Festival as a community experience The Ördögkatlan Festival is not only a cultural event, but also a community experience that attracts tens of thousands of people to the hills of Baranya County every year since 2008. Here, people are not just spectators, but active participants in a medium of art, nature and human interaction. The Ördögkatlan Festival is a place where the experience of being together, along with the programmes, is the charm. As soon as you arrive in Nagyharsány, Kisharsány, Beremend or Vylyan Manor, you immediately feel the difference compared to other festivals. The courtyards are open, people say hello to each other and conversations develop between strangers while waiting for the programmes. Perhaps the secret of Ördögkatlan is that we all come for the same reason: to connect. People here are open and direct. The villagers themselves are involved in creating the festival atmosphere: the local winemaker smiles as he talks about his wines, the accommodation providers welcome back last year's guests and the organisers are not distant faces but as much a part of the community as anyone else. "For us the key word is encounter. So, the encounter is the encounter of locals and guests, and the encounter of genres. So that's why I can say that it's actually a perfect condensation of what we're doing in detail in five days with hundreds of programmes. Here one programme represented all of 2 that." 2 Source: LOST ANALOGUE project, interview with László Bérczes, 2024, conducted by HÉTFA Research Institute 154