On Saturday, 23 March 2024, we had a special event: the meeting with Jan Willem Bos, author and translator and one of the most important promoters of Romanian literature and culture in the Netherlands. The event, entitled "The Author as a Translator. The Story of a Dutch Writer Who Fell in Love With Romanian Literature", celebrated the work of Jan Willem Bos, and...
2024 is soon passing its first quarter and we have already had a lot of activity in each project. So many events, we haven't even had a chance to tell you what an eventful year 2023 has been! Hundreds of Romanians came to the already traditional Romanian events in the Netherlands: the Universal Day of the King of Romania and the National Day of Romania...
The year 2023 was a year full of beautiful events at the Dutch Romanian Library! We remind you of some of them below. BiebROțeilor Workshop In January 2023 we resumed the weekly online meetings of the BiebROțeilor Workshop. The workshops had two modules: a spring-summer one from 31 January to 6 June and an autumn-winter one from 14 September to 21 December....
On 23 March we meet at OBA Javaplein to celebrate the work of author and translator Jan Willem Bos. One of the most important promoters of Romanian literature in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Jan Willem also has a fascinating autobiographical book "From the Rhine to the Danube and Back" published in 2022 by Humanitas, which we will discuss in more detail. In part...
Do you have Romanian roots and would you like to introduce your children to Romanian? Would you like to help your children increase their vocabulary or maintain contact with Romanian? Would you like to discover new stories written by contemporary Romanian authors? If the answer to any of these questions is "yes" you will be happy to know that the Dutch Romanian Library joins...
We invite you to the painting workshop organized on November 11 within the project "The Romanian Library Netherlands", with the support of the Department for Romanians Abroad. Emanuela (Emi) Balint has been drawing since she can remember. She likes to work in tempera, pencil and ink. She loves doodles, objects, houses, nature, cats, paper bags and the smell of books and pencils. She created the image of the kitten Dar Motan,...
Good news for young people of Romanian origin living in the Netherlands!AIVI Media Hub Netherlands is back!4 days, 4 online communication courses created by young volunteers and AIVI Media Centre specialists. Choose the ones that interest you or follow them all! The courses are FREE! The courses will take place on 6,7,8 & 9 November, from 19:00 CET! Courses...
Welcome home to the Fursec mouse! We'll soon explore his garden where, together with his friend, the hedgehog Agrisha, he has grown a range of fruit and vegetables. All the better to enjoy them on a beautiful autumn day, sitting together and chatting! Stories, you say? Stories are more enjoyable when we have an expert storyteller around. So we invited her...
We invite you to a beautiful exhibition of Romanian illustrations! The exhibition "Travellers" can be admired at the Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, in the section of the Romanian Library Netherlands, until November 2023. The exhibition "Travellers", realized by the Romanian Library of the Netherlands in collaboration with the Illustrators' Club, offers a journey into the world of 40 contemporary Romanian illustrators. Each work represents an opening to the creative universe...
2022 has been the most ambitious year since the opening of the Dutch Romanian Library so far, both online and physically. Throughout the year we held weekly live meetings on Facebook BiebRO Mondays where we presented new books by Romanian authors, promoted literary events that took place in the Netherlands but...
The Romanian Library of the Netherlands together with the Romanian Embassy in the Kingdom of the Netherlands are pleased to invite you to a unique event: a meeting with the Romanian author Dana Grigorcea. Dana Grigorcea debuted in 2002 in Romanian literature with short prose: a travel diary from the Holy Land. She studied German and Dutch at the Faculty of Foreign Languages in...
2021 was another "different" year with too few physical meetings for our liking, but that didn't stop us from organising a number of online meetings and events. On 4 January 2021 we resumed the BiebRO Mondays series, with a slightly changed format as we introduced recurring guests. The BiebRO Kids Club coordinator was invited at the beginning...
