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Péter Halász’s archive was opened to researchers in 2017. On this occasion, an exhibition and roundtable were organized about the avantgarde writer, director, and actor’s works showing documents from the HP archive. The archive is based on Péter Halász’s so-called newspaper-theater performances, titled “Power Money Fame Beauty Love,” which was composed in the Kamra Theater in Budapest in 1994. The actors read the page-proofs of one of the main daily newspapers, Népszabadság (People’s Freedom), the night before publication. Inspired by the news, they created a play which was shown only once, the following evening, when the readers received the paper. 28 performances were created in this manner. In 2003, the undergraduates of the University of Theater and Film Arts of Budapest collected the articles, playbooks, reviews, and video records about the plays and based on these documents they made short films, as well. The whole documentation of this project was given to Artpool. This became the HP archive.

The Circle of History Students archive was digitised in the spring of 2017. This was done at the initiative of history students who are currently active in the society. They recommended digitising the archive firstly for digitisation practice, and therefore some parts of the archive were digitised by students, and other parts by archive employees. The archive is now fully digitised, and available for registered users of the web archive Saaga.

The Festival in Jarocin in 2017 was unique: for the first time the event was organised by Jarocin Regional Museum in close collaboration with its branch, the Polish Rock Granary. The concept and the programme of the festival were closely linked to the activities of the Granary and the history of rock music in Jarocin.

The leitmotif of the event, which took place from the 14^th to 16^th of July, was the figure of Czesław Niemen. The programme featured hip-hop intertwined with alt-rock, choir performances blended with jazz-rock projects. Line-up included such bands as Voo Voo, Pere Ubu, Kaliber 44, Dezerter, Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet, Hey, Variete, and the band Illusion which celebrated their 25th anniversary. Music acts were accompanied by a series of events and attractions ranging from painting murals dedicated to Czesław Niemen and the 28 Faces of Czesław Niemen photographs exhibition at the Polish Rock Granary, curated by Monika Ney of Ney Gallery&Prints, through workshops for children and adults in the courtyard of the Granary, to lectures on poetry in Niemen’s lyrics given by Paweł Tański and debates on the problems of music industry, as a part of the Polish Rock Granary Academy.

The new concept of the festival and the change of organisers were met with positive reception both by journalists and the participants of the event. Although such ample engagement to the organisation of the festival proved to be a challenge for the Granary, a young and rather small body, it yielded desired results, and the institution is commited to keeping up the direction of its actions also in 2018.

The Latvian Center of Contemporary Art in Riga organized the show “YOU’VE GOT 1243 UNREAD MESSAGES. The Last Generation Before the Internet”. Their Lives in 2017, where materials from the Artpool collection, like documents of the Budapest-Vienna-Berlin telephone concert and the Artpool Radio, were also put on exhibit.

The content of the Grgo Šore Goli Otok Collection became a part of the "Memories of the 20^th Century" online exhibition. This online exhibition also includes the testimonies of other people, among whom some were victims of totalitarian systems and dictatorships in Croatia during the 20^th century. Their testimonies illustrate the key moments of 20^th century Croatian history. The virtual exhibition contains over 900 items.