There will be several cultural festivals in Debrecen in August. The mayor said on Thursday that Debrecen will be the most important festival city in the country in the last summer month.
At the press conference announcing the events, László Papp highlighted the wine and jazz days (August 5-8), which will feature 61 jazz formations and 286 Hungarian musicians, the organizers announced in a statement to MTI.
The flower carnival (August 12-22) will take place in the Great Forest in the second half of August, while the city’s newest series of programs, the Debrecen Festive Games (August 12-20), will be hosted by the city center. The latter is supported by HUF 30 million by the State Secretariat for Culture of the Ministry of Human Resources.
László Papp stated that he is confident that the Debrecen Festive Games will “be able to be on the map of the world” from 2022.
László Pósán, the Fidesz chairman of the Cultural Committee of the Parliament, said: there will be big summer festivals in Debrecen alone in the country; the series will begin as early as July with the Campus Festival.
Dániel Vadász, the founder of the Co-Opera company, said that the festival is built around folk music, operetta, opera and Hungarian song. The presentation of the Passion of Csíksomlyó on 13 August and the presentation of Bánk Bán on 17 August will be “real elevated and sacred occasions”.
The music producer hopes that the Debrecen Festive Games will become the leading summer music event in the region.
Edit Bódor, the main organizer of the flower carnival, said that this year the audience is waiting in the big forest park, in the University Square, on the open-air stage, in the amusement park.
The traditional carnival parade will not be held – according to the epidemiological situation – but the flower carts can be seen free of charge on August 20 on Nagyerdei Boulevard, and then on Kossuth Square on the 21st and 22nd, he added.
According to Edit Bódor, the 10th Galiba Children’s Festival (August 15-22) can be expected to be of great interest – read in the announcement.
MTI
Photo: László Papp
