ROMANIAN WEEKEND at the Wharf 2024 in Washington, DC
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Spoken Word Performances & Book Signings!
Join us July 12 - 14 ... Festival is Free!
The Times for our Performances & Book Signings have been announced across BiB Social Media. Full Festival performance program available HERE.
BiB Spoken Word Artists (L-R, clockwise) - Kennedi Neal, Rucsandra Pop, Lady godiva, Julian Selman, Alina Purcaru, Domnica Radulescu (Bios below)
Julian Selman (DC) is currently a rising senior theatre major at Duke Ellington School of the Arts with the aspirations of continuing his craft through college so that he can better hone in on his skills as a working actor. Please visit @ju3._les (IG)
Kennedi Neal (DC) is a rising Senior at Duke Ellington School For The Preforming Arts. She is an aspiring director and educator. Please visit @kennedi.n.neal (IG)
Rucsandra Pop (Bucharest) is an anthropologist and a writer. In 2016, she released Oracol, an object-book of collages and poetry. She has contributed to several volumes and is the author of 4 theater plays and a libretto. Rucsandra collaborates with other artists and scholars to produce interdisciplinary cultural projects under the auspices of Fragile Society. Fragile Society is addressing feminist issues through art, in an effort to empower women to manifest their voice and their power. Rucsandra was a visiting Fulbright scholar and has a PhD from Bucharest University. As an anthropologist, she facilitates community mapping and engagement processes. She has a strong belief that communication and creativity can improve communities' sense of trust and make them feel more like homes.
Alina Purcaru (Bucharest) is a writer and literary journalist. She graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bucharest and has published three volumes of poems: resistance (Cartea Românească, 2016), Indigo (Tracus Arte, 2018) and More and More Splendor (Cartier, 2022). She is the author and editor of countless more books. Her latest volume of poetry, More and more splendour, has received four major literary prizes: The Poetry Book of the Year, awarded during the Young Writers Gala, Observator Universitas – awarded by a jury of students, Z9 Poetry Prize – awarded by a jury of poets and the Prize awarded by Leibniz Romanian Society.
Alina Purcaru is a regular contributor to various cultural magazines, where she publishes book reviews. She works in Bucharest as a literary journalist. She is a PEN member.
Domnica Radulescu (Virginia) is a Romanian American transnational fiction writer, playwright, scholar, educator. She holds a PhD in Romance Languages from the University of Chicago and is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Train to Trieste (Knopf 2008 &2009), Black Sea Twilight (Transworld 2011 & 2012) and Country of Red Azaleas (Hachette 2016), and of award-winning plays. Train to Trieste has been published in thirteen languages and is the winner of the 2009 Library of Virginia Fiction Award. Radulescu also published fifteen non-fiction books, edited and co-edited collections on topics ranging from the tragic heroine in western literature to feminist comedy, to studies of exile literature and theater. Radulescu is twice a Fulbright scholar and the founding director of the National Symposium of Theater in Academe. She is a distinguished service professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.
Lady Godiva (Cristina A. Bejan, Colorado) was lonely one fateful 2010 DC night and hopped on her bike to check out an open mic night at the Busboys & Poets down the street. The rest is history and the living present. For more info: [email protected] & @cristinaabejan_ladygodiva (IG)
Kennedi Neal (DC) is a rising Senior at Duke Ellington School For The Preforming Arts. She is an aspiring director and educator. Please visit @kennedi.n.neal (IG)
Rucsandra Pop (Bucharest) is an anthropologist and a writer. In 2016, she released Oracol, an object-book of collages and poetry. She has contributed to several volumes and is the author of 4 theater plays and a libretto. Rucsandra collaborates with other artists and scholars to produce interdisciplinary cultural projects under the auspices of Fragile Society. Fragile Society is addressing feminist issues through art, in an effort to empower women to manifest their voice and their power. Rucsandra was a visiting Fulbright scholar and has a PhD from Bucharest University. As an anthropologist, she facilitates community mapping and engagement processes. She has a strong belief that communication and creativity can improve communities' sense of trust and make them feel more like homes.
Alina Purcaru (Bucharest) is a writer and literary journalist. She graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bucharest and has published three volumes of poems: resistance (Cartea Românească, 2016), Indigo (Tracus Arte, 2018) and More and More Splendor (Cartier, 2022). She is the author and editor of countless more books. Her latest volume of poetry, More and more splendour, has received four major literary prizes: The Poetry Book of the Year, awarded during the Young Writers Gala, Observator Universitas – awarded by a jury of students, Z9 Poetry Prize – awarded by a jury of poets and the Prize awarded by Leibniz Romanian Society.
Alina Purcaru is a regular contributor to various cultural magazines, where she publishes book reviews. She works in Bucharest as a literary journalist. She is a PEN member.
Domnica Radulescu (Virginia) is a Romanian American transnational fiction writer, playwright, scholar, educator. She holds a PhD in Romance Languages from the University of Chicago and is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Train to Trieste (Knopf 2008 &2009), Black Sea Twilight (Transworld 2011 & 2012) and Country of Red Azaleas (Hachette 2016), and of award-winning plays. Train to Trieste has been published in thirteen languages and is the winner of the 2009 Library of Virginia Fiction Award. Radulescu also published fifteen non-fiction books, edited and co-edited collections on topics ranging from the tragic heroine in western literature to feminist comedy, to studies of exile literature and theater. Radulescu is twice a Fulbright scholar and the founding director of the National Symposium of Theater in Academe. She is a distinguished service professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.
Lady Godiva (Cristina A. Bejan, Colorado) was lonely one fateful 2010 DC night and hopped on her bike to check out an open mic night at the Busboys & Poets down the street. The rest is history and the living present. For more info: [email protected] & @cristinaabejan_ladygodiva (IG)