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Sunday, 15th January, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, will take place a conference with the title Eminescu among us, held by Acad. Dimitrie Vatamaniuc. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. Held on the same day on which the national poet was born, the conference will mark the most important events from Romanian culture: the existence of the definitive Mihai Eminescu edition (11 volumes), and the publication of Eminescu's facsimiled manuscripts, under the coordination of the Acad. Eugen Simion.

One of the most beautiful recitals dedicated to Eminescu will be part of the permanent repertoire of the ‘I. L. Caragiale' National Theatre beginning with January 2012. The recital will be performed by the actor Ion Caramitru, a matchless interpreter of Eminescu's verse, together with the famous clarinetist Aurelian Octav Popa. The first representation will take place on Saturday, 14 January 2012, at 20:00, at the NTB's Black Box, in the eve of the great poet's birthday. Under the title Longing for Eminescu*, the two artists, dialoguing in an unseen scenic formula, in that the spoken word is completed by music, present a show built on the selection of the great poet's poetry, prose and philosophy manuscripts. In Summer 2011 the recital Longing for Eminescu was successfully presented in the United States of America and Canada (a tour realized under the aegis of ICR New York) demonstrating, if necessary, that poetry has audience, that Eminescu is a vivid poet, and his poetry, always fresh.     * A show realized in coproduction with UNITER.               Translated by: Izabella Feher  MTTLC, Bucharest University

Monday, the 19th December, Johann Strauss Ensemble will end their Romanian tour with the concert Strauss Forever from the Great Hall of the Bucharest National Theatre. The Johann Strauss Ensemble is probably the most loved Austrian orchestra by our country's audience, as a proof stand the tens of sold out concerts they had in the already traditional Christmas tour that they undertake for 6 years in Romania. The tickets prices vary between 20 and 200 lei.            

Sunday, the 18th December, at 11:00, in the National Theatre's Black Box, a conference will take place on the theme: The Heartbeats' Story held by Prof. Dr. Eduard Apetrei. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. About the conference "The heart, through its beats, applauds our existence, said Lucian Blaga. The heartbeats represent the heart's way to communicate with the entire body, through a certain language which is being decoded nowadays. The first rhythm we hear is produced in our intrauterine life and it is the rhythm of the mother's heart. This rhythm is retained in our subconsciousness and is deposited in a certain part of the brain, this is the rhythm that will later on influence in some way or another our evolution. Along the history, the heartbeats were interpreted in various ways. Today it is known that the number of heartbeats, in our entire lifetime, is genetically determined. If the heart beats slower (55 - 65 beats/minute) we have the chance to live longer". Prof.Dr. Eduard Apetrei

On Sunday, December 4th, Daniel Cristea-Enache, will hold a conference called "A lecturer ends to be a haulier: the Ion D. Sîrbu case" at the National Theatre of Bucharest in the The Black Box. The conference will also have a video projection made by the artist Ion Barbu. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei and 10 lei.    About the conference "Ion D. Sîrbu is the Romanian post war writer with the most spectacular posthumous career. He died in 1989, two months before the revolution. As opposed to other Romanian writers, his drawer was full of manuscripts, among which The journal of a journalist without a journal (Jurnalul unui jurnalist fără jurnal) and Farwell, Europe! (Adio, Europa!) Ion D. Sîrbu was the model of Victor Petrini, the protagonist from Marin Preda's The Most Beloved of Earthling. The two characters have a similar destiny: they start from a carrer in university, they are kept prisoners for political beliefs and then they return to working on lower positions Petrini starts working with the team clearing of rats and Sîrbu becomes a haulier. For the vigilant eyes of the political activists, political instructors and informers back then, Ion D. Sîrbu was a case. They were right" Daniel Cristea-Enache

Sunday 20th November, at 11:00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, a conference will take place with the theme: A lifetime together with Romanian literature held by Georgeta Dimisianu. Ticket prices: 23 and 10 lei. "I will not hold a conference, in the common sense of the word. Too many conferences, too many symposiums in the last 20 years. I would like to bring some evidence about an epoch which risks to be more and more misunderstood, about a world in that I lived - the literary world -, about the writers that I have met and that I have edited, about their books that made us, as one of them said, understand that no dictatorship is perfect". Georgeta Dimisianu

The official opening night of the show ‘The Man and His Old Crock' by George Ciprian will take place on Wednesday, 23rd November 2011, at 20:00, at the Amphitheatre Hall of the ‘I.L. Caragiale' National Theatre from Bucharest. This is the second opening night of the current season. It is about one of the best known comedies of the Romanian inter-war dramaturgy, a mix of satire, idealism and gravity, in that the hero, a decent town clerk, inflamed by the passion for horses and, among them, by the most deplorable old crock. Fanatically believe in your dream, screams G. Ciprian's character after a few years, like a Don Quixote of the last century. Nowadays, in a world that does not believe in miracles anymore, but needs them so much, G. Ciprian's hero is the symbol of a humble humanity that is victorious through the force of an exemplary destiny, and his old crock continues to affect us, with its joints as flexible as at the opening night from 1927. We propose you a meeting full of charm and colour, with yesterday's world and that of today, always split between people of good and bad faith, in dreamers and Pharisees, with various faces and many masks, in which it might be that it is not the coat that makes the man, but in which money surely brings unexpected fame. A scenic life is given to this world, under the directing guidance of Anca Bradu, by the actors: Daniel Badale, Ioan Andrei Ionescu, Gavril Pătru, Monica Davidescu, Raluca Petra, Marius Bodochi, Andrei Finţi, Mihai Verbiţchi, Bogdan Muşatescu, Magdalena Cernat / Amalia Ciolan , Ion Ionuţ Ciocia. The scenography is signed by Ştefania Cenean, and the music for the show was composed by Vlaicu Golcea. Translated by: Izabella Feher MTTLC, Bucharest University   

On Sunday, November 6th, 2011, starting with 11:00, at The Amphitheatre Hall from The National Theatre of Bucharest there will be held the conference A day of your life on the time of King Carol I, by Adrian Majuru. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei or 10 lei. "Destiny is the place and moment of your birth". Some call this chance. Let us descend into this free will maze and imagine what it would have been like a day of our life a hundred years ago, during the reign of King Carol I. Of course that there can be many details regarding our position in this story: high society or middle class; guest of honor or master of ceremonies. However we suggest the position of a random onlooker who enjoys the privilege of living beside a family a hundred years ago. We are left with the traces of this lost world that we can follow and the atmosphere where we can get into. We have the pictures but mostly we have the ability to travel, to understand and accept the reality of a comparison. Our meeting offers you the opportunity to step across such a threshold, not at all imaginary even though the appearances say something else. I invite you to join me into the story of a question: "what it would have been like to live a day in 1900?" A possible answer was given by the German writer Ernst Junger: "Know the boundaries where illusion and reality can replace each other!" The journey will be accompanied by the music of cellist Adrian Naidin.  

On Sunday, October 23th, starting with 11 a.m., at The Black Box from NTB there will be held the conference entitled: Elegant pomp and Occidental democracy in the Romanian apparel from the 19th century by Adrian-Silvan Ionescu. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei or 10 lei. ‘The Romanian States, situated at the border between the Occident and the Orient, have been under a strong influence from both sides. They could be felt the strongest at the beginning of the 19th century. The struggle between the status of the fanariot ruler's pompous garbs and the lack of status, the naturalization and the standardization of the ‘democratic garment' - the tailcoat or the black frock coat (also popularly called ‘German clothes') give measure to the major changes from the urban Romanian society. The conference proposes to describe, in detail, the garb of the high society as well as that of the common people during an entire century, from the modernization to the assimilation in the great European fashion trend.' Adrian-Silvan Ionescu

On Sunday, October 9th, starting with 11 a.m., at The Black Box from NTB there will be held the conference entitled: The matter out of which life is made. About waiting by Carmen Muşat. Tickets can be found at the price of 23 lei or 10 lei. "This waiting would probably be the most appropriate equivalent for ‘existence'. The waiting is not just a temporary stage of our existence, it is the essence itself of our human condition, it is not an accident but the substance itself of our life. From the moment we are born till the end of our lives, we are always waiting something or someone: starting with common situations - like that of waiting to have our coffee brought in a bar - and ending with key moments like the confirmation of a diagnostic or the result of an exam, we are waiting for an event to happen. Because it connects the anteriority to the posteriority, the waiting can be perceived only in time; it is determined by and included in time. Because of that the waiting sets the narration, its structure is essentially narrative and the suspense is an implicit element of the waiting". Carmen Muşat