Mask Days. Images, Voices, Presences

The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography is organising Mask Days. Images, Voices, Presences from 20 to 22 November 2026, in partnership with the Faculty of Theatre and Film of Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) and the "Lucian Blaga" National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca. The programme includes an exhibition of traditional masks, conferences, workshops for children, families, seniors and teachers, traditional music and masked theatre performances. The event is part of an Erasmus+ project co-funded by the European Union, with guests from Greece and the Czech Republic (the Valašsko Region Museum in Vsetín).

On Friday 20 November at 17:00 there is the opening of the exhibition "IMAGO – Fețele nevăzutului/Faces of the Unseen" in the museum's Reduta Hall, followed at 17:30 by a lecture by Ștefana Pop-Curșeu. From 18:00 there is a staged reading of commedia dell'arte scenarios by Miriam Cuibus, directed by Dragoș Pop, at the "Octavian Goga" County Library, and at 19:00 the masked performance "Dona Juana" at the National Theatre. The exhibition remains open until 10 January 2027; in it, students of the Digital Interactive Arts master's programme present video mapping projections and interactive installations.

On Saturday 21 November there are workshops: folk masks with the craftsman Vasile Șușca (10:00), "Masks and Rituals from Greece" with Giorgos Kapsalis (12:00), creative writing "The Story Mask" (14:00) and "Tradition Today" for families and seniors (16:30). At 19:00 "Regele Cerb" is performed at the National Theatre. On Sunday 22 November there is the traditional mask workshop with Cristian Cadar (10:00), the theatre workshop for teachers "The Mirror Mask" (11:00), Czech traditional music (15:00) and the performance "Commedia dell'arte" (19:00) at the Faculty of Theatre and Film.

All events are open to the public; at the Faculty of Theatre and Film, admission is subject to available seats. Workshop bookings are made at forms.gle/CYqX46kEZroHZ34T8. Tickets for "Dona Juana" and "Regele Cerb" can be bought online through Entertix or from the theatre box office on Piața Ștefan cel Mare no. 14.