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This year, the Con Spirito Church Music Festival will take place between 19 and 26 May, offering a fantastic program of events for the music-loving public. The name of the festival, “Con Spirito” – meaning “with spirit” – refers not only to the way the music is performed, but also to the spirituality of the religion, which, through the inner love of the community, fills and enchants the days of Pentecost year after year, alongside the festival’s prestigious and outstanding concerts.

Debrecen, known for centuries as a city of fairs, still preserves and cherishes the memory of the old fairs. Twice a year, around Mihály Day, a national fair is held in the city, with hundreds of vendors offering their wares. The spring fair will be held on 11-12 May in and around Böszörményi Street. The range of goods on offer will be as varied as ever, from clothes to technical goods, but of course there will also be traditional handicrafts and food specialities.

The next stop of the ALL IN Debrecen – International Cultural Days series will be the Debrecen Jewish Cultural Days and Street Festival between the 9th and 12th of May. Margit Bangó, Péter Gerendás and the Debrecen Dixieland Jazz Band, among others, will perform at the four-day meeting organized around the synagogue of Pásti Street in Debrecen. Arriving András Réz, the film aesthete, the unforgettable Zoltán Tordai, and for the children, the Csicsogó Production and the Természettár.

Exhibitions, guided tours, workshops, and studio visits will celebrate local fine art, photography and visual art education in Debrecen, in parallel and in line with the 33rd Debrecen Spring Art Fair, from 9 to 12 May. The details of the initiative, which is a collaboration between the Debrecen municipality, art exhibition venues, associations, art schools and private individuals, were presented at a press conference at MODEM on Monday, 15 April 2024.

On 20 May 2024, the FIM SGP Individual Clay Motorcycle World Championship Qualification will take place at the Perényi Pál Clay Motorcycle Stadium.

Thirteen nations will enter their best riders for the Speedway Grand Prix qualification in Debrecen, including such great powers as Australia, Denmark, France, Poland, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden and the United States of America.

Every year on the Saturday of Pentecost, the National Herders’ Competition and Shepherd’ Meeting is held in Hortobágy, for the 28th time this year, on 28 May 2024 in the Puszta Animal Park. The event will bring herders from all over Hungary to show off their skills to the public on Saturday, after the qualifying rounds on Friday.

“Books are in eternal conversation with each other across time and space. They cannot stop talking to each other.” – Péter Esterházy, From the Wonderful Life of Words, 2003

By presenting cord documents and contemporary artworks borrowed from the collections of the Reformed College of Debrecen and the Alföldi Printing House, Makropædia attempts to provide a reflective overview of the role of the book in our culture.

The Zsuzsi Forest Railway opened the 2024 season with the slogan “Healthy body, healthy soul!”, and started its regular services on 1 May. Passengers can enjoy a scenic train ride as well as nature-oriented programs until September.

Founded in 2006, the MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art took an important step in 2023: the art center, which was previously a gallery, entered the museum institutional network, the primary and most important result of which is that its collection is now accessible to the community, a public collection.

A new temporary exhibition opened in the Déri Museum on 11 April, City Day.

This year we commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848/49. The year 1849 was of great importance for Debrecen, as the dethronement of the Habsburg dynasty, the final drafting and proclamation of the Declaration of Independence, the election of Kossuth as Governor are all historical events with a Debrecen connection.

Folklore has always linked the beginning of spring to George’s Day on 24 April: depending on the weather and the condition of the pastures, this is the time when livestock were driven from their winter shelters to summer pastures and the shepherds were hired. Although in recent years nature seems to have defied this centuries-old rhythm, in one of Hungary’s most traditional regions, the Hortobágy, with its rich pastoral tradition, this year is no different.

In 2023, Bursa, Turkey, hosted the International Basketball Federation’s latest initiative, the Youth Champions League. The first, now official, edition is hosted by Debrecen – between 2 and 7 April 2024, thirteen U18 teams will battle it out for the final victory in the Oláh Gábor Street Sports Hall, including Team Debrecen.

The Debrecen Spring Festival, often called the opening of the city’s cultural season, is back. The aim of this long-standing event is to highlight the artistic content created here, in connection with Debrecen’s City Day held on April 11, and to showcase our cultural values to a wider and wider audience.

Visit Zoo Debrecen between March 30 and April 1 for a rich Easter experience with some of the most popular bunny stars in addition to a wild day out and this year’s first amusement park adventures.