Bratstvo 1869 Community Centre is the oldest cultural and educational institution in the Southwest of Bulgaria, created on July 1st 1869. Throughout the years the Community Centre manages to preserve the spirit of Bulgarian culture and education and to become an important factor in the social life of the town of Kyustendil. The Community Centre is situated in the centre of the town and it is a popular daily venue for a number of concerts, performances, meetings of different organizations and institutions, lectures and a variety of cultural events. The Children’s Music School in   Bratstvo Community Centre organizes various music classes such as guitar, piano, accordion, violin, flute, synthesizer, drums, folk singing, pop and classical singing, basic theory of music and solmizdtion. A lot of performers and groups of creative artists work in the Community Centre such as Kyustendil Guitar Orchestra, Strumyanche Children’s Dance Ensemble, Folk Dances Club, Inseparable Vocal Group, Struma Sounds Vocal Group, Struma Breeze Vocal Group, Bratstvo Choir, Ossogovo Echo Tourist Choir, Sing Heart Music Group, Debut Drama and Dance Group, Proscenium Theatre, Kyustendil Theatre, Vessa Paspaleeva Literature Club. There also lessons in painting, sport dances, computers and foreign languages- English, French and German.