Romanian Film Festival – 1st Edition
SIFF Film CenterARCS is proud to inaugurate the first Romanian Film Festival in Seattle: One Eye Laughing, One Eye Crying!This fall, ARCS has succeeded in organizing the first Romanian Film Festival in the Pacific Northwest, One Eye Laughing, One Eye Crying, as part of an effort to disseminate Romanian contemporary culture. The festival, in partnership with The Romanian […]
Book Club: M. Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Our Book Club: The Caravan of Eastern European Books Milan Kundera’s mostly read novel worldwide, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, explores Prague in the late 1960s and 1970s, a period of great political turmoil, when personal histories of passion, artistic and existential struggles were crushed and reshaped by History’s “Grand March”, as he entitles one […]
Rumenye! Rumenye!
One of Radu Gabrea's most celebrated documentaries, 'Rumenye! Rumenye!' retraces the inseparable connection between Jewish, Romani (Gypsy) and Romanian culture, through Klezmer music. The director will be present for Q/A
Romanian Film Festival Seattle- 2nd Edition
SIFF Cinema Uptown 511 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WARomanian Film Festival Seattle, 2nd Edition: Tales of ResistanceThis year's edition of the Romanian Film Festival in Seattle celebrates Romania's cultural, ethnic and religious diversity within a society where personal, unforgettable stories have challenged and altered the course of history. Through our selection of comedy-dramas, documentaries, and animation, you will discover the internationally praised 'New […]
Sasha Vlad – Surrealism: The Romanian Case of Gellu Naum
Sasha Vlad, a translator of Gellu Naum's work and a surrealist visual artist, talks about Naum's life and work, within the frame of the surrealist movement.
Iuliana Pana reads from Rigla de Aur
Iulia Pană has a free reading and book signing event for her latest poetry volume Rigla de Aer. Reading will be in Romanian.
Iuliana Pana reads from Ebony Bones
Iulia Pană has a free reading and book signing event for her latest poetry volume Ebony Bones. Reading will be in English.
Meet Author Carmen Francesca Banciu
Suzzallo and Allen Libraries 4000 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesARCS is proud to host renowned author Carmen-Francesca Banciu, who is visiting Seattle to promote the recent publication of the English translation of "Mother’s Day: Song of a Sad Mother" and "Berlin is My Paris". Carmen-Francesca’s novels are semi-autobiographical narratives about living in and leaving Romania. Part "Bildungsroman" and part autobiographical memoir, "Mother's Day" explores […]
Romanian Film Festival – 3rd Edition
The Romanian Film Festival Seattle, "One Eye Laughing, One Eye Crying: longing", 3rd EditionFilmsDogs by Bogdan Mirică2016, Thriller, 104 minutesRoman returns to the land he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord […]
Of Snails and Men – A Film by Tudor Giurgiu
ALK Asphalt 12630 N 103rd Ave, Sun City, AZ, United StatesScreening by the Alliance Française de Seattle as part of series of events celebrating unique Francophone cultures. Join us on Friday, March 17, 7-9 PM, for the second film of the francophone series, Of Snails and Men (2012), a comedy by Tudor Giurgiu, with Andi Vasluianu, Monica Bârlădeanu, and Dorel Vișan. Selected by the American Romanian Cultural Society. […]
Club Piticot
Club Piticot invites all children of Romanian heritage at a creative workshop where they learn about Romanian Easter traditions and prepare for the arrival of the beloved Easter Bunny: In asteptarea Iepurasului. We are waiting for you, your friends and family on April 9 between 4-6pm at Laurel Park Condominium 11200 NE 68TH St, Kirkland, […]
ARCS Sponsors Romanian Films at SIFF
ARCS Sponsors Romanian Films at SIFF This year ARCS sponsored the screening of Adrian Sitaru's Fixeur (The Fixer).