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Denver multicultural arts & culture platform, inspired by the fearlessness of Bucharest. Est. DC 2014
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Bucharest Inside the Beltway (BiB) is an independent local & international arts & culture platform sponsored by non-profit Fractured Atlas (that accepts tax-deductible donations on BiB’s behalf). When studying at the University of Bucharest on a Fulbright, Cristina Bejan met Rucsandra Pop, who was organizing a literary festival in a hip new cafe in Bucharest's historic Geology Museum. Pop invited
Bejan to contribute a live-reading of her play "Colombo Calling - a play from Sri Lanka" which featured actors from across Bucharest's eclectic and diverse theatre world, including the world famous Maia Morgenstern. Then Pop won a Fulbright to study at the University of Indiana. These two playwrights and poets have been scheming about just such an international and local culture and arts collective since their initial collaboration in 2008. Think the Fulbright Association meets the pre-2012 incarnation of the Romanian Cultural Institute and you have Bucharest Inside the Beltway.
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Join us next Thursday 16 November at 1pm for a Free Lunchtime Concert: Leon Bosch (double bass) & Rebeca Omordia (piano). We are thrilled to welcome world-famous double bass virtuoso Leon Bosch and trailblazing pianist Rebeca Omordia to Howden!
Their programme includes Beethoven's much-loved 'Horn Sonata', in a fantastic new arrangement for double bass and piano, and the world premiere of a brand-new Sonatina for double bass and piano by renowned British composer Philip Herbert! https://www.philipherbert.org/about
Thank you to the RVW Trust for their support of the Philip Herbert Sonatina.
Free admission with retiring donations gratefully accepted in aid of Howdenshire Music concerts.
Booking optional but recommended: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/howdenshiremusic
Or telephone 07743 448123
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"One of the world's best-known players of the double bass" – The Telegraph
"Rebeca’s technique knows no bounds but, more importantly, she plays with a depth of insight and understanding which is all too rare today" – Julian Lloyd Webber
Join the discussion. All are welcome.
Terrell Arts DC is a family based art business specializing in fine art, curating and art education. Led by artists Zsudayka Nzinga and James Terrell, Terrell Arts DC strives to create opportunities for the community to interface with fine art. TADC provides fine artwork for gallery and museum e.....
Violinist Irina Muresanu will be performing a solo violin recital on instruments from the 2023 New Instrument Exhibit at our upcoming VSA Baltimore!
Her performance will take place on Friday, November 17, from 5-6pm at the Marriott Baltimore Inner Harbor, and is free to convention attendees and musicians with a Musician’s Pass.
Irina is a laureate and winner of top prizes in several prestigious international violin competitions, and is currently on the faculty at the University of Maryland.
Interestingly, her own instrument is a Giuseppe Rocca - our Rare Instrument Exhibit this year features Rocca and other Turinese makers.
https://www.myartbroker.com/guides/articles/history-of-art-basel-beginnings-to-present-day #
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Bucharest Inside the Beltway is pleased to introduce the grassroots creative selected for our Denver Artist Residency Program 2023 ... JELISA JAY ROBINSON. A playwright from Houston, Texas, with many national credits to her name - Robinson brings a fresh new perspective to BiB. We discovered her work during our RADIANCE Playwrights' Residency application process and knew that a more focused opportunity would fit best. Robinson will be developing her original play "We Both Suck Our Teeth" with Bucharest Inside the Beltway in partnership with Metropolitan State University of Denver's Theatre & Dance Department. Students from "Staging Cultures," MSU Denver's multicultural theatre course will work with Robinson via Zoom to develop her play and then perform a portion of the script in their final play showcase - to be performed at the CVA - Center for Visual Art, MSU Denver in December 2023 (exact date/time TBD). Please check out her website: www.jelisajayrobinson.com and follow her on Instagram: to support her work!🌟
All information on BiB website! Link in IG bio or below.✨
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http://www.bibdenver.com/denver-artist-residency---jelisa-jay-robinson.html
When was founded in in 2014, we published the BiB on our website. It addresses our arts & culture platform’s apolitical nature and our strong commitment to ~ grounded in Romania’s lived experience of oppression under totalitarianism. Please read, you can also access the full page on BiB’s website. Link below! Thank you to all who support BiB.🖤
http://www.bibdenver.com/about-bucharest-inside-the-beltway.html
Bucharest Inside the Beltway’s statement on why we don’t make political statements. Please be kind to each other out there.
Washington DC 🚨
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Karaoke with the Kingpin! Join Busboys and Poets host Dwayne B aka Crochet Kingpin for a fun night of bad singing! The first Saturday of
Coming soon! As we are used to every year, EUROPEAN LITERATURE NIGHT 2023 brings to New York some of the best European writers and contemporary literature! RSVP now and join us at the Ukrainian Institute of America!
Romania will be represented by Kat Mustatea, a Romanian-American transmedia playwright and artist whose language and performance works enlist absurdity, hybridity, and the computational uncanny to dig deeply into what it means to be human. Her TED talk, about AI as a form of puppetry, offers a novel take to the meaning of generative art-making. She is a member of ONX Studio (Onassis Foundation) and a fellow at CPH:DOX, and was previously a resident at TED and a member of NEW INC, an art and tech incubator at The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been presented at Ars Electronica Linz, New Images Festival Paris, Stanley Picker Gallery London, New York Live Arts, and The Cube at Virginia Tech, among others.
📖 European Literature Night 2023
This annual event is a vibrant showcase of contemporary European writers, spanning genres from fiction to poetry, memoir, and history. Presented by EUNIC New York in collaboration with PEN America, it promises a night of multilingual readings, musical performances, panel discussions, and Q&As with authors, translators, and performers from 11 European countries.
📆Date: November 2, 2023, 6 PM – 10 PM
📍 Venue: Ukrainian Institute of America
Free and open to public. Please register at https://shorturl.at/bnqxO
Comedy Zebra Show vine în DENVER cu turneul "Umor & Travel".
tonight in 💜💞
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One of the coolest things I’ve ever done! 😎
💿My track with Gabriel Prokofiev “Christian Onyeji:Ufie (Sound-Collage Rework)” Nonclassical is out now on The Wire Tapper (The Wire Magazine)!
🎧 https://tinyurl.com/463tspp4
*piano music & field recordings from Igboland
Create a night out on 38th Ave! Stop by Wolf + Wildflower for wine and eats, then head to Wheat Ridge Theatre Company for the play! 🍷🎭
Friday and Saturday nights, now through October 29, you can get your spooky fix with “The Woman in Black.” 🖤 👻 Shows are at 7:30 p.m.
Link for show tix in the comments. 👇🏼
Bucharest Inside the Beltway is honored to have our book booth now part of this upcoming 🇷🇴 National Day celebration in Connecticut! 🙏 Dana Roxana Bucin.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/romanian-national-day-celebration-tickets-716114827727?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwAR0tXNqrimZlJX2NPo8YfomFcajSlBO3RnWKhTpDgqHcew4bJ7-RirvRvDc
Join us in celebrating Romanian National Day in CT.
Guess what day it is!
OSD DAY!!!!!!
3 amazing bands perform tonight at Fraco's
You can sign up here to play next time: https://www.openstagedenver.com/open-mic-series/
7:00 The Deceitful Mind
8:00 Rosin the Bow
9:00 The Disasters
Thanks for supporting Local Musicians 🤓
Sign up today because prices are going up in January.
We only do video on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month.
***Now you can get a video of your set - See Below***
WEDNESDAY OSD will host a show @ Fraco's Bar - 5302 S Federal Cir, Littleton, CO 80123
How it works:
You can have a guaranteed time slot. Everyone is scheduled in advance online.
Solo performers get 30 minutes and bands get an hour (because of set-up and tear-down time).
P. A. and mics are provided, you bring your back-line. You are welcome to bring your own mic.
You may even score a gig because bands are hired from OpenStageDenver bands all the time. Over 150 OSD acts have been hired for paid work
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***We can record your set***
(not required, but way cool)
Bring a flash drive and we will record your individual tracks to it and you can take it home to mix on your DAW. This is totally FREE.
OR
OSD can mix it for you
30 minute sets (solos and duos) for $50
60 minute sets (bands - usually about 40 minutes of music) for $100
That's usually 6 - 10 songs mixed and delivered in separate MP3s
***NOW WITH VIDEO RECORDING!!***
$200 for Bands
$100 for Solos / Duos
Provided by Shootin’ DICE Studios, you’ll receive a broadcast quality .mp4 video of your entire set (up to 4 different camera angles).
If that’s not enough, you’ll also receive an MP3 audio recording of each individual song mixed by the professionals at Open Stage Denver.
Sign up here : https://www.openstagedenver.com/open-mic-series/
Example of a past video : https://www.shootindicestudios.com/promo-videos
Congratulations to & the entire literary team behind “Immigrant Voices in the Pandemic” for a fabulous NYC 🌟🧡💥❣️
Wheat Ridge Theatre Company looking for a music director! DM if interested.
visited last night in historic in the legendary ❣️💥
to grace BiB later today 🎥
More goodness from 🇷🇴🇺🇸 from 🔥
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My completed mural for at • Aerosol on wood • 20’ x 8’ • This mural will be installed in the plaza at Mission Ballroom. I aimed to create something musically inspired while encompassing both retro and futuristic elements. Within the piece, you’ll discover various shapes influenced by musical instruments and equipment, such as midi controllers, piano keys and cassette tapes.
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🎥 Based on a true story, the third movie of Romanian Film Festival in Washington, D.C., „To The North” (Spre nord), directed by Mihai Mincan, is a movie about kindness, moral dilemmas, and the inability to escape.
🎬 During his shift on a transatlantic ship’s deck, Joel, a religious Filipino sailor, discovers Dumitru, a Romanian stowaway hidden between some containers. If he is spotted by the Taiwanese officers running the vessel, Dumitru is at risk to be thrown overboard. Will Dumitru escape? Come to find the answer on Saturday, November 4 @ 4:00 PM at E Street Cinema.
❗️ FREE entry (no booking necessary).
🗣RFF 2023 is organized by the Embassy of Romania to the United States and Romanian Cultural Institute in New York / ICR New York, at the Landmark's E Street Cinema in Washington, DC and with the generous support of the sponsors from Romania: Banca Transilvania, BCR, CEC Bank, Dedeman, Kaufland, EximBank, One, Hidroelectrica, Lidl, EMag.
🇷🇴 🇺🇸 The festival is part of an ample cultural program dedicated to the Romania-United States Strategic Partnership: „Romania – United States, a Partnership for the Future – Celebrating Romanian talent”.
👉 Link in the comments for more details.
: Immigrant Voices in the Pandemic (Solis Press, 2023), a new anthology by Roxana Cazan and Domnica Rădulescu. The book features Romanian-American authors Claudia Serea, Lucia Cherciu, Monica Manolachi, Adela Sinclair, Roxana Cazan, Cătălina Florina Florescu, Alina Ștefănescu and Domnica Rădulescu alongside other important immigrant voices.
"While the dislocation and isolation of the pandemic hit us all hard, the experience for immigrants was unique. What does lockdown look like when you're already far from home? How can one find comfort in family from the other side of a border? These themes and more are explored in the collection of stories, poems, essays, plays, and visual art that comprise Immigrant Voices in the Pandemic. In these stories of love, loss, gratitude, and pain, readers will encounter intellectually rigorous criticism as well as imagery that is transporting in its beauty." - Kim van Alkemade, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8 and Counting Lost Stars
📖 Details at https://www.solispress.com/9781910146859.html?fbclid=IwAR2afjwLUAssbbbJCW_RqYSX0Wv26wwmbIy7OvOavqfaRPOzw_CfwbFoM-g
🗣 For those in New York, the book launches at Rivaa Gallery on Roosevelt Island this Sunday, October 22, 4 pm.
Congratulations to .margineanu & the cast/crew of “The Town With Very Nice People” on a show last night in 🇷🇴🇺🇸
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🎭 So thrilled that the next two shows at our Romanian-American Studio Theater are now SOLD OUT! We're looking forward to welcoming you at RCINY on October 19 & 20 for two unmissable evenings of immersive theater workshop and great fun!
🕰 Both performances start at 7 pm. Doors open at 6:45 pm!
Five Points/Whittier (Downtown)
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@iamkaylamarque @namebackwardss this past Saturday in #denvercolorado @coloradocolorcon 💗🖤 #bucharestinsidethebeltway #denverartists #happyfriday 🌸☀️
In NYC this weekend? Check out the latest #design work by @ldannaslee ~ BiB collaborator from our show in the 2015 @dcbtaf 🌟 #repost • @ldannaslee Lil sneak peak of Oedipus Rex at @nylivearts , choreographry & costume by @tabula.rasa.dance.theater.ny , production design by yours truly. Opening tonight, running through Sunday! #dance #theatre #newyork
@bucharestinsidethebeltway is lucky to spend so much time on @msudenver campus! Whatta find this week: The Metro Sphere student literary, art, & #culture magazine. Pick up your free copy if you find yourself on @aurariacampusdenver 🌟🌈🏔
#DMV #sculptor @ianculescu has a special Fall #artgallery exhibit invitation in #washingtondc !!🍁🍂 #repost • @ianculescu I invite you to the opening of my new exhibition of sculpture carved in marble scavenged from the remodeling of the Australian Embassy in Washington DC . . . #ianculescu #crisianculescu #dmvartist #dcartist #acreativedc #artinspo #artscrowds #experiencedc #dc #dmv #washingtondc #igdc #artdc #soloexhibition #waverlystreetgallery #dcarts #202creates @thingstododc @thingstododmv @adventuresindc @doingstuffindc @freeindc @dcnowevents @artsense.dmv @folio.dc @artsandartists clockoutdc
Books by Romanian-American authors en route from #Denver ➡️ #WashingtonDC to their new home in the little library at the 🇷🇴 #ambassador’s residence ❣️ These authors will join many more in DC, it’s an honor that @bucharestinsidethebeltway was able to be part of this amazing effort of @romaniansofdc ~ thank you so much @bogdan.banu1 🙏 Authors represented here: @adelasinclairpoet @claudia_poetry @mdmoscaliuc @roxoutthere @angelachirilaart & @cristinaabejan_ladygodiva 📚 #books #womenwriters #romanianamerican #diaspora ✨✨✨✨
London musician @peterplaysmusic premieres his original song “Picture on the Wall” @washingtondukeinn 🎹
“Dream big. Create spaces.” ~ COLMAN DOMINGO 🌅 It was an honor & so exciting for BiB to be present for the award ceremony this past Friday in #Denver, where LGBTQIA+ multidimensional artist @kingofbingo received a prize for his career on stage and in film. Please listen to his whole speech to be inspired on this gorgeous Sunday!☀️🌈 #colmandomingo #lgbtqartist #denveraward @thedenverfilm
As shared on BiB IG yesterday…from the Romanian Weekend at the Wharf earlier this month in Washington DC! Incredible festival produced by Romanian Cultural Institute in New York / ICR New York & Ambasada României în Statele Unite ale Americii / Romanian Embassy to US.🇷🇴🇺🇸
#repost • @thesirharveyfitz 🤩 WOW! I am so incredibly humbly grateful for these 6 @dmvrenaissanceawards nominations! To even be considered for awards amongst so many deserving creatives and artists who I respect so much puts me in great company. 🤎 Voting is now open through August 14th at 11:59 PM EST. Thank you for all of your casted votes.🙏
BiB loved listening to beautiful voice of Chicago’s phenomenal @anaeverling from our book booth at the #romanianweekendatthewharf this past Saturday!🇲🇩🇧🇷 H/T @danielakammrath @romanianatheart 💙💛❤️
@denfringe has started & @bucharestinsidethebeltway cannot wait to see @two.cent.lion tomorrow evening! Get your tix now to this show & more, #Denver’s #fringefestival is not to be missed! ♥️🖤 #denvertheatre #denvertheater #coloradocreative #coloradocreatives #denvercolorado
A taste of the music from #Denver’s #Juneteenth Festival this past weekend. Apologies that BiB was not able to record more artists! In order to be Covid-safe, we went early on Sunday to beat the crowds… #juneteenthmusicfestival #denvermusic #coloradomusicians #denvercolorado #coloradocreatives 💙🖤
#Juneteenth artistic & cultural festivities begin tonight in #Denver !! @cleoparkerdanceacademy @giovanni.nikki #fivepoints #denvercolorado Source: @denverpost
Wood burning from #BaiaMare #Romania 💙🦋 #repost • @buticul_de_pirogravura ℍ𝕒𝕞𝕤𝕒 🧿Mâna Fatimei în islam , 🧿Mâna Maicii Maria în creștinism , 🧿Mâna lui Miriam ,sora lui Moise în iudaism (sau mâna lui Dumnezeu) 🧿Este un simbol antic ce datează de peste 2000 de ani recunoscut în aproape toate religiile . 🧿Înțelesul arab al cuvântului "Hamsa" este cinci ,reprezentănd cele 5 simțuri . 🧿Simbolul Hamsa reprezintă de asemenea mâna Lui Dumnezeu , se crede că promovează fericirea , sănătatea , norocul si prosperitatea . 🧿În vechea credință se crede că simbolul Hamsa interceptează energiile negative și le înlatură. #hamsa #symbols #mistic #religions #manafatimei #protection #happiness #
For those who might have missed #Eurovision Finals yesterday! 🔥 @zdobsizdubofficial was @bucharestinsidethebeltway’s top choice💥 🇲🇩#chisinau 🇷🇴#bucharest #repost • @lablouseroumaine Felicitări, @zdobsizdubofficial și @fratii.advahov! Hai, Moldova! Hai, România! 🇲🇩🇹🇩 #repost @eurovision ・・・ Hey ho lets go! Moldova are here to folk up this Grand Final! @zdobsizdubofficial @fratii.advahov 🇲🇩 #Eurovision #Eurovision2022 #ESC2022
Gem from #cincodemayo festival in #denvercolorado this past weekend 🇲🇽💥 #cincodemayofestival #denver #colorado #ourhome #bucharestinsidethebeltway 🖤
No better way to celebrate #mothersday than with a poem that has been inspiring @bucharestinsidethebeltway for years, thank you @orvillethepoet for your talent & leadership & excellent example of how to pay tribute to the older generations💙
Yesterday the new play by @Bruntpoetry & @cristinaabejan_ladygodiva “The Scholarship” appeared @BaronsCourt_W14 in #LondonUK featuring @ashleighharveyldn as part of a festival protesting Russian aggression in #Ukraine, the play protests the racism & imperialism of #cecilrhodes & calls for his #scholarship to #changethename‼️#playwrights @icwplaywrights
The latest from Denver & Moldova’s own @angelachirilaart 💛💙🌻🦋 #fineart #feminineart #ukraine #easterneurope #moldovanartist #denverartist #coloradocreative
@bucharestinsidethebeltway recommends the #poetry of Washington DC poet @bypo.phoenix 🔥 #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #poetrysociety #poets
Perfect message for today from @theafricanconcertseries 💛💚❤️🖤 #repost • @theafricanconcertseries Snippet of 'PEACE ON EARTH' by Errollyn Wallen @errollyn9552 performed yesterday evening by Simone Ibbett-Brown @simonejib & Kamilla Arku @kamillapianist at the African Concert Series, part of the 'African Women Concert '. #peaceonearth #africancomposers
Beautiful reading by @claudia_poetry from our recent exquisite evening @romanianculturalinstituteusa 🌹♥️ #repost • @claudia_poetry “Aunt Suzie and the Village,” a poem from my collection “Writing on the Walls at Night.” With many thanks to the @romanianculturalinstituteusa and @bucharestinsidethebeltway / @cristinaabejan_ladygodiva for making this reading possible. Check out the collection at link in bio. #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetryreading #weekendmood #readingpoetry #readingpoems #poemoftheday #prosepoetry #prosepoem
Love this #Denver artist!💗🖤 #repost • @c.k.marion Why compete when you can collab & build an army? ~ ~ ~ It’s higher consciousness ~ ~ ~ “It’s Cola confidence, you’ll soon see who the prophet is” ~ ~ ~ I got words for the world. Poetry in motion. West coast. Pacific Ocean, Floating on broken bridges. Spirit too ambitious over they heads Vocab pretentious. Stuck up on my wisdom. Let it sink into yo rhythm. The heart you gotta listen to. I belong in a kitchen Cause I’m cooking up these these tracks for you? I belong in a booth, I belong on the stage. Dropping fire bombs with a smile & a wave. 👋🏽 Running like a politician, Campaign for a listen. Teach the world a lesson They ain’t paying no tuition Champagne for a stream. Get the dolla dolla cream. Hardly anybody truly living out they dream. Complacent in they town. While they man demanding things. Don’t you know? You been cancelled? Men take a note, grab a pencil. Good woman in yo life; gone hold you to a higher STANDARD. That woman is the queen, sh*t, she the commander. Album: Radical Intersectional Poet; R.I.P. Preparation is the key to success. #2022takeover #ckmarion #R.I.P. #colaconfidence #womeninhiphop
Congrats to great friend of BiB, DC poet & artist @thesirharveyfitz on his new #haiku #albumrelease ❣️❣️ #repost • @thesirharveyfitz I got the opportunity to work with the incredibly talented super producer @bmoefitz who took the vision that I had for the audiobook version of my debut book of poetry and far exceeded my expectations! It is heavy on the EP/Mixtape vibes and is available wherever you stream your music! Play it 1 or 100 times for the one time for the bday kid. #HarveysHaikus #HappyHarveyDay
When studying at the University of Bucharest on a Fulbright, Cristina Bejan met Rucsandra Pop, who was organizing a literary festival in a hip new cafe in Bucharest's historic Geology Museum. Pop invited Bejan to contribute a live-reading of her play "Colombo Calling - a play from Sri Lanka" which featured actors from across Bucharest's eclectic and diverse theatre world, including the world famous Maia Morgenstern. Then Pop won a Fulbright to study at the University of Indiana. These two playwrights and poets have been scheming about just such an international and local culture and arts collective since their initial collaboration in 2008. Think the Fulbright Association meets the pre-2012 incarnation of the Romanian Cultural Institute and you have Bucharest Inside the Beltway. Long live Denver, draga ....
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