Bloomsday

Concert of the Youth Brass Band

"Because of the renovations at Fő tér, the official opening ceremony was relocated to the Iseum, where it was only the Irish and Hungarian flags (in the absence of the wind we barely could call the event as flying the flags), the huge chairs in front of the Gallery of Szombathely and the play of the Brass Band, which signaled that in the neighborhood of the ruinous shrine people "blooming" are again gathering. During the heat at noon, the audience - mostly representatives of the press and a few Joyce-fanatics - noted with satisfaction that protective drinks are available in the best quality, in the form of Guinness. After the Irish ambassador Brandan McMahon's and mayor György Ipkovich's words praising Leopold Bloom, the event and the city, members of the Joyce Society did the stamping at this location. Afterwards, the ambassador and the mayor visited the Joyce statue at Fő tér 40-41, and payed a tribute to the famous writer." (Nyugat.hu)

"Finally, a bigger group arrives, most probably hardcore participants of the Bloomsday, who also took part in the previous program at 11.30. This way, in the presence of ca. 50 people, organizers are reflecting on the 12-year-old history of Bloomsday and express their hope that the tradition will continue, on the bases they laid down. In his short speech, Irish ambassador Brendan McMahon calls our attention to the historic surroundings and shares the info that June 17 – the day following Bloomsday – is also important for him as it is his birthday. György Ipkovich emphasizes that even though the city is in the phase of transformation and change, it continues to welcome fans of Joyce." (Alon.hu) 

A preplanned 2-km-long route of artistic installations from the Iseum to the Berzsenyi Dániel College and back to the Gallery of Szombathely.(Nyugat.hu)

Stamping the route from the House of Arts to Romkert

Discussion and reading in several languages (English, Hungarian, Italian). Topic of the discussion: "Szombathely, the civic city at the turn of the 19th and 20th century"
Keynote lecture by Gábor Szabó
Partner: Institute of European Studies
Participants: Endre Nagy, Gábor Szabór, James M. Skelly, János Pusztay
Moderators: Ági Kovács and Zoltán Pogácsa 

Handprints of the participants 

Participants: Károly Bonyhádi, László Csáky, Nóra Dénes, Tibor Gyenis, Dénes Farkas, Andrea Járeb, Róbert Nagy, József Rosta, Gábor Szabó, Lenke Szilágyi, Ernő Szekér, János Szirtes, Dóra Szenteleki

The exhibition was open from 1 June.

"The rather modern pieces of the exhibition gave pleasure to the guests (…), who got to know the troubled relationship of a young boy and the Fluxus hair trainer on the bases of quotes from Paul Auster’s novel Timbuktu along with passing illustrations." (Nyugat.hu) 

Introduction by literary historian András Kappanyos, in collaboration with actor and director Sándor Zsótér. 

Participants: János Szirtes, Antal Bodóczky and their students (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest) 

Participants: László feLugossy, Attila Grubánovits, László Koller, Csaba Nagy, Róbert Nagy, Béla Szilárdi, József Szurcsik

"Participants' works of art become realized during the day creating their own time, space - and story within the event." (Nyugat.hu)

Participants from the University of Pécs, Faculty of Visual Arts – Kriszta Kormos, Hajni Rádi, Olga Verebélyi, Attila Farkas, Tamás Rigó, Dana Lődör, Guba

"People are doing a street music performance, they are busking in-between the area of the Bloom-bridge and Stephen Dedalus Promenade. Besides, they are doing installations, and they leave wandering traces and wandering signs behind them on the street. True to the traditions they also visit a pub!" (Nyugat.hu)

Participants: Ivett Csáki, Bálint Finta, Adrián Hegedűs, Dávid Rasperger (PUK Group)

Music: Tamás Kondor, Gergely Balázs, Péter Menyhárt
Choreography: Anett Wallner, Zsuzsanna Ostyola, Krisztina Fábián
Director – Choreographer: Gyöngyi Németh

Plenary session 

In cooperation with the Jewish Community of Szombathely

Eblama Seiber Mátyás: Three Fragments from "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (Hungarian premiere – clarinet concert)

In cooperation with the Savaria Symphony Orchestra
Clarinet: László Horváth
Conducted by Robert Houlihan

The concert was recorded by the Hungarian Radio.

Welcome speech by the mayor: Documents of the 12-year-old history of Bloomsday

Curator: József Rasperger
Opening speech: Balázs Barták

Participants: János Szirtes, Antal Bodóczky and their students (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest)

"Ulixes elaborates on the possible roles of lived time within a person, on the language of music and image. Opera of the consciousness, in which opera implies one genre, encompassing all artistic genres. Question: Are you inside Time? Or do you exist outside of it?"

Writer and director: Ágens, designer artist, films: József Tasnádi, song: Ágens and the Saint Ephraim Male Choir, musicians: Ádám  Jávorka (viola), Kornél Mogyoró (percussion), dancer: Móni Négyesi, cameraman: Zsolt Bredár, interlocutor: Ágnes Ivacs, choreographer and ligthing: Krisztián Gergye, costume designer: Móni Béres, mask: Balázs Károlyi, sound: Ferenc Boudny, light: Totó

"Every part of the stage (and even the auditorium and café) represents different time dimensions, through which Ágens - in contrast to the other characters that are determined and bound to a certain age - freely moves; she has a way through them. Alike to this, her voice also passes through various tones, pitches, inarticulate rattles and impressive melodies. She is the absolute protagonist - compared to others - outside of time." (Virág Vida: Privatizált idő, in: Színház, January 2006)

Presentation of DÁBLIN No.8 (exhibition and distribution of the magazine); DÁBLIN No. 1-7. (retrospective exhibition); SPACE-typo (exhibition)
Editor: Nádai Ferenc
Artists: József Árendás | Miklós Bán | Bea Bohony | Károly Bonyhádi | Oszkár Boskovitz | Péter Csatai | Zsolt Czakó | Gábor Domján | Ferenc Eln | Tibor Erky-Nagy | Anna Farkas | Noémi Fábián Noémi |  Fábián Áron | Tamás Futó | Gábor Gerhes | Lajos Gombos | Zoltán Halasi | László Herbszt | Dávid Juhász | Ferenc Kassai | Tünde Kálmán | István Kiss | László Kiss | Andi Klausz | Gábor Kóthay | Rajmund Kuszkó | Szilvia Lázár | Zsolt Ligetfalvi | Ferenc Lobler | Attila Lőrinc | Tamás Marcell | Ágnes Marczali | Gabriella Murakeözy | Ferenc Nádai | Gábor Németh L. | István Orosz | István Őri Kiss | Tibor Raszler | Tamás Sellyei | József Simon | Amondo Szegi | György Szőnyei | Ferenc Tepes | Gábor Andor Tooth | György Tóth | Zsolt Yoka Tóth | András Vizvárdi
Opening speech: Kálmán Faragó, accompanied by Ádám Kondor: Joyance - for Saint Julius Hydrophilos (music for the excerpts of Finnegans Wake)
Introduction: Krisztina Somogyi

"The duet recalls images of dependences, interdependences and defenselessness. They wonder how long does love last and when do we become the parasites of each other." (Nyugat.hu)

Choreography: Klára Pataky
Artists: Anna Réti and Csongor Szabó
Light: Attila Szirtes
Costume: Viktória Nagy
Choreographies are completed with the animations of Éva Mogyorósi.

Concert of Anima Sound System's newly released album "We Strike", on which several renowned artists cooperated, such as Noam Chomsky, Heidi Levo, JC001, Jeremy Thompson or Alison Boston. Its focus is on alterglob thinking, the kanna-reggae reinterpretation of Beatles' Revolution, HC-jumping, spinning, volume and visual experience. (Nyugat.hu)