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“The idea of the project generated from the desire to revive traditional games, to make them known to the young who, considering present technologies, risk alienating from the authenticity and beauty of playing as part of their cultural and national identity. Playing is the manner in which children communicate experiment and learn (…). Playing traditional games by means of new instruments is an activity that is encouraged to be cultivated as playing in itself is universal, whereas the playful spirit is a bridge between diverse cultures and civilizations”.

“Tandem Dance was not intended to teach the visually impaired to dance, but rather to help them learn new things about movement, space, the relation between music and motion, about world perception. Finally, one week later, we would know more about each other than if we had talked for a year”.

“Each African percussion session was yet another opportunity for us to get to know each other. That is because the project activities aimed at encouraging both the intercultural dialogue among the disadvantaged Roma / non-Roma children and youth, their parents and the two African facilitators, fostering the participants to communicate ideas regarding the representation of their own life, experience and perspective”.

“The intercommunity of the majority population and the ethnic minorities of Iași County envisage the beauty of cultural diversity, the embracing of differences and the creation of harmony and collaboration. The project is a successful intertwining of the past and the present, of history and culture, and the articulation of ethnic and cultural identity working as an input for the future”.

“The stories and fairy tales of a community are the expression of that community’s imagination, identity and memory. (…)We hope that this collection of fairy tales will help us raise awareness regarding the complexity of Roma experiences and history and also reclaiming the Roma cultural identity. This online volume represents our contribution to the effort of popularizing Roma stories and of conserving the Roma folklore”.

“Put into the scene for the first time in 2014, Saint Patrick and Friends tour is set on the idea of interculturality and unity within dance. Reinvented in 2015, the new choreography brings to the scene dance elements specific to each culture. Though based on the Irish dance, the show aims at mixing specific elements of flamenco, belly-dance and Romanian folk dance”.

“TiMAF Cultural Platform is a unique project with a complex approach aiming at reducing the distance between people from the neighborhoods and central events. Thus, this project managed to bring art in all its forms closer to the residents of Cluj: from music, dance, theatre, film, literature and poetry, graphic arts, to photography and traditional art”.

“The exhibition is viewed as an instrument aimed at fostering intercultural dialogue and increasing the level of knowledge regarding the Roma minority way of living; additionally, we hope it contributes to favorably changing the perception of the majority population on the Roma people by means of protecting their cultural identity: preserving oral culture through stories and pictures”.

“Facets of Hyperconnectivity is, before any other consideration, a thematic exhibition conceived having in mind the compatibility of the invited artists and their availability to respond to the general idea proposed (…). In other words, it is an exhibition based on non-organic principles, without a center and a periphery, in which each work is a possible preview rather than a specific piece in a jigsaw puzzle”.

“Brãila is a city with an impressive history. It passed through centuries resisting to aggressive incursions that have targeted it, incursions performed both by Romanian rulers (it was burned by Stephen the Great), but also by foreigners. The Turks have occupied us for 300 years, Brãila being among the few cities in the country made Turkish raia, then the Russians came and destroyed almost everything.