Opening ceremony

Usually, Children's Meetings are officially started on a Sunday on the main square of Kecskemét. As a custom, several groups go on stage to present a brief selection of their performances. The Mayor of Kecskemét hands the town keys to the two youngest children at that year's Meeting, a boy and a girl, then dozens of balloons reach the sky with a fanfare that indicates the beginning of a week's wonders.

The importance of the Children's Meeting is well reflected by the fact that each year the President of the Republic in office comes to take part in the inauguration ceremony as the main patron of the Festival.

A speciality of the inauguration ceremony in 2004 was that the one week Festival was officially opened by a five-year-old child, his Excellency, Zakarias Rodrigo Massagrande.

The Opening Ceremony of our festival is always followed by various other events like the concert of the popular Csík zenekar, the European and World Cup final which was followed by thousands of people on the main square of Kecskemét. This is the way this 'Children magic' normally starts in our town.