Several projects were initiated, developed and implemented in the 4 days of the event in 2006, involving 15 Romanian artists and part of the community in the area of the old town. This was an important opportunity for artists and for the community there, generally consisting of Roma families. The projects developed in the event were based on dialogue and collaboration with the community in the area, facilitated the broadening of perspectives for its members and contributed to their social integration.
As part of the 2008 edition of the event, I love Bucharest was invited to create an outdoor painting for the Curtea Veche (The Old Courtyard) in Bucharest. It was created by two of the artists of the team on September 20, on the anniversary of 549 years of documentary attestation of the city.

In 2009, ILB developed a special project dedicated to the city’s 550 years celebration – the Cine e Mitica? / Who is Mitica public and participatory art project.

Edition 2006

Following the invitation of ArCub and Youth Center of the Metropolitan Library of Bucharest, the I love Bucharest programme took part in the event organised by the Bucharest City Hall, with a series of interactive projects, involving 15 artists and architects.
Canvases – A canvas of 63mp, painted on those several days, covered the facade of the building on Smardan Street at No. 22. This was a manifesto created by 7 artists, who expressed their views on the situation of Lipscani area, the old city centre, which was heavily deteriorating day by day due to the passivity of the authorities and lack of attitude of the civil society. The painting of the canvas was scheduled to take place on the ground, but the rain forced the artists to take shelter in an industrial warehouse. Afterwards, the cloth was sewn and mounted on the intended building facade that was under a process of rehabilitation.

Roll Up Art brought before the passers-by (mostly under rain than under clear skies) works of fine art, photography, short films, animation and contemporary dance, thereby exceeding the boundaries of traditional exhibition spaces and public space. Roll Up Art has continued in a more expanded formula thereafter.

PASTE-UP - The facade of the former Hermes Club, one of the forgotten buildings of the area, was decorated with stickers made by Ciubi, the most well known street artist and one of the I love Bucharest team artists. On Selari Street No.16 you can still meet the characters who coloured the history of the Romanians, with whom we continue to live and who are still part of our present, reviving this forgotten, abandoned and ruined place.
A day in the life of the inhabitants of Lipscani - photographs taken by 9 residents of the oldest areas of Bucharest under the guidance of an artist-coordinator, in which they narrated with the help of images a piece of their everyday life. The photographs were displayed on Smardan Street, sheltered from the rain and hosted by a cafe on the street.

Book Street project gave bystanders the opportunity to address their fellow citizens with quotes, proverbs and saying, personal thoughts or words of wisdom. It was the first interaction with the public for what was to become, in a few months, the project developed on the University of Bucharest walls and the area of the second-hand book sellers.

Draw for Bucharest gave Roma children the opportunity to express themselves through colours, pens or crayons. They took advantage of every moment with artistic enthusiasm and joy that did not leave them despite the cold and rainy autumn day that “flooded” those days of city celebration. The project continued and was completed in the summer of 2008, with the mesh on the University in Bucharest facade.