312 result(s) for budapest circus
Budapest Summer Festival Offers Complete Packages For Expats' Visitors
- 9 Jul 2015 9:02 AM
- travel
First class tickets to performances at the Open-Air Theatre on Margaret Island, hotel room with breakfast, roundtrip boat transfer and Water Tower admission in one package with significant savings – this is on offer in Budapest Summer Festival’s Sleep in Budapest with a theatre ticket complete package. The Budapest Summer Festival offers 12 summer weekend getaways of exclusive cultural and ...
Hungarian Gov’t Will Invite Ideas For City Park
- 3 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- property
The cabinet has reached a decision on the first stage of the Liget project, which will see a series of new museums built on the edge of Budapest’s City Park, János Lázár announced yesterday. He said ideas will be invited for redesigning the park and that some buildings will be restored and new ones built. The park’s Vajdahunyad Castle, home to the Agriculture Museum, will be restored completely.
Xpat Report: Jane Goodall At Grandhouse Luncheon In Budapest
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The season’s last Grandhouse luncheon on June 16 hosted Dame Jane Goodall of chimpanzee fame before a blockbuster rapt audience of 85 guests, a roster of ambassadors among them, this time not as usual at the Academy of Science but at Kogart House gallery restaurant along the World Heritage listed Andrássy út.
Grand Circus May Give Way To Zoo Under Government Plans
- 12 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Budapest’s Metropolitan Grand Circus may have to say goodbye to its current location – adjacent to Budapest Zoo in the city’s largest park Városliget – under current plans. According to information obtained by cink.hu, the options of rebuilding the Grand Circus’s dilapidated building and erecting a new circus in a different location will both be discussed this month by the government.
Compagnie Pál Frenák: Tricks & Tracks 2., Trafó Budapest, 21 – 22 May
- 15 May 2015 9:00 AM
- entertainment
”Our body and our self are treasury of the imprints of our memories, that is created by the interaction of materials, space, bodies and fragrances.” The 15 year-old Pal Frenak Company presented its performance entitled Tricks & Tracks in 1999. The basic concept of this legendary and groundbreaking production still has not lost its timeliness. In the spring of 2014 past will meet present. The ...
Xpat Opinion: Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis On Her Years In Hungary, Part I
- 13 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
I just received Eleni Kounalakis’s Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest (New York: The New Press), recounting her years in Budapest as U.S. Ambassador. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the book, which luckily, despite its subtitle, has little to do with dinner parties. Instead, we have an account of the turbulent first three years of ...
Great Race 3 In Budapest, 1 May
- 30 Apr 2015 1:50 AM
- sport
Formula-1 cars roaring in the heart of Budapest? Yes, this is called the Great Race after all! Apart from being a generally spectacular event for audiences of all ages, it has the specific aim of bringing the 'F1 Race Circus', and all motor sports, closer to the public - literally! This event has by now become a tradition in the Hungarian capital, so much so that the drivers of the touring car ...
International Festival @ American School, On Sunday
- 16 Apr 2015 12:00 PM
- community & culture
A fun-filled day bringing together the international community in Budapest to celebrate the unique diversity of the American International School Budapest. Xpats are encouraged to invite family & friends this Sunday 19 April between 11am and 3pm, admission is free.
Jubilee Weekend At Palace Of Arts In Budapest: Program Details
- 12 Mar 2015 12:50 AM
- community & culture
The Palace of Arts celebrates its 10th birthday with a particularly special series of events between 14-15 March. This spring weekend is the “crowning jewel” in Müpa’s jubilee season, where a cast of artists will take to the stage who have all provided outstanding concert entertainment over the past decade at the region’s leading institution of the performing arts.
Budapest Summer Festival Offers Complete Packages For Expats' Visitors
- 9 Jul 2015 9:02 AM
- travel
First class tickets to performances at the Open-Air Theatre on Margaret Island, hotel room with breakfast, roundtrip boat transfer and Water Tower admission in one package with significant savings – this is on offer in Budapest Summer Festival’s Sleep in Budapest with a theatre ticket complete package. The Budapest Summer Festival offers 12 summer weekend getaways of exclusive cultural and ...
Hungarian Gov’t Will Invite Ideas For City Park
- 3 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- property
The cabinet has reached a decision on the first stage of the Liget project, which will see a series of new museums built on the edge of Budapest’s City Park, János Lázár announced yesterday. He said ideas will be invited for redesigning the park and that some buildings will be restored and new ones built. The park’s Vajdahunyad Castle, home to the Agriculture Museum, will be restored completely.
Xpat Report: Jane Goodall At Grandhouse Luncheon In Budapest
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The season’s last Grandhouse luncheon on June 16 hosted Dame Jane Goodall of chimpanzee fame before a blockbuster rapt audience of 85 guests, a roster of ambassadors among them, this time not as usual at the Academy of Science but at Kogart House gallery restaurant along the World Heritage listed Andrássy út.
Grand Circus May Give Way To Zoo Under Government Plans
- 12 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Budapest’s Metropolitan Grand Circus may have to say goodbye to its current location – adjacent to Budapest Zoo in the city’s largest park Városliget – under current plans. According to information obtained by cink.hu, the options of rebuilding the Grand Circus’s dilapidated building and erecting a new circus in a different location will both be discussed this month by the government.
Compagnie Pál Frenák: Tricks & Tracks 2., Trafó Budapest, 21 – 22 May
- 15 May 2015 9:00 AM
- entertainment
”Our body and our self are treasury of the imprints of our memories, that is created by the interaction of materials, space, bodies and fragrances.” The 15 year-old Pal Frenak Company presented its performance entitled Tricks & Tracks in 1999. The basic concept of this legendary and groundbreaking production still has not lost its timeliness. In the spring of 2014 past will meet present. The ...
Xpat Opinion: Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis On Her Years In Hungary, Part I
- 13 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
I just received Eleni Kounalakis’s Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest (New York: The New Press), recounting her years in Budapest as U.S. Ambassador. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the book, which luckily, despite its subtitle, has little to do with dinner parties. Instead, we have an account of the turbulent first three years of ...
Great Race 3 In Budapest, 1 May
- 30 Apr 2015 1:50 AM
- sport
Formula-1 cars roaring in the heart of Budapest? Yes, this is called the Great Race after all! Apart from being a generally spectacular event for audiences of all ages, it has the specific aim of bringing the 'F1 Race Circus', and all motor sports, closer to the public - literally! This event has by now become a tradition in the Hungarian capital, so much so that the drivers of the touring car ...
International Festival @ American School, On Sunday
- 16 Apr 2015 12:00 PM
- community & culture
A fun-filled day bringing together the international community in Budapest to celebrate the unique diversity of the American International School Budapest. Xpats are encouraged to invite family & friends this Sunday 19 April between 11am and 3pm, admission is free.
Jubilee Weekend At Palace Of Arts In Budapest: Program Details
- 12 Mar 2015 12:50 AM
- community & culture
The Palace of Arts celebrates its 10th birthday with a particularly special series of events between 14-15 March. This spring weekend is the “crowning jewel” in Müpa’s jubilee season, where a cast of artists will take to the stage who have all provided outstanding concert entertainment over the past decade at the region’s leading institution of the performing arts.