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Visit our website    View online    Forward this email   February 2015 LITERATURE 3 February, 7pm RCI London Free FASHION INSIDE OUT In eager anticipation of London Fashion Week, we invite you to explore fashion as a discursive practice and critical theme in the company of two of the most astute observers of this glamorous and pervasive cultural phenomenon, Sanda Miller and Peter McNeil. The two authors will present their recent publication, Fashion Writing & Criticism, and will examine various discourses by which, from rococo to punk, the ever changing world of fashion has been interpreted, approximated, and reported. more MUSIC 5 February, 7pm RCI London Sold out LPO CHAMBER ENSEMBLE TO OPEN THE 2015 'ENESCU CONCERTS' SERIES As part of the 'Enescu Month' in London, the Chamber Ensemble of the London Philharmonic Orchestra performs George Enescu's superb 'String Octet', as a prelude to the great premiere of the 3rd Enescu Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall on the 7th of February. The event is also part of our popular 'Enescu Concerts' Series. more MUSIC 7 February, 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Tickets ENESCU'S GLORIOUS THIRD SYMPHONY PREMIERS WITH LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA A ground-breaking event for the promotion of the greatest Romanian composer in the UK and indeed throughout the world, London Philharmonic Orchestra's premiere of the 3rd Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall, under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski, marks the culmination of the 'Enescu Month' in London, a series of musical, visual and intellectual tributes to a genius that awaits greater recognition.  more FASHION 20 February, 7.30pm RCI London Free UNTAMED SKIN: ROMANIAN DESIGN AT THE LONDON FASHION WEEK Discover the creative forays of contemporary Romanian fashion design with a spectacular showcase centred upon the interplay between tradition and innovation. Fashion designers Alexandru Nimurad and Alexandra Abraham, and jewellery designer Victoria Tonu develop their clothing and accessories reinterpreting the symbols, forms, colours of the traditional Romanian blouse, as well as its rich cultural background and visual connections.  MORE FILM 26 February, 7pm RCI London free THE CRIME SEASON AT THE ROMANIAN CINEMATHEQUE OPENS WITH 'A SLOW BURN THRILLER TAKEN TO THE EXTREME' Every cinematheque has to have a crime season. And what film would proudly open our programme better than Cristi Puiu's dark and disturbing Aurora? Aurora — that is, 'dawn' in Romanian — is the moment when night and day meet. Aurora is the film that asks overwhelmingly difficult questions, taking the viewer in the most tenebrous zones of human psyche. A mesmerizing masterwork from one of the great innovators of the art of film that anyone should see!  MORE Ongoing: VISUAL ARTS until 6 April 2015 Whitechapel Gallery Tickets 'THE MAN WITH THE STICK' AT WHITECHAPEL GALLERY One of the most original and recognizable figures of the Paris cultural scene of the 70's and a leading representative of the international avant-garde movement, Andrei Cădere (1934-1978) joins the greatest names of Abstract art of the 20th century as part of Whitechapel's 'Adventures of the Black Square', a hugely illuminating retrospective opening on January 15.  MORE Ongoing: TRADITIONAL CULTURE until 6 Sept 2015 Horniman Museum and Gardens, London Free 'REVISITING ROMANIA: DRESS AND IDENTITY' Horniman Museum with the support of RCI presents the biggest exhibition in Britain devoted to Romanian traditional crafts and folk costumes in living memory, a fascinating celebration of our ancient, sophisticated art of making outwear and fabrics. Accompanied by 'Portraits from London', a photographic exploration of Romanians living in London by Ion Paciu. MORE ALSO ON THE RADAR:   until 5 Feb | Romanian Cultural Centre London: The Romanian Imaginarium - An Illustrated Introduction 8 Feb | The Photographers Gallery London: 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 Days screening You are receiving this email because You are receiving this newsletter because you, or someone using this email address, subscribed to the ICR London calendar of events. To unsubscribe from this email, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to discontinue receiving emails from us. Click here to update subscription preferences Click here to unsubscribe :(   Our mailing address is: Romanian Cultural Institute in London 1 Belgrave Square London, SW1X 8PH United Kingdom Add us to your address book Copyright © 2015 Romanian Cultural Institute in London, All rights reserved.