HELIX for Masca Theatre. Mini festival for the neighborhood

Behind the mask we are all the same. Vacations meant getting outside for all of us, in grandma’s garden was the title of a million compositions, most barbecues were about gardens, about outside. However much we may dislike the words ecology, climate responsibility, recycling, they are just another declaration of love for a bigger garden, a garden we all share. Today we cannot take care of the whole garden of Bucharest, but tomorrow we can take care of the Masca Theater garden, your garden.

We’re opening our garden to all our neighbors and spectators for 3 days, September 20-22.

After spending the whole vacation in the garden, we want to show you the final results and enjoy our garden together. We have prepared three days full of community activities, responsibility for nature and art.

Admission costs a plant brought from home (or soil, planters, seedlings), which you can continue to enjoy when you visit. Which you can even care for from the theater.

P.S. If you come, it helps us a lot if you fill in the form so we can properly prepare for each activity.

DAY 1 – SEPTEMBER 20

19:00-20:10 – Plate – theater performance (Masca Amphitheater)

A political farce in which those from below and those from above and those from here and there meet in comical, dangerous and demented ways / directed by Dragoș Alexandru Mușoiu


20:15 – 20:30 – Official opening – real and imaginary tour through the Masque garden (Masque Amphitheater)

We open the garden as an exercise of imagination and tell the story of what Helix was, is and can be. We launch “Your Mask” and “Letters to the Neighbor in the Future” a warm-up for a closer community and continue with a warm-up for the first silent disco held in a theater.

20:30 – 22:30 – Silent Disco by DJ Ștefana Micu – party at the theater
(Masca Amphitheater and Garden)

Ștefana Micu put music in Apollo 111, Expirat, curated the Circuit events and will be in charge of the musical adventure of the first night of the mini-festival. Attention, we have a limited number of wireless headphones. Hurry!

(free plant-based entry; we have a limited number of wireless headsets)

20:30 – 22:30 – Sky without Mask – an event of star-gazing
(Masca Roof and Masca Garden)

We perch on the roof and in the courtyard of the theater, put a blanket over us and listen to the stories of good friends from Astromania about the stars. Then peek through the telescope.

DAY 2 – SEPTEMBER 21

(ENTRY TO EVENTS IS BASED ON THE DONATION OF A PLANT, SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY, EXCEPT FOR EVENTS MARKED WITH *)

18:00-20:00 – Last Days of Summer – Community & artistic activities
(Masca Amphitheater and Garden)

We put all the donated pots and flowers together and bring them closer to us. We write verses on the pots (from poems or songs), paint them with the theater actors and adopt them. In parallel, we are also planting with our friend, landscape gardener Bogdan Mihalache, and organizing the plants in the greenhouse.

18:00-20:15 – Quartet Concert – classical music for plants and neighbors
(Masca Amphitheater)

While painting, writing and arranging in the yard, we test the scientifically proven effects of classical music on plants.

At 20:15 – Unveiling of the mural by LUX
(Masca Amphitheater)

Artist LUX, together with the participants of the mural workshop, created a permanent image on the Masca Theater. A work part of our imagination, projections and promises to the future. We unveil together and watch the butterflies.

20:30 – *Mammalia – movie screening +16 in CineMasca
(Masca Amphitheater)

Synopsis: Camil, a 39-year-old man, embarks on a dreamlike journey in which the banal and the surreal intertwine. In his struggle to come to terms with the fact that he is losing control – over his work, his social status, his relationship – he embarks on a quest that makes him question the very foundations of his identity as a man.
*Please note: Access to the event is subject to the purchase of a here.

20:30-21:30 – Theater Workshop – Here one dreams of change
(Masca Theater Main Hall)

Andreea Lucaci, director and theater trainer, holds a workshop for all ages.

DAY 3 – SEPTEMBER 22

(ON THE 22ND ENTRY IS BY RESERVATION ONLY, NOT BY PLANTS)

16:00 – 19:00 – Community & artistic activities
(Masca Amphitheater and Garden)
We put together the last pots and donated flowers and bring them closer to us. We write the last verses on the pots (from poems or songs), paint them with the theater actors and adopt them. In parallel, we are also planting with our friend, the landscaper Bogdan Mihalache, and organizing the plants in the greenhouse. In the sea, we think about how quickly the summer has passed and think about what we did during the summer vacation.

16:30 – 19:00 – Dog Adoption – Before the show we talk a little about the importance of non-human neighbors with the folks from Adorra Shelter.

Please note, during community activities, there may be puppies of various sizes roaming the Theater courtyard.

18:00 – 19:00 – Community performance. Masca Theater’s teenage troupe
(Main Hall of Masca Theater)

19:30- 20:30 – Community performance. Masca Theater’s Senior Troupe
(Masca Theater Main Hall)

20:30 – 22:00 – End of Helix – real and imaginary tour through what Helix was and can be
(Masca Amphitheater or Masca Theater Great Hall)

We reminisce about our last days together and imagine what it would be like to be like this forever. We plan how to do more together and watch a short making-of movie of the Helix project. At the end we listen to a letter written by one of you to your future neighbor.