"Love one another as I have loved you!" - with this motto, the XVI. Ars Sacra Festival between September 17 and 25, with a free program offering high-quality, genre-diverse art works and productions connected to historic churches. With this year's motto of the festival, everyone is invited to walk the path of love together.
Some people are easy to love. The one who accepts and understands us, expresses his tender feelings with his kindness, the one who worries and cares for us, the one with whom we are "kindred spirits". These experiences are a huge resource in our lives. But love often calls for self-transcendence. For the letting go, when we have to leave our own ideas and prejudices behind so that the other person can come to us and learn new things from them. We can make ourselves free for the other person.
Engaging in artistic experiences is similar to this idea. In the world of music, literature, and visual arts, we can discover new dimensions, not only in ourselves, but also in the other and the transcendent.
The goal of the organizers is that through the programs of the Ars Sacra Festival, the people of today will meet European culture based on traditional Judeo-Christian foundations and discover its many-faceted richness with the help of art.
Joiners from here and beyond the border are welcome, who join the series of events with art programs within the framework of the festival.
What programs can be used to join the XVI.
For Ars Sacra Festival? - museums, exhibition spaces, galleries and studios - with sacred exhibitions, guided tours, museum pedagogic sessions;
- cultural centers, cultural centers - with the involvement of theaters, visual and industrial artists, performers, movement artists;
– fine and industrial artists – with exhibition, open studio;
– musical artists – with a concert;
– theaters – with plays on sacred themes, literary evenings;
– churches – presenting the church, hosting exhibitions, lectures, concerts;
– schools – with literary and drama performances, poetry reading evenings, exhibitions, music programs;
- local historians, art historians, architects - by presenting sacred buildings, organizing thematic excursions and walks.
You can register for the festival with a new or existing program that can be visited for free during the event - even for a short time - and can be viewed online for free.
"We hope that visitors to this year's Ars Sacra Festival will experience the invigorating, healing and guiding role of art. We, the employees of the Ars Sacra Foundation, will continue to work in 2022 to help make this happen with as diverse a range of programs as possible!"
Source and photo: ars-sacra.hu
