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The poets of Debrecen and Oradea summoned Petőfi together
Debrecen – This program was not just about poetry. Friendships for life can develop between young people across the border and from here.
Months ago, Petőfi announced a poetry competition at the Hungarian Secondary School in Debrecen and Oradea. The applicants were heard by a professional jury to select the best speakers who met at the Partium House in Debrecen on Saturday, May 21st.
Thirty poets, Artúr Vranyecz, an actor from Debrecen, and Judit Simon, a theater critic from Oradea, were able to prove their talent again, and then they took over on July 3-9. their free participation in a one-week thematic camp in the Greater Hungary Park at the Bakony Királyszállás.
In the Camp called Our Home in the Carpathian Basin, young people from Debrecen and Oradea can learn about the geography and history of Transylvania, the Highlands, Southern Transcarpathia and the Great Plain, the life of the Hungarian communities living abroad, swimming on Lake Balaton, excursions to the historical and cultural sights of Székesfehérvár, Veszprém and Várpalota.
The Saturday meeting of the young poets began with an interesting promising lecture by cultural historian Sándor Ozsváth, What was Missed from the Textbooks, continued with the poems, and then ended with an acquaintance.
The Partium House, in cooperation with the Cultural Association of Tomorrow in Oradea, wanted to organize an event through which the young generation could realize that the poetry of Sándor Petőfi has valid messages that can still be interpreted today. And with the hope that the young people of the two cities will create lifelong relationships and attachments through the shared love of poetry and the experiences of the days spent together during the summer camp.
– Many people believe that Petőfi is already an “old” poet who has a place in a museum. For this, we recommend that as many people as possible take the poems of Sándor Petőfi in their hands, read them boldly – and they can understand that he is still talking to young people today – István Stanik, the head of the Partium House in Debrecen, encouraged everyone to read them.