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The beginning of a year, be it an atypical one, with restrictions imposed by the pandemic, is still a moment of balance but also one open to the projects that need to be started, continued, or completed. 10 years after the premiere of "The Letter", one of the most personal visions that made the Caragiale 2012 programme unique at NTB, Horațiu Mălăele proposes for 2022 (when we celebrate the 170th anniversary since the author's birth) a spectacular version, "revised and improved" : if in 2012, the director Mălăele had opted to give up the entire act 3 of Caragiale's comedy, on January 12th, 2022, A Lost Letter returns to the stage of NTB's "Ion Caramitru" Hall in its entirety, with all the ingredients added by the last act of this delicious love story and political intrigue. "A Lost Letter" is a show built on the profile of the old Letter, in a new formula, added and enriching, towards the peace of conservatives and the passion of theatre lovers, says Horaţiu Mălăele. A brilliant cast will give life to the world so colourful on the stage and behind the scenes of Romanian politics. Along with: Horațiu Mălăele (Dandanache), Mircea Rusu (Tipătescu), Virgil Ogăşanu (Trahanache), Mihai Constantin (Caţavencu), Marian Râlea (The drunk citizen), Raluca Petra (Zoe), Marius Rizea (Farfuridi), Mihai Calotă / Eduard Adam (Brânzovenescu), Marcelo S. Cobzariu (Pristanda), many “citizens” and “policemen” will enter the stage, as well as a fabulous orchestra conducted by the accordion master, Emy Drăgoi. The first performances in 2022 will take place on January 12th, 13th, 14th, 19th and 20th. On the Day of National Culture, on January 15th, 2022, the "IL Caragiale" National Theatre offers to those interested free guided tours at 10.00, 12.00, 14.00 and 16.00 (within the available seats, in order of registration). The maximum number of visitors for 1 tour is 15 people. Registrations can be made starting with January 12th, 2022 between 10.00 - 16.00 at 021.314.71.71 (NTB Box Office). The meeting point with Ionuț Corpaci for the guided tours: in front of the Box Office from the foyer of the NTB “Ion Caramitru” Hall. Access only based on a green certificate. Wearing a mask is mandatory throughout the visit. The plays from the traditional repertoire are complemented by a new title, starting with January 13th, 2022, in the programme of NTB's Studio Hall: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. Paul Zindel's play marks an extraordinary new encounter with a grand actress, Oana Pellea, seconded by Alexandrina Halic, Florina Gleznea, Cristina Casian. A text whose expressiveness, blending moments of drama, poetry, humour, sarcasm, self-irony, earned its author a Pulitzer Prize in 1971. The show talks about the tense relationship between generations, about making fun of a miserable life, about despair to a mother who lives with the care of tomorrow, but also about hope. Mariana Cămărășan's show extracts poetry from the prose of a hard life, lending the text rhythm, frenzy, sensitivity, and humour. A play-metaphor about three "marigolds" exposed to the strongest radiation, those of life: when the radiation is well dosed, the marigolds come to life; when the radiation is too strong, the delicate flowers wither. The Romanian Theatre Tour in Bucharest, Iasi and Kishinev continues this year as well! On the evening of January 16th, on the stage of the Studio Hall, the „Mihai Eminescu National Theatre of Kishinev opens the tour - 2022 edition, being also the 8th - with the show Hamlet in Spicy Sauce by Aldo Nicolaj, directed by Alexandru Cozub, with a single representation. Along with this programme news, a manifold repertoire awaits you in the theatre halls! We remind you of the premieres of 2021, which we warmly invite you not to miss. These were: Incognito - Open Doors for Everybody programme, Let's talk about life! - Play of the Year 2020, UNITER contest, Carnival Stuff, Stupid Fucking Bird - Open Doors for Everybody programme, Kiritza, of the Game of… - show produced by NTB in co-production with the Art Production Foundation and Gigi Căciuleanu Romania Dance Company with the support of JTI (200th anniversary of Alecsandri's birth), Extraordinary Life - NTB's 9G Programme, Helver's Night - Open Doors for Everybody programme. It should be noted that 3 of these awards are due to the Open Doors for Everybody programme, which means that NTB actors have managed to compensate through their initiatives the unwanted stagnation of activities, imposed by both epidemiological measures and some budgetary constraints. We hope to return soon with news about the first performances in preparation at the National Theatreof Bucharest. Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Based on Government Decision no. 1242 of 8 December 2021, on the extension of the state of alert on the territory of Romania for 30 days, starting on 9 December 2021, and the establishment of measures to be applied during its duration to prevent and combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with the provisions of Annex 3 ("Measures to mitigate the impact of the type of risk"), art. 1, point 6: "The organization and conduct of activities in cinemas, entertainment institutions and/or concerts in closed or open spaces are allowed with the participation of the audience up to 50% of the maximum capacity of the space during the time frame 5.00 a.m. - 10.00 p.m. and wearing protective masks. Attendance is permitted only for persons who are vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 and for whom 10 days have elapsed since the completion of the full vaccination scheme, persons with a negative result of an RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 infection not older than 72 hours or a certified negative result of a rapid antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 infection not older than 48 hours, respectively persons who are between the 15th day and the 180th day after confirmation of infection with SARS-CoV-2 virus, under the conditions laid down by the joint order of the Minister of Culture and the Minister of Health issued pursuant to Article 44 and Art. 71 para. (2) of Law 55/2020, as amended and supplemented;..." Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

Premiere at the end of the year at NTB: Helver's Night by Ingmar Villqist At NTB, an electrifying staging, an extraordinary text and a brilliant acting tandem: Amalia Ciolan and Andrei Huțuleac. Years ago, one of the shows presented at the NETA International Theatre Festival organized in 2015 by NTB aroused the unanimous enthusiasm of the spectators. Presented by the VF Komissarjevskaia Academic Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg, under the signature of a renowned director, Aleksandr Bargman, with two exceptional performers, the show was based on the text Helver's Night, written in 1999 by a little-known playwright Ingmar Villqist (the literary pseudonym of the Polish playwright and art history teacher Jarosław Świerszcz), a text meanwhile performed in many theatres in Poland and Europe. Today, the extraordinary play Helver's Night returns to the attention of our audience, in the interpretation of an exceptional duo: Amalia Ciolan (who, impressed by the quality of this text, proposed it in the NTB programme "Open Doors for All") and Andrei Huţuleac, a young actor with multiple resources, recently co-opted into the NTB troupe, who has already successfully established himself as a film and theatre director in the Romanian cultural space. If for Andrei Huţuleac, the role of Helver is the green card of his first premiere at NTB, for Amalia Ciolan, established actress in the theatre troupe, performer - among others - of the disturbing recital "20 Years in Siberia", in which her dramatic temperament encounters a matching score, Karla’s rolein "Helver's Night" represents the fulfillment of a dream and, at the same time, a reconfirmation of her virtues as an actress of great dramatic power.  The show is directed by Matei Lucaci-Grünberg, a young artist with successful performances staged in the independent theatre and a series of short films selected in numerous film festivals, a rich record that includes several awards for directing, for dramaturgy, rewarded being also some acting creations from his shows. The plot takes place in one night and stars a young man with disabilities who sees the world through the eyes of a child and a mature woman, hard tried by fate, who are united by the same need to be loved. A single night, full of unimaginable drama, in which the terrible events that threaten from beyond the windows are intertwined with painful memories now brought to light… The tenderness between the two, the games of truth, the dances by the light of torches, all seem to keep the violence at a safe distance. The fanaticism at Helver is just an opportunity to do gymnastics exercises, the angry chants - an opportunity to greet his friends, extremism - a simple role play. Everything seems to be just a convention…, until the march of history reaches their door and the play of defenseless people turns into a helpless cry for salvation. The play was also appreciated for the force with which it arouses interest in some of the most acute problems of our reality. The audience is invited to an electrifying staging, in which the life scenes collide with the convulsions of society, in an intense emotional rollercoaster. Preview on December 17th and 18th, and the official premiere on December 19th, 2021, from 8.00 p.m., at the Black Box Hall.   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

On a festive day, the doors of the National Theatre of Bucharest remain open to the audience. The theatre will be open for visits and those who choose December 1st will have the opportunity to sign up for the 1000th guided tour! Guided tours, a video projection on the theatre's façade, immortal lyrics and an invitation to an online event, an opportunity to reflect on major moments in recent history, make up the programme for 1 December 2021 at NTB. From 2013 to date, the NTB Guided Tour project has attracted tens of thousands of participants. The idea started from the desire to get the public acquainted with the unseen face of the largest theatre in Romania and South-East Europe, as the National Theatre of Bucharest looks after its reconfiguration and rehabilitation. The guided tours are a real highlight in the NTB "calendar" for those who come to see the building inside, where they have the opportunity to discover otherwise inaccessible places and learn a lot of interesting things about the life of the theatre today and yesterday. Of the six directors who, after 1969, defined the NTB strategy and focused, with commitment, on the development of the National, only two of them also took on the role of founders. When Radu Beligan was appointed manager of the National, the site of the new NTB had not yet been completed. When Ion Caramitru came to manage the NTB, following a competition, the theatre had to be rebuilt and reimagined, transformed into a theatre of the present, to 21st century standards. You will find out the secrets of the building and its reconstruction in the 1000th TNB Guided Tour, which will focus on and be dedicated to the memory of the two managers Radu Beligan and Ion Caramitru. The guided tours started as early as the reconstruction, on "Master Beligan’s" birthday (14 December 2013), when the Studio Hall refurbishment was completed and the premiere of the show "Gossip, Rumours and Lies" took place. Over the past eight years, the NTB Guided Tours have been attended by Prince Charles of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, theatre directors from Romania and abroad, ambassadors from many countries around the world. Among the visitors, there were also many young people - students of architecture, directing, scenography, acting, students of schools and high schools in Bucharest, etc. In April 2018, the NTB Guided Tour reached a record. A total of 149 Romanian language teachers from high schools visited the National Theatre building. NTB will also be present online on December 1st, by broadcasting on NTB's Youtube channel one of the most exciting lectures in the well-known National Theatre Lecture series, based on the speech given by Ion Caramitru on 18 February 1992 in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons in London, entitled The Limits of Expectation. The lecture was recorded on 28 January 2007 at the National Theatre of Bucharest, shortly after Romania's entry into the European Union. At the entrance to the “Ion Caramitru” Hall, verses from Eminescu's lyrics will be uttered by some of the great actors of the first stage: George Vraca, Gheorghe Cozorici, Mircea Albulescu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, George Calboreanu, Leopoldina Bălănuță, Ion Caramitru, Ilinca Tomoroveanu. On the façade of the "Ion Caramitru" Hall of the NTB will be projected sequences from the feature film Untamed Romania, captured by an extraordinary film crew who wanted to show the whole world the natural beauty of Romania. An Auchan project, the documentary had its premiere in March 2018, right at the National Theatre of Bucharest. The film, which also has an international version, has had screenings with audiences in over 30 countries on four continents. Translated by Simona Nichiteanu

Victor Eftimiu's comedy The Man Who Saw Death, staged at the National Theatre of Bucharest by Dan Tudor, as director, is preparing for its 200th encounter with the audience, which will take place on Saturday, November 13th, 2021, at 8 p.m. at the Painting Hall!  The comedy The Man Who Saw Death, written in 1928, proves, to the delight of the audience, the topicality of its lines and the freshness of its comic situations. The late critic Mircea Ghițulescu wrote about the subject of the play and its inter-war recipe: "Victor Eftimiu's comedy still arouses the interest of theatres nowadays thanks to the main character, the Vagabond, a kind of funny, witty and clever rogue. He will succeed, by means of parallel strategies, in imposing his saviour as the favourite among the candidates for mayor of the town. The role is exhibitionist, insolent and funambulist - wrote the critic, somehow anticipating the creation, on the double score entrusted to the very young actor at the time of the premiere, Lari Giorgescu. A real parade for a young comedian", that's exactly what the character has proved to be for the beloved actor during the eight years since the premiere. He is the Vagabond, the Man Who Saw Death, and he had just made his debut with a smashing success on the stage of the National Theatre, as a "dancer-actor", in the role of Cațavencu in the show Our Stuff conceived by Gigi Căciuleanu. It was in 2012, only a year before this premiere. The generous dramatic score gives you the opportunity to encounter a series of memorable characters, played by stars of the Bucharest National: Costel Constantin, Adela Mărculescu, Marius Bodochi, Florentina Țilea, Răzvan Oprea. The set design is signed by Corina Grămoșteanu and the music by Gabriel Basarabescu. "Dan Tudor signs the direction of a show played with unbridled passion and intelligent humour, where actors from the golden generation of our theatre meet with young talents, to give flavour to one of the most beautiful creations in Romanian drama", reported Ziarul Metropolis. At this anniversary, director Dan Tudor would like to send a few thoughts to those who have constantly and persistently filled the halls of this show, attesting to its success: "Thank you Audience, Your Highness! 200 performances!!! Who would have thought! Multiplying 200 performances by 200 spectators on average, it follows that 40,000 people saw this show!!! Reason for great joy. Our experience was complemented by the laughter, silence and concentration of 40,000 people who applauded Costel, Adela, Marius, Lari, Florentina, Răzvan and Tatiana. Theatre continues to attract and amaze!". We invite you to spend a relaxing weekend in the company of an extraordinary cast, bringing to life an ageless farce! Maybe you did not get a seat for this evening, but as actor Lari Giorgescu's hope (stated in an interview that you'll be able to watch online soon) is to play about 200 performances from now on, we're waiting for you at one of the following performances of the immortal play The Man Who Saw Death!   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

The performance by Florentina Țilea, "Let's Talk about Life" by Ana Sorina Corneanu, directed by Zsuzsánna Kovács was selected for the NTF - section Creation. Feminine Among the performances invited to this year's NTF is "Carnival Stuff" by I.L. Caragiale, directed by Alexandru Dabija, which premiered at the end of June 2021. The 31st edition of the National Theatre Festival will take place from 06 to 14 November 2021, in online format, due to pandemic restrictions. Critics Oana Cristea Grigorescu, Cristina Rusiecki and Claudiu Groza, selectors and artistic directors of the current edition, have announced the list of participating shows in the NTF 2021. This year's concept is "Creation. Recreation. Re-creation", which also subsumes the NTF sections. The 38 selected performances from the country will be joined by performance installations, visual installations, productions from abroad and related events. "We turned to this umbrella concept - Creation. Recreation. Re-creation - because we believe it best represents the current situation of Romanian theatre. Despite the obstacles of the last few years, pandemic, financial, political even, the local theatre is experiencing a remarkable effervescence and diversity. True, it is often a kind of desperate survival of artists and theatre companies, but the results are to be appreciated. Creation covers the area of original productions that carry forward the various artistic, aesthetic, and ideological formulas of Romanian theatre, with a special focus (an entire sub-section) on the creation of female directors - an artistic descent without precedent in the history of the local scene. Recreation tries to capture a portrait of the world in parodic, comical, even black humorous touches, but not in an easy way, but as a kind of reaction of us smiling at the bizarre times we live in. Re-creation is exactly the solution found by the artists to overcome the pandemic blockade, without betraying their vocation and their audience: online, interactive, filmic, ingenious, very theatrical formulas each. We thought it was very important to highlight in a separate section the many productions that recompose great classical texts in new directorial or dramaturgical readings: Classical. Recreated. We have several guest performances by canonical Romanian directors and we managed, although it was not very easy, to create an international section. Running the National Theatre Festival exclusively online is not what we wanted. We would have preferred to meet, exchange opinions, projects, hugs, jokes. So, we can only hope that the disadvantage will become an advantage and that more spectators from all over Romania and not only will be able to watch these performances.", Claudiu Groza For more details, visit www.fnt.ro

In parallel with the performances scheduled to take place during this period on the theatre's stages, in the foyer the audience can admire some interesting and attractive exhibitions on various themes. In the Rotunda of the Small Hall of the National Theatre of Bucharest, on the occasion of the performances scheduled at this hall (and not only!), you will be able to visit the exhibition on the occasion of the commemorative year of Harag György, evoking the personality of this epochal Transylvanian director of the Hungarian and Romanian theatre arts. The Harag György memorial exhibition will also be available online at www.fnt.ro from 6 to 14 November 2021. And at the NTB headquarters, the last day of viewing will be 14 November. The organisers of this exhibition are: the Liszt Institute - Hungarian Cultural Centre Bucharest, together with the Hungarian Academy of Arts, the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre of Bucharest and the National Theatre Festival (institutional partners). "The travelling exhibition about the director's work consists of 45 panels with about 200 photographs accompanied by comments and evocations of fellow directors, theatre-makers and critics, as well as Harag's texts, in three languages: Hungarian, Romanian and English. The exhibition is made available to us by the Hungarian Academy of Arts," says Kósa András László, director of the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Bucharest. The third and most colourful exhibition, which many of you may have already seen since it opened in mid-September, is the one in the Media foyer (wing facing the Intercontinental Hotel). This is the second edition of the national exhibition of watercolour painting under the name Romania in Watercolour, organised by the Association of Romanian Watercolour Painters, a structure affiliated to the International Watercolour Society (I.W.S.), in partnership with NTB. Romania in Watercolour hosts 133 works signed by 98 watercolour painters, professional or amateur, young or not so young, gathered, for another edition, within the NTB premises. The project proposes a broad and complex approach to the technique of watercolour painting. The exhibition can be visited until 31 October. Admission is free. More details about the programme including the exhibitions hosted in the NTB halls, and we refer to the NTB Paratheatrical - Visual Arts programme (a programme inaugurated in 2012 with the opening of the first remodelled spaces of NTB) can be found on the theatre's website in the Paratheatrical - Visual Arts section.   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

The National Theatre of Bucharest announces the first performances of the new premiere Kiritza or the Game of..., on Wednesday 13th (preview) and Thursday 14th October 2021 (official premiere), at 8 pm, at Studio Hall. A show produced by NTB in co-production with the Art Production Foundation and Gigi Căciuleanu Romania Dance Company with the support of JTI. How else could the "merry Alecsandri" be celebrated, now 200 years after his birth, if not with a production about the famous Lady Kiritza, the character who crowned his long career as a playwright with success? A first-rate artist, a multifaceted talent, Gigi Căciuleanu returns to the NTB stage with a dance-theatre challenge. A Kiritza of all Alecsandri's Kiritzas from the first (Kiritza in Iași or Two Daughters and Their Mother, 1850) to the last (Kiritza in the Balloon, 1875), and you will recognise the other two, with all the gallery of comic characters, inflamed by desires and fears. A show starring the well-known provincial Bohemian, uncultured, rude and rank-hungry aristocrat. „An exotic and sophisticated character", as the show's creator sees her. "In fact, all those men (and women) who impersonated her were personalities as complex as can be. The fact that the character was originally conceived as a transvestite shows the need to represent him as 'something' out of the ordinary. Excessive. In the sense that the "excesses" of a soprano are represented by high notes or that of a ballerina by dancing on pointe. But what is more "out of the ordinary" than an opera diva?..." asks Căciuleanu rhetorically. Just as Charlie Chaplin's character didn't always make me laugh, but rather made a tear tremble in the corner of my eye, the character of Lady Kiritza has touched me since I discovered her. Like that of a Moliere-like "gentlemanly bourgeois" in the feminine, eager for emancipation at any cost. Desiring with all her soul to leave her condition in order to "go to the moon and the stars"... I think that if Alecsandri had lived in Gagarin's time, Lady Kiritza would certainly not have flown in a balloon, but in a cosmic rocket...", Gigi Căciuleanu. We invite you to enter the game proposed by the director-choreographer, to savour Alecsandri's texts translated into moving words and sung words, to unravel the tangled webs of Kiritzoaia's intrigues, now, in 2021, a charming opera diva - Kiritza changes her voice, but not her moods! - endowed with the most brilliant and dizzying high notes. Together with the distinguished soprano Oana Berbec, the superb DanceActresses and the marvellous DanceActors of the National Ballet, Gigi Căciuleanu creates a performance with exceptional scores, full of charm and joy, which transpose into gesture, movement and rhythm, the flavour of the language and speech of an era with its cosmopolitan mentalities. You may ask, why "The Game of..."? Gigi Căciuleanu explains: Because, in fact, the characters do not exist as such, but as members of a troupe of actors modelled on the one in Shakespeare’s "Dream..." where each one of them can put themselves into the skin and costume of any of the characters". Beside soprano Oana Berbec, you will admire a lot of beloved actors from the NTB company: Ileana Olteanu, Lari Giorgescu, Costina Cheyrouze, Fulvia Folosea, Aylin Cadîr, Crina Semciuc, Victoria Dicu, Eduard Adam, Ciprian Nicula, Florin Călbăjos, Mihai Calotă, Mihai Munteniță, Ionuț Toader, Emilian Mârnea, Axel Moustache, Petre Ancuța. Kiritza or the Game of..., a performance by Gigi Căciuleanu after Vasile Alecsandri.  Written, directed and choreographed by Gigi Căciuleanu, assisted by Lelia Marcu-Vladu. The set design is signed by Florilena Popescu Fărcășanu. Costumes - by Liliana Cenean. The music is composed by Paul Ilea. Do not forget your mask at home, and hurry to the NTB ticket office - or online at www.mystage.ro - to grab a seat at your heart's desire at one of the upcoming performances. The next performances are scheduled for 27 and 29 October 2021, at 8pm. Kiritza or the Game of..., a reverence from a dance aristocrat to a 19th-century aristocrat of the pen. Kudos! Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre of Bucharest participated this year in the sixth edition of the Reunion of Romanian National Theatres in Kishinev, an event dedicated to the memory of the actor Ion Caramitru, one of the founders of this event. The show The Beauty of Venice in September brought the actors on the stage of the "Mihai Eminescu" National Theatre of Kishinev, Oana Pellea and Mircea Rusu, who were welcomed with incredible enthusiasm by the Moldovan audience, the two being applauded and cheered for minutes! "An emotion that came from the public, as I have rarely seen in my life! This means that in addition to the fact that they appreciated our stage evolution, there was a longing for the Romanian language, a longing for Romania, a longing to be together. These people proved to us that they would like to be together again, that they would like to be one, bothKishinev with Bucharest and the other cities of our country. A proof of patriotism, beyond "I was left without a reply, without any epithet, without any adjective, because of the howl we were bombarded with for minutes. I hope that soon we will embrace them completely", declared visibly touched, immediately after the show, actor Mircea Rusu, artistic director of the National Theatreof Bucharest. During the event in Kishinev, the "IL Caragiale" National Theatre honoured the memory of its director for 16 years, through two events warmly received by the Moldovan public: the screening of the show The Merchant of Venice, directed by Alexander Morfov, show which should have taken place on stage this year, and the photography exhibition Shylock - the Last Role, with photos from the show taken by NTB photographer Florin Ghioca, a show in which Ion Caramitru performed one last remarkable Shakespearean role. On Saturday evening, on the stage of the National Theatre of Kishinev resounded the applause of an audience that thanked the one who tried to create as many artistic and cultural bridges between Bucharest and Kishinev, between Romania and Bessarabia. The Reunion of the Romanian National Theatres in Kishinev took place this year between September 15th and 26th, 2021 and is the most important theatrical event in the Republic of Moldova. It was initiated by the actors Ion Caramitru and Petru Hadârcă, the directors of the two National Theatres, of Bucharest and Kishinev. Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

  In the context of the anniversary of the Bucharest Days, ARCUB launches on Sunday, September 26th, 2021, the series of offline and online projects "Bucharest: The City of Tomorrow", which includes cultural encounters with artists and professionals, a lecture-show, but also a series of participatory installations. The event also marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of ARCUB and aims to present a perspective on a potential Bucharest, the city of tomorrow, a greener city, more friendly to its inhabitants, a city where culture can transform places and people. In this context, ARCUB launches the series of cultural dialogues "Bucharest RE: Imagined" - a series of 10 meetings inspired by major strategic themes of the city (heritage, green spaces, lack of cultural consumption, center-periphery relationship, etc.) aiming to reconnect and bring together experts from different cultural areas and public administration to identify solutions and projects to address these issues. The first episode addresses the topic of "Green Cultural Spaces" and has as guests architects, urban planners, cultural entrepreneurs, managers of public institutions and public administration representatives who will discuss how these areas should be interconnected to better meet the specific needs of the inhabitants of the city. The event will be broadcast live, starting with 5.00 p.m., on the ARCUB Facebook page. The event continues with a special performance of outdoor lecture-show, "Participatory Epic Bucharest '21", which can be watched live on ARCUB's social media channels, on Sunday, September 26th, from 7.00 p.m. The day ends with a vinyl music session brought to ARCUB by Vinyl, Rum, Tapas & Wine (VRTW). The setting of events at ARCUB is given by the installation "Green Bucharest" designed by French landscape architect Nicolas Triboi and the sound installation with the sounds of the city signed by artist Maria Balabaş, two projects that present, in preview, the sample of a future city reconnected to its inhabitants through culture and which can be visited at ARCUB - Gabroveni Inn between September 27th and October 3rd, 2021. At the exhibition, visitors are invited to contribute their own photo memories about the city on the participatory system "Emotional Bucharest". The events at ARCUB - Gabroveni Inn are completed by the launch of a new online project, the series of discussions "People who Open the City" on the website of the ARCUB cultural centre. During the interviews, professionals who have innovated through culture the destiny of the Capital talk to Mihaela Păun, the director of ARCUB, about ways to open the city through art, urbanism and creative industries. Schedule of “Bucharest: the City of Tomorrow”: Sunday, September 26th, 2021 17.00 - 18.30 | Bucharest RE: Imagined - Green cultural spaces, moderated by Svetlana Cârstean | online broadcast event The debate on Sunday, September 26th is a pilot meeting of a series of ten such meetings and aims to bring together the opinions and expertise of specialists from various cultural areas and public administration professionals. The guests of the first meeting are architects, urban planners, cultural entrepreneurs, managers of public institutions and representatives of public administration who will discuss models for the reconversion of urban spaces into cultural centres open to the community. The cultural debates are moderated by the poet Svetlana Cârstean. 19:00 - 20:30 | Poetic performance "Participatory Epic Bucharest '21" | online broadcast event One of the most unique projects of contemporary literature, "Participatory Epic Bucharest '21" gathered, in 2015, 40 poets who wrote the only collective poem about Bucharest. Within the project “Bucharest: The City of Tomorrow”, the poets who participated in this creative experiment meet, six years later, at ARCUB for a lecture show with the initiator of the project, Svetlana Cârstean. 20:30 - 21:00 | DJ set with vinyls - VRTW of Vinyl, Rum, Tapas & amp; Wine VRTW is a vinyl DJ set, brought to ARCUB by Vinyl, Rum, Tapas & amp; Wine, in which the music is played entirely by analog recordings. At the end of the events of September 26th, Vinyl, Rum, Tapas & amp; Wine presents a selection of jazz and world music records from their personal collection. September 27th - October 3rd "Green Bucharest" - organic installation by Nicolas Triboi | ARCUB - Arch HallAn example of an urban garden that can otherwise reconnect the city's inhabitants to spacepublicly, the installation conceived by the landscape artist Nicolas Triboi proposes a return to nature throughredevelopment of the Gabroveni passage and the Arch Hall from ARCUB in a green place thatoffers passers-by an opportunity to relax and browse through the history of the city. The naturein the city has become vital, and Bucharest is metamorphosing day by day through new transformations. We wish a wilder nature, not one made of pansies and rolls of turf, we want a lasting nature. Bucharest today is a dynamic city, dynamic, but a city where buildings and people's behaviour are often characterized by wilderness. We must channel this energy and turn them into positive, green energy for a more "cultural" nature - Nicolas Triboi, landscape artist. Sound installation about Bucharest by Maria Balabaş ARCUB - Arch Hall Maria Balabaș is the creator of the show Morning crossover from Radio Romania Cultural and has generated, over time, various projects dedicated to new forms of radio creation (Sound Generation, This is not art, etc.). She was nominated for a Prix Europe and Prix Italia for radio documentation, selected for the Grand Prix Nova for a soundtrack and received the Semi Silent Award for sound innovation. She launched the bands Avant'n'Gard and Soare Staniol, which are inspired by improvisation techniques, electronic music and unconventional sound sources. As a solo artist, she creates installations and narrative pieces based on field recordings, archive recordings or other forms of auditory memory. Participatory photo installation "EmotionalBucharest" ARCUB - Sala Arcelor „Emotional Bucharest” is a photographic experiment that aims at the emotional exploration of the city of Bucharest by probing the intimate connection that the inhabitants of the city have with it. Bucharest residents are invited to participate with photos from their personal archives to recreate, through a visual exercise, the emotions experienced in connection with the city. The series of discussions about the Capital - "People who Open the City" online arcub.ro and on the Youtube page ARCUB The programme designed on the occasion of the Bucharest Days and in the context of the 25th anniversary of ARCUB is completed by the series of interviews "People who Open the City" - Mihaela Păun in dialogue with professionals who have innovated through culture the destiny of the Capital about ways to open the city through art, urbanism and creative industries. The dialogues debate topics such as the role of cultural institutes in the local cultural ecosystem, the issue of cultural consumption spaces and present details behind successful cultural entrepreneurship projects, projects that have changed the face of the city. Among the guests of the discussions are personalities who pioneered the local creative scene, professionals who built defining projects for today's culture of the city, but also cultural operators who built bridges of collaboration with other countries. Details on www.arcub.ro   ARCUB - The Cultural Centre of Bucharest has been cultivating the cultural identity of the Capital since 1996. The projects initiated and carried out by ARCUB throughout the years of activity have contributed to the diversification of the city's cultural life, as well as its inclusion among the major capitals of the world. ARCUB is the organizer of the International Festival of Light - Spotlight, the International Street Theatre Festival - B-FIT in the Street!, the only international jazz festival in the Capital, Bucharest Jazz Festival and the Bucharest Days. Translated by Simona Nichiteanu