About Jász World Days
The teams of 5 have to compete in folk tricks, cunning tasks, to measure their skills, agility, strength of their arms, and they will show (brighter than the Sun), who are the best of the Jász, who will thereafter be respected and venerated, and furthermore return to their lands rich in gifts.
Besides all this, the closing concert of the guitar camp will also take place, as well as presentations of folk singers, choirs, music schools and dance groups. The main stage will host a Jász dance gala, where every genre is introduced, and in the evening the prize winner Jászság Folk Ensemble will present a show entitled “The Peacock”. Preserving folk dance traditions is crucial in the cultural image of the city, so the Jász folk dance movement is a serious base for traditionalism. The Jászság Folk Ensemble , established in 1971 in Jászberény, has become internationally known since then, and it has been determined to gather, learn and promote Jász dances.
The evening will again be entertaining, with the concert of the band KOWALSKY and Vega, of which the lead singer was born in Jászberény. The event will end with fireworks.
The Jász Museum and its Foundation carry out a significant task gathering and promoting Jász food. They publish cookbooks and postcards presenting old food and recipes in Hungarian and German, they set up gastronomical exhibitions and dinner parties at the museum garden.
Each year, on the 11th November on St. Martin’s Day the stew-tart making competition is a great success in Jásztelek. Jász inns and restaurants wouldn’t miss typical Jász food on the menu (potato dumplings soup, pearl barley soup, stewed lamb, Pandur Goulash and all sorts of delicacies). Traditional food is widely prepared and consumed in the Jász area even today (macok, unleavened pie, butter noodles, cakes risen on water, cabbage with meat etc.), and of course there is no wedding or other big occasion in the family without lamb stew or home-made strudel.
For three days the Jász have the world
On all three days of the event, the street of Jász settlements awaits visitors, presenting crafts workshops, as well as the street of food and the fair, or the arts exhibitions of the city.
The program will be realized with the help of volunteers, who will be trained prior to the event on the main idea of the world summit, its background and the execution. The organizers of the meeting place great emphasis on addressing the emigrated Jász, and as a highlight of the event, the famous horn of Lehel will be sounded at the gala.
The Jász people are well known of their strong sense of identity, which is revealed in many different field of life, especially as far as the preservation of traditions is concerned. The unfolding and strengthening of this traditionalism was widened after the change in regime in 1989, since associations, foundations were formed, who assumed a leading role right from the start in preserving folk and civilian traditions , and today are of great help in organizing the 19th Jász World Summit.
The long week-end on the 21-23rd June, 2013. Jászberény calls home all the Jász people living in Hungary or abroad, to meet their past and roots in the Jász capital, to fortify there their fate in present and future.