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Generation to Generation – Conference and Folk Music Concert
The 2019 event of the "Generation to Generation" conference series initiated by Kobzos Kiss Tamás (1950–2015), performer, music teacher and late member of the Hungarian Art Academy's Folk Arts Section, takes place at the Pesti Vigadó. Following the conference, a folk music concert awaits interested participants.
In our conference series over recent years, we have discussed folk art as a fundamental value and its community and institutional frameworks for transmission. In 2019, we analyse the importance and indispensability of community forms and institutional systems of education through art. We are convinced that without proper transmission of our native culture – language, music, dance, craftsmanship and material culture, spiritual culture and symbolic systems – national identity and commitment to our homeland are damaged. Strengthening this is an important pedagogical task, and our speakers can demonstrate excellent examples and even more possibilities for it.
"Native language develops alongside thought, and emotional native language develops alongside emotional culture. Reason develops with speech, speech and thought are inseparable, and artistic practice educates and shapes emotional culture and aesthetic sensitivity through emotional expression.
Most of today's society does not create or enjoy art, but plunders it. Because they do not speak the language of art, they lack emotional culture. A person who cannot manage their feelings – grief, anger, disappointment – which they cannot help – when overcome, becomes helpless and defenceless. Their soul remains unbalanced, impatient, fragile, self-centred.
Schools must take on this education, this knowledge transmission that has slipped away or never entered education." (Andrásfalvy Bertalan: The Roots of Our Future)
National Identity – Education Through Art – Conference
The conference is accompanied by an exhibition of works by students and teachers of the Nádudvar Craft School, curated by Vetró Mihály.
Registration: on the Pesti Vigadó website
Venue: Pesti Vigadó Makovecz Hall
Programme
09:30 – Registration
10:00 Welcome address – Professor emeritus György Fekete, honorary president of the Hungarian Art Academy
Introductory remarks: Professor emeritus Bertalan Andrásfalvy, ethnographer and corresponding member of the Hungarian Art Academy
I. "TWO EYES' WORLD"
Our Foundations - Family, Community, Faith and Morals
Chair: Béla Szerényi
10:30–11:00 Imre Harangozó – "I struck upon that fine number…" – on the peculiarities of our traditional visual native language
11:00–11:30 Father Gyula Szabó – Is Hungarian Folk Tradition Christian?
11:30–12:00 Rita Pécsi – Modern Education and Tradition
12:00–12:30 Zoltán Juhász, folk musician, regular member of the Hungarian Art Academy – Hungarian Folk Music on the Eurasian Map
12:30–13:00 Summary and questions
13:00–14:00 Sandwich break
II. "MY GOD? ARRANGE LODGING"
Perspectives – International Examples, Hungarian Communities
Chair: Szilárd Horváth
14:00–14:30 András Jánosi, folk musician, corresponding member of the Hungarian Art Academy – Good Practices in Folk Arts Higher Education – the Norwegian Model
14:30–15:00 Mária Konthur – The Sustaining Power of Regös Scouting in the Diaspora
15:00–15:30 István Savanya (Calgary) – Successes and Challenges of Education Through Art in Canada
15:30–16:00 Summary and questions
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
III. "BUDDING GREEN BRANCH"
Good Domestic Practices – Plans, Goals, Opportunities
Chair: Zoltán Juhász
16:30–17:00 Béla Szerényi – Teacher Training in the Service of National Identity
17:00–17:30 Tibor Várszegi – Organic Hungarian Culture in Kindergarten and Primary Teacher Training
17:30–18:00 Szilárd Horváth – The "Hungarian Heritage Schools" Curriculum Framework
18:00–18:30 Summary and questions
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Now a Beautiful Rose Flower Has Opened
19:00 Concert following the conference; separate registration is required via the concert's detailed page!
Programme:
In Memory of István Pál – bagpipe and flute performance led by Zoltán Juhász, with teachers and students of the Göd Búzaszem School and the Óbuda Folk Music School
On the Banks of the Tatros – performance by children from Gyimesbükk led by Cantor Előd Tankó
Advent Reflections – Father József Salamon, Gyimesbükk
Stars Take Me Home – Concert by István Savanya (Canada) and the Bokros Trio
Venue: Pesti Vigadó Imre Sinkovits Chamber Theatre Hall
The 2019 event of the "Generation to Generation" conference series initiated by Kobzos Kiss Tamás (1950–2015), performer, music teacher and late member of the Hungarian Art Academy's Folk Arts Section, takes place at the Pesti Vigadó. Following the conference, a folk music concert awaits interested participants.
In our conference series over recent years, we have discussed folk art as a fundamental value and its community and institutional frameworks for transmission. In 2019, we analyse the importance and indispensability of community forms and institutional systems of education through art. We are convinced that without proper transmission of our native culture – language, music, dance, craftsmanship and material culture, spiritual culture and symbolic systems – national identity and commitment to our homeland are damaged. Strengthening this is an important pedagogical task, and our speakers can demonstrate excellent examples and even more possibilities for it.
"Native language develops alongside thought, and emotional native language develops alongside emotional culture. Reason develops with speech, speech and thought are inseparable, and artistic practice educates and shapes emotional culture and aesthetic sensitivity through emotional expression.
Most of today's society does not create or enjoy art, but plunders it. Because they do not speak the language of art, they lack emotional culture. A person who cannot manage their feelings – grief, anger, disappointment – which they cannot help – when overcome, becomes helpless and defenceless. Their soul remains unbalanced, impatient, fragile, self-centred.
Schools must take on this education, this knowledge transmission that has slipped away or never entered education." (Andrásfalvy Bertalan: The Roots of Our Future)
National Identity – Education Through Art – Conference
The conference is accompanied by an exhibition of works by students and teachers of the Nádudvar Craft School, curated by Vetró Mihály.
Registration: on the Pesti Vigadó website
Venue: Pesti Vigadó Makovecz Hall
Programme
09:30 – Registration
10:00 Welcome address – Professor emeritus György Fekete, honorary president of the Hungarian Art Academy
Introductory remarks: Professor emeritus Bertalan Andrásfalvy, ethnographer and corresponding member of the Hungarian Art Academy
I. "TWO EYES' WORLD"
Our Foundations - Family, Community, Faith and Morals
Chair: Béla Szerényi
10:30–11:00 Imre Harangozó – "I struck upon that fine number…" – on the peculiarities of our traditional visual native language
11:00–11:30 Father Gyula Szabó – Is Hungarian Folk Tradition Christian?
11:30–12:00 Rita Pécsi – Modern Education and Tradition
12:00–12:30 Zoltán Juhász, folk musician, regular member of the Hungarian Art Academy – Hungarian Folk Music on the Eurasian Map
12:30–13:00 Summary and questions
13:00–14:00 Sandwich break
II. "MY GOD? ARRANGE LODGING"
Perspectives – International Examples, Hungarian Communities
Chair: Szilárd Horváth
14:00–14:30 András Jánosi, folk musician, corresponding member of the Hungarian Art Academy – Good Practices in Folk Arts Higher Education – the Norwegian Model
14:30–15:00 Mária Konthur – The Sustaining Power of Regös Scouting in the Diaspora
15:00–15:30 István Savanya (Calgary) – Successes and Challenges of Education Through Art in Canada
15:30–16:00 Summary and questions
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
III. "BUDDING GREEN BRANCH"
Good Domestic Practices – Plans, Goals, Opportunities
Chair: Zoltán Juhász
16:30–17:00 Béla Szerényi – Teacher Training in the Service of National Identity
17:00–17:30 Tibor Várszegi – Organic Hungarian Culture in Kindergarten and Primary Teacher Training
17:30–18:00 Szilárd Horváth – The "Hungarian Heritage Schools" Curriculum Framework
18:00–18:30 Summary and questions
* * *
Now a Beautiful Rose Flower Has Opened
19:00 Concert following the conference; separate registration is required via the concert's detailed page!
Programme:
In Memory of István Pál – bagpipe and flute performance led by Zoltán Juhász, with teachers and students of the Göd Búzaszem School and the Óbuda Folk Music School
On the Banks of the Tatros – performance by children from Gyimesbükk led by Cantor Előd Tankó
Advent Reflections – Father József Salamon, Gyimesbükk
Stars Take Me Home – Concert by István Savanya (Canada) and the Bokros Trio
Venue: Pesti Vigadó Imre Sinkovits Chamber Theatre Hall
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