1. THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR TRADITIONS: „OPEN THE DOOR, CHRISTIAN!”
Date: December 2007
Location: Brasov Town Hall
Description: This Festival intends to display the feeling and atmosphere of Christmas and New Year to a large audience. The program for the two evenings gathers folk groups and famous singers who perform old traditional carols. At the same time, artists from all over the country take part at this Festival by bringing and showing traditional customs from their own regions.
One of these Christmas customs and traditions is the “heard” of the Festival for the artists will dress up in traditional clothes embodying characters as the Bear (“Ursul”), the Goat (“Capra”) and the Sheep (“Turca”).
Organizer: County Cultural Center for Promotion of Traditional Culture, Brasov (Tel.: +4 02 68 41 34 86)
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2. BYZANTINE ART DAYS (ZILELE ARTEI BIZANTINE)
Date: December 2007
Location: Cluj-Napoca city, Cluj County, Romania
Accessibility: Cluj-Napoca International Airport, web www.airportcluj.ro, http://www.cluj4all.com/addresses/ - Cluj-Digital map
Description: Every year, in December, Cluj Napoca is hosting a special manifestation:”The Byzantine Art Days“. During a week, several religious, cultural and history related events are taking place like religious wooden paintings exhibitions, Byzantine music concerts, conferences with distinguish guests from around the Europe , trips at monasteries in Transylvania and Bucovina, etc. Cluj
Cluj County Council, Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania, Municipal Culture House, Cluj City Hall and Local Council, etc, are the promoters of this event.
Contacts:
Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania
21 Memorandum Street, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania
Phone: 0040-264-592344, Fax: 0040-264-592148
E-mail: contact@muzeul-etnografic.ro, Web: www.muzeul-etnografic.ro
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3. MARMATIA 2007 WINTER CUSTOMS FESTIVAL
Date: 27 - 28 December
Location: SIGHETU MARMATIEI
Accesibility: From Baia Mare take DN18 towards Sighetu Marmatiei.
Description:Every year (since 1968) after Christmas, a synthesis of Romanian winter customs and traditions is performed in Sighet; peasants dressed in traditional costumes parade in the town centre; horse riders and carriages with carol singers and masked people present customs from Maramures and other parts of the country. It is a delight for the visitors’ eyes.
Information: Sighetu Marmatiei House of Culture, Tel: +40 262 311 581
4. THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEST-FESTIVAL FOR WINTER CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS “O, CE VESTE MINUNATA” ( OH, WHAT A MARVELLOUS NEWS)
Title: “Dimitrie Bolintineanu” Literature Festival
Period: December
Location: Giurgiu, Bolintin
Description: The purpose of this activity is to preserve and value the folkloric traditions, by putting to good use the beauty and the authenticity of the carols and the wishes that take place during the Winter Holidays, but also to emphasize the masks and the costumes that are used with this occasion.
The festival is aiming, also,to the revitalisation of the carollers groups ,the stimulation of some intellectual members from the villages ,in the area of recuperation, preservation and bringing to light local customs and traditions like: Plugusorul, Capra, Breaza, Semanatul, Jienii, Sorcova, Steaua, Irozii and carolling. URL: http://www.vlasca.ro
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5. “CUSTOMS AND WINTER TRADITIONS” (DATINI SI OBICEIURI DE IARNA), THE XXVI EDITION
Date: December 2007
Location: „Constantin Tanase” Community Centre Vaslui
Description : The festival’s goal is maintaining and perpetuating the interest for the winter period specific events. The event starts with the bands in the contest’s parade on the most important streets of the town, contributing in this way, to the feast’s atmosphere before the end of the year. Bands from all the county’s communes are participating to the contest, impressing with the masks colours, theirs costumes, the quality of their voices and the instrumental accompaniment. Thus, the customs and winter traditions from the Vaslui ethnic area are maintained and revalorised: Christmas carols, folk theatre, mask dances.
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6. WINTER CUSTOMS FESTIVAL IN VRANCEA COUNTY
Date of organizing: December 2007
Location: It will take place in Focsani, around Christmas Holidays, the week-end before. It is deployed on the main roads of the town, with an impressive suite, dancing and singing, masked children, young and old people who eventually stop in Unirii Square, in front of the traditional Christmas tree, wishing „Merry Christmass” to the citizens from Focsani.
The festival has a regional, in 2007 the 12th edition being organized.
The manifestation reunites almost 450 participants organized in choirs and carol singers from all localities which keep Vrancea’s traditions and has as main objective the exposal of Jesus’ birth related customs.
Organizer: CJPCT Vrancea (Vrancea County Center for Traditional Culture Preservation), 1, Nicolae Titulescu Str, Tel. 0237 221069, 0721 210830, E-mail: cjcpct@yahoo.com
7. WAITS’ SUITE ALAIUL COLINDATORILOR
Period : the 24th of December
Location : Targoviste city, Dambovita county, Romania
Description: Yearly tens of waits from all the villages of the county are coming to present the inhabitants of the city carols, old songs, dances and Christmas customs.
Contacts: - Targoviste city hall. Tel: 0040 245 611 222, 0040 245 613 928.Fax: 0040 245 217 951.Web page: www.pmtgv.ro
8. „GEORGE HAZGAN” DRAWING-ROOM BALLAD AND POPULAR SONGS FESTIVAL
Date: December 2007
Location: Botosani City
Contacts : "Rapsozii Botosanilor" popular orchestra Tel: 0040 231 511002
9. CUSTOM AND TRADITION WINTER COUNTY FESTIVAL
„DIN STRABUNI…DIN OAMENI BUNI”
Date: December 2007
Location: Botosani City
Contacts :
Botosani County’s Culture Department,
Address: St. Unirii No.16 Phone: 0231515173 Fax: 0231516925
Email: contact@botosani.djc.ro
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10. “Iosif VELCEANU” Coral Music Festival, XXXIII edition
Date: 6 December 2007
Location: Resita- Saint Ioan Cathedral
Organizers: County Center for Conservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture Caras-Severin; Fagarasului Street, no.12 A, 320162; Tel/ Fax: 0040255/ 556698; email: centrucultura@yahoo.com
The manifestation is paying homage to the most important composer from Banatul Montan (Highland Banat Region), Iosif VELCEANU and in the same time is promoting the coral song and “colindul”. It participate the most representative coral bands from our district.
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11. The folclorical festival "Winter traditions", 2007 - XXXX-th edition
The Iasi Festival is a good oportunity to remember the atmosphere from the traditional village, to meet again with the beauty of the masks (goats, stags, bears, rams, horsies etc), with the mag's sobriety from the Irod's parades, with the caroll's naturalness.
This etnocultural manifestation deals also with knowing and valueing, on more fields, the traditions from the country's patrimony , that come to life during the winter holidays, their reference point being the Christmas and the New Year. Stimulated by the uncompared richness of these traditions from the moldavian area, the organisers of the festival show a constant interest in promoting and emphasizing these values from the most important areas of Romania, as well as from the romanian communities outside the country.
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