Csatlós Judit (szerk.): Vízizrí. Munkáskultúra a Duna partján - Életmód és társadalmi mozgalmak a modernitásban 2. (Budapest, 2016)
Az erdei Telep /The “Forest" Colony - Ünnepek/Special Events
. Special Events Regularevents in the HorányColony consisted of performances, recitals and readings, either organised or spontaneous, and later “open" choir and play rehearsals. In the second half of the 1930s, there emerged new events like the "other world's fair" and the vizizri -rumbustious, large-scale political parody. The first vizizri took its theme from the Budapest visit of King Viktor Emmanuel in 1937. In the game, King Ármin arrived on the island to unveil a statue to racial purity (played by a gymnast) and the others had to make everydemand possible todelay him.The following yearwas the burial of King Ármin, after which the colony became a republic; the Munich Agreement was also played out then. These events put current political or community topics on stage. They involved a high degree of spontaneity and improvisation, full of satire and plays on words. In the close-knit world of the summer colonies, they followed a pattern of community organisation defined by workers' culture and gave rise to a model of social relations based on the ritual equality of the members. Participants acquired their roles through creating collective experiences and the felt sense of belonging. Between 1927 and 1930, the special events of workers' culture developed into two basic types of performance. There were mass gymnastics and processions, strictly choreographed to make a spectacular public display of the unity and strength of the working class. By contrast, the events staged in summer colonies and workers’ hostels were rarely seen by the non-worker public. The principal media there were participatory recital choirs, singing choirs and workers' theatre, in which the performers were of the same social status as the audience, and the plays demanded audience participation. Crossover between stage and public spaces was not unusual, and live news bulletins dramatising daily occurrences, constant debates among stage figures, and the “law courts" playing out the "struggle of world views" in the form of court procedure were favourite kinds of improvisation in both. 21
