1,262 result(s) for contemporary art
Hay Festival Budapest Program: 19 - 21 May
- 18 May 2013 5:00 AM
- community & culture
On 19 May, Sunday and on Whitsun Monday, there will also be a wide variety of programmes at Hay Festival Budapest for the culture-loving audience. György Dragomán hosts a wine-tasting event and a free poetic walk. The festival’s guests will be the prominent Australian feminist author Germaine Greer and Jaap Scholten, the Dutch writer living in Budapest, and the British Peter Florence, founder and ...
Hay Festival Budapest: Nicole Strauss & Marcus du Sautoy On Opening Day
- 16 May 2013 10:35 AM
- community & culture
Audience in Hungary have the chance to meet international authors, thinkers, musicians and well-known Hungarian authors, at the local Hay Festival held between 17-21 May. On the opening day Nicole Krauss, one of the most significant American novelists, presents her most recent novel Great House. László Lovász Wolf Prize winner mathematician talks to the renowned academician Marcus du Sautoy. Read ...
Now On: Hands-On Art For All, Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest
- 14 May 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Organised in conjunction with the Kézzelfogható Foundation and linked to the European Equal Opportunities Day, the Museum of Fine Arts will host a hands-on exhibition, a conference and interactive creative workshops. The special exhibition, running from 2nd May, is aimed at providing the opportunity for visually impaired and blind people to share in the exhibition experience with the sighted and ...
Invitation: Budapest Strings, Palace Of Arts Budapest, 4 May
- 3 May 2013 9:01 AM
- community & culture
The goal in each concert of this series of the Budapest Strings is to present works by young Hungarian composers alongside works by well-known classical composers from whom they drew inspiration. The host for the concerts, Endre Tóth, will engage in conversation with the Hungarian composers, thereby providing the audience with an insight into the secrets of the creative process.
Főzdefeszt Opens Its Base In Budapest On Friday, 26 April
- 26 Apr 2013 8:59 AM
- entertainment
Nice to have a craft-beer revolution in Hungary, but what is a revolution without a cool hide-out? After years of wandering, Főzdefeszt has found a base for the revolution, and named it YEAST (that’s what Élesztő means in Hungarian). We never thought of craft-beer revolution as something that is only about beer, so Élesztő will incorporate quite a few things besides good craft beer. We aim to ...
Now On: Verdi Operas In Budapest, Palace Of Arts, Until 3 June
- 25 Apr 2013 10:35 AM
- community & culture
Preparations for a performance of Nabucco, the first Verdi opera to be staged in Pest in January 1847, were still in full swing when a contemporary newspaper made a malicious play on words (using the alternative title “Na bukom”) to imply that the opera would be a flop in Hungary, as would its then largely unknown composer. Today, with the world celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of ...
Invitation: Forced Entertainment (UK), Trafó Budapest, 25-26 April
- 24 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- entertainment
The future: hopes and clichés, optimism and despair, assumptions and reveries – on the borderline of reality and fantasy. We assure ourselves that everything will be just fine and then if things turn upside down after all, then we can't do anything but allow the absurdity of life to amuse us. Thus we encounter the comical-confidential side of Forced Entertainment. The company assumes a playful, ...
20th Jubilee International Book Festival, Millenáris Budapest 18–21 April
- 18 Apr 2013 9:02 AM
- community & culture
The first International Book Festival in Budapest was held exactly twenty years ago by its founder, the Hungarian Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Association.
On 16 April We Remember Hungarian Victims Of Holocaust
- 15 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
In 2000, the National Assembly designated 16 April as the Day of Remembrance for Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust. The first such memorial event was held in 2001. This year official Remembrance Day events will take place in Budapest at the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Danube Promenade Holocaust Memorial, and also in the cities of Hódmezővásárhely and Pécs. There will also be a memorial ...
Hay Festival Budapest Program: 19 - 21 May
- 18 May 2013 5:00 AM
- community & culture
On 19 May, Sunday and on Whitsun Monday, there will also be a wide variety of programmes at Hay Festival Budapest for the culture-loving audience. György Dragomán hosts a wine-tasting event and a free poetic walk. The festival’s guests will be the prominent Australian feminist author Germaine Greer and Jaap Scholten, the Dutch writer living in Budapest, and the British Peter Florence, founder and ...
Hay Festival Budapest: Nicole Strauss & Marcus du Sautoy On Opening Day
- 16 May 2013 10:35 AM
- community & culture
Audience in Hungary have the chance to meet international authors, thinkers, musicians and well-known Hungarian authors, at the local Hay Festival held between 17-21 May. On the opening day Nicole Krauss, one of the most significant American novelists, presents her most recent novel Great House. László Lovász Wolf Prize winner mathematician talks to the renowned academician Marcus du Sautoy. Read ...
Now On: Hands-On Art For All, Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest
- 14 May 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Organised in conjunction with the Kézzelfogható Foundation and linked to the European Equal Opportunities Day, the Museum of Fine Arts will host a hands-on exhibition, a conference and interactive creative workshops. The special exhibition, running from 2nd May, is aimed at providing the opportunity for visually impaired and blind people to share in the exhibition experience with the sighted and ...
Invitation: Budapest Strings, Palace Of Arts Budapest, 4 May
- 3 May 2013 9:01 AM
- community & culture
The goal in each concert of this series of the Budapest Strings is to present works by young Hungarian composers alongside works by well-known classical composers from whom they drew inspiration. The host for the concerts, Endre Tóth, will engage in conversation with the Hungarian composers, thereby providing the audience with an insight into the secrets of the creative process.
Főzdefeszt Opens Its Base In Budapest On Friday, 26 April
- 26 Apr 2013 8:59 AM
- entertainment
Nice to have a craft-beer revolution in Hungary, but what is a revolution without a cool hide-out? After years of wandering, Főzdefeszt has found a base for the revolution, and named it YEAST (that’s what Élesztő means in Hungarian). We never thought of craft-beer revolution as something that is only about beer, so Élesztő will incorporate quite a few things besides good craft beer. We aim to ...
Now On: Verdi Operas In Budapest, Palace Of Arts, Until 3 June
- 25 Apr 2013 10:35 AM
- community & culture
Preparations for a performance of Nabucco, the first Verdi opera to be staged in Pest in January 1847, were still in full swing when a contemporary newspaper made a malicious play on words (using the alternative title “Na bukom”) to imply that the opera would be a flop in Hungary, as would its then largely unknown composer. Today, with the world celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of ...
Invitation: Forced Entertainment (UK), Trafó Budapest, 25-26 April
- 24 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- entertainment
The future: hopes and clichés, optimism and despair, assumptions and reveries – on the borderline of reality and fantasy. We assure ourselves that everything will be just fine and then if things turn upside down after all, then we can't do anything but allow the absurdity of life to amuse us. Thus we encounter the comical-confidential side of Forced Entertainment. The company assumes a playful, ...
20th Jubilee International Book Festival, Millenáris Budapest 18–21 April
- 18 Apr 2013 9:02 AM
- community & culture
The first International Book Festival in Budapest was held exactly twenty years ago by its founder, the Hungarian Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Association.
On 16 April We Remember Hungarian Victims Of Holocaust
- 15 Apr 2013 9:00 AM
- current affairs
In 2000, the National Assembly designated 16 April as the Day of Remembrance for Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust. The first such memorial event was held in 2001. This year official Remembrance Day events will take place in Budapest at the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Danube Promenade Holocaust Memorial, and also in the cities of Hódmezővásárhely and Pécs. There will also be a memorial ...