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Yiddish Theatre in Romania after the Holocaust
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Yiddish Theatre in Romania after the Holocaust
Friday 21 October 2022
Cluj, Romania
Creativity-Commodity: An Insider's Perspective of Cluj's Independent Cultural Scene 2009-2019 by Miki Braniște
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Creativity-Commodity: An Insider's Perspective of Cluj's Independent Cultural Scene 2009-2019 by Miki Braniște
A Book Launch Conversation
Monday 17 October 2022
Cluj, Romania
Out of the Frame
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Out of the Frame
International Theatre Forum Hosted by Shoshin Theatre Association in Cluj, Romania
Saturday 17 September 2022
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
A Romanian crest.
Romania from the Outside
Essay

Romania from the Outside

11 December 2013

This series presents perspectives on contemporary theater in Romania. It is curated by Iulia Popovici, who recently concluded a month long ArtsLink residency at HowlRound.

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Acting Our Convictions
Essay

Acting Our Convictions

Talking and Performing

10 December 2013

Sibiu International Theatre Festival creates a dialogue from the performances of different cultures. It brings up the questions of how artists perceive and what that means within our work.

A Romanian crest.
Theater management in Romania – A Mandatory Professionalization
Essay

Theater management in Romania – A Mandatory Professionalization

10 December 2013

The fall of communism in 1989 ledway to the democratisation of art. Ioana Tamas gives the breakdown of how arts management had to be developed to make this transition successful.

I Am Not Exotic—I Am Exhausted*
Essay

I Am Not Exotic—I Am Exhausted*

8 December 2013

Writing about a national theater as far away from the United States as the Romanian one means, in the end, performing exoticism—playing the monkey for the zoo visitors that do expect a monkey. Because, in the end, it’s not about the theater—a specific economic and aesthetic system designed to produce and share artistic work—it’s about how a society, in this case Romanian society, is perceived at an international level.

A Romanian political rally.
Postcards from Romania, Part One
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Postcards from Romania, Part One

4 November 2013

Hannah Wolf introduces her position as an American in Romania, teaching and researching at the University of Theatre and Cinema in Bucharest.

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Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021
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Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021

Celebrating Four Years of Contemporary, International Romani Theatre

Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest. Livestreamed on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network Tuesday 19 October to Friday 10 December 2021.

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REACTIV Festival
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REACTIV Festival

A laboratory of experiences and experiments in which we aim to rediscover ourselves as individuals and groups

REACTIV is a confirmation of our faith in that which is yet to come, a laboratory of experiences and experiments in which we aim to rediscover ourselves as individuals and groups and to bring our contribution to constructing the future, while also deconstructing our fears.

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Reactor's laboratory for creation and experiment
Series

Reactor's laboratory for creation and experiment

Produced and presented by Reactor in Cluj, Romania.

A series of five performances created through a laboratory-type process and a presentation of that process by the artists who created them. The project aims to support artistic research in the Romanian theatre, through documenting and archiving different processes of creation and distributing this information to professionals and students of performative arts, as well as to the public. The performances are produced by the independent theatre Reactor, based in Cluj, Romania.

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Contemporary Playwrighting in Romania
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Contemporary Playwrighting in Romania

Produced and presented by Reactor – a place for creative experiments

Eight performances written by eight contemporary Romanian playwrights.

Glod: Political Theatre as a Civil Right
Series

Glod: Political Theatre as a Civil Right

with BÉZNĂ Theatre

Glod: Political Theatre as a Civil Right is a series of political theatre screenings from around the world including from Romania, Lebanon, UK, Mexico, Palestine and Jordan. Join us every two weeks in solidarity with artists, activists and academics resisting from the ground.

daytime rooftop view of the city of cluj, romania
Exploring the Multiple Identities of Cluj
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Exploring the Multiple Identities of Cluj

This city series explores the strong history, diversity, and theatrical heritage of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

IETM Bucharest
Series

IETM Bucharest

This series discusses the status of artists in Romania.

Romanian Theatre
Series

Romanian Theatre

This series presents perspectives on contemporary theatre in Romania.

Postcards from Romania
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Postcards from Romania

This four-part series documents the experiences of a young, Fulbright fellow, avidly exploring theatre and life in Bucharest, Romania.

"The Hummingbirds" Internationalist World Tour 
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"The Hummingbirds" Internationalist World Tour 

A series tracing the journey of Garret Groenveld's play The Hummingbirds.