What to do this weekend

Cultural Calendar

BR brings you the best of Bucharest’s cultural highlights for the weekend ahead. 

FAIR

Martisor Fairs

Receiving, giving or exchanging amulets for Martisor, the local celebration of the arrival of spring, is about the continuity of sharing our lives together, friendship and mutual appreciation. It is more than a gift; it is symbol of wishing each other ongoing luck, hope, love and prosperity. Want to get involved? Here are our recommendations for where to buy the Romanian symbol of spring. Here can find a list from where you can buy unique spring amulets.

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like CNDB #1

National Dance Centre Bucharest

9 – 28 February

The National Dance Centre in Bucharest organizes the “like CNDB #1″ festival which presents the best contemporary dance pieces of the last few years. Performances start every night from 9 until 28 February at 7:30 pm. Prices start at RON 15 for a single performance ticket or RON 70 for a festival subscription. 

DISCOVER BUCHAREST

Art in Bucharest tour

March 1, from 13.00

Reservations: art@artinbucharest.com / 0726 008 152.

Tour available in Romanian and English, RON 80

Meeting point: Aviatorilor metro exit, direction Romanian Television

“Art in Bucharest” will take you to an unique journey through the artists’ studios, connecting you to the passion, the hardness and the joy of creation as artists describe it. During three hours we’ll explore three artists’ studios in Pangratti area, a space of creation, home of inspiration for many artists and wonderful display of art waiting to be visited. Saturday we’ll visit: artist Florica Prevenda, painter, artist Silvia Radu, sculptor, potter, and painter and a third artist – to be revealed on Saturday More details, here.

EXHIBITION

Contemporary Norwegian Architecture 

The National Museum of Contemporary Art

Until March 22

The “Contemporary Norwegian Architecture # 7” Exhibition travels around the world starting with 2011, being so far hosted by Brazil, Cuba, Poland, Croatia, the Czech republic, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Greece, Cyprus, Germany and Bulgaria. In 2014, with the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Romania, in partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Art and Zeppelin Association, it comes to Bucharest. More about this exhibition, here.

Q.E.D. by Mircea Cantor

The National Museum of Contemporary Art

Until April 2014

More than 1,200 people have attended the opening of the first local solo exhibition of one of the most important young artists to emerge on the international scene over the last decade: Mircea Cantor, winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp Award 2011. The QED exhibition, the largest survey of the artist’s works to date, comprises 30 pieces. More details here.

Oana Vasiliu