17th International MitOst Festival 2–6 October 2019 Budapest WELCOME! Dear members, partners, friends, and curious ones, We warmly welcome you to the 17th International MitOst Festi- val in Budapest. It feels great to come to Hungary again. Back in 2003, an enthusiastic team of MitOst members hosted the first festival in the city of Pécs in Hungary. Some members of that team are even present at this year’s festival, 16 years later. We thank you so much for your dedication, your love and the pre- cious time that you gave to the MitOst community over all those years. With the first festival in Pécs, MitOst set the initiative of some dedicated people who off into a 16-year-long festival tour across wanted to continue with the pioneering Europe. This is one of the reasons why we’ve project work in the regions of Eastern Eu- chosen this year’s festival topic, “Explor- rope. Today, the association has grown into ing Europe”. Other reasons go beyond the a large, professionally-based organisation festival’s history: 2019 is a pivotal year for with an even larger network that stretches Europe. On the 1st of May, we looked back at over the wider European region, including 15 years since the EU enlargement towards the countries neighbouring the Mediter- the East and South – the single largest ranean as well as Russia and Caucasus, and expansion of the European Union. And on also to Asia. the 9th of November 2019, we celebrate 30 years since the fall of the Berlin wall, which We believe that we can make MitOst’s future divided Europe into East and West. more resilient, even more inspiring, ener- getic and aligned with today’s challenges. It was back in the summer and autumn of That’s why we’ve started a process that will 1989, when people who yearned for a free reshape our organisation. We would like to and self-determined life crossed the borders do this together as a community, and invite between Hungary and Austria, camped in you to the MitOst Agora and Members’ As- the yard of the Prague Embassy quarter, sembly, which will focus on the Governance held free elections for the first time, demon- Structure Process. strated on Monday evenings and danced on pieces of a wall at the Spree. You can find the agora and the Members’ The peaceful liberation movements have Assembly as well as all other sessions, paved the way to a peaceful, cross-border, events and activities in the festival app. The trustworthy, citizen-centered, democratic app allows you to access the festival pro- and participatory Europe, in which we have gramme anytime and navigate it easily. It lived and acted ever since. Strong, self-con- also provides you with an interactive map of scious and sustainable civil societies have the festival’s venues and points of interest. shaped this Europe through their meaning- ful actions. We wish you many great encounters during the MitOst Festival 2019. We hope that the Another side of today’s Europe is a conti- next days in Budapest will be a very special nent that is facing great challenges. Extrem- experience, in which the European idea will ism, inequalities and crises in Europe and become tangible for all of us. its neighbouring regions are on the rise. In these times, civil societies act as a driving We would like to thank our long-standing force in maintaining open and democratic partners and funders as well as all those societies. who supported us specifically for this fes- tival edition. We also thank all those dedi- Much of Europe’s multi-faceted past and cated and inspiring individuals who shaped present can be seen in the programme of this festival in its content and form – your our festival. We are thrilled by how the topic contribution is essential! “Exploring Europe” has resonated with you. Thanks to your session proposals, we And to all of you, dear participants – thank have the opportunity to look back and look you for being here, sharing and shaping to the future simultaneously to bring in the festival. We feel honoured to have you perspectives from across Europe, including with us here in Budapest and in our MitOst neighbouring regions, as well as perspec- cosmos! tives from the global context. Your activities have inspired us over the years in our work: MitOst started as a small Your MitOst Board, Managing Directors alumni association 20 years ago through and the Berlin-Budapest Festival Team PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY, 10:00 10:00 – 12:00 gólem Theater [4] OCTOBER 2 Sessions Snapshots from the 15:00 – 17:30 10:00 – 11:00 Borders Hungarian Parliament [14] Stereo akt [9] FilM | EN | Guided Tour Through the Netzwerk “Aufsuchende 10:00 – 12:00 Hungarian Parliament Arbeit” gallery [11] and Conversation with CoopEraTioN & the Deputy Speaker NetworkiNg | DE | EN | The Visualisation of My Tour | EN | DE | Story 10:00 – 11:00 CrEaTivE Corner | EN | 18:00 – 22:00 Szkéné [8] gólya [19] 12:00 – 13:30 Borderline Offensive: labor [10] Opening of the 17th Inter- Laughing in the Face of national MitOst Festival Fear MitOst Agora | EN | DE | RU | DisCussioN | EN | | EN | DE | RU | 10:00 – 11:30 13:30 THURSDAY, müHely ii [2] Lunch break OCTOBER 3 Your Project @MitOst CoopEraTioN & 13:30 – 15:30 09:00 – 10:00 NetworkiNg | EN | DE | RU | meeting Point: Suterene [6] Jurányi backyard 10:00 – 11:30 Collective Meet-Up ScallaboucHe Theatre [5] Bees Banquette CoopEraTioN & spoken worD & NetworkiNg | EN | DE | RU | Get Together, System PerForMance | EN | Thinkers! 09:00 – 10:00 CoopEraTioN & 13:30 – 17:00 műHely i [1] NetworkiNg | EN | meeting Point: Jurányi entrance Embodied Europe – 10:00 – 11:30 A Yogic Journey Studio [7] Football Movement | EN | Movement | EN | DE | RU | Concrete Commons – Revitalisation of Albania’s Bunkers DisCussioN | EN | 15:30 15:30 – 17:00 19:00 gólem Theater [4] Sessions Dinner break Maidan in Progress 15:30 – 17:00 FilM | EN | DE | 20:30 – 21:30 ScallaboucHe Theatre [5] lumen [17] 17:30 The Role of Arts, Satire Und ich dachte Menschen and Creativity in Civil Sessions spoken work & Society PerForMance | DE | DisCussioN | EN | 17:30 – 19:00 gólem Theater [4] 20:30 – 21:30 15:30 – 17:00 Feri’S Flat [18] gallery [11] Fight Fire with Fire workshop | EN | The Light Whispers How Does China Matter? MusiC | AR | EN | DE | RU | workshop | EN | 17:30 – 19:00 ScallaboucHe Theatre [5] 20:30 – 22:00 15:30 – 17:00 Három Holló [15] Stereo akt [9] Discovering Your Personal Story Activism on Screen – Urban Permaculture – In- CrEaTivE Corner | EN | Szabad Egyetem/ troduction to the Zoning The Free University Method 17:30 – 19:00 FilM | EN | workshop | EN | Studio [7] 22:00 15:30 – 17:00 Creating Better Homes for Három Holló [15] Studio [7] Tomorrow workshop | EN | MitOst Party Erfolgreich im Markt der | EN | DE | RU | Weltverbesserung 17:30 – 19:00 workshop | DE | PinkPonilo [16] 15:30 – 18:00 Democratic Game Design labor [10] workshop | EN | Room No 8 Theatre Work- 17:30–19:00 shop for Female Embodi- Három Holló [15] ment Active Together for the workshop | EN | Local Good – Community Foundations in Berlin & 15:30 – 19:00 Budapest Szkéné [8] CoopEraTioN & NNI Dialogue – Trans- NetworkiNg | EN | formational Dialogue workshop | EN | FRIDAY, 10:00 – 11:30 15:30 – 17:30 OCTOBER 4 Studio [7] meeting Point: Jurányi-backyard Transforming Europe? 09:00 – 10:00 workshop | EN | Nature Journaling as a Suterene [6] System Thinking Practice 10:00 – 11:30 Collective Meet-Up Tour | EN | HU | Szkéné [8] CoopEraTioN & NetworkiNg | EN | DE | RU | 15:30 – 18:00 Pitch Your Project lumen [17] workshop | EN | 09:00 – 10:00 Borderline – Perception of müHely iii [3] 10:00 – 12:00 Spaces Проснись и пой вместе müHely i [1] DisCussioN | EN | с нами Citizen Lobbying & MusiC | RU | EN | 15:30 – 18:00 Advocacy Workshop meeting Point: workshop | EN | 10:00 Jurányi-entrance Sessions 10:00 – 12:00 Senses and Space müHely iii [3] Tour | EN | DE | RU | 10:00 – 11:30 Mit Tanz zur Toleranz in Stereo akt [9] 15:30 – 18:00 Europa meeting Point: Participation: workshop | DE | EN | Jurányi-entrance Expectation vs. Reality DisCussioN | EN | 12:00 – 13:30 Playful Walk Through labor [10] Ferencváros 10:00 – 11:30 Tour | EN | MitOst Agora gólem Theater [4] | EN | DE | RU | 15:30 – 18:00 Participatory Democracy meeting Point: 13:30 and Good Governance Jurányi-entrance DisCussioN | EN | Lunch break Stadttexte Budapest 10:00 – 11:30 15:30 Tour | DE | ScallaboucHe Theatre [5] Sessions 15:30 – 19:00 Discovering meeting Point: Multi lingualism 15:30 – 17:30 PinkPonilo workshop | EN | Három Holló [15] Sustainable Fashion 10:00 – 11:30 Renewing Collabora- Brands of Budapest gallery [11] tive Experience Through Tour | EN | Artistic Creation Brand Yourself workshop | EN | workshop | EN | 19:00 SATURDAY, Dinner break 5 OCTOBER 19:00 – 21:00 11:00 – 13:00 gólem Theater [4] Jelen biSztró [23] Final Cut Farewell Brunch spoken worD & | EN | DE | RU | PerForMance | HU | EN | 12:00 – 13:30 19:30 – 20:30 triP [13] Három Holló [15] MitOst Agora Artist’s Talk: Parallel Bio- | EN | DE | RU | graphies Serbia-Germany ExhibiTioN | EN | 14:00 – 17:00 triP [13] 20:30 – 22:00 Három Holló [15] Members’ Assembly | EN | RU | de | Der Weg der Wünsche spoken worD & 18:00 – 19:00 PerForMance | DE | EN | labor [10] 20:30 – 22:00 Cigány Magyar lumen [17] spoken worD & PerForMance | HU | EN | Project Slam spoken worD & 20:00 – 21:00 PerForMance | EN | triP [13] 22:00 This Changes Everything – Három Holló [15] Mari & Marie’s Early Night Show MitOst Party DisCussioN | EN | | EN | DE | RU | 21:00 – 22:00 triP [13] Tombola | EN | 22:00 triP [13] MitOst Party | EN | DE | RU | BUDAPEST MAP Iharos Sándor Athletic Center