Visitors can enjoy craft shows, folk puppet theater, children’s dance lessons and concerts, book sales, and the Fabatka Porta folk playground.
At the Festival of Folk Arts, folk crafts also feature prominently in the Hungarian Heritage House’s program lineup, as a full-day folk playhouse awaits those who visit our courtyard. At the craft tables, under the guidance of the institution’s excellent instructors and with the participation and assistance of the current students, visitors can create exciting crafts from 10 am to 7 pm. You can make wreaths with woven reeds, felted earrings, necklaces, and bracelets; woven bracelets; small pouches woven on a cord loom; and pinwheels and funnels made from willow twigs.

In addition, on all four days from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm and then from 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm, the richness of traditional folk costumes will be on full display, as we can watch wonderful costume shows and marvel at the diversity of our folk culture.

The program offers a variety of activities, including storytime concerts for kids, a folk puppet shows, a children’s dance workshops, folk music concerts, singing lessons, and instrument shows.
Detailed daily itineraries
Folk Playhouse where you can create bracelets at the craft tables in the morning and small pouches on a cord loom in the afternoon; led by Piroska Pintér
Fabatka Porta Folk Playground
Julcsi Paár: „Flea Circus” - interactive family concert
„Behind the Headscarf – The Mysteries of Traditional Attire from Girlhood to Womanhood from Ajak” – a folk costume show with Eszter Pitlik-Sipos
Ládafia: The Devil’s Nine Questions - puppet show
Dance of the Little Ones - lap games and dance lessons for children of all ages with Ágnes Tálas, music played by Gyula Horváth and Róbert Kerényi
„What Do Clothes Tell Us? – Traditional Attire from the Upper Tisza Region” – a folk costume show with Eszter Pitlik-Sipos
Talléros Band - folk music concert, with a singing lessons and an instrument show