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Xpat Interview: Hungarian Expat Musician Is Making Ambient-Folk Sounds in Scotland
- 16 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Tamás Kátai is an avant-garde musician from Hungary, well known for his metal project called Thy Catafalque. At the moment, he lives in Edinburgh, UK, but nevertheless continues writing music in his mother tongue. Over the years he has participated in many other bands, such as Gire and Darklight. In 2006, he released a solo album, named Erika Szobája (Erika's Room), which is described as an ...
Invitation: Holnemvolt Storytelling Festival, 14 - 15 April
- 13 Apr 2012 9:04 AM
- entertainment
"Internationally acclaimed storytellers will bring Hungarian, Croatian, Italian and Jewish folktales plus Greek legends will make story telling accessible for everyone at this special event for families. Hungary’s first international storytelling festival, which is now entering its second year, will feature Hungarian folktales, ghost stories, Greek mythology and Boccaccio’s Decameron on stage.
Invitation: Easter Festival In Hollókő, 8 - 9 April
- 6 Apr 2012 9:01 AM
- community & culture
Easter is a two-day holiday in Hungary, celebrated with great fanfare and religious fervor. This year the whole village of Hollókő will celebrate Easter from early in the morning in ornamented folk clothes. There will be traditional water pouring, egg painting and Hungarian dishes. Also there will be a full-day of folklore programmes, a display of folk arts and crafts for purchase, artisan ...
Handel: Hercules, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 March
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Even by Handel’s standards for high-speed composition, Hercules was completed in record time. Taking the story of Sophocles’s Women of Trachis and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as his basis, the composer began writing the work on 19 July 1744 and finished on 21 August. In the meantime, he sent teasing letters to Charles Jennens, the librettist of the work (and of the oratorio Belshazzar), urging him to ...
Introducing The Jewel Of The Year 2012 In Hungary
- 27 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- shopping
"After last year’s big success PannonArts Gallery has called the tender ‘Jewel of the Year’. This year again, the field was pretty varicolored. There are also wonderful jewels, which are not made from conventional jewel raw materials but from recycled materials, concrete, paper, plastic or textile materials. The jury has chosen the jewel of the year from more than hundred works of fifty-five ...
Invitation: Flamenco Evening From Seville, Millenáris Budapest, 24 February
- 23 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"This performance features authentic ("puro") flamenco in its various styles (alegrías, seguiriyas, bulerías etc.), including flamenco dance, dance theatre and concert elements. The ensemble makes use of sophisticated harmony between the very expressive art of flamenco dance and music to weave its stories, while always ensuring that dance, music and light are never ends in themselves, but bring ...
Now On: 'Osas Plus' In The Vasarely Museum In Budapest
- 14 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"The artists who founded the Open Structures Art Society organized their first introductory exhibition in 2006 at the Vasarely Museum in Budapest. Three years later, a second exhibition was held at the same venue featuring new works and sketches by Society members, and supplemented by small graphics masterpieces selected from the Tamás Konok collection.
Invitation: Hodworks: Basse Dance, MU Theater Budapest. 19 February
- 13 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"The performance leans on the music of 15th century Europe. Basse dance was the most common court dance of the century, building on down-to-the-ground, light, graceful treads. The frame of the performance is determined by the musical style and by the structure of the movements. Music of the era serves for creating harmony, passing time, entertainment and dancing; making existence feel elevated, ...
Best Restaurants In Hungary Announced
- 26 Jan 2012 1:55 AM
- food & drink
Hotel Sofitel Budapest hosted the annual DiningGuide.hu award ceremony on 19 January 2012. Onyx was voted Restaurant Of The Year 2011, Kistücsök in Balatonszemes was named the 'Countryside's Favourite Restaurant'; and Mák was the winner of 'Budapest's Favourite Restaurant' in 2011.
Xpat Interview: Hungarian Expat Musician Is Making Ambient-Folk Sounds in Scotland
- 16 Apr 2012 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Tamás Kátai is an avant-garde musician from Hungary, well known for his metal project called Thy Catafalque. At the moment, he lives in Edinburgh, UK, but nevertheless continues writing music in his mother tongue. Over the years he has participated in many other bands, such as Gire and Darklight. In 2006, he released a solo album, named Erika Szobája (Erika's Room), which is described as an ...
Invitation: Holnemvolt Storytelling Festival, 14 - 15 April
- 13 Apr 2012 9:04 AM
- entertainment
"Internationally acclaimed storytellers will bring Hungarian, Croatian, Italian and Jewish folktales plus Greek legends will make story telling accessible for everyone at this special event for families. Hungary’s first international storytelling festival, which is now entering its second year, will feature Hungarian folktales, ghost stories, Greek mythology and Boccaccio’s Decameron on stage.
Invitation: Easter Festival In Hollókő, 8 - 9 April
- 6 Apr 2012 9:01 AM
- community & culture
Easter is a two-day holiday in Hungary, celebrated with great fanfare and religious fervor. This year the whole village of Hollókő will celebrate Easter from early in the morning in ornamented folk clothes. There will be traditional water pouring, egg painting and Hungarian dishes. Also there will be a full-day of folklore programmes, a display of folk arts and crafts for purchase, artisan ...
Handel: Hercules, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 March
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Even by Handel’s standards for high-speed composition, Hercules was completed in record time. Taking the story of Sophocles’s Women of Trachis and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as his basis, the composer began writing the work on 19 July 1744 and finished on 21 August. In the meantime, he sent teasing letters to Charles Jennens, the librettist of the work (and of the oratorio Belshazzar), urging him to ...
Introducing The Jewel Of The Year 2012 In Hungary
- 27 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- shopping
"After last year’s big success PannonArts Gallery has called the tender ‘Jewel of the Year’. This year again, the field was pretty varicolored. There are also wonderful jewels, which are not made from conventional jewel raw materials but from recycled materials, concrete, paper, plastic or textile materials. The jury has chosen the jewel of the year from more than hundred works of fifty-five ...
Invitation: Flamenco Evening From Seville, Millenáris Budapest, 24 February
- 23 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"This performance features authentic ("puro") flamenco in its various styles (alegrías, seguiriyas, bulerías etc.), including flamenco dance, dance theatre and concert elements. The ensemble makes use of sophisticated harmony between the very expressive art of flamenco dance and music to weave its stories, while always ensuring that dance, music and light are never ends in themselves, but bring ...
Now On: 'Osas Plus' In The Vasarely Museum In Budapest
- 14 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"The artists who founded the Open Structures Art Society organized their first introductory exhibition in 2006 at the Vasarely Museum in Budapest. Three years later, a second exhibition was held at the same venue featuring new works and sketches by Society members, and supplemented by small graphics masterpieces selected from the Tamás Konok collection.
Invitation: Hodworks: Basse Dance, MU Theater Budapest. 19 February
- 13 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- entertainment
"The performance leans on the music of 15th century Europe. Basse dance was the most common court dance of the century, building on down-to-the-ground, light, graceful treads. The frame of the performance is determined by the musical style and by the structure of the movements. Music of the era serves for creating harmony, passing time, entertainment and dancing; making existence feel elevated, ...
Best Restaurants In Hungary Announced
- 26 Jan 2012 1:55 AM
- food & drink
Hotel Sofitel Budapest hosted the annual DiningGuide.hu award ceremony on 19 January 2012. Onyx was voted Restaurant Of The Year 2011, Kistücsök in Balatonszemes was named the 'Countryside's Favourite Restaurant'; and Mák was the winner of 'Budapest's Favourite Restaurant' in 2011.