Programmes in Hungary


"Endangered European Minority Cultures In The Field Of Education"

Conference

Budapest, 21 February 2003 (Friday)

Organised by the Pro Minoritate Foundation

Venue: Benczúr House, Banquet Hall, 1068 Budapest, Benczúr u 27.

Patron: Orbán Viktor

Draft programme

9.00-9.30 Opening of the Conference
Opening speech: Pálinkás József (President of Battyány Club of Professors)
9.30-11.30 The situation of Csángó education
Moderator: Zsolt Szilágyi, parliamentary deputy, UDHR
Proposed Speakers: István Pál Lászlóffy, (President of the Association of Hungarian Pedagogues in Romania)
Gyula Szép, Vice-President of Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania)
Florea Alexandru, (Director of Cleja Elementary School)
Jenő Bilibók (teacher, Pustiana)
Ferenc Pozsony (Professor, President of the Kriza János Ethnographical Association)
József Komlóssy (Vice-President of the Society for the Protection of Ethnic and National Minorities)
11.30-13.00 Lunch break
13.00-16.00 The chances for endangered minorities in the field of education
Moderator: Zsolt Németh (parliamentary deputy, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee)
Proposed Speakers: Christoph Pan (Professor, Director of the South Tyrolean Institute of Ethnic Groups)
Lajos Aáry-Tamás (Ombudsman for Education, Budapest)
George Schöpflin (Jean Monnet Professor, University College, London)
József Kötő (President of the Transylvanian Hungarian Association for Public Education)
Gabriel Andreescu, Helsinki Committee



Fifth Ördöngös Folk Music Camp for Children in Kiskunhalas
From 11 to 17 August, 2002

The "Ördöngös" Ensemble from Kiskunhalas organizes a folk music summer camp for children.

Place:
Szilády Áron College of the Reformed Church in Kiskunhalas

Instructors:
Katalin Bakó (singing)
Tibor Borbás (double bass, cello)
Ferenc Borsi (tambura, zither)
István Horváth (viola from the Mezőség, piano accordion)
Kinga Krámli (singing)
Andor Maruzsenszki (violin, clarinet)
Endre Maruzsenszki (violin, zither)
Andrea Navratil (singing)
Gábor Újvári (recorder)

Teaching the music and songs of the Dél-Alföld / South part of the Great Hungarian Plain, Dunántúl / Transdanubia, Szatmár, Kalotaszeg, Mezőség and Moldavia.

We will receive recorderist András Hodorog (Klézse / Cleja, County Bákó / Bacau, Romania) for the fifth time. He will stay with us during the whole time, playing music and telling tales.

András Berecz and Béla Halmos will also be our guests for a day.

Other programs:
singing and playing music together, performances and dance.
In free time there is opportunity to do sports, play folk games, modelling with salt-and-flour plasticine and carving wood.

Board: five meals a day.

The camp ends with the participants’ common performance.

Participation fee: 10.000 forints
Bring your musical instrument and sleeping bag with you!
All those interested are welcome.

Information, application:
József Maruzsenszki
6400 Kiskunhalas, Harangos tér 11.
Phone: 0036 77 424 346 or 0036 30 9635 826


21st International Folkmusic and Folkdance Camp
4 August - 11 August 2002, Jászberény

Dance teaching:
Dances from Feketelak: Péter Lévai - Zsuzsa Kiss
Dances from Tyukod: Miklós Végső - Gyöngyvér Hortobágyi

Attention!
The double dances of the camp will be the compulsory material of the 16th Festival of Soloists in Békéscsaba!

Music Teaching:
Szászcsávás Band
(There is dance house every evening.)

During the day there will be arts and crafts for children with Ildikó Sándor and experienced instructors - making pottery, weaving, making felt and pearl.

On 9-10 August:
Farewell parties with concerts: evening of traditionalists.
Hosts: Red Rose (Piros Rózsa) group from Kalocsa and traditionalists from Jászberény.
Planned concert: GHIMES Band.


The prices of the camp got stopped at the prices of last year!
For adults: 11.900,- Ft/person, from the age of 6 to 14: 8000,- Ft/person
For groups and circles of friends (over 15 persons) : 8000,- Ft/person.
Till the age of 6: free of charge.
Cost of meals (lunch and dinner): 1000,- Ft/person, in case of claim to the accomodation in a hostel: 1000,- Ft/person.

The deadline of the previous application: 12 July 2002.

The fees include the participation in professional programmes, your camping site - bring a tent with you! -, the use of swimming pool, the material needs of crafts, fees for teachers and instructors and admission to the concerts and dance houses.

We look forward to meeting you in the oldest and always renewing camp of Hungary, in the capital of Jászság region.

In the name if host, Jászság Folkdance Ensemble and the organisers yours truly:
Orsolya Kuli - Kocsán László - Mária Urbán - Gábor Szűcs

Information: Jászság Táncegyüttes, Hungary
Tel: 00-36-57/411-297 e-mail: jneszh@mail.datanet.hu
Send back: Jászság Táncegyüttes, Hungary 5100 Jászberény, Pf.: 116


12st "csángó" festival
Folklore Festival of Minor European Regions

2-6th August 2002, Jászberény

Folklore programmes, international and national dance houses, procession of traditionalists (groups from Gyimes, Moldavia, Transylvania, Felvidék and Vajdaság), festive performance, gala, exhibition, fair and exhibition of crafts.

Admission fee to all prorammes of "Csángó" Festival with camping site (gala, midnight concerts - with Szászcsávás, Dűvő and Csík Bands - evening dance houses, the use of the swimming pool).

From 2 August to 4 August is 4000,- Ft/person (meals individually)

The deadline of the previous application: 12 July 2002.


Admission fees to gala programmes: 1000,- Ft/person, midnight concert and dance house: 400,- Ft/person.

We would like to ask you to keep the deadline!
The right to change our programes reserved!


In the name if host, Jászság Folkdance Ensemble and the organisers yours truly:
Orsolya Kuli - Kocsán László - Mária Urbán - Gábor Szűcs

Information: Jászság Táncegyüttes, Hungary
Tel: 00-36-57/411-297 e-mail: jneszh@mail.datanet.hu
Send back: Jászság Táncegyüttes, Hungary 5100 Jászberény, Pf.: 116


Sixth Moldavian Csángó Dance Camp in Tiszadob
From 1 to 7 July, 2002

Moldavian Csángó dances for advanced dancers and dance groups, teaching songs and musical instruments

Recorder, kaval:
László István Legedi (Klézse / Cleja, Moldavia)

Singing:
Erzsébet Bálint (Klézse / Cleja, Moldavia)
Rózsa Dobos (Külsőrekecsin / Fundu-Răcăciuni, Moldavia)

Host:
Tamás Tündik

Place:
Széchenyi István Primary School, Tiszadob, Károlyi Mihály u. 7.

Participation fee:
For the whole week, paid in April: 15.000 forints
On the spot:
meal: 1,000 forints per day per person
lodging: 1.000 forints per day per person
participation fee: 1.000 forints per day per person
Reductions:
Free for one member of a group of ten
Free for children under 7
50 % for children between 7 and 12

Information:
Gyepűk Népe Foundation
2040 Budaörs, Szivárvány u. 8. X/59.
Phone: 0036 23 422 019 or 0036 30 260 9467


Sixth Folk Art Camp for Children in Tiszadob
From 24 to 30 June, 2002

Making handicrafts, learning dances and songs, getting acquainted with folk games to live music, swimming, excursions, visiting the castle

Guests:
Csángó dancers, musicians, singers, children from Gyimes and Moldavia

Place:
Széchenyi István Primary School
Tiszadob, Károlyi Mihály u. 7.

Participation fee:
18.000 forints

Board:
three meals per day

Lodging:
in classrooms furnished with beds or
in private tents or
in paying-guest rooms

Travelling:
by train, then from the railway station in Tiszalúc by cart and ferry
departure on Monday morning, arrival on Sunday evening
with guardians looking after the children

The number of participants is limited! (60 children)

Information:

Tamás Tündik
Phone: 0036 23 422 019 or 0036 30 260 9467