American Romanian Festival 2013 Program Book

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FILM SERIES. CHAMBER CONCERTS

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WELCOME TABLE OF CONTENTS Board Members Thank You

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Film Series The World According to Ion B. Reconstruction The Way I Spent the End of the World Loverboy Morgen Summer Holiday Beyond the Hills

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Concerts September 25, 2013 September 27, 2013 September 28, 2013 October 3, 2013 November 8, 2013 November 10, 2013

THANK YOU Lisa Borgsdorf, Manager, Public Programs, University of Michigan Museum of Art Nick Ioannou

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Beth Kohler, Director of Development, Schoolcraft College Foundation Ramona Uritescu-Lombard, Lecturer in Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Michigan Alexandru Nanau, Film Director & Producer, HBO Romania Lori Newman, editor Aurelian Nica, Original Production Manager, HBO Romania Joan Olkowski, graphic designer

About the Artists Robert Conway 11 Daniel Goiți 11 Rachel Harding Klaus 12 David LeDoux 12 Marian Tănău 13 Ramona Uritescu-Lombard 13 James VanValkenburg 14 Judith Vander Weg 14

Marysia Ostafin, Program Manager, University of Michigan CREES

Sponsors

Dr. James Ryan, Executive Director for Development & Governmental Relations, Schoolcraft College

BOARD MEMBERS Marian Tănău, President Maureen D’Avanzo Franz Herbert Silviu Pala John Rakolta, Jr. John Santeiu, Jr. Charles Slater, Secretary-Treasurer

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15 STAFF Logan Skelton, Artistic Director Maria Clesiu, Education Liason (Romania) Felicia Secosan, Operations & Public Relations (Romania) Lori Newman, Operations U.S.

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Claudia Petrescu, Professor, Political Science Department, Eastern Michigan University John Rakolta Jr., Honorary Consulate Of Romania In Detroit Romanian Cultural Institute in New York

Alina Salcudeanu, Responsible Foreign Affairs, Romanian Film Center The Santeiu Family Liana Tatos John D. Vander Weg, Chair, Department of Music, Wayne State University

FILM SERIES. 1636 International Institute University of Michigan 1080 South University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Helmut Stern Auditorium University of Michigan Museum of Art 525 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109

FREE ADMISSION

FREE ADMISSION

The World According to Ion B.

Friday, October 18, 2013, 4:00 p.m.

Screening followed by Q&A Lumea vazuta de Ion B., 2009, Alexandru Nanau, Documentary, English Subtitles, 60 min

The film follows in real life the dream of any man living on the streets: to one day become famous and leave behind a life of poverty, misery and humiliation. Ion Barladeanu is on his way to becoming an important contemporary artist, but in May 2008 he was still an anonymous tramp on the streets of Bucharest. ❖

Reconstruction

Sunday, October, 20, 2013, 2:00 p.m.

Screening followed by Q&A with Ramona Uritescu-Lombard Reconstituirea, 1968, Lucian Pintilie, English Subtitles, 100 min

A prosecutor, policemen, and teacher bring the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.

Both Horia Pătraşcu’s novel and the screenplay (co-authored by Pătraşcu and Pintilie) are closely based on real-life events. The incident was witnessed by Pătraşcu during the early 1960s, and took place in his native town of Caransebeş, shortly before a celebration of August 23 (Communist Romania’s national holiday, commemorating the 1944 coup). The militiamen involved had detained two youths with no prior criminal record, accusing them of having been drunk and disorderly, and had decided to make them reenact the scene in order to educate the public about the perils of alcohol. In a 1999 interview, Pătraşcu acknowledges that, as a university student and part-time activist at a local culture house, he was a member of the original crew. ❖

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FILM SERIES Helmut Stern Auditorium University of Michigan Museum of Art 525 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109

FREE ADMISSION

The Way I Spent the End of the World

Sunday, October, 20, 2013, 4:00 p.m.

Screening followed by Q&A with Ramona Uritescu-Lombard Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii, 2006, Catalin Mitulescu, English Subtitles, 106 min

Bucharest 1989—the last year of Ceausescu’s dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her seven-year-old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment.

There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva’s decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator. ❖

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Loverboy

Sunday, October, 20, 2013, 6:00 p.m.

Screening followed by Q&A with Ramona Uritescu-Lombard and Marian Tănău Loverboy, 2011, Catalin Mitulescu, English Subtitles, 99 min

The victims of an economic system where money is scarce, but temptations to spend it lurk around every corner, Luca and his friends, all of them small time hoods with nothing to do, are providing girls for pimps who sell them abroad for prostitution. To Luca’s surprise, while still pretending to be a tough guy who rejects any notion of an emotional attachment, he suddenly finds himself strangely affected by one of the girls, who almost threatens to change his life around and turn him into a regular guy. ❖

FILM SERIES. Helmut Stern Auditorium University of Michigan Museum of Art 525 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Morgen

Sunday, October, 27, 2013, 1:00 p.m.

Screening followed by Q&A with Ramona Uritescu-Lombard Morgen, 2010, Marian Crisan, English Subtitles, 100 min

Nelu, a man in his forties, works as a security guard at a supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border.

This is the place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means possible, to Hungary and then further to Western Europe. One morning, Nelu will fish something different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verbally, the two men will somehow understand each other. Nelu takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter. He doesn’t really know how to help this stranger. The Turkish man gives Nelu all the money he has on him so he will help him cross the border. Eventually, Nelu takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border tomorrow, “Morgen.” ❖

Summer Holiday (Boogie) Sunday, October, 27, 2013, 3:00 p.m.

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Boogie, 2008, Radu Muntean, English Subtitles, 102 min

On his spring break at the seaside with his wife and four-year-old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth (drinking, games, flirting, prostitutes).

In the morning, after the disillusionment of the remake he experiences with his former friends, he returns to his wife. ❖

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FILM SERIES Helmut Stern Auditorium University of Michigan Museum of Art 525 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109

FREE ADMISSION

Beyond the Hills

Sunday, October, 27, 2013, 5:00 p.m.

Screening Dupa Dealuri, 2012, Cristian Mungiu, English Subtitles, 150 min

Beyond the Hills is the third feature from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, and his first since winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2007 for 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days.

Alina and Voichita are two young women in their mid-twenties. Old friends who grew up together in an orphanage, they reunite over a weekend. Alina has come back to Romania from Germany and wants Voichita to return with her. But Voichita is reluctant to leave the monastery where she lives with a dozen other women and a lone priest believing she’s found a cure for crippling loneliness, God. ❖

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CHAMBER CONCERT. Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Enescu & Constantinescu

Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Enescu & Constantinescu

FREE ADMISSION

FREE ADMISSION

ARTIST Daniel Goiți, piano

ARTIST Daniel Goiți, piano

PROGRAM Franz Liszt “Vallée D’Obermann” from Première année: Suisse, Suite No. 1 Liebesträume, No. 3

PROGRAM Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14 in c-sharp minor, op. 27, “Moonlight” Sonata Adagio sostenuto Allegretto Presto agitato

Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 12:00 p.m.

Vista Tech Presentation Room Schoolcraft College 18600 Haggerty Road, Livonia, MI 48152

Sergei Rachmaninoff Romance in f-sharp minor Etude op. 33, No. 2 in C Major Etude op. 39, No. 2 in a minor Etude op. 39, No 5 in e-flat minor George Enescu Suite No. 2, op. 10 Toccata Pavane Paul Constantinescu “Joc Dobrogean” (Dance from “Dobrogea”)

Friday, September 27, 2013, 11:45 a.m.

Schaver Recital Hall, Old Main Wayne State University 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201

Sergei Rachmaninoff Romance in f-sharp minor Etude op. 33, No. 2 in C Major George Enescu Suite No. 2, op. 10 Toccata Pavane Suite No. 3, op. 18 Burlesque Paul Constantinescu “Joc Dobrogean” (Dance from “Dobrogea”)

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CHAMBER CONCERT Dinner & Concert: Romanian Food & Music Beethoven, Enescu & Constantinescu FEATURING ROMANIAN PIANIST DANIEL GOIȚI

Saturday, September 28, 2013 Dinner: 6:00 p.m.

American Harvest Restaurant Concert: 9:00 p.m.

Vista Tech Presentation Room Schoolcraft College 18600 Haggerty Road, Livonia, MI 48152

$100 DINNER & CONCERT ($70 TAX-DEDUCTIBLE) $20 CONCERT ONLY $10 CONCERT ONLY STUDENTS ARTIST Daniel Goiți, piano DINNER Authentic Romanian cuisine will be offered in a small plate format, permitting guests to sample a number of dishes at Schoolcraft College’s American Harvest Restaurant.

CONCERT Following a dinner of wonderful Romanian food cooked by the Master Chefs at the American Harvest Restaurant, join us in recital featuring works by Beethoven, Enescu and Constantinescu. To music lovers who enjoy attending the chamber music concerts and recitals at Schoolcraft College, savor again passionate and imaginative music with the Romanian piano virtuoso Daniel Goiți.

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PROGRAM Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14 in c-sharp minor, op. 27, “Moonlight” Sonata Adagio sostenuto Allegretto Presto agitato George Enescu Suite No. 1, op. 3 Prelude Adagio Suite No. 2, op. 10 Toccata Pavane Suite No. 3, op. 18 Burlesque Paul Constantinescu “Joc Dobrogean” (Dance from “Dobrogea”)

CHAMBER CONCERT. Ravel & Enescu

Anderson & Hartway

FREE ADMISSION

FREE ADMISSION

ARTISTS Rachel Harding Klaus, violin Marian Tănău, violin James Van Valkenburg, viola David LeDoux, cello Daniel Goiți, piano

ARTISTS Marian Tănău, violin Judith Vander Weg, cello Rob Conway, piano

Thursday, October 3, 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Schaver Recital Hall, Old Main Wayne State University 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201

PROGRAM Maurice Ravel String Quartet Allegro Moderato Assez vif – Très rythmé Très lent Vif et agité George Enescu Piano Quintet Con moto molto moderato Andante sostenuto e cantabile Vivace, ma non troppo A tempo, un poco piu animato

Friday, November 8, 2013, 11:45 a.m.

Schaver Recital Hall, Old Main Wayne State University 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201

PROGRAM Jon Anderson “Cascade” Piano Trio I. A steep usually small fall of water; esp : one of a series II. A: Something arranged in a series or in a succession of stages so that each stage derives from or acts upon the product of the preceding. B: a fall of material (as lace) that hangs in a zigzag line III. Something falling or rushing forth in quantity James Hartway City Scketches I. Assembly Line II. Holy Cathedral III. Marble Fountain IV. Abandoned House V. Festival Weekend

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CHAMBER CONCERT Anderson, Hartway, Enescu & More

Sunday, November 10, 2013, 3:00 p.m.

Schaver Recital Hall, Old Main Wayne State University 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201

FREE ADMISSION ARTISTS Marian Tănău, violin Judith Vander Weg, cello Rob Conway, piano

PROGRAM Jon Anderson “Cascade” Piano Trio I. A steep usually small fall of water; esp : one of a series II. A: Something arranged in a series or in a succession of stages so that each stage derives from or acts upon the product of the preceding. B: a fall of material (as lace) that hangs in a zigzag line III. Something falling or rushing forth in quantity James Hartway City Scketches I. Assembly Line II. Holy Cathedral III. Marble Fountain IV. Abandoned House V. Festival Weekend Geroge Enescu Impromptu concertant Romanian Music Selections

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS.

Robert Conway

Daniel Goiți

PIANO

PIANO

Robert Conway is an associate professor of piano at Wayne State University, where he is also the director of the piano area. Since 1989, he has performed regularly as orchestral keyboardist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and has been a soloist with them on several occasions. In 2013, he performed the solo piano part to Symphony No. 4 by Charles Ives in Carnegie Hall as part of the Detroit Symphony’s presentation of the complete symphonies of Ives. He has served as a musical representative of the United States as an Artistic Ambassador of the United States Information Agency on a month-long tour of South Asia and the Middle East in 1997, as well as acting as a Department of State Cultural Envoy to Jamaica in 2005 and Azerbaijan in 2008. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared at numerous national and international festivals, performed concertos with many orchestras, collaborated with prestigious composers, given countless premieres, and is featured on several recordings on numerous labels. In 2009, he performed as part of the American Romanian Festival in Timisoara and Sannicolau Mare, Romania. Conway received a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the New England Conservatory and Master’s and doctoral degrees in piano performance from the University of Michigan. His principal teachers were Theodore Lettvin, Rudolf Kolisch, and Eugene Bossart.❖

Romanian Pianist Daniel Goiți maintains a flourishing international performance career, generating acclaim and impressing audiences and critics alike with his substantive interpretations and pianistic mastery. He is one of the most sought-after piano soloists in Romania and Eastern Europe. Goiți has performed as a soloist with prestigious orchestras in the U.S., England, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Greece, Japan, and Israel.

Mr. Goiti is also in demand as a recording artist; some of his recordings include Rachmaninoff ’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and No. 5, “Emperor,” Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1, and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

Daniel Goiți is the recipient of numerous international prizes and awards, including the Kawai Award, Gold Medalist at the A. Schnabel Competition, Berlin, Germany, as well as the winner of the prestigious George Enescu International Competition, Romanian Composers Union Prize, as well as Gold Medal Winners at many other Romanian piano competitions. Mr. Daniel Goiți is a graduate of the prestigious Academy of Music “G. Dima” in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where he is currently Professor of Piano and Head of the Piano Department. ❖

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Rachel Harding Klaus

David LeDoux

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Violinist Rachel Harding Klaus won her position with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in May of 2012. She previously held a position as Assistant Concert Master of the Colorado Symphony. Rachel has won numerous national and international violin competitions and the recipient of several awards. She was the Grand Prize winner of both the Corpus Christi International Violin Competition and the Concerto Competition with the Cleveland Institute of Music. She has also been a Top Prize winner in the Stulberg International String Competition, Kingsville International String Competition, the Irving Klein String Competition, and the MTNA Competition.

She also was invited to play in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Rachel has an undergraduate and Master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music studying with David and Linda Cerone, where she received the Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Music and the Joseph and Elsie Scharff Prize.

Rachel has soloed with the Colorado Symphony, and the Corpus Christi Symphony, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto; the Asheville Symphony, performing the Chaconne for the Red Violin and the Rondo Capriccioso; and the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra playing the Bartók Concerto. She has soloed with many local Michigan Orchestras including the Rochester, Birmingham-Bloomfield. and Kalamazoo Jr. Symphony.❖

David LeDoux has appeared as a soloist with the Syracuse Symphony, the Skaneateles Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Tulsa Philharmonic, the Oklahoma State University Symphony, the Louisiana Sinfonietta and the Mid-Texas Symphony.

LeDoux is an active and avid chamber musician, including many years with the Syracuse Society for New Music. As a committed private teacher, he spent last year as a cello instructor for Imagine Syracuse, a music program in an inner-city school which was modeled after the El Sistema program in Venezuela.

Previous professional engagements for David have included serving as Principal cellist with the Baton Rouge (LA) Symphony, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Symphony and the Louisiana Sinfonietta. This summer David will be returning to his faculty position with the Eastern Musical Festival.

David and his wife currently reside in Madison Heights, and David includes among his hobbies reading, running, and movies.❖

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS.

Marian Tănău VIOLIN Romanian-born violinist Marian Tănău first picked up the violin at age four, and began his musical education in his hometown of Timisoara in Romania. He graduated from Liceul de Muzica “Ion Vidu,” where he studied violin with Maria Cleşiu. He then left for the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca and the Conservatorul de Muzica “G. Dima,” where he earned an Artists Diploma. Later in the U.S., he earned a graduate degree from Bowling Green State University. Tănău joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1995.

Tănău has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Romania and the U.S. and is an active chamber musician. In 2004, Tănău joined the violin faculty at Wayne State University. In 2005 Tănău was awarded a sabbatical year and moved temporarily to Romania where he joined the music faculty at the National College of Art “Ion Vidu,” and the Music Conservatory of the West University from Timisoara. His recording of the violin sonata

by Paul Paray, recorded for Grotto Productions, received praise from critics in the prestigious Strad, Gramophone, and Fanfare magazines.

Marian Tănău is the founder and president of the American Romanian Festival Inc., a nonprofit organization with the mission of promoting American and Romanian music and culture to audiences in the U.S. and Europe. ❖

Ramona Uritescu-Lombard LECTURER Ramona Uritescu-Lombard is a Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she teaches courses in German and French literature. She was born in Timisoara, Romania, and her training is in Comparative Literature (University of Western Ontario, Harvard University). Her interests include migration literature, affect in literature and film, and more recently, New Romanian Cinema. She has taught an introductory course on Romanian culture in the twentiethcentury at the University of Michigan.❖

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

James VanValkenburg

Judith Vander Weg

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James VanValkenburg, Assistant Principal Viola of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, came to orchestral playing after a satisfying career in chamber music. As a founding member of the International String Quartet, he toured the world with concerts in Europe, the Far East, South America, and the United States. The quartet won several notable prizes, including the Munich Competition, East & West Artists of New York, and first prize in the Premier Grand Prix at the International Chamber Music Competition in Evian, France.

A graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and Indiana University School of Music, VanValkenburg has enjoyed chamber music collaborations with many of his favorite musicians: Menahem Pressler, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, David Shifrin, and Isaac Stern. He became a member of Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings in 2004. His recent recordings, all on the Koch International label, include a violin-viola duet by William Bolcom, piano quartets by Franz Waxman, and the Stravinsky septet.

VanValkenburg enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys, as well as training for and competing in Ironman triathlons.â?–

An active performer, Judith Vander Weg has appeared throughout the United States, Canada, Belgium, France, and Spain in collaborative recitals and as an orchestral soloist. Currently principal cellist of the Flint Symphony Orchestra, Judith previously served as principal cellist and soloist with the Mid-Texas Symphony, associate principal with the Toledo Symphony, and as a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony. She has been on the faculties of the University of Texas in San Antonio, the University of Toledo, Calvin College, and Grand Valley State University. For the past 14 summers Judith has been principal cellist with the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck. Judith is a clinician for youth symphonies and school orchestras, a frequent adjudicator, and maintains a busy private teaching studio in Grosse Pointe.â?–

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SPONSORS.

GOLD LEVEL Anonymous Romanian Friend Schoolcraft College John Rakolta Jr. Marian & Jennifer Tanau SILVER LEVEL Wayne State University Schoolcraft College University of Michigan Center of Russian and East European Studies University of Michigan Museum of Art Romanian Film Center BRONZE LEVEL Silviu & Gela Pala Charles & Carol Slater

FRIENDS LEVEL Ioan & Georgeta Atanasiu Maureen & Jerry D’Avanzo Lucian & Silvia Bogdan Barbara Brana Barbara & Paul Burakoff Liviu Capatina Vanja & Daniella Cemalovic Robert & Esther Churella Doug & Minka Cornelson Dr. Anna Davina & Paraschiva Jonascu Ileana Dragnea Anne & Kevin Ellis Ella & Adi Gheorghiu Franz Herbert & Elizabeth Greve Maria Hunciag Nick & Judy Ioannou

Jeannette Jackson Linda Joy & Brad Carol Razvan Pala Claudia Petrescu Magdalena Predeteanu John III & Liz Santeiu Mark Santeiu Family Peter & Jennifer Santeiu Lisa & Logan Skelton Nicolae Stan Liz Stern & Hugh Huntley Alan & Diane Thompson

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MISSION The mission of the American Romanian Festival is to create a bridge between the two cultures, helping to foster mutual understanding. A specific focus of the festival will be to promote cultural awareness, and understanding between people of culture, musicians, and artists of the United States and Romania.

The festival organizes educational, cultural, and artistic events which will take place in Romania and the U.S. The organization supports cultural exchanges with Americans participating in events in Romania and Romanians participating in events in the U.S. The American Romanian Festival is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

To make a tax-deductible contribution, please make checks and mail to:

American Romanian Festival Inc. 1407 Ferdon Road Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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