69 result(s) for horizon program
Invitation: New Orleans Swing Festival, Festival Theatre Budapest, 24 August
- 20 Aug 2012 9:02 AM
- entertainment
Since its inception in 2005, the New Orleans Swing Festival has been continually raising the stakes. Not only have the leading lights in Hungarian ragtime, Dixieland and swing paid their respects to traditional jazz at the Palace of Arts, they have also been joined by outstanding musicians from the region at large and even from across the Atlantic. For the eighth edition of the series, the ...
Now On: Horizon Exhibition, Palace Of Arts Budapest
- 11 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
In a time of economic recession, the role of culture is particularly significant. The objective of the Palace of Arts as well is to bring art closer to visitors; to make its programmes more comprehensible to all. One of the tools to achieve this is editing its programming schedule according to a seasonal theme starting from the fall of 2012, thus in the future each season will be related to a ...
Invitation: The Prodigy, Budapest Sportaréna, Saturday 28 April
- 23 Apr 2012 9:05 AM
- entertainment
"The claustrophobic confines of a west London attic hideaway. Walls, covered in heavyweight purple curtains seem to bring the dimly lit room’s parameters collapsing in as a huge computer screen’s wallpaper radiates the green glow of long hot summer. Its pastoral image of feudal tranquillity is the room’s only window on the world. Look closer and there’s a twist in this Constable painting. In the ...
‘State Of The Nation’ Speech By Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
- 9 Feb 2012 8:03 AM
- current affairs
"On 7 February 2012 Viktor Orbán gave his traditional ‘state of the nation’ speech, focusing on the past year. This was the fourteenth such occasion. At the beginning of his speech Mr. Orbán thanked all those who have stood by the country in spite of the criticism directed at it and its government. This was a reference to the four hundred thousand people who took part in the ‘Peace March for ...
Instrument Exhibition, Palace of Arts Budapest, Opens 9 October
- 7 Oct 2010 2:00 AM
- community & culture
"Our exhibition supplements the series of Saturday morning concert and instrument presentations in which children can encounter folk music from far flung parts of the globe and experience rarely seen instruments. The music of India is characterised by the sitar, which is familiar in Europe and of Persian origin and the bamboo flute, the bansuri (favourite instrument of Krishna) with its six or ...
Xpat interview: Kevin Jackson
- 2 Sep 2006 12:00 PM
I originally came to Budapest, Hungary in 1997 on a Case Western Reserve University MBA exchange program. Instead of returning to the U.S., I decided to stay.
Invitation: New Orleans Swing Festival, Festival Theatre Budapest, 24 August
- 20 Aug 2012 9:02 AM
- entertainment
Since its inception in 2005, the New Orleans Swing Festival has been continually raising the stakes. Not only have the leading lights in Hungarian ragtime, Dixieland and swing paid their respects to traditional jazz at the Palace of Arts, they have also been joined by outstanding musicians from the region at large and even from across the Atlantic. For the eighth edition of the series, the ...
Now On: Horizon Exhibition, Palace Of Arts Budapest
- 11 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
In a time of economic recession, the role of culture is particularly significant. The objective of the Palace of Arts as well is to bring art closer to visitors; to make its programmes more comprehensible to all. One of the tools to achieve this is editing its programming schedule according to a seasonal theme starting from the fall of 2012, thus in the future each season will be related to a ...
Invitation: The Prodigy, Budapest Sportaréna, Saturday 28 April
- 23 Apr 2012 9:05 AM
- entertainment
"The claustrophobic confines of a west London attic hideaway. Walls, covered in heavyweight purple curtains seem to bring the dimly lit room’s parameters collapsing in as a huge computer screen’s wallpaper radiates the green glow of long hot summer. Its pastoral image of feudal tranquillity is the room’s only window on the world. Look closer and there’s a twist in this Constable painting. In the ...
‘State Of The Nation’ Speech By Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
- 9 Feb 2012 8:03 AM
- current affairs
"On 7 February 2012 Viktor Orbán gave his traditional ‘state of the nation’ speech, focusing on the past year. This was the fourteenth such occasion. At the beginning of his speech Mr. Orbán thanked all those who have stood by the country in spite of the criticism directed at it and its government. This was a reference to the four hundred thousand people who took part in the ‘Peace March for ...
Instrument Exhibition, Palace of Arts Budapest, Opens 9 October
- 7 Oct 2010 2:00 AM
- community & culture
"Our exhibition supplements the series of Saturday morning concert and instrument presentations in which children can encounter folk music from far flung parts of the globe and experience rarely seen instruments. The music of India is characterised by the sitar, which is familiar in Europe and of Persian origin and the bamboo flute, the bansuri (favourite instrument of Krishna) with its six or ...
Xpat interview: Kevin Jackson
- 2 Sep 2006 12:00 PM
I originally came to Budapest, Hungary in 1997 on a Case Western Reserve University MBA exchange program. Instead of returning to the U.S., I decided to stay.