Budapest’s annual cross-disciplinary arts festival kicked off on October 7th in the Hungarian capital, and awaits culture fans for another week with plenty of aesthetic attractions. CAFe Budapest is highlighting all sorts of contemporary arts, featuring numerous cultural programs like concerts, performances, and exhibitions. In a former article we already recommended various intriguing exhibitions and unexpected dance flashmobs performed on public squares, and now we draw five more memorable events out of the magic hat to help you pick amazing programs from the festival’s abundant schedule.

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Cinematic Bones (October 13th, 8pm)

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Cinematic Bones is the 2014 project of Four Bones Quartet that enriches the characteristically classic sound of Four Bones with modern electronic music and the pulse of percussion instruments. Over the past few years, the performance, which was already presented in various European capitals, was made more colorful with constantly expanding new musical directions. On October 13th, the band performs alongside Bíborka Bocskor, the singer of the popular Hungarian band Magashegyi Underground. We are very much looking forward to it.

Venue: Bálna Budapest

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radio_56 (October 15th, 8pm)

This performance evokes the memories of October 23, 1956 – the day when Hungary’s 1956 Revolution began – through a documentary, and a concert of

melodious revolutionary poems, focusing on seven fascinating stories, seven remarkable lives, and seven people: László Balás-Piri, László Dózsa, László Regéczy-Nagy, Mária Wittner, László Trencsényi, Szabolcs Hajdú, and János Varga. The same intensified enthusiasm radiates through the songs that we see on the quickly captured facial expressions in contemporary photographs that carry the unconcealed mark of this life-changing day’s catharsis, as previewed in the trailer below (in Hungarian):

Performers: Gyuri Ligeti (Žagar), Juci Németh (Nemjuci), Robi Bérczesi (Hiperkarma), Barbara Schoblocher (Blahalousiana), Tamás Mórocz (Bermuda), Tamás Pajor – vocals, Kornél Simon – prose, Zoltán Takács Jappán (Soerii & Poolek) – piano, András Vermes – guitar, Bence Czoller (Marge) – bass, Barnabás Botond Horváth (Soerii & Poolek) – drum Venue: Bálna Budapest

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A Short Outline of Everything (October 15th, 7pm)

A Short Outline of Everything is the guest performance of the Polish Cloud Theater. The group is the creator of the so-called performative cinema, which means that by exploring new artistic forms of self-expression and involving cutting-edge technologies and multimedia devices, the performance seems to offer a true cinematic experience. Cloud Theater endeavors to achieve nothing less than to tell the story of the whole world, enabling the audience to perceive several thousand years of history from a bird’s-eye view. This production with special visuals – performed entirely live – is the unique combination of theater, film, and various visual arts.

Venue: Átrium Film Theater

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A Drama of Celebration ...’56 - ’16... (October 18th, 19:30)

1013 Budapest, Ybl Miklós tér
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A Drama of Celebration ...’56 - ’16... is a cross-disciplinary art collaboration, created to honor the 60th anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 Revolution by recalling the atmosphere of this proud episode of Magyar history. In addition to the uprising in Hungary – owing to several similarities – the performance focuses on the anti-communist rebellions and uprisings of the whole region, with the collaboration of such creators and artists who already consider communism as “part of history”. Dancing on the periphery of theater and performance art – through installations, the paintings of Erzsébet Vojnich, an extract from Heiner Müller’s HamletMachine, as well as through excerpts from the works of Péter Nádas and Tibor Hajas – the characters strive to transcend the boundaries of an imaginary Iron Curtain between various genres.

Director, visuals, choreographer: Krisztián Gergye
Venue: Várkert Bazaar