Bázis – Hungarian Association of Literature and Arts in Slovakia is an association for autunomous, independent literature, art and science in Slovakia.

Members of the Bázis literary and artistic association were astonished to learn from a report in the daily Napunk how the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic intends to change the language law. For example, it plans to order employees of post offices, railways and bus transport to communicate with customers exclusively in Slovak. […]

Erzsébet Fanni Tóth will give a lecture at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno. More information on the website of the Czech Academy of Sciences: “Erzsébet Tóth at Department of Memory Studies in Brno, Monday, Oct 21th, 14:00 The Institute of Ethnology CAS, Department of Memory Studies, invites you to a lecture by Erzsébet […]

Erzsébet Fanni Tóth will give a lecture at the Marginalities/Marginalità conference in Rome (Tor Vergata University of Rome) on 9th October 2024 at 17.00. The conference programme is available for download:

Mónika Dánél will give a lecture Accented Territories, Porous Borders: East-Central Europe as a Multilingual Geopoetical Space in Literature and Film at the University of Vienna at the Imaginning Central Europe conference on 24 September 2024 from 14.30.

Anna Gáspár-Singer’s short story The beach, translated by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess, has been published by Fictive Dream. The full text is available on the Fictive Dream website. “I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO STAY in the bathtub all day; these were the dog days of summer. Had Mother not reprimanded me about wasting water, […]

Péter Kerekes‘ documentary comedy Wishing on a Star will be screened at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals! At the Venice Film Festival on 31th August 2024 in the Orrizonti category and in Toronto on 8th and 10th September 2024. For more information, please visit the Paraméter-online: “The protagonist of Wishing on a Star is […]

Bázis will take part in a demonstration organised by the PS and SaS against the government’s cultural policy in Slovakia. The event will take place on Tuesday, 13th August 2024 at 18.00 in Bratislava at the SNP Square. More information can be found on the event’s Facebook page.

The Bázis Association will participate in today’s demonstration in defence of Slovakian culture. The Open Culture! (Otvorená Kultúra!) platform, together with several national cultural organisations, is organising a demonstration on Monday 12th August 2024 at 17.00 in front of the Slovak National Theatre, from where the march will proceed to the Ministry of Culture to […]

Rokko Juhász will perform at the IV Nocturno Festival on August 3, 2024 at 7 pm in Kremnica in Zechenter’s Garden. More information on Facebook.

Exhibition “Neighbouring-Susedstvo-Neighbouring” by the Photographic Group of the Szebeni Műhely will open on August 1, 2024 at 6 pm in the Bašta Gallery of the Museum of Eastern Slovakia in Košice. The exhibition features among others the photographs by Andrea Kiss-Kohut. For more info: https://www.vsmuzeum.sk/susedstvo/.

Kinga Tóth will participate in the Fringify – Independent Arts Festival in Hamburg on 9th June 2024. More information: Date: 9/6/2024 Time: 11:00 Location: Festivalzentrum/Pavillon der freien Künste Genre: Reading Language: Ukrainian, German, Hungarian Duration: 180 Tickets “What if the language surrounding us doesn’t suffice for words of solace? How could we speak of what we […]

Magdalena Garbacik-Balakowicz and Magdalena Roguska-Németh will present papers at the international academic conference Central/East European Literature as World Literature on June 6-8, 2024. Conference venue: Museum of Music History, Táncsics Mihály u. 7, 1014 Budapest. Conference program

Márton Simon has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship! “MacDowell encourages applications from artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts.” More information: https://www.macdowell.org/ and https://resartis.org/open-call/macdowell-fall-2024-winter-2025/ and https://artinfoland.com/venue/macdowell-art-fellowships/. Congratulations to Márton Simon, a member of the Bázis!

The members of the literary and artistic association Bázis express their solidarity with the employees of Slovak Television and Radio, who demonstrated dressed in black in defence of press freedom against the approval of the draft law on Slovak Television and Radio. The Bázis Association was founded to represent autonomous, independent and free literature, art […]