Events 2010

Romania’s National Day PARTY

Sunday, December 1, ELA EPFL

“Back to school” party

Saturday Octobre 2, 8pm, ELA cafeteria

A/RO stand at Vivapoly

Friday May 28th, 6pm, EPFL

As you already know, we look small grilled eggplant salad, biscuit cake and home-made elderflower juice. Come and party with us!

Civic debate

Friday May 21st , 8.30pm, @ POLE-SUD bar Lausanne Flon

(J.J. Mercier 3 (Flon) Lausanne — 20 meters from the Lausanne Flon metro station)
ARCH-I, A/RO and the Pole-Sud Cultural Center invite you to an event dedicated to the Romanian Rrom community. Free entrance.

Schedule:
8.30 pm- 9.30 pm, simultaneous projection (on three giant screens) of photos from Romanian Rrom camps, made by the famous Swiss photographer Yves Leresche .
9.30 pm- 10pm, the journalist Lydia Gabor from Radio Suisse Romande, will moderate a discussion about the Rroms situation.
10pm-11pm, movie projection: “Fanfaron, Fanfaron” by Corneliu Gheorghita, a Roman cineaste established in France.
11pm-2am, the discussions can continue around a drink in the Pole Sud bar.

Number of expected guests: 50-70

Romanian movie night

May 6th, 19:30, ELA2, EPFL

“15 years ago, Luiza decided to make a fresh start in Spain. She left her 3-year-old daughter Cristina in the care of her relatives and took off. When she returns to Romania, the woman learns some shocking truths that were kept hidden from her: Cristina ran away from home, is a drug addict and has a 2-year-old girl who lives in an orphanage. Overwhelmed by guilt, Luiza attempts to save her daughter and thus redeem the mistakes of her youth. To do that, she’s got a tight time frame: one weekend…”

*With the help of the Romanian Embassy in Berne

Book launch

April 29th, 18:30, CO122 EPFL

A/RO en collaboration avec ARCH-I annoncent le lancement du livre : « Eurotextes. Le continent qui nous sépare » de Mircea Vasilescu*, préfacé et traduit par Ioana Bot.

A l’aube du nouveau millénaire, la nouvelle Roumanie, libre et démocratique, reste difficile à cerner. Les Eurotextes de Vasilescu entreprennent de l’expliquer à un public étranger: le «cas» de la Roumanie postcommuniste et européenne est en soi exemplaire de la réalité et des aspirations de ce cher continent qui nous est commun.

La présentation et la signature de ce livre, ainsi que le débat se fera en présence de l’auteur, Mircea Vasilescu, de la traductrice, Ioana Bot, et d’Ambroise Barras de la part des Editions MetisPresses.

* Mircea VASILESCU est rédacteur en chef de l’hebdomadaire culturel roumain Dilema Veche (www.dilemaveche.ro). Il enseigne à l’Université de Bucarest l’histoire littéraire ainsi que le journalisme culturel et coordonne le programme de DEA en „ Théorie et pratique de l’édition”.

Reading with Eugène

March 18th, 19:00, CO122 EPFL

An hour of reading with Eugène Meiltz, famous Swiss writer of Romanian origin.

“Né à Bucarest six jours avant que l’homme ne marche sur la lune, Eugène débarque dans un monde encore plus étrange, la Suisse, en 1975. Après avoir fini l’UNIL en 1994, il se consacre entièrement à
l’écriture. Romans, chroniques, contes pour enfants, pièces de théâtre sont quelques-uns de ses champs d’exploration. Son père, ingénieur en physique l’a marqué avec cette phrase: “Je n’ai plus aucune velléité à être un homme normal”. Eugène si…

Eugène lira des extraits de La Vallée de la Jeunesse, (éd La Joie de Lire, Genève, 2007), un roman autobiographique racontant sa jeunesse à travers 20 objets: 10 qui lui ont fait du bien et 10 qui lui ont fait
du mal. Et également des extraits du Dernier Mot (sorti il y a un mois), un savoureux recueil de chroniques parues dans la revue d’architecture Tracés.”

* In collaboration with ARCH-I

A/RO’s General assembly

March the 2nd, 5pm, CO010 @EPFL

We will vote a new committee for the year 2010-2011. Also, several statute modificatios will be voted (either required by EPFL or proposed by the committee members).

Spring arrival party

February 28th, 16:00

A new spring is rapidly approaching, and we have to welcome it properly! This workshop is a good opportunity to meet, have fun, and let our immagination go wild for a few hours. Join us!

Romanian movie night

January the 21st, ELA2 @EPFL

“To the east of the Carpathian montains, in Romania, lies Moldova, the last eastern province of the European Latin culture. The center of this region was once called Bacovia – the Latin Bacchus Bacchus.

Here at the end of the year, the spirits of the dead out of the graves, put their masks and come and go freely. To exorcise these spirits and to wash the sins of the whole community, during the pagan celebrations of the winter meet in the Moldovan bacchanalia delusional and … “

With the support of the Association Romania CH – Intercultural (ARCHI).

Réunion roumaine à Vevey

January the 10th, near Eminescu’s statue in Vevey

Ten years have passed from revealing Eminescu’s statue on Leman Lake’s shore. The statue was made by the sculptor Andreia Bove and offered by the Romanian Embassy in Bern to the city Vevey. There is a tradition that every year, in January, the Romanians in Switzerland reunite in Vevey to celebrate the poet’s birthday.

You cand find more details on the embassy website: http://bern.mae.ro/index.php?lang=ro&id=31&s=100728