The Story of a House. Storytelling Workshop for Children
This autumn, UrbanEye Film Festival returns to Bucharest from 3 to 8 November with an edition dedicated to housing, a theme that affects us all in different ways.
Alongside film screenings and related events exploring housing, the festival’s 13th edition also includes a series of activities for children, through which they will use different tools to explore the relationship between people and their homes: what it means to inhabit a space and what it would be like to be an inhabited space yourself.
The Story of a House. Storytelling Workshop for Children, the first event in this series, takes place a little ahead of the festival, on 10 and 11 October.
Over two days, the children will work together to invent the story of Casa Ion Mincu, where the great architect lived and worked until 1912. It will be a story filled with events and mysteries, in which the house can become a character, a witness or even a hero.
What does a house that has witnessed so many changes over more than 160 years dream about at night? Who does it talk to, what makes it happy and what is it afraid of? What secrets does it hide, and what would it like to happen next?
Actors Claudiu Maier and Carmen Lopăzan will guide the children through improvisation games and imagination exercises in a workshop where there are no wrong answers, only ideas that connect until they become a story.
A lunch break is scheduled each day, and snacks will be provided by the festival.
The story will continue on 7 November with an illustration workshop led by Daniela Olaru and on 8 November, on stage, with pianist Adriana Toacsen. More details coming soon!
The workshop is intended for children aged 8 to 11.
Coordinators**:** Carmen Lopăzan and Claudiu Maier, LittleImpro Association
When? 10–11 October 2026, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
Where? At Casa Ion Mincu, 19 Pictor Arthur Verona Street, Bucharest
Tickets are available here.
UrbanEye Bucharest Film Festival is a project of the ARTA în Dialog Association, co-funded by the Romanian Order of Architects through the Architecture Stamp Duty.
Cultural project co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily reflect the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or for how its results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding beneficiary.