Thursday, 24 november 2011 - Thursday, 08 december 2011
Thursday, 24th of November 2011, at 07:30 p.m., the opening of the exhibition "Siberia – the place to hide away" curator Alexandra Semenova showing works of artists Alexander Kuptzov, Dinara Hafizova, Tatiana Antonuk, Vasilina Popova, Gleb Pokrov, Roza Mozhaiskaya, Alexey Akimov (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and Marjan Teeuwen (‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) shall take place at ANAID ART GALLERY. [...]
Thursday, 03 november 2011 - Sunday, 20 november 2011
European Comics Festival, at its second edition held from 3 to 20 November 2011 at Foto Anexa – gallery of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (62-68 Mosilor, Bucharest), delighted the audience with 16 exhibitions, various creative workshops, meetings with artists from seven countries, debates, conferences, book signings, book launches, film screenings and concerts.[...]
Monday, 26 september 2011
On Monday September 26th, the European cultural institutes members of the European Union National Institutes for Culture - EUNIC in Lebanon, in collaboration with ASSABIL (Friends of Public Libraries Association), are celebrating the European Day of Languages in Lebanon through educational activities and games for young students at the Beirut Municipal Public Library in Bachoura. The program will focus on Europe’s linguistic and cultural diversity. On this occasion, the young students will have the opportunity to get crash courses in English, French, German, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish. The event will also include movies and interactive vocabulary games, all centred on plurilingualism. [...]
Open Night of the Institutes, one of the most popular cultural events in Bucharest, has reached its fifth edition on June 24, 2011. Since 2007, on the last Friday of June, we have been celebrating the cultural institutes in Bucharest, that on this occasion open their doors wider than they usually do, offering to culture lover audiences a sleepless night full of carefully prepared events and surprises. Since 2009, the Open Night of the Institutes has been placed under the EUNIC umbrella, currently being one of the most successful projects organised by the EUNIC in Romania cluster. [...]
Between June 16 and October 16, 2011, Bucharest hosted the Comics Museum, a project initiated by a Romanian artist (Alexandru Ciubotariu), organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute in partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, with the support of the Belgian Comic Strip Center, members of EUNIC in Romania cluster and Asociaţia Bedefililor din România. The project aimed to present the great diversity and richness of comic strip art and to highlight the creativity of established and young comic artists, exploring at the same time the possibility of perpetuating this kind of museum.
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Romanian Cultural Institute held the presidency of EUNIC network between June 2010 and June 2011.
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Fashion Road: Dialogue across Borders is a two year collaborative project aimed at promoting intercultural dialogue and cross-border collaboration through which fashion designers from Armenia and Europe will look into the past for ideas and inspiration. It is an EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) project organised by the British Council, the Czech Centres, Goethe-Institut, the Danish Cultural Institute and the Romanian Cultural Institute, in partnership with the Armenian Fashion Council. The project received the support of the European Union through the Culture Programme 2007-2013. [...]
Between 28 October and 21 November 2010, Bucharest hosted the European Comics Festival. For almost a month, professionals and amateurs met at the Galeria Etaj ¾ - ArtExpo (in the National Theatre building) for a wide variety of activities and lots of surprises. The festival was opened on Thursday, 28 October at 6.30 pm by Mrs. Tania Radu, vice-president of the Romanian Cultural Institute and by Mr. Olivier Grenson, comic book artist and teacher at the Graphics Research School in Brussels. The gala was followed by the launch of the book The History of Romanian Comics 1891-2010 by Dodo Niţă and Alexandru Ciubotariu and the opening of the exhibition „The History of Romanian Comics 1935-2010”, curator - Alexandru Ciubotariu, presenting over one hundred original illustration boards drawn by three generations of Romanian artists. [...]
The annual EUNIC Summer Academy (ESA) has already become a tradition and a great opportunity for the young employees of the national institutes for culture members of EUNIC to meet face to face and discuss possible common projects and the future of the network.
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Open Night of the Institutes, one of the most popular cultural events in Bucharest, has reached its fourth edition on June 25, 2010. Starting on Friday afternoon and until the next morning, almost 70 unique events have been held in 11 locations all over central Bucharest. Since 2009, the Open Night of the Institutes has been placed under the EUNIC umbrella, currently being one of the most successful projects organised by EUNIC in Romania. [...]
Held under the auspices of Mr. Václav Havel, famous Czech writer and politician, the project „Generation ’89”, marks the anniversary of two decades since the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The project targets young people who were born in 1989, the year of transition from communism to democracy, and offers them a communication platform on European issues. The project’s main objective was to bring together young people with different historical background and to offer them a common space for the constructive exchange ideas and perceptions about the national past and the European future. To attain this outcome, four three-day international meetings were held simultaneously in Brussels, Bucharest, Prague and Warsaw, during 25-28 April 2010. The dialogue was the key element that connected almost 150 young participants, citizens of nine European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and UK. [...]
