A cat drawn on a T-shirt, dutifully scratching
\na vinyl record, under the motto When the Cat is at home!. Another T-shirt displayed
\na motivational slogan Bee the sun! And, just as expected, there’s another such
\nslogan, Dream Big! painted on a shirt: craft ice-cream, colored cotton candy,
\nIndian, Asian dishes, burgers, home-prepared beverages or cocktails, but also
\nProsecco, have made, as usual, the regular stuff in the last weekend of May on
\nMatasari Street. A street that, for 11 years now, has been giving the go-ahead
\nfor the summer events happening in Bucharest. It changed its meaning and
\npurpose of three decades ago, when it was a drug-trafficking area where street
\nworkers were soliciting. That is why the phrase Women on Matasari Street
\nchanged its meaning thanks to a genuine urban festival, invented a decade ago. From
\nthe very early editions of the event that made it possible for a complete makeover
\nto occur in the area, in people’s courtyards on Matasari Street painting workshops
\nwere staged, but also tailoring or handmade jewelry workshops.
\nAreas for antiquaries and conferences have been created as well. <\/p>\n
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Merry people are jostling about on Matasari Street, braving the
\nflippant May weather, with quick spells of rain or brief periods of sunshine,
\nwith winds blowing and older or newer participants providing local color to the
\nplace. For starters, we spoke to the vice-president of Kola Kariola, an association
\nthat brokers the adoption of puppies, Marius Chirca. With datils on that, here
\nis Marius Chirca.<\/p>\n
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We’ve been absent from the
\nevents for a couple of years now. The pandemic
\nprevented us from participating. We mainly came…well…not to raise funds, we
\nturned up to socialize with the people who support us in the online environment,
\nsince we have over 400,000 followers and for each such event, we participate in
\na bid to meet those living close by, in Bucharest, in Ilfov, some even came from
\noutside Bucharest to see us, to have a conversation about certain cases. As on Facebook, on Instagram, where we promote our activity, we cannot
\njust post absolutely everything. We come with promotional articles, we also
\nhave puppies for adoption. We work, we don’t have weekends, we don’t have our days
\noff, as there is no such thing as closing time when it comes to animals and for
\nus that comes as an opportunity, going out, being outdoors, having a bit of
\nfun, we laugh, we crack a joke on and off, ’cause otherwise, there is more like
\nsadness and pain in what we do. That is what we get to see! We have already had
\ncontact data from people who want to adopt, tomorrow we bring other puppies to
\npromote them, and if we spend at least two days here, if there is one single
\ndog we send home, that means we haven’t been here for nothing. <\/p>\n
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At the Festival, Ilinca Andrei can be found behind a stand with
\nbracelets inscribed with Morse code messages.
\nHere is her story.<\/p>\n
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We’ve got a brand making bracelets, each bracelet
\nhas a word written in the Morse code, and on the little card that goes with the
\nbracelet we have the word, in the language we use, but also its transcription
\nin the Morse code, with lines and dots. The idea sprang from the wish to have a
\nbracelet with a personalized message that cannot be accessible to everybody but
\nwhich can only be known by the person wearing that bracelet. We have explored several possibilities,
\nand the Morse code seemed the most ingenious way to code a message, especially
\non a bracelet. Clients seem to be most interested in messages from the family
\narea, like mother, father, brother, sister, but there are also words in English
\nthat our clients chose, such as love,
\nhug, hope, faith, so we sold those very well. <\/p>\n
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Women and men on stilts were making their
\nway with difficulty on the crowded street, the children tried a more unusual
\npastime, that of entering a circle and staying closed for a few
\nseconds in a balloon of soap. Also for children, we discovered a candle making
\nworkshop. There we talked with Andreea
\n\u015eerpe, who had a very special stand, full of cake-looking candles, of shapes and
\ncolors that made one think they were in a confectionary. <\/p>\n
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I make candles from soy
\nwax, in the shape of sweets. We have all kinds of stand-alone candles, candles
\nin a jar, wax melts for aromatherapy lamps, we use perfumes and ingredients as
\nnatural as possible. We also organize workshops for children, we have pots that
\nthey can decorate with flowers, with all kinds of fruit, pieces of chocolate,
\ncandies (made of wax), we use cold wax,
\nso that it doesn’t burn and everything is safe. I had two or three children who
\nactually bit into the Macarons and they were very upset, they started crying,
\neven though I’d told them they were not edible; they couldn’t understand that,
\nbut they were very cute! <\/p>\n
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Cezar Proca participated in the Festival
\nwith natural products for external and internal use, but also with decorations
\ninspired by nature<\/p>\n
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We came to Women on
\nMatasari primarily with skin-care products, all organic, therapeutic, based on
\noils obtained by cold pressing the seeds and organic medicinal plants. We get
\nthe oil drop by drop, it is a medicinal product for the skin. We also have
\nplant terrariums, wooden decorations with plant terrariums, wood and ceramic
\ndecorations and hand-painted ceramics. The Digestive and the Bitter are drinks
\nobtained from herbs macerated in fruit brandy from Satu Mare, the teas are made
\nof pressed herbs, we can get two liters of tea from one medallion. The digestive drink helps to calm the nervous
\nsystem thanks to the mint and lemon balm it contains. It’s very good for digestion, after a rich
\nmeal, especially in the evening, it also disinfects the oral cavity and we
\nsleep better. And the Bitter is the
\nrecipe of Dr. Engineer Iuliana Barbu from Farmacia Naturii, a recipe tested for
\nmore than 20 years.<\/p>\n
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At 6:00 p.m., the street became more animated,
\nas every year, with live music, and the spectators enjoyed the experience to
\nthe fullest, despite the rain that this year chose to appear from time to time
\nat Women on Matasari.<\/p>\n
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