PASSPORT CONTROL International Music Workshops within MOVEAST International Film Festival (Pécs): International Blues Workshop, Folk Blues Workshop, MEDIAWAVE Undergound Workshop 
This year too,  MEDIAWAVE International Visual Art Foundation has been charged with organizing music programs at MOVEAST International Film Festival. The unique character of these additional programmes comes from the fact you won't only enjoy a series of concerts at the festival, but you can also follow step by step the work of the music workshops, where every circumstance is provided for the musicians to cooperate creatively  with each other.

SCHOOL YAR OPENING PARTY 6 September, Saturday 8pm 
THE CORRIDORS: The band was founded in 2007 by Bence Fűzfa and Zsolt Karácsony, former guitar-players of Code101. After some changes in the band last yar, by this spring the band's members have been found stable, Szabolcs Árky seems to be the right choice of bass guitar-player. They recorded a new demo in the summer holiday and managed to tour a little with it as well. 
S.O.S. The band was formed by high school students from Győr almost three years ago. Their music got more colorful with the help of using different instruments from the typical rock music, impressions from electronic and other music styles, they make a clever mix of experimental initiations with danceable, pulsating rhythms. 

BuSho (Budapest Short Film Festival) has been organized for the fourt time between 3 and 7 September, 2008 in Vörösmarty Cinema and DocuArt in Budapest, where this year MEDIAWAVE also provides enjoyable atmosphere with the help of its concert films.

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Representatives of MEDIAWAVE (Péter Pusker - music program organizer, Péter Szabó -leader of the photo workshop, Csaba Mészáros - ethnographer and Jenő Hartyándi - Festival director) went to Siberia today, where they are going to hold a film and photo workshop in Novosibirsk, a city about 5000 km far away from here, within the framework of  "Meetings in Siberia" International Documentary Film Festival, in co-operation with CINEMA GARRET Workshop, for about 50 university students of film and photography. After the workshop, members of the staff will become members of a film producing crew and will travel 600 km farther to the Altai region, to make a documentary film about the culture of this "blank space" of the world, with the guidance of ARTEM, a throat-singer, who was introduced and became popular in the Festival this year. If you are interested, here you can find the films made in the workshop held last year in Siberia and the diary from Siberia from last year. Also, you can watch a film about the Artem trio, more precisely about their tour in Slovakia and Poland within MEDIAWAVE Festival. Jenő Hartyándi's latest, most actual blog is published on kisalfold.hu. We hope you can find there the newest diary notes and photos made there day after day. 

Deák Sándor with Al Di Meola

Deák Sándor a hobby photographer from Győr took some pictures on the VISEGRÁD BLUES WORKSHOP, he recorded  some moments of the jam sessions, the closing concerts and the atmosphere of the workshop.

ARRABONA BLUES BREAKERS CONCERT
The band was formed in the beginning of the year 2007. Their repertiore consists of songs from such masters like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tibor Tátrai, Jaco Pastorius and Robben Ford who have played legendary, guitar centric music. The band participated in the BLUES WORKSHOP - that was organised during the MEDIAWAVE International Summer Art Camp - and had a concert on 22 July. Now you can see a short excerpt from the video.

The workshop was realized with the participation of WLAD MLOUK LAHWA, Maroccon band. Bálint Józsa and Szabolcs Papp also accompanied the band playing African, Arabic and Berber folk music, during the workshop and the closing concert on 22 July. You can have a look at their rehearsal if you watch the video. 

MEDIAWAVE Underground Music Workshop, Ravazd

During the MEDIAWAVE International Summer Art Camp the Underground Music Workshop was organized as well. Now the video of the closing concert is available on our website. In the workshop young musicians worked together for four days - as in the earlier realized blues workshop - to create a new, autonomus production. Their unique, instrumental compositions guaranteed special atmosphere for the closing concert of the PASSPORT CONTROL Workshop.

Belated youth, civil and cultural movements in Hungary

"I dealt a lot with the social role of 1968 at the beginning of the year. We organized MEDIAWAVE Festival'2008 in memory of the 40th anniversary of it, that's why I searced for it a lot. Then I was only a 12 year-old boy dropped into the waves of the events, and could see only the long  rows of planes and choppers following each other through Hungary to Czechoslovakia..." kisalfold.hu /Hartyándi Jenő/ (you can watch the archive film conncecting to the note - Kisörspuszta - by clicking here!)