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Timisoara 2023 - snapshots - European Cultural Capital

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Images from Timisoara, the old center, the tourist streets, the park, the Opera Square, the Orthodox Cathedral, Timisoara restaurants and bars. 4k video -Timisoara, 2023 In 2023, with a delay due to the Covid pandemic, Timisoara is the European cultural capital. The season started in February 2023 A selection of important events still available for participants includes events and frameworks such as: May-December. Step by step in the neighborhoods, includes: Timișoara celebrates International Trade Day; tastings of local products; food waste awareness event; the right to a food awareness event. January-August. Danube women Site-specific theatrical performance regarding the multiculturalism of the Danube area, in collaboration with Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum (Ulm, Germany) Productions and related events under the European Directors programme. April-December 2023 Culture and community This project includes a series of debates, conferences, artistic events on topics such as street ar...

Romania is emerging as a new center for Europe's dance scene

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In the past 18 months, numerous hits have been exported from the Balkans into Western Europe. Romanian duo Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina hit the top 10 of Billboard's European Hot 100 Singles chart twice this year with "Stereo Love" and "This Is My Life." "Stereo Love" even cracked the notoriously Europhobic U.K. singles chart, peaking at No. 4 and selling 101,000 units, according to the Official Charts Company. Another Romanian dance star, Inna, hit the U.K. top 10 in March with "Hot," selling 193,000. Such success represents the international blossoming of an underground scene that took root after the fall of President Nicolae Ceausescu's Communist regime in 1989. The country is also home to an Ibiza-style summer dance scene centered on the Mamaia holiday resort, which attracts A-list DJs to its numerous clubs. British house DJ Steve Lawler describes the crowds there as "fantastic." Romania's January 2007 entry ...