The National Culture Day
On January 15th Romania marks the National Culture Day and 166 years since the birth of Romanias national poet, Mihai Eminescu
România Internațional, 15.01.2016, 13:19
Several literary events, exhibitions and music concerts have been held in Bucharest and in cities across Romania on the occasion of Romanias National Culture Day. The Romanian Academy, an institution that marks 150 years since its foundation and that had the initiative of declaring the birth of Romanias national poet Mihai Eminescu as Romanias National Culture Day, hosted a solemn session attended by several Romanian personalities, among whom President Klaus Iohannis. President Iohannis awarded decorations to various personalities that have contributed to the promotion and consolidation of Romanian culture.
An important moment of the day will be the traditional music and poetry show “At the Gates of the Sky, held at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest. Performing will be the traditional music soloist Grigore Leşe and his guests. The project is part of the Europa Season project and will be broadcast live at the headquarters of the Romanian Cultural Institutes from several European capitals and cities. Here is the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute, Radu Boroianu with details:
“This show in Bucharest will be broadcast live to 5 of our cultural institutes in Europe, and for the first time to 3 of the Romanian communities abroad, the largest ones being the communities in Coslada and Madrid, Spain. The show will also be broadcast live to the Romanian community in Greece with the exceptional support of Athens City Hall.
Events marking 166 years since the birth of Romanias national poet Mihai Eminsecu will also be held in Chisinau, the Republic of Moldova, and in the region of Cernauti, in Ukraine, home to more than 200 thousand ethnic Romanians. The National Culture Day has been marked since 2010 both in Bucharest and Chisinau, as a sign of ethnic and linguistic identity of the people of the two neighboring countries, Romania and Moldova, which were arbitrarily separated after WWII.
The Romanian communities aboard mark Romanias National Culture Day through a series of cultural events, art exhibitions and public readings, conferences, presentations of scientific papers, film screenings and Romanian traditional shows.
Radio Romania has allotted substantial air time and exhibition space to mark the National Culture Day, hosting a photo exhibition, broadcasting radio dramas and special Romanian traditional music shows, hosting debates on cultural themes, as well as broadcasting live the events dedicated to Romanias National Culture Day.
(Translated by L. Simion)
