RoKultur invites you to a traditional masks workshop, but also to a history lesson with the ethnologist and museographer Sebastian Paic-Apan.
Winter holidays are approaching and one of the customs related to them is caroling where traditional masks are used. The carolers wish the prosperous hosts in the new year and chase away the evil spirits. They disguise themselves as characters resembling evil spirits or more grotesque than these in order to frighten them and keep them away from the house of the caroled one. The carolers make their masks by hand, using textiles, leather and animal fur, wool, beads, grains or buttons.
Saturday, 16 November From the hour 10.00 to 14.00 and from the hour 16.00 to 20.00, on Jean-François Boch Cultural Centre(276 Rue de Rollingergrund), we propose two workshops where you will learn the craft of creating traditional masks, learn their history, functions and how to use them in a traditional context, and at the end you will go home with your own mask. All the materials for making the mask will be made available to you, and Sebastian will guide you throughout the workshop.
The workshop aims at an incursion into the art and traditional functions behind craftsmanship in dialogue with contemporary perceptions and needs of identity.
The workshops will start at 10.00 and 16.00 and will last 4 hours. The price of a ticket for the members of the association is 45 euros, and the price for those who are not members of the association is EUR 65. We do not recommend the event to children under 12 years old, and the price of a ticket for a child is 45 euros accompanied by a paying adult.
Tickets can only be purchased on Weezevent, following this link.
Sebastian Paic-Apan is an ethnologist, a curator at the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania and a collector. He is a PhD student at Babeş Bolyai University, with a research of the traditional port in Transylvania, he is a founding member of the Association Dowry along with which it promotes traditional culture and has a collection of over 3000 pieces of port coming from over 65 ethnographic areas in Romania. Sebastian Paic-Apan is preoccupied with traditional costumes and textiles, cultural identity, folk magic, customs and traditions from the life cycle (birth, wedding, death) and from the annual cycle (the Oltenian gag, caroling), literary, choreological and musical folklore, peasant crafts (painting, glass icon, wood art and technique, opincărit, mask making, sewing, weaving and others).
Sebastian Paic-Apan has been known to the Romanian-speaking public in Luxembourg since March 2018 when he held several painting workshops. Easter eggs.
The hall where the workshops will take place was provided to us by AVRIS asbl Association, whom we thank for their support.
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