Trombonist Barrie Webb at the International New Music Week
The famous British musician Barrie Webb, trombonist, director and teacher will be participating in the International New Music Week taking place in Bucharest between 19 and 27 May, with the support of British Council Romania.
Barrie Webb can be listened to in the frame of two performances:
20 May, 17:07 ”B&B Serial Surreal, Bed&Breakfast with Barrie and Barbie”BARRIE WEBB studied music at the University of Cambridge, then with Vinko Globokar and Constantin Bugeanu. He performed solo at BBC, Radio France, RAI (Italy), ABC (Australia).
Trombonist, director and teacher at the University Huddersfield, he collaborated with percussionists such as Julian Warburton, with whom he also recorded for Move Records (Australia) and Metier (UK) and Peter Nelville, with whom he collaborated for projects in Melbourne in 2004 and 2005. He plays regularly in concerts with organisations from Europe, Australia, South Korea, Japan and China.
The International New Music Week is an event organised by the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania and the Romanian Association of Women in Art.
For more details you can access www.simn2012.com
“Language Death: Writing the Obituary of Languages?” lecture given by David CrystalThe British Council and the Romanian Cultural Institute presented the “Language Death: Writing the Obituary of Languages?” lecture given by David Crystal organised in partnership with “Carol I” Central University Library, and the University of Bucharest.
The event took place on Tuesday 15 May, from 5:30 p.m., in the main hall of “Carol I” Central University Library (1 Boteanu street, Bucharest).
David Crystal published the first of his 100 or so books in 1964, and became known chiefly for his research work in English language studies, in such fields as intonation and stylistics, and in the application of linguistics to religious, educational and clinical contexts, notably in the development of a range of linguistic profiling techniques for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
He is currently patron of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) and the Association for Language Learning (ALL), president of the UK National Literacy Association, and an honorary vice-president of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, the Institute of Linguists, and the Society for Editors and Proofreaders.
The lecture was given in English.
British reading at the European Literature NightJoin us for the European Literature Night for an attractive and representative selection of contemporary British literature on 30 May, starting at 8.00 p.m. in the Löwendal Foundation office in Bucharest (Gheorghe Cantacuzino Square, next to the Ioanid Park).
We will enjoy excerpts from Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Stephen Fry, David Lodge, Hilary Mantel and Ian McEwan in the lecture of Radu Paraschivescu (translator, writer, journalist), Bogdan Stefanescu (vice-dean, lecturer at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest), Bogdan Serban (DJ at Radio Guerrilla) and Alice Cojocaru (British Council).
The European Literature Night is a cultural project supported by the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC). In Romania, the first edition of the project is taking place in 2012, bringing together ten cultural institutes. The same evening marks the opening of the book fair Bookfest, so important international authors are expected to pass by the European Literature Night as well.
“Books. Books and books and books. And then, just when an observer might be lured into thinking that that must be it, more books.” – Stephen Fry, “The Liar”, 1991.
Close up of hand playing piano, Hong Kong - photographer Mat Wright copyright British CouncilBritish Council supported the participation of British writer Bernard MacLaverty in the frame of the “East – West Cultural Passage: Literature and Music” conference, organized between 10 and 12 May by The Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania, Faculty of Letters and Arts and Roehampton University, London, UK.
From Verdi’s Othello and Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata to Anthony Burgess’s literary and musical compositions and Kazuo Ishiguro’s fictional musicians, literature is obsessed with music, and vice versa. This was the first conference to explore critically the connection between music and literature in a comprehensive fashion.
Other keynote speakers: Gerry Smyth (John Moores University, Liverpool), Stephen Benson (University of East Anglia), Willy Vlautin (Richmond Fontaine), Tom McCarthy, Tiffany Murray, Douglas Cowie and Holly Pester.
Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942 and lived there until 1975. He has been a Medical Laboratory Technician, a mature student, a teacher of English and, for two years in the mid eighties, Writer-in-Residence at the University of Aberdeen. MacLaverty teaches creative writing at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, he is author of five collections of short stories and four novels. His novel “Grace Notes” was shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize and he received in 2004 the BAFTA Scotland Award for best first director with “Bye Child”.
Watch British documentaries at the Visual Arts Museum in GalatiWe’re launching the second edition of the British Documentary screenings in Galati, at the Visual Arts Museum, on 19 May, within the “Museum Nights” event!
Following the opening, the selection of British internationally awarded documentaries will be screened weekly, on Thursday, at the Visual Arts Museum in Galati. The entrance is free.
“British Documentary” is a British Council project.
Partner: Visual Arts Museum in Galati
“Languages for the Games” English Competition for childrenGet your child involved in a global English competition and win an all-expenses paid trip to London! The competition is open to schoolchildren aged 8-16 who study English as a foreign language and focuses on Paralympic sports and values.
Participants will have to develop different projects depending on their age group: 8-11 years old - create a project entitled “She’s my heroine”/”He’s my hero” and 12-16 years old - design “My Perfect Paralympic Poster”.
Entries can be either individual, joint or class entries and must be submited by 31 May!
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