"FUTURE FOLK" debut - an initiative to bring current values ​​and symbols of traditional costume

“Our heritage: Where the past meets the future” – Slogan of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 - It can be found how it could not be better in the title of a new project of the Alumnus Club UNESCO Association in Bucharest, project Future Folk. It is an initiative that aims to contribute to the revitalization and promotion of the immaterial cultural heritage of the southern area of ​​Romania, to highlight by contemporary design an essential piece of it - the traditional costume. Not only suit Romanian, so rich in shapes and meanings, but also traditional costumes specific to national minorities, can lesser known, but as beautiful and loaded with ancient symbols.

How can you receive young people of these values ​​today, that may seem out of everyday use, How can we keep this inheritance for future generations? Here are two questions that the associations and institutions involved in the project try to answer Future Folk, project that was approved and is to be supported by a non-reimbursable financing granted by the administration of the National Cultural Fund (AFCN).

Partners gathered on the day of 22 February. c. At the new museum space in the Spring Palace - the permanent exhibition "Casa Ceausescu" - where they had the opportunity to carry a first dialogue. Between the participants they were: Deputy Dragoş - Gabriel Zisopol, the chamber of the Chamber of Deputies, President of the Greek Union of Romania; Bela Dan Krizbai, Vice -President of the Romanian Cultural Institute; Silviu Feodor, President of the Lipovan Russian community in Romania; Alina Gabriela Andrei, Deputy Director of the Youth Center of Bucharest Municipality; Georgiana Onoiu, Head of Treasury Section Cultural Heritage at the National Museum of Village Dimitrie Gusti; Roxana Amzăr Gheorghe, Producer on Romanian television, Section of other minorities; Tamara drought, Head of Marketing and Promoting shows at the theater Odeon; Susana Pletea, Editorial Director at the press group Burda Romania.

The meeting was opened with a welcome greeting by Adina Renţea, Director of the Parmanent exhibition "Casa Ceausescu", After that Daniela Popescu, the president of the association Alumnus Club UNESCO, presented the activities and the project calendar Future Folk, Expected mode, based on competence, talent and collegiality. It has been emphasized that near 90% From the project budget is covered by the grant won from AFCN, an institution that actively supports cultural initiatives of value. Mrs. Popescu also stressed that the project is dedicated to the Centenary of the Union, showing that the national minorities were and are an integral part of the Romanian society. Future Folk It is also a Romanian contribution to The European Year of Cultural Heritage - 2018, as well as at UNESCO initiatives, well -known and appreciated worldwide, of saving and enhancing cultural heritage in all states.

Very pleasant was the meeting of partners with Carmen Emanuela Popa, PhD in design at the University of Arts in Bucharest, the author of the original cultural product proposed by Future Folk - An avant -garde collection of clothing design inspired by traditional costumes, collection will be launched at Parliament House in June, And then it will take the form of an itinerant exhibition at the Village Museum in Bucharest, Ploiesti and Tulcea. Attentive to the symbolism and philosophy behind each object, each motif inspiration, Carmen Emanuela Popa wants to launch through her creations an invitation to communication and understanding between people.

Through their comments and proposals, Those present brought new elements to this initiative, starting on the road with all the chances of being a success. Exhibition - Performance Future Folk, itself the result of an intercultural exercise, It is desired to be a living proof that diversity is an inexhaustible resource of innovation and creativity in a society in which there is understanding and respect for the values ​​of each.

Imagination exercise "Future Folk"

Colecția FUTURE FOLK, signed by designer Carmen Emanuela Popa, It is a stylistic osmosis between the specific clothing of the Romanian folk identity and the national minorities in Romania, on the one hand, and the garment contemporary, on the other hand. Future Folk is particularized as a distinct entity, with a strong visual impact, by reducing chromatic, stylization and reduction or augmentation forms, the junction elements as antithetical: floral, geometric etc., to be only suggested, resorting to painting and dyeing techniques, print, collage.

Collection will highlight graphics found in traditional costumes along with structures inspired stylized plant, converging in different cases abstraction forms. Color accents are strong, the plenary red tones arnica and burgundy shades of lime, to deep black, all based on the original white.

Materials textures are of full cloths in combination with organza, lace and unconventional materials. Also, a number of applications, samples taken from original costumes, will make the subject of textile collages, to give an extra identity to the new object created. Graphic interventions of type paint brush will be made with a number of textile dyes, in shades of red, alb, silver, on surfaces treated by painting, transparent or directly on the basic materiality support of the dress object.

A series of accessories will be created from textile materials of cotton canvas, silk but also unconventional fabrics, with appearance old steel, For a compositional context dynamization, they have, in most cases, and the role of migration of an element of specific character from one culture to another.

The concept of the collection will be transposed into a visual contemporary dance plea. The images of the new creations will be included in the presentation catalog, Next to the original sketches of the Future Folk collection, Signed Carmen Emanuela Popa.