I was very pleased to be able to nurture my curatorial interest in contemporary, historical and traditional dance, including screen dance, by serving as the Vice-Convenor on the Board of Trustees of Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland April 2020 – July 2022. In August 2022 I had to step down from the Board in order to undertake the curatorship of Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland. … Continue reading Traditional Dance
Following my long-standing curatorial interest in the practice of women artists, I initiated and curated the first survey exhibition by multi-award winning Canadian artist and filmmaker Marlene Millar spanning 30 years of her creative practice through a selection of 30 works from 1989 to 2019. Included were a newly commissioned multi-screen installation alongside public engagements with Marlene’s works through poetry, creative and critical writing, live … Continue reading Marlene Millar
Peace & Justice (Scotland) presents Consequences: Art and Activism in the Nuclear Age exhibition and events curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Heather Kiernan as part of the Peace Cranes project 16 August – 3 September 2022 Exhibition free and open to all Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm (except Saturday 27 September 2022) 3 September – 30 October 2022 Selected works from the exhibition by Peter Kennard | free … Continue reading Consequences
Balkan Ceilidh part of Thistles and Sunflowers festival and Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022 #ThistlesandSunflowers #YS2022 29 May 2022 | 8.30pm | Scottish Storytelling Centre | 43-45 High Street Edinburgh EH1 1SR Tickets are on a Pay What You Can scale. Suggested amount is £5 Dance the night away with artists and stories from the lands of thistles and sunflowers. Follow the lead of Ceilidh caller … Continue reading Balkan Ceilidh
Stories in Free Fall | Свободно падащи истории Part of Thistles and Sunflowers festival and Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022 27 May 2022 | 7.30pm | Scottish Storytelling Centre | 43-45 High Street Edinburgh EH1 1SR Tickets are on a Pay What You Can scale. Suggested amount is £5 Join performance artist, writer and social justice activist Maria Kassimova-Moisset for her first appearance on a … Continue reading Stories in Free Fall
The Physics of Sorrow Part of Thistles and Sunflowers festival and Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022 27-29 May 2022 | Daily 12, 1 and 2pm | Scottish Storytelling Centre | 43-45 High Street Edinburgh EH1 1SR Tickets are on a Pay What You Can scale. Suggested amount is £5 Enjoy the Scottish premiere of five short films from the last ten years by the Academy … Continue reading Theodore Ushev
The Forgotten Magic of Bulgaria New Commission as part of Thistles and Sunflowers festival and Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022 #ThistlesandSunflowers #YS2022 Festival at a glance: linktr.ee/thistlesandsunflowers Now touring as part of Dalkeith’s Mayfield Mini Festival 10 August 2022 at 11.45am | Lawfield Primary School, 26 Lawfield Rd, Mayfield, Dalkeith EH22 5BB Tickets for the entire festival are free but Eventbrite registration is required … Continue reading Forgotten Magic
Peace Cranes was a project about peace, people and planet exploring the twin existential threats of nuclear weapons and climate change. It was manifested through a series of contemporary art exhibitions and events across Edinburgh and online since 6 August 2020 until 3 September 2022. Through artist’s films, drama, photography, installations and poetry, we explored the humanitarian and environmental consequences posed by the Russia’s invasion … Continue reading Peace Cranes
Movement is a touring screen dance exhibition which paints a collective moving image portrait of the pioneering contemporary dance diva Margaret Morris (1891–1980) and her method of natural movement known as Margaret Morris Movement or MMM, still practised the world over today. This is an homage through six films by Scottish and international contemporary visual artists and filmmakers including Lewis Gourlay, Su Grierson, Brian Hartley, … Continue reading Movement
Balkan Rhapsody (Балканска рапсодия, Colibri, Sofia, 2018) is the debut novel by the Bulgarian-born author Maria Kassimova-Moisset currently being translated into English by Iliyana Nedkova and due to be published by the independent Scottish press Tippermuir Books, Perth with the support of Creative Scotland through the Bulgarian Cultural and Educational Centre Scotland. As a truly rhapsodic autofiction, this historical novel follows the internal and external … Continue reading Balkan Rhapsody
ILIYANA NEDKOVA 