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Galiba Children Festival
2019-08-15 • 15:00 - 2019-08-20 • 16:00
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The idea of giving a chance to kids to get a taste of the pleasures of carnival feasting dates back to 2012: as a “junior sibling” of the flower festival parade, kids from kindergartens, grade schools, amateur dance troupes and various non-government organizations can also prepare their own small floats to become part of a carnival procession. The title of Galiba kids’ festival may also remind us of the eponymous protagonist of Ludas Matyi by the Hungarian author Mihály Fazekas or, rather, more specifically, of one his geese, called Galiba. As “there is no animal nicer than a goose,” we will also try to smuggle in a little bit of appreciation of geese among the thematic ideas of flowers during the course of “calamities.”
Thursday, August 15
Nyitn(y)ikék – Opening day
at the Kids’ Playing Park of Békás Pond
3.00 p.m. There will be no trouble at all!
…it is just the opening of the festival with the performers on stilts of the ORT-IKI
Puppet and Street Theatre: the show “Kökény Matyi”
4.00 p.m. Concert for the little ones
TRIO Harmony Debrecen
4.30 Agyagbanda concert
Nagyerdei Open Air Theatre
5.00 p.m.: HAHÓ concert
at the Kids’ Playing Park of Békás Pond
6.30 p.m. Agyagbanda concert
Friday, August 16th
“Arany-osan” – Performances of the works of Hungarian poet János Arany
at the Kids’ Playing Park of Békás Pond
3.00 p.m. “Toldi” – the legend – the history
The picture show of Gábor Boka
4.00 p.m. Lóránt Heit
5.30 p.m. “Mindegyik albumot szeretjük” (We love all of the albums)
The family concert of Rutkai Bori Band
Saturday, August 17th
the day of the shows of Vojtina Puppet Theatre
at the Kids’ Playing Park of Békás Pond
3.00 to 5.00 p.m. Vojtina performers and their friends on stage
3.00 p.m. “Szerencsés János avagy az ördög három aranyhajszála” (Lucky John, or the three golden hairs of the devil)
16.00 The show of Magician Balázs Kiss
16.30 Shaolin show
Nagyerdei Open Air Theatre
5.00 “Földlakók” (Earthlings) – The family concert of Hahó Band
at the Kids’ Playing Park of Békás Pond
6.00 p.m. Stay in Family… – folklore lives on family
Sunday, August 18th
Geese day, our day …
…but we also love bees and we roll around everywhere…
free access to the Amusement Park of Debrecen,
with longer opening hours
Debrecen Amusement Park
9.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. shows presented by RollerBrosHungary:
Rolling day – a family and sports day sponsored by Decathlon
9.30 a.m. “Ilyen-olyan libafajták” (Geese of all types) – the geese of Debrecen Zoo
10.00 a.m. That is how he could look like – a Ludas Matyi lookalike show around the statue of Ludas Matyi, with different “Matyi trials” for the lookalikes
10.30 a.m. Ludas Matyi dance show
11.00 a.m. Waldorf 100 – 2019, the Year of the Bees
1.00 to 3.00 p.m. Galiba groups on the Galiba stage
3.30 p.m. The marching of push scooter riders
starting from the entrance of the Amusement Park
The arena of Nagyerdei Stadium
5.00 p.m. Galiba march
Debrecen Amusement Park
6.00 p.m. music and dance
7.00 p.m. Awarding ceremony
Monday, August 19th
“Vegyen ön is mosómedvét!” – A day with classic Hungarian fables
at the Kids’ Playing Park of Békás Pond
3.00 p.m. “Talányos mese” (An Enigmatic Tale)
performed by László Gulyás, travelling musician
4.00 p.m. Vitézi mókák (Medieval soldiers’ games)
the show on stilts by the Langaléta Garabonciások Group
Nagyerdei Open Air Theatre
5.00 p.m. Mosó Masa mosodája (the Laundry of Masa the Racoon) – the concert of Veronaki Band
Tuesday, August 20th
Galiba festival is also filled with flowers
at the Kids’ Playing Park of Békás Pond
2.00 p.m. “Betyárparádé” (Outlaws’ parade) – the street show of Garagulya stiltsmen
3.00 p.m. Garrison Brass Band