People of their Time

Presentation

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The People of their Time campaign is an annual event started by the contemporary cultural review Timpul and organized by the Timpul Review Association (ART), in partnership with administrative and cultural institutions and also with academic and economic institutions.

The second edition of the People of their Time campaign (2015) will expand the project to the North-East Region and in the cities of Chișinău (Republic of Moldova) and Cernăuți (Ukraine). A media campaign for the concept will be launched in each of these areas, in newspapers, on the radio and on TV), locally and regionally. At the same time, the public in the six North-East regions, plus the cities of Cernăuți and Chișinău will be able to propose, on the online platform www.oameniitimpului.ro, their nominations for local personalities for each of the 10 categories to be judged.

At a first stage, the proposals made by the public will be studied by the representatives of our local media partners, who will document the selected nominations. In addition, the latter will also be documented by the editorial board of TIMPUL contemporary cultural review, and then sent to the Nationa Jury.

         Previous to the People of their Time Gala which will take place in Iași (12 December 2015), each of the 7 cities included in the Campaign will host a mini-gala for the announcement of the local nominations. Later on, the winners will be chosen from these and offered their award in the distinguished environment of the People of their Time Gala which will be hosted by the “Vasile Alecsandri” National Theatre in Iași.

         The Campaign will follow strict internal regulations. The Campaign will start with a series of press conferences in București and in each of the counties mentioned above. These will take place in August 2015.

         The producer of the People of their Time Campaign is Adenium in Iași.

The Categories for which the nominees will be selected are: Literature, Arts, Education and Research, Civil Society, Public Diplomacy, Memory and History, Journalism, Young Merit, Health and Enterprise.

The selection criteria will consider the level of notoriety for each nominee in their respective field, with an emphasis on their remarkable activity between October 2014-September 2015,  based on which the promotion campaign will be built.

                              

          The National Jury of the People of their Time Gala includes:

1.           Reader Radu Vancu PhD, writer (Literature)

2.           Cătălin Sava, TVR producer (Arts)

3.           Professor Adrian Cioroianu PhD, Dean of the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest (Education and Research)

4.           Liviu Mihaiu, journalist (Civil Society)

5.           Professor Constantin Chiriac PhD, Director of “Radu Stanca” National Theatre in Sibiu and of the International Theatre Festival in Sibiu (Public Diplomacy)

6.           Mioara Anton PhD, Director of the Contemporary History Programme of the “N. Iorga” History Institute of the Romanian Academy (Memory and History)

7.           Professor Daniel Cristea-Enache PhD, literary theoretician and critic (Journalism)

8.           Ion Caramitru, actor, Director of  “I.L. Caragiale” Nationa Theatre in București (Young Merit)

9.           Professor MSC Alexandru-Vlad Ciurea PhD, Vice-president of World Neuro-surgery Foundation  (Health)

10.      Bogdan Pițigoi (Enterprise)

11.      Professor Daniel Șandru PhD, director of TIMPUL review of contemporary culture, as President of the Jury.

Short history of the first edition of People of their Time Gala (2014)

The first edition of People of their Time Gala was an awards ceremony for the People of their Time following a campaign for the promotion of Iaşi personalities, as a reverence any community should make towards its most meritorious personalities.

The event took place on 13 December in the Main Hall of the “Vasile Alecsandri” National Theatre in Iași and opened with a debate regarding cultural journalism and social involvement.

The Gala in Iași also included a charitable concert of world-renown pianist Raluca Știrbăț for the raising of funds for the restoration George Enescu’s home in Mihăileni, Botoșani county. The organizers awarded 3 Special Prizes and 2 In Memoriam awards to personalities who particularly honoured Iaşi’s cultural tradition.

The “Timpul” Review Association and Adenium were partners in organizing the event, with the help of Iaşi County Council.