ФЕСТИВАЛНАТА КУЛТУРА И ИЗГРАЖДАНЕ НА МЕСТНА ИДЕНТИЧНОСТ. НАЦИОНАЛЕН ФЕСТИВАЛ НА ПЪЛНЕНАТА ЧУШКА В ГРАД ЛЕВСКИ
THE FESTIVAL CULTURE AND BUILDING LOCAL IDENTITY. NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF STUFFED PEPPERS IN THE CITY OF LEVSKI

Summary/Abstract: In 2019, a rather attractive festival was launched in the city of Levski, which is tied to the traditional city fair, gathering relatives and friends for more than a century. Organizers of the event are Levski Municipality and the Community center “Georgi Partsalev – 1901”, which always try to plan the event to be around August 28, when according to the old style, the town of Levski celebrates the feast of the Great Mother of God. The event, now in its fourth year, has become an emblematic celebration of culinary art. The culinary festival has a competitive nature as a jury with the chairman of the first edition was – Kateto Euro, and for the next three editions – Ivan Zvezdev, who chooses the winners.In 2020, the festival did not take place due to the Covid 19 pandemic, but from the following year, 2021, it was renewed. The purpose of the celebration of the town of Levski is to strengthen Bulgarian traditions, to attract friends and new people, to show the beauty and advantages of the Bulgarian nature, to look at the traditional dishes of our grandmothers and mothers. Holidays and festivals dedicated to food and drink are seen as part of the tools for constructing and transmitting collective memory and building local identity.

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