Gala Curaj: Agent Green’s invitation to the 3 June 2024 edition
Archived release published on 29 April 2024 for the event of 3 June 2024. The programme, admission arrangements and invitations below refer to that edition, not a future event.
The organiser’s release
Romania is gripped by despair, division, moral decline and an abrupt loss of values. We need an event that celebrates courage, modesty, integrity, kindness and the determination to transform the world around us into a better society: inclusive, free, resilient and ecological, both physically and morally.
How can we continue fighting for a healthy environment when society is convalescing?
Gala Curaj is an event promoting long-term courage, sustained for altruistic purposes despite obstacles, unjust laws and the harassment of our humanity, and encouraging the resilience of positive, constructive values. An event that aims to inspire anyone to choose the path of change needed for a healthy self, in a healthy society, in a healthy environment.
Press release, Bucharest, 29 April 2024
Agent Green invites the press and public to the Romanian Athenaeum on 3 June from 19:00 to celebrate together the courage to live free of masks and fears. The courage to express the unique gift each person has for the benefit of society as a whole. The celebration is called “Gala Curaj”, where 10 honorary awards will be presented to heroes in and out of the spotlight – 10 heroes who have learned to say NO when they must say NO, and to do what makes their hearts sing, warming other hearts with their gift. Ten heroes who come to nourish our hope that each of us matters in building a better world, the world we have dreamed of for so long.
The gala’s initiator is Gabriel Păun, founder of Agent Green. Amalia Enache will be mistress of ceremonies alongside Păun. Recipients are non-partisan individuals or groups who have consistently shown courage through their actions or work, efforts intended to contribute to a more tolerant, ethical, inclusive, empathetic and principled world. They inspire positive change locally and nationally. They have demonstrated enduring passion for their calling despite obstacles, sacrifices and effort, beyond official working hours and, above all, beyond remuneration. Recipients, to be announced in early May, come from art, education, culture, human rights, ethnic groups’ rights, journalism, health, justice, civic activism, environmental rights and animal rights.
The honorary awards consist of musical performances by the Violoncellissimo Ensemble and a work by artist Dan Perjovschi, both dedicated individually to each recipient.
Personalities announced for the laudatios
Each recipient will be honoured by distinct personalities sharing the same values, as follows:
- Director Cristian Mungiu will deliver the laudatio for the “Courage Award for ethnic groups’ rights”.
- Laudatio for the “Courage Award for the naked truth”.
- Maestro Gabriel Bebeșelea, laudatio for the “Courage Award for peace, cooperation and anti-fanaticism”.
- Judge Cristi Dănileț and Diana Maria Voicu, laudatio for the “Courage Award for civic spirit”.
- Dr Cătălin Tănase, corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and President of the Commission for the Protection of Natural Monuments, laudatio for the “Courage Award for nature (posthumous)”.
- Oniche Elena Isabela, laudatio for the “Courage Award for education”.
- Dr habil. Marcel Mîndrescu, laudatio for the “Courage Award for life-saving local weather forecasts”.
- Sociologist Victor Ciobotaru, laudatio for the “Courage Award for human rights”.
- His Highness Archduke Dominic de Habsburg, laudatio for the “Courage Award for animal rights”.
- Journalist Sânziana Pop, laudatio for the “Courage Award for the right to a healthy environment”.
Recipients will be announced in early May and will be available to meet the press in the Romanian Athenaeum’s foyer half an hour before the gala officially begins.
Admission and contacts in the release
Admission to “Gala Curaj” is free, exclusively with tickets issued by bilete.ro at https://www.bilete.ro/gala-curaj.
The gala is organised by Asociaţia Agent Green, an environmental protection organisation celebrating its 15th anniversary that year. Entities wishing to become partners or sponsors of the gala are invited to contact us at office@agentgreen.org.
We will assess and respond to all expressions of interest as soon as possible, based on integrity and sustainability criteria.
Press contact: office@agentgreen.ro
