Friday
11am - 10pm:
Töltött Hold Gastro Weekend at Belvárosi Piac Winter flavors, guest chefs, regional restaurants, and top producers at the Downtown Market all weekend long! Even in front of the Hold Street Market, a vodka bar, coffee Piaggio, and fisherman’s soup welcome visitors. At the community stand on the ground floor, the guest restaurants and chefs prepare typical “market foods”, and everything will be open on the gallery, as well.
7pm:
Read the line with a sarcastic undertone at Ateliers Pro Art CenterVelvet, spotlights, audience. The perfume of the woman sitting in front of you, and the instructions form the director fill the air.
Zsófia Keresztes places the active players of the game into an installation, while Rita Süveges captures the absurdity of the audience’s observer role in her pictures. The places on the paintings aren’t backgrounds for real actions; they show a static, circular motion. However, Keresztes sends her main characters into a destructive fight. The outcome of the tragedy is uncertain. The curtain falls with a deep disgust.
7pm: Smoke at Taste Loffice There’s a several-hour-long video – the documentation of decades – that shows people doing physical work. Far from the industrial zone, with handmade tools, alone or in a company of few, they move back and forth between one or two movement phases. On the pictures, long-stemmed plants are being chopped up, and fishing nets are being knotted – the whole thing is like a dance; a natural course of things without thoughts. By the end of the film you will feel an unbeatable urge to take something in your hands and work with it.
10pm: Felix Jaehn at Hellobabybar The internationally acclaimed young talent, Felix Jaehn, comes all the way from Hamburg to spin discs at Hello Baby on February 5th. The now 21-year-old Felix showed his talent early on as he secured a place in the Ministry of Sound and at the Pacha Club when he was just 18. Millions listen to his hit songs like “Ain’t Nobody (Loves Me Better)”, “Book of Love”, “Eagle Eyes”, and his remix of “Cheerleader” from OMI.
He won’t leave his best records behind this night as he invites us all to a melodic, vocal, tech-, deep-, and chill-house musical array, filled with emotions.
11pm: Casino Bangkok Presents Truss at Corvin ClubTom Russell (aka Truss) heralds from a small Welsh village on the outskirts of Cardiff, yet he brings some of the darker and harder elements of techno to many of the UK’s urban concrete haunts such as Corsica Studios. Having released several tracks on London techno label Perc Trax, Miniscule, and Dumb-Unit Synewave among others, his sound comprises stripped-back minimal techno that is hard and driving. Stocking records from UK-based techno producers Surgeon, Perc, Shifted, and Sigha in his crate, Truss is clearly part of the scene here that pushes a sound that is loud, visceral, and exactingly scientific.Saturday
10am:
Légvonal ↗︎ Shortcut at Kunsthalle Works shown at the Shortcut Exhibition present the results of the autonomous art and applied art education offered at the Visual Arts Institute of the Eszterházy Károly University. The Institute offers his own specialized alternative in visual arts education beside the field’s traditional centers.
8pm:
Bestia presents:
Stifler’s Party at Bestia You always wanted to take part in a legendary American house party that is all about beer and getting crazy? This Saturday, Bestia will have Stifler’s party, who is the uncrowned king of house parties – you will definitely have a wild night, and the beer will never run out.
What to expect: a chicken-wing eating competition, flip the cup, foosball for the real pub-goers, and of course the classic music of American house parties – old school hip-hop and r’n’b rules!
10pm:
Dub Phase 9th Birthday Bash – Quest featuring Crazy D at RoHAM Bár The special guests at this birthday party will be Quest and Crazy D from the UK. Quest has been actively present in the world of dubstep since the beginning, and will come to perform at RoHAM Bár for the second time, now with a three-deck set. He is also the founder of Antisocial Entertainment, which has members like Silkie and Jay5ive. He had many appearances in the now legendary Deep Medi Musik, he regularly performs at DMZ nights, he debuted last year at V.I.V.E.K.’s label, System Music, at Innamind records, and furthermore, after many years of work, his first release with Antisocial Records is coming out this February.
11pm: Red Axes at LÄRM Red Axes is the work of Tel Aviv producers Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi, who have been performing together for a long time, first as post-punk band Red Cotton; Red Axes is the duo’s current incarnation. Deep, playful, and faintly psychedelic, their productions for the likes of I’m Hivern Discs have been well received in the years since. “Ballad of the Ice”, the duo’s debut album last year, combined elements of acid rock and left-of-center house, incorporating live instruments into their production repertoire. Arzi and Sadovnik have turned label heads recently too, with their Garzen Records due to launch in October. The label’s debut release, “Ahuzat Bait”, stands as a testament to the duo’s ongoing love affair with Tel Aviv.
11.30pm: Midnight Music – Classical Music For Night Owls at Millenaris Teatrum Some prefer listening to music by night, and, fortunately, there are also some who like to play music at night. It has become a tradition that the highlights of certain concerts are presented again for young audiences as late as half past 11 in the evening – after the regular concert hall performance. Midnight Music is for the open-minded who enjoy the arts and exquisite experiences, and, of course, who also like staying up late. These are no ordinary concerts. They begin very late, tickets are assigned to large beanbags, not seats, there is no dress code whatsoever, and, as well as a top-quality musical performance, the audience gets short, professional, and entertaining introductions to the pieces, facilitating a better understanding of the music. Those arriving by bicycle receive a 30% discount.Sunday
6am:
Contra Mundum: Afterhours – Saboar, Martin ’M & Flixon, Zvezda Beta at Corvin ClubBudapest never sleeps – not even after a Saturday night spent dancing and drinking.
That’s why Afterhours came to life: a party series that starts at 6am, for those who still don’t want to leave the club, but spend some more time on the dance floor. This time, the Romanian Saboar, Martin ’M, Flixon, and Zvezda Beta will stand behind the deck, to guide you through the first hours of the last day of the week. 10am: Palace Of Delights at MüPa – Palace Of ArtsThe Palace of Delights awaits families who wish to spend their time in active, creative, and meaningful activities. The children’s concerts, dance performances, and fairy-tale theater performed on stage – as well as musical and other creative activities, skills development programs, and games taking place in other parts of the foyer – are closely linked to a weekly theme, and to concerts and other performances elsewhere on the Palace of Arts program.
6pm: Budapest Secret Cinema presents: Miyazaki All Nighter at Anker’t The newest programs by Budapest Secret Cinema are all about the amazing creator, the biggest wizard of anime – Hayao Miyazaki. They decided to make it a double event since all tickets were sold for February 6th – the stories start at 6pm at Anker’t on Sunday, February 7th, when they will screen the three most popular works of the master.
Hayao Miyazaki is one of the founders of the well-known Studio Ghibli, and one of the best animators of all time. He produced masterpieces such as the popular Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, and the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away. Unique visions, heartwarming stories, complex personalities – this is Miyazaki’s world. During the night, they’ll screen
Howl’s Moving Castle; Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke.
