Category: News
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Every Day, Every Day
Ten years ago, on the 15th of March 2011, the face of Syria changed forever when some brave people found the courage to go on the streets and protest in several cities around the country. For the first time in decades, Syrian people protested in the name of freedom, demanding the Assad regime to step…
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We demand a firm position from the Romanian State in support of civil society and human rights in Belarus
Dear President Klaus Iohannis,Dear Prime Minister Ludovic Orban,Dear Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu, 30 years ago, the Romanians experienced a bloody revolution, and they are also familiar with recent repressions of peaceful protests, such as those of August 10, 2018, exactly two years before the start of current events in Belarus. Moreover, the same…
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Open Letter: Romanian Democracy at Grave Danger
Open letter of more than 70 groups and organisations of the Romanian civil society to all Members of European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Council For eleven months now, hundreds of thousands of Romanians have been fighting to defend democracy. But in the face of ever more concentrated attacks on common European values…
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Giants of Pantelimon in Numbers
Giants of Pantelimon: 5000 visitors in the weekend, 5km of colorful strings, 100 kg of paint, 6000 square meters of painted roofs, one neighborhood The first street art exhibition on rooftops in the world, Giants of Pantelimon, opened on 13th October in Bucharest. Giants of Pantelimon Street Art Days which ended on Sunday evening were…
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Program: Giants of Pantelimon, October 13th to 15th 2017
The first street art exhibition on rooftops in the world opens on the 13th of October in Pantelimon, Romania. Three days of gigantic art on the roofs, live art, talks, movie screenings, workshops, performances, lives music and much more. From all over the world we invited to Pantelimon for this community art project: Ella &…
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The Giants of Pantelimon have chosen their Artists
Who are the five artists that will draw the neighborhood’s stories for Giants of Pantelimon Street Art Days, three days of community art, street art, graffiti, music, dance, movies, workshops, live painting sessions and many more? What happens between 13th and 15th of October at Make a Point and which big names of the international…
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How Biancoshock Showed Us that WE CAN
Yes, we can of Pantelimon, 24. August 2017 Biancoshock helped us to discover that “Nu Pot” (“I Can’t”) is just in our head – a kind of reminiscent self-flagellation from the times when the one party told us what we were allowed and what we were not allowed to do. It was an evening surrounded…
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Mysterious Biancoshock in Bucharest
The famous italian with unseen face and his interactive performance at Make a Point’s Art Tower Giants of Patelimon – the Make a Point project in which stories of the inhabitants of Pantelimon, Bucharest inhabitants will be illustrated by artists from all over the world and painted on roofs of industrial buildings – will at…
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Giants of Pantelimon – CALL FOR ARTISTS
“I’m Mrs. Mariana, a former textile worker at the Cotton Mill, looking for an urban artist to paint my life on the roof of the factory. I ask for seriousness and imagination, and I offer a reward and posterity appreciation.” After more than a month of traveling around Pantelimon, talking to its inhabitants and reading…
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The Giants of Pantelimon are Taking Your Story up into the Sky
#uriasidepantelimon #giantsofpantelimon Three years after the opening of the Art Tower of Pantelimon, Make a Point is on top of things again, developing a new art project at the highest level. For Giants of Pentelimon the locals of the neighbourhood will be able to tell their stories, as an inspiration for artists, who will paint…