The International Festival of Poetry “ORPHEUS” – PLOVDIV 2023 is a project of Plovdiv LIK Foundation. It includes creative, cultural, educational and promotional activities united by the desire for exchanging ideas, inspiration and creative contacts.
The festival will take place from the 12 th until the 13 th of May 2023 in the Little Early Christian Basilica as a festival center, but its activities will cover a number of other historical and cultural spaces in Plovdiv.
The festival includes: poetry readings, poetry competition, cultural and educational seminar, writers’ forum and exploratory trips.

The fifth edition of the festival gathers together poets from the Russia, Turkey, Italy, Croatia, Georgia, India, North Macedonia and Bulgaria.
The Orpheus Project – PLOVDIV 2023 is implemented with the financial support of the Municipality of Plovdiv – Directorate “Culture and Archeology” and is a part of the Cultural
Calendar of the Municipality for 2023.