EUnderground Festival

Project "EUnderground" wants to bring the history closer to young citizens with a very unique topic which has received less attention so far. The project reveals a hidden and less accessible cultural heritage of former socialist countries: the field of underground cultural movements in Eastern- and Central-Europe between 1948-89.

The project title refers to the alternative cultural movements at that time as very important means of cultural opposition of the civil society in the Eastern block. The project's scientific, cultural and non-formal educational activities about counterculture helps significantly the acquaintance of the era, which creates a better understanding the importance of free speech and civil dialogue in a democracy. We show different forms of cultural protesting against the repression of the freedom of thought and conscience through censorship, and accent the contrast between the dictatorship of the party state and the democratic system of the EU nowadays.

Provisional Programme

Workshops and performances (from 10 am):

10:00

Festival opening ceremony

10:05 – 10:30

Dr Dariusz Leśnikowski: Alternative theaters in Poland (Poland)

10:30-11:00

The presenation of Ladislav Snopko (Slovakia)

11:00-11:30

Martin Pilař: Underground poems (Czech Republic)

Coffee break

12:00-12:30

Krassimir Iliev (Sofia City Art Gallery): Forms of Censorship - Forms of Resistance. The State and the Artists in Bulgaria (1944-1985) (Bulgaria)

12:30 -13:00

Professor Dr. Eldon Gjikaj: Literary and Artistic Dissidence in Communist Albania (Albania)

12:00-13:00

Workshop about the samizdat culture

Prize giving ceremony of the student journals

Afternoon and evening programme (from 5 pm):

17:00-17:15

Opening ceremony of the traveling exhibition

17:15 – 18:15

Underground filmclub with the Hungarian Film Archive

18:15 – 19:00

Slidefilm projection for adults

17:30 – 18:30

Music of non-aligned youth in Romania. Forms of rebellion and attitude under dictatorship.

Presentation and concert of Mircea Florian (Romania)

18:30-19:00

All our thoughts buried into a free voice

The performance of the Excelsior Theater (Romania)

19:00-20:00

Dance hall

Folk dance teaching

20:00 – 20:30

Indians from the Bakony Mountains

Concert and chant

20:30-21:00

Víg Mihály

Unplugged concert

21:00 – 22:30

Török Ádám and the Mini

Rock and blues concert

Sep.

Thursday

10:00

EUnderground Festival

2019 September 19. 10:00