8th-15th AUGUST

Sziget is actually many festivals in one: each venue proposes a series of programmes, "individual festivals" are offered to the audience, to the lovers of the mainstream, hard rock, world music, electric dance music, alternative styles, blues and jazz. Visitors can enjoy a number of prosaic, dance and motion theatre performances during the week long festival at the theatre venue. The location also serves as a site of art exhibitions, literary events and classical music concerts. For the young, children's programmes are continuously offered and the older generations can also find favourable productions.
Sziget is more than just a festival: a place to meet, a place to make friends and fall in love; where one can spend a week self-abandoned, where parties and sporting programmes await the inquirer.

The main venues of Sziget Festival

Pop Rock Main Stage:

an out-door venue with the capacity of 40.000 people, where three international stars and one of the most well-known Hungarian bands appear every day between 4:30pm and 11 pm. In the past years Jethro Tull, Massive Attack, Oasis, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Slayer, Morcheeba, Faithless, David Bowie, Prodigy, Iggy Pop, Chumbawamba, Placebo, Run DMC, Faith No More, The Cure, Foo Fighters, Rammstein, Pulp, Muse, Pet Shop Boys, The Rasmus, Basement Jaxx, Seeed, Busta Rhymes, Anthrax, Sugababes, Korn, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sean Paul, Underworld, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, The Hives, Skinny Puppy, Jovanotti, Radiohead and others performed on the Main Stage.

World Music Main Stage:
also an out-door venue, where 15.000 people can enjoy the best world music performances between 5pm and 11pm. Among others Madredeus, Ibrahim Ferrer, Mory Kante, Baaba Maal, Omara Portuondo, Khaled, Taraf de Haïdouks, Habib Koite & Bamada, The Klezmatics, Natacha Atlas, Femi Kuti, Boban Markovi´c, Hedningarna, Mau Mau, Toto La Momposina, Värttinä, Lo'Jo, Jimmy Bosch, Cesaria Evora, Amadou et Mariam, Goran Bregovi´c, Rokia Traoré, Oi Va Voi, Afro Celt Sound System, Cheikha Rimitti, Youssou N'Dour, Zap Mama, Tinariwen, Cheb Mami, Robert Plant, Lila Downs, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Susana Baca, Leningrad performed on this Stage.

Metal Stage
is a tent with the capacity of 5.000 people for the hard rock fans. Music is played from 4pm until dawn; ten bands perform daily. In the past years Hammerfall, Ignite, Nightwish, Overkill, Rage, Anathema, Moonspell, Edguy, Gamma Ray, Amorphis, Kreator, Opeth, Savatage, Doro and Blaze, Napalm Death, Testament, My Dying Bride, Sonata Arctica, Annihilator, Children of Bodom, The Gathering, Amorphis, Obituary, Accept, The 69 Eyes, Sentenced, Saxon, Sick Of It All, Cradle of Filth, Fear Factory, Cathedral, Morbid Angel, Exploited performed on this stage.

PARTY Arena , the largest tent of Sziget Festival is 2.700 m2, presents the best known representatives of electric dance music.

Programmes start at 10pm, and parties go on until 5am. Deep Dish, Way Out West, Nick Warren, Paul Van Dyk, Layo & Bushwacka!, Dave Clark, Grooverider, Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, David Morales, Jay Denham, CJ Bolland, Alfredo, Guy Ornadel, Austin Leeds, Goldie, Junkie XL, Dave Angel, Paul Oakenfold, Josh Wink, X-Press 2, Dj Rush, LTJ Bukem & Mc Conrad, Luke Slater, Doc Scott & Mc Justyce, The Advent, Timo Maas, Tiga, The Hacker, Play Paul, Carl Craig, Roger Sanchez, Hernan Cattaneo, Tiefschwarz, Mylo and many others made appearance here.

WAN2 Stage Stage is a colourful patch
of Sziget Festival, during the week it thematically presents the different musical genres from world music to punk.

This venue received Tito & Tarantula, Zenzile, Dreadzone, UK Subs, Roy Paci & Aretuska, UHT, Dub Wiser, Marcel et son Orchestre, Les Hurlements d'Leo, Laibach, Dub Pistols, Senser, Zion Train, Dusminguet, Roni Size, Freestylers, La Ruda, Zuco 103, Ojos de Brujo, Saïan Supa Crew, Bauchklang, La Caravane Electro, Tétes Raides, Matmatah, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Turbonegro, Giant Robot, Resin Dogs, The Hellacopters, Sportfreunde Stiller, Fishbone, HidaJimbo, The Orb, Gogol Bordello, Mouss et Hakim, Wir sind Helden and others.
In the WAN2 tent 5.000 visitors can witness the performances of eight bands every day from 4:30pm until dawn.

On top of all the above, further music programmes, thematic music tents - from folk through blues and jazz to classical music - guarantee versatile entertainment to the visitor for a week, every day, 24 hours a day. Nearly two-dozen "party" venues with different styles are available for late night fun.

Naturally, Sziget Festival has a wide range of other cultural activities beside the music programmes. In the Theatre and Dance Tent contemporary dance, opera, motion-and dance theatre, circus entertain the audience by companies from all over the world. Among the others CandoCo (UK), Divadlo Continuo (CZ), The Forman Brothers (CZ), The 
Tiger Lillies (UK), Feria Musica (B), Georges Momboye Company (F), 
Random Dance (UK), Ballet Preljocaj (F), Cie Pál Frenák (F-H), Colin Poole Dance Group (UK), Sheketak (ISR), Circus Baobab (GUINEA), Thesele Company (ZA), Dynamogéne (F), State Opera of South Australia (AUS), Accrorap (F), fabric Company (D), Yann Tiersen (F), Danza Combinatoria (CUB), Circo Arcipelago (I), Chamber Made Opera (AUS), Ballet National de Marseille (F), Angika Dance Company (GB-IND), Eitetsu Fu-un no Kai (J), DanzAbierta (CUB), Mísia (P), Circa (AUS), Ivo Dimchev (BG) performed at this venue in the last years.

Beside the theatre and dance programs we organize different open-air giant street theatre performances among others just a few of our performers were: Sarruga Produccions (E), Pan.Optikum (D), Bängditos (D), Snuff Puppets (AUS), Strange Fruits (AUS), Theater Titanick (D), Teatr Ósmego Dnia (PL), Transe Express (F)…

Numerous exhibitions, performances, an out-door museum, a puppet theatre and a cabaret can be enjoyed at other locations. In the evenings movies are shown outdoors. Kids are welcome at the children programmes but if the adults decide not to take the children along to a program they can be left at the day-care under the attention of qualified personnel.

The sport events of Sziget Festival provide varied and active recreation from different extreme sports through beach volleyball to soccer. Over 100 civil organizations are present and provide services during Sziget Festival.

For the event a real festival town is built up in one of Budapest's most beautiful green areas, on the Óbuda Island (Óbudai Sziget) where everything that one may need for a week holiday can be found.

Accommodation and related services, groceries, a post office, banks, currency exchange, ATM machines, a pharmacy, left-luggage and safe deposit, etc. are available for the visitor. Sziget Festival has a unique service, called 'Language - First Aid', foreigners can get acquainted with basic Hungarian expressions, idioms and a multilingual information centre is also there to help visitors.

Visitors driving caravans are welcome at a specially designed Caravan Camping. During the Festival - for security - car traffic is limited at the location thus the campsite can only be used by drivers of caravans. Other vehicles can be parked near the festival site or in guarded car parks downtown. In order to make the festival more accessible special buses leave from different points of the city and from the railway stations. The venue can also be reached from the water, using the special cruise ship from downtown to the island.

The organizers of Sziget Festival pay special attention to security and the protection of the environment. Besides the regular security service of the Festival, a police station operates and non-stop medical service is available. The organizers make a great effort to keep the festival area continuously clean.

If coming from the city by public transport:
Wherever you're coming from the city, you have to take the Szentendrei HÉV (suburban railway) and get off at Filatorigát station and the crowd will sweep you onwards… (if there's no crowd, go along Mozaik street to K-bridge)

From Ferihegy Airport
• Getting on - Ferihegy Airport terminal point - Bus N° 200 - to the last stop • Transfer - Kõbánya-Kispest terminal point - metro 3
- ten stops
• Transfer - Deák Ferenc square - metro 2 - two stops • Transfer - Batthyány square terminal point
- Szentendrei HÉV suburban railway - five stops • Getting off - Filatorigát

If you arrive by train at Déli railway station • Getting on - Déli railway station terminal point - metro 2
- two stops
• Transfer - Batthyány square terminal point
- Szentendrei HÉV suburban railway - five stops • Getting off - Filatorigát

If arriving by train at Keleti railway station:
• Getting on - Keleti railway station - metro 2 - five stops • Transfer - Batthyány square terminal point
- Szentendrei HÉV suburban railway  - five stops • Getting off - Filatorigát

If travelling from the city by car:
Head to Szentendrei road (road nr.11), at the Mozaik street flyover turn right and you'll see the Island. 

www.sziget.hu

Sziget Kulturális Szervezőiroda
H-1399 Budapest, Pf. 694/245
Tel: +36 1 372 0650
Fax: +36 1 372 0651
Email: info@sziget.hu