Expat events

It is said that behind every great man there is a great woman supporting, encouraging and loving him.

The same can be said about a country. Behind a country’s great destiny, there are always the women, who, as much as the men, built and shaped a nation’s history.

Great Romanian Ladies

Photo: Princess Martha Bibescu

Fundatia Calea Victoriei in collaboration with City Compass invite you to the next edition of our cultural education courses for Bucharest’s Expat families.

Discover the background of the people you interact with in your new city and find out more about different aspects of Romanian culture!

Designed for both children and adults of all ages, the event will take place in a beautiful 19th century building.

Introduction:

Romania is the country with the biggest Roma population in Europe, also acknowledged as one of the most important sending countries for Roma migration in Western Europe after the fall of communism.

We will draw a brief general introduction into the history of Roma people and their diversity on the territory of present Romania, comprising testimonies of their slavery (robie) since early middle age till late 19th century, then witnesses of their deportation during the second world war. Afterwards we will discuss assimilationist policies such as employment, education and ban of nomadism that Roma were targeted to during communism, which yet failed to integrate this population.

At the end of the event we will draw conclusions together about how comunism breakdown gave Roma people political rights to ethnic self identification and how opening of the Romanian borders impacted upon the Roma populations . Audio, photo and video materials both from Romania and Italian campi nomadi will be brought in support of the talk by the end of which everybody will hopefully get a clearer, closer to the ground image of the Romanian Roma people, beyond the everyday stereotypical representation of this population.

Date: Saturday, May 8
Place of the Event: Artmark Galleries, Str. Logofat Luca Stroici, nr. 18, starting 11:00 (duration ca. 2 hours) MAP
Registration at:

Fee: 50 RON/Adult*, 25RON/Child
Fee includes: drinks, special kids-program, panel-discussion, guided tour in Artmark Gallery

The Interbellum Bucharest Ball

The Interbellum Bucharest Ball - May 27th, 20:00

The Interbellum Bucharest Ball is a cultural event organized by Calea Victoriei Foundation, realized under the auspices of The National Bank of Romania and The Ministry of Culture and hosted by the National Military Circle in the Byzantium, Norwegian and Gothic Halls.

The Interbellum Bucharest Ball is organized on the structure of an artistic event with the participation of the following artists:

- the famous "Doina" quintet
- the violin player - Alexandru Tomescu - playing on a Stradivarius violin
- famous cultural personalities involved in the cultural development of Bucharest: Mr Neagu Djuvara, Mrs Georgeta Filitti, Mr Tiberiu Soare, Mrs Adina Nanu, Mr Adrian Majuru etc.

The artistic event is formed of:

- live music from the interbellum period (Romanian and International): foxtrot,Charleston, tango, valse etc., as well as music from the famous 20's.

- dance: the atmosphere will be kept by choreographers, dancers and actors that will teach and invite people to dance

- during the six hours in the Gothic Hall there will be projections with the images (photos,paintings) of the old Bucharest which are meant to be an awareness about the beauty and the patrimony of the capital.

It is important to underline the fact that the music and the costumes of all participants will be inspired by the intrebellum period ( the 1920's to the 1940's ) in order to create a an atmosphere very similar to the most glorious period of the old Bucharest.

The food will also follow the trends of the 1920's with specific gastronomic surprises.

The message of the Ball: to be a signal of alarm towards the danger of losing essential elements from the cultural patrimony of the city. The message will be sent through the Ball by short interventions of the present historians following a cultural-educational direction. The artifice of sending out the message to a more aware crowd formed of media and the people living in Bucharest: time traveling in the most prestigious time ever known by Bucharest - the 1920's-1940's.

Entrance ticket: 150 lei

Reservations done until May 20, 2010.

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