In the space between the Masca theater buildings (yes, there are two of them, and they hide many fascinating nooks and crannies, with all sorts of props, reading spaces for actors and, above all, plants!), I found a vanilla orchid! A plant from south-eastern Mexico, it's the only orchid to produce edible fruit.
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"It's hot. It's hot! I feel the warm air in waves when someone walks by." A thought from the field notes on my first visit this summer to the Masca Theatre's set warehouse, together with students from the Recycling Workshop, held by architect-scenographer Gabi Albu, as part of the Helix project for Masca - cultural and community center.
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After two days of work in the Masca warehouse, the participants of the Recycling Workshop led by architect Gabi Albu exchanged their drills, hammers, and work gloves for pencils, sketchbooks, and SketchUp, a 3D design and drafting program. Days spent working on garden furniture design are spent in the theater library. The music coming from a Bluetooth speaker partially covers the clicks of trackpads; between songs, you can hear pencils clutching the textured paper of sketchbooks.
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"Masks", "flanks", "practicable", "butec", "hinge on a nail", "counter-venting", I have a lexicon in formation in my field notebook, gathered from the first day of the workshop. On the way to the warehouse, on the second day of the workshop, Ilinca, one of the participants of the Recycling Workshop, patiently answers my questions about the terms of her trade, especially those related to the main object used in the workshop - the practicable, also called "masked".
Read MoreIn the space between the Masca theater buildings (yes, there are two of them, and they hide many fascinating nooks and crannies, with all sorts of props, reading spaces for actors and, above all, plants!), I found a vanilla orchid! A plant from south-eastern Mexico, it's the only orchid to produce edible fruit.
Read More "It's hot. It's hot! I feel the warm air in waves when someone walks by." A thought from the field notes on my first visit this summer to the Masca Theatre's set warehouse, together with students from the Recycling Workshop, held by architect-scenographer Gabi Albu, as part of the Helix project for Masca - cultural and community center.
Read More After two days of work in the Masca warehouse, the participants of the Recycling Workshop led by architect Gabi Albu exchanged their drills, hammers, and work gloves for pencils, sketchbooks, and SketchUp, a 3D design and drafting program. Days spent working on garden furniture design are spent in the theater library. The music coming from a Bluetooth speaker partially covers the clicks of trackpads; between songs, you can hear pencils clutching the textured paper of sketchbooks.
Read More "Masks", "flanks", "practicable", "butec", "hinge on a nail", "counter-venting", I have a lexicon in formation in my field notebook, gathered from the first day of the workshop. On the way to the warehouse, on the second day of the workshop, Ilinca, one of the participants of the Recycling Workshop, patiently answers my questions about the terms of her trade, especially those related to the main object used in the workshop - the practicable, also called "masked".
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All the posts in this "Logbook" are testimonies of activities that are part of an initiative, frankly, a bit crazy! Crazy in the best sense - crazy like a kid who makes a spaceship out of an orange with scientists discovering new planets where beings live who daydream, cook from community gardens, and slow their pace to rejoice when they hear a woodpecker in the neighborhood or see a cat lazing lazily in the sun.
Read MoreOn Thursday, May 23, at 19.00, the eighth meeting of the series of performative debates moderated by Alex Tocilescu will take place at the Masca Theatre (14 Uverturii Blvd.). The theme is "Criticism and self-criticism: no one is good at what they do".
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Before the premiere of FARFURIA (THE SAUCER), we had a photo shoot at the screening.
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"What if we only had three hours to live? " The performance is an aestheticized reconstruction of a devised-theatre creative process, which involved revisiting the past or anticipating the personal future of each of the actor-performers. The performance is an attempt to answer the question "what gives value to a life?".
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