If you’d like to try unique workshops, join inspiring conversations, or simply explore how art can meet nature, technology, and community experiences, visit the Pro Progressione Tent at the 35th Valley of Arts, on Kapolcs Main Square, between 28 July and 1 August.
This year’s programme includes a community sewing workshop, plant dyeing and jewellery-making workshops, a community brunch, a book launch, documentary screenings, inspiring conversations, and a special participatory performance. Whether you drop in for a quick visit between concerts or spend an entire afternoon with us, we hope you’ll leave with experiences that stay with you long after the festival ends.
Below you can find the detailed programme: https://www.muveszetekvolgye.hu/location/1157
Tickets: https://www.muveszetekvolgye.hu/ticket
28 July
>> From 5:30 PM (Kapolcs, Aktív Magyarország Stage – Pajta Mozgó)
Shared Futures – Art, communities and sustainability
A Sustainable Future for Culture – A Shared Vision or a Distant Goal?
Panel discussion
The Shared Futures project is built around structured dialogue between the cultural and creative sectors, communities, and environmental stakeholders. The discussion explores how participatory processes and collective vision-building can contribute to creating a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient cultural ecosystem.
Participants:
Natália Oszkó-Jakab, Festival Director of the Valley of Arts
Vasco Guia de Abreu, Creative Coordinator at Sciaena
Judit Kun, freelance strategic researcher and one of the selected “Social Dreamers”
Moderator: Barna Petrányi, Founder and Managing Director of Pro Progressione
The discussion will be held in English.
29 July
>> 12:30–2:00 PM (Kapolcs, Aktív Magyarország Stage – Pajta Mozgó)
Panel discussion
What happens when nature becomes not only a source of inspiration, but also an equal creative partner? Hungarian artists and international professionals discuss how we can think and create together with the living world around us, offering new perspectives on the relationship between people and nature.
Moderator: Bálint Antal, Project Manager at Pro Progressione
The discussion will be held in English.
>> 3:00–6:00 PM (Kapolcs, Main Square, Pro Progressione Tent)
Upcycle Your Emotion – Community Sewing Workshop with Pinkponilo
Pinkponilo is taking its community sewing workshop outdoors this time, bringing sewing into green spaces and creating together under the open sky. Inspired by the internet’s “sewing in extreme places” videos, we’re breaking sewing free from homes, boxes, and procrastination. We don’t want to wait for the perfect moment, the perfect equipment, or the perfect weather anymore.
Bring along your T-shirt, shirt, or any other garment and transform it together with us:
• create your own patch
• sew on threads, buttons, and textile details
• creatively redesign your clothing
• screen-print a “Budapest Regimes” design or another graphic created by Vörös Réka Studio
Throughout the workshop, participants will learn creative sewing and upcycling techniques while giving their clothes a new life. The Pinkponilo team will provide inspiration and guidance, while Vörös Réka Studio will offer screen-printing with pre-made designs. The programme aims to encourage creative self-expression, promote sustainable clothing practices, and strengthen the experience of creating together as a community.
30 July
>> 12:00–6:00 PM (Kapolcs, Main Square, Pro Progressione Tent)
Sári Hajgató – HelloBotanika Plant Dyeing Workshop
Discover the vibrant colours hidden inside plants! In this relaxed and creative workshop, you can paint with colourful inks made from plants on premium watercolour paper. Create a greeting card, a miniature artwork, or a unique gift tag – and of course, take it home with you.
As you paint, you’ll also explore the fascinating world of natural dyes: discover how wild plants, cultivated species, and even everyday kitchen leftovers can be transformed into natural pigments. You can also experiment with playfully transforming colours and experience first-hand the surprising colouring power of plants.
The workshop is not only a relaxing creative activity, but also an inspiring experience that invites you to see the plants around us from a whole new perspective.
The workshop is open to all ages, and no previous experience is needed. Participation takes place in approximately 20-minute sessions, so you can easily join at any time.
31 July
>> 12:30–2:00 PM (Kapolcs, Main Square, Pro Progressione Tent)
Community Brunch
During this tasting and conversation, you’ll discover the exciting local flavours of the Balaton Uplands, while also exploring the vulnerability of the region and projects working towards social and ecological sustainability.
>> 3:00–7:00 PM (Kapolcs, Main Square, Pro Progressione Tent)
ZEMSE Design: Jewellery Making Workshop
If you’d love to create a piece of jewellery of your own design, join this exciting workshop led by Emese Zentai, founder of ZEMSE Design!
During the workshop, you can make your own rings and bracelets. You can choose from pre-made shapes, or cut out your desired shape based on your own idea. Throughout the workshop, we’ll sand, file, and hammer the metal step by step to create a truly unique piece of jewellery.
The workshop lasts approximately 1 hour.
We provide all tools, materials, fittings, and, of course, a good mood.
1 August
>> 1:00–2:00 PM
The Book of Dreaming book launch (Kapolcs, Main Square, Pro Progressione Tent)
The The Book of Dreaming is an unconventional guidebook that invites readers to discover the city through children’s eyes, through their personal experiences, observations, imagined stories, and unique perspectives.
During the two-hour event, participants can gain insight into the process behind the creation of the book and discover the creative and participatory methodology developed and led by London-based artist duo Andy Field and Beckie Darlington throughout the project. The programme is more than a book launch: it is a community gathering and an inspiring conversation about children’s imagination, our connection to the city, and the power of storytelling.
The event is open to all ages and warmly welcomes anyone curious to explore how children see Budapest and how their own stories and visions of the future can make them authors of the places they inhabit.
>> 2:00–4:00 PM
Plant Pigment Printmaking Workshop
During the workshop, participants will be introduced to the basics, tools, and techniques of creating alternative prints. The main focus of this two-hour session is creative experimentation with simple geometric elements, brought to life by the unique colours of natural, plant-based printing pastes. Participants can create small, one-of-a-kind paper prints using different surfaces, geometries, and exciting compositional solutions.
>> From 3:00 PM onwards (Kapolcs, Main Square, Pro Progressione Tent)
Wild Water Country – Learning to Live with the Tisza
Jeti Mozi, in partnership with the Hungarian Documentary Association, presents Bartha Máté and Illés Zsófia’s short documentary film Wild Water Country (Vadvízország). The lush, dark-green forest along the winding Tisza River hides a unique world. This jungle-like, dense forest is divided by tiny plots of land and orchards, as well as small fishing huts built on stilts. The side of the flood protection dyke facing the river is regularly flooded by the Tisza, yet the people who live and work here do not see this as a hardship, but as a gift of life-giving water. While the settlements on the other side of the dyke are increasingly affected by hot, dry, drought-stricken weather, here we encounter the richness of nature. The people featured in Wild Water Country – fishers, anglers, water-retention experts, and perhaps the last floodplain farmers – guide us through this remarkable landscape and share their experiences of living with the Tisza.
The film was produced for the Hungarian Ethnographic Museum’s MADOK-filmek III programme.
>> From 4:00 PM onwards (Kapolcs, Main Square, Pro Progressione Tent)
Art on Tour – SPARSE+ Short Films
The short films of the SPARSE Plus project invite you behind the scenes of rural touring. Local organisers, artists, and audiences share what it means to them when performing arts finally reach smaller rural communities, where opportunities for similar cultural experiences are less frequent. Stories about how culture becomes a shared experience and brings people closer together.
>> 5:00–5:30 PM (Kapolcs, Main Square, Pro Progressione Tent)
Bid-e-Majnun (Weeping Willow)
Participatory performance
Zahra Fuladvand’s Bid-e-Majnun (Weeping Willow) is a site-specific development of Between Homes, originally presented in the Border Situations exhibition. While the earlier work featured upside-down roots suspended in the exhibition space, symbolising the fragility of uprooting, migration, and belonging, the new performance introduces cascading willow branches that also embody the possibility of connection and taking root in a new place.
A recurring element in the artist’s performances, the mirror – as in the Between Homes performance – serves as a tool for confrontation, self-reflection, and personal encounter. By reflecting the participants’ faces, it dissolves the boundaries between performer and audience, and between the familiar and the unfamiliar.
The Persian term Bid-e-Majnun in the title means “weeping willow.” As a tree that is also native to the Hungarian landscape, it serves as a cultural link between the artist’s Iranian heritage and her life in Hungary. Drawing on the experience of moving between two cultures, the performance explores not only the uncertainty of finding one’s place, but also the possibilities of encounter, connection, and belonging to more than one place.
The performance is in English.
We reserve the right to change the programme.
The event is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
The TIDAL ArtS project is funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.
The LIFE Bauhausing Europe project has received funding from the European Union’s Life programme under grant agreement no 101113886.
The performance is funded by the European Union’s Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme of the European Union.
With the support of the National Cultural Fund.