Friday
1pm - 10pm: Opening Weekend at NapozóA cooling pool, ice-cold beer, grilled sandwiches, beach sports, green grass, and smiling faces – these things await you from Friday, when Napozó will start its current season. Not to mention that Captain Knuckles and Sobek will play an exclusive hip-hop-juke set, just to start the weekend in the best possible way. You know where you should be, when the sun hits.
8.30pm - 10pm:
Gehlker/Auffray/Diaz Verbèke – Le Vide at Trafó A hard-to-classify, strangely intense show, halfway between an ostensible rehearsal and a finished piece, Le vide (The Void) emerged in 2009 from a training session in a discipline of radical simplicity: the vertical rope. This project aims to illustrate the absurdity of this line of work and also the way to become free of it. Specifically re-adapted for each place in which it is shown, delivering a new reading of the venue’s architecture, this show is a build-up towards the dizzying and joyful feeling of being alive! You can watch it every night at Trafó between May 26-28.
9pm - 5am: Test Fest – DJ Paypal, Kahn, Rockwell at A38 Ship Organized by Bladerunnaz, Test Fest is a one-night-only music festival focusing on forward-thinking hybrids of bass music. With a lineup featuring the Berlin-based footwork wizard and Mall Music leader DJ Paypal, Bristol-based gnarly dubstep producer and Deep Medi-associate Kahn and Rockwell, one of the most exhilarating talents to come out of the drum and bass scene in recent times, this will be a party you won’t forget easily.
10pm - 11.30pm: Cronenber Nights – Videodrome at Bem Cinema Starring James Woods and Deborah Harry in one of her first film roles, Videodrome is one of writer/director David Cronenberg’s most original and provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking elements of sex and violence. With groundbreaking special effects makeup by Academy Award winner Rick Baker, Videodrome has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and mind-bending science fiction films of the 1980s. Bem Cinema will screen it with original (English) audio and Hungarian subtitles, so it’s your time to embark on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
11pm - 5am: Matthias Meyer – Watergate 20 Release Tour at Corvin ClubThe Hamburg-based artist has been a resident at Watergate for the past two years, so it was time to do contribute his installment to the long-running mix series. On Watergate 20, he stringed together 19 house tracks, with output from labels like Giegling, Dekmantel, and Hivern Discs, navigating the listener through boundless soundscapes of lush melodics, organic grooves, and sentimental sensations with an effortless approach. We can expect something similar on this very Friday too, which sounds like a perfect party.Saturday
10am - 10pm: Warcraft Weekend at Corvin Cinema Since Warcraft, an epic summer blockbuster about a world-colliding conflict based on Blizzard Entertainment’s global phenomenon premieres these days, the BarCraft staff decided to celebrate it in the most appropiate way: with Heartstone-championships, cocktails, exhibitions, and cosplayers. The geekiest thing in which you can participate during the weekend!
10am - : Children’s Day at Erzsébet Square On Children’s Day, fun and (interactive) games await families all day long at Erzsébet Square! You can also buy special design clothes, organic and artisanal products, fairy-tale books, or toys for the younger generation at the market, located at the same place. But if that would still not be enough, there will be concerts too: Kaláka, Alma Együttes, and Fruzsina Kovácsovics will perform. So hop on your bike and spend this special day together!
12pm - 8pm:Müpa Melody Wheel at Madách Square The world’s largest interactive music box was first introduced to the audiences in 2015, and this year, from May 28th to June 5th, anyone can try the monumental musical gear brought to downtown Budapest by the Palace of Arts. With an increased repertoire, now six melodies can be heard by walking on the giant “treadwheel”, including a theme from the Harry Potter movies and the iconic Wagner piece, the “Ride of the Valkyries”.
8pm - : Svalbard, Meek Is Murder, Rivers Run Dry, Torn From Earth at Dürer KertSvalbard effortlessly combines elements of post-hardcore/crust/post-rock/black metal, bending and blending it into something entirely their own, without ever compromising an astonishing scope of sound. Meek Is Murder plays extreme noise/grindcore with such ferociousness that you don’t want to be in their way. Before them, two local acts, crust punk squad Rivers Run Dry and doom metallers Torn From Earth, will play.
9pm - 10pm: The Devil’s Trade at BARhole Music The Devil’s Trade is a one-man gang (Dávid Makó from Haw and Stereochrist) chained to some burden that he pulls through his ways, leaving tracks behind to lead or guide mostly him which directions not to follow and which to aim for again. The legs are old wounded up to the knees as the tracks are that deep and filled with sticks and stones, but strict marks lead him where he wants to arrive. His music is the dust he shakes during this pilgrimage.
11pm - 6am: Szép Booking!™ Presents Don Papa, Kokk N Roll at LÄRMDon Papa has been a leading figure in the underground hip-hop community of Moss for two decades, starting his career as a breakdancer and graffiti writer in the mid ’80s, and soon moving into music production. His mixes always contain a huge amount of love, passion, and some crazy mixing – also elements proto-house, dub, deep house or whatever that comes into his crazy mind. Kokk N Roll also started as B-boy and a massive digger for vintage vinyls, which soon turned into a DJ career. When he stand behind the decks, anything can happen from rare grooves to Afro-rock, from Latin music to breakbeat.Sunday
10am - 1pm:
Palace Of Delights at MüPa – Palace Of Arts The Palace of Delights welcomes families who wish to spend time with creative and meaningful activities. The children’s concerts, dance shows, and fairy-tale theatrical acts – as well as musicals and other creative activities, including games – are always linked to a weekly theme.
11am - : Children’s Day at Capital Circus The viewers of the fountain circus show, the Children of Atlantis, can experience a truly special surprise; after the performances, to honor the occasion of the Birds and Trees Day, the parrots will be released in the circus, so you might even be able to take some photos together. And which child could resist such a program? We thought so.
4pm - : Crosstalk Video Art Festival – War at Hospital In The RockThe Crosstalk video art festival is an annual video art exhibition seeking to raise people’s awareness for video as a form of art that is inserted in their life more than it’s noticed. Sunday’s screening will be centered around topics like war, tele-thanatological optics, and bio-power, and is accompanied by a one-hour guided tour in the former secret emergency hospital and nuclear bunker. The festival program takes place in a domed hospital room, where you can watch the videos from sickbeds.
8pm - 10.30pm: Ryan McGarvey at A38 ShipNew Mexico’s hottest blues guitarist will be making his second appearance at the A38 Ship! Ryan McGarvey’s life is devoted to the six strings of his road worn Strat. He has a fluidity to his playing that hearkens back to Eric Clapton – one of his idols – at the height of his powers, and he transcends technical ability with passion infused in every note.
His rock-solid band propels him through barn burner sets he fills with his own material and tasty covers. This is an artist on his ascendency. You will not want to miss him.
