August 20 Crafts Festival marks 30th anniversary

Budapest, August 18 (MTI) – Some 800 craftsmen will take part in this year’s August 20 Crafts Festival, marking the event’s 30th anniversary, in the Buda Castle from Thursday to Sunday.

The theme of this year’s festival will be toys and games, giving visitors a chance to try street games, activities designed to improve hand skills or traditional folk instruments. The event will also feature various dance and street theatre performances.

A total of twelve countries will be represented at the festival with this year’s guests of honour being Uzbekistan, China and Russia’s Republic of Sakha.

Uzbekistan will be represented by a family specialising in brass embossing as well as a carpet weaver, a textile painter, a wood carver, a blacksmith and other craftsmen. Chinese craftsmen will include a tea artist, a batik-maker, an embroidery maker and others.

Hungarian craftsmen will include weavers, coopers, roofers, and passementerie maker among others.

Visitors will also get to take a closer look at crafts from Turkey, Spain, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.

Source: MTI