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16 Sep 2024

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

29 Aug 2024

CANTEMIR Programme // Images of the good life in the East

Between 14 – 28 September 2024 the project “Images of the Good Life in the East” will take place in Chișinău, organized by tranzit. ro/Bucharest in partnership with teatru-spălătorie, Ksak Association (Center for Contemporary Art Chișinău) and Bunker space,

Lettre Internationale nr. 104 / winter 2017-2018

To our readers In Tolstoy’s War and Peace, there is a marginal, but highly amusing, character, the diplomat Bilibin. He is admired for his wit and feared for his sarcasm. He gives prince Andrew a mischievous account of the 1807 campaign, marked by the battles

22 Nov 2016

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

20 Nov 2013 - 1 Dec 2013

The Romanian Cultural Days in Lebanon - 2013

The Romanian Cultural Days in Lebanon will be held between the 20th of November and the 1st of December in Beirut, Sin el Fil, Tripoli and Jounieh. This extensive event is organized by the Romanian Embassy in Lebanon and the Romanian Cultural Institute, with the support

14 Jun 2013

Open Night of the Institutes 2013

Language courses, exhibition of designer clothes, jewelry and furniture, music and film were the main ingredients of a carefully crafted mix offered by the Romanian Cultural Institute for the annual sleepless Open Night held on Friday, 14, to Saturday, June 15. Having reached

31 Aug 2012 - 31 Jan 2013

Apply for Accomodation at a Writers' Residence in France

AN INVITATION TO APPLY FOR ACCOMODATION AT A WRITERS’ RESIDENCE IN THE NORTH OF FRANCE IN 2014 THE VILLA MARGUERITE YOURCENAR - A CROSSROADS OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL DIVERSITY Lying at the heart of the Mounts of Flanders on the Belgian border and 25 miles from Lille, the

30 Nov 2012 - 4 Dec 2012

Democracy as Form of Life

Democracy as Form of Life In 1993, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner published the book The Global Resurgence of Democracy, in which different authors shared, with unconcealed satisfaction, the diagnosis according to which “democracy’s third wave” takes place worldwide

31 Mar 2011 - 4 Dec 2011

“When we were the Byzantium”

The Romanian Cultural Institute will organize in the following period, March-December 2011, a series of musical encounters gathered underneath the banner When we were the Byzantium, with the announced participation of various artists coming from abroad alongside very talented

The Tomis Sculpture Treasure: The Fantastic Snake

Marble statue, slightly purplish. The statue is a true masterpiece, a unique piece, a sort of Venus of Milo of the sculptures representing animals, especially that to this day, there has not been found anything like it anywhere else. The statue represents a fantastic animal

Fox

Mythology, just like the vernacular, is a product of the folk spirit that does not excel in speculation but finds an unconscious, spontaneous, inspired, and not-at-all roundabout way of expression. Mythology presents in all sincerity the attitude of primitive man towards

Rare, Vulnerable, Endangered Birds In Romania

excerptsThis work puts forth essential data on a number of 101 bird species in the Romanian fauna, which are rare, vulnerable and endangered. Emphasis is laid on the hatching populations, on recent and current tendencies, on factors imposing limitations on the existence