Reality & Beyond

18/07/2023

By the expert hand of Lorand Kiss, this 'Last Judgement’ fresco is coming to light after over one hundred years.

A large fresco on the north wall of the chancel of the fortified church of Richis has been known about for some time. It was covered at the end of the 19th century so as not to prove a distraction. The group of Saxon ladies responsible declared this with a bold, dated inscription. This proclamation remains I am delighted to say, as part of the history of this remarkable fresco.

Funded by the Mihai Eminescu Trust and the Horizon Foundation and supported by Pro Richis It is hoped that the resoration will be complete. Come and see it in this lovely church in the enchanting village of Richis the heart of the Transylvanian Book Festival 12th to 15th September 2024. Come and see the fresco!

More to follow at the beginning of August when I shall be in Richis!

30/05/2023

Queen Marie's Gardens - Only A Few Spaces Left -

30/03/2023

Queen Marie's Gardens - 18 to 24 September 2023 -

08/07/2022

Suntem încântați să vă anunțăm că a 4-a ediție a Festivalului de Carte Transilvănean continuă să aibă loc în acest an și vom fi foarte bucuroși să vă avem ca oaspeți. Mulțumită unui sponsor generos care a dorit să rămână anonim, suntem în măsură să putem oferi un tarif special pentru persoanele din România. Costul pe zi este de 240 lei care include toate dezbaterile, discuțiile, prânzul si vizitele. Dacă doriți să participați la cinele noastre speciale cu master chef, va fi un cost adițional de 50 euro / persoană. Cazarea și transportul către și de la festival nu sunt incluse, dar pot fi organizate direct de Laura Vesa care se ocupă de toate rezervările pentru festival pe [email protected].

07/07/2022

Suntem încântați să vă anunțăm că a 4-a ediție a Festivalului de Carte Transilvănean continuă să aibă loc în acest an și vom fi foarte bucuroși să vă avem ca oaspeți. Mulțumită unui sponsor generos care a dorit să rămână anonim, suntem în măsură să putem oferi un tarif special pentru persoanele din România. Costul pe zi este de 240 lei care include toate dezbaterile, discuțiile, prânzul si vizitele. Dacă doriți să participați la cinele noastre speciale cu master chef, va fi un cost adițional de 50 euro / persoană. Cazarea și transportul către și de la festival nu sunt incluse, dar pot fi organizate direct de Laura Vesa care se ocupă de toate rezervările pentru festival.

06/07/2022

11/09/2021

A visit to the Transylvanian Saxon church in Medias is always a highlight of the Transylvanian Book Festival. Here is Levent Boz speaking about the astonishing historic collection of Anatolian carpets in St Margaret's Church.

10/09/2021

Transylvanian Book Festival - a time of great conversation, amusement and friendship. Lucy Abel Smith in conversation with Tamas Barcsay at the 2018 festival. We are very much looking forward to Tamas's talk on Samuel Brukenthal which he has kindly promised to deliver for us online.

09/09/2021

Feeling nostalgic... Today would have been the first day of our Transylvanian Book Festival in Richis. As we can't meet in person again this year, here is a happy memory from our first ever Transylvanian Book Festival in 2013 sent to us by Timmerman who has helped to organise so many delicious lunches like this one. Do you have any TBF memories you would like to share with us?

21/07/2020

Discover Europe with Ports of Call - https://mailchi.mp/0282ab3df58d/deposit-free-ports-of-call-3222858

How many different empires or countries can you fit in to make up for lost time this year? Our Ports of Call tour touches those of the Romans, Austro-Hungarians, Venetians and Tito’s Yugoslavia in our journey from Italy’s Trieste, into Slovenia and then Croatia. It is a region both fascinating...

02/06/2020

In Memoriam W***y Schuster 1966-2020

Kind-hearted W***y, passionate champion of small-scale farming and organic food, great friend of the Transylvanian Book Festival and supporter of his community and warm and welcoming host at his home in Mosna

04/05/2020

Thinking about Patrick Leigh Fermor's travels through Romania in the 1930s, I was reminded of this photograph, taken in the late 1930s in Transylvania. Longing for such a sunhat for future travels in Romania!

03/05/2020

Interview with Patrick Leigh Fermor (always a topic of interest at !) from 1992 about his journey across Europe, including Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, as an 18 year old in 1933

Author Patrick Leigh Fermor on walking through Europe in the 1930s.

01/05/2020

Happy May Day!

29/04/2020

This journey was made at the beginning of April. I wonder how such a journey might be now, at the end of the month?

A photojournalist travels across the country in a motorhome to document how curfews and quarantines have changed it.

29/04/2020

A useful round-up of some fab films from Eastern Europe and where you can watch them

Streaming tips for anyone wanting to watch great films from Eastern Europe online.

28/04/2020

Feeling wistful about not being in Romania right now, so good to reminisce about our travels through the country this time last year, starting in Bucharest. Before we all met up, I had a meeting near the National Theatre and walked past this splendid building of 1932-34 which once housed the Bucharest Municipal Officers Society. It's on Strada Batistei 14

12/12/2019

28/11/2019

A recce to Serbia. Find out what we discovered...

https://realityandbeyond.co.uk/serbian-safari/

11th to 20th October, 2019 Our journey through Serbia had three aims: perhaps four. Monastries, Roman sites and British war time experiences with Tito. The fourth was to see if Serbia would interest the friends of Reality & Beyond. It was successful on all fronts. Gold from Nove Pazar Belgrade on th...

02/04/2019

Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s millions of monthly readers. Title: Hideaway Report February 2019, Author: Andrew Harper, Name: Hideaway R...

05/03/2019

Discover Romania with Reality & Beyond - https://mailchi.mp/2c0c1c9fd3c5/news-from-reality-beyond-2985025

26/01/2019

Romania... unimaginably different - https://mailchi.mp/7373a82128c6/news-from-reality-beyond-2974813

24/01/2019

Romania... unimaginably different - https://mailchi.mp/edd0a798eecd/news-from-reality-beyond-2972345

14/12/2018

Romania... unimaginably different -

09/08/2018

Two wonderful concerts in Transylvania - please share, as we'd love them filled to capacity for these young artists.

Concert Noua Generatie
la Casa Schuller, Mediaș - intrare gratuit
Vineri 14 Septembrie, la ora 14.00
sau
Sala Oglinzilor, Forumul German, Sibiu
Luni 17 Septembrie, la ora 18.00 – intrare prin donare

Frederic Bager (pian) este singurul pianist care a câștigat premiul Beethoven atât la Royal Academy, cât și la Royal College of Music. În luna septembrie va începe o bursă care îi va oferi șansa să își dezvolte cariera.
George Cooke (violoncel) a fost prezentat ca și compozitor și interpret pentru BBC Radio3, BBC Radio4, și Belgian Radio1, și studiază cu Alexander Chaushian.
Jaymee Coonjobeeharry (flaut) a debutat recent la London Philharmonic Orchestra și cântă la piculină în BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Videoclipul său, Flight of the Bumblebee difuzat la Classic FM a depășit 135.000 de vizualizări!

George a venit ca și voluntar în 2016. I-a plăcut țara foarte mult. El a fost cel care a propus această serie de concerte, și a compus o piesă despre Transilvania care va fi prezentată în premieră la Mediaș.

26/02/2018

The Transylvanian Book Festival 2018

04/01/2018

Transylvanian Book Festival 3rd edition

The Transylvanian Book Festival is the brainchild of Lucy Abel Smith, and the inaugural festival was held in 2013. Aimed at an English-speaking audience, the festival sets out, not to collect talking heads in this extraordinarily beautiful region of Europe but, to present a programme informed by Tr...

04/01/2018

The Transylvanian Book Festival is back

The Transylvanian Book Festival is the brainchild of Lucy Abel Smith, and the inaugural festival was held in 2013. Aimed at an English-speaking audience, the festival sets out, not to collect talking heads in this extraordinarily beautiful region of Europe but, to present a programme informed by Tr...

05/10/2017

We're doing it again!