CANTEMIR Programme // Visiting Recent History
Visiting Recent History, a project organized by MATCA artspace from Cluj-Napoca (RO), aims to present a collective exhibition to be held at ȚOL Artist Run Space and a public discussion at Zpațiu (Casa Zemstvei) in Chișinău. The project connects countries that share
CANTEMIR Programme // Moving forward? - intention released into movement - an international contemporary dance project between Romania and Northern Ireland
What if we could understand dance without the support of music or words - if we could feel and define it as an expression in its own right, a unique language, self-sufficient and at the same time accessible to the viewer? PETEC, in partnership with Echo Echo Dance Theatre
European Literature Night 2018
WORLDS COLLIDE ON MULTICULTURAL EUROPEAN LITERATURE NIGHT: A CELEBRATION OF 15 EUROPEAN BOOKS THROUGH READINGS, MUSICAL WORLD PREMIERES, VISUAL ART, ARCHITECTURE, FILM, AND PLATFORMS FOR POWERFUL DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUEST PETER SÍS. This FREE one-night-only special
Lettre Internationale no. 99 / autumn 2016
To our readers Letizia Battaglia, aged 80, still tries to improve the world for the benefit of the new generations. She has always been a rebel, rejecting the restrictions of a traditional marriage and striving for self development. She became a
Lettre Internationale - no 98 / summer 2016
To our readers Rereading history helps us to better understand contemporary issues. At their turn, present-day events modify our retrospective view, so that the past looks different, which explains why history has to be periodically rewritten. Anne
Culture Report – Culture and Conflict / EUNIC Yearbook 2012-2013
Although a painting can never stop a bullet, a painting can stop a bullet from being fired. Culture is a central component of conflicts between different groups and ethnicities. So what could be more appropriate than using culture as a tool for conflict resolution? After
Lettre Internationale - no 98 / summer 2016
To our readers Rereading history helps us to better understand contemporary issues. At their turn, present-day events modify our retrospective view, so that the past looks different, which explains why history has to be periodically rewritten. Anne
An American In Bucharest
Both me and the editor of the show listened with great delight to the story of the young American, of Romanian origin, who had come back to Romania in search of his roots and to set up a business. The young man had married a girl from Humuleşti, and now he spoke wonderful
A Showcase For Kalodont
Gregor von Rezzori has never been part of Romanian-German literature, a fact regretted even beyond his death. The writer, who was born in 1914 in Czernowitz and died in 1998 in his home in Florence, would have, nonetheless, met some of the conditions for qualification. But,
The Eroticized Universe
The Bucharest Surrealist Group1939-1947* […] Madness, black humor, dreams, eroticism, revolt: if one cannot speak of Unu (One) and Alge (Algae) as surrealist magazines in the strict sense, these themes indicate however the increasing attraction of a number of Romanian
For Writers Are All Jesters, And All The Jests Together: Literature
For writers are all jesters, and all the jests together: Literature In the history of literature, Tristan Tzara is regarded as the founder of Dada, an international literary and artistic movement, born in Zurich in 1916, with ramifications and outposts across three continents.
1940-1947. The Romanian Surrealist Group
The message addressed to international surrealism. Theoretical contributions and techniques proposed by the Romanian surrealists Between 1938-1940, two young Romanian poets, Gellu Naum and Gherasim Luca, were in Paris – Naum to study philosophy, and Luca as the precarious