Art Act Gala - a foundraising event, organized by Art Act

The Art Act Gala charity event will take place on December 16^th 2011, at Hotel Granata, starting at 7 pm.

The program will include:

• An art auction with works of over 35 Romanian and foreign artists, the raised funds will be donated to the Department of Oncopediatry at ”Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuţ㔠Oncology Institute.
• The Granata Awards’ ceremony that will reward exemplar contributions in art and culture.

The Gioia Quartet and the children’s choir of  "Sigismund Toduţă" Music High School will perform during this special evening.

The artworks from the auction belong to internationally renowned artists from Romania: Răzvan Anton, Dimitrios Antonitsis, Teodora Axente, Dragoş Bădiţă, Szabolcz Beleny, Betuker Istvan, Dan Beudean, Marius Bodea, Mihuţ Boşcu, Mihaela Buhaev, Mircea But, Sorin Câmpan, Nicolae Câmpan, Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Radu Comşa, Raluca Cozma, George Crîngaşu, Oana Fărcaş, Robert Fekete, Pavel Grosu, Maxim Liulca, Dan Măciucă, Alex Mirutziu, Eva Mitala, Liviu Mocan, Radu Moraru, Mirela Moscu, Alexandru Muraru, Ciprian Mureşan, Sorin Neamţu, Marta Palii,  Ioan Popdan, Eugen Roşca, Şerban Savu, Ioan Sbârciu, Radu Solovăstru, Bojana Stojanovic, Tamas Todor, Veres  Szabolcz.
The money that will result will be donated to Ion Chiricuță Oncology Institute from Cluj-Napoca.
Cancer is the second leading cause of infant mortality in Romania. Each ear, approximately 500 new cases are diagnosed.  There are 500 souls that, statistically speaking, have a chance of healing between 30% and 60 %. Their lives depend on our attitude. We can give them the chance to live, to have a normal and childhood, the chance to step, with confidence, on the road that each “big person” has to walk! We mustn’t forget that the cancer diagnose for children involves a series of high costs, costs for which subsidies are missing. A major part of the medicines that could cure cancer aren’t available on the Romanian pharmaceutical market.

The needs of children suffering from cancer are numerous- not only money for diagnosis and treatment, but also the need of affection, play therapy programs and the resources for food and daily hygiene products.

Organizer: Art Act Company

Official Partner: GRANATA HOTEL

Collaborators:  University of Arts and Design Cluj-Napoca, Museum of Arts Muzeul Cluj - Napoca, FC.CFR 1907, Paintbrush Factory, Sabot Gallery, atelier, akox, Magnolia

Sponsors: Banca Transilvania, BCR, Vodafone.

Media partners: TVR, Radio România Cultural, Radio România Actualităţi, Radio Cluj, Art Act Magazine, 24 FUN, Şapte Seri, Mesagerul de Cluj, Servus Cluj, Liternet, Modernism, Realitatea TV Cluj, Ziua de Cluj,  Făclia, Ştiri de Cluj, Evenimente în Cluj, Iullius Mall.

Art Act Company was founded in 2003. Untill now, the company has organized a series of cultural events locally, nationally and internationally renowned. Art Act has always offered an ideal context of inspiration and creation for visual artists. Among the most important events from the visual art field, organized by Art Act are:

• The Cutting Edge - international art exhibition, hosted at The National Museum of Fine Arts from Cluj (opening: the 6th of October) and at Hydra School Projects ( opening: 22nd of October 2011). The paintings, sculptures and installations are the result of  the work of 17 important artists that participated at The Cutting Edge International Art Camp- organized by Art Act (22nd- 31st of August 2011)
• I Fought the X and the X Won – International art exhibition that had 2 openings: at the National Museum of Fine Arts from Cluj (16^th of April) and at at the National Museum of Fine Arts from Valletta, Malta (15^th of July 2011)
• Herbs for cure – signed by Mariana Gheorghiu Bădeni, the event took place at the Romanian Peasant Museum (opening: the 7^th of July 2011)
• Time – Lapse of Time, signed by Mariana Gheorghiu Bădeni. The event took place at the Romanian Embassy from Stockholm. (opening– 30th of november 2010)
• Street of Happyness 1 – Ioan  Sbârciu and Radu Solovăstru. The exhibition was hosted by  Nakagawa Gallery from Tokyo. (opening – the 4^th of november 2010)
• Spiritul Budo. Istoria Artelor Marțiale Japoneze – The exhibition was also organized or by the Art Museum Cluj-Napoca, Romania Embassy of Japan, Japan Foundation.  At the event  His Excellence Mr. Natsuo Amemiya, Japan's ambassador from Romania was present.
• Tarohei Nakagawa and Ioan Sbârciu – peinture exhibition hosted by the National Museum of Fine Arts from Cluj (opening: the 19^th of October 2009).

Art Act has invited for the first time a Japanese theater company, în July 2008, when Art Act supported the acting of the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The play took place at The National Theater from Cluj. Since then, Art Act has organized 28 Japanese plays. The most important are:

• Yamanote Jijosha Theater Company tour in Romania with Keisei Hangonko (June 2011, at Turda Municipal Theater and Odeon Theater from Bucarest)
• Prince Oguri and Princess Terute – theater performance,that took place on the 23^rd of November 2009, at The Hugarian Theater from Cluj.
• Senpo Sugiahara – theater play hosted by the Jewish Theater from Bucarest,  National Theater from Timisoara and Classic Theater from Arad ( November 2011).

In 2009, Art Act  organized the play When we dead, awaken (a dramatic epilogue in three acts), that had the first live transmission from the National Theater of Cluj,event related to the book release When we dead, awaken, by Henrik Ibsen- hosted by the Embassy of Norway from Romania.

From 2003, Art Act has organized, produced/coproduced 154 plays, has received 19 nominations at the  UNITER Prizes, has won 17 awards at  UNITER, for 12 shows, awards given to Art Act collaborators.

Art Act has organized 15 opera plays, starting with 2006. Art Act was coorganizer at this years   Liszt 200 International Festival, at took place between the 6th and the 27th October, at the hungarian Opera from Cluj. In 2010, Art Act coorganized Interferences Theater Festival ( Hungarian Theater from Cluj).

Art Act was also involved in the promotion and event planning of Lucian Ban’s jazz concerts.

In 2009, Art Act has released a media product - Art Act Magazine.
Art Act Magazine   is a unique on-line cultural wesite that gives the public original reviews (theater, film, book, music, dance-performance), exclusive essays and interviews, written by the most notorious authors: Mihaela Michailov, Cristina Modreanu, Cristina Rusiecki, Gabi Lupu, Miruna Runcan, Pompilius Onofrei, Igor Mocanu, Radu Toderici, Felix Crainicu, Igor Mocanu, Oltea Șerban-Pârâu and others.

Art Act Magazine won the prize for the best cultural website, at Radio Romania Cultural Gala, in 2011.

Art Act Magazine is the first, and, untill now, the only cultural website from Romania that has an English version and that can be read by people who suffer from blindness, dyslexia and visually impaired. Art Act Magazine’s purpose is to guide the young generation that wants to start a career in cultural journlalism, using a special on-line platform – Art Act New, under the slogan New voices in journalism.

Art Act Magazine has launched numerous cultural campaigns. The most important are aimed to promote reading and theater performances amoung young audiences (through various contests), along with the training of young journalists for the cultural field, offering them professional guidance.