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Grand Hotel Napoca
1 Octavian Goga, Cluj-Napoca
Europa Hall
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, 400400
Romania

Adela Mureșan

Adela Mureșan is a Letters graduate that has found her voice trough spoken word poetry.

Alla '

Paula Moldovan, cunoscuta drept Alla, a fost atrasa de arta inca de dinainte sa inceapa scoala, pe parcurs a facut mai multe genuri de dans, iar acum incearca sa se folosesca de ele pentru a-si construi propriul stil. De la dansul contemporan a trecut la dansul experimental, care este un hibrid intre sentimente si miscare. A terminat liceul de coregrafie din Cluj, iar acum este profesoara de dans la liceul de arte „Tudor Jarda”. A castigat toate concursurile si olimpiadele de dans din Romania si a participat la emisiunea Romanii au talent, unde a luat Golden Buzzer si locul 3. Pe langa dans, deseneaza, canta si creeaza obiecte handmade.

Camelia Cavadia

Camelia Cavadia is a woman of words and a lover of stories: she likes to listen to them and she likes to gather them in books. It has been said about her novels that they are the novels of reality. And if you ask her what inspires her to write, she will answer: life itself. It has also been said that her novels are harsh, sad, crossed by a red thread of sensitivity and empathy. It can reach your soul because they seem to come from life and her characters have made many readers recognize themselves in them and why not, to accept themselves, with good and bad. She has written three novels: Vina, Măștile fricii, Purgatoriul îngerilor, published by Editura Trei.

Carmen Ion

Carmen Ion has been teaching Romanian language and literature at a high school in Focsani for many years and has never forgotten what being a teacher actually means. One day she came up with a clever new way to make her students read: making trailers for the books they read. And it worked, her project was very well received by the students in her class, then by the students in her school, and now by students from both Romania and the neighboring Republic of Moldova. The project has grown by the year and became a big educational event named Boovie Festival - a competition of book trailers made by students. About 100 students attended the first edition, and their number is ten times bigger this year – more than 1,000 students (100 teams) from 25 counties and two countries, Romania and Moldova.

Elizabeth Sagan

Elizabeth Sagan is a reader first, a writer second, and a photographer third. Her artwork is born from her love for books – may we read them, may we write them, may we share them – and it showcases the power of imagination while being an homage to the texts that spark it. Her aim is to instill the love for stories in others, as she relies on the need for storytelling that exists in everyone.

Emilia Șercan

Emilia Șercan is an investigative journalist and lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Bucharest. She started working in the local press in 1996, and since 2000 she has been active in the central press. She worked for „Curierul Național” and at the „Evenimentul zilei” and in the press group ”Realitatea - Cațavencu” she headed an investigation department. She is currently part of the independent PressOne newsroom. In 2016, she received the „Ion Rațiu” award for Journalism and the Active Watch „Erou pe frontul interesului public” award for the series of investigations on the plagiarized doctoral thesis of the Deputy Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea and his coordination of six other plagiarized doctoral thesis. She developed a doctoral thesis on the subject of censorship, published in the Polirom publishing house entitled „Cultul secretului. Mecanismele cenzurii în presa comunistă”. For many years she has been the president of the „Superscrieri” jury and in 2019 she published the book „Fabrica de doctorate sau Cum se surpă fundamentele unei nații”.

Mihaela Bilic

Absolventa a Facultatii de Medicina din Bucuresti, Dr. Mihaela Bilic este medicul nutritionist care vrea sa aduca din nou bucuria si placerea pe mesele romanilor. Autoare a unor carti de succes, vandute in mii de exemplare („Silueta dincolo de mituri”, „Traiesc deci ma abtin”, „Sanatatea are gust”, „ABC de nutritie” sau „Am mâncat, o fi păcat?”) si promotor al multor campanii de educatie nutritionala, Mihaela Bilic si-a propus sa redea oamenilor increderea in mancare, sa le arate ca sanatatea are gust! Prin intermediul numeroaselor emisiuni tv la care a fost invitata, dar si in cadrul onferintelor si seminariilor pentru publicul larg, sfaturile si recomandarile ei au ajuns in multe case si au ajutat multi romani. De pe pozitia de medic primar diabet si boli de nutritie la care s-a adaugat un masterat de psihonutritie la Paris, Dr. Mihaela Bilic ne indeamna sa facem din mancare un prieten, iar din alimentatia sanatoasa si echilibrata un stil de viata!

Patricia Labou

Patricia Labou is a singer, guitar player and songwriter with a journalism and media production educational background and a professional experience in human resources, accounting and communication.