TULIPÁN TANODA HUNGARIAN FOLK ART SCHOOL
Our institution, the Tulipán Tanoda Hungarian Folk Art School, was founded by the Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian University of Higher Education. It was officially registered in Ukraine in 2018. After the Petőfi Program was banned in Ukraine, Tulipán Tanoda took over its role in Transcarpathia. We institutionalized, expanded, and broadened its activities.
The Tanoda has undertaken the task of promoting and passing on authentic Hungarian folk values to the younger generations, directing children towards organised folk music and folk dance education in Transcarpathia.
The main task of the Tulipán Tanoda is to cultivate, preserve and pass on Hungarian folk art values, folk traditions and folk music culture to the younger generation.
Our goal is to raise a generation for whom Hungarian folk culture and the preservation of traditions are an integral part of life, serving as a means of safeguarding our Hungarian identity.
Within the Tulipán Tanoda network, there are three primary art schools operating in Beregszász, Tiszapéterfalva and Nagydobrony.
In our art schools and in our extracurricular workshops — held at the Tulipán Tanoda branches in Mátyfalva, Fancsika, Nagybereg, Csepe, Tiszaújhely, Tiszakeresztúr, Aknaszlatina, Tekeháza, Kajdanó, Kisgejőc — as well as in 91 settlements across Transcarpathia, we currently provide education to 2,433 children with the help of 112 instructors.
In our organised activities, children have the opportunity to learn to play instruments (flute, folk violin, guitar-tamburica, accordion, cimbalom, zither), folk singing and folk dance, and there are also craft and weaving workshops in several locations.
Tulipán Tanoda has successfully introduced Hungarian folk values to the youngest age groups — preschool children. Thanks to our efforts, children in kindergarten groups across Transcarpathian settlements are becoming familiar with traditional Hungarian games.