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With nine live music stages and six other music and dance venues, the Campus Festival, the most comfortable summer festival in Hungary, is the largest of its kind east of the Danube, offering a diverse programme of light music, cultural and artistic activities, leisure activities and experiences.

With the intention of creating tradition, the Főnix Arena is organising the fifth FőnixFitt leisure and mass sports event, the biggest fitness event in Eastern Hungary.

The Wunderbar Festival aims to motivate more people to learn German in Hungary.

The Wunderbar Festival, the first full-week national series of events revolving around the German language, will take place from the 28th of March to the 2nd of April. 

The Future of Debrecen presents a Green Cinema series. If you are interested in environmental problems and their solutions. watch the first screening of the film club, “Ice on Fire”, produced by one of our favourite environmental actors Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Kodály Filharmonikusok Debrecen and Kodály Filharmónia Debrecen will perform a string serenade on the Tuesday, 29th March 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

In keeping with tradition, Debrecen has joined the Bach for All Festival this year, – on 21st March in the Little Church and on 31st March in the Great Church, the audience can listen to Johann Sebastian Bach’s works in concert for free.

Between 17th April and 5th May 2022, the second Bartók Spring International Art Week will feature the best of the Hungarian and international art scene, world to renowned companies, exceptional soloists, new productions, and extraordinary performances, with surprises not only in the capital but also in Debrecen.

The heroes of the revolution and the war of independence (1848) are remembered on the 15th March each year, a national holiday in Hungary, last year this was done virtually due to the pandemic, but this year things are back to normal as the mask requirements have been lifted and public gatherings are allowed.

It’s no exaggeration to say that 26th March 2022 promises to be a special day in the history of Debrecen’s popular music scene, but also in terms of the city’s identity. The first Made in Debrecen Festival, which has the ambitious goal of bringing together all the city’s musical acts in record time, will start and run for half a day, with a programme of accompanying events.

At the beginning of March, the Debrecen Zoo welcomed a pair of green tree pythons.

It is hoped that the seven-year-old female and two-year-old male will form a breeding pair, which will allow the unique species to be bred, he added. Now, they can be seen in the Pálmaház of the zoo, said the director of the zoo, Sándor Gergely Nagy.

For the first time this year, there are no wild animals in the show. The animals have been placed in the Richter Safari Park in Nagykőrös for a long-deserved holiday, but the show will still have much to offer, featuring Alex & Romy Jostmann’s poodle puppies, and circus director József Richter will perform on humpback camels and show off his latest equestrian performance.

As announced by the government, masks will no longer be required in confined spaces from the 7th of March. 

József Tasnádi’s art focuses on associations and visually generated stories; he creates imagetexts. His installations, interventions, and generative digital experiments are visual essays. Visual essays that are rewritten into stories, textual narratives, in which rich, lush, free fields of interpretation and associations unfold.

In her photographs, media artist Lilla Váczi mostly depicts the tension between impermanence and transience. The experience of confinement caused by the coronavirus epidemic has heightened the sense of alienation and loneliness in her work. He documents a life situation in which our social relationships have been reduced, our daily routine reduced to a few basic functions. Our home became a workplace, our bedroom a study, and the wearing of masks and rubber gloves became natural.