Our calendar 10 – 11th of September
OPEN HOUSE
Open House London is an annual festival celebrating the architecture and urban landscape of London. It is staged by the charity Open City which campaigns to make London a more accessible, equitable and open city. During the Open House festival, many buildings considered to be of architectural significance open their doors for free public tours.
For RCI London this will be the twelfth consecutive year at the Open House London Festival. The headquarters of the Romanian Cultural Institute, located at 1 Belgrave Square is part of London's architectural heritage.
Visitors will be able to admire the elegant interiors of the building in the main hall and the rooms on the first floor, which will host an exhibition with information about the history of the building and films presenting Romania. In the Enescu Hall, visitors will be able to listen to Romanian music.
In a typical year, Open House Weekend attracts a total of around 250,000 people. Will you be among them? 
19th of September
Kira Frolu Recital at St. James’s Church Piccadilly
RCI London proposes a new recital that will promote a valuable Romanian performer on the British cultural scene. The concert will be performed by the young pianist Kira Frolu, who studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
The recital represents the resumption of collaboration with Saint James's Piccadilly Church after the pandemic period.
Born in 2000, Kira Frolu is the winner of several international competitions, such as Chords of Khortitsa and Vladimir Krainev in Ukraine, Maria Tjarri in Cyprus, Pianale in Germany, Jeunesses Musicales in Romania and Young Pianists of the North in Great Britain. Kira Frolu studied at the "Dinu Lipatti" High School in Bucharest, before moving from Romania to study with William Fong at the Purcell School for Young Musicians in London. As of 2018, Kira Frolu studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was admitted on a full scholarship. Although she is at the beginning of her career, Kira has already given recitals at Wigmore Hall, St James's Piccadilly and Milton Court in London and performed concerts on several stages in Bucharest, including in the junior section of the "George Enescu" International Festival.
20th of September
Inauguration of the "Romanian-British diplomacy, from one era to another." Series
I: The destiny of an Ambassador: Viorel Tilea
The "Romanian-British Diplomacy, from one era to another" Series in short:
Former British and Irish diplomats who were stationed at the Embassies of Great Britain and Ireland respectively in Bucharest or at one of their General Consulates in Romania or Romania are invited to share, in front of the RCI London audience, their memories of Romanian culture, history and realities, as they experienced them during their stay in Romania or Great Britain.
The protagonist of this series will be Viorel-Virgil Tilea (April 6, 1896, Sibiu – September 20, 1972, London), the Romanian ambassador in London between 1938 and 1940. After the establishment of the Antonescu regime, he refused to return to the country and requested political asylum in England.
He was the first head of the Romanian Legation in London who worked and lived in the prestigious building located at 1 Belgrave Square. Today, the building houses the diplomatic representation premises of the Romanian Embassy and the headquarters of the Romanian Cultural Institute. In 2009, the diplomatic protocol lounge of the Embassy and also the former office of Viorel Tilea became "The V. V. Tilea Room" (Salonul V. V. Tilea). In accordance with the wish expressed in his will, his memoirs of the mission in London were published by his family.
His life and work will be evoked by Peter Harrap, a British-Romanian artist and curator, and the great-grandson of Viorel Tilea. He lives and works in John Constable's studio in Brighton and is a researcher at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. His exhibitions include: 'Beyond other horizons' British Council/Romanian Cultural Institute, 2020 marking the centenary of the birth of Paul Celan, 'Constable and Brighton: Something out of Nothing' 2017, Brighton Museum and 'No New Thing Under the Sun ', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2010. Peter Harrap is also the owner of a large documentary archive inherited from his great-grandfather Viorel Tilea.
24th of September
Desire Avenue – Fashion Show
London Fashion Week festival takes place between September 16 – 20th, this being one of the four big fashion festivals in the world, along with Paris, New York and Milan. In this context, RCI London aims to offer the Romanian designers established in the capital of Great Britain, and not only, a platform to exhibit their creations with the objective that in the future these events might be included in the London Fashion Week program.
Thus, together with the Embassy of Romania to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RCI London will host a fashion show on September 24th, during which we want to highlight the creations of the Romanian designer's Laura Cazacu and Andreea Haise, established now in the UK, where they co-founded the fashion brand Desire Avenue.
30th of September
Romanian - Jewish literary evening: Guest - film editor and memoirist Dov Hoenig
Dov Hoenig had a long film career in Israel, Europe and finally Hollywood. He edited more than fifty films, including "Thief", "The Keep", "Manhunter", "Last of the Mohicans" and "Heat", directed by Michael Mann and "The Fugitive" directed by Andrew Davis, for which, alongside his colleagues, received an Oscar nomination for best picture editing. Hoenig was born in Romania in 1932 and after the Second World War, one of the darkest periods in the history of the world and of the great Jewish community in Romania, he left his family to emigrate alone to Palestine. “Rue du Triomphe” – the novel we will discuss – was first published in French and was chosen as one of the 10 best first novels by the jury of the Stanislas Prize.
The event is part of RCI London's strategy to promote authors originating in Romania or of Romanian descent, whose works are published in English.
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