Bookfest schedule for today, Saturday May 31

This year’s literary extravaganza of Bookfest consists of interactive events, book launches, reading and autograph sessions, meetings with big names from culture, art and politics, concerts, films, theater performances for kids, photography, creative writing and live drawing workshops, plus debates, at Romexpo, between May 28 to June 1.

Here’s the schedule of events for Saturday, May 31:

11.00 The French Institute Bucharest

Vremea poveştilor / L’heure du conte alături by Isabelle Magny

(own booth, Pav. C4)

11.00-12.00 Dan Puric Passe-Partout Theatre Company

Book launch: O viata si toate inceputurile (A life and all the beginnings) by Alexandra Neacsu

Guests: Alexandra Neacsu and Dan Puric

(Agora Scene, Pav. C4)

11.00-19.00 EDITURA LITERA

Creativity workshop with Popa Ruxandra Adriana

(STAND Bio Manufaktura, Pav. C4)

11.00-11.30 EDITURA NEMIRA

Book launch: SAS Urban Survival Handbook by  John Lofty Wiseman.

Guest: Alex Găvan (alpinist).

(own booth, Pav. C2)

11.00-12.00 CURTEA VECHE PUBLISHING

Book launch: Ruleta maghiară. Convorbiri cu Markó Béla despre literatură, politică, societate, by Kőrössi P. József .

Guests: Markó Béla, Ion M. Ioniță.

(Arena Scene, Pav. C1)

11.30 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch: Invitaţie la vis. Opt poveşti vindecătoare, by Monica Pillat.

Guests: Horia-Roman Patapievici, Monica Pillat, Iustina Croitoru.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

11.30-12.30 EDITURA NEMIRA

Book launches: Vegetal, roman scris la patru mâini by Dănuţ Ungureanu, Marian Truţă and Xenos; Contact între civilizaţii, SF antology by Antuza Genescu.

Guests: Dănuţ Ungureanu, Marian Truţă, Antuza Genescu, Cătălin Badea Gheracostea.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

12.00 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch: Stalinism pentru eternitate. O istorie politică a comunismului românesc, by Vladimir Tismăneanu.

Guests: Horia -Roman Patapievici, Ioan Stanomir, Cristian Vasile, Vladimir Tismăneanu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

12.00 The French Institute Bucharest

Comic book workshop held by Alexandru Berceanu

(own booth, Pav. C4)

12.30 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch: Civilizaţii şi tipare istorice, by Neagu Djuvara.

Guests: Neagu Djuvara, Gabriel Liiceanu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

12.30-13.00 EDITURA NEMIRA

Book launch: 111 cele mai frumoase poezii, by Emil Brumaru

Guests: Emil Brumaru, Daniel Cristea-Enache, Luminiţa Corneanu.

Moderator: Alexandra Florescu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

12.00-13.00 EDITURA CORINT

Book launch: Putin. o biografie interzisă, by Stanislav Belkovski

Guests: Emil Hurezeanu, Ion M. Ioniţă, Marius Oprea.

Moderator: Ana Antonescu.

(own booth, Pav. C4)

12.30-13.00 EDITURA ALL

Book launch: Lista lui Alex. Ștefănescu.

Guests: Alex. Ștefănescu, Vlad Popescu, Cornel Popa, Silvian Floarea, Freddy Garbaci.

Moderator: Viorel Zaicu.

(own booth, Pav. C1)

12.30-13.30 EDITURA TREI

Book launch: Franceza, un avantaj, by Mihai Duţescu.

Guests: Mihai Duţescu, Bogdan Alexandru Stănescu, Svetlana Cârstean.

Moderator: Magdalena Mărculescu.

(own booth, Pav. C1)

13.00 EDITURA HUMANITAS MULTIMEDIA

Audibooks launches: Continentele insomniei. Cioran şi Dumnezeu, by Gabriel Liiceanu and Cartea lui Iov, in the lecture of Andrei Pleşu

Guests: Andrei Pleşu, Gabriel Liiceanu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

13.00-14.00 EDITURA LITERA

Book launch: Răzbunarea geografiei, by Robert D. Kaplan.

Guests: Adrian Cioroianu, Moise Guran, Theodor Paleologu, Paul Dobrescu.

Moderator: Bedros Horasangian

(own booth, Pav. C2)

13.30 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch: Mustepe parbrizul vietii, by Radu Paraschivescu

Guests: Andrei Pleşu, Radu Paraschivescu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

14.00 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch: Al patrulea zid by Sorj Chalandon. (Câştigătorul Prix Goncourt/Le choix roumain)

Guests: Sorj Chalandon, Stanislas Pierret, Doru Mareş, Mircea Vasilescu, Andreea Răsuceanu, Denisa Comănescu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

14.00-15.00 EDITURA POLIROM

Book launch: Istoria Poloniei (two volumes), by Norman Davies.

Guests: ES Marek Szczygieł (Polish ambassador in Romania), Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu, Adrian Şerban.

(Honor Guest stand, Pav. C4)

14.00-15.00 EDITURA TRACUS ARTE

Book launch: Salonul ludicilor (poetry)

Guests: George Mihăiță, Mircea Dinescu, Horațiu Mălăele, Ioan Cristescu.

(Arena scene, Pav. C1)

14.30 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch: Orbitor, by Mircea Cărtărescu.

Guests: Mircea Cărtărescu, Gabriel Liiceanu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

14.30-15.00 EDITURA POLIROM

Book launch: Volumul IV din  seria de Opere Emil Brumaru – Dumnezeu se uită la noi cu binoclul.

Guests: Adina Diniţoiu, Alex. Ştefănescu.

Moderator: Daniel Cristea-Enache.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

14.30-15.15 CURTEA VECHE PUBLISHING

Book launches: Scrisori către Dubenka, by Bohumil Hrabal, and Rugă pentru Kateřina Horovitzová, by Arnošt Lustig.

Guests: ES Jiří Šitler (Czech Republic Ambassador in Bucharest), Mircea Dan Duță, Anca Irina Ionescu, Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu.

Moderator: Ștefania Nalbant.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

15.00 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch: Amintirile unei nonagenare. Călătoriile mele, scriitorii mei, by Antoaneta Ralian.

Guests: Antoaneta Ralian, Dan C. Mihăilescu, Radu Paraschivescu, Lidia Bodea.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

15.00-16.00 EDITURA LITERA

Book launch: Dragoste, prietenie, ură, căsătorie, by Alice Munro.

Public lecture: Runaway by Alice Munro read by actress Maia Morgenstern.

Guests: Elisabeta Lasconi, Bedros Horsangian.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

15.30 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch:  Casele vieţilor noastre by Adriana Bittel, Ana Blandiana, Andrei Pleșu, Antoaneta Ralian, Barbu Cioculescu, Dan C. Mihăilescu, Gabriel Liiceanu, Gabriela Tabacu, H.R. Patapievici, Ioana Pârvulescu, Micaela Ghițescu, Monica Pillat, Radu Paraschivescu, Tania Radu, Victor Ieronim Stoichiță.

Guests: Ioana Pârvulescu, Radu Paraschivescu, Antoaneta Ralian, Dan C. Mihăilescu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

15.30-16.00 CURTEA VECHE PUBLISHING

Book launch: Filosofia vinului, by Béla Hamvas.

Guests: Mihaly Lakatos, Laszlo Attila Hubbes, Ștefania Nalbant .

(STAND DONAU LOUNGE, PAV. C4)

15.30-16.00 EDITURA POLIROM

Book launch:  Soacre şi nurori. La cine este cheia?, by Aurora Liiceanu. (Seriile de autor Aurora Liiceanu).

Guests: Alina Purcaru, Luca Niculescu.

Moderator: Virginia Costeschi.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

16.00 The French Institute Bucharest

Images projection of Bucharest seen by Roger Vercel, 1918-1919 and lectures

(own booth, Pav.C4)

16.30 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch: Ce-am facut cand am tacut, by Andreea Esca

Guests: Andreea Esca, Dan C. Mihăilescu, Radu Paraschivescu, Lidia Bodea.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

16.30-17.00 CURTEA VECHE PUBLISHING

Royal collection: Drumul spre casa. Filip-Lucian Iorga in dialog cu Principele Nicolae al Romaniei and Jurnal Regal, by Ioan-Luca Vlad.

Guests: HRH Principele Nicolae al României, Iren Arsene, Filip-Lucian Iorga, Ioan-Luca Vlad.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

16.30-17.00 EDITURA POLIROM

Book launch: Foc palid, by Vladimir Nabokov.

Guests: Aurora Liiceanu, Veronica D. Niculescu, Florin Iaru.

Moderator: Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

17.00 DONAU LOUNGE

Nick THORPE (GB): The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest.

(own booth, Pav. C4)

18.00 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch: Abaddón Exterminatorul, by Ernesto Sabato.

Guests: E.S. Dl. Claudio Pérez Paladino (Argentina Ambassador in Romania), Tudora Şandru Mehedinţi, T.O. Bobe, Cezar-Paul Bădescu, Denisa Comănescu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

18.30 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Book launch: Secolul meu. Confesiunile unui intelectual european. Convorbiri cu Czesław Miłosz, by Aleksander Wat.

Guests: Horia-Roman Patapievici, Vladimir Tismăneanu, Constantin Geambaşu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)

19.00 EDITURA HUMANITAS

Vintage collection: Douăzeci de ani în România, by Maude Rea Parkinson; Bucureştii de altădată, by Constantin Bacalbaşa; Scrisori către V. Alecsandri, by Ion Ghica.

Guests: Ioana Pârvulescu, Georgeta Filitti, Dan C. Mihăilescu.

(own booth, Pav. C2)