Weekend calendar: East European Comic Con, Bucharest International Half Marathon, Peasant Museum reopening, and more
Bucharest hosts another Open Streets weekend, a large pop culture convention, and one of the year’s top running events, while a festival of marching bands is on in Timişoara.
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Bucharest hosts another Open Streets weekend, a large pop culture convention, and one of the year’s top running events, while a festival of marching bands is on in Timişoara.
Update (April 25): As April 26 has been declared a national day of mourning for Pope Francis, the Open Streets program will be suspended this weekend, Arcub announced.
In Bucharest:
East European Comic Con
April 25 – April 27
The celebration of movies, series, gaming, the internet culture, boardgames, TCG, Asian culture, and more returns for its 13th edition at Romexpo. More details here.
Romanian Peasant Museum reopening
April 25
After lengthy consolidation works, started in 2016, and the time needed for refurbishment, the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant is reopening its doors. More here.
Bucharest Sculpture Days
April 26 – May 11
For its 5th edition, the event explores the human figure “as a space of tension between norm and identity, between history and future, between the physical and the augmented body.” The event takes place at Senat Gallery, The Institute Gallery and the courtyard of Combinatul Fondului Plastic. More details here.
Open Streets
Until October 12
The program that turns the city's main arteries into pedestrian areas returns with a program of live concerts, street performances, dance evenings, parades, children's workshops and creative activities, guided tours, and areas for exercise and sports. More here.
Art Safari
Until July 27
The current edition of the art event features exhibitions on Ioan Andreescu, Ion Țuculescu, forgotten Romanian painters, but also the new generation of artists. More details
