This year the seventh Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest will take place during November 21-30, aiming at presenting the newest of European playwriting and theatre to Hungarian and foreign audiences. This year’s guest of honour will be Slovenia with theatre performances, dance theatre, read-outs, concerts and cinema.

Via Negativa will bring two performances, both dealing with one of the seven deadly sins: Would Would Not takes a fresh Slovenian look at lust and Out deals with the subject of pride. The award-winning Fragile! staged by Mladinsko Theatre deals with an up to date subject for all Central Europeans: trying one’s luck in London. The dance performance Expensive Darlings, choreographed by Maja Delak is a good example of Slovenian political theatre. Simona Semenic brings her one woman show I, Victim to Budapest. The festival also intends to provide an opportunity for contemporary theatrical thinking and discourses. Thus a conference will take place to discuss the current situation of Slovenian theatre and alternative ways of producing theatre in Slovenia. The theatre program will be accompanied by a selection of new Slovenian films and a concert by Fake Orchestra which mixes Slavic folk elements with Latin jazz and African tribal music.

This is your opportunity to learn more about pálinka, to taste all the types of this drink out there.

In a festival devoted to Hungarian specialty, fruity brandy called pálinka 14 distilleries are presenting their produce made from plums, pears, and apricots. The experts will teach you how to taste this strong drink and answer your questions about it.

In addition to pálinka the guests will also be offered Hungarian wine and traditional Hungarian food, all that accompanied by the music program and performances. That’s just an entertainment to fight your autumn gloom.

Part schmooze-fest, part fashion show, part tech convention, and all awesome, Kunk’s 2ManyBloggas2 will see the collision of art, music, culture and fashion blogs wrapped into one tasty indie/electro party package on September 20 in Trafo.

The event, building upon success of its first version las winter, will be live-blogged at 2manybloggas, with posts being submitted by party-goers and projected on screen.

Entrance is 800 HUF.

The major event of August is undoubtedly Sziget Festival to be held from August 13 to 17 – the music festival that also features dance, theater, fashion and many other types of art created by artists from around the world. Held annually since 1993, Sziget is one of the most popular gatherings of that kind in Eastern Europe, attended in 2006 alone by 385 000 visitors. The festival is the stage for both stars and young musicians. This year Sziget invited Alanis Morisette, Sex Pistols, R.E.M., Roisin Murphy, The Killers, just to name a few.
To find out more about the program and tickets visit Sziget website.