It’s been 10 years since we started dreaming about opening our own space.
A place where our community can gather.
A place to host concerts and bring in great people, whose stories we can learn from and be inspired by.
Opening a space like this isn’t easy. This is why there aren’t so many.
In fact, it’s much harder than running a festival.
Different financial challenges. A different kind of management. New ways of working we weren’t used to. But that won’t stop us.
Last year, we rented the former “Steaua Roșie” cinema, on Paris Street.
After more than a year of planning, budgeting and conversations, we feel it’s time to open the doors and share this beginning with you.
The building will reclaim its old name: Edison.
It’s a name with history and meaning. Edison invented the phonograph – the ancestor of the modern turntable – and changed forever how we listen to music. That’s exactly what we want to do: give the city back a place where music can be experienced differently.
Edison will bring together, under the same roof, all of our projects:
Jazz in the Park – its energy and its music,
Music Gallery – turning the former cinema hall into a permanent exhibition,
Pop-up Jazz Club – the experiment through which we created temporary jazz clubs in unconventional spaces, meant to conclude once we finally have a place of our own.
We don’t have a perfect place.
We have an old building, with cracked walls and forgotten stories.
We don’t have all the answers. We’re nervous-excited, full of questions, and ready for plenty of trial and error.
But we have a dream.
To make Edison a house of music.
A place where stories come to life.
Where jazz meets the world.
Where everyone is welcome.
Between October 17 and December 7 we’ll open this house for the first time.
Not everything will be ready, and that’s exactly what we want to share with you: the beginning, the imperfections, the process.
A test. To see how well our dream fits the place, the neighbors, the city.
We’re nervous.
We’re excited.
We’re just crazy enough to make this place real.
We need you. We want you to be part of the story.
How wonderful it could be. And how wonderful that we’re here together, now, at the beginning.
Let the fun begin. Stay tuned!
— Fapte Team
