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ProEtnica Intercultural Festival: Sighişoara 21-25 August

Project aims at enhancing interethnic peace in a pluralistic and democratic society, promoting intercultural dialogue and artistic interaction at European level.

ProEtnica Intercultural Festival: Sighişoara 21-25 August
Sighișoara. Photo: Archive.

Articol de Angela Cerven, 22 August 2019, 00:19

City of Sighişoara hosts, on 21-25 August, the 17th edition of ProEtnica Intercultural Festival.

Artistic program includes traditional dance and music, with more than 50 performances, presented on the Citadel’s Stage, with the presence of 15.000 visitors. This year there is a new category - the literary salon, where writers who belong to national minorities, as well as writers who write about minorities present their works, organize debates, readings, presentations, exhibitions and book launches. Festival also includes the following sections: Agora of intercultural dialogue, theater, art exhibitions.

Volker Reiter, festival coordinator:This project aims at enhancing interethnic peace in a pluralistic and democratic society, promoting intercultural dialogue and artistic interaction at European level. Thus, over 600 representatives of national minorities in Romania and 15,000 visitors take part in this festival. The presence of the national minority of the German sorbs develops the international side of the festival. On Thursday, August 22, there will be a Greek evening with a recital by Ionut Galani. On Saturday evening, Bucharest Klezmer Band will perform together with Maia Morgenstern.

Festival is organized by the Center for Interethnic Youth Education Sighişoara, together with the National Minorities Organizations. Project is implemented in partnership with the Department for Interethnic Relations and the Mureș County Council as partners with financial contribution, as well as by the Romanian Government through the Ministry of Culture and National Identity as financer.

The project is also supported by the German Embassy in Romania, the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the Brandenburg Land in Germany, the Romanian Cultural Institute, Sighişoara Municipality, the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), the Institute for Foreign Relations in Stuttgart (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Stuttgart), Divers Association and PEN Romania.

Radio Romania News is among Media partners.

https://www.proetnica.ro/2019/images/program/Program-ProEtnica-2019.pdf

Source:RRA, Proetnica.Translated by Miruna Matei

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