International DS Day 2011
Programme for the International Down Syndrome Day
Presenters: Mr Béla Fesztbaum and Mr György Novák (Gyurcsi)
10.00 Opening ceremony (Ms Enikő Eszenyi, Vígszínház, Director és and Mr Károly Kisari, President, Down Association)
10.15 Halász Judit “Csiribiri” concert
10.55 Cartoon shows of the MOME’s animation studens and egyszervolt.hu in cooperation
11.10 Show – Vígszínház Artists
11.35 Cartoon shows of the MOME’s animation studens and egyszervolt.hu in cooperation
11.40 The Little Prince – ArtEst Polyaesthetic education of disabled youth – Kosice, Slovakia
11. 50 Cartoon shows of the MOME’s animation studens and egyszervolt.hu in cooperation
11.55 Artists of the Baross Imre Szakközépiskola
12.20 Baltazár Theatre – Boys and Girls (director – Ms Dóra Elek)
12.50 Raffle and The Drawing Contest – award ceremony
13.10 Szalóki Ági “Gingalló” concert for families
Entrance Fee
900HUF
Family Ticket – 2900HUF (1 adult + 5 children or 2 adults + 4 children) – free for younger than 3 years
Opening ceremony - 10.00
Tickets available in advance at the Comedy Theatre (Vígszínház) Box Office from 1st March
Venue - Vígszínház, 1 Pannónia utca, Budapest 1136
Lots of fun beyond the stage
Those who will visit the Comedy Theatre on this March Sunday will hardly be bored, since beyond the fascinating shows there will be a wide variety of supplementary programmes. There will be a playhouse, a Drawing contest (with Maszat-hegy as central theme), and, in addition, children can paint with contemporary painters (for example ef. Zámbó István and András Wahorn) or play with the clowns who will make balloon-figures. There will be face-painters, raffle, and a craft workshop as well. Those who would like to help can buy “Help-cookies” form the segitsuti.hu.
There will be a Down nanny chat room where parents with affected children can meet support group members, who also have DS children. On top of all these, the Down-shop will be open on the spot, and the performing guests’ CDs and inscriptions will be available.
Halász Judit on Stage
Halász Judit is an exceptionally popular actress and singer with numerous awards, and she is also the Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF in Hungary. She has played in many films and dramas, made an Album with poems of Miklós Radnóti, told tales on albums of several artists.
When Halász Judit made her first album of singing famous Hungarian poems she became the most popular artist among children – and she still remains the most popular. She has made 22 albums for children, the latest being Csiribiri, in 2009.
Our Halász Judit concert will be an unforgettable experience for kids at the International DS Day in Vígszínház.
Cartoon shows of the MOME’s animation studens and egyszervolt.hu in cooperation
Thanks to the MOME (Moholy-Nagy Universety of Art and Design in Budapest) and egyeszervolt.hu, those who visit the International DS Day will see a number of animation cartoons – they will be joyful and funny moments of the day.
Show – Vígszínház Artists
The artists of the host, Comedy Theatre, will entertain the audience. It will be half an hour fun with the most popular artists of Hungary, they will dance, sing and, fill the whole theatre with fun and laughter.
The International Visegrad Fund
The International Visegrad Fund has a mission to enhance mutual cooperation among Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland and to intensify relations among the contracting parties. Its objective is to establish a close regional cooperation of the four Visegrad countries via subsidizing multilateral projects in the fields of culture, science, research and tourism as well as advocating exchange programmes for young people and interconnections between neighbouring countries. The budget of the International Visegrad Fund is created of equal contributions of the four countries. The members offer a contribution of €1.500.000 a year from 2010, thus making subsidies of over €6 million possible every year.
Artists with Down Syndrome on stage
…from abroad – ArtEst Polyaesthetic education of disabled youth – Kosice, Slovakia
Performing artists with Down syndrome will be on stage with Exupéry’s Little Prince, and this year again the International Down Syndrome Day will become truly international as the organizer Down Association hopes to welcome guests from Rumania, the Ukraine and Spain as well.
…from Hungary – Baltazár Theatre
The Baltazar Theatre , founded in February 1998, is the one and only professional theatre company in Hungary whose members are mentally challenged actors and actresses. The Baltazar Theatre Foundation, which runs the theatre company, breaks new grounds by putting actors’ disabilities in the background and emphasizing their talent. They create the conditions for disabled people to earn a living from their talent. Their work is based on the ambition that their pieces should not be prepared and presented in social exclusion. The performances should not be judged by a relative standard but by their own values.
Since they were set up, the company has presented eleven pieces:
1998 – Awakenings
2000 – Feather Dance
2001 – Think of me with pleasures
2002 – Beckett Symphony
2003 – Flying Licence – for Angels
2004 – Fading Rouge
2005 – The One Born Laughing
2007 – “Picasso: The Creation of the World”
2008 – Stone Choice
2009 – Boys, girls
2010 – Golden step
Szalóki Ági on stage
Szalóki Ági is one of the most talented and celebrated representatives of the new generation of folk singers who burst onto the scene at the end of the 1990’s. For several years she was the singer with Besh o droM, an immensely popular world music band playing all over Hungary and Europe and with Ökrös, famous for their virtuoso interpretation of authentic Hungarian folk music. She has toured around the globe with these two bands from the Montreal Jazz Festival to the Barbican Center in London and the Théatre de la Ville in Paris. Her voice can be heard on more than 25 albums. Since 2005 she has been pursuing her solo career with her own bands. Of her three solo albums released so far two have won Fonogram “Album of the Year” awards, for Hungarian Jazz in 2006 and Albums for Children in 2007. Ági’s singing style characterized by subtle sensitivity, childlike honesty and inventiveness has attracted the attention of the greatest Hungarian jazz musicians. Using her folk singing technique she has improvised at jazz concerts at home and abroad together with Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Tony Lakatos and Kálmán Oláh.
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