Otilia Gruneantu Scriuba is a mixed media artist passionate by colour, line, texture, spatiality through layering and spontaneous gestures. She creates complex narrative artwork exploring the unconscious, as well as her feelings and emotions generated by different personal events, places where she

Stephen Henighan is the author of fifteen books, most recently the short story collection, Blue River and Red Earth (Cormorant Books, 2018). His publications on Romanian subjects include the travel book, Lost Province: Adventures in a Moldovan Family (Beach Holme, 2002), which

Milena Munteanu is a Romanian writer who lives in Canada. She graduated the Universities of Craiova and Toronto. Milena authored three books: “Far From the Land of Longings”, “From the Country of the Rising Sun” and “South-American Colors and Rhythms”. Milena has

Romanian-born writer, journalist and literary critic Miruna Tarcau published her first novel when she was just 16 years old. Her French thriller, The Devil’s Island (2006), was well received by the Romanian press in Montreal where she lives, as well as in

Daniela Moisa is an Assistant Professor in Folklore and Ethnology, and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at the University of Sudbury, Canada. A trained ethnologist, she is interested in the cultures of habitation, social and spatial mobility, and critical

It is an honor for me to participate at this event and I am happy to play piano to the invited audience. I would like to share with you some of my musical performances and achievements, along with my message: Music is

Sophia Leopold-Muresan Playing, Art-Making…the Dedicated Life and Loves of an Exceptional Child Artist Sophia Leopold-Muresan was born on a wintry morning in 2008, just before Christmas, at Saint Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She enjoys the benefits of a strong Eastern European family

Writer, journalist, Ph.D. in Philosophy at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (2003), specializing in French phenomenology. He publishes essays, studies, treatises on religious experience, theology and art of the icon, philosophy of magic, ethics, and creativity in childhood. He also writes poetry and

Raul recently produced and directed his third documentary film “The Village that Crossed the Ocean – Boian” as part of larger project with OMNI/Rogers Television that hosts his weekly Romanian language show, NOI ROMANII for the past 15 years. Raul hails from

Determined to help and make a difference, Magdalena Manea leads the Foaie de Drum Lung project (‘Journal of a Long Road’) which highlights the struggles and successes of the Romanian-Canadian immigrant community. Launched in 2015 and drawing thousands of readers a month,