The Trustees of the Fundatia ADEPT invite you to a Transylvania Festival to celebrate ADEPT and its work to preserve a way of life now lost in much of Europe
13-15 May 2014|VENUE: The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR): 1 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8PH
Fundatia ADEPT has been working since 2004 to protect the nature-rich, farmed landscapes of Transylvania, and to support the traditional farming communities who have created them over centuries and who maintain them today. Its aim is to give these landscapes and communities an economic future and relevance in the 21st century without sacrificing their sustainability and productivity, which are in fact a model of wider significance in Europe. Some of the most important high nature farmed landscapes in Europe are found in Romania, especially Transylvania. These landscapes are a refuge for many threatened species and habitats, lost in most of Europe. They provide high productivity and high local employment, and also other important benefits to Europe more widely.
PROGRAMME
Tuesday 13 May | 5.30 pm - 8.00 pm | Tickets £35 British Painters in Transylvania A Private View No.1 Belgrave Square SW1 A group of painters, supported by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, traveled to Transylvania last September to paint a way of life which has been lost elsewhere in Europe. Exhibiting Artists: Tim Scott Bolton, Patrick Cullen, Tom Hoar, Susanna Lyell, Flappy Lane Fox, Richard Foster, Clare Inskip, Lucy Portman, Paul MacDermot.
Wednesday 14 May | from 6.30 pm |Tickets £60 An Evening Concert Programme Niccolo Paganini 24 Caprices Op. 1 (9, 13, 14, 16, 20 & 24) (violin solo) Chopin 12 Preludes op 28 (piano solo) Interval with wine Dinu Lipatti- Sonatina violin and piano Tiberiu Olah - Sonata violin and piano Bela Bartok - Romanian Dances (violin and piano) Alexandra Dariescu (piano). An outstandingf ambassador for classical music, Alexandra gave her debut at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 2013. Alexandru Tomescu (violin). This brilliant Romanian violinist hailed by the Berlin Morning Post as the Romanian violin superstar, is playing on the 1702 Stradivari Elder Voicu violin
Thursday 15 May | 7.30 pm - midnight| Tickets £85 Gerda's Transylvanian Feast & Auction of Promises We are delighted that Gerda is coming from her village Viscri, with local produce and her expert cooking skills to mastermind this wonderful dinner and evening. Gerda is the inspiration for the International Slow Food in Romania and considered one of the most skillful cooks in the area. Balkan music by award winning London- based Romanian singer and band Monooka's Caravan
FESTIVAL LECTURES
Wednesday 14 May 11.30 -12:30pm| Dr John Akeroyd: Ecological and Cultural Landscapes Tickets £25.00 (includes tea/coffee) Leading botanist, author and founder member of ADEPT, John will talk on the intricate relationship between farming and the fauna and flora of Transylvania. Wildflower-rich meadows and pastures remain an essential element of the Transylvanian rural scene. A precious, tangible link with landscapes and ecological processes of the past, they are also a living natural resource of immeasurable cultural, scientific and economic value, and must be at the heart of future development of the countryside.
2.00 - 3.00pm| Lucy Abel Smith:Every Turn of the Road Offers Fresh Surprises Tickets £25.00 (includes tea/coffee)
For long the buffer state between Christian and Turk, the Western and Eastern Churches, Transylvania has been the font of inspiration for literature, both foreign and home-grown, music, fine architecture and altarpieces. It is also an extraordinary mixture of communities, making this one of the most interesting countries of Europe in our time. Lucy is an art historian and traveller and is founder of the specialist tour company Reality and Beyond Ltd. She is presently researching the Life of the First Duchess of Beaufort and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She has a house in Richis, Transylvania and lives in Gloucestershire.
Thursday 15 May 11.30 -12:30pm| Satish Kumar: Soil, Soul and Society Tickets £25.00 (includes tea/coffee) Satish Kumar has been quietly setting the Global Agenda for change for over 50 years. He was just nine when he left his family home to join the wandering Jains and 18 when he decided he could achieve more back in the world, campaigning for land reform in India and working to turn Gandhi's vision of a renewed India and a peaceful world into reality. Satish is editor of Resurgence magazine and the Ecologist, and the guiding spirit behind a number of now internationally-respected ecological and educational ventures including Schumacher College in South Devon where he is still a Visiting Fellow.
2.00 - 3.00pm| Artemis Cooper: Patrick Leigh Fermor: The Gift and the Giver Tickets £25.00 (includes tea/coffee) Artemis Cooper's biography, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, came out in 2012. The following year, with the travel writer Colin Thubron, she edited The Broken Road, the last volume of Fermor's trilogy about his walk to Constantinople in the mid 1930s. This talk will range over Leigh Fermor's life and work, including the pre-war years which he spent in Romania with the first great love of his life, Princess Balasha Cantacuzene.
Coffee, Tea and Light Lunch (£15.00 Pre-paid lunch tickets only) available
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