The winner of the Fiume Carnival has been announced

In two months the Fiume or as most of us know it the Rijeka 2020 European Capital of Culture will start its programme. Our Croatian friends have invited the Bakony-Balaton region to the 2020 Carnival.

The size of the carnival is indicated by the huge number of performers. More than 3000 people will take part in the parade, not including the organisers and the audience which is estimated to be over hundred thousands. Our ECOC team has published the opportunity to represent our city in the carnival in an open call and had a jury to decide which team to represent us in the most popular event of Croatia.

Three teams have applied to the difficult call. The applicants were: Ablak a múltra Egyesület, the Reformkori Hagyományőrzők Társaság from Balatonfüred and the team of Kabóca Bábszínház and the Pannon Egyetem Veszprémi Egyetemi Színpad. All three application was very high standard and was providing a great insight into the history and the culture of Balaton and Bakony region.

The winner is the Kabóca Bábszínház and the Pannon Egyetem Veszprémi Egyetemi Színpad who imagined their parade with a harvest and traditional wedding theme. The story includes the young couple to enter on stilts who will be accompanied by a carriage of life-size puppet orchestra. The carriage will be pulled by the students of  Pannon University grape costume invoke the atmosphere of a wedding. Each grape will be an attraction it self but when group together they will perform impressive choreographies horizontally and with the help of stilts vertically also. The choreographer is Rita Góbi and the life-size puppets are designed by Enikő Bodnár. The performers’ costumes designed by Kata Várszegi.

” We are very happy to such high quality applications and especially grateful that the winner aplication will not only represent the tradition and the history but will also highlight the main attraction of the region, the wine culture.” -said the comment of the jury.

The members of the jury:
Hegedűs Barbara Szilvia – Vice Mayor of Veszprém
Vándorfi László – The head of Pannon Theathre
Muraközy Péter – Veszprém-Balaton 2023, Operation director
Zugschwert Szabolcs – Veszprém-Balaton 2023, Marketing, Communication and Sales director