Initiatives

The Park

In 2023, together with residents of Mladost 4, employees in nearby offices, artists and designers, and in partnership with Business Park Sofia, we turned 3000 sq. m. of roof space in a place for rest, meetings, cultural events and children’s play.
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The Rooftop

In a neighborhood with an acute shortage of open spaces, we created an opportunity for local people to spend a good summer together. We have opened the private terrain of Business Park Sofia to the residents of the neighboring blocks. Thus, they acquired several acres overlooking Vitosha Mountain, benches, tables, food, a rope sports ground, tennis tables and a cultural program.
 
We brought together residents of Mladost with residents of the office buildings to dream together about the new space. With the help of artists, designers and landscape architects, they decided what they wanted the Roof to look like. Then we implemented their ideas so that everyone’s needs and desires were respected.
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We transformed the Roof with the largest horizontal mural in Bulgaria. We craned metal containers, which we turned into kiosks for food and drinks on hot summer days. In less than 3 months we built benches and tables, a stage, accessible toilets, planters with plants and an irrigation system, a rope playground.
 
Hundreds of people used the space daily. We conducted a program of contemporary Bulgarian cinema and music. On weekends on the territory of the Business Park we organized activities for children – cycling and rollerblading, a modern circus, etc.
We opened the new space with a three-day festival that brought together over 10,000 people.
 
The initiative was accompanied by an art campaign in the Business Park. Together with our partners, we provided studios for artists, dancers, graffiti artists and others. In return, the artists worked with neighborhood residents and office employees in open classes for all ages. In this way, we helped emerging Bulgarian talents, and contemporary art came out of the center of the capital and found a new home closer to the people.
 
In 2024, the Roof will be reopened with a cultural program, this time under the leadership of the Business Park. The campaign for contemporary art in the Mladost district continues.

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The Park Festival 2024

  • [Past] June 28, 2024
Sofia, Bulgaria

The Park Festival

  • [Past] June 23, 2023
Sofia, Bulgaria

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