Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Festivals & Events
LIVE MUSIC
Sibiu Jazz Festival
(
www.sibiujazz.ro
;
May)
In 2005 Sibiu resurrected its weeklong jazz festival, which
died, along with its first founder, in the early 1990s.
Mayfest
( 1 May)
Sibiu's remaining 5500 German-speaking Saxons flock to Dumbrava Forest
for pagan frolicking and beer bingeing.
LIVE MUSIC
THEATRE
International Theatre Festival
(
www.sibfest.ro
; May/Jun)
This festival is the most prominent annual performing arts
event in Romania and draws as many as 60,000 people per day at 60 venues, with 70
countries involved.
Transylvania Tattoo Expo
(
www.tattooexpo.ro
; early Jun)
Got a taste for the weird and wonderful? Then this
communion of Romania's greatest flesh artists is the festival for you.
FESTIVAL
Transylvania International Film Festival
(TIFF;
www.tiff.ro
; Jul)
Taking place across the city over a week, and hosting 50 in-
ternational films in competition, this is the most important film festival in Romania.
CINEMA
International Country & Folk Music Festival
( Jul)
This lively festival features a vivid range of country and folk music from across
Romania.
LIVE MUSIC
National Festival of Folk Traditions
( early Aug)
Displays of craft traditions at the Museum of Traditional Folk Civilisation,
which holds many summer events.
FESTIVAL
Artmania Rock Festival
(
www.artmania.ro
;
Aug)
Concerts, exhibitions, workshops, musical acts and events
dedicated to the fine arts in this festival.
LIVE MUSIC
