Sown Signs for an Open House
Special events

Sown Signs for an Open House

We are delighted to take part, for the eighth consecutive year, in Open House London, the greatest architectural showcase that takes over the capital every September. For this year’s

22 - 23/09/2018 @ Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, SW1X8PH
Award-winning thriller 'Dogs' at the Romanian Cinematheque
Film

Award-winning thriller 'Dogs' at the Romanian Cinematheque

We are thrilled to resume our Cinematheque screenings this September with “Dogs”, director Bogdan Miricã’s debut feature. Internationally premiered at the Cannes Film

25/09/2018 @ Romanian Cultural Institute, 1 Belgrave Square, SW1X8PH
Olympics in Belgravia
Theatre & Dance

Olympics in Belgravia

Our autumn theatre season continues where you would least expect it - at the Olympics! 'The Olympians', a coming-of-age story that looks at themes of great relevance in today's world

27/09 - 07/10/2018 @ RCI & London theatres
Talented Pianist Oxana Corjos Opens the Autumn Season of the Enescu Concerts Series
Music

Talented Pianist Oxana Corjos Opens the Autumn Season of the Enescu Concerts Series

We are happy to resume our ever popular Enescu Concerts Series with a dashing piano recital by Oxana Corjos, one of the most talented musicians of her generation, renowned for both her technique

04/10/2018 @ Romanian Cultural Institute
Highlights

Film

Film

We resume our Cinematheque screenings this September with “Dogs”, director Bogdan Miricã’s debut feature. Internationally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016, where it won the FIPRESCI Award in the Un Certain Regard section, the film tells the story of Roman, a naïve outsider who returns to the land he has just inherited from his grandfather. 

Literature

Literature

Renowned poet, star chef and TV personality Mircea Dinescu is our guest at 1 Belgrave Square for the launch of his most recent poetry collection in English, “The Barbarians’ Return”, published by the prestigious Bloodaxe Books.

Music

Music

The Romanian Cultural Institute’s lunchtime series in the very heart of London, at the prestigious St James’s Church Piccadilly, continues with a recital by amazing Alexandru Negriuc, a musician under whose fingers the piano becomes alive, building an invisible bridge to an unearthly realm.  

Theatre & Dance

Theatre & Dance

Our autumn theatre season continues where you would least expect it - at the Olympics! 'The Olympians', a coming-of-age story that looks at themes of great relevance in today's world - immigration, class divide, body image and race -, is brought to our stage by Romanian-British trio Beatrice Ragea, Ioana Goga and Jez Davess-Humphrey.  

Visual arts

Visual arts

Urbanist Radu Pervolovici and Dr. Shona McArthur Kallestrup join London-based architect Adrian Petrenco for an overview of 100 years of architectural creativity, starting with 1918 - the year of Romanian unification - to the present day. The conversation is complemented by an exhibition of photography illustrating the stylistic diversity of Romania’s built patrimony and the political, cultural and social circumstances that have influenced it during a troubled century.

Special events

Special events

Celebrated historian and President of the Romanian Academy, Ioan-Aurel Pop, is our special guest in this Centenary Year and the protagonist of an illuminating talk entitled ‘The making of united Romania: a 100-year journey’, presented in partnership with the British Museum.

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