This year's festival, to include world music concerts, exhibitions, literary talks and international conferences, will be part of the run-up to 2010, when the city takes the European Capital of Culture title.
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| Boban and Marko Markovic |
The East-West Bridge series of events organised by the Pécs Cultural Centre and the Sensus Research Group of the Pécs University of Sciences, aims to establish a cultural and artistic dialogue between music, the sciences, the fine arts and film arts, strengthening Pécs's role as a European Capital of Culture as well as a gateway.
Among the musical acts on the festival programme are the well known Boban Markovic and his son Marko, and the Mostar Sevdah Reunion's "Café Sevdah" formation, which mixes jazz with the centuries old Turkish music. Hungary's Kálmán Balogh Gipsy Cimbalom Band and Róbert Szakcsi Lakatos, Samaria Verses from Slovkaia, and Spanish and Latin music performer Sergent Garcia are also on the lineup.
The journal Lettre will present a video screening, exhibition, panel discussion and reading on the role of Lake Balaton as a meeting place for friends and family separated by the iron curtain between East and West Germany. Mihály Víg, the former frontman of the pop group Balaton will close the programme with a solo concert in the city's arts centre.
An exhibition entitled Anno 1968 will show work by 1968 graduates of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. Works by Csaba Szentesi will also be shown in Agitprop City Dreams.
The gallery of the Approach Association will present works by Zsolt Ferenczy, Katharina Roters and Shandor Hassan in a show called The Archaeology of Modernism.
