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Darwin Day 2024 – Citizen Science and Biodiversity



Monday, 12 February 2024, 6-8 p.m

tranzit. ro/Cluj,
Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca

tranzit.ro/Cluj invites you to Darwin Day 2024 – Citizen Science and Biodiversity, the first event of a program series developed in partnership with NECC - Nature Education Community Center, hypha_etc [education, theory, culture], Milvus Group and the Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj.

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POLYCRISES ACROSS DIVIDE

Open call for participation /


Open call for participation
1st of February - 1st of April 2024

Historical Materialism Cluj/Kolozsvár 2024

The first edition of Historical Materialism Cluj/Kolozsvár will take place between August 29-31, 2024, in Cluj-Napoca:
https://hmcluj2024.conference.ubbcluj.ro/

The conference is organized by the Babeș-Bolyai University in partnership with Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and tranzit.ro/Cluj.

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The “Telephone: Communication Technology & Communicating Technology” podcast series



The “Telephone: Communication Technology & Communicating Technology” summer school organised by tranzit.ro/Cluj took place between the 14th and 20th of September of this year in Câmpu Cetații. It was a fruitful place for dialogue between participants, guest speakers and curators. The concepts about technology and society that acted as the project's foundation were developed and refined, leading to new connections between the speakers’ topics of interest, some of which were very unexpected.

As part of the “Telephone” project, we will be releasing a podcast series, featuring the guest speakers discussing their topics with each other. The whole 6-episode series will be available by the middle of November, and the first 4 episodes are already available on the project’s Facebook page. or here.

In the 1st episode, Alin Răuțoiu interviews Irina Dumitru and Alexandru Evanghelidis, the summer school’s curators, about the project’s objectives, what the stakes of the interdisciplinary study of technology are, and what’s next for the project. The episode also takes a quick look at the topics covered by the rest of the series.

The 2nd episode features Alin Răuțoiu, Marina Oprea, and Beti Toma discussing how we read the internet, who teaches us to read it, and what internet literacy even means.

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“Cordless Telephone: Communication Technology & Communicating Technology” – Summer School at Câmpu Cetăţii



14 - 20 September 2023
Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş County

Cordless Telephone Summer School is organized at Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş County by tranzit.ro/Cluj in partnership with the National Institute for Research and Development in Materials Physics and Dezarticulat.

It is intended for a mixed group of students from both STEM fields and the humanities who share an interest in the critical study of technology and in understanding how technology works. Our goal is to bring together different perspectives from these two spheres of intellectual life, usually separated by an artificial divide, viewing the technology through a philosophical, social, and cultural lens while maintaining a rigorous understanding of its workings.

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Ecologies of Emancipation 3rd edition: Bread, Land, Peace in Polycrisis



CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

24–30.08.2023
Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş County

Application Deadline: 23.07.2023

The third edition of the annual summer school Ecologies of Emancipation, organized by tranzit.ro/Cluj in Câmpu Cetății, Mures county, will take place between August 25 and 31 and will focus on basic human needs in the contemporary socio-political context and in the early 20th century.

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Zero Point Summer School – Turning points, spaces and utopias

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION /


6-11th of August 2023,
Vármező/Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş county, Romania

How do we imagine the collapse of our familiar world, the zero-point of social and personal life? What do we think about the built environment and power systems that seem unbreakable? What learned and inherited stereotypes is our social and creative imagination captive to? The idea for the Zero Point Summer School was born out of a critique of two radical endpoints - apathy and blind trust - with the stated ambition that participants in the program would formulate new responses, or even utopias, by examining the built environment and urban planning practices in the context of social crisis situations.

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“Telephone: Communication Technology & Communicating Technology” – Summer School



CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

14-20th of September 2023
Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş County

The school is intended for a mixed group of students from both STEM fields and the humanities who share an interest in the critical study of technology and in understanding how technology works. Our goal is to bring together different perspectives from these two spheres of intellectual life, usually separated by an artificial divide, viewing the technology through a philosophical, social, and cultural lens while maintaining a rigorous understanding of its workings.

To sign up, please send your letter of intent to telefonulfarafir@gmail.com until the 14th of August.

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Questo Anonimato E’ Sovversivo/ (This Anonymity is subversive) - performance

– a project by Ruben Montini /


04th of April, 2023 – 6-8 pm.
05th of April, 2023 – 10-12 am.

tranzit. ro/Cluj, Napoca Street, no. 16, 1st. floor,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Questo Anonimato E’ Sovversivo (This Anonymity is subversive) is the project of Italian artist Ruben Montini. It consisted of a journey through countries of the European Union that the artist carried out together with photographer Ela Bialkowska. In Romania the project was hosted by tranzit. ro/Cluj.

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SZEMinárium – workshops organised by új szem magazine



31st of March 2023, 4-8 pm.
21st of April 2023, 4-8 pm.

tranzit.ro/Cluj, Napoca Street, no. 16, 1st. floor
Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Starting with March 2023, tranzit.ro/Cluj hosts SZEMinárium, the self-improvement group of új szem magazine for students in Cluj Napoca.

új szem is a social, cultural and critical platform, an online magazine that continues the work of szem magazine (2015-2021).
More information: https://ujszem.org/

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Ivett Szabó

new member joins tranzit. ro/Cluj team /


Ivett Szabó (born 2000) joins the tranzit.ro/cluj team from March as program coordinator. She is a MA student in Critical Theory and Multicultural Studies, Faculty of History and Philosophy, UBB. She got her BA degree in Hungarian Literature and Comparative Literature Studies, Faculty of Letters, UBB. Ivett is currently working on her Master’s thesis. In her academic work, she is mostly interested in environmental ethics, eco-criticism, and non-human narratives. She has been part of Echinox’s editorial team for 2 years and joined the organizing team of Hervay Literary Circle and Bajnokok Legalja Slam Poetry series shortly after they were founded. In this period she has also been volunteering in experiential education projects like Grund School Oradea. Since late 2019 she is a member of the Save As Pedagogy Action Group (Mentés másként pedagógia). With their annual conference and other events, they intend to connect the academic and civil sphere, teachers and specialists of caring professions, and work to create visibility for systemic issues and inadequately discussed topics of education. Education as a strong political act plays a key role in her work, as well as the analysis of literary language, which has the empowering ability to question the limits of collective imaginaries.

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ECOLOGIES OF EMANCIPATION

2nd edition: Science, State and Society /


31.08 – 04.09. 2022
Location: Câmpu Cetății, Mureș County

The second edition of the yearly summer school Ecologies of Emancipation, organized by tranzit.ro/Cluj at Câmpu Cetății, Mureș County, will take place between August 31 and September 4, 2022 and will have as guiding theme the contemporary relations, tensions and interdependences between Science, State, and Society. As usual, the school aims to provide a meeting space and a catalyst for friendly but also qualified discussions between some of the most promising and relevant current research projects and theoretical perspectives from the broad field of social sciences, as so many potential resources for critique and political positioning in today's world.

This year’s edition aims to question the many faceted relations between science, state and society, as a crucial issue whose actuality can be declined on (at least) three axes: in our recent and ongoing past, as the particular modern constellations of science, state and society articulated by the political regimes and social formations of our last century; in the immediate present, as evidenced and dramatized in our current pandemic context with its political instrumentation of science and its corresponding growing social mistrust in both official science and politics; and finally, in our already present future, as the great reshuffling of the relation between science, society and politics urgently demanded by the climate crisis.

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UTOPIAS OF SOLIDARITY I.



Summer Camp at Câmpu Cetății

28 July – 01 August, 2022


The summer camp Utopias of Solidarity 2022 has its focus on the activity of certain self-organized, politically engaged groups that were formed in the context of the intersectionality of multiple (financial, economic, ecological, migration, housing, care, political etc.) crises. By bringing together critical academic/professional approaches and practices based on the principles of solidarity and/or anticapitalism, we seek answers to the following questions: what utopia could mean for us today, or what can solidarity mean within our local context and environment of limited or scarce resources, but also to what possibilities for knowledge and resource alignment can we conceive in order to enable ourselves to cope on an everyday level with the effects of the aforementioned multiple crises that surround us?

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Summer School - Ecologies of Emancipation 2nd edition: Science, State, Society

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION /


31.08 – 4.09. 2022
Location: Câmpu Cetății, Mureș County

Deadline for applications: 15th of July

The second edition of the yearly summer school Ecologies of Emancipation, organized by tranzit.org/Cluj at Câmpu Cetății, Mureș County, will take place between August 31 and September 4, 2022 and will have as guiding theme the contemporary relations, tensions and interdependences between Science, State, and Society. As usual, the school aims to provide a meeting space and a catalyst for friendly but also qualified discussions between some of the most promising and relevant current research projects and theoretical perspectives from the broad field of social sciences, as so many potential resources for critique and political positioning in today's world.

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“Ecology of Emancipation” Summer School



Sunday, September 5, 2021, at Câmpul Cetății, Mureș County, the first edition of the “Ecology of Emancipation” Summer School, organized by tranzit. ro/Cluj and intended mainly for high school students in the final years and students from socio-human faculties, ended.

With a duration of 5 days (September 1-5), the school aims to provide and maintain a suitable space for theoretical educational and friendly discussions on some of the most relevant and recent re-search perspectives in the social sciences, positioned as resources for political criticism of the present world.

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Call for participation - Ecologies of Emancipation

-organized by tranzit.ro/Cluj /


1- 5 September 2021

Location: Câmpu Cetății, Mureș County


Between 1-5 September, in Câmpu Cetății, Mureș County, tranzit.org/Cluj will organize the first edition of a yearly summer school dedicated to exploring new critical perspectives in the field of humanities and social sciences. The school aims to provide a meeting space and a catalyst for friendly but also qualified discussions between some of the most promising and relevant current research directions in the field of social sciences, as potential resources for critique and political positioning in today's world.

This year's edition has as its generic theme "Ecologies of Emancipation", in the broadest sense of the terms and in the most diverse configurations of their relationship: what is the relationship between the different systems and subsystems of modernity and their components or inhabitants, and to what extent we can conceive and articulate this relationship in a way that is both politically emancipatory and ecologically realistic. Besides the immediate issue of the global climate crisis and its increasingly frequent and obvious effects, this year's meeting will also try to take a lateral look at this framework of issues, articulating a broader and more multidisciplinary perspective on the solidarity and tensions between the different systems of modernity, as well as on their specific impact and significance in the context of today's political, social and climate crisis.

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Natural science camp in Câmpu Cetății #1

-organized by NECC and tranzit.ro/Cluj /


1-4 July, 2021

Location:
Câmpu Cetății, Mureș County

Program coordinators:
Kunigunda Macalik, Janka Penzs, Csilla Szabo

The primary goal of the Natural science camp in Câmpu Cetății #1 is to introduce children to the basics of ecological thinking and to make them familiar with the values of biodiversity.

Besides discussions, presentations, field trips and workshops, the participants were engaged in the creation of a giant “insect hotel” which was set up on the camp site in order to monitor the inhabitant insects in the coming years.

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CAMP PROJECT



Promoting social, cultural, and pedagogical change that overcomes the conditions of the current social, political and cultural predicament.

tranzit.ro/Cluj is engaging in a new type of collaboration and experiment which seeks to provide an inspirational space and context for artistic research and discussions. The camp is a self-sustainable, environmentally conscious, future-oriented mutual-education project located in the village Câmpu Cetății (Mureș district) in the Transylvanian Mountains of Romania. Initiated by tranzit.ro/Cluj curator Attila Tordai-S, educator Kata Tordai-Soos, photographer Nelson Fitch, and short story writer Veronica Roth, partnerships will include universities, educational/cultural institutes, artist collectives, and independent researchers.

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From here to there

event by Larisa David /


In frame of the Classroom projects initiated by tranzit.ro/Cluj, Larisa David hosts an evening where she will present a performance and a selection of videos made by Vangjush Vellahu, Taietzel Ticalos, Lili Huston-Herterich şi Helen Anna Flanagan.

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Orbiting Modernity: from the steam engine to the galactic debris.


Workshops, presentations and lectures

tranzit.ro/ Cluj
Napoca str. 16, I floor, Cluj

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“Palestine Is Still the Issue”

A LMA collective event /


Tuesday, 12 June 2018, 7 pm

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St, no 5

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Autonomous Market of Cluj #18

Hosted event /


3 June 2018

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St, no 5

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INFRAREALITIES

Dialysis – an event by Kinga Tóth /


11 May 2018, 8 pm

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St, no 5

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INFRAREALITIES

Aphantasia – an event by Ákos Kele Fodor /


Saturday, 20th April 2018, 8 pm

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

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Export and Urbanization

The Economic Growth Policy in Romanian Communism /


Thursday, 19 April 2018, 6 pm

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

Book launch: Norbert Petrovici, The Urban Area. A Political Economy of Romanian Socialism, Cluj: Tact, 2018

Round table discussion on the chapters: 6. Regional Processes: Socialist Urbanization and 8. International Policies: Transformations of Relationships Between Accumulation Circuits

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Launch of the publication 'From Fake Mountain to Faith (Hungarian Trilogy)'

by artist Szabolcs KissPál /


27 March 2018, 7 pm

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

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. _ _ OR _ . _

a project by Zsófia Gábor and Dániel Láng /


23 February – 8 March 2018

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

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DIY Nights: film projection "Do Not Resist" + discussion

A project by LMA group /


13th of December 2017, 7-9 pm

tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5

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Roundtable discussion about the literary talent and the critical environment

Project by Invisible College (hosted project) /


7th of December 2017, 7:30 pm

tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5

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PAC is back! – Autonomous Market #17



19th of November 2017
13:12 am – 5 pm

tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Brassai Samuel St, no 5

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LMA Event

Rehearsal with friends: Edhochuli /


30 October 2017, 9:30 pm

tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Str. Brassai Samuel, nr. 5
Rizom infokiosk

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Gadó Flóra – EAST ART MAGS residency at tranzit.ro/ Cluj

17-23 October 2017 /


EAST ART MAGS is an initiative of four art magazines in the East Central European region.

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Adrian Schiop – Șmecherie și lumea rea. Universul social al manelelor (Trickery and bad world. The social universe of manele)

Book Launch /


10 October 2017, 6 pm

tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Str. Brassai Samuel, nr. 5

Guest speakers: Ștefan Baghiu, Alex Goldiș

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LMA Event

Rehearsal with friends: Ypres, Sequoian Aequison, ABTTM /


9 October 2017, 9 pm

tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Str. Brassai Samuel, nr. 5
Rizom infokiosk

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Street, we negotiate; city, we reinstitute


During the summer, there will be text interventions on the 4 street windows of tranzit.ro/ Cluj by Costi Rogozanu.

11 August - 20 September 2017

tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Str. Brassai Samuel, nr. 5

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Rent Rebels [DE] – Film projection

Event organized by Asociația Chiriașilor Cluj /


6th of July 2017, 7-9 pm

tranzit. ro/ Cluj
Str. Brassai Samuel, nr. 5

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Insect Radio

An LMA event /


Thursday, March 2nd 2017, 9 pm

Rizom Infokiosk,
Str. Brassai Sámuel, nr. 5

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In Between

by Ioana Florea, Alice Monica Marinescu, Katia Pascariu, David Schwartz /


Friday, November 25th 2016, 7 pm

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

by Ioana Florea, Alice Monica Marinescu, Katia Pascariu, David Schwartz

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One Year Anniversary of Infokiosk Rizom

in collaboration with LMA collective /


Saturday, November 19th 2016, 9 pm

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

in collaboration with LMA collective

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Social research and Political Critique: the Saga of Left Publishing

Round table with Gareth Dale, Tamás Krausz, Éva Nagy, Florin Poenaru, Alex Cistelecan /

Saturday, 29 October 2016, 11 am

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

Moderator: Dana Domsodi

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Soirée Critique VII

Free trade – the last internationalism? /


Tuesday, 11 October 2016, 6 pm

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

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Discussion on the issue of rent in Cluj (Hosted event)



Wednesday, 5 October 2016, 7 pm

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

On Wednesday we gather together to discuss the worrying situation of rent in Cluj and what we can do to address this problem.

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Soirée critique VI – au cinéma. Merci patron!

France 2016, director François Ruffin; translated by Claudiu Gaiu /


Friday, 23 September 2016, 6 pm

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

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Street we negotiate; city we reinstitute

project by Alexandra Popescu /


15th July – 11th September 2016

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

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10 for FILM



May 31st - June 5th 2016

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Sámuel St. 5

Transilvania International Film festival (TIFF) arrived at the 15th edition this year and continued the collaboration with tranzit.ro/ Cluj in 2016 with the 10 for FILM cultural project.

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LMA Collective Program / May 2016

Rehearsal with friends /


15 - 23 May 2016

tranzit.ro/ Cluj
Samuel Brassai Street, no. 5

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RIZOM INFOKIOSK



Thursday, 5th of May 2016, 6 – 8:30 pm

Samuel Brassai Street, no. 5 (basement), Cluj, Romania

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LIBRARY OF THE CHOSEN ONES – additional program in February, 2016



tranzit. ro/ Cluj,
str. Brassai Samuel nr.5., Cluj


Program:

IDOLATRY - Presentation and workshop held by Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják
Saturday, 20 February, 2016, 11 am

CHOSEN GAMES, presentation by Mario Z. Nemes
Saturday, 20 February 2016, 3 pm.

FILM SCREENING and DISCUSSION,moderated by Beáta Makai
Saturday, 20 February 2016, 5 pm.
White Bear (Black Mirror, Season 2, Episode 2)

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The Library of the Chosen Ones



a project by Predestinati pentru Rai group

29 November 2015 –28 February 2016

The Library of the Chosen Ones is a travelling collection of various printed matters which has the expression ‘the chosen one(s)’ in their title. Within this nomadic, transnational research project, the artists try to collect and distribute all the possible public comments, statements, images, which already exist in this topic.

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Miklós Mécs –- Street we negotiate; city we reinstitute


In the first part of October the interventions by the artist Miklós Mécs can still be seen on the façade windows of tranzit.ro/Cluj, as well as arrangements in the exhibition space and the street gallery created by the artist.

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Street, we negotiate; city, we reinstitute.



27th of July -18th of September 2015

tranzit. ro/Cluj,
Brassai S. Street, No.5.

Between 27th of July -18th of September 2015, Hungarian artist Miklós Mécs will occupy tranzit. ro/ Cluj space in order to develop artistic interventions from a no-win situation. During his residency he will be using the street windows of the tranzit as communication channel with the pedestrians.

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PROGRESS IN REGRESS

Roma people in the capitalist postcommunism /

On 17- 18th of December, Erika Varga, roma activist from Budapest, editor of Glinda magazine and founder of Romani Design fashion label www.romani.hu will hold a workshop for groups of teenagers from Cluj. She will be teaching creative techniques and will talk about her engagement in fighting against racial discrimination through fashion design.

In the same day, on 18th of December, a panel discussion will be organized focusing on the key issues that Roma citizens are facing today in Cluj.

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Under Ground. The Jiu Valley after 1989

followed by a discussion with GAP members /

Friday, 31 October 2014, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ Cluj,
Brassai Samuel Street, nr. 5

Concept: Mihaela Michailov și David Schwartz
Distribution: Alice Monica Marinescu, Katia Pascariu, Alexandru Potocean, Andrei Șerban

Music: Bobo Burlăcianu
Video documentation: Vlad Petri
Scenography: Adrian Cristea

The Theatre Under Ground. The Jiu Valley after 1989 project focuses on the quotidian observation and critical analysis of day-to-day life in labourer communities which were hard hit by the political and social change after 1989. The project aims to document the economic situation, the life and work of miners in post-socialism, together with other categories
living in Jiu Valley. The Theatre Under Ground proposes a performative reconstruction of many documentary narratives. These interviews outlined the history of the Jiu Valley communities on the borderline between survival, migration, extinction and a possible revival.

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KEEP IN MIND THE POOR


tranzit. ro/ Cluj presents the project

KEEP THE POOR IN MIND
by Laurențiu Ridichie

In the new project ― Street, we negotiate; city, we reinstitute ― developed by tranzit.ro/ Cluj, the artist-activist Laurențiu Ridichie, will display inside the windows of the building on Brassai Samuel street works that address social and political issues, both at the local and global level. He will post weekly inside the 4 windows of the building drawings (170 x 75 mm) which, until now, were circulating exclusively on facebook.

The project runs between 10 July - 26 September 2014.

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10,000 PENNY OPERA


Friday 8 pm.
13.06.2014

tranzit.ro/ Cluj,
Samuel Brassai Str, no. 5.

Throughout the entire year, you can hear street musicians playing in the various corners of Cluj. They perform mainly in the downtown area, where most people are in a big hurry, just walking right by one another. It used to be thought that music can transform strangers, even very differing people, into one community, so we might imagine that street musicians are very socially engaged people. However, these performers, who have finished their professional studies, are not interested in merely making music; the street also provides an important income for them.

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