Arta

12 Aug 2025 - 17 Aug 2025

U.S. Premiere of "Balkan Ballerinas" at Battery Dance Festival

We are back to an exciting new edition of the Battery Dance Festival with the American premiere of “Balkan Ballerinas”, an audacious show produced by Romanian contemporary dance company Platforma 13, choreographed by Anca Stoica and Sergiu Diță and performed by Sergiu

25 Apr 2025 - 25 Apr 2025

BUCHAREST IS AN OPERA

We are excited to welcome you at the Institute for an engaging preview of the Bucharest Opera Festival in the company of some of Romania’s musical stage most dazzling stars. The event will include a presentation by volcanic conductor Daniel Jinga, the Director of the Bucharest

4 Apr 2025 - 4 Apr 2025

The Unexpected Nexus: Romanian and Japanese Textile Traditions

Join us for an illuminating evening as we launch the eagerly awaited publication, Visible Cultural Heritages: Traditional Costumes of Romania and Japan, a stunning catalog that brings to life the rich textile legacies of two remarkable cultures. Authored by Florica Zaharia,

15 Nov 2024 - 15 Jan 2025

ECHOES OF AN ERA: 100 Romanian Artists Revealed. An extraordinary collection of black-and-white portraits by Eugeniu Lupu

“Echoes of an Era: 100 Romanian Artists Revealed” is an extraordinary collection of black-and-white portraits by Eugeniu Lupu, offering a rare and intimate glimpse into the lives of some of the most significant cultural figures, artists, and intellectuals of communist

4 Oct 2024 - 4 Oct 2024

Mircea Cărtărescu, One of the Towering Figures of Contemporary Literature, Comes to RCI New York

Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu, the winner of some of the most prestigious international literary awards, including The Dublin Literary Award (2024) and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2023), is making his much-awaited return to New York for a special soiree at the

10 May 2023 - 10 May 2023

Game-changing Publisher Will Evans of Deep Vellum Talks Editorial Greatness at Feraru Conferences

Live conversation with one of the most visionary publishers in the U. S. The next iteration of the Feraru Online Conferences puts front and center one of the most visionary publishers in the U. S. , Will Evans, the CEO of maverick press Deep Vellum. Daring, eloquent, and

31 Mar 2023 - 21 Apr 2023

“From the Earthly Paradise”, Decorative Arts Exhibition & Talk

FROM THE EARTLY PARADISE is the culmination of a collaborative exhibition that facilitates the experience of mixed reality, combining different mediums and generating a winding dialogue between old and new. Displaying some of the most impressive pieces from The Muzeul Textilelor

3 Apr 2023 - 14 Apr 2023

Mircea Cărtărescu: The Breakthrough American Tour

Come meet the author of hypnotizing SOLENOID, finalist of Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, named one of the best books of 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, and Words Without BordersWhile not his first English translation, Mircea Cărtărescu’s

24 Feb 2022 - 24 Feb 2022

Imperishable Stories: Gabi Reigh and Sean Cotter on Romanian Classics in English

While foreign translations still make a fraction of the titles published in the US and the UK, the library of Romanian books in English is growing nonetheless and recently has been enriched with two perennial classics, Ciuleandra by Liviu Rebreanu (Cadmus Press) and Rakes

24 Jan 2022

“The Little Union”: Making and Painting History

Each year on January 24 Romanians remember a crucial moment in their history. By electing Colonel Alexandru Ioan Cuza as head of both states, the principalities of Moldova and Wallachia were de factounited despite the opposition of the Great Powers unwilling to see a stronger

28 Mar 2021

Magda Cârneci on Her New Book in English

Distinguished author, art historian and cultural promoter Magda Cârneci discusses her new novel in English, the experimental FEM (Deep Vellum Publishing),with translator Sean Cotter and radio host Andrew Singer in a podcast to be aired on the Trafika Europe Radio online

18 Jan 2021

The Neolithic Sanctuary of Parța / The History of Romania in One Object

The third season of our series The History of Romania in One Object runs in partnership with The National Museum of Banat in Timișoara and the Timiș County Counciland features artifacts, objects and vestiges from Romania’s most diverse region, the Banat. The first episode