Art Fridays: Studio Conversations with Lea Rasovszky
The week’s encounter in our Arts Friday’s Studio Conversations features Lea Rasovszky (b. 1986), a young yet prolific female artist, graduate of The University of the Arts in Bucharest, whose work is characterized by a fresh message: fierce, brazen, and amused. Enjoying
A Guitar Bravado for the Coming of Spring
The coming of spring is welcome at the Enescu Soirees Online with a guitar recital offered, with youthful energy, by the promising ARTissimo Guitar Duo made up of Ana Maria Bibescu and Raisa Mihai. The exciting program, a comfort for heart and soul in uncertain times, features
Transatlantic Rites of the New Beginnings / Geographies of Tradition
No matter how different we are from each other, no matter how different the cultures we come from are, our emotions and feelings spring from the same “groundwater”. And just as through a smile we all understand openness, human warmth or joy, so we associate the coming
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
Studio Conversations with Sculptor Cătălin Bădărău
Today'sStudio Conversationwithin our Art Fridays series brings us into the creative laboratory of sculptor Cătălin Bădărău, whose haunting creations examine contemporary forms of violence, sufferance, and alienation as unescapable features of our existence. Cătălin
Legendary Director Andrei Șerban on the Perilous Wisdom of Art and Life
We are thrilled to welcome, to the Feraru Conferences, director and educator ANDREI ȘERBAN, the wizz kid of the New York avantgarde theater of the 1970s and one of the most celebrated Romanians in contemporary arts, for a conversation about the arduous path to artistic
The Diploma of the Royal Free City of Timișoara / The History of Romania in One Object
Our exploration of Romania’s history through vestiges and objects of outstanding symbolism and beauty brings forth an artifact that symbolizes a major turning point in the history of the Banat region and its capital, Timișoara: The Royal Free City Diploma, granted in
Studio Conversations with Artist Ioana Palamar
Art Fridays, the aegis of our ongoing visual arts program, debuts “Studio Conversations”, a new online series that offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes access to 10 rising stars of the Romanian artistic scene, uncovering their philosophy and practices, technical approaches,
St. Patrick and the Romanians. TRAVELLING: A multi-media performance re-imagining Irish historical works
Just to prove that Romanians are doing remarkable things all over the world, join us for an Enescu Soiree dedicated to St. Patrick's Day, one of New York City’s most beloved fetes, and offered as a multimedia performance of re-imagined Irish musical milestones by
Daniela Groza / Romanian Women Voices in North America II
Today's woman literary voice belongs to Brooklyn-based photographer and activist DANIELA GROZA, a former victim of sexual abuse, who reads from her Letter to My 7 Years Old Self, a disturbing testimony about overcoming Evil in its purest form. Watch the reading HERE.
RCI Supports “Collective” in the Oscars Race - nominated in two categories
March 15 update: 2 Oscar nominations for COLLECTIVE!We are thrilled at the news we have feverishly been waiting and working for: COLLECTIVE, Romania's submission to this year's Academy Awards, has been nominated not only in one category but two! Huge congratulations
Art Fridays: Studio Visit with Artist and Playwright Oana Maria Cajal
Our Art Fridays series continues with a colourful, revelatory portrait ofOana Maria Cajal, the Montreal-based, Romanian-American visual artist, award wining playwright, screenwriter, and poet whose flaring imagination and polymorphous talent have been recognized with many