Cultural and social life in Hungary

Festivals

   




Several festivals are organised regularly year-by-year. Of course beside these events lots of happenings take place throughout the country, of which you can inform here.
o February - Budapest Film Festival: a few days long festival introducing new    Hungarian films to the public.
o March or April - Cultural Spring Festival: a series of cultural events (theatre,    concerts etc.) held in different spots of Hungarian towns: Budapest,    Debrecen, Kaposvár, Kecskemét, Szeged, Szentendre, Szombathely.
o June, July - open-air arts and folk festivals all over Hungary, like
   Szeged Weeks
   Hortobágy Horse Fair
   Hortobágy Bridge Fair
   Margaret island and Szentendre - Open-air performances
   Kapolcs Artists' Valley - One week art festival in Káli-basin near lake Balaton
   Kaláka Folk Festival at Diósgyõr
o August
   "Sziget" Festival - one week music festival on Hajógyári sziget
   Flower Carnival in Debrecen
o September
   Grape Harvest Festival in the countryside
   Budapest Autumn Weeks - concerts during the autumn