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Flowers - WORKSHOP de FOTOGRAFIE
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Festivalul Turcesc Bucuresti - Turkish Festival
Festivalul Turcesc 2014
Între 16 – 18 mai 2014, în Bucuresti- Parcul Herăstrău (intrarea Charles de Gaulle) , pentru toţi iubitorii de bucătărie, artă şi cultura orientală, se desfăşoară Festivalul Turcesc, eveniment organizat de Fundaţia Tuna în parteneriat cu Primăria Generală a Capitalei.
Inegöl Mehter– Fanfara Militară Istorică Otomană din Bursa, Turcia
mai multe aici : Lucian Muntean
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ART SAFARI
Art Safari is the first professional and public art pavilion in Romania, designed for both heritage and contemporary art. Art Safari will bring together more than 100 galleries and art dealers, museums and cultural institutions, both from Romania and abroad, that will exhibit high quality artworks, from paintings and sculptures to design and collectibles, in a refined curatorial manner.
Bucharest is a unique place where the past and the future collide. Also known as “Little Paris” at the beginning of the twentieth century, amputated by several demolitions carried out during the communist era and changed by the new architecture of the past twenty-five years, Bucharest is trying to define its identity. An identity that can only be achieved through cultural recovery. Art Safari, by the public cultural event it organizes, wants to place Bucharest again on the European cultural map.
Why Art Safari? Because Romania’s cultural history has been marked by repeated interruptions and adverse circumstances imposed on its artistic activity to the point of a complete breakage in its communication with the international art scene. Art Safari Bucharest aims to build a strong connection between heritage and contemporary art, artist-gallery-collector, cultural institution and the art market, so as to bring the entire cultural system closer to the public.
Art Safari Bucharest represents the passion to jointly build a local artistic system at European standards by involving all art market players.
Bucharest is a unique place where the past and the future collide. Also known as “Little Paris” at the beginning of the twentieth century, amputated by several demolitions carried out during the communist era and changed by the new architecture of the past twenty-five years, Bucharest is trying to define its identity. An identity that can only be achieved through cultural recovery. Art Safari, by the public cultural event it organizes, wants to place Bucharest again on the European cultural map.
Why Art Safari? Because Romania’s cultural history has been marked by repeated interruptions and adverse circumstances imposed on its artistic activity to the point of a complete breakage in its communication with the international art scene. Art Safari Bucharest aims to build a strong connection between heritage and contemporary art, artist-gallery-collector, cultural institution and the art market, so as to bring the entire cultural system closer to the public.
Art Safari Bucharest represents the passion to jointly build a local artistic system at European standards by involving all art market players.
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OPIUM & SILYMARIN
Sometimes
I feel like I want to live
Far from the metropolis
Just walk through that door
Sometimes
I feel like I want to fly
Reach out to the painted sky
A prisoner to the wind
A bird on the wing
Sometimes
I feel the ocean in my blood
See rain from the sky above
Her salt brined tears
And now
Those tears leave taste on my tongue
Like the warm rush you get from
Black opium
Black opium
Sometimes
I feel like I want to leave
Behind all these memories
And walk through that door
Outside
The black night calls my name
But all roads look the same
They lead nowhere
They lead nowhere
I feel like I want to live
Far from the metropolis
Just walk through that door
Sometimes
I feel like I want to fly
Reach out to the painted sky
A prisoner to the wind
A bird on the wing
Sometimes
I feel the ocean in my blood
See rain from the sky above
Her salt brined tears
And now
Those tears leave taste on my tongue
Like the warm rush you get from
Black opium
Black opium
Sometimes
I feel like I want to leave
Behind all these memories
And walk through that door
Outside
The black night calls my name
But all roads look the same
They lead nowhere
They lead nowhere
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The Mask Theatre - Living Statues International Festival
Teatrul Masca
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LIVING STATUES FESTIVAL
Among those arts that can be performed out in the street, that of the living statue holds a special place. Mysterious, surprising, often funny, sometimes profound,one can not go by a living statue without noticing it. And that is because it’s power to catch the eye like a magnet, to incite one to react and to meditate on the subject of human condition. One can not easily forget the image of a well composed living statue, that is for sure. Any turist who was in Barcelona would have undoubtedly seen the human statues of La Rambla, for example. Strange is the power of the living statues if it can easily hold its place among against the works of Gaudi.
The project came to life in 2005. The idea behind it was, at the time and still is that we are not alone. We were very much aware that this form of theatre that we propose to the cultural world of Romania – a non-verbal theatre, focusing on gesture and body expression – is part of an European network of institutions or people with the same artistic creed. As a valid example of this affiliation, Mask Theatre is part of Lecoq Network, which includes all European theaters established by students of the former great teacher. From this sense of belonging to an European community emerged naturally the initiative of a festival that we named EUROPEAN MASKS VISIT… THE MASK.
The purpose of this festival was to familiarize the Romanian audience with a unique theatrical style, very little practiced in Romania, one of the theater of movement, gesture, mime, clowning and body expressionHe's a man of the past and one of the present,
a man who hides behind a mask behind a mask;
a clown, a fool, believing it cool to be down
or that the game is all about who laughs the last.
So he tells all his problems to his friends and relations,
exposes his neuroses to their view.
They accept as fact every masochistic mumble of his act –
But how could they know what was false and what was true?
Sometimes when he wakes
he feels he's walked into a dream
but all it takes
to remind him things are what they seem
is the belief that the man behind the mask can really dance
Pirouetting smile
he feels himself cavorting,
Pierrot for a while
before aborting
to find relief in the shelter of the dark, most telling mask.
After all the pantomimes are ended
he peels all the make-up off his face
to reveal, beneath, the tears running all down his cheeks:
alone, he opens to the world… but it's much too late.
He's been left, in the end, without a face.
a man who hides behind a mask behind a mask;
a clown, a fool, believing it cool to be down
or that the game is all about who laughs the last.
So he tells all his problems to his friends and relations,
exposes his neuroses to their view.
They accept as fact every masochistic mumble of his act –
But how could they know what was false and what was true?
Sometimes when he wakes
he feels he's walked into a dream
but all it takes
to remind him things are what they seem
is the belief that the man behind the mask can really dance
Pirouetting smile
he feels himself cavorting,
Pierrot for a while
before aborting
to find relief in the shelter of the dark, most telling mask.
After all the pantomimes are ended
he peels all the make-up off his face
to reveal, beneath, the tears running all down his cheeks:
alone, he opens to the world… but it's much too late.
He's been left, in the end, without a face.
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Mineriada 13-15 iunie 1990
24 de ani de la Mineriada din 13-15 iunie 1990
Sase morti, peste 1.000 de raniti, sute de persoane arestate si o interventie in forta a minerilor impotriva protestatarilor din Piata Universitatii, acesta a fost bilantul mineriadei desfasurata in perioada 13-15 iunie 1990 in Bucuresti. Anul acesta se implinesc 24 de ani de la mineriada din iunie 1990, considerata cea mai brutala si mai violenta dintre toate cele sase mineriade care au avut loc in Romania dupa 1989. Desi, potrivit datelor oficiale, sase persoane si-au pierdut viata in urma violentelor, patru dintre ele fiind impuscate, asociatiile victimelor mineriadelor sustin ca numarul lor s-ar ridica la peste 100 de persoane. Dupa 24 de ani, bilantul real al evenimentelor din vara lui 1990 ramane neclar.
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In June 1990, the Romanian authorities violently suppressed the peaceful demonstration of University Square in Bucharest. For many, that gesture showed that the ruling National Salvation Front, the self-proclaimed vanguard of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, was just the old Communist Party under a new label and that President Ion Iliescu had remained true to the Stalinist convictions he shared while serving as a communist high-ranking decision maker during the 1950s and the 1960s. Iliescu called on the miners of the Valea Jiului to come to Bucharest to defend the nascent democracy against the protesters. Various national and local government members helped organize the transportation of the miners to Bucharest. Once in the capital, the miners beat up defenseless students, young girls with short skirts and men with beard (conforming to the bourgeois stereotype), destroyed property, and ransacked the headquarters of opposition political parties. Iliescu publicly thanked them for their bravery. During the 1990s, the miners came or tried to come to Bucharest five other times.
During the following twenty years, the civil society unsuccessfully tried to find out the truth about those events. In 1998, it asked for access to file 75/P/1998, prepared by a small team of prosecutors and gathering evidence of state brutality against peaceful protesters. Curiously, At the time when that request was made, the country was ruled by the anticommunist opposition, the Democratic Convention. From 2000 to 2004, when the Social Democrats (the conservative wing of the Salvation Front) formed the government and Iliescu again served as President, all efforts to prosecute the case were stalled, for obvious reasons. But the situation continued even after their political rivals, the Democrats (later renamed the Democrat-Liberals) and the Liberals, won the general elections of 2004. After the European Court of Human Rights ordered the Romanian state to surrender the file to the victims of the June 1990 mineriada. But for over a year the Romanian prosecutors refused to comply with that court order. It was only after the leader of the Association 21 December 1989, Teodor Mihaes, went of hunger strike for a staggering 78 days that the entire copy of the file was released to the civil society.
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125 de ani de la moartea lui Mihai Eminescu
Acum 125 de ani, în ziua de 15 iunie 1889, pleca dintre noi Mihai Eminescu, „cel mai mare poet pe care l-a ivit şi-l va ivi vreodată, poate, pământul românesc”. Fără Eminescu, am fi fost mai săraci, mai goi, mai puţin români. Şi-a închiat viaţa slujirii neamului său, pe care l-a iubit ca nimeni altul, arzând ca o flacără pentru idealul libertăţii şi unităţii naţionale.
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Amused to Death
"Two things that have haunted me most are the days when I had to collect the paybooks; and when I left Bill Hubbard in no-man's-land."
"I was picked up and taken into their trench. And I'd no sooner taken two or three steps down the trench when I heard a call,
'Hello Razz, I'm glad to see you. This is my second night here,' and he said
'I'm feeling bad,' and it was Bill Hubbard, one of the men we'd trained in England, one of the original battalion. I had a look at his wound, rolled him over; I could see it was probably a fatal wound. You could imagine what pain he was in, he was dripping with sweat; and after I'd gone about three shellholes, traversed that, had it been...had there been a path or a road I could have done better.
He pummeled me, 'Put me down, put me down, I'd rather die, I'd rather die, put me down.' I was hoping he would faint. He said 'I can't go any further, let me die.' I said 'If I leave you here Bill you won't be found, let's have another go.' He said 'All right then.' And the same thing happened; he couldn't stand it any more, and I had to leave him there, in no-man's-land."
"I was picked up and taken into their trench. And I'd no sooner taken two or three steps down the trench when I heard a call,
'Hello Razz, I'm glad to see you. This is my second night here,' and he said
'I'm feeling bad,' and it was Bill Hubbard, one of the men we'd trained in England, one of the original battalion. I had a look at his wound, rolled him over; I could see it was probably a fatal wound. You could imagine what pain he was in, he was dripping with sweat; and after I'd gone about three shellholes, traversed that, had it been...had there been a path or a road I could have done better.
He pummeled me, 'Put me down, put me down, I'd rather die, I'd rather die, put me down.' I was hoping he would faint. He said 'I can't go any further, let me die.' I said 'If I leave you here Bill you won't be found, let's have another go.' He said 'All right then.' And the same thing happened; he couldn't stand it any more, and I had to leave him there, in no-man's-land."
"I don't mind about the war, that's one of the things I _like_ to watch, if it's a war going on, 'cause then I know if our side's winning, if our side's losing..."
ROGER WATERS LYRICS
"The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard"
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Please vote! Va rog un vot!
Click the link to vote my drawing in contest! Thank you!
Va rog un vot desenului meu in concurs! Click pe link! Multumesc!
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Petru si Pavel - Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Sfintii Apostoli Petru si Pavel sunt praznuiti de catre Biserica Ortodoxa la data de 29 iunie a fiecarui an. Acestia sunt sarbatoriti impreuna datorita faptului ca ambii s-au savarsit la Roma. Sfantului Apostol Pavel i s-a taiat capul iar Sfantul Apostol Petru a fost rastignit cu capul in jos. Conform Sinaxarului, moastele celor doi apostoli au fost puse impreuna. Conform cercetarilor recente, Petru a fost rastignit in anul 64, iar Pavel a fost decapitat in anul 67. Petru si Pavel sunt, de asemenea, autori a unor epistole incluse de catre Biserica in textele canonice ale Noului Testament (Pavel -14; Petru – 2). Acestia sunt considerati ca fiind printre cei mai importanti oameni care au luat parte la Biserica lui Hristos.
The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul or Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul is a liturgical feast in honour of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostlesSaint Peter and Saint Paul, which is observed on 29 June. The celebration is of ancient origin, the date selected being the anniversary either of their death or of the translation of their relics
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City Blues
Rebranding City Blues Pub in Bucharest.
Drawings
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Exhibition - 'BUCHAREST IN BLACK & WHITE'
La 555 de ani de la prima atestare documentara a Bucurestiului, veti putea vedea un Bucuresti clasic si elegant prezentat in 36 fotografii alb-negru realizate de membrii asociastiei noastre. Este o reexpunere a expozitiei din toamna 2013 intr-o ambianta de Bucuresti interbelic – Casa Schiller.
“Capitala a unui pamant tragic unde adesea totul sfarseste in comic, Bucurestiul s-a lasat in voia evenimentelor fara acea rigiditate si, prin urmare fara acea fragilitate pe care o provoaca mania. Iata de ce, strabatand curba sinuoasa a unui destin picaresc, Bucurestiul a ramas vesel.” (Paul Morand, 1935)
Expun: Alfredo Padron, Anca Coman, Andreea Grigorescu, Andrei Birsan, Andrei Bosoiu, Calin Andrei Stan, Carmen Gradinaru, Catalin Dinculescu, Cornel Hlupina, Cornel Petrescu, Cristian Bucur, Cristian Ihart, Cristina Badescu, Cristina Tinta, Daliana Pacuraru, Dan Moruzan, Daniel Gheorghita, Diana Chiriac, Eli Driu, Elisei Noata, Iulia Herescu, Leonard Butusina, Marcel Eremia, Maria Livia Chiorean, Mihai Petre, Mihai Roznovanu, Mirela Momanu, Monica Balareanu, Monica Miron, Neculae Juncu, Radu Iacob, Razvan Preda, Roberto Iosupescu, Sergiu Sfetcu, Stefanel Vlad, Victor Ciurea, Vlad Eftenie.
Curatorul expozitiei este Mirela Momanu.
Va prezenta: Andrei Birsan, presedintele Asociatiei „ Bucurestiul meu drag”
Ilustratia muzicala: prof. Dumitru Sascau
Coordonator proiect: Aurora Fabritius
„Seria de imagini prezentata in expozitie ilustreaza conceptul deportret urban, analizat si prezentat ca instrument de lucru, cu termen de noutate, in cadrul analizei imaginii spatiului urban cu vocatie comunitara. Timpul deschide o dimensiune filosofica, oferind multiple chei de citire ale dimensiunilor sale la scara urbana. Imaginile se transforma pastrand memoria orasului , a oamenilor si a gesturilor efemere care se petrec, fotograful si fotografia ramanand martori.
Bucurestiul nu isi pastreaza urmele, inlocuindu-se pe sine cu aproape fiecare noua zi. Orasul ajunge sa-si piarda urma in propriul praf. Raman insa oamenii, acele prezente discrete dar atat de deschise a povesti orasul carea fost. Tranzitia de stare este nuantata prin cadre care evoca de data aceasta un plan afectiv. Nota de umor nu lipseste spiritului bucurestean.
Exercitiul de investigare in planul imaginii cadrului urban isi poate dovedi astfel capacitatea, prin reflectarea sa la nivelul alcatuirii unui portret urban, de a se constitui intr-un instrument util de analiza poetica a realitatii urbane cotidiene.” (Vlad Eftenie, „ Bucurestii in tranzitie”)
Fotografiile sunt minunat tiparite de AME Design (www.amedesign.ro ).
Parteneri: Nikon Romania www.nikonisti.ro, Scoala de fotografie Frelancer www.freelancer.ro
Gazda:Casa de Cultura “Friedrich Schiller”,www.casaschiller.ro
Parteneri media: www.phototeam.ro, www.modernism.ro, www.comunitatefoto.ro, www.foto-magazin.ro, www.B356.ro, www.rri.ro, www.photomagazine.ro, www.foto4all.ro, www.tvcity.ro
Cu prietenie,
Andrei Birsan
Presedinte Asociatia Bucurestiul meu drag
Asociatia Bucurestiul meu drag - memoria vizuala a orasului www.orasul.ro
Merita sa descoperim pentru noi toti si pentru copiii nostri farmecul locului, oamenii si traditiile care l-au construit, care i-au definit spiritul si care intr-un fel sau altul interfereaza zilnic cu prezentul nostru. Prin excursii, expozitii si revista Bucurestiul meu drag promovam cunoasterea orasului, asa cum este el, cu bune si cu rele.
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Casa de Cultura “Friedrich Schiller”www.casaschiller.ro
A fost infiintata la 1 iunie 1957 si se afla sub indrumarea, coordonarea si controlul Primariei Municipiului Bucuresti.
Casa de Cultura “Friedrich Schiller” organizeaza activitati culturale, educative, sociale pentru etnicii germani din Bucuresti, cu precadere pentru comunitatea evanghelica si catolica, care activeaza in cadrul Forumului Democrat al Germanilor din Bucuresti, pentru elevii de la liceul “Hermann Oberth” si studentii de la Catedra de Germanistica a Universitatii din Bucuresti, sectiile in limba germana de la Universitatea Politehnica si Academia de Studii Economice, promovand constant conservarea mostenirii culturale germane din Romania, precum si realizarile culturale actuale ale etnicilor germani din tara si Germania.
Dispune de o biblioteca pentru copii si tineret, realizata in colaborare cu Ambasada R.F. Germania si a Institutului Goethe Bucuresti.
AME design (www.amedesign.ro)
AME design cu echipamentul DURST LAMBDA©, rezolva multele probleme aparute ca urmare a utilizarii tehnologiei cu inkjet: dungi vizibile, disparitia accidentala a unor culori din imaginea printata, viteza scazuta de printare, costuri mari de productie pentru calitatea maxima.
Ne adresam astfel in egala masura pietei fotografilor – extrem de pretentioasa si pietei publicitare cu pretentii mari in realizarea unui print impecabil de mari dimensiuni, cu stabilitate si repetabilitate a culorilor pentru o aceiasi imagine printata la intervale mari de timp si care sa poata deci reproduce exact culorile de brand dorite.
Nikon este martorul transformarii orasului tau www.nikonisti.ro.
Nikon este companie japoneza din 1917 specializata in productia de echipamente foto. Nikon este alaturi de Asociatia Bucurestiul Meu drag de peste 7 ani, timp in care am suprins transformarea orasului din toate zonele Bucurestiului. Multe dintre fotografiile din expozitie au fost facute cu Nikon si reflecta cu fidelitate detaliile urbanistice.
Scoala de fotografie Frelancer SFFwww.freelancer.ro
Inainte sa fie un limbaj, fotografia e arta. Inainte sa fie arta, fotografia e un mestesug. Inainte sa fie mestesug, fotografia e fizica, mecanica, optica, chimie, electronica, informatica, atitudine, comunicare, orientare. Inainte sa fie toate acestea, fotografia este pasiune. Poti invata cu noi mai intai alfabetul, mai apoi cuvintele si in cele din urma cum sa faci versuri, eseuri sau metafore in fotografie pentru ca, nu-i asa, fotografia este un limbaj. Cursul de tehnica fotografica organizat de SFF este acreditat CNFPA.
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VINCENT VAN GOGH
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ADORMIREA MAICII DOMNULUI SAU SFÂNTA MARIE MARE
Părintele Arsenie Boca spunea, potrivit apologeticum.ro:
"Nu se poate vorbi numai despre Maica Domnului. Ea e prevăzută de Dumnezeire îndată după căderea omului. Deci pomenirea ei, pune din plin, problema refacerii omului.
Primul om refăcut, e lisus, Fiul Ei, şi toţi ucenicii lui lisus, deci Ea e şi Maica Bisericii. A fost instituită, chiar de lisus, când era pe cruce, ca maică a creştinătăţii, când i-a dat pe loan de fiu şi lui loan i-a dat-o pe Ea de maică.
Dacă viaţa noastră s-ar reduce numai la viaţa aceasta, cea între leagăn şi mormânt, toată zdroaba vieţii ar fi fără sens. Dar viaţa noastră nu e numai atâta.
Ştim de la lisus, că vom purta şi chipul pe care ni l-a arătat El, schimbându-Se la faţă. Aceasta însă, când Se va naşte în noi Iisus, aşa cum S-a născut în sfânta Fecioară.
Prin asceză şi iubire sufletul nostru trebuie să ajungă la curăţia sufletului fecioară, în care se va naşte chipul nostru veşnic.
Ştim de la lisus, că vom purta şi chipul pe care ni l-a arătat El, schimbându-Se la faţă. Aceasta însă, când Se va naşte în noi Iisus, aşa cum S-a născut în sfânta Fecioară.
Prin asceză şi iubire sufletul nostru trebuie să ajungă la curăţia sufletului fecioară, în care se va naşte chipul nostru veşnic.
Nu e prin urmare numai o urmare a Domnului, ci şi o urmare a Maicii Domnului. Iar Maica Domnului n-a fost scutită de niciuna din durerile omeneşti. De mică a cunoscut refugiul şi prigoana lui Irod. Sabia durerilor a fost profeţită pentru sufletul Ei.
Ea e modelul desăvârşit de curăţie şi iubire, duse până la jertfa: dovadă, că puţini erau până sub crucea Răstignitului, şi printre cei puţini, era Maica Domnului.
Tot aşa, pe lângă orice răstignit al vieţii acesteia, puţini mai rămân pentru el către Dumnezeu, şi printre cei puţini, e Maica Domnului. Căci, spre a ajunge la refacerea noastră, trebuie să trecem prin multe răstigniri, şi avem trebuinţă de o inimă de mamă pentru noi către Dumnezeu.
Dumnezeu ne părăseşte uneori; sfinţii nu sunt ascultaţi, dar iubirea de mamă întoarce asprimea Dreptăţii lui Dumnezeu din nou în iubire.
Exod 32: Moise se ruga, strâmtorând pe Dumnezeu: încetează Doamne urgia Ta şi potoleşte-Ţi mânia şi socoteşte cu blândeţe greşala poporului Tău. Adă-ţi aminte de robii Tăi: Avraam, Isaac şi Iacov...
- Nu ! a răspuns Dumnezeu. Lasă-Mă să-i zdrobesc, căci cu urgie M-am mâniat asupra lor şi vreau să-i prăpădesc!
- Dacă nu-i ierţi, şterge-mă şi pe mine din Cartea Vieţii!
Şi a încetat urgia lui Dumnezeu; şi pentru rugăciunea lui Moise i-a iertat pe ei.
Cine-i Moise şi cine-i Maica Domnului ?
Când te-a lepădat Dumnezeu şi nici sfinţii nu se mai roagă pentru tine, a mai rămas cineva care nu te-a părăsit: e Maica Domnului, iar Maica Domnului e ascultată.
„Intre robii lui Dumnezeu şi Maica lui Dumnezeu e o deosebire fără margini" - zice sfântul Ioan Damaschin. Dacă Moise, un rob, poate, prin rugăciunea lui, să oprească urgia lui Dumnezeu şi nu-L lasă să se răzbune pe închinătorii la idoli, - cu atât mai mult rugăciunea sfintei Fecioare Maria, va opri să nu cadă urgia divină, peste păcătosul popor creştin.
Al VII-lea Sobor ecumenic, având în vedere rătăcirile ereticilor despre sfinţi şi despre Maica Domnului, hotărăşte:
„A cinsti şi a mări mai întâi pe Născătoarea de Dumnezeu: mai înaltă decât toate puterile cereşti; iar de asemenea şi pe sfintele Puteri îngereşti, fericiţii şi întru tot lăudaţii Apostoli şi Prooroci, pe sfinţii mucenici, morţi pentru Hristos, pe sfinţii şi de Dumnezeu purtătorii dascăli, şi toţi drepţii cuvioşi bărbaţi, şi a cere mijlocirea lor, pentru că ei ne pot apropia de împăratul tuturor - Dumnezeu."
Şi a încetat urgia lui Dumnezeu; şi pentru rugăciunea lui Moise i-a iertat pe ei.
Cine-i Moise şi cine-i Maica Domnului ?
Când te-a lepădat Dumnezeu şi nici sfinţii nu se mai roagă pentru tine, a mai rămas cineva care nu te-a părăsit: e Maica Domnului, iar Maica Domnului e ascultată.
„Intre robii lui Dumnezeu şi Maica lui Dumnezeu e o deosebire fără margini" - zice sfântul Ioan Damaschin. Dacă Moise, un rob, poate, prin rugăciunea lui, să oprească urgia lui Dumnezeu şi nu-L lasă să se răzbune pe închinătorii la idoli, - cu atât mai mult rugăciunea sfintei Fecioare Maria, va opri să nu cadă urgia divină, peste păcătosul popor creştin.
Al VII-lea Sobor ecumenic, având în vedere rătăcirile ereticilor despre sfinţi şi despre Maica Domnului, hotărăşte:
„A cinsti şi a mări mai întâi pe Născătoarea de Dumnezeu: mai înaltă decât toate puterile cereşti; iar de asemenea şi pe sfintele Puteri îngereşti, fericiţii şi întru tot lăudaţii Apostoli şi Prooroci, pe sfinţii mucenici, morţi pentru Hristos, pe sfinţii şi de Dumnezeu purtătorii dascăli, şi toţi drepţii cuvioşi bărbaţi, şi a cere mijlocirea lor, pentru că ei ne pot apropia de împăratul tuturor - Dumnezeu."
Şi cântă Biserica:
„Sub milostivirea Ta scăpăm Stăpână, Născătoare de Dumnezeu Fecioară! Întru rugăciunile noastre nu ne lăsa pe noi în scârbe, ci ne mântuieşte din nevoi: Una, curată, Binecuvântată: Preasfântă Născătoare de Dumnezeu."
„Sub milostivirea Ta scăpăm Stăpână, Născătoare de Dumnezeu Fecioară! Întru rugăciunile noastre nu ne lăsa pe noi în scârbe, ci ne mântuieşte din nevoi: Una, curată, Binecuvântată: Preasfântă Născătoare de Dumnezeu."
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Expozitie foto : 'STREET DELIVERY 2014'
Ca de fiecare data Street delivery ne-a dat ocazia sa facem fotografii interesante.
Impreuna cu Nikon si Fotohobby vom arata bucuresteniilor fotografiile facute anul acesta si ca sa fim in ton cu Stret delivery vom expune pe strada, pe strada Covaci, adica pe vitrinele magazinului Fotohobby
Vernisaj: miercuri 20 august ora 18.15 la Magazinul Fotohobby, str. Covaci nr. 7, in Centrul vechi al Bucurestiului
Expun:
Adi Tache; Alexandru Corneanu; Alexandru Dinu-Serban ; Andra Raicu; Andrada Galan; Andrei Birsan; Andrei Bogdan Oprescu; Antonia Bordu; Bogdan Serban; Camelia Sirli; Corneliu Tanasa; Cosmin Tuduran; Crisanta Maciuceanu; Cristian Lixandru; Daliana Pacuraru; Daria Virbanescu; Diana Pascu; Eli Driu; Emilia Zainel; Florin Amelian; Gabriel Tocu; Helga Forika ; Ileana Cozar; Ines Moscovici; Ioana Manescu; Ioana Maria Rusu; Ionut Gighileanu; Julian Sima; Kiprian George; Lavinia Gaesti; Lavinia Visan; Liviu Lazar; Loredana Gheorghe; Lucia Simion; Lucian Pavel; Mărășoiu Adina ; Maria Atanasiu; Maria Bostenaru; Marius Tufan; Mihai Petre; Mirela Momanu; Nancy Vajaianu; Nick Constandache; Nicu Buculei; Paula Duta; Raluca Tautu; Renate Storch; Roberto Iosupescu; Sabin Prodan; Serban Vornicu; Silviu Nastase; Simona Tache; Sorina Tache; Stefanel Vlad; Stefania Constantinescu; Titel Dragomir; Traian Lixandru; Victor Stroe.
Parteneri media:
www.modernism.ro , www.comunitatefoto.ro , www.foto-magazin.ro , www.B356.ro , www.rri.ro , www.photomagazine.ro , www.foto4all.ro ; www.tvcity.ro
Organizatori:
Asociatia Bucurestiul meu drag– memoria vizuala a orasului www.orasul.ro
Merita sa descoperim pentru noi toti si pentru copiii nostri farmecul locului, oamenii si traditiile care l-au construit, care i-au definit spiritul si care într-un fel sau altul interfereaza zilnic cu prezentul nostru. Prin excursii, expozitii si revista Bucurestiul meu drag promovam cunoasterea orasului, asa cum este el, cu bune si cu rele.
Magazinul Fotohobby www.fotohobby.ro
Aflat in centrul vechi al Bucurestiului (str. Covaci nr. 7) Magazinul Fotohobby cu o vechime de 15 ani comercializeaza aparate si accesorii foto-video atat pentru amamtori cat si pentru profesionisti. Cu peste 4.000 de repere in stoc Magazinul Fotohobby se afla in topul magazinelor de profil din Romania.
Nikon este martorul transformarii orasului tau www.nikonisti.ro.
Nikon este o companie japoneza din 1917, specializata in productia de echipamente foto. Nikon este alaturi de Asociatia Bucurestiul Meu drag de peste 6 ani, timp in care am suprins transformarea orasului din toate zonele Bucurestiului. Multe dintre fotografiile realizate la Street Delivery au fost facute cu Nikon si reflecta cu fidelitate atmosfera acelor zile.
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Pink Floyd - Dogs
Dogs (Waters, Gilmour) 17:06
You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need.
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street,
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed.
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight,
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking.
And after a while, you can work on points for style.
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake,
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile.
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to,
So that when they turn their backs on you,
You'll get the chance to put the knife in.
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder.
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you
get older.
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south,
Hide your head in the sand,
Just another sad old man,
All alone and dying of cancer.
And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown.
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone.
And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw
around.
So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone,
Dragged down by the stone.
I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused.
Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used.
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise.
If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this
maze?
Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone's expendable and no-one has a real friend.
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
And everything's done under the sun,
And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer.
Who was born in a house full of pain.
Who was trained not to spit in the fan.
Who was told what to do by the man.
Who was broken by trained personnel.
Who was fitted with collar and chain.
Who was given a pat on the back.
Who was breaking away from the pack.
Who was only a stranger at home.
Who was ground down in the end.
Who was found dead on the phone.
Who was dragged down by the stone.
You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need.
You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street,
You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed.
And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight,
You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking.
And after a while, you can work on points for style.
Like the club tie, and the firm handshake,
A certain look in the eye and an easy smile.
You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to,
So that when they turn their backs on you,
You'll get the chance to put the knife in.
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder.
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you
get older.
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south,
Hide your head in the sand,
Just another sad old man,
All alone and dying of cancer.
And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown.
And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone.
And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw
around.
So have a good drown, as you go down, all alone,
Dragged down by the stone.
I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused.
Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used.
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise.
If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this
maze?
Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending
That everyone's expendable and no-one has a real friend.
And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner
And everything's done under the sun,
And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer.
Who was born in a house full of pain.
Who was trained not to spit in the fan.
Who was told what to do by the man.
Who was broken by trained personnel.
Who was fitted with collar and chain.
Who was given a pat on the back.
Who was breaking away from the pack.
Who was only a stranger at home.
Who was ground down in the end.
Who was found dead on the phone.
Who was dragged down by the stone.
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Argumentum Ornithologicum J. L. Borges
'I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second or perhaps less; I don’t know how many birds I saw. Were they a definite or an indefinite number? This problem involves the question of the existence of God. If God exists, the number is definite, because how many birds I saw is known to God. If God does not exist, the number is indefinite, because nobody was able to take count. In this case, I saw fewer than ten birds (let’s say) and more than one; but I did not see nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, or two birds. I saw a number between ten and one, but not nine, eight, seven, six, five, etc. That number, as a whole number, is inconceivable; ergo, God exists.'
[From Dreamtigers, by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Mildred Boyer]
Some call him The Voice and still marvel at his thunderous, operatic rants and his celestial falsetto. Others follow him as a good-natured English philosopher, a wise, unassuming man who can express our feelings better than anybody, especially when trying to untangle the mysteries of love, memories of childhood, the castrating shadow of religion, the perversity of politics, or the doom of mankind, often portrayed as a spaceship drifting along, worthy of a Stanislav Lem story.
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities, his main instruments are guitar and piano. He also acts as a record producer for his own recordings, and occasionally for other artists.
"Fool's Mate" is his debut solo album. The title is both a chess and tarot reference. It was produced by Trident Studios' in-house producer John Anthony. The album was recorded in 1971, in the midst of one of Van der Graaf Generator's most prolific periods. Peter Hammill used the album to record a backlog of songs which were much shorter and simpler than his Van der Graaf Generator material, and declared on the original album sleeve: "This isn't intended to be any kind of statement of my present musical position, but at the same time, it is an album which involves a great deal of me, the person, basically a return to the roots."
Personnel:
* John Anthony - background vocals, producer
* Hugh Banton - organ, piano, keyboards, background vocals
* Rod Clements - bass, violin
* Guy Evans - percussion, drums, background vocals
* Robert Fripp - electric guitar
* Peter Hammill - acoustic guitar, guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals
* David Jackson - saxophone
* Ray Jackson - harmonica, mandolin, harp, background vocals
* Nic Potter - bass
* Martin Pottinger - drums
* Paul Whitehead - drums
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter, and a founding member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Most noted for his vocal abilities, his main instruments are guitar and piano. He also acts as a record producer for his own recordings, and occasionally for other artists.
"Fool's Mate" is his debut solo album. The title is both a chess and tarot reference. It was produced by Trident Studios' in-house producer John Anthony. The album was recorded in 1971, in the midst of one of Van der Graaf Generator's most prolific periods. Peter Hammill used the album to record a backlog of songs which were much shorter and simpler than his Van der Graaf Generator material, and declared on the original album sleeve: "This isn't intended to be any kind of statement of my present musical position, but at the same time, it is an album which involves a great deal of me, the person, basically a return to the roots."
Personnel:
* John Anthony - background vocals, producer
* Hugh Banton - organ, piano, keyboards, background vocals
* Rod Clements - bass, violin
* Guy Evans - percussion, drums, background vocals
* Robert Fripp - electric guitar
* Peter Hammill - acoustic guitar, guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals
* David Jackson - saxophone
* Ray Jackson - harmonica, mandolin, harp, background vocals
* Nic Potter - bass
* Martin Pottinger - drums
* Paul Whitehead - drums
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Carol I of Romania / 20 April 1839 - 10 October 1914
Carol I (20 April 1839 / 10 October 1914), born Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the ruler of Romania from 1866 to 1914. He was elected Ruling Prince (Domnitor) of the Romanian United Principalities on 20 April 1866 after the overthrow of Alexandru Ioan Cuza by a palace coup. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire (1878) in the Russo-Turkish War, he declared Romania a sovereign nation (the country had been under the nominal suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire until then). He was proclaimed King of Romania on 26 March [O.S. 14 March] 1881. He was the first ruler of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty, which ruled the country until the proclamation of a republic in 1947.
Carol I al României, Principe de Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, pe numele său complet Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, (n. 20 aprilie1839, Sigmaringen - d. 10 octombrie1914, Sinaia) a fost domnitorul, apoi regeleRomâniei, care a condus Principatele Româneși apoi România după abdicarea forțată de o lovitură de sta a lui Alexandru Ioan Cuza. Din 1867 a devenit membru de onoare al Academiei Române, iar între 1879 și 1914 a fost protector și președinte de onoare al aceleiași instituții.
În toamna anului 1914, CAROL I a fost înmormântat la Curtea de Argeș, în Biserica episcopală, unde, doi ani mai târziu, avea să-şi găsească odihna și soția sa, ELISABETA.
Despre CAROL I, Constantin C. Giurescu scria:
"A avut simţul datoriei şi al onoarei în gradul cel mai înalt, fiind o pildă vie pentru toţi supuşii săi. A pus întotdeauna mai presus de sine statul, la a cărui ridicare s-a gândit necontenit".
CAROL I, primul rege al României, scria în testamentul său: "Având aproape 60 de ani, privesc ca o datorie ca să mă hotărăsc a lua cele din urmă dispoziţii. Alcătuind acest testament, mă gândesc, înainte de toate, la iubitul meu popor, pentru care inima mea a bătut neîncetat şi care a avut deplină încredere în mine. Viaţa mea era aşa strâns legată de această de Dumnezeu binecuvântată Ţară, că doresc să i las, şi după moartea mea, dovezi vădite de adâncă simpatie şi de viul interes pe care le am avut pentru dânsa. Zi şi noapte m-am gândit la fericirea României, care a ajuns să ocupe acum o poziţie vrednică între statele europene.
M-am silit ca simţământul religios să fie ridicat şi dezvoltat în toate straturile societăţii şi ca fiecare să împlinească datoria sa, având ca ţintă numai interesele statului (...) Succesorul meu la tron primeşte o moştenire de care va fi mândru şi pe care el o va cârmui, am toată speranţa, în spiritul meu, călăuzit fiind de deviza: «Totul pentru Ţară, nimic pentru mine!»".
Tot la Curtea de Argeş îşi dorm somnul de veci: Regele FERDINAND şi Regina MARIA.
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HAVASI - SYMPHONIC: The Storm
Winter slowly sets in: Romanian capital Bucharest sees first snow of the season
It started to snow in Romania’s capital Bucharest on Saturday afternoon, October 25, with big flakes, after two days of cold, windy weather: the first snow of the season.
Meteorologists had warned that the unusual warm weather for this time of the year – think 20 degrees Celsius – will come to an end, and make room for what’s more likely for end-October: temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius, and 1-2 degrees Celsius up in the mountains.
The previously sunny Bucharest is now under a wave of snow and blizzards, and temperature is around 2 degrees Celsius. On Saturday afternoon, Bucharest was the only place in the country where it snowed, but it was windy and cold in many other areas of Romania as well.
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Sfantul Dimitrie - Saint Dimitrie
Thousands of pilgrims from across Romania and abroad have queued to pray at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, at the Venerated Wood of the Holy Cross, brought from Greece and at the Holy Relics of Saint Dimitrie the New, protector of Bucharest. Romanians celebrate Saint Dimitrie on October 27 but the pilgrimage goes on during the entire week. The feast of Saint Pious Dimitrie the New, Protector of Bucharest, whose relics are kept in the Patriarchal Cathedral, has always represented a distinguished spiritual time for the faithful of Bucharest as well as for many pilgrims from all over the country.
A series of manifestations are organized between October 23 and 29, among which an exhibition entitled The Orthodox Creed – books, icons and holy crosses, in the Europa Christiana room of the Patriarchal Palace. On Tuesday, October 26, when Saint Great Martyr Dimitrie, the Myrrh Bearer is celebrated, His Holiness Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Chruch will inaugurate the Centre for Patrimony of “Saint Constantine Brâncoveanu” of the Romanian Patriarchate, in 63 Maria Rosetti St., Bucharest.Unless you want to take part in the ceremonies held this week at the Patriarchal Palace near Unirii Square in Bucharest, we suggest avoiding car trips in the area, which is overcrowded by pilgrims during these days.
On Saint Dimitrie Romanians called Dumitru or Dumitra also celebrate their name days.
Several pre-Christian traditions on Saint Dimitrie have survived for centuries in Romania: the day before Saint Dimitrie, fires are lit in Romanian traditional villages and children usually jump over the fire to stay healthy during the entire year. The Saint is also the protector of shepherds, who can now figure out what sort of a winter will follow. Shepherds place their coat in the middle of the herd and wait to see what sort of sheep will lay on it. If a black sheep lays on the coat, the winter will be mild, the tradition goes. If a white sheep will come instead, the winter will be harsh. Another popular tradition says the winter will be mild if the weather will be bad on Saint Dimitrie and that a harsh winter will follow if the Saint Dimitrie day will bring good weather.romania-insider
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