The Night of the Cultural Institutes kicks off on June 22

The sixth edition of the Night of the Cultural Institutes brings foreign culture closer to people in 14 locations across Bucharest. The event will take place on the night of Friday to Saturday, June 22. The Bucharest public transport operator RATB announced several bus lines will run in the city center on the occasion.

A project developed by EUNIC in Romania, the Night of Cultural Institutes includes events proposed by the British Council, the Czech Center, the Hungarian Cultural Centre, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Greek Cultural Foundation, the Goethe Institute, the Cervantes Institute, the Camões Institute / Embassy of Portugal, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the French Institute, the Italian Cultural Institute Vito Grasso, the Polish Institute, the Ukraine Cultural Centre, the Turkish Cultural Centre Yunus Emre and then Wallonie-Brussels Delegation.

Highlights from the night’s program bellow:

Austrian Cultural Forum at Hungarian Cultural Centre

Goethe Institute at Hungarian Cultural Centre

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Address: 8 Gina Patrichi Street

Workshops for children – trilingual story readings, origami and rubik workshops, fashion show, Hungarian traditional dances, movie projection, with gulas, the traditional Hungarian food, served for everyone at midnight.

British Council

Address: 14 Calea Dorobanților

The British Council invites visitors to a night dedicated to Olympic Games 2012 with board games Olympics, library triathlon @British, debates, Sports Pub Quiz, how to become a top athlete with advice from WorldClass, a workshop of sportive journalism and several discounts for institute’s library.

Cervantes Institute

Address:12 Marin Serghiescu Street

The Cervantes Institute celebrates at the same time the Day of the Spanish Language with several activities and contests, a Spanish reading workshop, books launching, a flamenco concert, photographic micro-stories presented in 15 minutes, a tortilla of shorts up films, Spanish food and drinks.

Czech Center

Address:11 Ion Ghica Street

Beer, a workshop on how to love football with curator Oana Tanase from MNAC, the Arabela movie (1979, Cehoslovacia, director: Václav Vorlícek, 390 min), Baschet & Czech Ice Hockey and a series of trailers – 40 classical films seen in two hours.

Camões Institute at French Institute

French Institute

Address: 77 Dacia Bldv.

Fado music played by Maria Raducanu and Sorin Terinte, Fado exhibition and Portuguese food will entertain the public in a Portuguese way.

The French Institute will hold several themed workshops for food and cinema lovers, piano concerts, short theatre representations of Caragiale’s famous plays, shorts up films, the Pif Gadget exhibition as well as wine tasting.

Italian Cultural Institute Vito Grasso

Address: 41 Aleea Alexandru

An unique mix of Italian culture with shorts up films awarded at Maremetraggio International Film Festival, piano concert, food and photo exhibitions.

Polish Institute and Ukraine Cultural Centre

Address: Green Hours Club, 120 Calea Victoriei

Workshops for children and parents, DAGADANA concert, film projections, traditional Polish and Ukrainian food.

Romanian Cultural Institute and Wallonie-Brussels Delegation

Address: 38 Aleea Alexandru

Jazz, dances, poetry, photography, films, beer, Gheorghe Florescu special coffee, Yvelline pancakes, “Danube, a flowline” photo exhibition, worldwide shorts up films, Quentin Dujardin– Boris Schmidt guitar and contrabass concert, Jazzappella  concert

Turkish Cultural Centre Yunus Emre

Address:96 Vasile Lascar Street

Workshop for learning Turkish language, a projection of the film Once in Anatolia (director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan), artistic creation workshops with water paintings, TEZHIP and HUSNUHAT calligraphy art, a baglama concert, traditional Turkish dances and Turkish culinary art.

For more details about the program and the starting hours of this event, read here.

Oana Vasiliu