Rona Hartner on the stage of Internationa

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TURN Cultural Association has the
honor to announce the participation of the actress and musician Rona Hartner at the first edition of
International Romani Art Festival, which will be taking place in Timisoara during the
period 31^st of August -6^th of September 2007.

After
being discovered by director Tony Gatlif, during an audition in Romania for his
film Gadjo Dilo, a part which
brought her awards like Le Leopard de Bronze at Locarno, Best European Acress
at Bruxelles, an award given by Variety
magazine and a nomination at Cesar awards, this
balcanic princess has played in many movies like: Je suis ne d’un cigogne, Cours toujours, Sauve moi, Mischka, Le Divorce,
Le Temps du Loup, and in many theater plays by Shakespeare, Brecht sau
Dostoievski.

Rona Hartner is a complete artist, being also
envolved into music and painting (live painting at Elysee Biarritz). On the music side, Rona was part of groups of alternative
rock in the 90’s. She recorded her first album in 1999, Seule à Paris.In 2004,
she has released an electro-gypsy album with Dj Click. The album is progressing
like a film merging acoustic atmosphere and
rearranged traditional tracks. All the energy and strength of this album
is also given through live performances: exciting songs and dances on the deep
strings of Romanian and Moldavian musicians (violin, accordion, guitar).

Accompanied by professional
musicians, Rona Hartner slides easily from roma music to rock,jazz, fusion or
techno, sharing with the public her devastating energy, talent and good
spirits. She had an important role in discovering and promotion of roma music,
and she had, in collaboration with Serioja Orchestra Tzigane BIO concerts ,and
with Laurent Thilier, Fred Huriez, Didier Forget Tzigane Jazz Rock concerts.

International Romani Art Festival

International Romani Art Festival

It is, through its
nature, an unique event: a festival dedicated to the roma people in the whole
world. International Romani Art Festival
is the only festival in the world
which speaks to people who represent all kinds of art, roma people and
other, but which promotes roma culture.

It
will try to offer a new perspective over a delicate and very actual subject.
It’s time that the integration of roma people in the society and giving up our
prejudices to become reality, because these are vital things in our
development, personal and also as a society. International Romani Art Festival means free acces to open-air
concerts, photography and film contests with thousands of euro prizes,
coppersmiths’ and silverers’ fairs, horses parades with acrobatic
demonstrations, movie nights, indoor and outdoor photography exhibitions,
happenings and performances, book, dvd and album releases, projections inspired from the life
of the roma people from Romania, literary mornings, dance and photo workshops,
roma language courses, informing events, dance shows, modern theatre,
literature contests, debates over roma architecture, roma history and other.

IRAF will take place under the High Patronage of the Romanian Cultural
Institute and of the National Council for Fighting Discrimination.

There is free access to all activities in the festival.

For
more details regarding International Romani Art Festival, access http://www.iraf.ro

Or sign up on http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/iraf.

Adrian
Voichitescu,

President
IRAF

Cristina Gavrila,

PR International
Romani Art Festival

0747058 140