Painting by Celia Ward; Photos by Cristina Rai, Anda Stefan
The Festival is organized by ProPatrimonio in partnership with ICR London and includes exhibitions and presentation about Oltenian carpets, concerts and hand-on demonstrations of Romanian craft (a loom arrives all the way from Romania for the purpose!).
All events with the exception of the visits to the Horniman Museum's, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the school sessions, will take place at the ICR London.
PROGRAMME
Monday 6 November 2006 19.00-22.00 - Launch and Private View of paintings by Celia Ward, Oltenian carpets by Elisabeta Murgu and masks by Paul Buta. The exhibition is open on 7 - 9 November 2006, from 11.00-18.00. Ticket numbers are limited to 100. For reservation please send an e-mail at mail@propatrimonio.com or call 020 74394052
Tuesday 7 November 2006 Morning (time TBC) - Educational sessions of crafts workshops in a British school by ICR London supported craft-artists; for school children only. 16.00 - 18.00 - Crafts demonstrations by Maria Dinoiu, Oltenian weaver and Paul Buta, Moldavian mask-maker. Free-admisssion event, please call 020 7752 0134 or e-mail office@icr-london.co.uk to reserve a place. 19.00 - Violin and piano recital by Andrei Gocan (violin) and Daniel Adni (piano) Brahms: Scherzo from the "FAE" Sonata Scubert: Violin Sonata in G minor George Enescu: Third Violin Sonata Op 25 in A minor 'dans le caractère populaire roumain' (1926) Henri Wieniawski: Concert Polonaise, Op 4 Ticket numbers are limited to 100. For reservation please send an e-mail at mail@propatrimonio.com or call 020 74394052.
Wednesday 8 November 2006 Morning (time TBC) - Educational sessions of crafts workshops in a British school by ICR London supported craft-artists; for school children only. 16.00 - 18.00 - Crafts demonstrations by Maria Dinoiu, Oltenian weaver and Paul Buta, Moldavian mask-maker; Free-admission event, please call 0207 7520134 or e-mail office@icr-london.co.uk to reserve a place. Afternoon visit to the Horniman Museum's Study Collection Centre to view examples of the museum's Romanian musical instruments and anthropology collections. A minibus will leave 1 Belgrave Square at 13.30. Only 10 tickets are available for this visit and they will be issued on a first come first served basis.
19.00 - Illustrated lecture 'Man or Mamaliga: Masks and Masquerade in North-East Romania' by Sarah Posey; film presentation Talking with the Goat by Gabriel Hanganu and Adina Bradeanu. Ticket numbers are limited to 100. For reservation please send an e-mail at mail@propatrimonio.com or call 020 74394052.
Thursday 9 November 2006
Morning (time TBC) - Educational sessions of crafts workshops in a British school by ICR London supported craft-artists; for school children only.
16.00 - 18.00 - Crafts demonstrations by Maria Dinoiu, Oltenian weaver and Paul Buta, Moldavian mask-maker. Free-admission event, please call 0207 7520134 or write an e-mail to office@icr-london.co.uk to reserve a place.
Afternoon visit to the Victoria & Albert Museum to view the Oprescu collection of Romanian embroidery and folk dress. A minibus will leave 1 Belgrave Square at 13.30. Only 10 tickets are available for this visit and they will be issued on a first come first served basis.
19.00 - Lecture-recital 'Music folklore and the Byzantine musical tradition: their role in shaping the Romanian school of composition' by Ion Minoiu. Ticket numbers are limited to 100. For reservation please send an e-mail at mail@propatrimonio.com or call 020 74394052
ARTISTS CVs: Celia Ward The British artist Celia Ward, resident in Romania for three years, has been inspired by the natural beauty and folk culture of the country. In November 2004 the Romanian Cultural Centre in London showed an exhibition of Celia's watercolor drawings made in the Saxon village of Malancrav, near Sighisoara. These depict with both intimacy and respect the landscape, architecture, and traditionally self-sustaining economy of a particular region of rural Romania. At the same time Celia has also completed a series of evocative, carefully researched pictures incorporating animal masks and costumes in poetic, almost magical landscapes from different areas. Alongside these, are studies of contemporary New Year celebrations, in which traditional masks mingle with modern variants that express a vibrant adaptability. Far from being merely a self-conscious bit of folk heritage, "mastile" retain the vitality of a living tradition. Elisabeta Murgu Elisabeta Murgu was born in Oltenia, and as a girl learnt the traditional carpet weaving patterns from her mother and grandmother. Until 1989 she worked as a professional geologist, but then returned to her original passion. Combining an innate sense of design and color, a deep love of tradition, an openness to new ideas, and above all a formidable technical memory for "the knots" and an uncompromising professionalism with regard to quality, she has produced carpets for prestigious official gifts, and for public buildings, as well as for collectors and patrons throughout Europe and in the US. Andrei Gocan The Romanian violinist Andrei Gocan is the 2nd Prize winner of the 2001 Jeunesses Musicales" International violin competition. In 2003, he was also a semi-finalist of the "Wieniawski International Violin Competition" in Poland, and in 2004 he was one of the few contestants selected to take part in the "Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition" in London. At the moment Andrei Gocan is a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he has been offered a scholarship to study with Remus Azoitei. Daniel Adni Daniel Adni started studying piano and composition in Haifa where, at the age of twelve, he gave his first recital. At seventeen he graduated from the Paris Conservatoire with a Premier Prix. After his sensational debut in London on his ninetieth birthday, Otto Klempere invited him to open the Philharmonic's orchestra's season at the Royal Festival Hall. Since then, he has performed with virtually every major orchestra in the UK and recorded many programmes for the BBC. Paul Buta Paul Buta has started to work as an actor in 1988. Until 1992 he has tried various paths and carried out extensively research on mask making, their symbolism and the way that mask are used within rural local communities rituals. In 1992 Paul Buta hold his first exhibition. He had exhibited in France (Musee de L'Homme, The Cultural Centre in Paris, Marcone), in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, in Vienna, Austria, in Venice, Italy, in Brussels, Belgium. Paul's masks can be found in museums and private exhibitions around the world. He holds a workshop in Romania, hosting demonstrations from varied traditional crafts domains such as: ceramics, textiles, wood, reed basketwork. He works with his entire family - the two boys and his wife. Maria Dinoiu Maria Dinoiu is a senior teacher at Folk School in Polovragi village, Gorj county, Romania. She is a member of the Academy for Traditional Arts in Sibiu. Maria has taken part in numerous crafts folk fairs in Romania and her textiles are displayed in two of the main ethnographic museums in the country: "The museum of folk civilization - Astra" from Sibiu and "The ethnographic museum of Transylvania" from Cluj.
