CREATIVE FRIDAYS #02 Imagination Therapy

Name: CREATIVE FRIDAYS #02 Imagination Therapy
Start: 2026-04-17T09:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-04-17T17:30:00+03:00
Location: Barter Community Hub

Schedule

Fri Apr 17 2026 at 09:00 am to 05:30 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Barter Community Hub | Sofia, SF

09:00 - 11:00 LEVENT KORKMAZ Imagination Therapy seminar
11:00 - 12:30 PETAR STOYANOV Midjourney clinic
12:30 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30 YANISLAV RUSEV Storytelling, Animation & AI workshop
15:00 - 17:30 LEVENT KORKMAZ Making the Movie of Your Life
SESSION #01 - Seminar (Imagination Therapy)
An Extended Wisdom seminar by Levent Korkmaz , founder of The Creative Institute who will introduce chapters from his upcoming book about "SOPHOMORONIA: The Land of Wise Fools" blending a multidisciplinary cocktail of Western, Eastern and Sufi philosophies, drawing challenging ideas from films like Idiocracy, The Matrix, Identity, Memento, with a focus on paradoxical theories of the future and society, creation, art history, evolution, mind, consciousness, epistemology, semiotics and psychology.
A mind-extending presentation will lead into a "Know Yourself, Know Your Limits" workshop proposing to design the movie of your life according to an unusual reading of Socrates' Apology (Examined Life) and Rumi's soul-searching poetry with rules similar to Lars Von Trier's The Five Obstructions, Dogme 95, The Idiots and Dogville. David Lynch will surely be in the mix.
SESSION #02 - Workshop (Midjourney Clinic)
Award-winning AI filmmaker Petar Stoyanov will also offer a Midjourney workshop/clinic: in this hands-on, problem-solving session, participants will get practical help improving their AI image creation skills. Instead of a traditional class, the clinic is built around real problems, live prompt refinement, and personalized guidance. Creators can bring their own ideas or challenges, learn advanced prompting techniques, explore styles, and receive direct feedback to achieve stronger, more intentional visuals. It’s ideal for artists, designers, and curious explorers who want to accelerate their professional skills and push their limits using Midjourney. You will need to have your own license and laptop.
SESSION #03 - Workshop (Storytelling & AI Animation)
Yanislav Rusev is an English educator and creator of animated learning content. Founder of English Motivator, he combines storytelling, animation, and AI to transform information into engaging learning experiences. In this workshop he will teach and demonstrate how to transform a dry topic into an engaging experience through storytelling, animation, and modern AI tools. Participants will go through a real transformation process: from a simple explanation to a dynamic scene with characters, voice, and visual context.
The workshop includes:
• a brief personal story about the transition from traditional teaching to creating animated educational content.
• a demonstration of how animation (Vyond) changes the way information is perceived.
• a live demo of AI tools such as ElevenLabs (voice generation) and HeyGen (AI video avatars)
• a practical task where participants turn a real topic into a short concept for an engaging video
• a discussion on how these principles can be applied in education, corporate training, marketing, and personal projects. The focus is not on the tools themselves, but on the mindset behind them: how to turn information into a story — and content into an experience.
SESSION #04 - Film Project (Reflection & Brainstorming)
What would you like your life's legacy movie to be about? We will brainstorm and develop a story for everyone, and some of them will be guided to produce the script and movie through group discussion and developing ideas for a personal film project.