2023.03.31. – 2023.04.01.
Ash days are organized in memory of the writer and philosopher Béla Hamvas on March 31 and April 1 in Balatonfüred. During the two-day event, there will be a book presentation, a pilgrimage to the Koloska Valley and a wine tasting - the organizers informed MTI.
Béla Hamvas in the late 1920s. Photo: Wikipedia
The mission of the event, which takes place on Friday and Saturday and is organized by the Béla Hamvas Asztaltársaság, is to recall and interpret the spirit of Béla Hamvas.
The series of events begins with the traditional "reading": a part of the author's essay "Trees" is read to the Ash tree on the Tagore promenade, this time in Turkish. As a continuation of the program, writers Can Togay and Alexa Károly will talk about the oeuvre. The volume made of the best writings of last year's Hamvas essay competition, which was announced under the title The Crisis of European Culture, will be presented, and the day will end with a wine tasting.
Nagykanizsa winemaker Ernő Sagmeister presents his wines at the Figula Winery, with whom writer and winemaker Lajos Ambrus talks.
On Saturday, led by the artist József Szarvas, a walk starts in the Koloska Valley, to the linden tree that inspired Béla Hamvas's essay Trees. Here you can toast the memory of translator Sava Babic with pálinka, and in the afternoon in the Géza Szőcs Literary Szalon, poems by Adél Kálnay and András Petőcz Salvatore Quasimodo Prize-winning poets will be performed.
The poems will be read by the authors, and the violinist Péter Kováts will talk with the composers Máté Balogh and Balázs Horváth. Writer and philosopher Béla Hamvas was born in 1897 in Eperjes. After obtaining his liberal arts degree, he worked as a journalist and then as a librarian. For a while after the Second World War, he edited the series "Small studies" of the University Press, but in 1948 he was suspended from his position. He was retired as a physical worker in 1964. He died four years later. Only two collections of essays were published in his lifetime, only his books were published after 1983. In 1990, he received a posthumous Kossuth Prize.
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