The statues made by Joan, the Spanish sculptor, are functional. Not only can you look at them but you can also touch them. And it is worth doing that – each sculpture is an exercise for trying to find balance. Both the young and the old can try their talent in balancing.

Rasim Kaya -  zurna, vocal, Davur Celik - big drums, Caner Atagün - dance
Authentic kurdish folk music from the furthest eastern part of Turkey. Sarikamis is the ultimate and real shouldn't-miss favourite of MEDIAWAVE's most-eager-to-party folk. Taking hostages for the purest music in kurd manner, committed on drums, zurna, human voice, by a couple of men and a couple of original dancers.

Dancers: Balogh Erika, Mayer Izabella (ILAYDA), Nevelős Annamária (BeyazGül), Sipőcz Andrea, Szabados Tímea (LIRIANN)

Orsós Ervin - voice, guitar, Bogdán Sándor - can, voice, Orsós Tibor - voice, Orsós György „Bubu” - can, voice, Kovács Norbert „Cimbi” - spoons

authentic gipsy band

István Gaál was a director, whose work was recognized in Italy too. Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bunuel respected him as one of the genius of his age. Besides his several Hungarian prizes, he was awarded an honorary knighthood by Italy in 1999. Gaál had also a lot of personal connections to Rome, since he lived there for years. After graduating from the Filmacademy in Budapest, he got a scholarship to Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografiába (the centre of experimental filmmaking) in Rome. He worked as a reader in the Film College in Rome from the end of the 1970’s to the beginning of the 1980’s. His photos made with his filmmaker eyes are mainly of Rome. Not only the historical places, but also the everyday life of it: the quiet streets, squares, alleys, and the citizens sitting and reading lonely in the scene of Rome, the Eternal City.

The MEDIAWAVE Festival - with the centre of Győr - as a regional organisation has taken place in 20 cities of 4 countries – the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary – for many years by now with ever expanding venues. In the past 3 years the partner organisations of the MEDIAWAVE Foundation has been launched in Győr in the framework of the MEDIAWAVE International Partner Conference on the first day of the festival.
Please see the programs in other Hungarian cities and the international program as well.

The meeting helps Central European music festivals, clubs and their organizers establish links so that Central and Eastern Europe becomes open field where art and artists are indeed free to move around – and not only on paper or at the level of slogans. Let’s pay attention to our neighbors’ culture and we hope that they also pay attention to ours.

Films, photos and other visual productions in free edition of the students of the PASSPORT CONTROL International Art Workshop.

Assembly of the Jazz, Improvised, Contemporary and Folk Music Workshop - Cultural Association for Public Use.
The Győrfree Music and Intellectual Workshop was founded to keep Hugarian music prospering and help its spirit to live on. The Workshop works as an organizer, workshop-runner, concert organizer and record label company. Building in musical traditions is just as important in the Workshop’s mission, as the free use of vital improvisations.

A theater-artist, born in Voivodship, made a world-famous career leading the French JEL Theatre-Orleans now is introduced as a photographer, sharing the intimate, artistic moments of rehearsals and other, thematically unclassifiable works of art.
Opening speech by Botond Elekes and Zoltán Bicskei

Short opening concert: Szilárd Mezei

David Murray - saxophone, Lafayette Gilchrist - piano, Jaribu Shahid - bass, Andrew Cyrille - drums
BLACK SAINT
This is the name of a record label which straight away brings to mind the musicians which it features. The leading lights of Great Black Music recorded their music for posterity on this Italian label, whose studios were in Milan. Black Saint is a label which is familiar to fans of an open-ended sort of jazz, which runs through all the colours from green to orange via blue.

The festival will be opened by

Zsolt Borkai, Mayor of Győr

Ákos Kara, Vice Chairman of General Assembly of Győr-Moson-Sopron County

Erzsébet Tóth, Secretary of MMK (Hungarian Motion Pictures Foundation)

György Durst, president of the board of trustees of the MEDIAWAVE Foundation

Since 1991, at the opening ceremony of the MEDIAWAVE Festival, the "Parallel Culture” award has been given to artists from Hungary and artists who have performed in Hungary whose art and civilian or independent intellectual life have not conformed to any current or fashionable artistic trend and who were able to follow their inner voice that led to unbeaten paths.

"Parallel Culture'2007" Awards Winner + history, click here!

Kovács Ferenc - trumpet, violin, Dresch Mihály - saxophone, Bede Péter - saxophone, Balogh Kálmán - cymbal, Budai Sándor - violin, Kovács Zoltán - piano, Szandai Mátyás - bass, Novák Csaba - bass, Banai Szilárd - drums, Németh Ferenc - vocal

puppet operette for adults

Directed by: Zheni Pashova & Peter Pashov (BG, Sofia)
Casts:
Halasi Bea, Jáger András m. v., Kocsis Rozi,
Mákszem Lenke, Pethő Gergő, Rab Viki, Ragán Edit
Szúkenyik Tamás, Varga Anita

An elderly prima donna’s memoirs, remembering the happy days at the music hall, the happiness of youth evoking the well-known figures of the original story. The performance is based on the comic contrast of overwhelming emotions of the operette and the smallness of the puppets.

orienthal contemporary dance

Directed by: Komáromi Judit NESE
Dancers:
Nieto Mercedes & NIMFA ORIENTÁLIS TÁRSULAT
(Batáry Szabina, Brebán Katalin, Budányi Nikolett, Dóra Tünde, Faur Melinda, Farkas Bernadett, Hajnóczy Luca, Huszár Barbara, Kraszkó Anita, Mezey Mariann, Nagyidai Rita, Orai Krisztina, Szentpáli Ildikó, Varga Alexandra)
Komáromi Judit NESE & ABRAKADABRA Orienthal Theatre
(Balogh Erika, Mayer Izabella /ILAYDA/), Nevelős Annamária /BeyazGül/, Sipőcz Andrea, Szabados Tímea /LIRIANN/
Choreographed by: Debreceni Kornélia, Komáromi Judit NESE, Nieto Mercedes

Orsós Ervin - voice, guitar, Bogdán Sándor - can, voice, Orsós Tibor - voice, Orsós György „Bubu” - can, voice, Kovács Norbert „Cimbi” - spoons

authentic gipsy band

Rasim Kaya -  zurna, vocal, Davur Celik - big drums, Caner Atagün - dance
Authentic kurdish folk music from the furthest eastern part of Turkey. Sarikamis is the ultimate and real shouldn't-miss favourite of MEDIAWAVE's most-eager-to-party folk. Taking hostages for the purest music in kurd manner, committed on drums, zurna, human voice, by a couple of men and a couple of original dancers.

Bede Péter - saxophone, Sófalvi Kiss Csaba - saxophone, Tűzkő Csaba - saxophone, Földi Lehel - flute, kaval, Róka Szabolcs - koboz, Benchea Félix - drum
Fanfara Complexa plays Moldovan dance music. The traditional mix of recorder, lute and drum is completed by the sound of the saxophone now popular in Moldova. Fanfara Complexa has had several tours, of wich the Chinese and Kurdistan archive is available at MEDIAWAVE's website.
www.mediawave.hu

Professional performances, portfolio review, discussions, critique of films and photos in working phase.

Films, photos and other visual productions in free edition of the students of the PASSPORT CONTROL International Art Workshop.