Events

Romanian violinist Baz Stanescu & British musicians Jonny Hepbir (guitar), Pete Watson (accordion) and Dan Sheppard (bass) team up in a swing jazz project on ICR-supported tour. When: 27, 28 and 29 April 2007; Where: Presteigne (Wales), Newnham Forest of Dean

       The Romanian Cultural Institute in London invites you to a new episode of the Young Romanian musicians in London series of concerts. The series started in 2002 and concerts were held at St Martin-in-the-Fields, organised with the support of the Cultural

Photos by Dominick TylerCreated by award-winning photographer Dominick Tyler and Romanian music specialist Joe Townsend for Opera North, Foaie Verde is a musical-visual journey through a day in rural Transylvania, centering around an encounter with an

The Romanian Cultural Institute supported London Festival of Europe opens with a lecture by celebrated sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman. He will consider the values that form part of the European ideal, and argue that, however well or badly

Romania's first DJ DJ Vasile was the first to approach DJing and mixing music in Romania. In the early 90s he set up a pirate radio station broadcasting a bewilding mix of music. This was the beginning of the Romanian Underground Scene. He subsequently

Eurotica is a unique journey through European time & space initiated by jazz musician Mircea Tiberian and visual artist Suzana Fantanariu. The project explores the new European identity and anxiety using the complex relationship between sound

www. peca. roRomanian playwright Peca Stefan will run a one-week workshop at the National Student Drama Festival in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The National Student Drama Festival is a week-long celebration of theatre, live-performances discussions and special

The Romanian Cultural Institute supports the screening of Corneliu Porumboiu's film 12:08 East of Bucharest at the New Europe Film Festival in Edinburgh. Where were you when the Romanian Communist regime collapsed? That is the question at the heart

The Romanian Cultural Institute supports the screening of Ruxandra Zenide's film Ryna at the New Europe Film Festival in Edinburgh. The film is about strong family ties, about poverty, social suppression and the abuse of power by those who rule under

Romanian sociologist Calin Cotoi will look at the European dialectic of rationality and identity and the way in which it structures the geo-cultural model of new Europe. One of the most persistent assumption of modernity is that the disenchanted societies

Portraits by Mariana GordanThe exhibition by Romanian-born artist Mariana Gordan is an installation of new polychrome sculptures, part of which has been recently shown at the Iorga Institute in Venice. The portraits are of Italian children from

Delivered in partnership by Transylvania Trust (Romania), the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (UK), the National Office of Cultural Heritage (Hungary) and the Romanian Cultural Institute, the workshop aims to disseminate the findings of a 2-year