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Friday, 29. March 2024

The Museum of Telecommunications, located in the old classsrooms of  Puskás Tivadar Vocational High School, opened its doors with the slogan „Living knowledge for the future”. The rich exhibition can be visited, by prior appointment, between 10:00-13:00 a.m. and 4:00-6:00 p.m.
The overall message of the exhibition that presents the history of the past and current ways of information tranfer is, as the school director David Demeter also mentions, that our present has grown out of our past knowledge and our future is also due to knowledge.

Therefore, the Puskás Tivadar Foundation has established the collection of more that 1000 pieces of telecommunication equipments for scientific and educational  purposes. This collection is estimated at 500 thousand lei and 90% of items are still functioning. Students and visitors may wander among the thematically arranged stalls, may observe and enjoy different objects, for example the most popular ones, the military radio-transceiver device used at the Warsaw Pact, the Titanic's radio room, the telecommunication equipment used in the First and Second World War, the telephone newspaper ”Telefonhírmondó” of Puskás Tivadar, as well as the collection's oldest piece, a Morse machine from 1915. During the professional tour, visitors can see plenty of other unique items from various eras.

Photo: Vargyasi Levente


The founders of this exhibition are proud that the educational and pedagogical value of the museum serves not just for students, but also for the community. The collection items may be interactively introduced in lessons, wether lab activities, creating alternative energy or the Amateur Radio Club. Students interested in the latter are welcome every Wednesday at 5 pm. Furthermore, the Museum also welcomes old technical books for the purpose of expanding the exhibition.
The founders of the museum, Attila Puskás - biologist and writer, Ernő Csáky - engineer, professional telecommunications engineering officer, and the late Albert Kis, the co-owner of the radio collection, and Constantin Tanase - contractor,  promise: an exciting historical telecommunication knowledge will reveal itself to the visitors!

If you are interested in seeing the encyclopedic collection of remote communication, encompassing items from hundreds of years, starting from messenger pigeons, to mobile phones, visit the Museum of Telecommunications ”Puskás Tivadar”, located in Sfântu Gheorghe, Str.Pescarilor nr.41 (The High School's main building, I Floor, rooms 34 and 35). Visiting hours are from Monday to Friday, between 10:00-13:00 a.m. and 4:00-6:00 p.m.
For prior appointments call the Secretary - 0267 313 771, or the number 0741 582 489.


Until the end of March all guests of the 23. Saint George Days will be announced, during the last month being mentioned those which are organized independently, but their hosts find it important to be a part of the festival’s programme – claim the organizers. The news conference was mostly about the programme still ’under construction’, many guest performers and local bands were announced to be expected, latter is awaited to rise to a number of circa fifty performances.

It is an old dream of ours to host an authentic rock band’s concert, one which is renowned and respected even among the rockers by heart. There unfortunately aren’t many of these, but we are happy to have the Tankcsapda as one of our main attractions this year – says festival director Grubisics Levente. The Tankcsapda is one of Hungary’s oldest and most popular rock bands, their existence dates back to the end of the communist regime and their songs are known even by those who are not really into hardcore music genres. Officially the Saint George Days concert is part of the band’s European tour, they get on stage on Friday, May 2nd, from 23 o’clock on stage A.

Some might already know that Rúzsa Magdi is also a guest of the festival, since she already advertises her concert on her personal social media. She will entertain the community in those 90 minutes prior to Havasi Balázs pianist’s performance Sunday night. Rúzsa Magdi is one of the few who managed to overstep her ‘discovered by a talent show’ label and is nowadays is avowed both by the audience and the professionals. In 2012 she received the Artisjus Award.

Based on last year’s feedback of Smiley’s concert, we’ve felt motivated to invite a Romanian performer who is popular and sought after by the public, regardless if they’re Hungarian or Romanian, and in addition it would be nice if they had local members in the band – states Grubisics. The well-known singer Connect-R seems to be the perfect choice, for he is widely known for his quality music and dancing talent, he has his own band and the bassist Joó Sándor Sebestyén ‘Sebi’ has Saint Georgian origins. Sebi already was member of numerous musical projects from Bucharest and Budapest, by now he is mentioned as one of the best bassists of the country. Connect-R’s storming party will take place on stage A on Saturday, May 3rd, from 19:30.

Local performances during the Cultural Week and the Festival Weekend

Every year we are confronted by two major problems: not having enough local entertainers to be able to satisfy everyone, on the other hand however there are always productions which get to be left out, even if they would definitely earn a place in the programme – emphasizes the director. In total we will have 25 local productions on stage and 23 dance and music shows put together by locals throughout the Saint George Days. Regarding the total time of the planned programme, this takes up about half of it – he continues. This is why our city forms an exception, namely the local productions and performances strengthen even more the event. We were delighted to see that they are ready, too, to take up the competition and face the challenge, as it is a completely different task to attract audience to a free concert or to put together a sold out show where there is an entrance fee – he adds.

The over fifty local stage productions of the Cultural Week and the Festival Weekend were presented by Dancs Zsolt, the programme director of the event. First of them was the Mácsafej band who please those who are interested in their music Sunday, April 27th, from 19:30 in the Unitarian Church. The core of the concert will constitute their soon-to-be-published new album, thus many songs will be heard for the first time, but pieces from last year’s ‘Sung Poems’ are expected, too.
Among others, we give opportunity every year for the projects, too, this year the Saint George Pink Floyd Tribute Band’s project, The Dark Side of the Moon is such, which is fundamentally a Pink Floyd memorial evening, a dream came true for Pál Zakariás. He created a band whose only goal is to play Pink Floyd songs – says Dancs. The member are: Pál Zakariás – Hammond organ, piano; Éltes Áron – saxophone; Kertész János – drums; Pál Gábor – bass; Kertész Huba – guitar; Gergely Mátyás and Tasi Nóra – vocals.

Among the open-stage shows, the Mercedes Band’s was highlighted, which will take place Saturday, May 3rd, from 19 o’clock on stage B. The band’s second album, With Closed Eyes was released in March 2013. The rock music media praised them from the beginnings, noticing the modern style and the good quality of music and lyrics. The Black and White’s official video was broadcasted multiple times by MTV Romania.

Besides the above mentioned, stage B will host the Jazzkaláka, the Ego sum and The Crazy Plumbers, the Szekler, the Spam, the Scholastic, the Whisperblast and the MiniSnaps, too. In the Cultural Garden numerous performances of the soloists, dancers and musicians from the Folk Art School. Another first of this year is that for two days the Plugor Sándor Art School has the opportunity to show its talents in an hour. Not only the folk music, but jazz will be another main attraction of the Cultural Garden, too, having the Exit Rock Band, the St George Quintet, the Black Betty, the Transylvania Saxophone Quartet, Demeter Eli and his fellow musicians, the Éltes Áron Quartet and the Session Jazz Band local jazz bands play for us.

The organizers draw attention to buy the tickets as soon as possible because of the high attendance, for instance the Yorick Sudio’s Bucharest Calling performance the tickets are already sold out.

(Farkas Zita-Ágota)
 

Details: www.szentgyorgynapok.ro


For the first time a chocolate festival will be held in Sfântu Gheorghe (in Hungarian: Sepsiszentgyörgy) at 27-29 September. The Chocofest will be launched under the slogan Sweet Transylvania , the organizers are: the Covasna County Chamber of Commerce, the Mayor's Office of Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy) and the Covasna County Council. It will take place at the Sekler National Museum`s garden.

The main specialties will be all chocolate-made. Chocolate factories will be representing themselves with a big variety of chocolate specialties, and many different type of chocolate from sweet to sour, spicy and mild, black and white, milky and fruity etc. There will also be a homemade chocolate making competition, chocolate paper design drawing contest, and the visitors can taste the wide range of chocolate.

The Chocofest promises to be a family activity, since the programe is not just for the little ones, they attract the adult too, because not even them can resist the temptation of the chocolate so it will be an event worth visiting.

Website: www.chocofest.ro


The International Folk Dance Festival and Autumn Fair was held in Sfântu Gheorghe (in Hungarian: Sepsiszentgyörgy) at 21-22 September this year for the second time. Many traditional occupations, crafts, folk music and folk concerts, local culinary specialties, wine tasting, pumpkin exhibition and activities for kids, mineral water exhibition were located in the city center.
The dance festival was organized by the Cultural Center of Covasna County. Traditional dances were presented from Croatia, Moldova and also traditional Greek and Turkish dances were brought to the stage as well.

The atmosphere was absolutely rustic, filled with joy and amazement. The visitors were taken back to the past with the help of the traditional music, the costumes, the smell of the traditional food, the beautiful handmade jewelries, and the smell of fresh straw. The organizers were paying special attention to the children. Although the weather was poor and a bit rainy, it could not ruin the children fun, they were still playing in the straw. There was also a handcrafted carousel waiting the children with its baskets and wooden horses. Toma and his team from Hungary brought their traditional games, and they were teaching the children to play all weekend long.

This year`s highlight was the pinhole photographer which was joyful even for the adults as well. It was unexpected, creative and even unbelievable that with the help of such a simple instrument, photos can be made.

The performers of the fair were: The Fabatka Quartet, the Codex ensemble, the Muzsikás ensemble, the Kanara ensemble, Nadara Transylvanian Gypsy Band etc.
 


The meeting of the genres was the main aspect in the first edition of the compilation of PulzArt contemporary arts festival program, which was organizes at 5-8 September in Sfântu Gheorghe (in Hungarian: Sepsiszentgyörgy). The organizers were: Sfântu Gheorghe Youth Council and the Town Hall of Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy Municipality. The message of the festival was heard: productions were about the now, and the present, existed an interoperability between different cultural areas, participation, interaction. This festival was not about quantity, but quality presentation of contemporary artistic production in Transylvania, which rarely reach our region.

The PulzArt contemporary arts festival is the central event of the Sfântu Gheorghe Transylvanian Capital of Culture program, and is the meeting point of the four thematic years. 2013 is the Year of the Sound and Word, so the contemporary literature and music got a special place, with a number of productions that combines the two artistic genres.

Performers:
•    Literature: Grecsó Krisztián, Dés László és Dés AndrásMellettem elférsz, Háy János and Beck Zoltán, Szálinger Balázs,  Karafiáth Orsolya, Filip és Matei Florian,  Karácsonyi Zsolt,  László Noémi, Papp Attila Zsolt.
•    Music: Lajkó Félix, Alexandru Tomescu, Mikrokolektyw, Irie Maffia, The Qualitons, Frenák Pál.
•    Fine arts: Antik Sándor, Lakóca Alkotócsoport, Barabás Zsuzsa.

The festival partners: Bod Péter County Library, the Tamasi Aron Theatre, Haromszek Dance Ensemble, the Magma Contemporary Art Exhibition Space, the Romanian Fine Arts Association, the MUKKK Culture and Youth Association, the Tein Teahouse, the Kónya et Kónya Ponopol, the Szépírók Association.

Media Partners: Transindex, Háromszék, Marosvásárhelyi Rádió, Székely Hírmondó, szekelyhon.ro, Sepsi Rádió, Friss Fm, Sláger Rádió, ETV, Observatorul de Covasna, Krónika.

 


The Szekler Gallop was held at Óriáspince Hill on 13-14 July for the third time. The two-day events major part was the riding, and the evenings were filled with cultural programs, where the local riders participated. Unlike the previous year, from this year, the races were held on both days, the middle rounds on Saturday, the final rounds on Sunday. The visitors were able to taste the traditional foods, a fair also took place all weekend, where people could choose from a wide variety of goods, such as jewelry, pots, traditional items, costumes, dresses, accessories etc.

Friday between the rounds there was a two and four carriage driving competition, a mere five-, and there was also archery presented by the Kassai Horseback Archery School, and his students the Sagittis Siculorum Association. A dance presentation took place in the Shagya Horse Club presentation. The afternoon was closed by the Óvári Gazdász Folk Ensemble.

On Saturday, the night was ended with the TűzTánc performance, which was a fire dance performance, enterpreted by Bársony Bálint and Németh Gábor „Némo”, Korzenszky Klára folk singer and the Honvéd Dance Theatre. The Háromszék Dance Ensemble and the M Studio also joined them. In the production also contributed the Szilaj Traditional Association and the Shagya Horse Club. The coreographer was Zsuráfszky Zoltán, the Honvéd Dance Theatres artistic director.

On Sunday, the day ended with the Nox ensembles performance.

The Semifinal winners are: 
1st Race: Sâncrăieni (Csíkszentkirály), André Monika, 18 years old, Herceg, 8-year-old gray gelding
2nd Race: Târgu Secuiesc (Kézdivásárhely), Bodi Albert, 43 years old, Iman, 9-year-old bay Arabian stallion
3rd Race: Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy), Bagoly Szabolcs, 27 years old, Alkony, 5-year-old English-bred bay mare
4th Race: Miercurea Ciuc (Csíkszereda), Márton Gréta, 19 years old, Orszon, 11-year-old English-bred bay gelding
 


Candles, ceramics and pottery, knitwear, weavings, jewelry, wood carvings and other original gifts and creative Christmas decorations were offered at the Christmas Fair in the heart of Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy) between 14–24 December. At the Liberty Square transformed into pedestrian zone, winter songs and dances interpreted by groups from the local schools and kindergartens, traditional culinary delights and winter tastes have created a playful holiday atmosphere.

The main aim of the fair organized by the Town was to support the local craftsmen and manufacturers with sale surfaces offered for free and to supply the visitors with a wide range of creative, personalized gifts. 

During the fair period in a specially arranged yurt all manner of traditional gastronomic specialties such as sausage, liverwurst, greaves, bread and dripping as well as mulled wine waited for those who had got hungry while shopping.  The authentic food offer was enriched by gastronomic events like pig butchering and pork jelly cooking contest.

Christmas fair in Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy) was first held in 2007. Since then it is continually growing and it is on the way of becoming a regional tourist attraction.


Plans approved and construction contract signed on 25th November, three years after winning the construction tender, for establishing a seventeen hectare (17 ha) industrial park at Câmpul Frumos (Szépmező). According to Antal Árpád András, mayor of Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy), the park is the most important and profitable investment of the local government.

“A healthy society is based on a large middle class. For this reason, we think that the local government has to do everything in order to create new workplaces” – stated Antal Árpád András. The goal is to build Seklerland’s biggest industrial park in the near future. At first the industrial land will rest on seventeen hectares, but ten year-plans are made for an expansion up to fifty hectares, according to western models.  

Sztakics Éva, deputy mayor announced that the new industrial park with a total investment of 24,6 million RON would be built in twenty-six months. She added that it is also possible to put it into operation earlier as the prior completion deadline.

“This has two major consequences. On the one hand, the value of real estate in the  Câmpul Frumos (Szépmező) area will increase, and new jobs will be available for the residents. On the other hand, a more than 1000 m2 area will be arranged for assembling and storing the theater’s stage settings, so that the existing workshops in the town’s center can be moved here.”

In the new building specifically designed for stage setting assembly and storage, could give place to other theatres from the region, not only the Tamási Áron Hungarian State Theater. There will be twelve companies operating on the territory of the industrial estate and in two years it is expected to create a total number of four hundred fifty new work opportunities.

On Central Romanian Region level, there are five axles of development defined with contracts in a total value of 400 million euros and tenders handled for 106 projects with a total value higher than 73 million euros - reported Simion Creţu, director of the Central Regional Development Agency.

The total value of investment contracts regarding the development of Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy) reaches 80 million RON, a considerable part of which, 54 million RON, was ratified in the framework of the Regional Operative Programme.  Simion Creţu noted that the biggest number of contracts signed in the context of the Local Regional Programme came into existence in collaboration with Antal Árpád András, mayor of Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy) and the industrial park at Câmpul Frumos (Szépmező) is a top location for investments, a new chance for Seklerland’s industry.
 


The date of this year’s Sekler Gallop was finalized. The large scale event organized by the local government of our city will take place during the period 14-15 July. Good news is that thoroughbreds will not start on this year’s National Gallop, so the ones qualified at the Sekler Gallop will not have to compete with sport horses.

The event’s official website is the following: www.szekelyvagta.ro


Gödri Ferenc Jr. was one of the most remarkable mayors of our city, leading and building Sepsiszentgyörgy for a period of 18 years (starting with the 20th of July 1895 until his early death on the 5th of July 1913). Among others he was leading chief trustee of the Reformed Church, councilor of the Sepsi Reformed Diocese, member of the Székely Mikó College’s provost, town clerk, chairman of the elementary schools’ Board of Trustees, member of the state civil schools’ Board of Trustees, member of the training schools’ Board of Supervision, and last but not least member of the Székely Mikó College Board of Directors. His work was characterized by pure progress: he re-organized and re-built the city. Sepsiszentgyörgy’s local government is going to organize a double memorial year on the occasion of the birth of Gödri Ferenc’s 150th anniversary this year and on his death’s 100th anniversary next year.

In this manner our city wants to make amends for unjustly forgetting Gödri Ferenc and for caring too little for his character and activities. Accordingly, a scientific conference will be organized on the 3rd of October (Gödri Ferenc was born on the 3rd of October, 1862) where professionals will give presentations about the great mayor’s life and work. Moreover our city’s mayor will make a proposition to the local council for elaborating an urban development plan named after Gödri Ferenc from now until 2020 (adapting to the European Union’s 2013-2020 budget cycle). At the same time Gödri Ferenc’s half-length portrait has been found in the Székely National Museum’s stock-house which is going to be placed in the City Hall’s renovated building and the idea of creating a full length statue of both Gödri Ferenc and Potsa József is also taking shape.


The Szent György days return in 2012. The cultural week will be extended with one more day, the program lasting from the 21st until the 29th of April this year. Similar to the previous years the weekend festival will be preceded by a cultural week that will begin with the traditional opening concert on Saturday (instead of the already accustomed Sunday), April the 21st. The events of the cultural week augur to be of high quality and entertaining at the same time. This week is the Szent György days’ “front runner” during which the stages of Sepsiszentgyörgy’s cultural institutions give space to the appearance of well-known and successful artists. There will be classical music concerts, children performances, and a vast number of theatrical performances this year as well. Theatre lovers will be given the possibility to attend, among others, the following successful plays: Dan Gordon: Rain Man (directed by Anger Zsolt, starring Kulka János – Kossuth-award winning actor, Nagy Ervin – film actor, Kézdy György and Cseh Judit; the artists of the Hungarian National Theatre will perform on April the 22nd from 5pm and 8pm in the Tamási Áron Theatre’s great hall); the Bandy girls (a Bandy-lányok) musical drama (directed by Ascher Tamás – Kossuth and Jászai-award winning director, play written by Parti Nagy Lajos Kossuth-award winning poet and playwright; starring Hernádi Judit and Udvaros Dorottya; the artists will perform on April the 23rd from 5pm and 8:30pm in the Tamási Áron Theatre’s great hall).

Furthermore the program will also include craft fair and Cultural Garden (mostly with folk, ethno, jazz and world music concerts). Three stages will be set up for the performers: on the Szabadság (Liberty) Square, on the Sepsiszentgyörgy Sqaure and in the yard of the Székely National Museum. According to Grubisics Levente, the festival’s director, this year’s program will be much clearer, because last year there have been many indications pointing out the fact that as a result of the programs’ consistency people have had difficulties in getting to each and every event. However this does not mean that the composition of the program will be poorer, it just means that a bigger emphasis will be put on providing the enquirers the possibility to get to each event in time.

The main guest of this year’s Szent György days will be the famous Omega band from Hungary that will start its tour in Saint George on the 29th of April and will end it in September in Budapest. Other significant guests: Iris, Republik, Hooligans, Irigy Hónaljmirigy, Taxi, Cry Free – Deep Purple’s Favourite Tribute Band, Holdviola, Boban&Marko Markovic Orchestra and many more.
The full program of the 21st Szent György days will be soon available online on www.szentgyorgynapok.sepsiszentgyorgyinfo.ro/en/


The large scale theatrical event, organized for the 2nd time by the Tamási Áron Theatre, the City Council and the County Council of Sepsiszentgyörgy, will take place during the period 16-29 March, 2012.

In the past two decades one of the Tamási Áron Theatre’s most significant objectives has been to spread and promote the values of contemporary theatrical culture among the audience of our city. On the grounds of its public’s openness and susceptibilty to the values of contemporary theatre Sepsiszentgyörgy is considered to be one of the most significant centres of the Hungarian and Romanian theatrical culture.

Since the 1960s this small town of the Sekler territory had a significant artistic tradition. With serious support from the local authorities a series of programs meant to strengthen and bring the town's artistic life into a European connection have been organized. Among these the REFLEX International Theatre Biennale is especially important thanks to its country-wide notoriety and international outlook. With its Central European perspective and highlight agenda the REFLEX festival offers an outlook to Hungarian theatre professionals and accesses contemporary theatrical values currently unavailable within Hungarian theatrical events.

In the European panorama of theatre festivals the REFLEX International Theatre Biennale's uniqueness is given by its area of interest. It intends to be a mainly Central European review within the European theatrical culture. Very few of the region's festivals have similar conceptions. Our goal is to establish an event that reviews productions from Central Europe, each awarded by their own cultures, to compare the theatrical solutions to similar problems in a region of a unique historical, political and social background and by doing that, to become a representative review of all Eastern and Central European theatre.

The purpose of this second edition of the festival is to take in the contemporary theatrical tendencies, the cutting edge of a present-day European theatre searching for new paths and forms.

The first edition brought eight award-winning plays from five countries: Romania, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and, from Berlin, the world-famous Deutsches Theater's production of Oreszteia, directed by Michael Thalheimer.
The creators of the festival’s selected plays arrive from big cities of countries like Germany, Egypt, Italy, France, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and Romania. In addition, the festival welcomes such world famous directors like Stefan Kaegi, Krystian Lupa, Oskaras Korsunovas, Herbert Fritsch or Emma Dante, whose “Sud Costa Occidentale” drama group has never been in Romania or Hungary so far. The event’s guest of honor will be the Kossuth-award winning and 2 time Jászai Mari-award winning actress Törőcsik Mari. Moreover the world famous Bălănescu Quartet will perform a concert on the festival’s first day.
The REFLEX festival’s 2nd edition deploys to the previous locations new ones as well. The program encompassing a wider spectrum and much more titles mobilizes the city’s entire performing arts infrastructure. In this manner, plays will be performed at the following locations: the Tamási Áron Theatre’s great hall and chamber hall, the Lajtha László Studio Room, the Trade Unions’ Cultural House and the Tamási Áron Theatre’s new studio room, which will be opened with the occasion of the REFLEX festival.

The Maecenas season tickets have been created for the theatre loving audience this year again to support the festival and to contribute to its creation in the future as well.

The event’s official website is the following: www.reflexfest.ro.


Last year our city celebrated its 550 years of urban status. The local government of Sepsiszentgyörgy wanted to make the anniversary memorable by various series of events organized all year round. The proposed programs have fallen into three categories: cultural, creative-interactive and entertaining (music, sports) programs through which the municipality aimed to address each and everyone.

Although the programs varied a lot, the municipality focused primarily on ensuring opportunity for a more detailed understanding of the city through the celebration of its 550 years of existence. They wanted the exploration of the city’s past to be interesting for the city’s residents as well, but they also wanted the event series to be about the present. A renowned team of experts was working on the event series and on the creation of the programs.

The organizers wanted to take into account all target groups (from the young to the elderly ones). Accordingly, children had the opportunity to participate in thematic drawing competitions and the elderly were provided the possibility to tell stories, in the framework of a documentary film, about the formation of the city in the course of their lives, particularly with regard to the events surrounding the end of communism.

The main organizer of the event series was the Mayor’s Office through the coordination of the Városimázs (city image) Office. Partner organizations were the following: the Székely National Museum, the Bod Péter County Library and other institutions, cultural and sports associations and NGOs.


This year Sepsiszentgyörgy is the Cultural and Youth Capital of Sekler Land. The year-round series of programs entitled “Cultural and Youth Capital of Sekler Land” has been organized on behalf of the Mayor’s Office and the City Council’s order. The program series starts off tomorrow, on the 3rd of March. Te initiator of the event, Veres-Nagy Tímea, reported yesterday, within the confines of a press conference, about the programs of the opening event.

– Eleven youth organizations will begin to work together, we will practically furnish the event’s framework so that the organizations could present themselves on the one hand, and entertain the city’s youth along with each other on the other hand – announced Veres-Nagy Tímea.

The office of the event series, the Youth Resource Center, will officially be opened tomorrow as well, that will deal with the management of the programs, and will also be the collection site of all the ideas, received all around the year, meant to boost the life of the youth. The Resource Center will be installed in the ground floor office of the Lábas Ház.

The programs will begin tomorrow at 6pm: a civil cavalcade will take place on the square situated in front of the Tamási Áron Theatre where youth organizations will present themselves and will also prepare a surprise. In addition, fire dance, flamenco, minigolf, folk dance, jazz, musical instrument fabrication, light music and other interesting activities will await the citizen. The organizers request the enquirers to bring along a youthful photography with them. This idea is linked to the „Let us create together the youth profile of Sepsiszentgyörgy” program.

The year of Cultural and Youth Capital will be opened up at 8pm by Antal Árpád András, Mayor of Sepsiszentgyörgy and Tamás Sándor, chairman of the County Council. The opening ceremony will continue with a concert of the Under Cover Band. Additional programs of the night: 9pm – folk dance house and folk pub in the Bástya restaurant, 9pm – Free Conncetion concert in the Tein Teahouse, 9:30pm – party in the Crown club with the contribution of the local Friss Fm radio and the Tein Teahouse.


Sepsiszentgyörgy will be the scene of an intimate memorial during the period 9-15 March. Memorial celebrations will take place on several sites of the city with the occasion of the 164th anniversary of the 1848-1849 Revolution.

The program includes various events: festive concert with the performance of the Georgius and Csíkikamara orchestra in the Tamási Áron Theatre; memorial running in the tribute of the 1848-1849 Revolution and wreathing at the 1848 revolutionary monuments in all the settlements the memorial running touches upon; ceremonial worship in the Reformed church; decorating all the 1848 revolutionary monuments from Sepsiszentgyörgy with wreaths; ceremonial program on the 15th of March in the memory of the 1848-1849 Revolution at the stage set up in front of the Tamási Áron Theatre.
 


By purchasing the factory building of the LRO company the Autoliv Ltd. from Sweden aims to create 600 jobs in Sepsiszentgyörgy: it will establish a plant manufacturing vehicle safety components already this year.

The Sweden-based Autoliv entered the Romanian labor market in 2007 and it has been continuously expanding since then. It has already established factories in Temesvár, Brassó, Lugos and Prázsmár offering, thereby offering jobs to 2500 people.
By hiring about 600 workers the Swedish group will increase the number of jobs in the city and, moreover, there will be two manufacturing units (the trouser manufacturing plant and the factory run by the Autoliv Ltd.) instead of one single firm.

According to Antal Árpád András, mayor of Sepsiszentgyörgy, attracting the Swedish investment group to our city has been the result of several months of hard work. The company has chosen Sepsiszentgyörgy after examining 16 more cities in the country. In this manner the Autoliv factory has been the first investement into production in Sepsiszentgyörgy in the past 11 years. In addition, the Autoliv Ltd. would like to expand its sphere of activities especially since it aims to hire, next to the anticipated 600 workers, 1400-1500 additional people in the following years. Hopefully the Swedish investment group will put an emphasis on development as well, the appropriate location for this being the industial park from Szépmező.
 


Kőnig Frigyes, President of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts is coming to our city at the invitation of the Cultural Center from Árkos, the Lábas Ház and the MAGMA Contemporary Art Exhibition Space. The art loving public will have the opportunity to learn about Kőnig Frigyes’s works of art within the framework of a wide variety of programs: three thematically distinct exhibitions (in the MAGMA Contemporary Art Exhibition Space, the Lábas Ház, the Cultural Center from Árkos), book presentation, lecture, concert, reception, discussions, guided tours.


During the period 28 February-2 March our city warmly welcomed a delegation from the Hungarian Mosonmagyaróvár in the pursuit of developing a town-twinning relationship between the two cities. According to Antal Árpád András, mayor of Sepsiszentgyörgy and dr. Nagy István, mayor of Mosonmagyaróvár the cities would like to strenghten their relationship with each other. It is interesting that both cities live in the shadow of a big city: while Mosonmagyaróvár tries to progress near Győr, Sepsiszentgyörgy would like to move forward near Brassó. Furthermore, it is also engaging that Brassó and Győr have a town twinning relationship as well.

The economic and civil spheres have already preceded the aspirations of the two cities’ governments: the Mikes Kelemen Lyceum already has a twinning relationship with Mosonmagyaróvár and there is a good cooperation between the Lipót and Diószegi bakeries as well. In addition, many Sepsiszentgyörgy-born live in Mosonmagyaróvár and they have also urged the initiation and development of a town-twinning relationship between the two cities, especially since the fact that the Hungarian city did not have a Transilvanian twin town until now, so our city would be the first one.

Both mayors agreed upon the fact that they would like to develop a relationship based not only on the connection between the two mayors. A visit of the Mosonmagyaróvár youth has already been planned.


Open Call for Street Artists 
 

The „Kónya Ádám” Cultural Centre calls for the application of visual artists in the framework of the 4th edition of the pulzArt Contemporary Art Festival. The project’s theme is the rehabilitation of 3 building passages in Sfantu Gheorghe. The project’s partners’ are: the Tone Troopers Association and the Chamber of Romanian Architects. The project is co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund of Romania.

The project’s main objective is the creative rehabilitation of building passages in Sfantu Gheorghe by visual artists. The building passages are grouped into two categories: 1 building passage is located in downtown Sfântu Gheorghe, at the Mihai Viteazul Square and 2 are located toward the outskirts of the city on the margins, in the Railway Neighbourhood. The presentation of the building passages together with their schemes and photos are attached to this Call: MV1, G1, G2.  

How to apply?
The project jury is looking for proposals for the creative transformation of an arbitrarily chosen building passage, taking into account the general objectives of the building passage Rehab project: to rehabilitate the building passages that have been neglected for decades, are unsafe and evoke negative emotions through artistic interventions (wall painting, site specific installation).

The submitted applications shall come in response to the proposed spaces and may reflect to the given surroundings. Selected artists must finish their work in maximum of 10 days and they have 1500 RON (335 EUR) at their disposal for the neccessary materials.

The rehabilitation begins with the architectural intervention, executed by the organiser and based upon specific arhitectural plans. As a result all building passages will be cleaned, mended and whitened, enlightening and an advertising board will be installed in each building passage, as seen on the attached schemes.

Who we are looking for?
The Call is open for individual artists or teams of artists of 2 persons (fine artists, industrial artists, graphic artists, architects, graffiti and street artists) who want to reform the building passages and have the experience to deliver the work. We need you to submit a design drawing or an image superimposed onto an example building passage. In order to be selected to carry out the work on a real, physical wall you need to demonstrate that you have the skills and experience to deliver the project. Examples of previous work would be helpful. Submissions are confidential, third parties can only have access to them with the written consent of the artists. The selected plans are to be freely used by the organisers for promotional porposes.

Application calendar
Launch of the call: 17 August, 2016
Submission deadline: 30 August, 2016, 5 September, 2016
Evaluation: 31 August, 2016, 6 September, 2016
Results: 1 September, 2016, 7 September, 2016
Delivery of the work: 5-14 September, 2016, 15-25 September, 2016
Inauguration: 15 September, 2016, 28 September, 2016

Questions can be asked until the 20th of August via email on the kultura@sepsi.ro address. Answers will be published by the 25th of August on the www.kultur.ro and www.sepsi.ro sites.

Eligibility of submissions
All submissions respecting the presented criteria are eligible.
The design plans cannot contain any kinds of offending contents regarding one’s nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion or skin colour, should not make reference to political messages or beliefs, or to any kind of obscene content. Submissions not respecting this rule will be automatically rejected from competition.
Applicants can not change or modify the selected design plans without the organizer’s consent.

Submission requirements
Submissions and proofs of previous documents shall be sent in one email to the  kultura@sepsi.ro address. Applicants shall receive feed-backs about receiving the submissions.
The subject of the submission should read: “Gang Rehab 2016 Sfantu Gheorghe”. We are not responsible for the loss of emails not containing the given subject or sent to other email addresses.
For a fair and transparent evaluation, submissions must contain the following, together with the design plans (.pdf or .jpg):
a short description of the artwork (no more than 3000 characters with space), containing the title of the work, the chosen building passage, the name of the applicant(s), contact datas: address, telephone nr., email address. When applying in a team, datas should be of the contact person’s. Please, indicate the list of neccessary materials and tools. Descriptions must contain the list of the design plans;
the scaled floor plan and the ceiling plan of the chosen building passage which must contain all proposed interventions that may not be seen on the side views, e.g. painting of the ground or the ceiling;
all scaled side views of the chosen building passage, please indicate if one of the walls are not be used
the chosen building passage’s perspective.
In order to assure a high quality for the materials’ printing, please respect the following parameters:
Colour: all design plans must be coloured;
Scale: design plans must have a min. of 1:20 scale (1 m in reality, 5 cm in the plan);
Size: A3 or A2;
Resolution: 300 DPI;
Format: .pdf and .jpg extensions;
Description: all desing plans must contain the title of the work.

Any other explanatory or complementary graphic material (3D, photo, scale-modell) is welcome if it keeps the file size under 1MB.  

Selection process
Submissions will be evaluated by a professional jury of 5 members. Results will be published on the project’s website after the jury meeting.

Selection criteria
Demonstrate artistic excellence, innovation and originality, as evidenced by a unique vision or perspective.
Reflect the environment/surface.
The work of art can be completed successfully in the given period of time.
The proposal fits into the 335 EUR budget frame.
The result is long lasting. 

The jury’s decision is final, appeals are not accepted for consideration. Neither written nor oral justification of the decision will be given.

Financial aspects
Selected artists will be paid a fee of 225€/artist up to maximum of 6 artists for the 3 building passages. Travel and accommodation costs will be provided by the selected artists. Organizers will provide help in finding the most proper accommodation, if needed.
Organizers will also provide all art material up to 335€. Selected artists will compile the list of materials up to this amount and organizers will provide exactly the same materials.
The fee of 225 EUR is the gross amount which will be taxed with 16% in accordance to the Romanian law.

Members of the jury
Kispál Evelin-Ágnes, media artist, co-founder of MAGMA Contemporary Medium
Wegroszta László, architect, delegate of the Romanian Order Of Architects
Rátz Attila, artist, delegate of the Tone Troopers Association
Farkas Réka, journalist at the Háromszék gazette
Szabó Lehel, street artist
 



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