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This March, as part of our month-long celebration of female creativity, we are pleased to invite you to an evening of storytelling, advocacy, and music, honoring the trailblazing writer, activist, and librettist Nina Smart. Nina’s powerful memoir, Wild Flower: The True

Theater workshop presented as part of “The Brâncuși Month in New York”Brâncuși v. United StatesWritten by: Tatiana NiculescuAdapted for stage by: Amanda L. AndreiDirected by: Dina VovsiCast: A. J. Ditty, Ethan Dubin, Lennox Duong, Vas Eli, Elijah Guo, Jasmine Sharma,

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

Director and producer Tudor Giurgiu, one of the most influential men in Romanian cinema, zig-zags the United States to promote his latest feature film, Freedom („Libertate”), the brilliantly-executed and thought-provoking depiction of the chaotic weeks of Romania after

At the RCI, the new year literally begins on a high note with a two-event celebration of Romania’s National Culture Day (marked on January 15), featuring the hottest performing couple in Romanian classical music: virtuoso violinist Alexandru Tomescu and dashing concert

Contemporary classical, modal jazz and free improvisation on the theme of longingLaunched this year, the Jazz & Fusion Jamboree is our newest permanent program that complements The Enescu Soirees with concerts devoted to contemporary forms of musical creativity, such

Romanian cinema at South East European Film Festival in Los AngelesRomanian film director, writer and producer Anca Damian will present her most recent film, the mixed media animated feature The Island, at South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles on Saturday, April

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

Romanian film director, writer and producer Anca Damian will premiere her most recent film, the mixed media animated feature The Island, at the Animation First Festival in New York on Sunday, January 29. The special screening will be followed by a Q&A. Also as part of

Our 2023 program kicks off with a stunning performance, created especially for their American mini-tour, by screen star Vlad Ivanov, arguably the biggest leading man of Romanian cinema, and composer and percussionist Lucian Maxim. An ingenious mélange of poetry and music,

Writers Carmen Firan and Adrian Sângeorzan, the prolific power couple of Romanian-American letters, have turned the long days of the pandemic into a fertile ambiance that allowed them to finish some long-in-the-waiting literary projects. Join us on April 29 for the launching

On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we pay tribute to the life and memory of the once thriving Jewish community of Transylvania, almost completely obliterated towards the end of the Second World War, whose fate is commemorated by a unique institution located