"The rushing sound of whips, the rhythmicity of talanges, giggles and laughter, the taste of donuts and the strength of schnapps, the wind through the fringes of the costumes, the tactility of the masks, painted faces... Fuga Lolaler is a sensory feast that has remained impregnated in my senses and on which the images, in their 2D limitation, they almost intuit it or barely evoke it. You need to be in Cincu to let yourself be flooded by all that ritual means.

Patrimonialization, revival or other phrases of the field research can speak from afar, about similar phenomena in other areas, but everything gains concreteness - life and meaning - when you feel, in the midst of people, the need to be and celebrate together. In Cincu I saw how memory and community, notions that I work with in my daily work, reproduce the life of a locality, with the effervescence that comes from the longing for that togetherness. If the role of the ritual is to re-order and clear space and time, preparing them for the New, then I hope spring finds you in Five!" (Georgiana Vlahbei, anthropologist, Romanian Peasant Museum, exhibits a documentary photo series as part of the exhibition It takes a whole village).

Is this the Run of the Five Dolls/ Großschenker Urzellauf? What is the significance of this ritual? Where does it come from and, very importantly, how do we continue it? These are some of the questions that this exhibition, It Takes a Whole Village!, set out to explore, in a community effort to present and archive local history. Extraordinary contemporary artists offer a context to local history and archives through their works specially created for Fuga Lolelor Cincu: Vlad Dumitru (RO), Thomas Fink (DE/RO), Magdalena Menzinger (DE), Pascual+Vincent (ES), Sharon Schuster ( RO), Sillyconductor (RO), Sorina Vazelina (RO) and Georgiana Vlahbei (RO). Objects from the mists of time (the oldest dating from 1681) are presented in the light of the cultural heritage left by the guilds that were once the main actors in the Seat of the Five and in the community life, with which the Fuga Lolaler is closely related.

The Fuga Lolelor Cincu art, heritage and history platform. The Museum in Progress is located in a building erected between the defense walls of the Church in 1520, being the first town hall of Cincu until 1714.

We invite you to Cincu to celebrate the Transylvanian cultural wealth together!