Romanian-Polish Solidarity Day
Romania and Poland are organising a bilateral cultural season
Roxana Vasile, 04.03.2024, 14:00
The Romanian-Polish Solidarity Day was established last year at the joint initiative of the two countries’ foreign ministers at that time, Bogdan Aurescu and Zbigniew Rau respectively. So on Sunday, 3 March 2024, Romania and Poland celebrated this day for the first time ever, with events that reflect the partnership between the two nations founded on a shared historical experience and the willingness to further strengthen bilateral relations, reads a joint press release issued by the two foreign ministries.
The celebration of Romanian-Polish Solidarity Day is proof of the traditional friendship between the two countries and of the shared commitment to strengthening their strategic partnership and their cooperation within the European Union and NATO, the Romanian government also posted on its X account.
It is not a coincidence that this celebration is marked for the first time in 2024. This is the year when the two countries celebrate 105 years of diplomatic relations, 85 years of asylum granted by Romania to the Polish government, which fought on against the Nazi German invader outside the country; 35 years of the fall of communism and democratic transition in Central and Eastern Europe, and the 15th anniversary of the Strategic Partnership.
Ahead of the celebration, internationally acclaimed Romanian artists, including the Vienna-based pianist Adela Liculescu, the soprano Alexandra Zamfira, who currently lives in Spain, and the violinist Alexandru Tomescu, who plays a Stradivarius Elder-Voicu 1702 violin, performed at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, in a preview to the 2024-2025 Romania-Poland Cultural Season.
In turn, this past weekend Bucharest hosted the opening of a photography exhibition at the Romanian Peasant Museum, and a recital by the Polish jazz pianist Leszek Leszek Mozdzer at the Romanian Athenaeum.
Scores of other events, from exhibitions to concerts and from theatre performances to film screenings and book launches and readings, are scheduled to take place between June 2024 and October 2025, as part of the Cultural Season.
The motto, “We speak the same language,” is a reference to the language of culture as an instrument of knowledge and of understanding between people, in a variety of forms, means of expression and traditions.
The Cultural Season’s visual identity is the outcome of cooperation between the graphic design students at the National University of Arts in Bucharest (UNArte) and the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, with the logo based on the diacritics specific to the two respective languages. (AMP)
