Neverending Timișoara

A gala marked the official ending of the program Timisoara, European Capital of Culture in 2003

Leyla Cheamil, 11.12.2023, 01:50

The Timişoara – European Capital of Culture
program came to an end, and the closing was marked by a gala that took place,
on Friday evening, at the Palace of Culture in the city, in the presence of
hundreds of officials, cultural operators, guests from the country and abroad.
On this occasion, over 100 events were organized at the end of last week. The
events dedicated to the conclusion of the program included concerts in the
Union and Opera Squares, the most anticipated moment being the aerial
acrobatics show on Friday evening.

Throughout the year, more than 2,000 cultural events took
place, attended by hundreds of thousands of artists and visitors, and five new
cultural spaces were opened in cinemas, art galleries and multi-purpose halls.
The mayor of the city, Dominic Fritz, believes that this year has attracted
even more attention to the city, so the program will be symbolically continued,
under the suggestive title: Neverending Timisoara.

Dominic
Fritz: The stake for us, as a city, is to turn this title into a long-term
strategic advantage, on the one hand, through the way we relate to culture, the
way we relate to involvement in the city, but, at the same time, by assuming
our European mission, because Europe needs the story of Timisoara, the positive
example that Timisoara can give.

Romania needs imagination. Europe needs
imagination, Dominic Fritz also said. He stressed that Timişoara 2023
showed that a creative and prosperous and solidary future can be imagined, and
not only for this city, but for the whole of Europe. A future of Europe
in which our unity is built on diversity, not uniformity, said Dominic
Fritz.any brilliant
performances and a new performance hall, as a legacy of the title of European capital
of culture. This year has brought audiences from various regions and
showed that the interest in culture is real, pointed out Ada Hausvater.
At the same time, the general manager of the Romanian National Opera in Timisoara,
Cristian Rudic, noted that, after this year, the city has a lot of adrenaline
and the emulation is felt in the halls of the Opera.

Although the Timișoara – European Cultural Capital project has officially come to an end, the exhibition dedicated to the great Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncusi and which is part of the series of events organized within the program remains open until January 28, at the National Art Museum in the city . The exhibition brings together famous works such as The Sleeping Muse or Miss Pogany, brought temporarily from the Pompidou Center in Paris, from the Tate in London or from the Guggenheim Foundation. Because there is a big interest in the exhibition, the president of the Timiş County Council, Alin Nica, announced that, on December 20, the exhibition will be open non-stop, for 24 hours. (MI)