The event, organised on the initiative of the Polish Institute in Budapest, will involve speakers and performers from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
Freedom '89 will start with a roundtable discussion about the cultural aspects of 1989 with the film director Ibolya Fekete, the musician and artist István ef Zámbó and the composer Tibor Szemző.
The Polish Institute has invited the psychedelic rock group Kormonary, one of Poland's best known bands around the fall of communism, to play at the festival.
The Bulgarian-Hungarian Malko Teatro will present a fusion performance that mixes Bulgarian folklore with the Indian music of Nikolaj Ivanov.
Romania will be represented by the ethno-blues country-rock band Nightlosers.
Germany has invited DJ Matthias Schaffhauser to spin discs and sing as well.
The Czech Republic will present the acapella group Yellow Sisters, who make their own mark on African music, and the ethno-beat act Druzina will arrive from Slovakia.
The Hungarian Béla Ágoston will show avant-garde improvisations entitled Agostones.
The Artus - Gábor Goda company will stage a happening, and the Krakow-based EleKTrOOn Vision will project impressions of 1989 onto the walls of the Gödör Club.
Source: Hungarian News Agency / Photo: Máté Nándorfi
