Events
Camil Petrescu National Colloquium
In 2014 when we celebrate 120 years from the birth of Camil Petrescu (9th/22nd of April 1894), the Cultural Foundation that carries his name and the magazine Theatre today (Teatrul azi) (the successor of the publication founded by the writer in 1956) want to celebrate him in an independent setting from the conjuncture jubilees promoted with a lot more diligence by the current deciders of Romanian culture.
The main event of the programme which they named Camil Petrescu Year will take place on Wednesday, the 23rd of April, at 11:00 a.m., in the National Theatre of Bucharest's Media Hall and in its foyer.
On the International Day of the Book and Copyright, nationally celebrated along with Librarian's Day, the "Camil Petrescu" Cultural Foundation and the magazine Theatre today (Teatrul azi) are organizing with the support of the Writers' Union of Romania in partnership with the "Ion Sava" Researching and Theatrical Creation Centre of "I. L. Caragiale" National Theatre and with the National Museum of Romanian Literature the colloquium through which they are suggesting to reassert in the consciousness of the contemporary public (especially the young one) a personality and a creation that are still ignored for their essential values.
The National Theatre's manager between February and December 1939, Camil Petrescu - novelist, dramatist, theatre theorist, philosopher, poet, journalist, magazine creator and manager, redoubtable polemical spirit of his era - will be evoked at the NTB's Media Hall by personalities of Romanian culture such as Nicolae Manolescu, George Banu, Paul Cornea, Ion Vartic, Ioana Pârvulescu, Natalia Stancu and Cornel Ungureanu.
The actors Ilinca Tomoroveanu, Șerban Cellea, Marius Stănescu, Emilia Bebu, and Vlad Logigan will be reading pages from Camil Petrescu's creation.
The hosts of this event will be Ioana Pârvulescu and Florica Ichim.
At the beginning of the colloquium, at 11:00 a.m., the public is invited to visit, in the Media Hall's foyer (the entrance from Tudor Arghezi Street), the Camil Petrescu - 120 photo-documentary exposition, conceived by Ofelia Creția and generously offered by the National Museum of Romanian Literature.
The colloquium will be completed by the presentation of the most recent titles from the author's series of the Camil Petrescu Cultural Foundation: the complete collection in anastatic edition of the interwar publication The Literary Stronghold and also a bipolar book containing the piece Caragiale in his period written by Camil Petrescu and The Process of "Camil's Comrade", document of literary history owed to Ion Vartic.
Translated by: Dumitrescu Ioana-Alexandra
MTTLC, The University of Bucharest
