Show your inner Romanian! Come and show the whole wide world that Romanians are also “somebody” in London! Come, bring your family and friends and take part in a unique artistic event that will show the world who we are.

Sunday 2 September 2007, at 15.00, Romanian artist Matei Bejenaru, from Iasi, invites us all to the Thames riverside in front of the Tate Modern (across the river from St Paul’s Cathedral). We can be all together as a community and, for a minute, think of Romania and all our friends and loved ones from home, people whom we wish were here.

After the event, there will be guided visit to the Tate Modern, and then we will all go to have a beer or a glass of wine.

This art event, part of the “Impreuna / Together” project, will be documented through photographs and by the editing of a short documentary film. These will be presented to the London audience, as well as to the wide world, within Tate Modern, on 8 and 9 September 2007.

For being part of this programme, and for your effort to come on Sunday 2 September, at 15.00, you will receive a voucher for a FREE beer or glass of wine, on board HMS President, on the northern bank of the Thames, beside Blackfriars Bridge. There will be a Romanian party on the ship, organised especially for you, starting at 18.00. The entrance is FREE and access is granted on the basis of the voucher received at the Tate Modern event.

Matei Bejenaru will personally send you (if you leave a valid e-mail address) a group photo taken on the occasion of the event. Added to this is the chance to be seen by everybody in the greatest museum of contemporary art. This is an event that will generate positive publicity for our community. Come and be with us. It is a unique occasion!

If you would like to be part of this project, please confirm your presence by 30 August by sending an e-mail to: mateibejenaru@yahoo.com, or a text message at 0787 9642680.

You too can do something to improve the image of Romania and Romanians in the UK! Send this message to all your friends and bring them with you on Sunday 2 September, at 15.00. Rain or shine :-)

Matei Bejenaru

Matei Bejenaru is an artist and teaches photography and video at the Arts University in Iasi, Romania. In recent years his art projects have concentrated on the situation of Romanians who live and work abroad.

Tate Modern

Bankside (across the river from St Paul’s Cathedral) London SE1 9TG
See map here
Nearest tube stations: Southwark, Blackfriars, St Paul’s and London Bridge.

HMS President

Victoria Embankment, Blackfriars
(beside Blackfriars Bridge)
London EC4Y 0HJ
See map here

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