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