From the Spinning Wheel to the Fairy Tale Pub

The Seven League Folktale Days (Hétmérföldes Népmese Napok) will target primary and secondary school students in Veszprém during the school year, while the Corn-seed Fairytale Courtyard (Búzaszem Meseudvar) in the Fenyves Mill court and the Half-penny Tale (Krajcáros Mesék) storytelling tent at the Old Town Market (Óváros Piac) in May will be set up to attract families. The Pannon Storytelling Circle (Pannon Mesekör) will be a place for self-organised communities of lay adults and practising storytellers interested in live story recitals. It will be an opportunity to enhance their knowledge, hone their storytelling skills and their performing style, and to build professional relationships. As part of the Folktale Pub-on-the-Séd (Séd-parti Mesekocsma) programme, storytellers will create a magical pub atmosphere by taking turns reciting their funny or even naughty fairy tales on long winter evenings in the cultural bistros of Veszprém.

At the beginning of June, storytellers from all over Europe will gather for the International Storytelling Conference "From the Spinning Room to the Folktale Pub". The conference will focus on the range and analysis of the applicability of Hungarian storytelling traditions. Of course, we will make use of the rare opportunity of having the best European raconteurs in town: they are invited to recite their nation’s tales at the festival. There will be Hungarian and English-language performances, street and pub meets and joint tours to bring the legends, mythical stories and folk tales of Veszprém’s history to life.