The Romanian Qigong Foundation, represented by instructors Marcel Doros and Ramona Venturini and members of the club, will be doing therapeutical massage of the back and demonstrations of dinamic Qigong şi Tajiquan. Qigong is a therapeutical practice in which you excercise the energy in the purpose of obtaining health – which means a calm mind, a soul that is at peace and a body full of energy in harmony. Taijiquan is a dance of long life and a meditation in motion. OMS declared this chinese practice as being the most efficient method of maintaining health in preventive medicine.

Massage courses, Tajiquan and Qigong are only some of the activities they have prepaired for PLAI Festival.

The OSGC was born during the summer of 2003 in the cities of Stockholm, Székszárd, Timisoara and maybe most of all; Göteborg Sweden, where I, Radu Apreotesei, singer and songwriter in the consortium, got to know “Jr Eric” and “Partillo” Alexandersson.

“Reggae Against The Machine” is what we like to describe our “genre” as, if we really have to define it and “put it in a box”. We’d rather just say; “we play music” but too many witnesses say it’s a definitive and unmistakeable blend of classic roots reggae where rap meets grunge and heavy rock and make passionate love. We say; so be it! Whatever it’s called, we hope you enjoy listening, contemplating and dancing to it as much as we enjoy writing, recording and playing it.

Erasmus has been changing the lives of young people for 25 years in Europe and 15 in Romania. The Erasmus Programme of the European Union is more than a scholarship to study abroad, it’s a means for seeing the world, it’s already become a sort of “international language” for nearly three million Europeans.

Former Erasmus students will be showing you bits of what they have learned in this experience, an experience that always starts with an encounter with an unknown town, an unknown language, with people of different cultures. Only after that come the courses which they attended, the meeting of local people, learning to leave in a different style, to be open to challenges, tolerance and cultural diversity.

At the Erasmus tent you will be able to participate in workshops, there will be presentations, language courses, movie screenings, some gastronomy, all to show a truly multicultural Europe. These experiences are brought to you by ESN Timisoara, and are organizes by the West University of Timisoara.

Saturday and Sunday – all day
Give A Book, Take A Book – It all starts from the idea to Reuse. Let’s reuse books! -You bring a book, you get a book. You bring the book on saturday and sunday and in the afternoon you take your book. Also registrations for Let’s Do It, Romania! on 29 September 2012

Saturday and Sunday:
12:00-13:00 “Reuse” Workshop – plastic, paper, lightbulbs etc.
13:00-14:00 Let’s Talk Trash! – What can I do with and where can I recycle the waste piling up at home or at the office?
14:00-15:00 “Reuse” Workshop – plastic, paper, lightbulbs etc.
15:00-16:00 Let’s Talk Trash! – What can I do with and where can I recycle the waste piling up at home or at the office?
16:00-17:00 “Reuse” Workshop – plastic, paper, lightbulbs etc.
17:00-18:00 Let’s Talk Trash! – What can I do with and where can I recycle the waste piling up at home or at the office?
18:00-19:00 “Reuse” Workshop – plastic, paper, lightbulbs etc.

Wood Be Nice is the first coherent project in Romania that transposes images on wood, which has set out to restore the materiality of images and to takes us closer to them here, in the physical world.
Daniel Loagăr is the initiator of this project who discovered and experienced this craft of image transfer technique on unconventional surfaces (in this case wood) and proposed it to the other members.

From here on to a large project in which six people were involved was just a step. Initially the team was chosen, wanting to expose the photographs of artists who have never had an official launch, an exhibition. Thus four others were chosen to form the team: Victor Dumitrescu, George Visan, Livia Stefan, Tatiana Volontir. The basic idea was simple, each of the six participants in the project had to choose some pictures from their portfolio which were to be transferred on wood.

The creation workshop Una Isola Muy Hermosa (Wood Be Nice) is a workshop born in December 2010. Members of the workshop are: Daniel Loagăr – creator of collages from objects / installations and photographer Andrei Cornea – photographer and creator of collages. The project was born as a materialization of the passion of the two members for image and especially for creating it, and by image we understand photography, trans photography, collage and installation.

The company of the “Csiky Gergely” Hungarian State Theatre from Timişoara is a young, enthusiastic team, recognized professionally, which constantly searches for new means of artistic expression. The repertoire of the
theatre is rich and diverse, and the projects – bold. The cultural offer includes performances which vary both as formula (non-verbal, movement, marionettes, musicals), but also as options for classic or contemporary authors.

Among the important projects of the Theatre – TESZT, The Euro-regional Theatre Festival from Timisoara, that reached its fifth edition in 2011. The event is international and has as a main goal to promote multiculturalism and to acquaint the audience with the latest theatre events from DKMT euro-region but also beyond it. The festival is thus a platform of cultural exchanges, but also an invitation to dialogue with artists and theatre specialists.

www.tm-t.ro

The first references on the german language theater in Timişoara date back to the 18th century. In 1956, the theater gains administrative independence, becoming the German State Theater Timişoara. Over 370 plays were played since its establishment. The German State Theater Timişoara became over the years an important cultural institution, preserving and developing identity consciousness of Germans in Romania.

One of the most passionate mission of this theater is now making connections between different theatrical cultures. Directors from Romania, Germany, Austria and Canada have been here in recent years and discovered a multicultural environment, marked by natural interferences with Romanian or Hungarian theatrical culture. We discovered the German State Theater Timişoara in the same kind of an environment at PLAI, where they presented their activites and told us about all their theatrical projects.

www.dstt.ro

Super Smooth creations are designed by four hands and two dreaming minds – Mimi Ciora and Mircea Popescu, artists – whose imagination free fantastic characters, sometimes in the 15 square meters home studio, sometimes in nature or on the city streets.

SuperSmoothStudio concept consists of illustrations, toys & dolls and accessories inspired by the lowbrow art, Tex Avery cartoons, punk culture and streetart.

Save the Children Romania organization is an active member of Save the Children International Alliance – an international movement that supports children’s rights. Save the Children’s vision is a world where all children’s rights are respected. Save the Children works for a world where every child is valued and respected, where people listen to and learn from children, where every child has hopes and prospects, in which every child is protected from any form of violence, abuse and exploitation. Save the Children Timiş is part of Save the Children Romania and was established in 1992. This branch is involved in various projects of education, social protection and advocacy for children from poor families, children who are victims of violence, victims of labor exploitation, street children, refugee children, children from disadvantaged communities, children with disabilities, working with children and their families to improve their daily life and create future plans.

To learn more about their mission don’t hesitate to look for them at:
Address: str.Calea Şagului No. 104, Timişoara, Timiş, Phone: 0256.492107
E-mail: timis@salvaticopiii.ro

Comics Magazine is an online platform as well as printed which aims to gather together everything that is related to comics and local cartoons, interviews, exhibitions and publications in the field.
The first issue of the magazine appeared exclusively online in December 2010 but due to its popularity, the next issues have appeared in printed version. So far, about 40 artists (aspirant or well known) have contributed to the magazine and today, the latest issue (the 5th) has been published online.

We hope you had fun looking through all 5 issues or meeting the people that made them

http://www.revistacomics.ro

OpEN or in long – the Organization for a New Education, as the name suggests, deals with enhancing the quality of the romanian education by taking and applying principles of non-formal, modern and innovative education. In other words we have a number of completed, ongoing and future projects in different fields, from pre-university and university, international, research, consulting on education, to training and personal development – on which we put great emphasis in all our projects.
The main purpose of OpEN is that through meeting we facilitate self-knowledge through fun, positive energy and play. At PLAI, OpEN participates with a team of specialists in psychotherapy and training. We will do mini-workshops (1/2 hours) in personal development (awareness and understanding of personal emotions, the games you play every day, working styles and how they influence our performance, how to give and accept – or not – compliments, etc.) and art therapy (self-discovery through painting).

We can’t wait to meet you!

For more information please visit our website http://educatianoua.ro or our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/OpEN/117890321582992

One Move Climbing Hall is run by a handful of very enthusiastic people who try to promote indoor and outdoor climbing in Timisoara.

We have been doing this since October 2008 when we opened the first climbing place in town.
Why climbing? It is a sport that keeps you in shape physically and mentally, you develop some skills: strength, focus, dynamics, control, technique, imagination. It is a form of expression, a way of life that can suite you.

www.onemove.ro

Students League of Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty-LSFETc-, is a non-governmental organization, founded in 1993 by students of the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. LSFETc is a founding member of COSPol – the Polytechnic Student Organizations and ANOSR – National Alliance of Student Organizations in Romania.

LSFETc aims to represent students from the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, both in the University and locally and nationally. The actions and activities of the organizations are meant to improve the educational, social and professional areas whose students they represent.

The group was born in 2006, inside the OncoHelp Association at the initiative of a group composed of oncologists and former patients who had breast cancer. The common goal of hte oncologists and the group coordinators was to come in the help of people diagnosed with breast cancer, wheather for patiens still in treatment or cured.

Because cancer patients have some common problems related to: emotional reaction to being given the diagnosis and side effects of the disease and treatment, Violeta Support Group offers a wide range of support and recovery services including:
● Psychological Counseling and Individual and Group Psychotherapy
● Art Therapy: painting, clay modeling, making handmade products etc..
● Rehabilitation exercises adapted to the needs and capacities of each individual
● Organizing and participating in events such as exhibitions, conferences etc.
● Meetings with experts in different fields who can answer questions for the group members.

FoodCrew.ro is the first site in the country carrying out restaurant reviews. The group of foodies behind this project wander about to try all sorts of food. Good or bad, cooked or in blood, from kitsch to elegant, from pubs or bistros to experimental kitchens, we are the first to take a risk and then write about each soup, deep fried, pickle or stew eaten. Not being new to events, we come to PLAI to eat, play with food and to talk about food with the people attending the festival.