Celebrating 15 years of the
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Day of Health and
Social Programmes

 
June 23., 1999

Theatrical productions*

All day programs

The location of the event is free of obstacles, and at events marked with * the Foundation provides signing interpreters.

Program: 'Études' to the music of Vivaldi, 'Four Seasons', Pictures at an Exhibition' to Mussorgsky's work of the same name, 'In the Park', mime. 'The crow and the fox', movement theatre.
The group, comprising young people with hearing disabilities, was set up in Debrecen in 1990. At that time its members were 10-11 years old. At the beginning they adapted popular folk tales and learned theatre skills. Now they bring to the stage productions expressing deeper, more abstract thoughts. The group's artistic director is Mónika Bíró.

Baltazár Theatre

This theatre group, comprising 4 physically and mentally handicapped young people, started out at the beginning of 1998 under the artistic direction of Dóra Elek with the aim of enabling the actors under her aegis to be integrated into Hungarian theatrical life. The theatre is an area where the performers approach the audience on equal terms.
There is only one measure: how good the performance is.

Leo Amici Foundation Theatre Group

Lautreamont: Maldoror's songs, directed by Georges Baal

Founded by initiative from below in 1991, the Leo Amici Foundation in 1992 set up a 15-bed drug rehabilitation institute in Komló. The rehabilitation activities involves social therapy, and a large element of drama therapy. It provides the actors with the vitality and dynamism of playing before an audience, increasing their self-esteem, presenting the interaction between chaos and order, and provides the audience with a unique opportunities for involvement, experience and reflection.

Film of the Kalocsa-Homokmégy Health Development Programme

In Kalocsa and its surroundings the 'Together in Health' health promotion model programme has been in progress since 1994. The short film presents some examples of the community-based
preventive measures against heart and circulatory diseases.

Videos on disablement issues

These videos are related to the day's other events: viewers are given a glimpse into the life of residential homes for the physically handicapped, see a report on the Kitagolás Programme for the improvement of living conditions for mentally handicapped people living in institutions and view János Zellő's film, 'It's all a game' on Dóra Elek's theatre workshop (Baltazár Theatre).

Presentation of the Primavera mammographic breast cancer screening programme

Special guest: Vera Blinken, President of Primavera
In Hungary, more than four thousand women develop breast cancer every year. With regular mammographic examination, three-quarters of breast cancers could be cured. The main sponsor of the Primavera mammographic programme is the Soros Foundation.

Viewing of TB screening bus for the homeless

In 1995, based on the support of the Soros Foundation and the experience of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service, a model experiment in the screening, treatment and after-treatment of homeless TB sufferers started with the aim of presenting a solution to the hitherto unaddressed issue of the spread of tuberculosis among the homeless.
The state and non-profit sectors, with the participation of 11 health and social organisations, implemented a model experiment, which over three years succeeded in screening more than ten thousand homeless people, of which 8 per cent were identified as sick. In 1997 the model experiment came to an end, and the lessons it bore have been compiled into a book and a videocassette. Photographs in the bus and the running video present scenes form the street screenings.