festival “Open Heart”, organized by the Amalipe Center and the Municipality of Veliko Tarnovo, brought together nearly 1,500 participants from 75 schools across the country – students, teachers, educational mediators, […]
The Open Heart Children’s Roma Festival will once again transform Veliko Tarnovo into a stage of children’s talent, cultural diversity and messages of tolerance. On June 5 and 6, 2026, Marno Pole Park will gather about 1,500 children and young people from all over the country, who will show the richness of different cultures and […]
Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance “Amalipe” organizes the “Children’s Roma Festival “Open Heart” on June 5-6, 2026 in the city of Veliko Tarnovo. In addition to the stage program, in which children and students participate, a series of cultural events will be held that show, affirm and promote various aspects of Roma culture: presentation […]
Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance “Amalipe” organizes the Twentieth edition of the Roma Children’s Festival “Open Heart” on 6-7 June 2025 in the town of Sofia. The event will take place on the 6th and 6th of June in Veliko Tarnovo. The festival concept foresees that it will build on all previous exhibitions, both […]
The recent 19th Children’s Roma Festival “Open Heart,” which took place on May 31 and June 1, 2024, in Veliko Tarnovo, succeeded in bringing together under one sky thousands of children, teachers, parents, and guests from across the country. From the first chords of the Roma anthem “Djelem, Djelem,” performed during the opening ceremony, to […]
20 years, 18 festivals – a tale of children’s talent, beauty, joy, fun, peace. Hundreds of children showing their skills and expressing their desire for tolerance and kindness in the world. This is Open Heart Festival in a nutshell. On June 9 and 10, 2023. “Marno Pole” park in Veliko Tarnovo was echoed by children’s laughter […]
The Ministry of Education and Science will make a change in the Funding Ordinance, which will allow schools and kindergardens to receive a separate resource for the appointment of mediators, social workers and other support staff. This change will happen by the end of June and this year’s budget is secured. Thus, all schools and […]
We lived in fear of a pandemic for two years. For months we have lived (and continue) in the turmoil of a fratricidal war. A war that only opened new paths for division between people. New reasons to dispel hatred and destroy the lives of thousands of people in Europe. Lives of children. It was […]
Amalipe Center is organizing the 18th edition of the Children’s Roma Festival “Open Heart”, which will be held on June 3 and 4, 2022. We expect to take part in it over 2,000 children of different ethnicities from all over Bulgaria studying Folklore of ethnic groups – Roma folklore “, as well as over 280 […]