Starting Thursday, the five-day Five Temples festival will be held for the 17th time in the New Town district of Győr, which promotes the values of European cultural diversity and the acceptance and understanding of differences between cultures and religions, the organizers informed MTI.
The focus of the Five Temples festival is the unique architectural value of Győr-Újváros, the five churches representing five religions located one after the other in one street, as well as the Jewish-Christian culture. The programs include theater, literature, visual arts and various musical genres. Art historian Zoltán Székely presents the traditions and values of European Jewish-Christian culture through the five churches on guided tours every day. Acquainting the participants with the religious characteristics of each religion, their architectural aspects, as well as the possibility of peaceful and fruitful coexistence.
On the opening day, May 12, Zoltán Beck and H. Miklós Vecsei invite the audience to play, during which stories, poems, songs, and personal experiences come alive on stage. In the Synagogue, Gabriella Hámori awaits her audience with her performance entitled Fanni Gyarmati's diary. On May 13th, Imre Csuja and Zoltán Czutor will hold a special literary and musical performance, in which poems and songs will be performed in an understandable, humorous, grotesque, serious, dramatic, yet friendly manner.
On the last day of the five-day festival, on May 16, the Simplicissimus Chamber Ensemble and flutist Bálint Kovács will give a concert in which they will play works by baroque composers Vivaldi, Mancini, Caldara, Telemann and Blavet. Tamás Seres edits György Faludy's biographical novel My Days of Fun in Hell for the podium of the Menház. In the performance, actors Móni Balsai and Bálint Adorjáni are accompanied by Edina Mókus Szirtes. At the final concert of the series of events, the Barcelona Gipsy Balkan Orchestra will perform in the Evangelical Old Church.
Source: vasarnap.hu/MTI
