Also on the 20th at 3.00pm!
Tuzrakter Independent Cultural Centre is run by Art Sector Foundation and opened its doors on the 23rd of June in 2005, in a previously abandoned 10.000 sqm factory building in Budapest's Tuzolto street.
As an open cultural space, our programming includes a wide spectrum of visual and performing arts. We also work as a artistic centre by giving the opportunities to as many creative projects as we can. Musicians and theatre companies can use our space for rehearsals; visual artists can create in studios in our building.
Besides being a cultural centre and a hosting place for different artists, we are also active in the field of education. Our educational work means mostly art laboratories where artists can educate children and adults as well. One of our goals is to offer programmes and activities for youth with a less privileged background. Thanks to great publicity and media attention since its opening, Tuzrakter became a meeting point of young people and the focal point of the contemporary experimental art scene.
Tuzrakter is an absolutely civil initiative, the organizers work as volunteers, despite of the difficult circumstances.In the first two years, we presented exhibitions of 180 artists, including a collaboration with the Hungarian Academy of Arts, theatre and contemporary dance performances, concerts ranging from jazz, world music to blues and punk, circus shows, literature evenings, academic presentations, festivals, fashion shows etc. Several foreign artists visited our centre from Cuba, Mexico, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Venezuela, Canada, Slovakia, Romania, Estonia. We also organized festivals dedicated to giving a glimpse of contemporary culture from different countries, such as BeEst Estonian Festival.
Tuzrakter is not a building, but an intention, that can affiliate parallel projects and create partnerships with different initiatives in Hungary, as well as on the international scene. After the two years spent in Tuzolto street, Tuzrakter moved to a new building, but concentrating on cooperation with different international and Hungarian institutions, we continue working for our main aim: supporting young creative people, and bridging social and cultural gaps. In 2008, thanks to the local government of the 6th district of Budapest, we occupied the disused building of a former school.
Our present facilities include different performance and rehearsal spaces, as well as an Art Lab that can provide offices or workshops to more than 300 people, mostly artists, but including civil organisations. We aim to create a real community with different people, groups, civil organizations who collaborate with each other and become part of the life of the center.
In an international context we are looking for similarly minded collaborators with whom we can realize common projects and long-term partnerships.
On the site visits the international guests of dunaPart will have an opportunity to visit our facilities and meet a selection of the artists we work with.
Contact person: Ágnes SIMOR: +36 70 321 3537
simorag@gmail.com
Website: www.tuzrakter.hu