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On 19 February, his birthday, the Romanian Cultural Institute pays homage to legendary sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. Since 2015, when this date was declared Constantin Brâncuși Day, it has been a National Holiday in Romania. The Romanian Cultural Institute

AN INVITATION TO APPLY FOR ACCOMODATION AT A WRITERS’ RESIDENCE IN THE NORTH OF FRANCE IN 2014 THE VILLA MARGUERITE YOURCENAR - A CROSSROADS OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL DIVERSITY Lying at the heart of the Mounts of Flanders on the Belgian border and 25 miles from Lille, the

Reading until midnight on May 30th! Ten cultural institutes made a selection of literature translated from nine languages and published in Romanian and invited authors, actors and media figures, who had three hours to carry us through the fascinating universe of contemporary

The Romanian Cultural Institute (Aleea Alexandru 38, Bucureşti) organizes on Tuesday, June 30th, 6 pm, a roundtable on Democracy, Memory, and Justice in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa. The participants are: Charles Villa-Vicencio (Senior

Romanian Cultural Institute, in partnership with British Council, Goethe-Institut, Italian Culture Institute, Cervantes Institute, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Polish Institute, Valogne-Bruxelles Delegation, the Czech Centre and the French Institute organise, on the 27th

Cismigiu gardens, Icoanei park, Kiseleff park (see also The green within in Gallery). Many of Bucharest’s gardens and parks, which no longer exist because of extensive urban reorganising, were shaped as the aristocracy tastefully redesigned the open space around their

A Word with Two Meanings We invent words, then let ourselves be subjugated by them. There would be no knowledge without words, but it is words again that grow into independent entities, obstacles that come between us and the real world. They move us closer to and at the

The year 1900. Europe's countries are divided on the question: does the 20th century begin in 1900 or in 1901? Some opt for 1900, by virtue of the change in the figure of the hundreds. Others are partisans of 1901, for reasons of more sophisticated arithmetic. Particular

B. Fundoianu began to publish persistently and regularly in 1918, when he was twenty; with the determination that characterized him, he embarked upon a tireless mission that took all the attributes of a vocation: that of a messenger of French – hence European – culture

I wonder if nature always plays the same game (Einstein) Of course I was coming from sleep, how else is a day supposed to start? However, I didn't know much about the world I was coming from. On the other hand, the world I had landed in should have been very familiar

excerptStanding in front of the Corso building on Calea Victoriei one day, he felt someone's familiar gaze follow him from across the street, as if to catch his eye. He crossed over, as though answering a call, and discovered a picture of Ann among several other portraits

excerpts From Winter to Summer Two seasons, rather than four, by all means. Late fall, with powerful stags calling. After the horse races in Moldavia and the first fires in the remotest houses of Bukovina, winter comes. The only flowers left are those in the carpet wool