From October 4th to 6th, 2024, Bucharest’s Arthur Verona Street will transform into a vibrant hub of creativity, civic engagement, and public space innovation during the annual Street Delivery festival. For 19 years, Street Delivery has been a platform that brings together civic initiatives, creative urban concepts, and performative street art, co-creating with participants an event that champions the public spaces of Bucharest and ten other cities across Romania.
A Unique Urban Manifesto
Since its inception in 2006, Street Delivery has been dedicated to reclaiming city streets for the people, encouraging them to enjoy their surroundings on foot rather than from behind the wheel, and promoting face-to-face interactions rather than bumper-to-bumper traffic. Each year, Street Delivery temporarily pedestrianizes key streets in 10 Romanian cities, turning them into canvases for local residents’ ideas on creating real public spaces, enhancing visual arts, and supporting impactful civic initiatives.
Street Delivery Gen București ’24: Celebrating Gen Z Creativity
This year, Street Delivery Gen București ’24 invites the generation we’ve come to know as Gen Z to co-create the event on the iconic Arthur Verona Street. With a focus on youthful creativity and forward-thinking ideas, the festival is calling on everyone to apply with their concepts for a better city. The most innovative ideas will not only be celebrated but also brought to life, turning the street into a vibrant showcase of what the future of urban living could look like.
Why Attend Street Delivery Gen București ’24?
- Creative Freedom: Street Delivery provides an open platform for individuals and groups to propose and implement their ideas for transforming public spaces. Whether you are an artist, a designer, an activist, or simply a concerned citizen with a passion for urban development, this festival offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the dialogue about the future of our cities.
- Empowering Communities: By focusing on civic engagement and collaboration, Street Delivery empowers local communities to take ownership of their urban environment. The event encourages participation from a diverse range of voices, fostering a sense of community and shared responsibility for public spaces.
- Reimagining Public Spaces: At its core, Street Delivery is about experimenting with how we use our streets. By prioritizing pedestrians over cars, the festival creates a pedestrian-friendly environment that invites exploration, interaction, and a deeper connection with the city.
- Art and Culture: The festival is also a celebration of street art and performative expressions. From live graffiti sessions to music performances and interactive installations, Street Delivery turns the streets into an open-air gallery where art meets activism.
How to Get Involved
Anyone can be a part of Street Delivery Gen București ’24. If you have an idea that can help make the city a better place, this is your chance to see it come to life. The festival is open to submissions that propose new uses for public spaces, encourage civic participation, and reflect the diverse and dynamic spirit of Bucharest.
To apply, simply submit your idea through the official Street Delivery website. The most compelling proposals will receive support to be implemented during the festival, allowing participants to see their visions realized in real-time.
What to Expect at Street Delivery Gen București ’24
During the three days of the festival, Arthur Verona Street will be closed to vehicular traffic and transformed into a lively pedestrian zone filled with:
- Art Installations: Discover new perspectives on public space through thought-provoking installations that challenge conventional ideas of urban living.
- Live Performances: Enjoy a range of performances, from street theatre to live music, showcasing the talents of local and international artists.
- Workshops and Talks: Participate in workshops and discussions led by experts in urban planning, sustainability, and civic engagement, designed to inspire and educate.
- Interactive Exhibits: Engage with hands-on exhibits that invite you to think differently about the way we use and design public spaces.
Street Delivery 2024 Schedule
Friday, October 4
14:00-15:30| SUPERSERIOUS: Invitation to play
16:00-18:00|AMAIS – Empathy Workshop [Courtyard of the Mincu House]
16:00-18:00| Women in politics | Guests: Ada Galeș, Shiraz Baruch, Andreea Rusu, Mihaela Ștefan (moderator Angela Cristea) [Small Amphitheater]
17:00|Guided tour-Anglican Church
18:30-20:30|Cinema – Dream. Life, directed by Ruxandra Gubernat (moderator Andrei Dudea DOP) [Casa Mincu]
18:30-20:30|Immigrants from the capital – Cătălin Doscaș, Răzvan Chiruță [Small Amphitheatre]
Saturday, October 5
10:00-13:00|Digital Natives Go Analogue. Anti-Distance Art – Bucharest CollageCollective
10:00-16:00|Urban Up Architecture – City on Trial Workshop [Mincu House Courtyard]
11:30-14:00|Svetlana Cârstean – Poetry workshop for Gen Z [Mirror Hall from Cărturesți]
12:00|Stories about water and nature: Bucurestioara, Dâmbovița, Văcărești – Văcărești Natural Park Association
12:00-13:30/14:00-15:30|SUPER SERIOUS: Invitation to play
14:00-15:30| Bucharest defendant- Urban Up De-a Architectura [Small Amphitheatre]
14:00-17:00| A feminist picnic, very demure, very mindful – Vulgar Association
14:00-17:25| Workshop Life beyond coal – 2Celsius Association & Bankwatch Association [CasaMincu]
15:00| Organ concert. Classical Music for a New Generation [Church of Anglican]
16:00-18:00| The heritage, from us for Gen Z|Invited: SuperSerios, Ștefan Bâlici, Europa Nostra, Nicu Ștefănuță (moderator Politics per minute) [MiculAmfiteatru]
16:00-19:00|Virtual mirror – Banca Transilvania
17:00|Guided tour – Anglican Church
18:00-20:00|Cinema – Vis.Viață.directed by Ruxandra Gubernat (moderator Andrei Dudea DOP) [CasaMincu]
18:30-20:30| POETIC HUB [Small Amphitheater]
Sunday, October 6
10:00-13:00|Digital Natives Go Analogue. Anti-Distance Art – Bucharest Collage Collective
11:00| Genre treasure hunt, visuals. Here he stayed. [meeting point Cărturesți]
11:30-14:00| Svetlana Cârstean – Poetry workshop for Gen Z [Hall with Mirror from Cărturesți]
14:00-15:30|Stand-up Poetry – Noise Poetry [Small Amphitheater]
15:00| Room for Questions – Gen Z Edition [Anglican Church]
16:00-18:00|What Bucharest are we preparing for 2028?|Invites: PMB representative, Bogdan Suditu (moderator Politics per minute) [Small Amphitheatre]
16:00-19:00|Virtual mirror – Banca Transilvania
17:00|Guided tour – Anglican Church
18:30-20:00|Cinema – Clara, directed by Sabin Dorohoi – Preview (moderated by Ruxandra Ghițescu screenwriter, Lulu de Hillerin DOP) [Casa Mincu]
18:30-20:30|Caravan Gen Stiri [Small Amphitheater]
Activities and stands at Street Delivery Gen 2024
Stay with you -SNK
Festival Box: A kit for sustainable festivals – BIRD – Boxed Ideas for Responsible Ideas|Raluca Russu Culcea & Luana Martin – Russu
Scholars Stand
Story Communities – Between Neighbors
We are citizens – Vlad and Natalia Stoian (S+D)
Urban Renature – Nature 5
Gen Știri Caravana in Bucharest-Gen Știri
RE(ST) – Justin Baroncea, Mircea Constantin, UAUIM students [Casa Mincu demisol]
Friends of the Elderly – Never Alone (S+D)
What if Waste Is Considered Beautiful – Workshops without borders
Diverse & Unconventional Street Art – Alternatives Bucharest
Bucharest Pixel Art – Bizarre
Rediscover, reuse, renew – Viitor Plus (V+S)
Coon One – Afterglow – mural [shield area B]
Meet a new friend – Prometeu Association, education and personal development (V+S)
Vitrography workshops – Maria’s Glass (V+S)
Workshop of wool items – Cristina Franculescu (S+D)
Let’s be good and heal – Be good (S+D)
ERPS – graffiti workshop [calcan area B]
Alexa Lincu – mural painting
Urban Philosophical Counseling – Center for Philosophy and the Arts – University of Philosophy [Anglican Church]
Radu Carp – mural [Anglican Church]
Benterez – [Home terrace]
Alexandru Ranga – Skater of Bucharest sculpture [Anglican Church]
Irina Iraida Tănase – sculpture Siren [Anglican Church]
Woman Scar – Eliza Zdru – Photo exhibition
Teens Self Love Club – The Fab Squad – Photo Exhibition
First aid point – Evenimed
Where is your nature – Aspire to Change (S+D)
Case Disclosed: Crime Solving Quest – Bucharest Crime&Cinema Fest (S+D)
Martial arts, yoga & mindfulness workshop – Kaya & Atos
Street Delivery Gen 2024 Scene
(F) 18:00 | Miron Ghiu, DJ set
(F) 20:00|IIOANA, Esosu, Inana, Per Tu, live concert
(Sat) 17:00| Jazz Roots Bucharest, Swing Dancing
(Sat) 18:00|Dynamic Bones, DJ set
(Sat) 20:30|Ana Coman, live concert
(Sun) 15:00|4th Division – impromptu dance
(Sun) 16:00| Jazz Roots Bucharest, Swing Dancing
(Sun) 17:00| Musical improvisation workshop@euggn.esosu&@binedinprima
(Sun) 18:30| Obeah – The Sound of the City To Come
(Sun) 20:00| Bianca Oance – DJ Set
Street Delivery Gen 2024 Map
Street Delivery Bucharest 2023 Edition – Shared spaces | 15 – 17 September 2023
This year’s edition of Street Delivery Bucharest is closing the street to cars and opening it up to people (and unicorns)!
Street Delivery Bucharest returns after the pandemic period on Pictor Arthur Verona Street, on the weekend of September 15-17. The 18th edition is about the restoration of the role of the street as a public space and transitioning from festival to public policy.
In addition, the organizers are preparing a short moment of magic: on the night of Saturday, September 16, for 15 minutes, between 22:00 – 22:15: the crossing of Magheru Boulevard in the footsteps of the pedestrian crossing abolished in the 70s – a crossing symbolic, reconnection of the fragments of Arthur Verona Street, a reweaving, as if in a blink of an eye, of the Icon area with the Athenaeum area.
Note: The crossing will be controlled and timed under the guidance of the police crew from the Bucharest Brigade. Participants in the crossing must wear reflective vests, move in groups and be accompanied by volunteers.
Street Delivery 2023 – Shared Spaces
Because the organizers want sustainable and inclusive cities because public space cannot only belong to the driver, this year they have chosen Shared Spaces as their working theme. For three days, they will give back public space to pedestrians, children, cyclists and all people who want to live, not just transit the city. Thus, Arthur Verona Street will become a habitable model where attendants will discover how to build their future in a city for people, not just cars.
In 17 years of recurrence, the Street Delivery festival and Arthur Verona Street were joined by various other similar events – Strada Armeneasca (2014-2019), Block Party on I.L. Caragiale (2018, 2019), Women on Silks, Men on Silks, Via Sport, Urban Promenade on Calea Victoriei (2018 – 2019), Open Streets (2020 – 2023). However, temporary pedestrianization is legislatively classified as an event/festival and not seen as a tool of urban planning or urban policy of public space management. We have invited professionals from the field, public administration, civil society and investors to the public debates within Street Delivery because it is necessary to discuss together, in the open and democratic framework of the street, how we govern our city for the common good: How much (we) cost city disappearances? and How much does heritage cost (us)?
Maria Duda, architect. We open the city, curated by Street Delivery 2023
Friday, September 15. How much do the city’s disappearances cost (us)?
The debate addresses awareness of the cost of disappearances from public, green, pedestrian spaces, the urban plinth, and built landmarks. A living city is a city that plans its development, weighing and negotiating decisions based on the importance of the common good.
Saturday, September 16. How much does heritage cost (us)?
The question asked on the festival’s second day focuses on balancing the standard costs of heritage loss through destruction, abandonment, and misplaced good intentions, ignoring risks and individual costs of the maintenance, conservation, restoration, and functionalization of historical and heritage buildings.
We chose to open at Street Delivery 2023 – Shared Spaces, those common spaces that form the agora and the deep tissues of our society, projects and concepts that answer simple questions of people on the street about the quality of life in the city — together, not separately. We have invited civic initiative groups, energy communities, peace organizations, social workers, urban planners and architects who see people first, buildings second, climate, nature and human rights activists, musicians and street artists, and everyone who believes in love, not war.
Cristian Neagoe, co-founder of Street Delivery
Selected projects at the Street Delivery Bucharest 2023
10 ideas that illustrate social, cultural, architectural, urban, ecological or identity aspects of the street space have been selected for the festival.
Cage – the experimental facility of the Legal Resources Center
No man’s land in the heart of the city – a project of the Icoanei-Ioanid Civic Initiative Group
We reclaim the street through the collective art – installation Alternative Bucharest & Săfițicuminți
Civic Design Lab: Our City, Our Solutions – workshop designed by Marinela Rață – Panaite
Neighbours with wings. Discover the wild birds of Bucharest – a project proposed by the Romanian Ornithological Society
Plastic Comics Cube – street art project proposed by artists Maria Bălan & Robert Obert
Transparency in images: Gallery of requests and responses in access to public information – proposed by the Corruption Kills Association
All for the endorphins. Contemporary movement and dance pop-up workshops – supported by the Bucharest National Dance Center
Reading and creative workshops for children – supported by the Dandelion Workshop
The Harmony of Nature: Connecting with the nature in the urban tumult – installation proposed by the artist Andr0meda / Andra Bularca
Among the invited projects, we mention the „Performative Walks” laboratories of Developing Art and „Street Delivery in motion” supported by Areal | space for choreographic development, which approaches the intersection between the body and the city through contemporary dance, but also the discussions around the built heritage – about the seismic vulnerability of spaces and buildings in Bucharest together with the Re:Rise team and about alerting tools against aggressive interventions on the Bucharest heritage within the 112 Patrimoniu platform (a tool developed by the Working Group of the Order of Bucharest Architects). Added to these are the „Ursu Memorial” exhibitions at the ARO Block (Re:Rise) and the „Good Practices Exhibition – reliefs and associated historical studies” at the Mincu house.
The Romanian Order of Architects has supported Street Delivery for 18 years as a strategic project to democratize public space. Opening the streets to people paves the way for livable cities, and access to quality public spaces is a civil right that the event claims. OAR recognizes that architecture is as much about the object as it is about unbuilt spaces and supports the encounters between actors necessary for systemic change.
Romanian Order of Architects – Street Delivery co-organizer
On Saturday, the French Institute and the Embassy of the Lebanese Republic will be the cultural partners who have chosen to open their doors to celebrate the public space with guided tours and narrated histories, film screenings, dances and traditional food.
Street Delivery Bucharest is organized by the Cărturești Foundation and the Romanian Order of Architects, OAR strategic project financed by #TimbruDeArchitectura. Street Delivery Bucharest – Shared Spaces is an event curated by BAZA. We open the city.
Food area at Street Delivery Festival Bucharest
Attendants can fully enjoy SHARED SPACES with delicious dishes from AREA – Arepas Colombianas Bucharest, IndiVan Food Truck, PhoBar, Burger van, Crăpelniță, Mixology, The Cone, Wacko Lab, Prossesco Ride and Prosecco Bar.
So, the festival is not only about delivering the street back to the residents but also about delivering food to the hungry attendants running all day long searching for independent and creative art.
The official program of the Street Delivery Bucharest (in Romanian)
