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XIV International Festival of Masquerade Games
Jury and Prizes


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Jury and Prizes:

The jury will consist of ethno, folk and culture specialists from BAS, the Universities in the country, the Historical Museum an Pernik and many others. They will evaluate the perfomance of the masquerade games in two major categories: 

  • Winter games and customs 
  • Pre-spring games and customs 

The jury will base on the following criteria:

  • Cultural identity of the groups with the community and the region it represents;
  • Aspects of tradition, innovation and improvisation during the performance of the ritual;
  • Traditional outfit and costumes, including the masks and the other accessories or their true-to fact reconstruction;
  • Requisit of the dance and the custom;
  • Choreography of the dance elements included;
  • Music culture.

 

Prizes:

  • Big Prize - 500 BGL
  • Pernik Municipality Prize - 300 BGL
  • Audience prize - supplied by the major sponsors of the festival - 200 BGL
  • Five 100 BGL prizes for children's groups
  • Five 100 BGL prizes for survakari groups performance
  • Five 100 BGL prizes for kukeri groups performance
  • Five 80 BGL prizes for indoor folk groups performance
  • 1Ten individual 20 BGL prizes for costumes
  • 1Ten individual 20 BGL prizes for masks

Note: The foreign groups do not perticipate in the above-mentioned classifications