Kiskőrös is one of the places where the Petőfi cult is nurtured, and the poet is the symbol of the city - emphasized László Domonyi, the mayor of Kiskőrös, at the Monday press conference introducing the Petőfi New Year's Eve in Budapest. He drew attention to the commemoration in front of the Petőfi Orphanage and Memorial Museum on New Year's Eve, as well as to the fact that the city presents children born in Hungary on the first of January with a numbered, named memorial card and all the poems of Sándor Petőfi.
The hometown of Sándor Petőfi, Kiskőrös, started the Petőfi New Year's Eve tradition 25 years ago together with the National Petőfi Sándor Society and the management of the Petőfi Parents' Home and Memorial Museum. Erika Filus, the director of the Petőfi Family Home and Memorial Museum, said that the Szilveszter Társulat and Szivárný Slovak Dance Ensemble will perform the performance A helység kalapácsa, or two hundred years since I have been among you, on December 30. ., an exhibition will be opened at the Sándor Cultural Center in Petőfi.
At the New Year's Eve concert, artists connected to the city, opera singers Erika Miklósa and Csővári, trumpeter Gábor Boldoczki, the Budafoki Ernő Dohnányi Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gábor Hollerung, and the artists of the Badora Dance Company will take the stage. The concert is accompanied by a dinner, the menu consists of the favorite dishes of the greats of the reform era, he added.
Erika Filus pointed out that on the first of January, the 1823 register containing Petőfi's original baptism entry can be viewed in the town's Lutheran church. Demeter Szilárd, the general director of the Petőfi Literary Museum, said at the press event: in the spirit of the Petőfi bicentenary, the permanent exhibition of the institution was renovated, which will be opened to visitors on January 13, and then on the 14th, the Károlyi garden and palace will be opened together for a family day on the occasion of He emphasized: they did not want to take the focus away from the Kiskőrös programs, which is why they chose these January dates at the PIM.
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