The Bucharest General Council (CGMB) approved the establishment of a new cultural center of the Bucharest City Hall. It is called Expo Arte and it is “open mainly to education in the areas of arts and culture.”

It is the third cultural center of the capital established in less than a year.

The center is meant to support creative activities for the development of the fine and visual arts and engage the public with the city’s history and art. It would also support the links between creative unions and associations and other such bodies in the country and from abroad.

The center could also take over the administration of spaces accommodating activities related to its mission. At the same time, it will organize various cultural events, projects and programs.

Until a space for it is found, the center is headquartered in the building of the City Hall. It will employ 11 people, with three taking up management positions.

“In the year of the Centennial, Bucharest plans to recover and manage more efficiently the exhibition spaces under its administration and to set up a dedicated public service, a center of high culture that offers lesser-known artists or even debutantes the chance to showcase their work to the public,” the motivation of the project of the center reads.

At the beginning of the year, CGMB approved the establishment of the Lumina Cultural Center, meant to “promote excellence in culture” and to monitor and analyze the Great Union Centennial projects developed by all public institutions in Bucharest. In September of 2017, CGMB approved the establishment of the Dinu Lipatti Arts House, a cultural institution organizing events and publishing various materials related to the life and work of Romanian composer and pianist Dinu Lipatti.

The Bucharest City Hall already has two subordinated cultural centers, organizing various fairs, exhibitions, concerts, and promoting cultural tourism. One of them is Arcub, established in 1996. The center organizes such events as the Spotlight light festival, the Bucharest Jazz Festival or the street theater festival B-FIT in the Street.

The second cultural institution of the City Hall is Creart, which is tasked with promoting cultural tourism, and local customs and traditions. It organizes the Bucharest Days event, the Bucharest Christmas Market, and the iMapp Bucharest video mapping competition, among others.

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