Romanian Language Day events
Romanian Language Day will be marked today in Bucharest and around the country as well as in Moldova.
* This year, the Romanian Academy will celebrate the Day of the Romanian Language in a joint session with Moldova's Academy of Sciences at the Romanian Academy Auditorium.
According to the Romanian Academy, opening the event will be the chairmen of the two academies, Ioan-Aurel Pop and Ion Tighineanu.
The event will take place in a mixed virtual and in-person format, in the Romanian Academy Auditorium and in the Azure Hall in Chisinau.
In the Auditorium of the Romanian Academy, Ioan-Aurel Pop will give a lecture on the ancient Romanian language in the vision of Eugen Coseriu; Vice-President of the Romanian Academy Mircea Dumitru will present the beginnings of the philosophical vocabulary in the Romanian space and also talk about Eminescu's experience with Kantian readings, and Gheorghe Chivu, the chairmanof the Philology and Literature Section of the Romanian Academy, will touch on the vitality of the Romanian language.
In Chisinau, Mihai Cimpoi, chairman of the Advisory Council of Academicians of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, will give a lecture called "Romanian Language - Our Home"; Gheorghe Ghidirim will speak about the Romanian language as a unifying identity factor in the lecture "Romanian Language - the language of all of us," and Valeriu Matei, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, honorary member of the Romanian Academy and general manager of the Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, will present some aspects of the "battle for the legalisation of the Romanian language and the Latin alphabet in Moldova ".
Also giving lectures will university professors Rodica Zafiu, Viorel Vizureanu and Liliana Ionescu-Ruxandoiu.
The festive session will continue with the opening in Chisinau, Moldova, of the 12th edition of the World Congress of Eminescologists.
A special session - "Academician Eugen Simion - 90" is also scheduled that includes the release of "Eugen Simion, om al intregului cultural' (Eugen Simion a Man of the Whole Culture) by Mihai Cimpoi and "Texte despre Basarabia' (Texts about about Bessarabia) by Eugen Simion.
* The citizens of Bucharest are invited to attend a public reading session at the Dimitrie Brandza Botanical Garden.
The event is organised by the Bucharest Metropolitan Library via the Department of Culture, Education, Tourism of the Bucharest City Hall and in partnership with the National Museum of the Romanian Literature, the Carol I Central University Library, Open Art, the Association of Literary Publications and Publishers from Romania and the Book Agency. ro.
Performing will be Ioana Craciunescu, Gabriela Toma and Dan Mircea Cipariu, authors or poets who have published prize-winning books in the last three years.
* In Iasi, there is a very special event, "Big Dictation!"at the Copou Exhibition Park.
"The dictation will include three fragments of two paragraphs each, a maximum of 3,000 characters, from the works of Marin Preda, Ion Creanga and Ion Neculce. The participants with the best results will be rewarded with prizes by the Carturesti Library. Some special surprise prizes will also be awarded. All those registered and present at the event on August 31 will receive a certificate of participation. The minimum recommended age for participation is 10 years, but we welcome all those who want to test their writing skills by dictation and check their knowledge of grammar and spelling. We expect as many of you as possible to participate in this event organised for the Romanian Language Day, to celebrate the beauty, richness and importance of the Romanian language, which represents our identity as a people," Mihaela Morariu, head of the Cultural Projects and Programmes Service of the Gh. Asachi County Library told AGERPRES.
*The Petru Maior Faculty of Sciences and Letters of the George Emil Palade the University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures holds a dictation challenge for all those who love and value the Romanian language.
"All lovers of the Romanian language are invited to join us in this event that celebrates the eternal beauty of correct writing in the language that gives us our identity. Actors with the Liviu Rebreanu Company of the National Theatre in Targu Mures will read out texts from classical and contemporary Romanian authors, and the participants will write these passages down by dictation. Let's go back to school and (re)become students who know how to write correctly in Romanian. This is the only way we show that we appreciate it"
The event is scheduled for today at the UNiX Center in Targu Mures and is called "May your word be so dear... Through the spelling labyrinth. Writing by dictation."
The participants will be their own assessors, comparing their own written text with the page of the book from which the quote was excerpted. Participation is free and is not conditional on registration, but registered persons will receive a diploma of participation in digital format.
* An old book exhibition opens at the Study Centre of the Mihai Eminescu Memorial at Ipotesti.
The exhibition includes old books from the Romanian literary heritage from the collections of the National Poetry Library that are representative of the period of consolidation of the Romanian literary language in the 19th century.
On display are books by Aron Pumnul, Mihail Kogalniceanu, Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi, Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Iosif Vulcan, Vasile Alecsandri, Ion Ghica, Iacob Negruzzi, Dimitrie Bolintineanu, and Mihai Eminescu.
Visitors to the Ipotesti Memorial will have an opportunity to recite poems dedicated to the Romanian language.
The Romanian Cultural Institute abroad organises conferences, thematic courses on Romanian language, culture, tradition and civilisation, book presentations, concerts and exhibitions.
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Romanian Language Day is celebrated every year on August 31 as a result of a 2011 legislative initiative approved by the Romanian Parliament under Law 53/2013.
Romanian Language Day was established to coincide with the similar celebration created in 1990 in Moldova - Our Language Day - to convey the message that the Romanian language is a language spoken not only within the national borders, but also beyond them.
On August 31, 1989, the Moldovan Parliament voted a law that provided for Moldova reversing to the Romanian language and Latin script.
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