FESTIVALS IN 2010

4-5. April 2010.
Easter

The first event of the season celebrates rebirth, purgation of the man and the awaking of nature. On the celebration the believers can take part in a church service. Traditionalist groups show the traditions connected to the Easter celebrations.  Folk artists from all over the country arrive to introduce the rich traditions of egg painting (batiquing, scratching, shoeing, leaf-painting) to our visitors, who have the opportunity to learn these techniques. In the Easter-garden games like egg-snapping, egg-rolling and egg-hitting can be played. The common symbols of Easter (lamb, hare) can be prepared of natural materials. In the Game-garden the visitors can try some almost forgotten folk skill and sports games. On Easter Monday there is a beauty contest among the racka sheep of the animal farm. 

23-24. May 2010
Pentecost Games 

On the Pentecost Games a colorful selection will be introduced to the public showing genre images of countryside life, improvised farces, and the traditions of the renowned Hungarian puppet-show. Visitors can participate in folk customs connected to Pentecost (pentecosting, Pentecost king election). On the Pentecost market folkweaves, dresses, woolen products, crockeries, baskets, belts, bags, footwears, knifes, bead-, leather-, wood- and bone-jewelry and traditional market delicacies can be bought. This is going to be the first year to announce our Great Pentecost Swapping where children can sell their own old toys and other treasures, and they can also learn the craft of pricing, sales and bargain from a crier. Besides the pastry horn, honey cake and bread-langosh baked on spot visitors can taste fried sausage, roast joint and other market dishes.

4-5. September 2010
Grape Harvest Crowd

During the two-day festival our visitors may stomp the grapes, the must is pouring from under the press and the best wines of the Hungarian wine regions? family cellars? can be tasted or bought. Anybody may join the making of scarecrows and noisemakers of vineyards and orchards. The jocular harvest traditions revive: grape-guarding and harvest procession. The music, dances and gastronomic traditions of diverse nationalities living in Hungary enrich the program of the festival.

13-14. November 2010
Saint Martin New Wine Festival and Goose-feast

In Hungary more and more people are celebrating Saint Martin?s Day with new wine and goose. One of the most prosperous Saint Martin?s Day events of the country is the New Wine Festival of Skanzen. The visitors can taste quality new wines, spirits, autumn delicacies and goose dishes cooked on the spot. In the Plucking-room and the Corn-shelling room visitors can join the common works of autumn and the abandon following the end of field labors. At the Martin-playspace potato guns, quills, pumpkin lamps and lampions can be prepared. In the houses of the Little Plain region the settlement of Halászi from the Szigetköz shows its Saint Martin Day festival traditions. As a closure to the celebration the cheerful procession of the guild mates on decorated carts can be seen.