Romanian Cultural institute director Brindusa Armanca said a monograph documenting the institute?s past two decades and containing interviews with its past directors had been published to mark the anniversary.
The institute will continue its cooperation with the House of Terror Museum in Budapest this year. The disturbances between the Romanians and ethnic Hungarians of Targu Mures in 1990 will be the subject of a joint conference, called Black March, slated for March 20, Armanca said.
Armanca said work by researchers is convincing more and more people that the unrest, in which three Hungarians and two Romanians were killed, was provoked by members of the former Securitate,
Pro Europa Association chairman and human rights activist Smaranda Enache, political scientist Gabriel Andreiescu and university teacher Radu Carp will participate at the conference.
The Radu Stanca Theatre company of Sibiu will bring a production of Caragiale, Carnival, directed by Silviu Prucarete, to the National Theatre as part of the Budapest Spring Festival programme. A recital by the Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa at the Urania National Film Theatre is also on the spring festival programme. Both events are supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Budapest.
Budapest?s Műcsarnok will open an exhibition of work by 31 artists from Cluj Napoca in April. The show will run until the end of July, Armanca said. The cultural institute will organise a conference of curators, gallery owners and artistic managers in Budapest in April, she added.
In the summer, the River Danube will take the spotlight as Romanian cultural institutes in Bucharest, Vienna, Berlin and Prague team up with the one in Budapest for the programme Danube connection ? Glory and Story. As a part of the programme, Danube-themed films from the participating countries will be screened in cities along the river.
The cultural institute is launching a new series, called The Spirit of a City that aims to show the cultural life of Romanian cities. The first city to be showcased will be Timisoara.
The Jazz Engine series will continue with performances by musicians from Timisoara and the presentation of an autobiography of one of Romania?s greatest jazz musicians, Béla Kamocsa, called Timisoara Blues.
The institute will again organise Romanian Film Week in October.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: brindusaarmanca.home.ro
