UPCOMING
2012
> Romanian-American Dream Awards Gala: Saturday, June 9, 6:00pm - 11:00pm at the University Club in St. Paul, MN. Details are on this page and Facebook.

> May 3-6, HORA will help with the Romanian Cultural booth at the Festival of Nations 2012.

OF THE PAST____________________________________________________________________
2012 
> The Cabuz family and HORA hosted a private gathering in honor of Roxana Constantinescu, the Romanian mezzosoprano who played Charlotte in Massenets' Werther at the Minnesota Opera, January 28 - February 5. Here is the flyer.

2011
> HORA honors the life of Liviu Ciulei, possibly the best ever Romanian theater director. Artistic director at the Guthrie 1980-1985, he died on 10/25/2011, in Munich, at 88. Obituaries from MPR and New York Times.

> On Saturday, October 15th, at the West St Paul Public Library, 3-5 pm, HORA has presented the program "Romanian Fall in Minnesota." (199 East Wentworth Ave, West St. Paul, MN 55118.)

> On April 4, Raluca Gheorghiu Boac, HORA member, took part in the St. Thomas University's Festival Orchestra Honors Concert. See her performance of Beethoven's Concerto No 1 on YouTube: First Movement Part 1 and First Movement Part 2. 

2010
> In October HORA presented "Dracula Fest 2010", a program featuring Izvorasul dance ensemble which performed on 10/6 at the Highland Park Library, and a booth + presentation by Raluca Octav at St. Paul Library Central on 10/10.

> 2010 main program was a piano recital by young Romanian musicians. Irina Nedelcu (Lawrence University ’10), Raluca Boac (Transylvania Music University), Codrut Barsan (MA, San Francisco Conservatory) and Ryan Thorn (Graduate Student at UCLA) interpreted works by George Enescu, Paul Constantinescu and original songs by Codrut Barsan. Click here for flyer.
The concert took place on May 22nd at Augsburg ’s College Hoversten Chapel in the Foss, Lobeck, Miles Center near Riverside and 22nd Aves.

> HORA has designed the Romanian cultural exhibit at the Festival of Nations 2010, that took place on May 1st in St. Paul. It has been visited by more than 700 people, many of them with a real interest in our "Dracula: facts + fiction" theme, and in general about the Romanian culture. www.festivalofnations.com

> HORA's 2010 spring lecture took place on Saturday, March 13th, at 4:00 pm in Coffman Memorial Union's Mississippi Room on University of Minnesota's East Bank campus - directions. Themes presented were "Romanian Spring Customs", by a HORA panel, and "Romanian Folk Dance in the Balkans" interactive demonstration presented by John Omorean, director of famous Izvorasul Romanian folk dance ensemble.

2009
> The inaugural talk of the HORA Lecture Series took place on December 4th, 2009 at 7:00 pm at the Elmer L. Andersen Library, on University of Minnesota's West Bank campus, at 222-21st Ave S, Minneapolis - directions. The two presentations featured were "Early Romanian Immigration to the Twin Cities"  by Vicki Albu, genealogist affiliated with the University of Minnesota and the Immigration Research Center and "Castles of Transylvania" by Raluca Octav, affiliated with The Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality, New York.