Szegedi Szabadtéri Játékok - Open-Air Festival of Szeged

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In the first half of the 20th century, large-scale open-air events and festivals based on various cultural values and traditions  became increasingly popular in major cultural centres of Europe.

The success of programmes organized abroad urged representative of Hungarian intellectual life to launch similar festivals. One of the first summer theatres to be launched in Hungary was the Szeged Open-Air Festival that has been organized for more than seventy years now.

Szegedi Ifjúsági Napok - The Youth Days of Szeged

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The Youth Days of Szeged (Szegedi Ifjúsági Napok, SZIN) was founded in 1968, and at this time this was the only youth festival in Hungary. Every year there were thousands of young people visiting Szeged because of the great programme and the "feeling" of those few days in the "city of sunshine".
After the political changes, the festival was not organized, because the lack of intention and sponsorship. However, the mayor of the city decided to retrieve this significant event and a small group of enthusiastic young organizers started to work on it.

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International Folk Dance Festival in Szeged

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The first festival was in 1966.

A fun filled 5 days of folk programmes in Southern Hungary including: parades, folk dance and music performances, folk art fair, gastronomic delights, and dance house parties. Participants can also visit the open air museum at Ópusztaszer and take part in a water fun competition.

Invited groups include:

Lasowiacy – Stalowa Wola, Poland
Folklore Ensamble Graovo- Pernik, Bulgaria
Casa De Cultura A Municipiului – Timisoara, Rumania
Cirkalom Dance Group - Voivodina
HASAD – Zonguldak, Turkey

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