NEXT (31 May): International Cocktail Mixer – Annual Charity Fundraiser
Rotary Club Sofia International (RCSI) is hosting its traditional cocktail night – the 2013 International Cocktail Mixer, a charity event which aims to raise funds for the noble causes the club is engaged in. The event is going to take place at the Japanese Garden of Kempinski Hotel Zografski in Sofia city on Friday, May 31, 2013 starting at 7:00 PM (19:00 h.)
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The organizers have prepared a special program including a presentation of the 10 different cocktails that will be served. A salty touch will be offered by the expensive nuts from AYA company. Boutique mineral water will be provided by SALOON. The atmosphere shall be “decorated” with multimedia presentations of the cocktails as an important socio-cultural element of the contemporary society. The event will also host an auction on artefacts that are related to the cocktail culture. A charity lottery will allow those who wish to test their own luck. Professional photographer from Graphya will be in charge of making this night a remembered one.
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The special guests of the event will be high ranked officers from Rotary Bulgaria.
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More special surprises for all guests are to be revealed on the spot. Entrance fee: 20.00 BGN (with prepaid invitation) and 25.00 BGN (with NO invitation). Please confirm your presence by filling the FOLLOWING FORM: https://docs.google.com/forms/
Rotary Club Sofia International today had a regular meeting and discussed the agenda of the Club for May, June and July. Many invitations were announced and events were scheduled. More details on all of theses will follow soon on our website and Facebook page.
Rotary Club Sofia International today had the pleasure to conduct another induction ceremony for a new member of the Club. The new member is a frequent guest of the Club and has already partnered a couple of the projects. Today we accepted Mr. Gerd Ruge, GM of Kempinski Hotel Zografski Sofia. Mr. Ruge has a Rotarian history and took the decision to renew his membership by becoming again a member of a Rotary club, this time in Bulgaria at the Sofia International RC. Also we welcomed our new member Horst Schmidt who was on paper accepted at our previous meeting. Due to obligations his induction ceremony was carried out together with that of our friend Gerd.
The current District Governor Elect Mr. Valentin Stoyanov has issued a support letter for the Rotaract International Model United Nations (ROTARACTMUN). The project is an international joint-venture initiative proposed and hosted by Rotary District 2242, Romania and Republic of Moldova. The event is scheduled for August 21-25, 2013 and will be in the beautiful city of Baia Mare, Romania. The event is realized by the Rotaract Club TEAM Baia Mare together with the support of the District-Governor of D2242, Mr. Radu Popescu. The event is widely supported in Romania by the local and national government. The academic team of the initiative gathers young diplomats and specialists from around the globe. The only “foreign” Rotary member who was invited to take part in the event as part of the academic team is our friend Mr. Dimiter Mandradjiev. In this way Rotary Club Sofia International goes once again beyond the local geographic, national and district borders in its setting for global partnership. Also our friend Dimiter will be representing the RI D2482 Commission and will deliver a special presentation on an international project of D2482.
Members of Rotary Club Sofia International took part in the annual football tournament hosted by Rotary Club Sofia Vitosha and Rotaract Club Sofia Vitosha. The tournament was held on a sunny Saturday at Academic Stadium in Sofia. The tournament gathered many Rotarians, Rotaractors and Interactors from most of the Sofia Rotary clubs and made this event a truly Rotarian initiative. Every team had 6 players + 1 goalkeeper. After having 2 groups formed from 4 teams each, every group qualified 2 teams to the semi-finals. In the Final match there were the teams of Rotaract Club Sofia Balkan (a real-professional football team in C division of Sofia) and the team of Interact Club Sofia Vitosha at Italian Lyceum. CHAMPION FOR 2013 of the ROTARY ANNUAL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT of Rotary Club Sofia Vitosha and Rotaract Club Sofia Vitosha is the team of Interact Club Sofia Vitosha at Italian Lyceum. The members of Rotary Club Sofia International who participated in the event were Mr. Dimiter Mandradjiev and Ms. Ani Hristova. The team of Rotary Club Sofia Vitosha qualified 3rd with the goalkeeper, Mr. Dimiter Mandradjiev.
At today’s meeting of Rotary Club Sofia International we accepted 2 new friends among us – Mr. Dimitar Golev and Mr. Horst Schmidt. We also had the opportunity to be addressed by our friend Mrs. Snejana Doncheva, who will be representing District 2482 at the Rotary Convention in Lisbon this summer. Prof. Doncheva was invited to be a guest speaker at a regular meeting of Rotary Club Sofia Center on a topic concerning plant physiology and genetics. She brought to our Rotarian home a flag of the hosting club. Also at the meeting we discussed important issues concerning our next events and projects. Discussions were centered around the event for May 31, 2013 at Kempinski Hotel Zografski – The Rotary Cocktail Mixer – charity fundraising event.
Rotary Club Sofia International has opened the CALL FOR NOMINATIONS for the honorary award – SLAVYANODEYATEL – edition 2013. The award and the honorary mention are for work and support for the enrichment and development of the Slavic culture and traditions. The awards are given on an annual basis for 1 non-Rotary member and 1 Rotary member. The initiative is proposed and founded by the 1st president of Rotaract Club Sofia International – Mr. Dimiter Mandradjiev.
Today Rotary Club Sofia International held its regular weekly meeting. The members of the club were acquainted with the new Board of the Rotaract Club Sofia International. Later on the meeting continued with a debate on the upcoming Cocktail Charity Night which will take place in Kempinski Hotel Zografski on May 31, 2013. A discussion about the initiatives which will be supported by the event was initiated and will continue next Wednesday. The members also discussed the possibility for the club to organize joint meetings with other clubs and special guest speakers for these meetings. We also had the pleasure to welcome a special guest – an expat from Romania who’s father was one of the founders of Rotary in the country.
Today RC Sofia International had a very important meeting, concerning the activities until the end of the current Rotary year. The members agreed on the following plan – the club will hold a cocktail night in the end of May / beginning of June. The chartering of the Rotaract Club of Sofia International at Medical Academy Sofia will be in September. Apart from these events we will be hosting a couple of joint meetings with other Rotary clubs and special guest speakers will be invited. We had the pleasure to welcome members of Rotaract Club Sofia Vitosha last evening also. They informed us for a wine tasting event on April 4, 2013 at Kempinski hotel (19:00 h.). The president of the Preliminary-Rotaract Club of Sofia International at Medical Academy Sofia made a report about what the club has done as projects and events and presented a plan for the initiatives for the next 3 months they are to realize.
