Grand Opening
Neel Verdoorn, Wim Delvoye
15-02-2008 / 18:00
Ernst Museum
15-02-2008 / 19:30
Kunsthalle
The Grand Opening will be attended by H.R.H. Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven of Twente University. H.E. Mr Frans Timmermans, Netherlands Minister for European Affairs and H.E. Geert Bourgeois, Flemish Minister for Administrative Affairs, Foreign Policy, Media and Tourism will deliver opening addresses. The opening will finish with a dance performance by the Budapest Dance Theatre, choreographed by Neel Verdoorn.
Silence
Andrea Rádai
01-02-2008 - 01-03-2008
acb Contemporary Art Gallery
Finnisage: 1 March, 19.00
“Talking about painting is like talking about dreams.
All these images, happenings that are obvious and follow one another in an absolutely logical way, become shallow, even fake or simply incomprehensible once I start talking about them.”
Pages - a new generation of photobooks from the Netherlands
13-02-2008 - 08-03-2008
Dorottya Gallery, Lumen Gallery
Finissage: 8 March, 6 p.m. Dorottya Gallery, 8 p.m. Lumen Gallery
The goal of the Pages exhibition is to provide a unique picture of the wide range of Dutch photo books and journals published in the past five years, and to give an idea of the relationship of young Dutch photographers to the book as a medium.
Still I-III
Kris Verdonck
15-02-2008 - 17-02-2008
Városháza tér
Still I consists of a gigantic projection: a naked, voluminous human figure, imprisoned in a space which is much too small for him. He sometimes moves slightly, seeking the most comfortable position in which to bear their uncertain situation. Despite the magnitude, the precarious position in which this naked, utterly fragile figure finds himself is in stark contrast to the self-assured, social-realist architecture.
Wim Delvoye
16-02-2008 - 23-03-2008
Ernst Museum
Love it or hate it: Wim Delvoye, enfant terrible of the contemporary scene, makes art that demands notice. His provocative works, which make emphatic use of antagonisms, flout conventions and dogmas. His raw honesty and grotesque humour will make you laugh and wonder.
Dutch-Flemish Children Programme
D'Irque & Fien, Danstheater Dee
16-02-2008 / 10:00 - 18:00
Millenáris Inn
10.00–11.00 For babies and mums
TáTá TiTi Tá – a rhythmic activity with Vera Tarján.
10.00–16.00 Small garden of tiny wonders
Games and activities about Holland – preparing windmills, origami, painting tiles – with the Apró Színház (Tiny Theatre).
11.00–12.00 Danstheater Dee (NL): Me, Myself and I
My City: Amsterdam, As I See it
17-02-2008 - 18-02-2008
Millenáris Park
Opening: 16 February, 18.00
My City Amsterdam, one half of a cultural exchange program between Budapest and Amsterdam. During the three-day event, Amsterdam will present itself to the city of Budapest with a musical program, photo exhibitions, readings and lectures.
One of the traditions of the My City festivals is to present travellers’ photos in the form of an open competition. This time the best pics of Amsterdam are shown. Learn more about the details of the competition on the sites www.millenaris.hu and www.a38.hu.
"Battle of the Big Bands" Revisited, Contemporary Big band concert
Flat Earth Society, Tetzepi
17-02-2008 / 19:30
Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Battle of the Big Bands were popular musical events in America between the world wars. Audiences flocked to these concerts, where popular big bands of the era competed, showing off the sound and virtuosity of their musicians. The two groups performing on the first night of the LOW Festival will revive this tradition in a new form: their compositions, rooted in big band music, yet radically new, vie with each other, an example of the traditional creativity of the Low Countries.
Netherlands Chamber Choir
18-02-2008 / 19:00
Liszt Ferenc Music Academy
The Nederlands Kamerkoor (Netherlands Chamber Choir), founded by Felix de Nobel in 1937, is a full-time, independent professional vocal ensemble whose repertoire includes cappella from the early Middle Ages to the present.
Point Blank
Edit Káldor
18-02-2008 - 19-02-2008 / 19:00
Merlin
Edit Káldor was born in Budapest. At the age of 13 she immigrated with her mother to the United States, where she lived for ten years. She studied literature and drama at Columbia University in New York and theatre at DasArts (the postgraduate performing arts school in Amsterdam).
In Point Blank the purpose of life is explored through the lens of a camera. Here is a quest to investigate our contemporary world: solitude, companionship, suspicion, trust and other themes.
Rembrandt's Mirror
Peter Greenaway, Saskia Boddeke
18-02-2008 / 20:00
Millenáris Theater
REMBRANDT'S MIRROR is a work of music theatre about the life of Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch master of chiaroscuro in painting, and an unequalled etcher and sketch artist.98 The performance focuses on the existential questions of Rembrandt’s life rather than on artistic ones.
Natwerk (My City: Amsterdam)
19-02-2008 - 23-02-2008
public places in Budapest
Natwerk is one of the most serious, yet one of the funniest know-how projects of the Dutch music culture. Frank De Ruwe and Coen van Rooij present their true rock-band with changing members from the table of a blue garbage-tranporting lorry. A mobile glam for all citizens of the city.
Biking Around the World (My City: Amsterdam)
Herb van Drongelen
19-02-2008 - 16-03-2008
Millenáris red and black Gallery
Opening: 18 February, 17.30
My City Amsterdam, one half of a cultural exchange program between Budapest and Amsterdam. During the three-day event, Amsterdam will present itself to the city of Budapest with a musical program, photo exhibitions, readings and lectures.
Herb van Drongelen, who in six years cycled 110,000 kilometers through 69 countries on 6 continents will exhibit the photos of his journey on Millenáris and speak about his experiences on the A38 Ship.
Double Grounds jazz concert
Benkő Róbert, Grencsó István, Hans van Vliet, Hock Ernő, Jeszenszky György, Szabó Hunor, Tobias Delius, Wolter Wierbos
19-02-2008 / 20:00
A38 Ship
Double Grounds is a unique project aiming at bringing together Dutch and Hungarian virtuosos of improvised music. The name of the project refers to its double musical tradition and to its form as a double quartet: two saxophones, two trombones, two drums and two double basses.
Tobias Delius and Wolter Wierbos, both of them working with the legendary Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (ICP Orchestra), will be hosted by one of the most famous Hungarian saxophone players, István Grencsó and his musicians.
SURPLUS (lectures and workshop) - Re-examining strategies within cross-disciplinary art and design practices
20-02-2008 - 22-02-2008
Kitchen Budapest
20-02-2008 - 22-02-2008
Hungarian University of Fine Arts
The aim of this program is to discuss interdisciplinary cultural strategies; it focuses on concepts shared by art and design disciplines.
The program exposes one of the biggest voids in Hungarian cultural life—interdisciplinarity—which, on the contrary, makes for the basis of contemporary cultural practices in Holland. By examining particular cases on the Dutch and Hungarian scenes, Surplus questions the value systems embodied in cultural production.
Jan Michiels solo concert: Ordre-Désordre
Jan Michiels
20-02-2008 / 19:30
Old Music Academy
Jan Michiels (1966) is today one of Flanders’ best soloists. His repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music.
Visibility Works workshop
Inga Zimprich, Katarina Zdjelar, Marjolijn Dijkman, Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden, Gon Zifroni, Vinca Kruk)
21-02-2008 - 13-03-2008
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Barcsay Hall
Opening: 20 February, 19.00
The aim of the program 'Visibility Works', hosted by the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, is to encourage students, professors and the general public to think aloud and work together. The exhibition and workshop series will be held in the exhibition space of the university, which will be transformed into a meeting point, a classroom, a professors' study, a studio and an office for the occasion.
City in Motion (My City: Amsterdam)
Martijn de Vries
21-02-2008 - 23-02-2008
A38 Ship
My City Amsterdam, one half of a cultural exchange program between Budapest and Amsterdam. During the three-day event, Amsterdam will present itself to the city of Budapest with a musical program, photo exhibitions, readings and lectures.
Martijn de Vries's exhibition is about the almost natural role of the bicycle in the everyday life of Amsterdam.
Discussion with Eddy Terstall film director, New Cool Collective, Amsterdam Klezmer Band (My City: Amsterdam)
Amsterdam Klezmer Band, Eddy Terstall, György Pálfi, New Cool Collective
21-02-2008 / 18:00
A38 Ship
My City Amsterdam, one half of a cultural exchange program between Budapest and Amsterdam. During the three-day event, Amsterdam will present itself to the city of Budapest with a musical program, photo exhibitions, readings and lectures.
Poetic Disasters
Club Guy & Roni
21-02-2008 - 22-02-2008 / 20:00
MU Theater
Poetic Disasters is inspired by chaos theory. It is a dance performance focused on hidden paths, nuances, the ‘sensitivity’ of things and the rules that lead from the unpredictable to the new. Poetic Disasters plays with destruction and creation of forms, ideas and matter. It deals with human need and the difficulty we have recovering from disaster.
NL - No Limit: WAMP Dutch-Hungarian Design Festival
22-02-2008 - 24-02-2008
Club Gödör
During the three-day long event you can visit the Via Milano and the Golden Age of Graphic Design exhibitions as well as lectures, workshops and fashion-shows.
On the occasion of this WAMP fair 60 Hungarian and 20 Dutch designers will be participating, presenting and selling their works after having been selected by the WAMP jury.
Trains with Children - An Exhibition of Documents
22-02-2008 - 14-03-2008
Central Library of the Municipal Szabó Ervin Library, Small Gallery
Opening: 22 February, 3 p.m.
After World War I, trains carried over 50,000 weak and hungry children from Hungary to the Netherlands and Belgium. Responding to the call of the churches, thousands of Dutch and Flemish families temporarily accepted into their homes young girls or boys orphaned or destitute in war-ravaged Hungary. Children normally spent four or five months with their foster parents, but a two or three-year stay was not uncommon, and a number of them were eventually adopted. The decades to come showed the children to be better than the diplomats at maintaining these international contacts.
Two Dutch Photographers
Bertien van Manen: Give me your image, Hans van der Meer: European Fields: The Landscape of Lower League Football
22-02-2008 - 06-04-2008
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art
Hans van der Meer and Bertien van Manen are both in the vanguard of contemporary Dutch photography. The exhibition in the Ludwig Museum presents their work in one space, thus offering wider opportunities comparison of two independent artists in the light of one another.
Discussion with Herb van Drongelen, Quimby, Alamo Race Track (My City: Amsterdam)
Alamo Race Track, Herb van Drongelen, Quimby
22-02-2008 / 19:00
A38 Ship
My City Amsterdam, one half of a cultural exchange program between Budapest and Amsterdam. During the three-day event, Amsterdam will present itself to the city of Budapest with a musical program, photo exhibitions, readings and lectures.
Camp
Hotel Modern
22-02-2008 - 23-02-2008 / 20:00
Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts
An enormous scale model of Auschwitz fills the stage. Overcrowded barracks, a railway track, a gateway with the words “Arbeit Macht Frei”. Hotel Modern attempts to imagine the unimaginable: the greatest mass murder in history, committed in a purpose-built city.
Discussion with Luud Schimmelpenninck, About, Eboman, ®agar, zZz (My City: Amsterdam)
About, DJ Killebert, Eboman, Gábor Demszky, Gábor Fodor, Luud Schimmelpenninck, zZz, ®agar
23-02-2008 / 16:00
A38 Ship
My City Amsterdam, one half of a cultural exchange program between Budapest and Amsterdam. During the three-day event, Amsterdam will present itself to the city of Budapest with a musical program, photo exhibitions, readings and lectures.
Huelgas Ensemble
23-02-2008 / 19:30
Saint Michael Church
Paul Van Nevel has been called a musical detective, a Poirot or a Morse, according to one’s personal preferences; he spends about half his time scouring libraries for snippets of information. A striking feature of the choral style of the Huelgas Ensemble is its exceptional clarity.
First Steps - Dutch and Flemish Plays; rehearsed readings
24-02-2008 / 19:00
Merlin
02-03-2008 / 19:00
Merlin
09-03-2008 / 19:00
Merlin
The LOW Festival series of public readings aims to get the building of the piers underway. Those who visit the Merlin Theatre at the end of February and the beginning of March will assuredly hear dramas that – although written in a different context – speak to and about us as well.
Tribute to Louis Andriessen
UMZE Chamber Ensemble and Modern Art Orchestra
24-02-2008 / 19:30
Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
This year the UMZE Chamber Ensemble pays tribute to the world-famous Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Alongside a recent composition by the Maestro (Racconto dall’inferno), the Ensemble will play a politically motivated piece entitled Workers Union, written in 1975.
Cinetrip VJ Tournament
AlexEtJeremy (NL), Buscemi (FL), Crimson, Fine Cut Bodies live, Nid and Sancy live (FL), Olga Mink (NL), Palotai (Tilos), Soulrise (Mustbeat)
25-02-2008 - 01-03-2008 / 10:00 - 23:00
Merlin
Cinetrip announces its third biannual international VJ-Tournament, to be held in February 2008. In previous years, audiences enjoyed live and pre-produced work from over a 100 contestants from 11 countries. It is our hope that the intense experience of international trends in contemporary visual culture and electronic music during the days of the competition will inspire spectators and local artists alike.
ASKO Ensemble
25-02-2008 / 19:30
Palace of Arts, Festival Theatre
Founded in 1965, the Asko Ensemble is a leading contemporary music ensemble. It plays a broad range of works by twentieth-century composers, is ever alert to the appearance of young talent and participates in productions involving other disciplines.
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
28-02-2008 / 19:30
Palace of Arts, Festival Theatre
Founded in 1982 by violinist Jan Willem de Vriend, the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam has developed into a close-knit ensemble specializing in music from 1600-1800. The musicians' wish not to focus solely on the standard repertoire has resulted in many interesting programs featuring remarkable and little-known works, some of which are only available in manuscript. The performance of these compositions in conjunction with more familiar works has proved to be refreshing and inspiring to listeners and performers alike.
50/50, Manual Focus
Mette Ingvartsen
28-02-2008 - 29-02-2008 / 20:00
MU Theater
Danish-born Mette Ingvartsen, a graduate of the P.A.R.T.S. school and a resident of Brussels, will appear in Hungary for the first time. She has performed in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria and Scandinavia and received the SNS REAAL Prize at the Aerodance festival in Amsterdam in 2004. The double bill will present two short productions that best represent the strong, unique character of her innovative work.
Annemiek de Beer and Maurice van Tellingen
Annemiek de Beer, Maurice van Tellingen
29-02-2008 - 29-03-2008
Deák Erika Gallery
Opening: 28 February, 2008, 18.00-20.00
Interiors make for one of the core themes of the work of Maurice van Tellingen, interiors that usually manifest themselves in the form of a small looking box. Van Tellingen refers to these items as spatial paintings, and the comparison with seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting is obvious—it places him in a long tradition of artists that have represented interior scenes in the Netherlands.
De Beer follows a unique path in regards to colour and structure as well, using withdrawn, fixed schemes that nevertheless have a fresh, silky character. Gradually becoming visible in her work is an interest in the traditions of Japanese painting, with its linear and structural clarity and, above all, its elegant simplicity.
Film Festival opening; Alex van Warmerdam: Waiter
29-02-2008 / 19:30
Uránia National Film House
On the official opening of the Film Festival there will be two films screened.
Hanro Smitsman's Contact, and Alex van Warmerdam's movie, Waiter. The festival starts on the 29th of February in Urania National Filmtheater, and continues with films at the Örökmozgó Filmmuseum and Merlin in the period between the 1st and 12th of March.
Dutch-Flemish Film Festival
01-03-2008 - 12-03-2008
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
01-03-2008 - 12-03-2008
Merlin
From absurd comedy to historical parable, from thrillers to drama, the programme of the Dutch–Flemish Film Festival offers a variety of genres and topics. The latest films of the two regions will be shown: seven Dutch and six Flemish feature films, plus five documentaries. The opening film will be the Dutch–Flemish production Waiter (Ober), screened on 29 February 2008 at the Uránia Film Theatre. The rest of the festival will be hosted by the Örökmozgó Film Museum from 1–12 March 2008.
Film Festival: The Intruder - Frank van Mechelen
01-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
02-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
Tom Vansant, a 40-year old doctor in Brussels, is desperately searching for traces of his daughter Louise who disappeared 18 months ago. In his search, he comes across another 16-year-old runaway who left her hometown in the Ardennes at about the same time as Louise disappeared. Although the girl refuses to talk about her past, Tom is convinced that she knows more about his daughter. He follows the girl to the Ardennes and lands in an unknown and dangerous environment where things are not what they seem and where hostile villagers don’t really care for strangers.
The Night of the Unexpected
Edwin van der Heide, Evan Parker & Joel Ryan, Terrie Ex & Han Bennink, Tomoko Mukaiyama, Xavier van Wersch & Tigrics
01-03-2008 / 19:00
Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts
Night of the Unexpected is a one-night festival, an experience, an evening full of surprises ranging across styles and genres, from experimental techno to composed music. It departs from our expectations and playfully questions existing habits; it surrounds the audience with concerts, performances and sound installations from today's most innovative composers and musicians.
Film Festival: Khadak - Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
01-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, Khadak tells the epic story of Bagi, a young nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman. A plague strikes the animals and the nomads are forcibly relocated to desolate mining towns. Bagi saves the life of a beautiful coal thief, Zolzaya, and together they reveal the plague was a lie fabricated to eradicate nomadism. A sublime revolution ensues.
LOW Power Party
Cyborg Templar (Deck Attack), Infra Gandhi (Deck Attack), Kraak end Smaak live (NL), Negro (Deep), Sanyi (Cinetrip), Turntable Dubbers Sound System (FL), Waxman (Tilos)
01-03-2008 / 22:00
Merlin
After the CVJ2008 awards ceremony, the Low Festival, Cinetrip organisers and the 5-year-old Deck Attack series unite their forces to spice up the Budapest night with a mix of productions by Dutch, Flemish and Hungarian musicians and VJs – who will be either delirious with joy or spurred on by disappointment.
Film Festival: Forever - Heddy Honigmann
02-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
07-03-2008 / 15:00
Merlin
Père-Lachaise - one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Some - such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin - are worshipped to this day. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited occasionally by a single admirer. In Forever we see the mysterious, calming and consoling beauty of this unique cemetery through the eyes of people of flesh and blood. Many come for their ‘own’ beloved: husbands, wives, family and friends. Others honour ‘their’ artist by leaving behind a personal message or a flower.
Capilla Flamenca
02-03-2008 / 19:30
Palace of Arts, Festival Theatre
The vocal and instrumental consort Capilla Flamenca takes its name from the choir of the court chapel of Emperor Charles V. When Charles left the Low Countries in 1517, he took his best musicians with him to accompany him as a ‘living polyphony’ to Spain. Today’s Capilla Flamenca recruits its specialized musicians from Flanders so as to bring to life the unique timbre of this brilliant 15th-16th music in its full authenticity.
Film festival: Contact - Hanro Smitsman
02-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
The Netherlands, 2007, 10 min
Film Festival: Waiter - Alex van Warmerdam
02-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
03-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
A crummy job at a run-down restaurant. A wife who is chronically ill. The anti-social neighbours. An extramarital affair that offers little more than sexual gratification. Fictitious fifty-year-old waiter Edgar (played by Alex van Warmerdam) has had enough of his miserable existence… He wants out of the relationship with his wife, he wants a new girlfriend, he wants new neighbours and he is fed up with being treated like a doormat by his customers But Edgar's about to find out the hard way that his life is truly stranger than fiction…
Film Festival: Between Heaven and Earth - Frank van den Engel, Masha Novikova
03-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
04-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
In Uzbekistan, the circus is as alive as it was during the existence of the ancient Silk Road from Europe to China. The film tells the story of two families where traveling circus became a way of life. Achat and Tarsun, childhood friends, are now in their late fifties. At the age of seven both became apprentices to the tightrope walker who came to their village. They both joined the opposition party ERK, meaning ‘freedom’ in Uzbek. Achat develops into a fully-fledged activist, while Tarsun rises to the vice-chairmanship of the party. One year after Uzbekistan’s independence all opposition parties are outlawed and ERK goes underground. Both men in their own way struggle with the choices they have had to make for themselves, for their friendship and for their loved ones.
Wewilllivestorm
Benjamin Verdonck - Toneelhuis
04-03-2008 - 05-03-2008 / 19:00
Merlin
“My father and I are on the stage.
My friend, the musician, is standing to the side.
There’s much pottering, someone’s moving strings.
There’s no speech.
There’s no story, either.
And there’s almost no music.”
Film Festival: Northern Light - David Lammers
04-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
05-03-2008 / 15:00
Merlin
The story about a father and son, set against the background of North Amsterdam. Lucien runs a boxing training centre and lives for the training of his young pupils. He is a well-known figure in North Amsterdam. A tragic accident in the past has hardened him. Mitchel, Lucien’s 15-year-old son, is much quieter than his father and finds it less of a problem to appear vulnerable; much to his father’s annoyance. Mitchel confronts his father with his behaviour during a birthday party. Lucien blows his fuses and physically attacks Mitchel, then withdraws in his boxing centre. He talks less and less, becomes introverted and lonely. In the meantime, Mitchel becomes independent, and no longer needs his father’s support. By facing up to what he has done, Lucien finally even dares to return to his son.
UtopiaTransfer
Aernout Mik, Atelier van Lieshout, Bik van der Pol, Falke Pisano, Krijn de Koning, Société Réaliste
05-03-2008 - 06-04-2008
Budapest Historical Museum Municipal Picture Gallery / Museum Kiscell
Opening: 4 March, 6 p.m.
The term ‘utopia’ comes from Thomas More’s famous work, Utopia. More used it to mean both an ideal society and a society that does not yet exist.
UtopiaTransfer is a group show intended to represent different artistic approaches to the notion of ‘utopia’, using the sources and methods of utopian thought and reflecting the consequences of either the continuation or the rejection of this intellectual tradition.
Film Festival: Hell in Tangier - Frank Van Mechelen
05-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
06-03-2008 / 16:00
Merlin
Although the film itself is fictitious, it is partly based on real events that occurred in 1996.
In August 1996, bus-drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Custom Duty Service for drug traffic. Inside there bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of Hasj. Although the owner of the bus company is arrested as well and makes a full confession, clearly indicating that both drivers were unaware of the hidden drugs, the Moroccan judge sentences both men to 5 years in jail. After two terrible years of prison life in Tangier Marcel's health has deteriorated. His family fears for his life, and undertakes all possible steps to bring him home before it's too late.
Precisely that!
Han Schuil, Jurriaan Molenaar
06-03-2008 - 12-04-2008
acb Contemporary Art Gallery
Opening: 6th of March, 19.00
Molenaar paints relatively plain architecture in striking perspectives. His quiet canvases show a balanced interaction between openness and closeness. Most characteristic is his sober use of colors; the buildings always find themselves in a veil of filtered light, turning the paintings into carefully wrapped sensations of mental space.
A Conversation about Literature with Lieve Joris and Leon de Winter
Leon de Winter, Lieve Joris
06-03-2008 / 18:00
Merlin
The evening’s guests will include the novelist Leon De Winter, an international star of Dutch literature, whose novel SuperTex is scheduled to appear at the time of the festival, and Flemish author Lieve Joris, one of Europe’s leading travel writers and a long-time friend of Hungary.
The topics for the evening’s discussion include the social and political function of literature in this day and age, with special attention given to the work of the authors invited to Hungary.
While We Were Holding It Together
Ivana Müller
06-03-2008 - 07-03-2008 / 20:00
MU Theater
Onstage everything comes to a standstill, to such an extent that one begins to sympathise with the five performers who must hold their poses until the point of collapse. The only movements they are permitted are those necessary for speaking lines and making facial gestures.
Douwe Heeringa sings Jacques Brel
Douwe Heeringa
06-03-2008 / 20:00
Merlin
Douwe Heeringa (b. 1964) discovered Jacques Brel’s chansons at a young age. In 1990 he released a CD, ’Brel in Frisian’, on which he sings Brel’s chansons in Frisian. The first copy was given to Madam Brel, who was very much impressed. The songs from the new CD ’Brel Twa’ were performed to acclaim in Paris in the Opera de la Bastille in March 2007.
Film Festival: Happy Family - Martin Koolhoven
06-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
Romantic comedy, introducing an elderly tomato grower who is put on the amorous path by his half-Moroccan grandson, also broaches subjects like integration, sex among aged people and the couch potato generation. Instructed by his grandson Omar (rapper Yes-R), the timid gardener Thijs courts the joyous Belgian woman Jacky much to the displeasure of his two daughters. But grandpa and grandson are undaunted, especially when the former learns that the latter is in love with a Turkish girl and has to prove himself to her brother in an olive oil wrestling bout. To the sounds of the instrumental arranged version of André Hazes' hit song ‘Een beetje verliefd’, the new loves develop, as well as the family relations, during which lots of very Dutch greenhouse tomatoes are thrown about.
EUROPA VOSTRA
Etablissement d'en Face
07-03-2008 - 13-04-2008
Trafo Gallery
Opening: 7 March, 6 p.m.
EUROPA VOSTRA, literally Your Europe, is the working title of a project that Etablissement d'en Face initiated in Brussels one year ago. The idea behind it is to critically examine the tendencies that characterise today’s Europe, and to expand upon them.
Searching routes - in Dutch, Flemish and Hungarian cultural policies
07-03-2008 - 08-03-2008 / 10:00 - 17:00
Central European University
The main features of national strategies and a few selected areas – the position of flagship institutions, policies at the city level, the relations between national and European goals, and financing – will be presented by specialists from the Netherlands, Flanders and Hungary and discussed with the participants.
'Holland from the Hungarians viewpoint' - a book by Maria Bogyay
07-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
What kind of country is Holland? Is there a typical Dutch behavior that we have to take into account when dealing with Dutch people? How can we explain that soft drugs are forbidden in this country, yet are available in so many places? How is it possible that this small kingdom is more democratic than so many republics? How could it happen that in this moderate country a pleasant-mannered homosexual politician became so popular that he could have been elected prime minister?
Film Festival: Forgotten Fools - Frans van Erkel
07-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
08-03-2008 / 15:00
Merlin
Radomir smokes yet another cigarette right down to the filter. On the fortieth day of the fourteenth year he has awoken once again in a wilderness, Rohypnol and Leponex are on the menu and beyond this nothing, except more boredom. Since 1992 Radomir and twenty other Bosnians - most of them psychiatric patients - have been locked up behind bars in a Hungarian refugee camp. How did they end up here?
Film Festival: The Alzheimer Case - Jan Verheyen Gilles, Erik Van Looy
07-03-2008 / 20:00
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
When a key civil servant is murdered, the Antwerp police force puts its top crime investigators on the case: Vincke and Verstuyft. The trail leads to hitman Angelo Ledda. Showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, Ledda finds it increasingly difficult to carry out assignments. When he realizes that he is being used in a political power game, he decides to bite the hand that feeds. Vincke and Verstuyft have a hard time trying to disentangle the web of intrigues to prevent further killings. Subsequently, the three men find themselves working together to eliminate Antwerp's 'underground network.'
Ziggi, Irie Maffia, Dj Atlas
Dj Atlas, Irie Maffia, Ziggi
07-03-2008 / 22:00
A38 Ship
African and American street culture exerts a clear, strong influence on Dutch youth, and youth culture all over Europe. This will be on display on March 7: the urban music of the Hungarian Irie Maffia and the Dutch Ziggie join power on board the A38 Ship. After the concert the Dutch DJ Atlas will play the newest sounds from the Dutch Urban scene.
Dutch-Flemish Children Programme
De Stilte
08-03-2008 / 10:00 - 17:00
Millenáris Theater
In Dutch, Madcap, or Speelvogels means “playing children”. A splendid word for a splendid activity: children at play. For a child, playing alone, and especially playing with others, puts a face to reality. In Madcap three dancers enter the stage to take their place in a game, to share their imagination and to confirm their friendship. Children effortlessly become a part of this dance.
Le Bal Moderne
08-03-2008 / 17:00
Millenáris Inn
Created in 1993 by Michel Reilhac, former director of the Forum des Images in Paris, the Flemish Le Bal Moderne has proved an unprecedented success.
Film Festival: Les ballets de ci de là - Alain Platel
08-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
In this full-length documentary, Alain Platel celebrates the essence of the peculiar human characteristics which have been fuelling the work of Les Ballets C. de la B. for the past twenty years. Who are the dancers of Les Ballets C. de la B.? Where do they come from? And how do they transcend the world on stage? A film filled with impressions, focusing on a unique company in the world of live dance. An emotional voyage which allows us to share the artistic and human adventure of Les Ballets C. de la B.
Film Festival: Wolfsbergen - Nanouk Leopold
08-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
09-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
Set in present-day Holland, screenwriter/director Nanouk Leopold's third feature is the story of a family going through testing times, as four generations come head to head when, following the death of his wife, the father of the family decides to commit suicide, warning his children beforehand. Wolfbergen is a film about people who seem to have lost the ability to love and to be loved. It is a kaleidoscopic portrayal of four generations of a family and their struggle to reach out to one another.
Cinetrip Sparty - Flying Dutchman
Amira, CJ Bolland (FL), Funckarma (NL), Grasshop b2b Marvin, Haze, Kaszi and Jácint, Mango, Negro (Deep), Palotai (Tilos), Sanyi (Cinetrip), Superman, Waxman (Tilos)
08-03-2008 / 21:00
Rudas Bath
To bring the panorama full circle - sounds and moving images on lowland-high in the air and in deep water within the framework of Low Festival - Cinetrip Sparty–Journeys by Djuice provides the ambience for bathing and cleansing with the works of Dutch and Flemish audio and visual artists.
Lolly Jane Blue, Roosbeef, Péterfy Bori & Love Band
Bori Péterfy & Love Band, Lolly Jane Blue, Roosbeef
08-03-2008 / 21:00
A38 Ship
Tonight it’s Ladies Night: together with the Hungarian Bori Péterfy, two young Dutch artists, Roosbeef and Lolly Jane Blue take the stage. They might best be described as “singer/songwriters”, a genre that all too infrequently crosses national borders.
Film Festival: 4 elements - Jiska Rickels
09-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
10-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
Since the beginning of time the human race tried to explain the primal elements of their world: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. During the development of mankind they were deciphered; the force of the elements were used, however, they were never totally dominated, controlled or predicted. Today we are still fighting to control earth, water, fire, and air. Four chapters documentary about people who work with the four elements, where fellowship and trust are of existential importance: Siberian smokejumpers, the fishermen of the Bering Sea in Alaska, Germany miners, and the astronauts and their lift-off in Kazakhstan.
Film Festival: Nadine - Erik de Bruyn
09-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
Nadine is a career woman: successful, independent and ambitious. But, she’s single, just over forty and still childless. Inside her body, the biological clock is ticking like mad, till the point where it begins to jump and finally derails into a bizarre and extreme act…
Film Festival: The Only One - Geoffrey Enthoven
10-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
Living unhappily with his daughter Gerda after his wife's death, Lucien (Nany Buyl, one of Belgium's most renowned actors) is determined to return to an independent life in his own home. But that isn't so easy. Everyone has plans for Lucien, including Mathilde, his best friend's wife, with whom he has had a longstanding affair. When his much younger neighbor, Sylvia, arrives on the scene and—to Lucien's surprise—seems to take an interest in him, all kinds of possibilities emerge. Directed by Geoffrey Enthoven with a decidedly light touch, The Only One is that rare film about aging that completely avoids sentimentality
The Piano Trio Revisited
Jef Neve Trio, Michiel Braam - Béla Ágoston, Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher
10-03-2008 / 19:30
Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts
The trio is one of the oldest of jazz formations. The joint concert of two piano trios who have chosen very different paths is clear evidence of the fact that creative musicians are always capable of filling this old form with new content.
Film Festival: Duska - Jos Stelling
10-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
11-03-2008 / 16:00
Merlin
Duska is the imaginative story of Bob, who has the best part of his life behind him. He is addicted to film, has visited several festivals as a film critic and is now working on his own screenplay. His muse and inspiration is the attractive, young and unattainable cashier from the movie theatre across the street. But when Bob’s desire for the girl finally becomes reality and she ends up at his house, a man named Duska suddenly appears at his door. They had met once at a Russian film festival, and Bob had invited him to visit if he was in the neighbourhood. That was the worst thing he could have done; Duska is not about to leave Bob alone, resulting in an original tragikomedy full of suprising twist…
Correct? The Price of Political Correctness: A Roundtable Discussion
Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Herman Vuijsje
11-03-2008 / 18:00
Merlin
Political correctness is a hot topic in Hungary today. Is there too much of it, creating taboos in certain areas of life, thus preventing action in those areas? Or, to the contrary, is Hungary at a stage where more rather than less political correctness is needed, given the rise of intolerance and hatred between various groups in Hungarian society?
Debating the issue with the author will be Philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás.
Holland Tsunami
theatre group SPACE
11-03-2008 - 12-03-2008 / 20:00
Keleti Railway station
12-03-2008 / 22:00
Keleti Railway station
19-03-2008 - 20-03-2008 / 20:00
LABOR, Zsolnay factory, Pécs
‘We are facing a rescue operation unparalleled until this moment. We must achieve a full evacuation of 16 million people within a month time. This means over 170.000 people per day. The problem still stands that we don’t know where to leave them. Only a one country is willing to receive Dutch refugees, especially because there is a very limited chance that they will be able to return to their homeland.'
Film Festival: Stages - Mijke de Jong
11-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
12-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
Following his parents’s divorce, Isaac, seventeen, lives alone with his mother. An introvert by nature, he passes the time by polishing his Samurai sword, listening to his walkman, and slipping into the apartments of absent strangers. His parents, Roos and Martin, meet regularly to keep a connection with one another. When Roos confides her concerns about Isaac, Martin seems to have little interest in his son’s life. Roos remains alone with the serious psychological problem of her son, and she cannot count on any help from the father.
Film Festival: Jungle Rudy, the Chronicle of a Family - Rob Smits
12-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
As the son of a banker from The Hague, he had grown up in luxury and his future seemed all mapped out, but then Rudolf Truffino went hiking in the Venezuelan rainforest shortly after World War II. There, an Indian tribe saved him from death by exhaustion near the highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls. Jungle Rudy, as his nickname soon became, proceeded to build the exotic holiday camp Ucaima for the wealthy people of the world.
STAU
Anouk van Dijk
12-03-2008 / 19:00, 21:30
Millenáris Theater
A hit across Russia, China, Australia and the United States, Dutch choreographer Anouk van Dijk's performance STAU dissolves traditional theatrical boundaries to examine the relationship between audience and performer – and transforms the experience of contemporary dance in the process.
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Conductor: Ton Koopman
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, conductor: Ton Koopman
12-03-2008 / 19:30
Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir is a world-famous ensemble. Founded in the Netherlands in 1979 by Ton Koopman, the group consists of musicians from all over the world, sharing a particular passion for the Baroque. About seven times a year they gather to perform live and make CD-recordings under Koopman’s inspiring direction. At the closing event of the LOW Festival they will perform a special, symbolic Easter program.
Film Festival: Ex-drummer - Koen Mortier
12-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
Every village has its band of fools, trying to get to the top, following their idols in drug habits,
but staying losers till the end of their pathetic days. They all do this in the name of rock & roll. Three disabled rock musicians are looking for a drummer. Dries, a well known writer, seems the right guy for the job, were it not for the fact that his only handicap is that he can’t play the drums.
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