FLOWING STREAMS is a multi-residency project in rural areas of Romania exploring local approaches to the cultural ecology of water, designed and developed by EUNIC Romania. It involves seven cultural institutions operating in Romania – theBritish Council, the Czech Centre, the Embassy of the Netherlands, the Goethe-Institut, the Italian Institute for Culture, the Polish Institute and Fundația9, each engaged in supporting one residency. The project was framed by this consortium of European partners, in collaboration with curator Adelina Luft.
Submission deadline: Initial deadline – 7 April 2024. *The deadline has been extended to 21st April*
Period of residencies: 10-14 days at various dates between June to August 2024
Place of residencies: rural areas of Romania
Who can apply: interdisciplinary and socially-engaged artists, architects/landscape architects, hydrologists, anthropologists, community organisers
Eligibility: citizens or permanent residents from: Czech Republic, Italy, UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and Romania
Please apply to the residency by filling out this application form in English by the latest Sunday, April 21st, 2024, 23:59 CET.
Details about the residencies and participation are available on this link
Romania’s rural landscape represents 90% of the country’s territory, with diverse climates and natural resources. Lack of investment in rural areas has generated scarcity and limited opportunities for inhabitants, but it has also left nature to survive on its own, with many areas still holding old forests, wetlands and rich biodiversity. Sadly, corruption and poor policies to protect the natural environment, connected with lack of ecological education, are threatening the sustainable development of these areas.
The seven European practitioners selected will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the daily life of the Romanian village and explore the context of water specific to each location, hosted and mediated by a partnering organisation. Located in different rural areas of Romania, the host organisations have been running dedicated programmes around notions and practices that recontextualize the rural space and the natural environment through a reorientation of sensibilities and from a new paradigm of ecological knowledge. Through the residencies, participants are encouraged to explore local cosmovisions and practices around water, its relationship with customs, traditions, or occupations, by listening, sharing and exchanging with the spaces as sites of interpellation. These encounters are intended to open up new possibilities of reclaiming knowledge linked to a territory, historical memory and ecology, and to map a network of existing or potential socio-ecological practices that restore our relationship with water.
After the representatives from the Flowing Streams project and partnering institutions have evaluated the applications, there will be a round of interviews with shortlisted candidates taking place online.
Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process by 8 May 2024.
This month, from the 22nd to the 25th of February, Bucharest hosts the 9th edition of the Odesa International Literature Festival, a long-standing project that has become a touring event due to the war. During the four days of the festival, the public in Bucharest will have the opportunity to participate in no less than 20 events, with a wide variety of activities: from debates on highly relevant and diverse topics to poetry recitals and public readings, along with film screenings and musical performances.
Hosted at the Goethe-Institut Bucharest (Calea Dorobanți 32), this year’s edition of the Odesa International Literature Festival opens on Thursday, the 22nd of February, at 17:00, with a message from the two founders of the project, cultural managers Ulrich Schreiber (Germany) and Hans Ruprecht (Switzerland), followed by a message from Laura Napolitano, head of the Italian Institute of Culture in Bucharest and president of EUNIC Romania, the institution behind the project. The inaugural speech will be delivered by Radu Vancu, writer, essayist, translator and professor at “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, and one of the most prominent civic voices in Romania.
„Europe we have to build with our words: a Europe in which words are used not to build death, or ideologies of extermination – but a Europe in which words are witness against barbarity. Where words stand witness that people can be murdered – but not destroyed. Where we keep our words in the service of fellow humans, and not of ideologies. Because we now know: where words fail, history fails. And it becomes horror again.
We have to build a Europe where words do not fail the human. Not again. Or else everything literature ever stood for, everything arts ever stood for – was simply a lie.The only Europe which is not a dead civilisation is this one: a Europe where words to not fail the human.” (Radu Vancu)
The same evening, at 18:30, the public has the opportunity to meet Philippe Sands, British writer and lawyer of French descent, professor of international law and director of the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. Freedom of expression, human rights, the roots of genocide and crimes against humanity are just some of the topics he will discuss with journalist MarianVoicu.
At 20:00, poetry lovers will be able to enjoy public readings by Paula Erizanu from the Republic of Moldova—one of the best-known writers of the new generation and an esteemed European journalist in the cultural arena—together with Ukrainian writer Iya Kiva—poet, translator and graphic designer, concerned with topics such as language, wordlessness, identity and memory, collective and personal experiences of war, trauma and alienation—and Vasyl Makhno—poet, essayist and multi-award-winning translator, who explores the concepts of homeland and memory in his books, revealing the polyphonic past of his birthplace. The moderator of the evening will be the Romanian-born German writer and translator Ernest Wichner.
The musical highlight of the evening will be provided by the musician Florin Bica, an artist known to music lovers thanks to his presence at important events such as Bucharest Jazz Festival or ”George Enescu” Festival, but also as a constant collaborator of the Big Band Radio Romania.
On the second day of the festival, Friday the 23rd of February, at 14:00, literature lovers in Bucharest will have the opportunity to meet Yury Vynnyciuk, a living legend of Ukrainian literature, considered the most versatile of contemporary Ukrainian writers, a tireless critic of the political system, who anticipated today’s war in his works. He will be in dialogue with Ukrainian poet, essayist and translator Vasyl Makhno.
At 15:30, there will be a meeting with the Swiss writer Ariane von Graffenried, author and spokenword performer, member of the duo “Fitzgerald & Rimini” and curator of the Basel International Poetry Festival. Ariane von Graffenried is a versatile writer who transitions with ease from Swiss German to standard German, mixing it with French, English or Albanian; she is a writer who is capable of traversing broad literary landscapes, writing about forgotten and unrecognised female figures and combining the fantasy with facts.
Under the motto “Populist Planet—Voices of a World in Turmoil”, a meeting with the Swiss writer and essayist Jonas Lüscher will take place at 17:00 and will be chaired by Joachim Umlauf, head of the Goethe-Institut Bucharest. What unites populists around the world, what sets them apart and what impact does this have on life in each case? Are the promises and temptations of populists similar? And if so, what kind of world and society do populists promise? These are just some of the questions that will be answered in the meeting with Jonas Lüscher.
At 18:30, there will be a dialogue on a highly interesting topic that has been the subject of dozens of research papers over the years: war and drugs. A theme that is very much present in the history of the Second World War, but also reminds us of the notorious “War on Drugs” declared by Richard Nixon in 1972, drugs that have claimed tens of thousands of lives around the world, and the helplessness with which this war is fought. The special guest is Norman Ohler, author of two major books on the subject, the first of which, Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich (2015), translated into more than 30 languages and added to the New York Times bestseller list, describes the consequences of drug abuse among military and political leaders. His latest book, The Strongest Substance (2023), sheds light on the history of the rise of LSD and explains the difference between the drug’s three functions: as an intoxicant, as a mind-control tool and as a cure.
The evening ends with a virtual encounter with acclaimed German writer Daniel Kehlmann at 20:00. He will read a short excerpt from his novel TYLL, one of the most successful German literary novels of the last five years, nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2020 and currently being screened for an upcoming Netflix series. The novel, published in Romanian in the collection Anansi. World Fiction from Pandora M Publishing, translated by Maria Irod, was extremely well received by Romanian readers.
The dialogue with Daniel Kehlmann will be chaired by cultural journalist Matei Martin.
Ukrainian literature will be the subject of a worldwide reading on the third day of the festival, Saturday the 24th of February at 12:00, to mark two years since the outbreak of war. The occasion will include readings of poems by Ukrainian writers Viktoria Amelina, Maksîm Krîvțov and Volodimir Vakulenko, all of whom perished during the war. Important names of the international literary scene such as Vasyl Makhno, Svitlana Bondar, Yury Vynnyciuk (Ukraine), Marie Iljašenko (Czech Republic), Jan Konnefke (Germany / Romania, online), Halyna Kruk (Ukraine, online), Daniel Kehlmann (Germany, online), Héctor Abad Faciolince (Colombia, online), Nichita Danilov, Dan Sociu (Romania) will participate online and in person.
On the same day, at 15:00, writer and journalist Olivier Guez, awarded the German Film Prize for his screenplay Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer, talks to writer Norman Ohler about Europe’s past, present and future, about the taken and missed opportunities in achieving the European dream in a time of deep political and cultural change.
At 16:30, the film Scarred Hearts (2016) will be screened. The film was directed and written by Radu Jude and is a screenplay of the novel of the same name by Max Blecher. At 18:00, the screening will be followed by a dialogue on the same subject between literary critic Doris Mironescu and Ernest Wichner.
At 19:30, there will be a public reading—poems by Ernest Wichner, one of the most important German poets of Romanian origin, Marie Iljašenko from the Czech Republic, a multi-award-winning author whose poems have been translated into over 15 languages, and Nichita Danilov, a Romanian writer who captures in his books the spiritual and metaphysical heritage of his homeland Romania in a surrealist poetics with playful and ironic expression. The host of the evening will be writer and translator HorațiuDecuble.
The last event of the evening will take place at Cinema Elvire Popesco, at 20:00. It is a screening of Photophobia, a 2023 docudrama written and directed by Ivan Ostrochovský and Pavol Pekarčík. The film premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival as part of the “Giornate degli Autori” section, where it won the Europa Cinemas Label Award. Co-produced by Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Ukraine, Photophobia was filmed in Ukraine during the Russian invasion and was later selected as the Slovak entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
The first event of the last day of the festival, Sunday the 25th of February, starting at 11:00, is a dialogue between the Italian writer Ilaria Gaspari, known for her passion for podcasts dedicated to the works of famous writers: a blend of memories, quotes, excerpts and poems, some of which are original recordings of readings—the material also includes a search for traces of Ingeborg Bachmann’s life in Rome—and the poet, cultural manager and journalist Răzvan Țupa.
At 12:30, it is time for Black Sea Stories, a project of the Goethe-Institut and the Goethe Centre Yerevan. Five writers from Black Sea countries will meet for an exchange of views on regionality, identity, and the possibilities of a common language in the context of current crises in literature: Lavinia Braniște (Romania), Eka Kevanishvili (Georgia), Anush Kocharyan (Armenia), Halyna Kruk (Ukraine) and InaVultchanova (Bulgaria). Chair: Arevik Ashkharoyan, with an introduction by Jan-Tage Kühling (Goethe Centre Yerevan).
At 14:00, the programme will include a dialogue with Karl-Markus Gauss, Austrian writer and publisher, winner of the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize for European Understanding in 2022, known for his books in the field of travel literature. An expert on the countries and landscapes of Eastern Europe and described by the critics of the Wiener Zeitung as “a great philosopher of disappearance, who wants to save people and things, the silenced and the forgotten in our memory”, Karl-Markus Gauss will discuss this special form of literature with Romanian writer Marius Chivu.
At 15:30, the audience will meet Romanian writer Nora Iuga and the host of the event, poet ErnestWichner, translator of Nora Iuga’s poems into German. The beloved Romanian writer and award-winning translator of German literature will read from her poems, first published in 1968.
At 17:00, the German writer Norris von Schirach, famous among Romanian readers for his novel Blasse Helden (Romanian edition: Cei mai frumoși ani din viața lui Anton; Humanitas Fiction, translated by Victor Scoradeț, 2021), will have a dialogue with the writer and translator Horațiu Decuble.
The events will conclude with a double public poetry reading, scheduled for 18:30, bringing together writers Nichita Danilov and Dan Sociu, hosted by Ernest Wichner.
Readings and debates at the festival will be held in English, Ukrainian and Romanian, with translation. Public access to the event is free of charge. The full programme of the festival can be found on the official website: www.litfestodessa.com.
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The festival is jointly supported by the Jan Michalski Foundation, Culture of Solidarity Fund powered by the European Cultural Foundation, EUNIC Romania, Pro Helvetia, Goethe-Institut Bukarest.
Partners: Instituto Italiano di Cultura Bucarest, Austrian Cultural Forum, Czech Centre Bucharest, French Institute in Romania, British Council Romania, Embassy of Bulgaria in Romania, Cărturești Bookstore, The University Bucharest, The National Museum of Literature Bucharest, One World, Cinema Elvire Popesco.
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EUNIC Global General Assembly 2022. by Pauline Caplet
EUNIC – European Union National Institutes for Culture – is the European network of organisations engaging in cultural relations. EUNIC’s charter stand out clear: „Through culture, we build trust and understanding between the people of Europe and the wider world”.
EUNIC Romania was established in 2008 and, since, has developed into a network of 18 members and develops annualy programs and events that support EUNIC’s objectives. In 2023, EUNIC Romania has joined Timișoara 2023 – European Cultural Capital through the project HEI – House of European Institutes in Timișoara. HEI is located in Bastion Theresia, Gallery 1, a space provided by the Municipality of Timișoara, through Centrul de Proiecte Timișoara. The project is funded by the European Echoes programme, run by the Timisoara City Council Project Centre, with funds allocated from the state budget, through the Ministry of Culture budget. It is organized in partnership with the Municipality of Timișoara through the Project Centre.
Between 6th and 7th November, HEI – House of European Institutes hosts EUNIC Focus Meeting and seminar Central & South-East Europe. Members of the network will explore its recent developments and opportunities and will look at ways of developing together and strengthen the EUNIC clusters in the region. Relevant topics, expertise and perspectives in the region will be addressed, in the frame of exploring together concrete opportunities to raise these perspectives in EUNIC’s wider work.
The assembly will also feature a panel conversation with Dominic Frits, the mayor of Timișoara, Alexandra Rigler, Timișoara 2023, CEO Center for Projects and EUNIC Romania.
The participants will explore the recent collective partnerships of EUNIC Romania with Timișoara European Capital of Culture, both in off-site visits to partner spaces and in the wider work of the European Capitals of Culture (ECoC).
A high-level roadmap for the clusters will be informed by the meeting discussions, further to a evaluation of current strengths and weaknesses of clusters, that will be presented and discussed at the next EUNIC General Assembly. To the list of objectives of this meeting, the members strive to refresh and recalibrate what success looks like in EUNIC clusters, while respecting the diversity of membership and geographical spread of the cluster network.
Pe 23 septembrie, cu ocazia Zilei Europene a Limbilor Străine sărbătorim diversitatea lingvistică din Europa. Institutele Culturale din cadrul rețelei EUNIC și Reprezentanța Comisiei Europene invită adulții și copii la un program special dedicat acestei zile.
Tematica evenimentelor de anul acesta este Egalitatea în Educație.
V-am pregătit o serie de workshop-uri atât la Goethe Institut, unde ne strângem mai multe centre culturale, cât și la institutele participante.
Profesorii sunt invitați la Goethe Institut la ora 09:30 pentru a da start festivității. Am pregătit o discuție moderată, prin care vom analiza cum putem să sprijinim elevii cu nevoi speciale și dizabilități prin strategii inclusive și predare de înaltă calitate. După aceasta, vă invităm la o serie de workshopuri organizate de fiecare institut participant în parte! Veți putea participa la mai multe workshop-uri în același timp!
Dragi profesori, vă rugăm să vă înscrieți la acest eveniment aici – https://bit.ly/47Sri2u
Publicul este invitat să participe la evenimentele organizate cu această ocazie. Vă rugăm verificați locația pentru institutul la care doriți să participați.
Goethe Institut- Calea Dorobanți 32
British Council – Calea Dorobanți 14
Cervantes Institute – Blvd. Regina Elisabeta 38
Fundația Greacă – Blvd. Pache Protopopescu 1-3
Institutul Francez – Bulevardul Dacia 77
Institutul Italian – Aleea Alexandru 41
Institutul Cultural Român – Aleea Alexandru 38
Institutul Liszt – Strada Gina Patrichi 8
Institutul Turc Yunus Emre – Strada Vasile Lascăr 96
Orele de participare pentru workshopuri sunt, la adresele de mai sus, după cum urmează:
La Goethe Institut, toate centrele participante vor oferi workshop-uri în intervalele orare: 15 – 15:20, 15:30 – 15:50, 16:00 – 16:20, 16:30 – 16:50, 17:00 – 17:20 și 17:30 – 17:50. Puteți participa la toate workshopurile oferite în această perioadă.
Institutele care oferă workshop-uri la adresele aferente vă așteaptă cu drag de la ora 15:00 pentru a vă oferi activități pe parcursul zilei.
Ziua Europeană a Limbilor a fost instituită de Consiliul Europei, la inițiativa UE, în anul 2001, marcată, anual, la 26 septembrie. Demersul sublinia importanța învățării limbilor străine, nu doar la școală, ci de-a lungul întregii vieți.
Noi, misiunile diplomatice și organizațiile internaționale din București semnatare ale acestei declarații, ne exprimăm sprijinul pentru Bucharest Pride 2023. Aceasta este cea de-a 18-a ediție a acestui eveniment anual care sărbătorește diversitatea și demnitatea comunității LGBTIQ+ din România.
Bucharest Pride și toate evenimentele Pride din România sunt ocazii importante de a susține drepturile și incluziunea LGBTIQ+. Felicităm organizatorii, voluntarii și participanții pentru munca și eforturile lor în vederea egalității în drepturi. Ne reafirmăm angajamentul de a respecta, promova și proteja principiile egalității, nediscriminării și drepturilor omului pentru toate persoanele, indiferent de orientarea lor sexuală, identitatea de gen sau caracteristicile sexuale.
Susținem ferm comunitatea LGBTIQ+ din România în demersurile sale pentru egalitatea în drepturi, în conformitate cu legislația internațională a drepturilor omului și principiul drepturilor universale ale omului. Curtea Europeană a Drepturilor Omului a formulat un cadru clar pentru protejarea drepturilor persoanelor LGBTIQ+. Curtea a stabilit obligativitatea asigurării egalității în cadrul legislației naționale, cum ar fi instituirea unor mecanisme eficiente de răspuns la infracțiunile motivate de ură, protecția juridică pentru familiile de același sex și o procedură legală transparentă și accesibilă de recunoaștere a genului pentru persoanele transgender.
În acest context, încurajăm autoritățile române să abordeze orice lacune legislative actuale cu scopul respectării depline a drepturilor LGBTIQ+.
Egalitatea, diversitatea, nediscriminarea și respectul pentru drepturile universale ale omului fac parte din valorile noastre fundamentale și trebuie să acționăm pentru a apăra aceste valori, atât în țările noastre, cât și la nivel global. Realizăm că este nevoie de mai multe eforturi pentru ca persoanele LGBTIQ+ să se bucure de egalitate deplină în drepturi.
Vom continua să lucrăm împreună cu autoritățile române și cu societatea civilă pentru a ne asigura că toate persoanele sunt tratate cu demnitate și respect.
Misiuni diplomatice și organizații internaționale din București semnatare, enumerate în ordine alfabetică:
Argentina; Austria; Belgia; Canada; Cehia; Cipru; Chile; Croaţia; Danemarca; Elveţia; Estonia; Finlanda; Franţa; Germania; Grecia; Irlanda; Israel; Italia; Lituania; Mexic; Norvegia; Olanda; Portugalia; Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii; Slovenia; Spania; Statele Unite ale Americii; Suedia; Înaltul Comisariat al ONU pentru Refugiați (UNHCR), România; Organizația Internațională pentru Migrație (IOM), România; Reprezentanța Comisiei Europene în România
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Joint Statement on the Occasion of Bucharest Pride 2023
Bucharest, 27 July 2023
We, the undersigned diplomatic missions and international organisations in Bucharest, express our support for Bucharest Pride 2023. This is the 18th edition of this annual event celebrating the diversity and dignity of the LGBTIQ+ community in Romania.
Bucharest Pride, and all Pride events across Romania, are important occasions to stand up for LGBTIQ+ rights and inclusion. We commend the organisers, volunteers and participants for their work and commitment to achieve equality.
We reaffirm our commitment to respecting, promoting and protecting the principles of equality, non-discrimination, and human rights for all individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity or sex characteristics.
We firmly support the LGBTIQ+ community in Romania in its pursuit of equal rights, in accordance with international human rights law and the principle of universal human rights. The European Court of Human Rights has established a strong framework for protecting the rights of LGBTIQ+ people. The Court has set out obligations to ensure equality under national laws, such as the establishment of effective hate crime response mechanisms, legal protection for same-sex families and a transparent, consistent, and accessible legal gender recognition procedure for transgender people.
In this context, we encourage the Romanian authorities to address any current legal gaps for the full realisation of LGBTIQ+ rights.
Equality, diversity, non-discrimination and respect for universal human rights are part of our core values, and we must act to defend these values, both at home and globally. We recognise that more needs to be done to achieve full equality for LGBTIQ+ persons.
We will continue to work with Romanian authorities and civil society to ensure that all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
Signed by the following diplomatic missions and international organisations in Bucharest, listed in alphabetical order:
Argentina; Austria; Belgium; Canada; Chile; Croatia; Cyprus; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Lithuania; Mexico; Netherlands; Norway; Portugal; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom; United States of America; European Commission Representation in Romania; International Organization for Migration (IOM), Romania; UNHCR Representation in Romania
Festivalul Cinemascop vine agale cu a șasea ediție! Sunteți așteptați din nou în grădina de vară din Eforie Sud, între 1-6 august, cu filme, ateliere de creație pentru copii, dar și surprize, cum ar fi o petrecere silent disco. Ca de obicei, intrarea este liberă, iar grădina se deschide zilnic la ora 18:00.
Cinemascop este deja o tradiție pentru turiștii care obișnuiesc să viziteze Eforie Sud în prima săptămână din august. Nu doar turiștii, dar și localnicii sau vizitatorii altor stațiuni de pe litoral se bucură de festival. Cinemascop a apărut în 2018, odată cu redeschiderea grădinii de vară din Eforie Sud de către Centrul Ceh București și EUNIC România, cu sprijinul Primăriei Orașului Eforie și al RADEF România Film. De atunci, festivalul începe negreșit pe 1 august și, de-a lungul anilor, a încântat publicul cu zeci de filme europene de lung și scurtmetraj, expoziții, ateliere de creație pentru copii și multe altele. Odată cu îmbunătățirea programului și a spațiului, ideea a crescut și s-au pus bazele unui nou program, Eforie Colorat, organizat de Asociația Forumul Artelor Vizuale, mulțumită căruia grădina rămâne acum deschisă pe toată perioada verii, pentru proiecții de filme, dar și activități conexe tot mai variate.
Programul cinematografic al festivalului cuprinde proiecții de filme europene remarcabile care vor purta publicul prin culturi, tematici și genuri dintre cele mai diverse: de la comedii pline de umor și aventuri fantastice, până la drame captivante și povești emoționante. Filmele sunt oferite de institutele culturale europene din cadrul EUNIC România, iar proiecțiile încep la ora 21:00.
Festivalul se deschide marți, 1 august, cu un film francez de comedie, „Cei doi Alfred” (Franța, 2020, din partea Institutului Francez), în care un tată șomer încearcă să ascundă faptul că are copii pentru a obține un loc de muncă la o companie de tehnologie cu o politică draconică în ceea ce privește viața privată a angajaților. Ziua de marți, 2 august, îl aduce pe marele ecran pe binecunoscutului „Pinocchio” (Italia, Franța, Marea Britanie, 2019, contribuția Institutului Italian), povestea aventurii pline de obstacole și creaturi fantastice în care se trezesc prinși Geppetto, interpretat de îndrăgitul Roberto Benigni, și fiul său, păpușa de lemn care prinde viață. Filmul lui Garrone aduce o nouă viziune asupra acestui clasic al literaturii, oferind o estetică impresionantă și efecte vizuale remarcabile.
În ziua de 3 august, sunteți așteptați la o dramă poloneză nominalizată la Oscar pentru cel mai bun film străin. Este vorba de „Corpus Christi” (Polonia, 2019, din partea Institutului Polonez), care îl are în prim-plan pe Daniel, un fost delincvent care se îmbracă în haine preoțești și preia conducerea unei parohii dintr-un orășel de provincie. Sfârșitul de săptămână începe vineri, 4 august, cu filmul ceh „O lume albastru închis” (Cehia, Marea Britanie, Germania, 2001, contribuția Centrului Ceh), o poveste despre doi piloți cehoslovaci luptând din exil în timpul celui de-al doilea Război Mondial, a căror prietenie este pusă la încercare atunci
când se îndrăgosesc de aceeași femeie. Festivalul se încheie pe 6 august cu filmul românesc „Tigru” (România, Franța, Grecia, 2023, din partea Institutului Cultural Român), proaspăt prezentat la festivalurile din țară,undeVera, o femeie de 31 de ani, aflată într-o criză personală, trebuie să pornească în căutarea unui tigru evadat de la grădina zoologică la care lucrează.
Cinemascop nu înseamnă doar cinema, chiar dacă este o grădină de vară. Aceasta se deschide la ora 18:00, zi de zi, cu atelierele de creație pentru copii, suținute de Koh-I-Noor România, care vor oferi juniorilor ocazia de a învăța lucruri noi despre artă distrându-se. Cei mici vor crea ceva diferit în fiecare zi, pentru că îi așteaptă un program special cu desen, pictură, colaje și mixed media. Atelierele se încheie la ora 20:00 și sunt dedicate celor cu vârste între 4-14 ani. Pe lângă ateliere, prietenii de la Eforie Colorat au amplasat în grădină și o zonă cu LEGO, o masă de ping-pong și una de foosball.
Tot ei au pregătit pentru viziatorii de toate vârstele expoziții și zone special amenajate, cum ar fi un spațiu de relaxare, biblioteca pop-up și barul. La E T A J on wheels, white cube-ul ce revine an de an în grădina de vară, veți descoperi expoziția „Memorialul saltelei”, a artistului Mircea Modreanu, ce conține un amestec de amintiri personale inedite, cărora li se adaugă fragmente întipărite în memoria colectivă, materializate ad hoc într-o serie de lucrări pe suport de beton, de dimensiuni variate. Pe pereții grădinii se mai află și o expoziție oferită de Ambasada Spaniei, „Între emoție și istorie: o călătorie prin arta publicitară spaniolă”.
O surpriză pe care ediția de anul acesta o aduce este o seară dedicată exclusiv muzicii. De la ora 20:00, Sidonia Doica va concetra alături de chitaristul Rosta Man. Cei doi vor interpreta melodii cunoscute din filme, cărora le vor recrea, dar și reînsufleți atmosfera prin tușe proprii. Imediat după, de la ora 21:00, începe petrecerea! Și nu oricum, ci la silent disco, pentru prima dată în Eforie Sud. Participanții vor avea de ales între 3 canale, fiecare cu stilul și atmosfera lui, și vor asculta „în liniște”, în propriile căști, dansând singuri, sau alături de grupul de prieteni.
Intrarea la toate evenimentele festivalului este liberă. Grădina de vară se deschide zilnic, între 1-6 august, la ora 18:00, iar proiecțiile de film încep la ora 21:00. Pentru a fi la curent cu programul complet al festivalului și pentru mai multe informații, puteți vizita paginile de Facebook și Instagram ale evenimentului.
Organizatori: Centrul Ceh București, EUNIC Romania
Parteneri și colaboratori: Skoda, Generali, Asociația OV 05, Koh-i-Noor, Institutul Italian, Institutul Polonez, Institutul Francez, Institutul Cultural Roman, E T A J on wheels, Edmond si Cosmos, Hotel MareMar, Hotel Fortuna, Hotel Jiul, Hotel Atlantis, Hotel Splendid
Parteneri media: Radio România Actualităţi, Radio Constanţa, Radio România Cultural, Radio Vacanța, AGERPRES, Revista Zeppelin, Liternet, Filme-Carti, Movie News, Igloo, Ziarul Metropolis, AaRC, Eforie Online
Between 23rd and 25th June EUNIC Romania & Green Hours invite you to the third edition of the international jazz festival 𝐉𝐀𝐙𝐙𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐐𝐔𝐄 at 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧
Of all the languages in the world, the language of music is perhaps the easiest to understand to transmit, and it has no borders. The 3rd edition of the JAZZUNIQUE festival will bring an impressive, diverse and colorful programme to the Green Hours stage between June 23rd-25th, welcoming the audience with the urge to liberate ourselves through music. We will continue presenting the audience primarily emerging names, but also some already established ones, like Paolo Angeli.
Ni antaŭĝojas vidi vin ĉe la festivalo – that means, “we are waiting for you at the festival”, in the universal language of Esperanto.
We are waiting for you with open hearts and ears. Let there be peace, let there be jazz!
Through this work, the artist reaffirms her commitment to creativity by writing all of the songs and making her debut as a lyricist in her two mother tongues, Catalan and Spanish.
Often inspired by the idea of trying to send a message to herself as a child, she writes in a simple and visual way about love and heartbreak, about haste and patience, about honesty and lies…
In the songs that make up the album, musical styles such as jazz, singer-songwriter and bolero coexist, all of them being very present in the artist’s sound imagery.
In this concert, Eva Fernández will have Josep Munar, a Mallorcan guitarist with whom she has been working together on all her songs and albums for more than seven years. Together they will go on a sound journey from their beginnings until now.
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 solo (Austria) ~„Dedicated“
On his sophomore solo release “Dedicated”, Vienna-based jazz pianist and composer Martin Listabarth dives deep into the topic of personal inspirations, resulting in an album that combines tonal elegance and musical ingenuity with playfulness, wit and a heavy dose of storytelling. It’s not unusual for a musician to dedicate an album or song to someone that has been influential in their life. Austrian pianist Martin Listabarth takes this one step further, though, using the story of 10 people who’ve fascinated or inspired him as the basis of 10 highly original compositions. Musically, it’s a treasure trove of solo piano technique, running the full spectrum from soft and melancholic to dramatic and bold. Shimmering, classical-inspired ballads give way to blues-infused vamps and high-octane swing. The resulting collection of music is both playful and challenging, accessible yet complex – something heightened by the narrative that inspires each song.
“Hercule Poirot” dedicated to the author Agatha Christie sits alongside tributes to an eclectic cast of characters including Michael Köhlmeier („Fairy Tales and Myths“), the soccer player Diego Maradona („The Hand of God“) and magician, showman and pub owner Basilio Calafati („Calafati’s Carousel“)…
Their first album “Secret Place”, released on the NoMadMusic label, features landscapes that are sometimes urban, sometimes wild, speaks of encounters and invites us to travel. It is a virtuoso and highly modern combination of three instruments rarely brought together.
”The jazz magician can create an intimate bond with his audience through the senses, and for his first album, the Noé Clerc Trio has chosen the dreamy way. From the outset, the young trio moves us by revealing its musical intimacy and its various inspirations in “Secret Place”. (…) The ear happily wanders through this secret garden, a painting in which the three young musicians show great maturity in the finesse of their lines and the choice of colours. The palette is daring: blues, contemporary jazz, impressionist and traditional music.” (Album Revelation, Jazz Magazine, Walden Gauthier)
The concept album is the synthesis of Paolo’s twenty-five years of living together with his orchestral guitar, pushed to the limit of expressive timbral potential, but the narration is weaved by the nasal voice with a Sardinian-Iberian flavour, which relies on the quatrains of Gallura and Logudorese poets of the 1700s and 1800s.
Rade’s music emerges like a wreck loaded with memory, wrapped in blinding light, the long sea is a silver surface, the Sardinian chant blends and confuses with sonorities that evoke a secular prayer.
Rade is the must of the last century, forgotten in the galley, aged, which leaves the tannin in the glass glasses, to abandon oneself to the memory of light visions embalmed by the saltiness. The light of the sea enters our homes, with the explosive force of a Mediterranean avant-garde transmitted orally by a joyful Charon who, imagining a navigation that knows no borders, expresses himself in a thousand languages, uses them for a moment and then throws them away.
Pianist and composer Nikol Bóková is one of the greatest discoveries of the Czech music scene. In addition to performing classical repertoire, she devotes herself intensively to her own creative work that transcends genre boundaries and is appreciated by classical music listeners, jazz audiences, and music critics, as evidenced by numerous awards. In 202, she received the Czech Music Academy’s Anděl Award in the Jazz category for her album Prometheus. In the same year, she founded her own music label, Soleil et Pluie. Both albums released by Soleil et Pluie so far, Elements and Naked Pieces, won the award Jantar for best albums of the year 2022 in the category of popular music. Nikol regularly collaborates with exceptional personalities from the jazz and classical music scene and has already released five albums of her own compositions since 2019.
Concert organizat cu sprijinul Palác Akropolis.
JAZZUNIQUE is a festival 𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 EUNIC-Romania (𝐸𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒) 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 outdoor, in the Green Hours’ garden.
Cultural Management Academy 2023 has launched its call for participants. 7th June is the deadline for cultural managers and professionals, communication persons, producers, artists, journalists, critics living and working in one of the ECoC cities to apply.
In 2023, the Academy will be structured for the first time in 3 working sessions, each hosted by a European Capital of Culture in 2023 according to the following timeline:
Session 1: 10-16.07.2023, Timișoara, România
Session 2: 06.-10.09.2023, Veszprém, Hungary
Session 3: 11.-15.11.2023, Elefsina, Greece
Selected participants will attend all 3 sessions, and it is essential to be available on the dates listed above. A total of 15 participants will be selected for the CMA 2023: 5 participants from each of the 3 ECoC cities (or the region).
FULL information and the Application Form are available on: https://www.goethe.de/ins/ro/ro/kul/sup/aka.html
THEMATIC FOCUS 2023
Continuity and transformation of cultural practices beyond the European Capital of Culture year – Resource awareness and networked-creativity as Legacy generators
In this year’s edition of the CMA, we aim to explore different types of practices and their support for creation, their sustainability and their ability to self-perpetuate with the prospect of diminished funding, after the Title year, but with continued dialogue, learning, and network design. We are looking for existing communities of sustainable practices and networks that develop such approaches and focus on working with them on these subjects. In addition, we plan on asking the following questions:
What is common between the ECOCs in terms of sustainability?
How to generate alternative funding and material / human capabilities?
How to connect networks? Who knows who… and what is, really, a partnership?
What are the ECOCs introducing for community engagement and participatory process?
How to sustain and develop decentralized cultural practices that proved optimal in terms of results and resources, and are developed by small local and independent operators, after ECOC?
Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own practice and refer to other existing practices in the ECoC cities to have a critical approach and to identify strategies, methods, tools and resources that can be sustained via innovative cultural management practices, whatever future context might be.
CMA 2023 offers the opportunity to learn from international trainers and develop new skills, to share ideas that will contribute to the development of the cultural sector through a continuous process of reflection on the ECoC journey and the road ahead.
Curators
The programme offers the opportunity to participate in 3 intensive seminars, including lectures, workshops, interactive exercises, collective and individual sessions, and other capacity-building formats dealing with the topic of the CMA 2023. We want to create a platform for exchanging horizontal knowledge and developing ideas. They offer a quality process without the ambition to solve anything or produce an outcome. Each participant, including the organizers and guest lecturers, will teach and learn in a rich environment suitable for knowledge-production while creating a safe space for dialogue and a shared understanding of matters at stake.
The programme is curated by a representative from each ECoC 2023 implementation team:
Angeliki Lampiri / ECoC 2023 Eleusis – is Director of Cultural Training of 2023 Eleusis, joining the team during the bid process for the ECoC title in 2016. She is the project manager of a wide range of projects, designed to build capacities and networking in cultural and local communities, as well as taking care of international relations and participation in European projects.
Krisztina Forro / ECoC 2023 Veszprém-Balaton – is Senior Project Manager at Veszprém-Balaton 2023 (VEB 2023). Her role and tasks are to strengthen outreach and capacity building with long term community development, focusing on the horizontal aims of the ECoC Program by managing family friendly, accessible, and environmentally sustainable program development.
Alex Boca / ECoC 2023 Timișoara – is a curator and a cultural manager from Timișoara, interested in experimental arts, emerging culture and maieutics. He is trained as a philosophical practitioner and as a visual artist with experience in the independent cultural scene before joining the Timișoara European Capital of Culture program.
About
CMA is a professional programme designed to improve capacity building and to support the cultural operators in the region to develop an environment of sustainability in the cultural field, encouraging the resilience of the sector by supporting the development of co-created transversal and transnational projects. Furthermore, the programme generates cross-sectorial innovation, connecting culture with a heterogenous landscape of related fields like creative industries, digital technologies, humanities, sciences etc. CMA will focus on bringing together cultural operators from the independent and public sector in order to find the best solutions for sustainability of the cultural field.
The programme follows the guidelines established by the Cultural Management Academy (CMA) in the previous six regional editions, this time focusing on the ECoCs 2023: Timișoara (Romania), Elefsina (Greece) and Veszprém (Hungary).
The project is part of the National Cultural Programme “Timisoara – European Capital of Culture in 2023” and is funded by the European Echoes programme, run by the Timisoara City Project Centre, with funds allocated from the state budget, through the Ministry of Culture budget.
FULL information and Application Form are available on: https://www.goethe.de/ins/ro/ro/kul/sup/aka.html
Tematica evenimentelor de anul acesta este Egalitatea în Educație.
Tickets are available on: 
Friday, June 23rd, from 18.00