Meeting at the museum with Ana Blandiana

"Meeting at the museum" is a project that aims to mediate the public's contact with personalities from various fields of culture on topics at the intersection of various artistic genres. The event is part of the series of activities carried out on days when the exhibition spaces are closed.

This time, the guest of "Meetings at the museum" is the well-known writer Ana Blandiana.

The discussion with Călin Stegerean, general director of MNAR, will start from the volume "Mai-mult-ca-trecutul", recently published by the Humanitas publishing house under the signature of Mrs. Ana Blandiana. It contains a diary of the period that began in August 1988 and ended around the Revolution of 1989. At that time, the communist authorities had imposed a series of restrictions on the author following the publication of a volume of poems for children, in which motan Arpagic was attributed characteristics derived from the personality cult of Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Beyond the description of the pressures to which the author was subjected at that time, the diary is also an opportunity for lucid observations regarding the moral profile of some cultural and political personalities of the era and constitutes a dramatic testimony of the years of deprivation that marked the Romanian people in the last years of communism.

The dialogue with Călin Stegerean will not be limited to the evocation of that period and its consequences over time, in the present, but will reveal to the public unforgettable moments of the meeting of the most important poet of Romania today with places of culture and art.

Ana Ioana Macaria, actress of Bulandra Theatre, will read illustrative fragments from the work of Ana Blandiana for the dialogue.

Access is based on the entrance ticket worth 12 lei.

Language of the meeting: Romanian.