Luminous friends, Claude Monet’s magical garden, postcard making and punching workshop

Whether it’s a gift pass, a gathering of friends or a family program, the festival offers everyone the opportunity to get closer to the world of art.

TRAINING Gallery – WHO’S PAINTING TODAY? Claude Monet’s magical garden – Puppet show and creative activity for children aged 3-8

What would happen if we accidentally got the key to Claude Monet’s famous garden?

MA-KI, the painting monkey, invites us on another journey, this time to a hidden village in France, where one of the great figures of modern art lived and created. With the help of the interactive puppet show, the little ones can playfully get to know the great figures of universal and Hungarian fine arts. The always curious MA-KI often gets into trouble, so he constantly learns about life, perseverance, creativity and courage.

The performance is enriched by cards, moving paintings, music and film excerpts, and games, followed by a 45-minute craft session.

FISE – Me, you, him… We, you, them… – Creative session of KaCs Workshop – Collage workshop

Have you ever wondered what your ideal future would look like? You can do it in this workshop! Using the collage technique and using different materials, we will create works that reflect on the world around us, ourselves and our fellow human beings, and we will try to create a more beautiful world around us – even if only on a sheet of paper.

Visual artist Katinka Hajas – Lighting friends – Plaster figure painting workshop for children

Do you remember when you were afraid of the dark as a child? I remember when before going to sleep my parents turned off the lights and everything around me disappeared. Then I got fluorescent stickers, which still lit up just enough to fill the dark and unusual “space” with their soft light.

This experience inspired this children’s activity where children can make a fluorescent friend – they can paint a pre-made plaster figure with colorful and fluorescent paints.

And who imagines a friend with what pattern and color… The starry sky is the limit!

DINDIN Gallery – Lego construction based on a painting by Zeus Salas – Join the joint Lego construction!

It has been a long-cherished dream of the Venezuelan painter Zeus Salas to build his paintings from Lego blocks.

So far, two Zeus paintings have been built from Lego blocks, and now another art object will be the subject of the program: we will jointly build one of the boxing chickens that will be exhibited in the DINDIN Gallery.

Every hand counts – Come and join Zeus and roll! group members during the Night of Artifacts Festival!

BEM Cinema screening – The four souls of the Coyote – Screening and discussion with the creators

The four souls of Coyot are Nyócker! the new film of its director, Áron Gauder. The full-length animated film retells the Native American creation story with the mythical Coyote in the center. Through the myth of the creation of the universe, the film talks about the burning question of how we can live in harmony with our environment before it is too late to destroy ourselves on Earth.

After the film screening, we can ask director Áron Gauder, screenwriter and animation director Zsolt Baumgartner about the behind-the-scenes secrets of making the film.

Hungarian Money Museum and Visitor Center – The Rise and Fall of the Kossuth Banks – Retrospective board game

The board game evoking the past is an adventure consisting of several stations, during which we learn about the creation and fate of the Kossuth banks. At each station, playful challenges and puzzles await enterprising participants. By solving these, real stories and life paths come to life. It also reveals, for example, how the Hungarians hid the banks during the reprisal. It also sheds light on the measures with which the Habsburg Empire tried to destroy the first Hungarian-language paper money and thus erase the memory of the freedom struggle.

Larisza Pastztircsák – industrial artist – Making postcards with embroidered messages from childhood photos – A message from our childhood selves from the past to the present, from the present to the past

Make a postcard for yourself! Embroider on the replica of your childhood photo, as a reminder, an important and defining sentence or thought that formed in you in your childhood about adult life, desires, and the future. This is an intimate, personal short message that can heal the innocent, wounded child in you.

Kastner Kommunity – Punching workshop with Réka Vidra – Make an accessory with punching technique!

Visual artist Réka Vidra with yarn and special colors, so-called works with punching technique. Now you can learn about this procedure at the MÉF workshop. Based on a pattern developed especially for this occasion, you can create a small badge/sewer using the punching / punch needle technique, all under the personal mentoring of visual artist Réka Vidra. The pattern that the artist uses was inspired by one of the animals in Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Beauties” triptych. In the workshop, we work with secondhand yarns. Participation does not require any prior training.

Author: artefact.com

Cover photo: Workshop at the KAS Gallery at the 2023 Night of Artifacts Festival

Cover image source: műtárgy.com / photo: Dóra Árvai