Exhibitors

Romanian Pages Bookstore

Books| Movies| Music| Gifts

Romanian bookstore boasting an extensive inventory of Romanian and international literature, movies & CDs.

At the same time, the bookstore is a curator for many public libraries in Canada and the United States.

Librăria Românilor este un magazin online care oferă românilor din Statele Unite (SUA) și Canada posibilitatea de a-și procura cărți, filme și muzică în limba română, la mii de kilometri de casă. În același timp, Librăria este curator și furnizor pentru mai multe biblioteci publice din Canada și Statele Unite.

Online Store: https://librariaromanilor.com/

Romanian language lectorate

@Glendon College, York University Toronto

Romanian Language and Culture @Glendon College, York University Toronto

The course Romanian Culture in a Semiotic Perspective is cross-listed in the Linguistics Programme and in General Education; thereby it counts as both a linguistics course (like Romanian Language. A Linguistic Introduction) and as a course fulfilling in part the HUMA category of General Education requirements. Each class provides a semiotic theoretical framework illustrated by examples grounded in Romanian culture, i.e. by case studies to be discussed and analyzed. The theoretical sources includes classical texts by Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes along with texts by Thomas A. Sebeok and works in cultural semiotics (Yuri Lotman and the Turku school) as well as the work of scholars specialized in particular fields, such as Martin Esslin (theatre), Eero Tarasti (music), Boris A. Uspensky (history) and Dinda L. Gorlée (translation). Each topic/class investigates various languages, the interactions between language and political (especially totalitarian) systems, language and aesthetic revolts, sign systems (cf. Roland Barthes), and also, more or less implicitly, the relationship between language and speech (cf. Ferdinand de Saussure and the structuralists).

This course will offer an introduction to Romanian culture from a semiotic perspective. It will use various media to facilitate the exploration of how Romanians represent themselves to each other and to the world. Weekly lectures and discussions shall be accompanied by readings from Romanian literature (in English translation), as well as samples of Romanian music, film, painting, sculpture, and cuisine. A field trip to a Romanian cultural space in Toronto will be organized. Romanian-Canadian cultural personalities will be invited to speak about different aspects of the Romanian culture in Canada and in the world. In addition to class activities, you will have to work independently on your readings and assignments.

The course Romanian Language: A Linguistic Introduction proposes a historical, comparative and functional perspective of the Romanian language. The students will be initiated in the study of the formal and structural characteristics of Romanian.

Thorough analyses will be dedicated to aspects referring to the history, phonetics, vocabulary, morphology, syntax and semantics of the language.

The first part of the course will deal with linguistic aspects important in the study of the Romanian in a Romance and Balkanic context, with case studies, exemplifications and practical applications.

The second part of the course will be devoted to the acquisition of the Romanian language itself.

The evolution and elements specific to the Romanian language will be presented in comparative approaches and in the socio-cultural context of the Romance languages, but also that of the Balkanic languages.

: Romanian Culture In A Semiotic Perspective

: Romanian Language – A Linguistic Introduction

Otilia Gruneantu Scriuba

Visual artist

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 lived or that she visited and occasionally by some current issues, such as women’s role and image in society or racial conflict.

She uses a combination of spontaneous abstract fields of colour and lines with visible brushstrokes interspersed by archetypical, personal and cultural symbols. When painting, she works mainly with acrylic paint sometimes mixed with acrylic spray and/or collage.

In graphics she prefers to use the technique of monotyping or collography. She displayed her art in many juried international, national and local art shows, in Canada, Romania, Italy, Spain, France, Mexico, Germany and Hungary.

In 2017, she obtained the 3rd prize for Graphics at the 6th International Biennial Art Show “Meeting Point” from Arad, Romania and in 2012 “The Most favoured artist” prize at Roncy Rocks Arts and Musical Festival in Toronto.

She has a Bachelor’s Degree is Fine Arts and Pedagogy of Arts and a bilingual Master’s Degree in Romanian and French in Curatoring Cultural Projects, both from the West University, Visual Arts Faculty, Timisoara, Romania.

This year Otilia just started her 14th year as a teacher. Currently, she teaches Visual Arts and French to high school students in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She completed all the necessary courses for teaching in Canada at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

To learn more about her as an artist, please visit her website @ www.otiliarts.info