Avdhela Project
The Avdhela Project (
History
Foundation and objectives
The Avdhela Project was launched on 24 November 2009 at the Peasant Club of the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest, Romania. The ceremony began at 18:00 EET and was attended by figures such as the Aromanian essayist and poet George Vrana, the anthropologist and director Ionuț Piturescu and the director Aleksander Zikov. The films Balkan's Digest by Piturescu and Calea Eschibaba ("Eschibaba Road") by Zikov were screened there.[1]
The Avdhela Project is an independent
The Avdhela Project has a Facebook page of its own; in 2010, it was the second page dedicated to the Aromanians with the most members in Romania, having 1,200 members and being only behind Limba armânească ("Aromanian language"), with 1,579 members.[4] The Facebook page includes discussions and posts on both Aromanian and Romanian in equal proportion, with announcements by the page being bilingual. It has a section with the description of the group and its principles, rules and values in six languages in the following order: Aromanian, Romanian, Greek, English, French and German.[5]
Activities
In 2012, the Avdhela Project supported a financing campaign for Iho, a documentary about four Aromanian octogenarians (Nicolae Zogu, Vasile Giogi, Dumitru Zogu and Mihai Gherase) from
The Avdhela Project is also noted for various public events. On 15 January 2012, on the Romanian National Culture Day, it organized a session of debates and readings on the relationship between the famous Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu and the Aromanian people. To honor the poet, the project published several books and studies related to him. The event was attended by Aromanian figures such as the journalist Aurica Piha, the historian and philologist Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca and Vrana.[2] On 23 March 2019, the Avdhela Project commemorated the memory of four Aromanians, including the priest Haralambie Balamaci , who were killed in 1914 in Korçë (Curceaua, Curceauã, Curceau or Curciau) by ethnic Greek troops for supporting Aromanian identity in the region. The Avdhela Project claimed that a total of 1,000 Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Romanian priests, professors and teachers and also simple students were murdered for similar reasons.[9] On 7 May of the same year, the Avdhela Project helped organize a conference at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Bucharest on religious aspects of the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians. This was done in collaboration with the Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society.[10]
The Avdhela Project's library includes a large number of books digitized page by page from Aromanian authors such as Caragiu Marioțeanu, Tache Papahagi or Ionel Zeana , as well as from Vrana himself.[11] Also included are poems by Aromanian poets such as Nuși Tulliu; the Avdhela Project has also written an analysis on Tulliu's importance for Aromanian literature. Another original work of the project is Exiyisiri la Tatălu a nostru ("Interpretation to Our Father"), one of the few works covering the Christian identity and spirituality of the Aromanians.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b Baiaș, Ionuț (22 November 2009). "Avdhela – Biblioteca Culturii Aromâne". HotNews (in Romanian).
- ^ a b c Vlahbei, Georgiana (10 January 2012). "Iho pisti eti / Ecou peste vremuri- Eminescu și lumea aromânească" (in Romanian). Projekat Rastko.
- ^ "Haide, bre!". Anacronic (in Romanian). 7 November 2017.
- ^ Nicoleta, Ciacu (2010). "The role of Internet in reconfiguring and strenghtening of the Aromanian community". Annals of "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galați (in Romanian). 20 (5): 100–116.
- ^ Apetroaie, Vladiana (2013). Ethnicity online: The negotiation of sociocultural identity in the online environment among Aromanian youth. A Romanian perspective (MSc). KU Leuven.
- ^ "Echipa proiectului de film documentar "Iho" lansează o campanie de strângere de fonduri prin Indiegogo.com". Ziua de Constanța (in Romanian). 24 May 2012.
- ISBN 9781780356280.
- ^ a b "Arma noastră e cultura, spun aromânii!". Opinia Teleormanului (in Romanian). 23 May 2012.
- ^ Modiga, Iulia (25 March 2019). "Comemorarea martirilor din Balcani. 105 ani de la martirizarea părintelui Haralambie Balamaci". InfoPrut (in Romanian).
- ^ Dida, Alina Ioana (5 May 2019). "Marți: Conferință despre aromâni" (in Romanian). Rost.
- ^ Baiaș, Ionuț (25 February 2011). "Proiectul Avdhela: O pagină pe zi pentru cultura aromână". HotNews (in Romanian).
External links
- Official website of the Avdhela Project
- Avdhela Project on Facebook