The year 2015 is soon going to be over, it has become a really eventful and exciting year here in Szimpla Kert. We have tried to collect the things that happened in the last almost 365 days, but after a while we realized that we don’t have a chance to write down everything so we simply picked from numbers, data, events that have made 2015 more exciting, colourful, and Szimpla-like.
So let’s take a little look back: Szimpla Kert has had more than one million visitors just as the in the previous year, and what makes us even more proud is that almost 100 thousand people (99653) visited our 51 Sunday markets and shopped for goodies at our 80 first producer sellers. On top of that, some sellers moved up to the first floor on the 13th December, so in the future it will be well worth visiting up there. We raised more than 6 million forints for 35 non-profit organisations at the Közös Lábos events and the Budapest Bike Maffia was present every Sunday to collect food donations for the eight families in need in Józsefváros, of course they delivered it on two wheels.
So let’s take a little look back: Szimpla Kert has had more than one million visitors just as the in the previous year, and what makes us even more proud is that almost 100 thousand people (99653) visited our 51 Sunday markets and shopped for goodies at our 80 first producer sellers. On top of that, some sellers moved up to the first floor on the 13th December, so in the future it will be well worth visiting up there. We raised more than 6 million forints for 35 non-profit organisations at the Közös Lábos events and the Budapest Bike Maffia was present every Sunday to collect food donations for the eight families in need in Józsefváros, of course they delivered it on two wheels.
We worked together with more than 30 volunteers during the Kazinczy Living Library events, we dealt with 8 social issues to open people’s eyes and show that conversation and paying attention to others are much more useful than rejection. We had 1200 visitors in the first year at the events in Szimpla and we got three invitations to build a living library in other locations.
All in all we had 10 BorOrgias, 12 pálinka courses, 8 coffee courses, 12 bike flea markets, we organised a farm visit, and two fantastic street festivals involving thousands of people (Day of Trees and Birds; Car Free Children’s Day), these events were huge steps in making Kazinczy Street a real pedestrian street not just a namely pedestrian.Our Kössük össze (Let’s Connect Them) project that shows how important and useful it would be to have a zebra crossing between Szentkirályi Street and Kazinczy Street on Rákoczi Road. We collected more than 2000 signatures for the pedestrian street and almost 1500 for the zebra crossing on our two petitions, so we can see that many people support our initiatives. We organised an open forum together with Azért7 Association (Élő Erzsébetvárosért Egyesület), we invited city historians, sociologists to try to find a solution to the problems of the inner city, especially Erzsébetváros.
We organised 2 theatre plays and more the 200 free concerts where you could listen to bands like Korai Öröm, Makarenkó, Ethnofil, Haniah Project, Szeder, Góbé, Balogh Tamás Quartet and the list goes on and on. We had 50 jam sessions and 30 open stages in the Kert!
We had two great off-site programs this year: we introduced ourselves by concerts and the cuisine of Szimpla to the wine lovers in Erdőbénye in August at the Bor, Mámor…Bénye Festival. We showed ourselves to the international experts of world music at the Womex in autumn.
Of course, we were very active on the internet, also, it couldn’t be differently. More than 700 thousand people checked in this year in Szimpla, the number of readers of szimpla.hu is close to 250 thousand, you also like the blog of Szimpla, and more than 10 thousand people listen to us and the bands that perform here on Soundcloud, we are on Instagram too, and Budapest Katalógus also joined the Szimpla Team, introducing some faces that are connected to us.
We had two great off-site programs this year: we introduced ourselves by concerts and the cuisine of Szimpla to the wine lovers in Erdőbénye in August at the Bor, Mámor…Bénye Festival. We showed ourselves to the international experts of world music at the Womex in autumn.
Of course, we were very active on the internet, also, it couldn’t be differently. More than 700 thousand people checked in this year in Szimpla, the number of readers of szimpla.hu is close to 250 thousand, you also like the blog of Szimpla, and more than 10 thousand people listen to us and the bands that perform here on Soundcloud, we are on Instagram too, and Budapest Katalógus also joined the Szimpla Team, introducing some faces that are connected to us.
Szimpla Háztáji is already two years old, it was renewed inside and outside thoroughly, so our little shop that has grown from the market is worth exploring again and again. 700 litres of coconut milk, 600 litres of plain yoghurt were used, we made 1000 pans of cakes which means roughly 20 thousand slices.
Lázár Todoroff recorded thousands of hours of video materials and made hundreds of video films, the youtube channel of Szimpla is watched by 48 thousand people constantly.
Innumerable amount of photos were taken at concerts, markets, festivals, theatre performances and of course, just for fun. We hope, when you think back to 2015, there are several moments that are related to us and we hope we could add much to this year. We take a look back at 2015 with this video and a selection of photos, and we cannot say else than let’s meet next year again in Kazinczy Street.
The team of Szimpla Kert wishes everybody a peaceful and happy end of the year.
Lázár Todoroff recorded thousands of hours of video materials and made hundreds of video films, the youtube channel of Szimpla is watched by 48 thousand people constantly.
Innumerable amount of photos were taken at concerts, markets, festivals, theatre performances and of course, just for fun. We hope, when you think back to 2015, there are several moments that are related to us and we hope we could add much to this year. We take a look back at 2015 with this video and a selection of photos, and we cannot say else than let’s meet next year again in Kazinczy Street.
The team of Szimpla Kert wishes everybody a peaceful and happy end of the year.
photos by Lazar Todoroff and Matyas Szollosi
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