Arts & Leisure

The famous violinist Alexandru Tomescu is the first classical music artist to become the official ambassador of Automobile Bavaria Group, the largest network of BMW dealers in Central and South Eastern Europe.   Since its debut in 1983, the artist has performed over 1500 concerts and recitals in 33 countries, over five continents, and is […]

Loving Vincent, a UK-Poland co-production directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, opened the 12th edition of the Anim’est International Animation Film Festival, at Eforie Cinema in Bucharest City, on Friday. “I know that the first idea for this film came seven years ago; its production took more than four years, requiring about 65,000 celluloids […]

The National Library in Bucharest will be hosting, Saturday and Sunday, the second edition of the Sci+Fi FEST festival of Sci-Fi literature, which brings to the public Romanian scientists, science fiction authors and promoters of Romanian Sci-Fi. The festival also includes astronomical observations using professional telescopes, scientific and Sci-Fi book launches, mini-conferences and workshops, exhibitions […]

The Bucharest Science Festival, an event dedicated to the state-of-the-art technology, will take place between September 27 and October 1 at the French Institute in Bucharest, informs a press release sent to Agerpres on Friday. According to the release, the French Institute in Bucharest and the Bucharest Science Festival, organised by the Secular Humanist Association […]

A new edition of Sathmarer Oktoberfest, after the model of the famous festival in Munich, has begun in Satu Mare on Saturday, with over 400 kg of German sausages and 700 liters of beer from Germany available for the locals. The first beer barrel was opened, according to the tradition, by a representative of the […]

Chef Fabrice Giraud (photo L), the main guest of this year’s edition of “Fete de la Gastronomie” / Gastronomy Feast, has prepared on Friday alongside the students with the Economic College on Viilor Street in Bucharest’s District 4, whom he told that this craft should be made with “passion”. “There must be passion, they must […]

In an absolute first, Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal, former Guns N’Roses guitarist, gave a concert in Prahova at the end of this week. Alongside other musicians, the rock star took part in a mega-concert whose venue is unusual for such a musical genre – the stage of the ‘Paul Constantinescu’ Philharmonic in Ploiesti. Apart from Prahova, […]

At the end of this week, the representatives of no less than 18 ethnic minorities living in Romania have met in Ploiesti. The meeting will take place during an event organised under the aegis of diversity, originality and multiculturalism, bearing in mind that Prahova County’s municipal seat will host the fifth edition of the ‘Alphabet […]

”Fete de la Gastronomie” (Gastronomy Feast) started on Thursday in Bucharest, marked by French Ambassador to Romania, Michele Ramis, who stated that gastronomy is “a language,” “an art,” but also “a powerful vector of bonding” people. “Gastronomy is a powerful bonding vector between us and, within my mission, I will lay emphasis on this theme, […]

The headquarters of the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) in London, alongside other public institutions and private residences will be included on Saturday and Sunday, on the list of buildings that can be visited within the “Open House” Architecture Festival, where a series of Romanian folk costumes can be admired by visitors thanks to the project […]