Stimmul

Events that stimmulate your body and mind.

  • WORKATIONS
  • SOBER PARTIES
  • RUN EVENTS
  • LOCAL GUIDES
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Dara × Stimmul Halloween run party poster. DJ-led community run and afterparty at Dara, costume dress code.

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Dara × Stimmul · Sepsiszentgyörgy
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  • WORKATIONS
  • SOBER PARTIES
  • RUN EVENTS
  • LOCAL GUIDES

Local guides

Szeklerland

Work work work

Many solo and cowork sessions.

Culture

Székely archery

Explore traditional archery, focus and technique.

Adventure

Lake Saint Ana

Romania’s only volcanic crater lake, ringed by forest.

Nature

Morning run

An easy-paced run to start the day together.

Adventure

AcroYoga

Balance, trust and play through partner movement.

Movement

Ceramics & tiles

Try clay, texture and glaze, and make something by hand.

Crafts

Outdoor movement

A little mobility, bodyweight training and fresh air between work blocks.

Adventure

Textile printing

Explore botanical prints, linocut and patterns on fabric.

Crafts

Harghita trails & skiing

Snowy forest walks, trail runs and skiing around Harghita.

Adventure

Bear watching

Watch quietly from a guided hide in bear country.

Nature

Village museum

Explore wooden farmhouses, everyday objects and rural history.

Culture

Brașov

Bran Castle

Iconic towers, narrow stairways and Romania’s best-known Dracula association.

Castles2–3 hours

Brașov Old Town

Café-filled squares, old city walls, and a mountain above the rooftops.

CultureHalf a day

Bears around Brașov

Visit a bear sanctuary or stay overnight at a wilderness hide.

NatureVisit / overnight stay

Ecstatic dance

Music, free movement and a dance floor to share.

MovementAn evening

Black Church

A vast Gothic interior, Anatolian carpets and a remarkable organ.

Sacred1–2 hours

Seven Ladders Canyon

A narrow gorge with metal ladders beside rushing water.

AdventureHalf a day

Poiana Brașov on skis

Ski lessons, mountain air and a winter day above Brașov.

AdventureHalf to full day

Move on treetops

Aventura’s forest courses turn an afternoon into a shared challenge.

AdventureAbout 3 hours

Prejmer church

Walk through thick defensive walls into a fortified village church.

Sacred1–2 hours

A desk at Kool Work

A bright shared workspace in Brașov’s historic centre.

CultureA work session

Cluj

Salina Turda

A salt mine with a boating lake and a whole other world beneath your feet.

Unusual2–3 hours

Turda Gorge

A river walk tucked between limestone walls, just beyond the salt mine.

AdventureHalf a day

Botanical Garden

Japanese-garden views, glasshouses, and a slower side of Cluj.

Nature1–2 hours

SunGarden Spa

Pools, sauna rituals, and a quiet wellness escape in the forest outside Cluj.

WellnessHalf a day

Matthias Corvinus

A medieval birthplace, a landmark statue and city cafés.

Culture2–3 hours

Făget walks & runs

Beech woods and trails just beyond Cluj, for autumn walks and a quiet winter run.

Nature1–2 hours

Outlandica

A friend’s motorcycle rentals and routes into the Apuseni.

AdventureA rental or guided ride

Rimetea / Torockó

Whitewashed village houses beneath the dramatic limestone wall of Piatra Secuiului.

CultureVillage / hike

Cluj Cowork

Start with a conversation about a desk and the local work scene.

CultureTo arrange

A pause at Meron

A local coffee name with several places to stop around Cluj.

CultureCoffee / a short session

Bucharest

Therme București

Tropical palms, warm pools, and a very good reason to slow down.

WellnessHalf to full day

Cărturești Carusel

White balconies, sweeping stairs, and books stacked around a luminous atrium.

Culture30–60 minutes

Stavropoleos Monastery

Carved stone, painted walls, and a peaceful courtyard in the heart of the city.

Sacred30–45 minutes

Romanian Athenaeum

An ornate concert hall, home to the George Enescu Philharmonic.

Culture1 hour or more

Botanical Garden

Glasshouses and leafy paths, with a link to Wednesday’s first season.

GardensA few unhurried hours

Beans & Dots

Good coffee, design-minded spaces and a slower pause in the capital.

CultureCoffee / a short session

Work at Nookyard

A work-friendly café setting in the Armenian quarter.

CultureA work session

Nod Makerspace

A former factory with workshops, creative studios and shared work.

CultureA session / event

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BEFORE THIS NEXT CHAPTER

Previous events

Parties, talks, design meetups and making things. Stimmul and the organiser’s earlier gatherings, newest first.

Participants presenting and discussing ideas around a table in Lisbon

2020–2022

Lisbonerds

Lisbon, Portugal

A nerdy event series in Lisbon: ideas, presentations and people around a table.

Hackagu participants working with laptops around a shared table

2019–2020

Hackagu

Canggu, Bali, Indonesia

Weekly hacking get-togethers in Canggu, Bali.

Design meetup around a cafe table in Bali

2019

Bali Design Meetups

Bali, Indonesia

Designers sharing work, problems, feedback and possibilities for collaboration.

A Creative Mingle speaker presenting to seated participants

27 May 2015

Creative Mingle

Cluj-Napoca · Transylvania, Romania

Designers discussing, exchanging and sharing work. Portfolios, feedback and conversation at Tube, from 18:00.

A small group moving up a grassy mountainside

2015

Yama Training

Mountains around Cluj · Transylvania, Romania

Group functional training in the mountains.

Children around a workshop table with fruit, electronics and a laptop

2015

Kids Hackathon

Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvania, Romania

Making and programming with Scratch and Makey Makey.

Speaker and audience from the Stimmul talks archive

22 December 2014

Stimmul-ed Geekout

Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvania, Romania

Stimmul Educational: gadget demos, talks and an audience gathered around the speakers. Part of December Delight; the flyer lists Geekout at 16:00.

Children experimenting with fruit, electronics and a laptop from the Stimmul workshop archive

22 December 2014

Hackidemia for kids

Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvania, Romania

Electrify fruit, design games and hack instruments. A December Delight workshop for ages 6+, from 13:00 to 15:30.

Collage from the wider Stimmul party archive

19–27 December 2014

December Delight · second edition

Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvania, Romania

Concerts, a winter boutique, talks, workshops, short films and parties at the former Huhuu / Stuhu, Str. Ciucului 7.

Festival visitors wearing headphones beneath the brick arches at Stables, Electric Castle 2014.

June 2014

Stables at Electric Castle

Bonțida, Cluj · Transylvania, Romania

Stimmul on the dance floor in Electric Castle’s brick-vaulted stables. A chapter from the festival’s second edition.

Party photographs from the wider Stimmul event-series archive

1–2 May 2014

Piknik Piknik & Spring Boutique

Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvania, Romania

A spring market, a gathering and a final-day party on 2 May.

A speaker demonstrating technology to an audience in a wood-framed room

2014

Short talks, big ideas

Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvania, Romania

The original site’s Ignite-style talks archive: stories shared in ten minutes or less.

Collage of people and DJs at past Stimmul parties

2014

Stimmul event series

Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvania, Romania

Parties and cultural popups. A collage from the original Stimmul archive.

Collage of partygoers, performers and projections from Wunder events

2013

Wunder

Sepsiszentgyörgy, Transylvania, Romania

Popup parties, small festivals and arts gatherings.

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