English, please / Literature
“We Built Rio de Janeiro on a Cemetery of Slaves”
Luiza Vasiliu
A writer is filming his Brasil.
Căutare
după "Scriitori ��i animale"
English, please / Hoax
Dumitru Dan, the Legendary Romanian Globetrotter that Never Was
Andrei Becheru, Ionuț Sociu
Why do we close our eyes to the facts when we’re told a beautiful story about touring the world on foot, in traditional sandals?
English, please / Spirituality
“I Realized I Was in a Cult.” The Children of the Sun Break the Silence
Bogdan Dincă, Delia Marinescu
The former members are accusing Adi de la Brad of sexual abuse, emotional abuse, exploitation through labor, being constrained against seeing a doctor, declaring him their children’s father, and preempting them from going to school.
English, please / Music
Sound as a Whole. In Conversation with Stephane Marin, Musician and Sound Artist
Vlad Hodrea
A group of creative people received a copious amount of lessons on sound in a sound art workshop organised by Semi Silent, under the guidance of Stephane Marin.
English, please / Visual arts
Tania Mouraud: ‘You cannot quit art’
Andra Matzal, George Popescu
We talked wit Tania Mouraud, in wich career can fit art for seven lives
English, please / Activism
“We are misfits of architecture.” A Conversation with & about Forensic Architecture
Nicoleta Moise
For the past decade, Forensic Architecture have been conducting extensive investigations from around the world, with and on behalf of individuals or communities directly affected by conflict, police forces, or border regimes.
English, please / War
We don’t talk about the war here
Michael Bird
I worked for over a month as a volunteer trying to help Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest, and this is what I found.
English, please / București
Following Măiastra Through the Streets of Bucharest. An Interview with Timothy Stanley
Bogdan Bălan
A discussion with an American artist settled in Romania, about his favorite sculptures in Bucharest, about the life he made here, but also about his book, written from the perspective of a fictional Romanian art historian.
English, please / Literature
“We’ll Be an Egg, with One Eye and One Finger”
Adi Bulboacă, Andra Matzal
I talked to writer Andrei Codrescu about poetry, the internet, silence and the American presidential campaign.
English, please / Brâncuși
The Origins of the Cult of Brâncuși. An Interview with Alexandra Croitoru
Luiza Vasiliu
Who is Brancusi? Why is he among us? When did his reception go from being strictly aesthetic to the emergence of a genuine cult? What did communists believe about Brancusi? What do you think?
English, please / Education
What Central European University Means for Free Education and Democracy
Andra Matzal
8 CEU graduates remind us why keeping political control away from this university is vital for the freedom of education and democracy.
English, please / Cinema
Pink for Girls, and Blue for Boys. Gender Role Lies We Were Told Growing up
Ioana Pelehatăi, Livia Coloji
What isn’t becoming of a lady? What’s inappropriate for a man to do? I asked artists, journalists, and other professionals about who lied to them when they were children.
English, please / Visual arts
“This Museum Shall Be a Barricade”
Vlad Odobescu
Instead of labels and displays, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant asks the visitor to seek and uncoil the meanings of objects on their own.
English, please
The Exploitation on Your Plate. Romanian Workers on UK Farms During the Pandemic
Oana Țenter
The pandemic increases the risk of slave exploitation for agricultural workers - Romanians and Bulgarians are the most exposed. We spoke to workers, activists and authorities across the UK to understand the real price of food.
English, please / Technology
In Search of Lost Time on Facebook
Andy Sinboy, Luiza Vasiliu
I procrastinate because I feel like I can’t start anything good when I am not the world’s happiest woman. Surely, I will be one tomorrow. Tomorrow, everyone will be happy, there will be no wars, and the articles will write themselves.
English, please / Actori
“No One Has Ever Applauded Me Before”
Delia Marinescu, Ehsan Ghoreishi
How a heterosexual, Roma man from a traditional community in Ploiești, father of three, came to play the lead in a film about gay love.
English, please / Război în Ucraina
“Your president is bombing your relatives”. Moscow Dispatch with a Russian Journalist
Constantin Cojocaru, Delia Marinescu, Loreta Isac Cojocaru
A Russian journalist speaks about propaganda, media censorship and solidarity with Ukraine.
English, please / Literature
A Brief Account of a Book Festival in Edinburgh
Cătălina Stanislav, Vlad Pojoga
Festival Report: Edinburgh International Book Festival, one of the biggest of its kind in the world.
English, please / Ideas
The ‘Pregnancy Crisis’ Franchise: from the United States to Romania
Diana Meseșan, Roma Gavrilă
A pro-life movement, supported by the US and funded by local money, is developing in Romania.
English, please / Literature
How’s Mihail Sebastian Doing in the UK?
Luiza Vasiliu
He's doing quite well, thank you very much. His interwar novel on the life of a young Jew was published in 2016 in the Modern Classics collection at Penguin.
English, please / Photography
Romanian Photographer Explores Girlhood Around the World in 250 Portraits of Awesome
Patricia Cîrtog
Photographer Mihaela Noroc traveled in over 70 countries to show how diverse is the feminine beauty in the project “Atlas of beauty”. Her newest book, “Girls of the World: Portraits and Stories from Around the World”, is a gift for the ones curious to find out how girls live around the world.
English, please / Festival
“I’m Not Fond of Nostalgia.” An Interview with Radu Jude
Luiza Vasiliu
I talked to film director Radu Jude about his latest movie „Țara moartă” (“The Dead Nation”). A documentary about a Romania we don’t wish to remember.
English, please / Fotbal
FC ROMANIA
Oana Țenter
For the past thirteen years, an eighth league football team has been bringing together Romanian migrants and pro-Brexit Brits.
English, please / War
“You shoot me down, but I don’t fall”. Kharkiv Woman Speaks about Life under Bombs
Delia Marinescu, Pavel Dorogoy
A young woman from Kharkiv speaks about her daily life, the idea of leaving her mom behind and flee alone and the future relationship between Ukrainians and Russians.