A curated cross-section of our publication's Romanian language version. Read up on globally noteworthy cultural personalities and societal goings-on in our corner of Eastern Europe.
A conversation with Arundhati Roy, centered on questions drawn from the themes of her stirring autobiography—questions to which the author responds with the same fervor and passion evident in every line she writes.
By the age of 22, Mires Peniushkevych has already staged more than 15 theatre productions in Ukrainian cities where theatres still operate. None of them is about escaping into parallel realities or simply entertaining audiences. They speak of about crimes against humanity – war, Nazism, the Holocaust, and brutal repression. Not everyone is happy about that.
Far-right politicians tell them to go “home.” The European Union is also sending them back, but through centers in third countries outside the bloc. Meanwhile, in Romania and other EU countries, labor migrants from Asia (and beyond) struggle, often in vain, to work and live here legally. A young Indonesian who studied in Cluj wonders where and how they should actually “return.”
Five years in Cluj-Napoca on a Romanian government scholarship. I came back to Jakarta, Indonesia, and my friends called me the “Europe boy” — acting White, they said. All I wanted was a sidewalk.
I spoke with Aurora Mititelu, a Romania-born, US-based young experimental artist, about control and identity in her work, what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated environment, and what it's like to start over thousands of kilometers away from home.
Change the directors, cut the funding, rewrite the narrative: from Washington to Warsaw, mnemonic warriors are deploying the same techniques to weaponize history. How museums have become key arenas in the culture wars.
Put together by 16 Gen Z artists from Romania, with the support of 8 more experienced mentors, the contemporary art exhibition Brain Bloom (March 8, 2026 – April 10, 2026, Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest) invites visitors to explore how identity is rewritten when memory transcends corporeal boundaries.
Romanian filmmaker Vlad Petri interviews Iranian-born, London-based Ehsan Khoshbakht, world-renowned film preservasionist and co-director of the "Il Cinema Ritrovato" film festival in Bologne.
The intimacy coordinator profession was born out of the #MeToo movement and has become essential on film sets, to make sure actors feel emotionally safe. Vlad Troncea, a Romanian actor and dancer with experience both in London and in Romania, talks about his work — which, despite some stereotypes, is not about being the “sex police”.
During art week on the island of Hydra, amidst mules, freddo espresso and art collectors with astronomical budgets, Andrei Ursuța’s sculptures installed the apocalypse in the space where animals once awaited sacrifice — a slaughterhouse overlooking the Aegean Sea.
In the middle of a war beauty might seem trivial. For the Ukrainian women who run Bucharest’s salons, it’s a language of resilience, work, and home.
For nearly a year, the streets of Tbilisi have been bringing together mothers and young people in the same fight: for a European and free Georgia. Behind bars, on barricades or through letters, the two generations have formed a larger family, united in resistance against an illiberal regime.
As people and goods migrate from one place to another, so do plants, insects and animals. Some of these species survive the journey, multiply uncontrollably and deeply affect their new ecosystems, in which case they are considered invasive species. How do we learn to live with them?
Media literacy classes for teachers and parents in Romania, participatory theatre in Spain, hotlines and cyber police in Ukraine – these are just some of the solutions organisations and institutions are using against the ever evolving forms of violence children and teenagers face more and more often in their digital lives.
An interview about sound as a form of care, about how nature can be saved step by step — with patience, gentleness, and attention — and about how we might learn to truly listen to the world around us, if we wake up early enough and let the birds do the talking.
Almost every aspect of life is more difficult in the mountains and waste management is no exception. A cross-border team of journalists looks at how mountain communities deal with garbage, environmental impact & tourism, challenges and possible solutions.
Håkan Tropp, an expert in water-related policies, talks about the diplomatic role of water in times of peace or war, why we don't value it as a resource, and how we can mediate the risks associated with its disappearance.
From crime to community: the social reuse of confiscated assets is a cross-border investigation by Lavialibera (Italy), Scena9 (Romania) and Maldita.es (Spain) that explores reuse practices in the three countries highlighting their impact, challenges, and possible solutions.
After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Danube Delta habitat became threatened by the war and the increased naval traffic it brought to the region. This is the story of that impact, but also of the solutions that people on both the Ukrainian and Romanian sides of the Delta are working on to protect this area.
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.
In South Korea, a radical feminist movement called 4B tries to completely reshape patriarchy by rejecting any kind of relationships with men. What made thousands of women make this life changing decision and what consequences does it have within Korean society?
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.