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Four Romanian Artist (08:00 - 09:00)

The Romanian Cultural Institute in London presents the exhibition Four Romanian Artists, including painting and drawing by Florica Prevenda, Anca Boeriu, Florin Stoiciu and Alexandru Radvan. The works illustrate four books by award-winning Romanian writers Mircea Ivanescu, Max Blecher, Constantin Noica and Ioan Grosan published by the University of Plymouth Press in 2009.

The books are part of a new series called 20 Romanian Writers, a landmark collection of the very best Romanian writing from the past 100 years. The first four volumes of the series are: Lines poems by Mircea Ivanescu, Occurence in the immediate reality by Max Blecher, Six maladies of the contemporary spirit by Constantin Noica and The cinematography caravan by Ioan Grosan.

Each volume is complemented with a 16 page full color supplement featuring acclaimed Romanian visual artists.

Florica Prevenda (b. 1959) lives and works in Bucharest. Her work layers visual-tactile matter over urban signs of human presence. Taking the face as a fundamental theme, she inscribes existentially pithy messages through the surface, the imprints and the crust of the tones of white, grey and black. As with Ivanescu's poetry, the affects are elusive, yet evocative.
Exhibitions include Face at the National Museum of Art, Bucharest (1999); Metropolis in the Shadow of the Present, Simeza (2004). Solo exhibitions at Arthus Gallery, Brussels (1999, 2001, 2004).

Anca Boeriu (b. 1957) is a painter and illustrator. She is influenced by human bodies that are always in a state of tension, so there is a relationship between Blecher's condition and her art - Blecher had spinal TB, and remained in bed for the last ten years of his life.
Boeriu is an associate lecturer at the National University of the Arts, Bucharest. Awards include: First prize for installation, Radio France International, Paris (1991) and Lithography award, Tulcea, Romania (1994).

Florin Stoiciu (b. 1965) is Senior Lecturer at the University of Arts in Bucharest. His concerns are stylistic and thematic; including sharp, sometimes comic observation. Allegorical in effect, human dillemas are invoked. Like Noica, his explorations of change in Romania are bitter-sweet, with an existential undertone.
Winner of the Romanian youth prize and first prizes for Bibliophile books, 1996 and Dominus contest 1993 and 1995.

Alexandru Radvan (b. 1977) lectures at the University of Arts in Bucharest. He questions essential notions of meaning and reality, Christian belief structures and ancient mythologies. Nihilistic in tone, like Grosan, his art investigates rhetorics of truth and ambiguity.
Personal exhibitions include: Wond'ring aloud, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest; Zeus & Europa, Calina Gallery, Timisoara; and Huldigung des Judas & der Kreuzfahrer, Hattingen. Awards: Opera Prima, Prometheus Awards 2007 and Alexandru Tzipoia Foundation Prize for the best exhibition of 2001.

When: 21 January - 19 February 2010, Mon-Fri: 10am - 5pm;
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PH
Free entry.

Philippe Graffin & Claire Desert @ Enescu Society (19:00 - 21:00)
The Romanian Cultural Institute has the pleasure to invite you to the 2009/2010
enescu society concert season

February concert

Philippe Graffin (violin)
Claire Desert (piano)
R. Schumann
Sonata in D minor

M. Ravel
Sonata in G major

M. Ravel
Tzigane

G. Enescu
Impressions d'Enfance Op 20

F. Schubert
Fantaisie in C D934

Thursday, 4th February 2010, 7-9 pm Romanian Cultural Institute
1 Belgrave Square
London SW1X 8PH

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Constantin Brancusi @ Tate Liverpool (08:00 - 09:00)

Constantin Brancusi's sculpture Head (1919 - 1923, Tate Collection) and the photos La Négresse blonde (1926), Vue d'atelier (after 1930) and Portrait of Nancy Cunard (1925-1927) from Pompidou Centre in Paris are part of the Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic exhibition at Tate Liverpool.

This is the first exhibition to trace in depth the impact of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the early twentieth century to today. From the influences of African art on the modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will reflect how artists around the Atlantic have claimed the language of Modernism in diverse ways, as a powerful tool to explore, formulate and assert their own identity.

Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic also features work by Romare Bearden, Edward Burra, Renee Cox, Aaron Douglas, Walker Evans, Ellen Gallagher, David Hammons, Isaac Julien, Wilfredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Ronald Moody, Wangechi Mutu, Uche Okeke, Pablo Picasso, Keith Piper, Tracey Rose and Kara Walker.

Talks and discussions: www.tate.org.uk/liverpool.

The Romanian Cultural Institute in London supports the exhibition alongside Liverpool City Council, Tate International Council, Tate Liverpool Members, The Granada Foundation and The Embassy of the United States in London.

When: 29 January - 25 April 2010
Where: Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, L3 4BB
Admission: £6.00 (£4.50 concessions).

Seminar 'Is EU Accession An 'End Of History'? EC Europe After 20 Years' (17:00 - 18:30)
Monday 8 February 2010, 5pm
Room 431, SSEES Building, 16 Taviton St

Prof Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (Hertie School of Governance) Is EU Accession an 'End of History'? East Central Europe After Twenty Years

Have postcommunist countries been backslidng on rule of law and democracy since entering the EU? Is there evidence to back the conclusion of some analysts that the EU accession offers a highly effective type of conditionality?

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi looks in depth at cases where challenges to both the rule of law and EU influence were at a maximum to generate some explanations (Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Latvia); she then presents a quantitative model testing explanatory factors for rule of law in a more systematic comparative analysis across all 28 postcommunist cases.

All welcome.

Nearest tube: Euston, Euston Sq, Kings Cross/St Pancras, Goodge St
Mainline rail: Euston, Kings Cross, St Pancras

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Date:
Monday, 08 February 2010
Time:
17:00 - 18:30
Location:
Room 431, SSEES Building
Street:
16 Taviton St

’89: The Unfinished Revolution A Talk And Book Presentation By Nick Thorpe (19:00 - 21:00)
Hosted by Dr Mike Phillips OBE, British novelist, historian and curator

19.00-21.00, The Ratiu Foundation / Romanian Cultural Centre, Manchester Square, 18 Fitzhardinge Street, London W1H 6EQ; Tel. 020 7486 0295, ext 108; e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; Entry is free but booking is essential.

‘The Unfinished Revolution’ presents a personal view, from ground level, of a revolution which never quite finished. Of how it re-emerges, in demonstrations and uprisings, on a regular basis. How the demons of the past - of collaboration, of unsatisfied national identity, above all of poverty - continue to haunt the present.

Blood drips on Thorpe’s head as he tries to escape the Romanian secret police, with a dissident's statement hidden in his clothes. Then as the Hungarian government prepares to expel him, he becomes a pawn in the Cold War as the British threaten to retaliate. Through the autumn and winter of 1989, Thorpe hops from revolution to revolution, from Budapest to Prague, Leipzig to East Berlin. And gets to Romania in time for the bloody finale.

But with the victory of democracy, his work was only just beginning. Thorpe guides us through the dramas and traumas of the 1990s, the years of 'jungle capitalism' through a taxi blockade in Hungary, and the miners’ invasion of Bucharest. He camps with Vaclav Havel - who borrows his sleeping bag. As Yugoslavia collapses, he reports from Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Macedonia.

The book concludes in 2009, with the impact of the crisis of capitalism, 20 years after the crisis of communism.

BOOK PRESENTATION:

‘89: THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION Power and Powerlessness in Eastern Europe

by Nick Thorpe

Paperback, 320 pages, 16 colour plates, Reportage Press (9 November 2009).
ISBN-10: 1906702179, ISBN-13: 978-1906702175

‘89: The Unfinished Revolution’ will be available to buy on the evening at the special price of £10 (normal price £12.99). The author is available to sign copies.

Nick Thorpe began reporting from Budapest in February 1986, the first western journalist to be based there. For the BBC, the Independent, and the Observer, he covered the dying years of eastern Europe’s regimes, then the revolutions which toppled them. He witnessed the collapse of Yugoslavia, popular uprisings in Bulgaria and Serbia, the transformation of nonviolent to violent resistance in Kosovo. As the BBC's Central Europe correspondent he continues to report the successes, and the failures of a revolution which never quite reaches its goal.

Organised by The Ratiu Foundation / Romanian Cultural Centre in London.
www.ratiufamilyfoundation.com; www.romanianculturalcentre.org.uk Culture Power is a programme initiated by the Ratiu Foundation, consisting of a number of presentations and constructive dialogue with an invited audience.

X Street (20:00 - 22:00)

A live journey through a neighbourhood in stand-by.
A street outside the map, a flat-share clash, a hairdresser starting her own business, a dodgy £5 note that circulates around, an Olympic car wash, a delayed wedding and a community that keeps its doors locked. Get on our minibus, fasten your seatbelts, put on the headphones and immerse yourself inside residents' bedrooms, kitchens, showers, fridges, pockets and minds.

A performance by réaltympanica: Ioana Paun, Robert Redmer, Renata Gaspar and James Bulley.

Also featuring: Cristina Catalina, Naia Headland-vanni, Dhaniella Mauger, Jessica Latowicki, Graham McGowan, Christian Hogas, Julie Simpson, Kevin Molin, Mario Christofides, Sara Amini, Tiernan Patton, Bill Perry, Nick Llewellyn.

The project focuses on the social and sound landscape and lifestyle implications of the 2012 Olympic Games reconstruction plans in the Hackney area, East London.
Developed by Ioana Paun through the Attic Arts residency programme at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

Partners: Goldsmiths College, Hackney Wick Community Centre.

When: February 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 @ 8pm;
Where: Hackney Wick, London.
Free event. Pick-up and Drop-off points to be confirmed when booking.
Booking and Information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 0791 532 6387.

X Street (20:00 - 22:00)

A live journey through a neighbourhood in stand-by.
A street outside the map, a flat-share clash, a hairdresser starting her own business, a dodgy £5 note that circulates around, an Olympic car wash, a delayed wedding and a community that keeps its doors locked. Get on our minibus, fasten your seatbelts, put on the headphones and immerse yourself inside residents' bedrooms, kitchens, showers, fridges, pockets and minds.

A performance by réaltympanica: Ioana Paun, Robert Redmer, Renata Gaspar and James Bulley.

Also featuring: Cristina Catalina, Naia Headland-vanni, Dhaniella Mauger, Jessica Latowicki, Graham McGowan, Christian Hogas, Julie Simpson, Kevin Molin, Mario Christofides, Sara Amini, Tiernan Patton, Bill Perry, Nick Llewellyn.

The project focuses on the social and sound landscape and lifestyle implications of the 2012 Olympic Games reconstruction plans in the Hackney area, East London.
Developed by Ioana Paun through the Attic Arts residency programme at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

Partners: Goldsmiths College, Hackney Wick Community Centre.

When: February 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 @ 8pm;
Where: Hackney Wick, London.
Free event. Pick-up and Drop-off points to be confirmed when booking.
Booking and Information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 0791 532 6387.

Four Romanian Artist (08:00 - 09:00)

The Romanian Cultural Institute in London presents the exhibition Four Romanian Artists, including painting and drawing by Florica Prevenda, Anca Boeriu, Florin Stoiciu and Alexandru Radvan. The works illustrate four books by award-winning Romanian writers Mircea Ivanescu, Max Blecher, Constantin Noica and Ioan Grosan published by the University of Plymouth Press in 2009.

The books are part of a new series called 20 Romanian Writers, a landmark collection of the very best Romanian writing from the past 100 years. The first four volumes of the series are: Lines poems by Mircea Ivanescu, Occurence in the immediate reality by Max Blecher, Six maladies of the contemporary spirit by Constantin Noica and The cinematography caravan by Ioan Grosan.

Each volume is complemented with a 16 page full color supplement featuring acclaimed Romanian visual artists.

Florica Prevenda (b. 1959) lives and works in Bucharest. Her work layers visual-tactile matter over urban signs of human presence. Taking the face as a fundamental theme, she inscribes existentially pithy messages through the surface, the imprints and the crust of the tones of white, grey and black. As with Ivanescu's poetry, the affects are elusive, yet evocative.
Exhibitions include Face at the National Museum of Art, Bucharest (1999); Metropolis in the Shadow of the Present, Simeza (2004). Solo exhibitions at Arthus Gallery, Brussels (1999, 2001, 2004).

Anca Boeriu (b. 1957) is a painter and illustrator. She is influenced by human bodies that are always in a state of tension, so there is a relationship between Blecher's condition and her art - Blecher had spinal TB, and remained in bed for the last ten years of his life.
Boeriu is an associate lecturer at the National University of the Arts, Bucharest. Awards include: First prize for installation, Radio France International, Paris (1991) and Lithography award, Tulcea, Romania (1994).

Florin Stoiciu (b. 1965) is Senior Lecturer at the University of Arts in Bucharest. His concerns are stylistic and thematic; including sharp, sometimes comic observation. Allegorical in effect, human dillemas are invoked. Like Noica, his explorations of change in Romania are bitter-sweet, with an existential undertone.
Winner of the Romanian youth prize and first prizes for Bibliophile books, 1996 and Dominus contest 1993 and 1995.

Alexandru Radvan (b. 1977) lectures at the University of Arts in Bucharest. He questions essential notions of meaning and reality, Christian belief structures and ancient mythologies. Nihilistic in tone, like Grosan, his art investigates rhetorics of truth and ambiguity.
Personal exhibitions include: Wond'ring aloud, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest; Zeus & Europa, Calina Gallery, Timisoara; and Huldigung des Judas & der Kreuzfahrer, Hattingen. Awards: Opera Prima, Prometheus Awards 2007 and Alexandru Tzipoia Foundation Prize for the best exhibition of 2001.

When: 21 January - 19 February 2010, Mon-Fri: 10am - 5pm;
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PH
Free entry.

Roma London Exhibition (12:00 - 18:00)
The work has developed from collaboration between a group of teenage Roma women, led by photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of The Children´s Society. Previous representations of Roma people show them as either romantic and free or living in desperate poverty. The large format and digital images taken by the group break from these stereotypes. The young women document a crucial moment in their lives as they undergo many complex transitions: from girlhood into womanhood, from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism and from passive outsiders to active participants in society.

“... and in the modern world, when reality is not recoded it does not exist.”

Come and discover the reality of Roma London.

Private View
10th February 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Open
11th - 19th February 2010, 12pm – 6pm

Art Pavilion
Mile End Park
London
E3 4QY
Five min from Mile End Tube

Contact
Manuela Zanotti
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0790 355 7926

Jacob Garber
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0207 474 7222

Funded by Mediabox and The Children´s Society

X Street (20:00 - 22:00)

A live journey through a neighbourhood in stand-by.
A street outside the map, a flat-share clash, a hairdresser starting her own business, a dodgy £5 note that circulates around, an Olympic car wash, a delayed wedding and a community that keeps its doors locked. Get on our minibus, fasten your seatbelts, put on the headphones and immerse yourself inside residents' bedrooms, kitchens, showers, fridges, pockets and minds.

A performance by réaltympanica: Ioana Paun, Robert Redmer, Renata Gaspar and James Bulley.

Also featuring: Cristina Catalina, Naia Headland-vanni, Dhaniella Mauger, Jessica Latowicki, Graham McGowan, Christian Hogas, Julie Simpson, Kevin Molin, Mario Christofides, Sara Amini, Tiernan Patton, Bill Perry, Nick Llewellyn.

The project focuses on the social and sound landscape and lifestyle implications of the 2012 Olympic Games reconstruction plans in the Hackney area, East London.
Developed by Ioana Paun through the Attic Arts residency programme at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

Partners: Goldsmiths College, Hackney Wick Community Centre.

When: February 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 @ 8pm;
Where: Hackney Wick, London.
Free event. Pick-up and Drop-off points to be confirmed when booking.
Booking and Information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 0791 532 6387.

Roma London Exhibition (12:00 - 18:00)
The work has developed from collaboration between a group of teenage Roma women, led by photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of The Children´s Society. Previous representations of Roma people show them as either romantic and free or living in desperate poverty. The large format and digital images taken by the group break from these stereotypes. The young women document a crucial moment in their lives as they undergo many complex transitions: from girlhood into womanhood, from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism and from passive outsiders to active participants in society.

“... and in the modern world, when reality is not recoded it does not exist.”

Come and discover the reality of Roma London.

Private View
10th February 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Open
11th - 19th February 2010, 12pm – 6pm

Art Pavilion
Mile End Park
London
E3 4QY
Five min from Mile End Tube

Contact
Manuela Zanotti
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0790 355 7926

Jacob Garber
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0207 474 7222

Funded by Mediabox and The Children´s Society

X Street (20:00 - 22:00)

A live journey through a neighbourhood in stand-by.
A street outside the map, a flat-share clash, a hairdresser starting her own business, a dodgy £5 note that circulates around, an Olympic car wash, a delayed wedding and a community that keeps its doors locked. Get on our minibus, fasten your seatbelts, put on the headphones and immerse yourself inside residents' bedrooms, kitchens, showers, fridges, pockets and minds.

A performance by réaltympanica: Ioana Paun, Robert Redmer, Renata Gaspar and James Bulley.

Also featuring: Cristina Catalina, Naia Headland-vanni, Dhaniella Mauger, Jessica Latowicki, Graham McGowan, Christian Hogas, Julie Simpson, Kevin Molin, Mario Christofides, Sara Amini, Tiernan Patton, Bill Perry, Nick Llewellyn.

The project focuses on the social and sound landscape and lifestyle implications of the 2012 Olympic Games reconstruction plans in the Hackney area, East London.
Developed by Ioana Paun through the Attic Arts residency programme at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

Partners: Goldsmiths College, Hackney Wick Community Centre.

When: February 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 @ 8pm;
Where: Hackney Wick, London.
Free event. Pick-up and Drop-off points to be confirmed when booking.
Booking and Information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 0791 532 6387.

Roma London Exhibition (12:00 - 18:00)
The work has developed from collaboration between a group of teenage Roma women, led by photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of The Children´s Society. Previous representations of Roma people show them as either romantic and free or living in desperate poverty. The large format and digital images taken by the group break from these stereotypes. The young women document a crucial moment in their lives as they undergo many complex transitions: from girlhood into womanhood, from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism and from passive outsiders to active participants in society.

“... and in the modern world, when reality is not recoded it does not exist.”

Come and discover the reality of Roma London.

Private View
10th February 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Open
11th - 19th February 2010, 12pm – 6pm

Art Pavilion
Mile End Park
London
E3 4QY
Five min from Mile End Tube

Contact
Manuela Zanotti
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0790 355 7926

Jacob Garber
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0207 474 7222

Funded by Mediabox and The Children´s Society

X Street (20:00 - 22:00)

A live journey through a neighbourhood in stand-by.
A street outside the map, a flat-share clash, a hairdresser starting her own business, a dodgy £5 note that circulates around, an Olympic car wash, a delayed wedding and a community that keeps its doors locked. Get on our minibus, fasten your seatbelts, put on the headphones and immerse yourself inside residents' bedrooms, kitchens, showers, fridges, pockets and minds.

A performance by réaltympanica: Ioana Paun, Robert Redmer, Renata Gaspar and James Bulley.

Also featuring: Cristina Catalina, Naia Headland-vanni, Dhaniella Mauger, Jessica Latowicki, Graham McGowan, Christian Hogas, Julie Simpson, Kevin Molin, Mario Christofides, Sara Amini, Tiernan Patton, Bill Perry, Nick Llewellyn.

The project focuses on the social and sound landscape and lifestyle implications of the 2012 Olympic Games reconstruction plans in the Hackney area, East London.
Developed by Ioana Paun through the Attic Arts residency programme at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

Partners: Goldsmiths College, Hackney Wick Community Centre.

When: February 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 @ 8pm;
Where: Hackney Wick, London.
Free event. Pick-up and Drop-off points to be confirmed when booking.
Booking and Information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 0791 532 6387.

Roma London Exhibition (12:00 - 18:00)
The work has developed from collaboration between a group of teenage Roma women, led by photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of The Children´s Society. Previous representations of Roma people show them as either romantic and free or living in desperate poverty. The large format and digital images taken by the group break from these stereotypes. The young women document a crucial moment in their lives as they undergo many complex transitions: from girlhood into womanhood, from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism and from passive outsiders to active participants in society.

“... and in the modern world, when reality is not recoded it does not exist.”

Come and discover the reality of Roma London.

Private View
10th February 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Open
11th - 19th February 2010, 12pm – 6pm

Art Pavilion
Mile End Park
London
E3 4QY
Five min from Mile End Tube

Contact
Manuela Zanotti
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0790 355 7926

Jacob Garber
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0207 474 7222

Funded by Mediabox and The Children´s Society

X Street (20:00 - 22:00)

A live journey through a neighbourhood in stand-by.
A street outside the map, a flat-share clash, a hairdresser starting her own business, a dodgy £5 note that circulates around, an Olympic car wash, a delayed wedding and a community that keeps its doors locked. Get on our minibus, fasten your seatbelts, put on the headphones and immerse yourself inside residents' bedrooms, kitchens, showers, fridges, pockets and minds.

A performance by réaltympanica: Ioana Paun, Robert Redmer, Renata Gaspar and James Bulley.

Also featuring: Cristina Catalina, Naia Headland-vanni, Dhaniella Mauger, Jessica Latowicki, Graham McGowan, Christian Hogas, Julie Simpson, Kevin Molin, Mario Christofides, Sara Amini, Tiernan Patton, Bill Perry, Nick Llewellyn.

The project focuses on the social and sound landscape and lifestyle implications of the 2012 Olympic Games reconstruction plans in the Hackney area, East London.
Developed by Ioana Paun through the Attic Arts residency programme at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

Partners: Goldsmiths College, Hackney Wick Community Centre.

When: February 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 @ 8pm;
Where: Hackney Wick, London.
Free event. Pick-up and Drop-off points to be confirmed when booking.
Booking and Information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 0791 532 6387.

Roma London Exhibition (12:00 - 18:00)
The work has developed from collaboration between a group of teenage Roma women, led by photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of The Children´s Society. Previous representations of Roma people show them as either romantic and free or living in desperate poverty. The large format and digital images taken by the group break from these stereotypes. The young women document a crucial moment in their lives as they undergo many complex transitions: from girlhood into womanhood, from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism and from passive outsiders to active participants in society.

“... and in the modern world, when reality is not recoded it does not exist.”

Come and discover the reality of Roma London.

Private View
10th February 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Open
11th - 19th February 2010, 12pm – 6pm

Art Pavilion
Mile End Park
London
E3 4QY
Five min from Mile End Tube

Contact
Manuela Zanotti
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0790 355 7926

Jacob Garber
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0207 474 7222

Funded by Mediabox and The Children´s Society

Roma London Exhibition (12:00 - 18:00)
The work has developed from collaboration between a group of teenage Roma women, led by photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of The Children´s Society. Previous representations of Roma people show them as either romantic and free or living in desperate poverty. The large format and digital images taken by the group break from these stereotypes. The young women document a crucial moment in their lives as they undergo many complex transitions: from girlhood into womanhood, from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism and from passive outsiders to active participants in society.

“... and in the modern world, when reality is not recoded it does not exist.”

Come and discover the reality of Roma London.

Private View
10th February 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Open
11th - 19th February 2010, 12pm – 6pm

Art Pavilion
Mile End Park
London
E3 4QY
Five min from Mile End Tube

Contact
Manuela Zanotti
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0790 355 7926

Jacob Garber
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0207 474 7222

Funded by Mediabox and The Children´s Society

Photo Exhibition: ‘Not Natasha’ By Dana Popa At Impressions Gallery, Bradford (08:00 - 09:00)
Impressions Gallery, in partnership with Autograph ABP, presents ‘Not Natasha’ by award-winning photographer Dana Popa.
This hard-hitting and harrowing project, made over the last four years, documents the experiences of sex-trafficked women from Moldova through photography and collected stories. Popa says, ‘Natasha is the nickname given to prostitutes with Eastern European looks. Sex trafficked girls hate it’.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moldova is one of the main source countries for trafficking women and children, with up to 10% of the female population sold into prostitution abroad. Popa photographed and documented the disturbing experiences of these women in Moldova. She also collected the stories of those who remain disappeared, photographing their families, homes, and in some cases children who were left behind. Finally, she documented the spaces where trafficked women are forced into prostitution in the brothels of Soho, London.
Dana Popa (born 1977, Romania) is an award-winning photo-artist based in London who graduated from the London College of Communication. She specialises in contemporary social issues, with a particular emphasis on human rights.
• Not Natasha
Until 18 April 2010 (exhibition open from 5 February), Impressions Gallery, Impressions Gallery, Centenary Square, Bradford BD1 1SD, Tel. 08450 515 882 Join us for an Artist Talk with Dana Popa on Saturday 27 February 2010, 14.00-15.00.
Details on www.impressions-gallery.com

Roma London Exhibition (12:00 - 18:00)
The work has developed from collaboration between a group of teenage Roma women, led by photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of The Children´s Society. Previous representations of Roma people show them as either romantic and free or living in desperate poverty. The large format and digital images taken by the group break from these stereotypes. The young women document a crucial moment in their lives as they undergo many complex transitions: from girlhood into womanhood, from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism and from passive outsiders to active participants in society.

“... and in the modern world, when reality is not recoded it does not exist.”

Come and discover the reality of Roma London.

Private View
10th February 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Open
11th - 19th February 2010, 12pm – 6pm

Art Pavilion
Mile End Park
London
E3 4QY
Five min from Mile End Tube

Contact
Manuela Zanotti
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0790 355 7926

Jacob Garber
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0207 474 7222

Funded by Mediabox and The Children´s Society

Works By UK-based Romanian Artist Florin Ungureanu On Show (12:00 - 18:00)
UK-based Romanian artist Florin Ungureanu would like to invite you to see his work in two distinct art exhibitions in London:
‘Exhibitionism’ at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, and Michael Landy’s ‘Art Bin’ at South London Gallery.
• Florin Ungureanu within ‘Exhibitionism, The Art of Display’
Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. Details on opening times and forthcoming events on www.eastwingnine.co.uk
Open to the public first weekend of each month from 23 January 2010 to July 2011.
• Florin Ungureanu within Michael Landy’s ‘Art Bin’
South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH; Tel. 020 7703 6120. Details onwww.southlondongallery.org
Exhibition open from 29 January to 14 March 2010, Tue-Sun 12.00-18.00. Closed on Mondays.

Four Romanian Artist (08:00 - 09:00)

The Romanian Cultural Institute in London presents the exhibition Four Romanian Artists, including painting and drawing by Florica Prevenda, Anca Boeriu, Florin Stoiciu and Alexandru Radvan. The works illustrate four books by award-winning Romanian writers Mircea Ivanescu, Max Blecher, Constantin Noica and Ioan Grosan published by the University of Plymouth Press in 2009.

The books are part of a new series called 20 Romanian Writers, a landmark collection of the very best Romanian writing from the past 100 years. The first four volumes of the series are: Lines poems by Mircea Ivanescu, Occurence in the immediate reality by Max Blecher, Six maladies of the contemporary spirit by Constantin Noica and The cinematography caravan by Ioan Grosan.

Each volume is complemented with a 16 page full color supplement featuring acclaimed Romanian visual artists.

Florica Prevenda (b. 1959) lives and works in Bucharest. Her work layers visual-tactile matter over urban signs of human presence. Taking the face as a fundamental theme, she inscribes existentially pithy messages through the surface, the imprints and the crust of the tones of white, grey and black. As with Ivanescu's poetry, the affects are elusive, yet evocative.
Exhibitions include Face at the National Museum of Art, Bucharest (1999); Metropolis in the Shadow of the Present, Simeza (2004). Solo exhibitions at Arthus Gallery, Brussels (1999, 2001, 2004).

Anca Boeriu (b. 1957) is a painter and illustrator. She is influenced by human bodies that are always in a state of tension, so there is a relationship between Blecher's condition and her art - Blecher had spinal TB, and remained in bed for the last ten years of his life.
Boeriu is an associate lecturer at the National University of the Arts, Bucharest. Awards include: First prize for installation, Radio France International, Paris (1991) and Lithography award, Tulcea, Romania (1994).

Florin Stoiciu (b. 1965) is Senior Lecturer at the University of Arts in Bucharest. His concerns are stylistic and thematic; including sharp, sometimes comic observation. Allegorical in effect, human dillemas are invoked. Like Noica, his explorations of change in Romania are bitter-sweet, with an existential undertone.
Winner of the Romanian youth prize and first prizes for Bibliophile books, 1996 and Dominus contest 1993 and 1995.

Alexandru Radvan (b. 1977) lectures at the University of Arts in Bucharest. He questions essential notions of meaning and reality, Christian belief structures and ancient mythologies. Nihilistic in tone, like Grosan, his art investigates rhetorics of truth and ambiguity.
Personal exhibitions include: Wond'ring aloud, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest; Zeus & Europa, Calina Gallery, Timisoara; and Huldigung des Judas & der Kreuzfahrer, Hattingen. Awards: Opera Prima, Prometheus Awards 2007 and Alexandru Tzipoia Foundation Prize for the best exhibition of 2001.

When: 21 January - 19 February 2010, Mon-Fri: 10am - 5pm;
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PH
Free entry.

Roma London Exhibition (12:00 - 18:00)
The work has developed from collaboration between a group of teenage Roma women, led by photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of The Children´s Society. Previous representations of Roma people show them as either romantic and free or living in desperate poverty. The large format and digital images taken by the group break from these stereotypes. The young women document a crucial moment in their lives as they undergo many complex transitions: from girlhood into womanhood, from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism and from passive outsiders to active participants in society.

“... and in the modern world, when reality is not recoded it does not exist.”

Come and discover the reality of Roma London.

Private View
10th February 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Open
11th - 19th February 2010, 12pm – 6pm

Art Pavilion
Mile End Park
London
E3 4QY
Five min from Mile End Tube

Contact
Manuela Zanotti
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0790 355 7926

Jacob Garber
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0207 474 7222

Funded by Mediabox and The Children´s Society

A Musical Journey From Romania To Venezuela (18:30 - 19:30)
Pianista Anda Anastasescu & London Schubert Players va invita cordial sa participati la o calatorie muzicala neobisnuita in data de 18 februarie la Bolivar Hall, Londra, incepand cu ora 18.30.

Concertul reprezinta un Salut pentru aniversarea de 200 de ani de la cistigarea Independentei Venezuelei.

Concertul este gratuit si contine Premiera Londoneza a piesei Danse and Improvisation pentru Solo Contrabas de Mihai Cretu (1960 - ), contrabasistul London Schubert Players. Piesa este inspirata de cintecul folcloric romanesc Capitanul de Judet, despre un taran sarac care e arestat fiindca a furat un cal. El il roaga pe Capitan sa-i dea drumul fiindca a furat calul pentru a-l vinde ca sa-si poata hrani copiii muritori de foame. Capitanul il intelege si ii reda libertatea.

Binecunoscuta pianista Anda Anastasescu si tinarul violonist roman de exceptie, Radu Bitica, vor participa in program.
De asemenea, Anda Anastasescu va prezenta un atelier inainte de concert, cu compozitorul Englez John Reeman.

Va asteptam sa petrecem o seara placuta impreuna,

Ionela Flood
Consultant
Proiectul Invitation to composers

Roma London Exhibition (12:00 - 18:00)
The work has developed from collaboration between a group of teenage Roma women, led by photographer Manuela Zanotti and Jacob Garber of The Children´s Society. Previous representations of Roma people show them as either romantic and free or living in desperate poverty. The large format and digital images taken by the group break from these stereotypes. The young women document a crucial moment in their lives as they undergo many complex transitions: from girlhood into womanhood, from Eastern European segregation to attempted British multiculturalism and from passive outsiders to active participants in society.

“... and in the modern world, when reality is not recoded it does not exist.”

Come and discover the reality of Roma London.

Private View
10th February 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Open
11th - 19th February 2010, 12pm – 6pm

Art Pavilion
Mile End Park
London
E3 4QY
Five min from Mile End Tube

Contact
Manuela Zanotti
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0790 355 7926

Jacob Garber
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
0207 474 7222

Funded by Mediabox and The Children´s Society

Florin Ungureanu In East Wing Nine: EXHIBITIONISM, The Art Of Display (08:00 - 09:00)
East Wing Nine
EXHIBITIONISM
The Art of Display, at The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House London
http://www.eastwingnine.co.uk , please click and drag the images that appear into to the frame to see more images!

Open to the public first weekend of each month from 23 January 2010 to July 2011.

There are 11 different zones in the show:

1. Introduction
2. Cabinet of Curiosities
3. The Private Collection
4. Distance & Illusion
5. Other Men's Flowers
6. Fragments
7. Pop-up Exhibition
8. Material Boundaries
9. Reproduction
10 Academy Hang: My painting is there!
11. Video

More info on: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/east_wing/

Writers Andrew Eames And William Blacker At The Travel Bookshop, Notting Hill (19:00 - 21:00)
Writers Andrew Eames and William Blacker at The Travel Bookshop, Notting Hill

The Travel Bookshop in Notting Hill presents two conversations with two writers who wrote about Romania recently, Andrew Eames and William Blacker – whose books have been presented in previous editions of this e-bulletin.

• ‘Blue River, Black Sea: A Journey Along the Danube into the Heart of the New Europe’

Andrew Eames in conversation with Roger Williams - Thursday 18 February 2010

The Danube is Europe’s Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. Andrew Eames' journey along its length brings us face to face with the Continent's bloodiest history and its most pressing issues of race and identity. As he travels - by bicycle, horse, boat and on foot - Eames finds himself seeking a bed for the night with minor royalty, hitching a ride on a Serbian barge captained by a man called Attila and getting up close and personal with a bull in rural Romania. He meets would-be kings and walks with gypsies, and finally rows his way beyond the borders of Europe entirely. • ‘The Enchanted Way: A Romanian Story’

William Blacker in conversation with Jason Goodwin – Tuesday 23 February 2010

When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world.
There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. There he experienced the traditional way of life to the full, and became accepted into a community who treated him as one of their own. But Blacker was also intrigued by the Gypsies, those dark, foot-loose strangers of spell-binding allure who he saw passing through the village. Locals warned him to stay clear but he fell in love and there followed a bitter struggle. ‘Along the Enchanted Way’ transports us back to a magical country world most of us thought had vanished long ago.

• Andrew Eames and William Blacker in Conversation
All talks start at 19.00 (Doors 18.30), The Travel Bookshop, 13-15 Blenheim Crescent, London W11 2EE; Tel. 020 7229 5260. Tickets £3 (includes wine). Booking essential.

Details on www.thetravelbookshop.com

Writers Andrew Eames And William Blacker At The Travel Bookshop, Notting Hill (19:00 - 21:00)
Writers Andrew Eames and William Blacker at The Travel Bookshop, Notting Hill

The Travel Bookshop in Notting Hill presents two conversations with two writers who wrote about Romania recently, Andrew Eames and William Blacker – whose books have been presented in previous editions of this e-bulletin.

• ‘Blue River, Black Sea: A Journey Along the Danube into the Heart of the New Europe’

Andrew Eames in conversation with Roger Williams - Thursday 18 February 2010

The Danube is Europe’s Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. Andrew Eames' journey along its length brings us face to face with the Continent's bloodiest history and its most pressing issues of race and identity. As he travels - by bicycle, horse, boat and on foot - Eames finds himself seeking a bed for the night with minor royalty, hitching a ride on a Serbian barge captained by a man called Attila and getting up close and personal with a bull in rural Romania. He meets would-be kings and walks with gypsies, and finally rows his way beyond the borders of Europe entirely. • ‘The Enchanted Way: A Romanian Story’

William Blacker in conversation with Jason Goodwin – Tuesday 23 February 2010

When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world.
There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. There he experienced the traditional way of life to the full, and became accepted into a community who treated him as one of their own. But Blacker was also intrigued by the Gypsies, those dark, foot-loose strangers of spell-binding allure who he saw passing through the village. Locals warned him to stay clear but he fell in love and there followed a bitter struggle. ‘Along the Enchanted Way’ transports us back to a magical country world most of us thought had vanished long ago.

• Andrew Eames and William Blacker in Conversation
All talks start at 19.00 (Doors 18.30), The Travel Bookshop, 13-15 Blenheim Crescent, London W11 2EE; Tel. 020 7229 5260. Tickets £3 (includes wine). Booking essential.

Details on www.thetravelbookshop.com

Photo Exhibition: ‘Not Natasha’ By Dana Popa At Impressions Gallery, Bradford (08:00 - 09:00)
Impressions Gallery, in partnership with Autograph ABP, presents ‘Not Natasha’ by award-winning photographer Dana Popa.
This hard-hitting and harrowing project, made over the last four years, documents the experiences of sex-trafficked women from Moldova through photography and collected stories. Popa says, ‘Natasha is the nickname given to prostitutes with Eastern European looks. Sex trafficked girls hate it’.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moldova is one of the main source countries for trafficking women and children, with up to 10% of the female population sold into prostitution abroad. Popa photographed and documented the disturbing experiences of these women in Moldova. She also collected the stories of those who remain disappeared, photographing their families, homes, and in some cases children who were left behind. Finally, she documented the spaces where trafficked women are forced into prostitution in the brothels of Soho, London.
Dana Popa (born 1977, Romania) is an award-winning photo-artist based in London who graduated from the London College of Communication. She specialises in contemporary social issues, with a particular emphasis on human rights.
• Not Natasha
Until 18 April 2010 (exhibition open from 5 February), Impressions Gallery, Impressions Gallery, Centenary Square, Bradford BD1 1SD, Tel. 08450 515 882 Join us for an Artist Talk with Dana Popa on Saturday 27 February 2010, 14.00-15.00.
Details on www.impressions-gallery.com

Works By UK-based Romanian Artist Florin Ungureanu On Show (12:00 - 18:00)
UK-based Romanian artist Florin Ungureanu would like to invite you to see his work in two distinct art exhibitions in London:
‘Exhibitionism’ at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, and Michael Landy’s ‘Art Bin’ at South London Gallery.
• Florin Ungureanu within ‘Exhibitionism, The Art of Display’
Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. Details on opening times and forthcoming events on www.eastwingnine.co.uk
Open to the public first weekend of each month from 23 January 2010 to July 2011.
• Florin Ungureanu within Michael Landy’s ‘Art Bin’
South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH; Tel. 020 7703 6120. Details onwww.southlondongallery.org
Exhibition open from 29 January to 14 March 2010, Tue-Sun 12.00-18.00. Closed on Mondays.

Urmatoarea Intalnire "Read It! Swap It!" (19:00 - 22:00)
As we thoroughly enjoyed our January joint meeting, we're planning a similar one on 28th February. The book to be discussed is Vikram Seth's, An equal muse. A book about love and love for music, a particularly interesting as it comes with a soundtrack: An Equal Music / Verwandte Stimmen - Music From the Novel. Enjoy! For those of you who haven't joined us before, just a quick reminder:

How it works
- we meet at 7 pm to discuss a specific book: Vikram Seth's An Equal Muse is our choice for 28th February;
- someone volunteers to present the book (this only means introducing it and saying a few things to get the discussion going)
- we discuss the book for up to an hour, then stop for something to eat (we each bring food and drink to share)
- the evening ends between 9.30 - 10.00pm, having chosen the next date and venue.
 
Please let us know if you're interested in joining this meeting (either by leaving a comment here or by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )! Sorry, it'll have to be a smaller group again, so we'll have to confirm guests on a first-come first-served basis.