Sanda Weigl performs at Barbès a one evening only special concert featuring an all-star romanian Lautari band doing classic romanian Gypsy songs, including trumpet player Emil Bizga.

The human-resources manager at a bakery in Jerusalem must get to know one of his employees posthumously after her death in a suicide bombing. In this compelling and sensitive drama based on a book by A. B. Yehoshua, he finds himself the unlikely chaperone of the woman’s body to her native Romania. Along the way, he is by turns aided and undermined by members of her family, local politicians and emissaries, and a persistent tabloid reporter.

With the Romanian Cultural Institute support, the Performance Art Institute is pleased to present Badly Happy: Pain, Pleasure and Panic in Recent Romanian Art and As Far As I Can Tape which will introduce the Bay Area audience to the rich and complex art world of contemporary Romania. Both exhibits are curated by Erwin Kessler and feature works by Dumitru Gorzo, Nicolae Comanescu, Marius Bercea, Gili Mocanu, Anca Muresan, Suzana Dan, Anca Benera, Ecaterina Vrana, Ana Banica, Sorin Tara, Florin Ciulache, Roman Tolici, Alexandru Radvan, Alexandru Patatics, Alexandru Antik, Ilie Cristian Ionescu (aka Regele Ionescu), Dan Acostioaei, Michele Bressan, Claudiu Lucaci, Cristina David, Signe Lillemark-Chiper, Eliza Muresan, Lucian Alexe, and Gili Mocanu.

Trouble Worldwide and Barbès Records present an APAP showcase with Non Stop Bhangra, Very Be Careful, Razia, International Body Music, Sanda Weigl and a Surprise Special Guest. Singing songs she learned as a child with effortless flair (she has family ties to Bertolt Brecht and long career in German theater, after all), Sanda Weigl creates a fresh approach—right down to her all-Japanese band—to Romanian Gypsy gems thanks to her polished yet vulnerable voice.

Poetry performance in English by Chris Tanasescu, Romanian poet and academic, leader of the internationally awarded multimedia poetry performance project Margento, and finalist of the 1st European Poetry Slam, Berlin 2009. Guest performer: New-York poet, translator, and anthologist Martin Woodside.

Gypsy diva Sanda Weigl, internationally celebrated for her potent, contemporary interpretation of Romanian gypsy music descends upon the new relaunched DROM. Accompanied by a trio of Japanese musical magicians, Sanda and the Takeishis bring a New York edge to authentic gypsy melodies and deliver an inescapable fascination for the listener.

Mihai Nicodim Gallery is pleased to announce the second solo show in the US of artist Ciprian Muresan. The artist’s practice is not confined to a specific medium. He is commenting on art’s historical values through works in a multitude of media from drawing to photography to video. This exhibition is built around “Auto-da-fe”, the artist’s seminal work first presented in 2008 at Art Basel Statements, Switzerland and at Venice Biennale 2009.

Slag Gallery is pleased to present A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, an exhibition of new works by Romanian artist Mircea Suciu. In these present works, Suciu, as an incessant investigator, deliberately contemplates and insists upon certain aspects of the human condition; human existence unfolding under the sign of an inescapable finitude, and the resulting desesparation and absurdity of life, flow together and generate images meant to draw the attention inwards as well as to bring the esthetic to a pre determined poetic stage.

The Ukrainian Institute of America in New York City is proud to present during its upcoming 2010-2011 season a unique literary event devoted to three of the most outstanding figures of the twentieth century united by the common utopian goal of reshaping humanity – the founder of the vast totalitarian empire, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Vladimir Lenin, the father of Dadaism and grandfather of Surrealism, Tristan Tzara, and the poet-laureate of Marxism-Leninism, Vladimir Mayakovsky, whose life ended in a suicide brought on by the clash between his public persona and private self.

Denison University’s Beck Lecture Series will sponsor a program by poet, academic, critic and translator Chris Tanasescu. He will give a reading at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 16, in the Barney-Davis Hall Board Room (200 West Loop). The event is free and open to the public.