October 13 – 29

MUSIC
Alternative, ethno and jazz concerts

THEATRE – DANCE
5^th Studio Theatre Days of the Soros Foundation

FINE ARTS AND MEDIA ART

FILM

LITERATURE

PLUS...

EDE Day Festival

Bohemia 2000 Festival

Budapest Techshow 2000

Le Petit Voyage

Parasol Polonaise

WINDOW ON BERLIN – FENSTER AUF BERLIN

14 October 7:30 p.m. MTA Kongresszusi Terem
Inaugural Concert of László Sáry
Dramatic Story (1999 – world premiere)
Annals of Nature (1999 – world premiere)
Tranquillity (1996)
Psalmus (1972)
Dance Music – five pieces from the series (1990–2000)

Echo-rag I. (1998 – world premiere)

Hungarian Dance (1995)

Slow and Fresh (2000 – world premiere)

Tango (1989)

Broadway Boogie-woogie (1990 – world premiere)
Quartetto (1968)

“I have assembled the material of my concert from chamber pieces which represent the main stages of my career as a composer. The Dramatic Story, the Annals of Nature and some pieces of the Dance Music series will be performed for the first time ever, which emphasises the central role of the piano and human voice in the pieces I have composed so far. From among the chamber pieces I wrote earlier, the Quartetto and the Psalmus search for the extreme possibilities inherent in vocals and vowels, while the Tranquillity reflects the experiences of a study tour in Japan” (László Sáry)

(organised in co-operation with the Széchenyi Academy of Arts and Literature; Sponsors: Editio Musica Budapest, Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest, Musical Board of the National Cultural Core Program, SZIMA Foundation)

14 October
Ede Day Festival musical programs
Operas, concerts and CD shows
(see detailed program schedule under Ede day)

http://www.zpont.hu

4 p.m. VISTA előadóterem
A Musical Discussion
newly released albums of Hungaroton Classic

5:30 p.m. VISTA előadóterem
A concert by the Vivaldi Consort

6 p.m. Új Színház, Stúdiószínpad
Ede Terényi: Kalevala (Hungarian premiere)
mono-opera in one act

7:30 p.m. Új Színház, ruhatár
Katalin Szalai: Le donne furiose
chamber opera in one act

8:30 p.m. Új Színház, színházterem
Mauricio Kagel: The Tribune (Der Tribun – Hungarian premiere)
performance for speaker, marches and loudspeakers

15 October 7:30 p.m. Műcsarnok
Gábor Csalog’s piano concert
My century

Gabriel Fauré: Prélude ré démol majeur op. 103/1. (1910)
Alexander Scriabin: Prélude op. 59/2 (1910)
Béla Bartók: Nénies no. 3, 4 (1910)
Maurice Ravel: Nocturnal moths (1905)
Arnold Schönberg: Klavierstück op. 33/a (1929)
Sergey Rahmaninov: Melodie (1940)
Claude Debussy: Étude pour Degrés Chromatiques (1915)
Igor Stravinsky: Circus Polka – to a Young Elephant (1942)
John Cage: Music for Marcel Duchamp (1948)
György Kurtág: Hommage à Berényi Ferenc 70 (1997)
György Ligeti: Automne à Varsovie – etude 1^st book/6 (1985)
Dmitri Shostakovich: C-minor Prelude and Fugue (1933)
Olivier Messiaen: Ile de Feu II. (1950)
“Thirteen great, highly different – hardly compatible – composers of our century have been put together for this evening. So that as few of the performer’s favourites as possible would have to be left out all the selected pieces are short” (Gábor Csalog)

17 October 7:30 p.m. Műcsarnok
Flute-virtuoso Eberhard Blum’s concert (Germany)
…another language…
Bernd Franke: Gesang (I) (1988)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Tempus loquendi... (1963)
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler: Zeile um Zeile (1997)
Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate (1923–1932)
Eberhard Blum has been walking on the narrow path between the international flux movement and the new German music. The excellent flutist, who often undertakes task requiring singing and acting qualities, prepared this concert for an exhibition of the Berlinsche Galerie presenting pieces from the 20^th century art of Berlin (including works by Hungarian artists who migrated to Berlin). The pieces played by the artist conduct a dialogue with the exhibited artworks.

(as part of the program series – Window on Berlin. With the support of the Municipality of Budapest and the Berlin Senate, and with the kind help of the Goethe-Institut Budapest)

22 October 7:30 p.m. Thália Színház
Concert of the Amadinda Percussion Ensemble
Aurél Holló: José – beFORe JOHN⁵ (world premiere)
John Cage: Forever and Sunsmell
László Sáry: Miniatures
Gavin Bryars: One Last Bar, Then Joe Can Sing
László Sáry: Pebble Playing in a Pot
László Vidovszky: Head Mumblimg in a Coffin (world premiere)
Zoltán Váczi: Over the Glass Mountain … – beFORe JOHN⁹ (world premiere)
with the participation of: Katalin Károlyi – vocals, Tamás Schlanger – percussion
(with the support of the MALÉV)

Béla Faragó –György Gém
East Side Story
chamber opera (world premiere)
(see at Theatre–Dance)

24 October 7:30 p.m. Francia Intézet
Soloists of the National Orchestra of Lyon
Claude Debussy: Sonate pour violoncelle et piano
György Kurtág: Hommage à R. Sch, op. 15d
Pascal Dusapin: Trio à cordes
Pierre Boulez: Domaines pour clarinette seul
Claude Debussy: Sonate pour violon et piano

The soloists of the famous National Orchestra of Lyon give a concert in the French Institute of Budapest before the orchestra’s performance in Hungary. The event provides music lovers with highlights of the concert series the orchestra will give in December.

(organised by the French Institute)

Concert of the 15-year-old Intermodulation Ensemble
Maurice Ravel –László Tihanyi: Oiseaux tristes
Luciano Berio: Serenata (1957)
Arnold Schönberg: Serenade op. 24.
Péter Eötvös: Cosmos (1999 version)
György Ligeti: Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester
Balázs Horváth: Magnets I/b (Crux)
with the participation of: Orsolya Kaczander – flute, Gábor Eckhardt – piano, Miklós Perényi – violoncello, Ákos Ambrus – vocals
conducted by: László Tihanyi

Intermodulation Chamber Orchestra was formed in 1985 by young musicians who were fresh graduates of the Music Academy. According to their artistic credo, their aim was to present 20^th century and contemporary music, domestic and foreign alike, to a broad audience, and to inspire new works. The orchestra appeared at prestigious locations in Europe, and their name is associated with several world premieres. They are the recipients of several ARTISJUS Awards. Mr. László Tihanyi, adjunct professor of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy, is one of the founders of the orchestra. He is also conductor and artistic director of Intermodulation. Mr. Tihanyi is a very active and sought after participant of the Hungarian musical life, and is well known in major European centres of music by his own merit, and also as Mr. Péter Eötvös’ co-conductor and assistant.

(Supported by the Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest)

27 October 7:30 p.m. MTA Kongresszusi terem
Concert of the UMZE Ensemble
György Ligeti: Chamber concert
Péter Eötvös: Shadows
Dubravko Detoni: Stella Borealis (world premiere)
András Szőllősy: Elegy
Zoltán Jeney: Heraclitus – fragments
conducted by: Zsolt Nagy

Conductor Zsolt Nagy (1957) graduated from the Music Academy as the student of István Párkai. He has been leading significant European and American projects in co-operation with famous orchestras, ensembles and soloists since 1988. From 1990 he taught in the Karlsruhe Institut für Neue Musik as Péter Eötvös’s assistant, later he became the musical director of the Karlsruhe Institut für Musiktheater. He was visiting professor at the International Eötvös Institute on three occasions following 1995. He has been the musical advisor and first conductor of the Israel Contemporary Players. He is also the arts director of the conductors’ course organised on an annual basis by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra of Ostrava. In 1999 he won the “Best Performer of Israeli Music” award. He has been the conductor of almost a hundred world premiers and CDs and the regular guest of several important music festivals around the world.

28 October 7:30 p.m. Olasz Intézet
Concert of the Budapest Symphony Orchestra
(of the Hungarian Radio)
British Music of our Age
Stuart MacRae: Landscape and the Mind: Distance, Refuge (Hungarian premiere)
John McCabe: Suite–Arthur Pendragon (world premiere)
Malcolm Williamsons: With Proud Thanksgiving (Hungarian premiere)
Edward Elgar– Anthony Payne: Symphony No. 3. (Hungarian premiere)
conducted by: Christopher Austin

“It is one of the greatest privileges in my life to work with so many contemporary composers. The program (I have chosen) is the music of three colleagues whose work has enriched my life as surely as their great predecessor, Edward Elgar. All three works reflect to the major British composers from the early 20^th century” - says Christopher Austin the conductor of the concert. The speciality of the concert is that Elgar’s unfinished Symphony No. 3 can be heard which was masterly completed by Anthony Payne, a contemporary composer.

(The concert is organised by the British Council, supported by British Airways, Gellért Hotel Danubius.)

20 October 8 p.m. Trafó
Kampec Dolores Festival
The Kampec Dolores Band was formed 19 years ago in 1984 after the breaking up of the Kontroll Group. The group has participated in several acknowledged European festivals since then. On the new album of the band (On the Back of the Bull) which has always been open to new influences, adaptations of Turkish dervish songs and Southern Indian Tamil folk songs can be heard besides the usual songs. Among the guests of the evening one finds István Grencsó, Erzsi Kiss and Szini, founding member of the group, who at present lives abroad. The last part of the program is dedicated to the Kampecid Sound Unit, which – with the help of DJ Palotai and other sound transformers – shows what new technologies can do to the Kampec repertoire

20 October 7 p.m. Thália Színház
Sziámi
Simple Creation
Introduction to the group’s new album

The founding members of the Sziámi have been playing together since the successful premiere of the musical Angel in the Sky, Devil on the Wall that took place in the Trafó in November 1999. Composer and guitarist János Gasner and pianist László Papócsi are playing with Péter Sziámi Müller again. Saxophonist György Lőrincz is also part of the initial set-up of the group. The new members are Péter Szuna (bass), Dani Jékey (drums) and the two backgound vocalists: Kati Lajtai and Anna Müller. The new album (published by the Warner–1G) comes out for the Autumn Festival. The audience had a chance to hear some of the new songs and ideas at the Pepsi Festival. The title is Simple Creation (since creation is simple). Its genre is: casting for the new world. Its motto is a Hungarian pun that cannot be translated.

26 – 28 October 8 p.m. Fonó Budai Zeneház
Ethno 2000
Editor: Zoltán Krulik

26 October David Yengibarian
Ando Drom
Gépfolklór

27 October Barna Gábos’s Quintett
Egy Kiss Erzsi Zene
Bésh o Drom

28 October Dávid Klezmer Quintet
Lovász Irén – Skanzen Project
Tatros

The multicultural characteristic of Ethno 2000 is guaranteed not only by the synthetic attempts of the contemporary and experimental avant-garde. The participants of the Millennium festival are groups and creative workshops that represent the traditions of the nationalities and minorities living in the neighbourhood in unique ways adapting the musical inspirations of remote continents.

(supported by the National Cultural Core Program, the Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest)

29 October 10 p.m. Bárka Színház
Concert of Zbigniew Namysłowski and the Ryszard Kruza Quintet
(see program schedule under Parasol Polonaise)

13–14 October 7 p.m. Bárka Színház
Chalk Circle production
NEXXT
Frau Plastic Chicken Show
Hungarian premiere
(subsequent performances: October 15–16)
Dorottya Udvaros, Zoltán Mucsi, Viktor Bodó, Sándor Terhes, Gergely Bánki, Annamária Láng, Borbála Péterfy, Sándor Csányi, Zsolt Nagy, Lia Pokorny, Lilla Sárosdy, András Vinnai, István Tasnádi, Márton Ágh, Klára Varga, Tamás Bányai, Péter Hollós, András Nagy, Éva Magyar, András Monori, György Budai, Balázs Erős, Máté Gáspár, Árpád Schilling
(partners of the production: Festival d’Avignon, THEOREM, La rose des vents, Scene nationale de Villeneuve d’Ascq, Bárka Színház, Axis Plusz, Sophiensäle Berlin – with the support of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds; sponsors: Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, National Cultural Core Program, AFAA, Génération/s 2001, Soros Foundation, Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest, Roland, szinhaz.hu, Súgó, EstFM)
subsequent performances: 15–16 October

13–14 October 8 p.m. Trafó
Cas Public (Canada)
Incarnation
choreographer: Hélčne Blackburn

(sponsor: Dance Board of the National Cultural Core Program)
http://www.trafo.hu

18–19 October 7 p.m. Artus Stúdió
Artus Theatre
Cain’s Hat (world premiere)

performed by: Tamás Bakó, Bea Gold, Erzsi Kiss and Béla Pintér

costume designer: Krisztina Remete

choreographed by: Gábor Goda and the company
directed by: Gábor Goda
(subsequent performances: October 20 – 22)

The hat: an object symbolising respect and protection. The hat is a wall and a bridge. It connects, protects and hides. Humbleness and fear. The stigma of Cain is the hat itself. The performance was inspired by Lipót Szondi’s essay Cain the Law-breaker and Moses the legislator. Moses also bears the stigma of Cain. We find the rebel and the humble person in him. Both Cain and Moses commit murder. But the latter creates laws in order to control his own destructive emotions. We inherited the emotions and the laws – this whole endless process of running amok.

(sponsors: Soros Foundation, Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, National Cultural Core Program, Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest, Fonó Budai Music Centre, Albeo Kft.)
subsequent performances: 20–22 October
http://www.c3.hu/~artus/indexhu.html

19 October 7 p.m. Thália Színház
Szeged Contemporary Ballet
Postscriptum (world premiere)
music: Johann Sebastian Bach

“The story fell in front of me. Even if I had searched for it I could not have found a better and more exciting topic giving a more precise picture of our life and society than the events of last summer. And I did not look for it. Life made it happen. It seems that it was time for me to get acquainted with failure. I became a loser. And still I won a lot in connection with this case. Emotional moments that fundamentally define my thoughts about art, truths and lies. I am sad and happy. The performance is the artistic projection – or in other words: postcriptum – of this tale, this feeling.

PS: I will not be a politician. I am an artist.” (Tamás Juronics)
Before the performance starts, the Philip Morris Flower Ballet Award will be given out.

19–22 October 9 p.m. Toldi mozi
Documents of the Squat Theatre
19 October “Surány Film”: the documentation of the workshop in Surány
20 October Andy Warhol's Last Love (1978), Pig! Child! Fire! (1977)
21 October Mr. Dead and Mrs. Free (1981)
discussion with the members of Squat Theatre
22 October Films from the archives of Béla Balázs Studio

István Bálint –Péter Breznyik –Péter Halász –Anna Koós: Don Giovanni
(1975–1983 – The Gábor Dobos version)
Roomtheater (1974–1975)

Andy Warhol's Last Love (1978)
produced by the Squat Theatre
video: Michel Auder
the company: Mark Amitin, Eszter Bálint, István Bálint, Péter Breznyik (Berg), Éva Buchmüller, Eric Daillie, Galus Halász, Péter Halász, Iván Jakovits, Kathleen Kendell, Anna Koós, Borbála Major, Rebeka Major, Michael Moser, Klára Palotai, Larry Solomon
Pig! Child! Fire! (1977)
produced by the Squat Theatre
the company: Eszter Bálint, István Bálint, Péter Breznyik (Berg), Éva Buchmüller, Eric Daillie, Galus Halász, Péter Halász, Marianne Kollár, Anna Koós, Borbála Major, Rebeka Major, Ágnes Sántha, Larry Solomon
Mr. Dead and Mrs. Free (1981)
produced by the Squat Theatre
the company: Eszter Bálint, István Bálint, Péter Breznyik (Berg), Éva Buchmüller, Eric Daillie, Ron Discenza, Sandy Fiddler, Ken Friedman, Jossi Gutman, Galus Halász, Péter Halász, Anna Koós, Borbála Major, Rebeka Major, Nico, Sheryl Sutton, Klára Palotai, Danny Rosen, Larry Solomon, Tim Wright

(organised in co-operation with the Balázs Béla Stúdió Foundation; with the kind help of the National Museum and Institute of Theatre History; sponsor: MALÉV)

20–21 October 7 p.m. Bárka Színház
János Csányi
The Game (world premiere)
cast: Péter Scherer, László Széles, Rémusz Szikszai, Gergő Kaszás, Lia Pokorny, László Hunyadi, Gabriella Varga, Krisztián Kovács
music: Béla Faragó
space: János Csányi
costume: Julcsi Kiss
directed by: János Csányi

The play was put together on the basis of an improvised story in 1992–93 by János Csányi’s company that was in the process of formation in the Merlin Theatre. The Game was played on only few occasions at that time. By now Csányi’s arrangement has become even more actual because of both the plot of the play and the characters and fates that had just appeared in the Hungarian society at that time. The Game is set in a run down 7^th district pub in the early 1990’s around the beginning of the economic and social changes. Its characters are the typical figures of the transition, the members of the changing Hungarian society.

20–21 October 7 p.m. Madách Színház
Le Ballet Atlantique–Régine Chopinot (France)
The Dance of Time (La Danse du temps)
choreographer: Régine Chopinot

“While I was working on this choreography that was created at the beginning of the third millennium, at this symbolic point in time, I was mainly interested in the problems of the concept of time. It was clear for me that in The Dance of Time I would use the motives of stepping, running, falling, the trance and motionlessness. I am trying to dissolve these in the richness and naturalness of dancing.” (Régine Chopinot)
(organised in co-operation with the French Institute; supported by the Dance Board of the National Cultural Core Program)

21 October 7 p.m. Thália Színház
Contemporary Folk Dance Evening

The annual performance of the innovators of Hungarian folk dancing has become a regular program of the Autumn Festival. With its multicoloured traditions, richness and flexibility the Hungarian folk dance treasure keeps inspiring those artists who are open to new approaches to reconsider and reinterpret ideas. The original and many-faced pieces of dancers trying to build a bridge between traditions and modernity are presented again in this year’s muster.
(organised by the Martin György Néptáncszövetség)

23 October 8 p.m. MU Színház
Thomas Lehmen (Germany)
distanzlos

(Window on Berlin – with the support of the Municipality of Budapest and the Berlin Senate; with the kind help of the Goethe-Institut Budapest)
http://mu.mentha.hu
http://www.goethe.de/ms/bud/unindex.htm

23, 24 October Bárka Színház
23 October 7 p.m. 24 October 8.30 p.m.
Béla Faragó – György Gém
East Side Story
chamber opera (world premiere)
cast: Katalin Pitti, András Molnár, János Tóth, Stefánia Moldován, Eszter Wierdl, Simon Somorjai (Slovakia), Péter Fried, Tamás Rózsa, chamber choir from the members of the Choir of the Hungarian Radio (teacher: Gyöngyvér Gupcsó),

with the participation of the Weiner-Szász Chamber Symphonic Orchestra (arts director: Judit Szász)
stage designer: Zsolt Khell
conducted by: László Tihanyi
directed by: Mihály Kerényi

“When writing this piece, I was mainly inspired by the fact that György Gém’s libretto gave me the possibility to present the events of 1956 through the life of an «ordinary» Hungarian family and thus avoid the trap of creating an empty political monument. My musical aim was to present the meaning in an objective and comprehensible manner, so the language is clear and I placed great emphasis on the comprehensibility of the text.” (Béla Faragó)

(sponsors: National Cultural Core Program, Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest, ARTISJUS, Soros Foundation, Hungarian Television Ltd., Hungarian Radio Ltd Rt., Office for the Protection of Performers’ Rights)

24–25 October 8 p.m. Trafó
Jo Fabian (Germany)
Blown away (The Invisible Homepage of T. Rex)

(Window on Berlin – with the support of the Municipality of Budapest and the Berlin Senate; with the kind help of the Goethe-Institut Budapest)
http://www.trafo.hu

http://www.goethe.de/ms/bud/unindex.htm
http://www.jofabian.de

25–27 October 8 p.m. Merlin Színház
Evenings of the Contemporary Dance Theatre Association

The jury of the association tried to include in the program of the festival pieces that show where contemporary Hungarian dancing stands at present, and in which direction it is likely to move. The performances attempt to give a true picture of the level of the performers’ technical skills and of the way choreographers see the world at the turn of the millennium. In the course of the evenings we will find reinterpreted traditions, the presentation of the latest efforts of Western dancing workshops, but first of all personality and sensitivity. The jury’s selection provides the broadest range of contemporary Hungarian dancers with the chance to introduce themselves to the audience.

Members of the jury: Beáta Barda, Pál Csillag, Dóra Péczely, dr. Gábor Sajósi, Tibor Várszegi

25 October
Attila Egerházi – N. Porpora: Closed Curtains

performed by: Edit Rujsz, András Lukács
Eszter Gál – Peter Pleyer: “Pas De Deux – Practice What You Preach”

26 October
Réka Szabó: Lilac Ant-Eater

choreographed and performed by: Réka Szabó
Éva Duda: In between

27 October
Még 1 Mozdulatszínház: In Memoriam Valéria Dienes

26 –27 October 8 p.m. Szkéné Színház
Márta Ladjánszki and the Bálványos Company
Amorphous Mermaid

performed by: Márta Ladjánszki – dance, Judit Bálványos – alto saxophone, Ádám Jávorka – viola, Zsolt Varga – tenor saxophone, Zsuzsa Vincze – violin
Motto: “We have to learn that lane,
where the crystal starts to smoke,
and wood transforms into fog,
like the body does into memory ." (Ágnes Nemes Nagy: Trees)
The piece – that is put together from improvisation, temporary moods and pictures depicting trees in nature and fine arts – is created from the joint effort of the dancer and the musicians.

(sponsored by the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, National Cultural Core Program)

28– 29 October 7 p.m. Bethlen Kortárs Táncműhely
Central Europe Dance Theatre
Twilight (world premiere)
music by: Zsigmond Lázár

choreographed and directed by: Csaba Horváth
The Garden of Hungarians (world premiere)

music by: Csaba Ökrös, Gyula Ács
choreographed and directed by: István Énekes

The two movements of the evening of one of the oldest workshops of Hungarian contemporary dancing are marked by Csaba Horváth and István Énekes. The excellent dancer-choreographer Horváth has been working with the company in the past few years, while Énekes is the founding arts director of the Central Europe Dance Theatre. The scene of the Twilight is a social evening held in a 7^th district espresso. The Garden of Hungarians is based on Imre Babics’s epic poem bearing the same title and published in 1991. The two performances are connected by their uniquely surrealistic approach.

29 October 7 p.m. Bárka Színház
Teatr Ósmego Dnia: No-Man’s Land II
(see program schedule under Parasol Polonaise)

It is the fifth occasion that people interested in workshop-based alternative or experimental theatre are provided with an opportunity to view the performances supported by the Soros Foundation. Naturally, the festival may only present the productions that are regarded as the best from among the dozens of productions sponsored by the Foundation every year. The selectors believe that the eleven plays performed give a clear picture of what values the Soros Studio Theatre Program tries to support and what tendencies there are to be found in contemporary theatre workshops. The program of the Studio Theatre Days is very diverse from the point of view themes, genres and styles. Dance performances and prosaic pieces are presented in an equal portion, studio productions of professional theatres are offered by the program next to performances of groups recruited for a single occasion, the profile contains productions of freshly launched theatre workshops as well as that of alternative companies acknowledged for their decade-long traditions. Diversity is richness, the richness of the theatre – this is what the 5^th Studio Theatre Days of the Soros Foundation tries to draw attention to and of course it offers pleasant entertainment for those who enjoy special experiences.” (István Nánay)

15 October 8 p.m. Szkéné Színház
István Paál Studio Theatre (Szolnok)
We Are not of the Worse Kind Either
directed by: Sándor Sárkány

17 October 7 p.m. Thália Színház
Central Europe Dance Theatre
Dawn Of Deer
directed and choreographed by: Csaba Horváth

18 October 8 p.m. Szkéné Színház
COMPmANia
Romance
choreographed and directed by: Attila Csabai

19 October 8 p.m. Trafó
Compagnie Pál Frenák
Tricks & Tracks
choreographed by: Pál Frenák

21 October 7:30 p.m. Vígszínház, Háziszínpad
Vígszínház
Caryl Churchill: The Skriker
directed by: Sándor Zsótér

http://www.vigszinhaz.hu

22 October 7 p.m. Bárka Színház
Bárka Theatre
Péter Kárpáti: Tótferi
directed by: Eszter Novák

24 October 7 p.m. Bárka Színház
Sámán Theatre
The Big Hoo-Hah
directed and choreographed by: Éva Magyar

25 October 8 p.m. Ezüsthegyi Evangélikus Templom
OFF Táncszínházi Társulat
Requiem
music by: W.A. Mozart
choreographed by: Adrienn Hód

27 October 7:30 p.m. Thália Stúdió
Zsigmond Móricz Theatre (Nyíregyháza) – Thália Theatre
Ryunosuke Akutagawa – Péter Müller: in the Woods
directed by: Péter Telihay

28 October 7:30 p.m. Stúdió “K”
Studio “K”
András Forgách: The Virgin, the Corpse, the Bishop and the Knives
directed by: Tamás Fodor

29 October 8 p.m. Szkéné Színház
Szkéné Theatre
Béla Pintér: Hospital, Bakony
directed by: Béla Pintér

29 October 10 p.m. Thália Színház

13 October –30 November Mai Manó Ház
Czech Avantgarde Photography (1918–48)
Opening: 13 October, 4 p.m.

Those who would like to get acquainted with the styles defining the 20^th century history of art, those who would like to see constructivist, surrealist, expressionist, cubist, dadaist photographs, those who would like to know what art deco and art nouveau look like in black and white (and sometimes in colour), those who are curious about how the corners of different technical instruments become charming thanks to light and perspective or how the outlines of female body are enriched in the foreground of geometric decorations, those who wonder how much magic is hidden or shown by ordinary objects, are most warmly recommended to visit the exhibition organised jointly by the Autumn Festival and the House of Hungarian Photographers.

(from the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts of Prague; sponsors: Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest, National Cultural Core Program, Czech Centre Budapest, MALÉV, János Fenyő Foundation, Siemens)

13 October –26 November Budapest Galéria
Jindřích Štreit’s (Czech Republic) photo exhibit
Sand Photo – Photographs of the Hungarian countryside

Opening: 13 October, 5.30 p.m.

the exhibition is opened by: Pavel Dostal, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic and Zoltán Rockenbauer, Minister of the National Cultural Heritage

“Jindřích Š treit spent some time taking pictures in at least ten countries that are located far away from each other geographically, culturally, linguistically and in all other aspects. And he saw (wanted to see) that those parts of the world that were created by human beings are very similar in the Czech Republic and Japan, France and Austria, not to mention the other countries. [...] No matter where Š treit goes he sees the world from a fundamentally Czech point of view. With eyes that analyse the smallest details and notice everything but sometimes look at us with a slight twinkle while the corner of the mouth makes a hardly noticeable upward move.” (Károly Kincses)

Jindřích Š treit ‘s pictures taken in Hungary are exhibited.

(sponsors: Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, the Embassy of the Czech Republic)

13–29 October Liszt Ferenc tér
Outdoor board exhibition organised by the Artpool Centre for the Research of Arts

The almost traditional open air exhibition of Artpool is dedicated to the memory of 28 famous Hungarian personalities (artists, politicians, researchers, etc.) all having the first name Ede – on the occasion of the "Ede Festival"

14–29 October Artpool P60
Continued /"Add to..." Art (Exhibition of the Artpool)

Selection from, reconstruction and interactive display of those network projects of different characteristics organised in the past twenty years, through which the random element present in the pieces created by the joint effort of different artists can be presented.

14 October
EDE Day Festival Fine Arts Programs
(see detailed program schedule under Ede day)

http://www.zpont.hu

10:30 a.m. VISTA előadóterem
Pictures of the Street
an exhibition of photographer Lenke Szilágyi

11:15 a.m. Európai Kulturális Alapítvány
Transfer Point
an installation by Jenő Lévai
Water Towers
Photos by Zsuzsy Novák

3 p.m. Új Színház Galéria
An exhibition by László Feszt

4:30 p.m. Szentendrei Építészgrafikai Galéria Kiállítóterme
CAD exhibition of young Czech architects

16–26 October Trafó Galéria
Berlin Open

International video program organised in co-operation with the Galerie Barbara Thumm of Berlin.

Opening: 16 October, 6 p.m.

The celluloid and video films of more than twenty artists living in Berlin and other cities of the world can be viewed in eleven days. Different approaches to film have become more and more important in fine arts during the 1990’s: new narration built from fragments, “found” films, minimalist and recontextualistic ways of expression, etc. The program is a selection from the pieces of a continuously renewing traditional genre, through the screen of a metropolis – Berlin – that has become one of the definitive centres of contemporary arts recently.
(Window on Berlin – with the support of the Municipality of Budapest and the Berlin Senate and with the kind help of the Goethe-Institut Budapest)

17 October –30 November Vármegye Galéria
Contemporary Hungarian Artists from the Carpathian Basin
from the workshop of the 10-year-old art colony of Makó

Opening: 17 October, 5 p.m.

open: Tuesday–Friday between 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Makó – a small Hungarian city hosting artists during the summer – has been popular among painters and graphic artists since the 1920’s. 15-16 artists – mostly adherents of natural painting – arrive from the whole Carpathian Basin annually to the colony of artists reinvigorated in 1990. This year the millennium of the founding of the Hungarian State provided the artists with specific tasks. The exhibition presenting the works of the past ten years moves temporarily to the Vármegye Galéria from the Municipal Museum of Makó.

(Sponsor: the Office of the Commissioner of the Hungarian Millennium)

17 October 4 p.m. C3
Centre for Culture and Communication
Open Day
4 p.m. Media arts and media history

Discussion about the current state of media research and production.
5:30 p.m. Works produced in the framework of the joint residential arts
program of the CICV (France) and the C3
Presentation of Gregory Chatonsky and Reynald Drouhin
7 p.m. Dual Culture Calendar
Presentation of the media arts works (multimedia CD and web project) produced in the C3. The project transforms the traditional genre of

calendars in accordance with the characteristics of new media forms.

(also see under Best of CICV Films)

The C3 Centre for Culture and Communication organises again an Open Day which was so successful in the previous years. The event is built around the relationship between media history and the new media art. The work, the new publications and the research results of C3 are presented during the day. Similar to the program of previous years, C3 will introduce a European partner organisation: the CICV – Pierre Schaeffer (France). The event will be located in three spots: the Toldi Cinema, the French Institute and the C3. The audience may also view the works (prepared in the C3) of the French artists participating in the resident program organised in co-operation with the CICV.

(Founders of the C3: Hungarian Soros Foundation and Matáv Ltd., organised in co-operation with the French Institute)

http://www.c3.hu http://exindex.c3.hu/media/index.php3?mediafile=incident.html
http://www.cicv.fr http://www.incident.net/home/index/index.html
http://www.ambafrance.hu/instit_f/menuhu.htm

4–19 October 19. Goethe-Institut, Kiállítóterem
Lukas Einsele (Germany)
Haben Wollen – bARTer II
performance/exhibition
finissage October 19. 6 p.m.
(exhibition of the Goethe-Institut, Budapest)

Performance artist Lukas Einsele is exchanging memories. The members of the audience may choose pieces from the photo and video archives of the artist in return for a personal story, a special photo, an interview, for letting the artist to visit them at home or taking him on a sightseeing tour. The exchanged objects replace the original ones, they are integrated into the archives changing their artistic nature. The assembled material is exhibited as a collectively created work of art.

(Exhibit of the Goethe-Institut Budapest)

21–29 October Törökfürdő, Frankel Leó út 48.
An exhibition of Zsuzsa Formanek, glass sculptor, Kristóf Bedécs goldsmith and Balázs Bélafalvy, film director
On the Edges
Opening: 21 October, 7 p.m.

Open: 2 p.m. – 8 p.m.

On the occasion of the three artists’ exhibition the visitors are provided with an opportunity to enter one of the partly ruined but still impressive historic building of Budapest: the space of unique atmosphere serves as the background and installation of the glass and iron sculptures specially designed for this exhibition. The film On the Edges, after which the exhibition was named, was directed and shot by Balázs Bélafalvy will be the first one on show in the Törökfürdő (Turkish bath).

(sponsors: Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest, the Fine Arts Board of the National Cultural Core Program; the pieces on display will exhibited in the Eventuell Galery – 7. Nyáry Pál street – after the closing of the festival)

21 October –19 November Budapest Galéria Kiállítóház
Transposition
Around the Centres – Questionings of the Peripheries

Opening: 21 October, 5 p.m.

Exhibiting artists:

Austria: Lois Weinberger, Munthean – Rosenblum, Sebastian Weissenbacher, Elke Kristofek
France: Alain Balsac, Patrick Raynaud
Spain: Pello Irazu, Eugenio Cano, Jordi Colomer
Czech Republic: Ivan Kaffka
Hungarian: Károly Kelemen, János Szirtes, Éva Köves
curator: Lóránd Hegyi
Budapest is the first stop of the three-year program concerning almost 25 countries, the aim of which is to reintegrate the countries that used to belong to the periphery of Europe into the all-European cultural life. The Transposition exhibition attempts to moderate the new discussion among the former South Western, South Eastern, Central Eastern and Northern European cultural peripheries, since the artists working in these regions struggle with a similarly disadvantageous situation concerning the integration of their art. The series of exhibitions presents the activities of the young and middle-aged generation in a way that a new installation is set up in every city. The local artists are provided with an opportunity to exhibit together with the participants at the different stages of the series. This method will create a new, actual and authentic dialogue from Lisbon to Helsinki, Valencia to Budapest on the individual authenticity of contemporary arts.

(sponsors: Institut für Mitteleuropa und Donauraum – Vienna, Austrian Cultural Institute – Budapest, Siemens Austria, Telecom Austria)

24 October –16 November Goethe-Institut, Kiállítóterem
László Rajk
Radical eclectic – planned destruction
Opening: 24 October, 6 p.m.

“We would like to see around ourselves buildings on which time does not leave a trace, so we are maintaining, renovating and reinvigorating them. We can go as far as to even state that we keep falsifying things and we call it the protection of historic buildings. We know the age of a building because we are told so and not because we see the deterioration caused by time on them as we can see it on ourselves in the mirror or on a tree from the number of growth-rings. We perceive a renovated cathedral as brand new but we know that it is age-old. Our perceptions and consciousness communicate contradicting pieces of information.” (László Rajk)

(exhibition of the Goethe-Institut)

25–29 October Műcsarnok
Joseph Beuys Symposion and Exhibition

Joseph Beuys is one of the most influential German artists of the 20^th century. His fame does not only stem from his felt sculptures, drawings, actions, objects and films but also from his fundamental ideology, “social modelling” according to which society needs to be shaped like a sculpture is formed by the artist. At the Beuys Symposion twenty Beuys-experts analyse the aesthetic, ideological and social aspects of his oeuvre. His films and videos will be shown, his most characteristic pieces and the Beuys works donated to Hungary by Lucrezia De Domizio-Durini will be displayed in the framework of a chamber exhibition.

(partners: ELTE Faculty of Liberal Arts, Liget Galery; sponsors: Joseph-Beuys-Stiftung – Basel, Ministry of national Cultural Heritage, Goethe-Institut Budapest, Artpool, Ludwig Foundation, Soros Foundation, MALÉV)

25–29 October Műcsarnok
Beuys Symposion
Opening: 25 October 6 p.m.
26 October: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., 3.30 p.m. – 10 p.m. – lectures
27 October: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., 3.30 p.m. – 10 p.m. – lectures
28 October: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., 3.30 p.m. – 10 p.m. – lectures
29 October: lectures, summarising discussion
simultaneous interpretation will be available
films and videos

28 October – 24 November Liget Galéria
Joseph Beuys: Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz
Peter Schata’s essay exhibit

Opening: 28 October, 2 p.m.
Open: 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. (closed on Tuesdays)

29 October 5:30 p.m. Bárka Színház
Photographs of Jerzy Stokowski
Shadows
(see program schedule under Parasol Polonaise)

14 October
EDE Day Festival Film Screenings
(see detailed program schedule under Ede day)

http://www.zpont.hu

15–31 October Örökmozgó
Jolly APOCALYPSE
film series

15 October 6:30 p.m.

Before the opening film an introductory speech will be delivered by Ákos Szilágyi
Brazil (director: Terry Gilliam, 1984)

16 October
6:30 p.m.
Weekend (director: Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
8:30 p.m.
Brazil (director: Terry Gilliam, 1984)

18 October 4:30 p.m.
Sweet Movie (director: Dušan Makavejev, 1974)

20 October 4:30 p.m.
The Dog’s Night Song (director: Gábor Bódy, 1983)

24 October 4:30 p.m.
Eroica (director: Andrzej Munk, 1957)

25 October 4:30 p.m.
Le Fantôme de la liberté (director: Luis Buňuel, 1974)

26 October 4:30 p.m.
La Grande bouffe (director: Marco Ferreri, 1973)

30 October 8:30 p.m.
The Firemen's Ball (director: Miloš Forman, 1967)

31 October 8:30 p.m.
Cloud Heaven (director: Nikolai Dostal, 1991)

19-22 October 9 p.m. BBS – Toldi mozi

(see under Dance – Theatre)

19 – 21 October 5 p.m. BBS – Toldi mozi
"Best of CICV"
The audience will have an opportunity to view the best productions of the Hérimoncourt International Video Art Creative Center’s best video films in the framework of the Carte Blanche au CICV series.

Robert Cahen : Corps flottants, 1997
Sandra Kogut : Adiu monde, 1997
Sandra Kogut : Parabolic people, 1991
Sandra Kogut : La e ça ( Here and There )
Caty Vogan : The syncrhonizer, 1996
David Larcher : vov (vide Ø void) text, 1994-96
David Larcher : ich tanck, 1998
David Larcher : vov (vide Ø void) text, 1994-96
David Larcher : Granny’is, 1989, version française : 1993
David Larcher : Poemes to filth/ Poèmes à l'infect, 1997
Gianni Toti : Tupac Amauta (premier chant ), 1997
Gianni Toti : Planetopolis, 1993
n+n (Nicole et Norbert) Corsino : Totempol, 1994
n+n corsino : Captives 2^nd Mvmt, 1999
Fransisco Ruiz de Infante : Les loupes, 1995
Dominik Barbier : J'étais Hamlet I was hamlet, 1993
Irit Bastrit : Trace d'une présence à venir / Traces of a presences to come, 1993
Patrick de Geteere : Jeanne, 1995
Mickael Buckel : Witness, 1996
(organised jointly by the French Institute and C3)
(also see: Open Day at the C3)

20 October 5 p.m. Merlin Színház
Bohemia 2000 Festival
Pearls of the Deep
(see under Bohemia 2000 Festival)

25 October 8 p.m. Művész mozi
A Budapest Film premiere
Seaside, Dusk
director: András Fésős

The jury of the 31^st Hungarian Film Festival granted András Nagy, the DP of this film the “best director of photography” award.

(presented by: Kép-Árnyék, Hazard Film Berlin; co-production partners, sponsors: Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation, Hungarian Radio and Television Body, National Cultural Core Program, TV2, Duna Television, Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, Hungarian Historical Film Foundation)

26 October 7 p.m. BBS – Toldi mozi
A MOKÉP pre-premiere screening
Tuvalu
director: Veit Helmer

The film received the award of the international jury of this year’s Mediawave Festival. “[...] A string structured neo-burlesque, a story about an old bath bound to be torn down and its dwellers, a love story about two young persons full of inhibitions, a poetic etude about conspiracy and betrayal, an elegiac story about traditional values, respect and affection...” (Balázs Varga, July 2000)

28 October 8 p.m. Almássy téri szabadidőközpont
A pre-premiere screening by Budapest Film and Közgáz Visual Brigade
Le Petit voyage
(See under Le Petit Voyage – cultural festival of the 1970’s and 80’s)

14 October 7 p.m. VISTA előadóterem
Ode to EDE – An Accidental Literary Reading
(see detailed program schedule under Ede day)

http://www.zpont.hu

14–15, 21–22, 28–29 October 3 p.m.
Literary sight-seeing
departure from the parking lot located at Műcsarnok
editor: Ágnes De Coll

The city is presented by:

14 October Ákos Szilágyi – László Lengyel
15 October Ádám Nádasdy –Kornél Hamvai
21 October Endre Kukorelly –Gábor Németh –Zoltán Kőrösi
22 October László Garaczi –Péter Zilahy –Zsolt Farkas
28 October Gábor Karátson
29 October János Háy –Attila Hazai –Vera Filó

Not only the different faces of Budapest in the great historical periods existed next to and inside each other, but so did the faces of Budapest as perceived by different people. During this special sightseeing tour poets and writers show their own city. On three weekends altogether six buses set off with one and a half dozen writers on board to discover their Budapest.

27 October 8 p.m. MU Színház
Mistype Feast
Homage to the typewriter
Exhibits

Typewriter exhibition, exhibition by Zsolt Koroknai and Hunor Pető, Typewritingcoursebookreadbytextby, Tibor Leszták, Pál Nagy: métro-police (object)

Viktor Lois, S.K.Y (Zsolt Kovács és Zsolt Sőrés)

Pál Nagy, Endre Szkárosi, Bálint Szombathy

Pál Nagy: métro-police
Special event

typewriter repair on the spot, free of charge

The typewriter became the most definitive instrument of the exchange of information in the 20^th century, while paper became the vehicle of information. The typewriter replaced handwriting at the everyday level of communication. Dailies, periodicals, editorials of publishing houses preserve the imprints of our century – mostly on A/4 size sheets. The later rival (and winner), the computer was only the shy experimental instrument of scientific and military researches at that time. Today only the QWERTY–keyboard reminds us of the typewriter. Such an instrument (completely deprived of its function) may be the perfectly archaic subject of a concept arts festival. This ultimately out-of-use (?) instrument can be destructed, transformed into a new quality, repaired or spoilt without any moralistic hesitation.... Free repair of typewriters on the spot during the day of the festival!

28 October 8 p.m. Trafó
Sugar 3.
arts revue

The basic concept of the third evening of the arts revue series is a literary fashion show which has been planned for a long time and which serves as the framework of the whole evening. Literary types fill the catwalk: the poetess, the rejected author, the young genius, the bookshop assistant, the poeta natus, the leading writer, etc. The upcoming evening of Sugar will deal more with literature than ever before but of course other genres will also be present in the revue.

14 October VI. Paulay Ede utca
Ede Day – festival in Paulay Ede street

One of the oldest streets of Terézváros, the Paulay Ede street (earlier the “Two Saracens” street) has always been a busy street full of life. At the beginning of the nineteenth century it was an area full of wine-cellars and by the second half of the 1800’s it became a red-light district. The street was named after Ede Paulay (1836–1894) – actor, director and the head of the Hungarian National Theatre for about two decades. These days the street is going through a renaissance: restaurants, bars, galleries, cafés have appeared in the neighbourhood of the old and well-known institutions. On the occasion of the Ede-day (13 October) the one-day festival initiated by the European Cultural Foundation commemorates the joyful traditions and the eponym of and the numerous cultural workshops operating in the street.

(organised in co-operation with the European Cultural Foundation, the Artpool Arts Research Centre, the Radnóti Miklós Theatre, the New Theatre and the VISTA Travel Centre; sponsor: Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest)

The official WebPages of the Ede-day festival:
http://www.zpont.hu e-mail: ede@zpont.hu

All day Liszt Ferenc tér
28 EDE
outdoor board exhibition on Liszt Ferenc Square

10 a.m.
Flee market

10 a.m. up and down the street
Ernő Keil Brass Band Association
Marches

10 a.m. – 2 p.m. VISTA kávéház

playhouse for children

arts and crafts sessions, puppet shows, games.

10 a.m. – 11 a.m. VISTA kávéház

coffee shop music

10:30 a.m. up and down the street
Maskarás Ensemble: a march on stilts

10:30 a.m. VISTA előadóterem
Pictures of the Street
an exhibition of photographer Lenke Szilágyi

Opened by: János Ács, director

Let us take a look at ourselves. Residents, shopkeepers, houses and friends in the pictures. Everyone who has something to do with our street.

11 a.m. VISTA klubterem
“Accidental Film Series” of Cirko-Gejzir
Nancy Meyers: The Parent Trap (Based on Kästner: Das Doppelte Lottchen)

11 a.m. – 3 p.m. VISTA kávéház
Ernő Weszely at the piano

11:15 a.m. Európai Kulturális Alapítvány
Transfer Point
an installation by Jenő Lévai
Water Towers
Photos by Zsuzsy Novák

11:30 a.m. VISTA Kávéház or in front
Clown show performed by Kamilla and Lala

12 p.m. At the memorial plaque of Ede Paulay (Paulay Ede u. 4.)
Homage to Ede Paulay

12 p.m. Hegedű utca, Artpool P60
A bicycle and pedestrian concert
(organised by Artpool Arts Research Centre)

1 p.m. – 6 p.m. Artpool P60
Continued /"Add to..." Art
(See under Fine Arts)

1 p.m. . VISTA klubterem
“Accidental Film Series” of Cirko-Gejzir
Jacques Tati: Mon Oncle

2 p.m. on the street
contact improvisation on the street
performers: Eszter Gál, Peter Pleyer, Dongó Balázs Szokolay

2 p.m. in front of Paulay Ede u. 4.
Tour of the Street I.
walk lead by Mihály Ráday

2 p.m. – 6 p.m. Tütü Tangó Kávéház
playhouse for children

arts and crafts sessions, puppet shows, games

3 p.m. Új Színház Galéria
An exhibition by László Feszt

3:30 p.m. VISTA klubterem
“Accidental Film Series” of Cirko-Gejzir
Gábor Bódy: Psycho-Cosmos
Közgáz Vizuális Brigád: The Dice Is Cast

3:30 p.m. in front of Tütü Tangó Kávéház
Tour of the Street II.

4 p.m. VISTA előadőterme
A Musical Discussion
newly released albums of Hungaroton Classic

4 p.m.– 5 p.m. VISTA kávéház
The Sirens Singers
evergreens in English

4 p.m. Tütü Tangó kávéház
Clown Kamilla and Friends

4:30 p.m. Szentendrei Építészgrafikai Galéria Kiállítóterme
CAD exhibition of young Czech architects

5 p.m. VISTA klubterem
“Accidental Film Series” of Cirko-Gejzir
Otar Yoseliani: Once There Lived a Song-Thrush

5 p.m. – 7 p.m. VISTA kávéház
Accordion in the afternoon

5:30 p.m. VISTA előadóterem
A concert by the Vivaldi Consort
Antonio Vivaldi and his contemporaries
artistic director: Géza István Hargitai

The strangely arranged chamber orchestra performs pieces of contemporary composers first in baroque, followed by smaller formations (duo, trio). The music of the eponym, Antonio Vivaldi is in the focus.

6 p.m. – 11 p.m. Tütü Tangó kávéház
Music till night by Bésh O Drom, Chalavan, Szilvási Gipsy Band

6 p.m. Új Színház, Stúdiószínpad
Ede Terényi: Kalevala
mono-opera in one act

The one-hour-long performance is a curious adaptation of the Kalevala. The three-octave range vocal piece (in Finnish) is a great challenge for the singer who plays all the characters of the Finnish epic poem.

6:15 p.m. on the street, departure from Paulay u. 1.
OFF Táncszínházi Társulat
Ball on the Street

“Marching-theatre” composed for the whole length of the street, in which the unique buildings and the intimate details of the setting play an important role.

7 p.m. VISTA kávéház
coffee shop concert

7 p.m. VISTA klubterem
“Accidental Film Series” of Cirko-Gejzir
Otar Yoseliani: Favourites of the Moon

7 p.m. VISTA előadóterem
Ode to EDE – an accidental literary night

Literary improvisations, sketches with music

Muse: 28 EDE of the Liszt Ferenc square

some time Radnóti Színház
An accidental theatre show …surprise, surprise

Entry into the theatre through the Paulay Ede street scene dock

7:30 p.m. Új Színház, ruhatár
Katalin Szalai: Le donne furiose
chamber opera in one act

The story about the three determined women is based on the well-known Paris story of Greek mythology. To whom will Paris give the apple with the inscription “to the most beautiful one”? József Szalai’s libretto and Balázs Kovács’s direction gives an unexpected answer.

8 p.m.–10 p.m. VISTA kávéház
Smooth jazz trio

8:30 p.m. Új Színház, színházterem
Mauricio Kagel: The Tribune
performance for speaker, marches and loudspeakers
performed by: László Helyey, Gergely Vajda – clarinet, Szabolcs Joó and Boglárka Fábry – percussion, Brass in the Five
conductor: Gergely Vajda
director: István Márta

“And let me stress here that I am not talking about a specific head of state, past or the present; rather my concern is with laying bare the way in which political speakers in general use the language. My aim was to create the most credible composite picture possible, rather than to focus on a particular ideology and its representatives.

In creating a radio drama along these lines it once again seemed essential to me achieve real correlation between approach and production; this unity is something I have striven for since the earliest days of my work as a composer and radio dramatist.” (Mauricio Kagel; English translation: Keith Bullivant)

(joint production of the Valley of Arts and the Budapest Autumn Festival, sponsors: Music Board of the National Cultural Core Program, Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest, MALÉV)

9 p.m. VISTA klubterem
“Accidental Film Series” of Cirko-Gejzir
Krysztof Kieslowski: Blind Chance

20 October 5 p.m. Merlin Színház
Bohemia 2000 Festival

This is the fourteenth occasion the Beer Order of Prague has been organising its annual festival and the fifth occasion that it is held in the framework of the Budapest Autumn Festival. The rich program of the event offers something for everybody: exciting roundtable discussion about the 60’s and the 70’s, Prague, Czechoslovakia and of course Hrabal. We will see an abundant selection of films we love so much; we can get acquainted with Kristý na Lhotákova, whose dance theatre is – in the opinion of Czech critiques – the greatest surprise of the past season. We will get a chance to hear again the Kopír Rozsywal Bestar band, the arrangement of which (contrabass, saxophone, accordion) results in a completely unique sound. And of course beer will be served all night long in the Staropramen beer-house to make the Prague-feeling complete.

6 p.m. színházterem
Venus with Rubik’s cube – dance performance

7 p.m. étterem
“Tender Barbarians” – panel discussion and short films (never before shown in Hungary) about the life of Bohumil Hrabal and his friends.

8:30 p.m. színházterem
Pearls of the Deep (directed by: Jiří Menzel, Jan Nemec, Ewald Schorm, Vera Chytilová, Jaromil Jireš – 1965) Five film directors at the start of their career adapted five short stories by Bohumil Hrabal which became the manifesto of the Czech new wave.

10 p.m. színházterem
a concert by Kopír Rozsywal Bestar

+ iskolaterem
a screening of Czech cartoons (The Mole, Bob and Bobek, etc.)
Staropramen beer hall

(sponsors: Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, Staropramen, MALÉV)

27–29 October Petőfi Csarnok
Budapest TechShow 2000
Festival and exhibition of show technology

The organisers of the exhibition and festival to be launched this year would like to take turns every second year with the Berlin Showtech exhibition. In addition to world leaders of modern technology, Hungarian companies engaged in the development, production and rendering services as well as technological and artistic experts and companies working in the field of shows, visual and sound design will be provided with an opportunity to introduce themselves. The unique feature of the Hungarian Techshow will be that its events are accompanied by large-scale festival presenting popular performers, connecting the audience to the impressive show.

(organised by the Uncus Kft.; partners and sponsors: Petőfi Csarnok, X produkció, Tourism Fund of the Municipality of Budapest, Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest, Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, National Cultural Core Program, Budapest FestivalCentre, Budapest Film, L&S Technic 2000, Philips Hungary Kft., Gráfium, Figura Kft., Lineum Kereskedőház Kft., Lisys Kft., Vista Travel Center, V.A.M. Design, MAFILM, Intercom)

Exhibitions:

International Exhibition and Fair of Show Technology

open: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

6 October – 10 November Trafó Pince

13–28 October Bárka Színház
Photo exhibition of directors of photography

Concerts:

17 October 8 p.m. Trafó
Concert of Viktor Lois and the Rambo Amadeus
http://www.trafo.hu

19 October 7 p.m. Merlin Színház
Wardrobe Variations (public rehearsal)
directed by: Tamás Jordán

20–29 October Új Színház Galéria
Exhibition of Mária Ambrus and Mari Benedek
opening: 20 October 6 p.m.
opened by: Sándor Zsótér

20 October 7:30 p.m. Zeneakadémia
Concert given by famous band leaders and soloists
The Violin
with the participation of: Aladár Kicsi, Sándor Fodor Neti, Alexander Balanescu, Félix Lajkó, Lajos Kathy Horváth and Attila Lőrinszky, János Selmeczi, Aladár Csiszár, Ferenc Radics and his band, Szászcsávási band, Csaba Ökrös and his band, Mezőörményesi band

21 October –6 November MU Színház
Exhibition of Pál Csillag’s Dance Photos
“3/5”

28 October 11 p.m.

Fashion Show of Young Costume Designers
Entrée
directed by: Enikő Eszenyi
followed by a concert
(for detailed information about the exact location of the program please call:
343-4327/ ext. 125 or 131, 06-30-931-1322)

27–28 October Almássy téri szabadidőközpont
Le petit Voyage
cultural festivals of the Seventies and Eighties

Le Petit Voyage is a feature film by Mihály Buzás. It is about the teenage years of the generation whose members are in their thirties today. It is about the soft declining period of the Kádár regime, about the forms of instinctive rebellion. The screening of the film is combined with a festival, which provides a chance to figure out whether this generation is able to soberly face itself and its cultural achievements.

Does this generation have common characteristics concerning the ways of life of its members besides the individual careers? What cultural experiences shaped its philosophy from the mid-70’s until the late 80’s? Le Petit Voyage wishes to talk about tastes and failures, cults and rebellions in a playfully analytical and amusing way and also with some nostalgia at times.
(organised by Törökfürdő Foundation, sponsors: Budapest Film Kft., Cultural Committee of the Municipality of Budapest, Film Board of the National Cultural Core Program)

28 October 8 p.m.
A pre-premiere screening by Budapest Film and Közgáz Visual Brigade
Le Petit Voyage
director: Mihály Búzás

The film received the viewers’ award at the 31^st Hungarian Film Festival

October 27 6 p.m. non-stop festival

October 28 9 a.m. non-stop festival

Program mix:
Life-style – exhibition of the history of fashion and accessories in the 70’s and 80’s from cider to military bags
Advertisements – our favourite ads (posters, television clips)
Age-show – musical and ironical fashion show with young actors
TTT-collection – intellectual fashions from the age of Tiltás-Tűrés-Támogatás (Prohibition-Toleration-Support, a reference to the softening of the Kádár regime)
Cult bands and films from the 80’s
Time travel disco

29 October Bárka Színház
Parasol Polonaise
(in co-operation with the Instytut Polski Budapest; sponsors: Foreign Ministry of Poland, the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, MALÉV; with the kind help of Mediawave )

10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
dwa bratanki – Two Friends
Morning Entertainment Also for Children

Dance with the Dwa Bratanki band

Games with Polish pupils and their teachers

Cartoons, theatre and surprises.

4 p.m.
Polish films from the Mediawave

5:30 p.m.
Photographs of Jerzy Stokowski
Shadows

Stokowski is one of the most acknowledged Polish photographers. He won numerous awards as a Jazz photographer and used to work for the magazine Jazz Forum. He has been engaged in photographing theatre performances and contemporary dancing since the early 90’s. The pictures of this exhibition were taken of the Gdansk Dance Theatre.

6 p.m.
KorupcJA?
Anti-corruption Program of the Polish Fundacja Batorego

The Polish Báthory Foundation (Fundacija Bathorego) launched an unusual campaign this summer together with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights: every citizen who wishes to join the campaign may advertise his or her principles by wearing “I am not taking slush-money”, “I am not giving slush-money” badges. The foundation also applies advertisements and giant posters against this phenomenon. Their ultimate goal is to establish a “bottom-up” movement.

http://www.przeciw-korrupcji.org.pl/

7 p.m.
Teatr Ósmego Dnia: No-Man’s Land II

The almost thirty-year-old company from Poznan is one of the great European legends of theatre. The Ósmego Dnia has fulfilled the role of both a creative and an ideological workshop since the beginning: its emanation may be perceived in the whole Eastern European region. The company has developed a unique creative method based on collective improvisation. This is how their performances are put together. The actors write the texts, the script, prepare the scenery, the action and they create the visuality, the unique expressive force of acting, which is based on total body language and music.

10 p.m.
concert of Zbigniew Namysłowski and the Ryszard Kruza Quintet

Besides Tomasz Stańko and Michał Urbaniak, Namysłowski is the third world famous star of Polish jazz – he has been playing this music since the 1950’s. He made his first appearance in the USA in 1963, when he played together with the band of the late Krzysztof Komeda (Roman Polanski’s composer) at the famous Newport festival. He has been the recipient of the title of the best European alto saxophone player awarded by European and American jazz magazines.

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