Several cultural events will take place in various locations abroad, marking the Romanian Language Day on August 31.
Pasarea Colibri band to give concert in Spain
Thus, at Coslada, Madrid, Spain, an ample cultural programme dedicated to the Romanian community there will take place on August 27-31. The project will start with a series of courses on Romanian language teaching and teaching in the Romanian language. The courses will take place at the Timon High School in Coslada, Madrid, and are free of charge, the Romanian Cultural Institute informs. School inspectors from Romania will teach modern Romanian language teaching methods and methods of teaching courses in the Romanian language. The project is meant for all the teachers of the Romanian Language Institute, who teach courses in Romanian language, culture and civilization as part of associations or churches in Spain.
The programme will end with a concert given by Romania’s Pasarea Colibri band on August 30 in the Recinto Ferial Square, starting at 7 p.m. Mircea Baniciu, Mircea Vintila, Vlady Cnejevici and Teo Boar will sing for the Romanians in Coslada songs composed by the legendary band, selected from albums such as “Bivouac Songs,” “Searching for the lost nest,” “Another 2000 years” etc. Access is free of charge.
Folk music concert in Bulgaria
On August 29, the “Nikola Petrov” Art Gallery in Vidin, Bulgaria, will host an open-air show given by the “Romanati” Folkloric Ensemble. The show is part of the series of events organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute through its Romanians Abroad and Romanian Language Directorate in order to mark the Romanian Language Day, and is organized in collaboration with the “AVE” Union of Romanians in Bulgaria and the “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum.
On this occasion, two lectures for the Romanian community, titled “Traditions and customs among Romanians south of the Danube” and “Folk costumes: similarities and belonging to the Romanian cultural backdrop,” will take place in Vidin. Mariana-Iuliana Grumazescu, head of the “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum’s Communication and Museum Education Directorate, will be the lecturer.
The “Romanati” Folkloric Ensemble, led by maestro Florian Teodorescu and active under the aegis of the Caracal Municipal Cultural Centre (Olt County), has represented for over 25 years a powerful presence on the Romanian traditional song and dance scene, being dedicated to putting to good use mostly but not exclusively the folkloric heritage of the Olt region. The ensemble stood out both in national and international folk music festivals.
Dinu Iancu Salajanu, two concerts in Serbia and Hungary
Dinu Iancu Salajanu and his folk music band will give concerts in San Mihai (Locve), Serbia, on August 28, and in Mehkerek, Hungary, on August 29. The concerts will take place at the local community halls starting at 8 p.m. At the opening of the concert in Serbia the Sadoveanu folk ensemble from San Mihai will present a series of Romanian songs and folk dances typical of the Romanian community in Vojvodina.
Gheorghe Zamfir on stages in Moldova and Ukraine
Maestro Gheorghe Zamfir will give two concerts in Cahul, Republic of Moldova, and Ismail, Ukraine, as part of the series of events dedicated to the Romanian Language Day and organized in Romanian communities abroad.
On August 29, maestro Gheorghe Zamfir and his folk music band will give a concert in Horelor Square in Cahul, and on August 30 they will take to the stage at the Taras Shevchenko Culture Palace in Ismail. Both events will start at 7 p.m. Stela Botez, a known folk music singer in the region, will open the two concerts.
During the same period, the Cultural Forum of Romanian Language Teachers in the Odessa Region will meet in Ismail, bringing together over 50 Romanian language professors who teach in Southern Bessarabia (Ukraine). The agenda of the meeting features conferences/debates on the status of Romanian language education in Ukraine.
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