126 result(s) for letter in Community & Culture
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 ...
Rodin & The Museum Of Fine Arts In Budapest
- 4 Jan 2013 8:02 AM
- community & culture
The dossier exhibition organized by the Department of Art after 1800 showcases Rodin’s works preserved in the collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and the latest research results relating to it. The exhibited six sculptures, the prints, photographs, and the related catalogue will acquaint the public with the most recent research findings and recently discovered documents pertaining to ...
Xpat Opinion: Culture War Around The Hungarian National Theatre
- 29 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
A centre-right columnist welcomes the endorsement of the left-leaning director of the National Theater by a prominent right-leaning rock musician as a rare example of how to ease tensions between opposing camps.
Rio de Janeiro In Budapest, Exhibition By Mateu Velasco
- 12 Sep 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Printa gallery in a join project with Brody House and the Brazilian Embassy in Budapest has the pleasure to announce a double solo exhibition by the Brazilian artist Mateu Velasco. In the first exhibition, titled 'Border hop: Rio - Budapest 1', Mateu Velasco is showing a collection of work from notebooks, t-shirts, serigraphs and Aguatint that is inspired by the urban landscapes of Rio. Showing ...
Holocaust Survivor & Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel Returns Hungarian Award
- 29 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
A right-wing columnist downplays the importance of Elie Wiesel’s decision to return the highest Hungarian state honour in protest against what he sees as the government’s efforts to restore anti-Semitic icons. A left-wing pundit, on the other hand, believes that the case will receive international attention and further harm the image of the Orbán government. A centrist commentator notes that the ...
'The Retrospective Exhibition Of Károly Ferenczy', National Gallery Budapest
- 8 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"In public consciousness, Károly Ferenczy's name has been closely associated with the Nagybánya artists' colony (presently Baia Mare, Romania) ever since the latter was established in 1896. As the father of Hungarian impressionism and post-impressionism, and as an outstanding artist and leading master of the artists' colony, Ferenczy has rightfully been regarded as the founder of modern Hungarian ...
Xpat Report: Budapest Teaching Opportunities At International Schools
- 7 Jun 2012 10:30 AM
- community & culture
Dulcie Copeland, a British primary school teacher started her international journey this time last year. She had taught at a primary school in Kent, England for many years and was ready for a change. "I thought it would be a nice idea to see other countries and experience other cultures while doing a job that I really enjoy," Dulcie says. So she looked at the opportunities in international ...
U.S. Ambassador Attends Mihaly Kovats Memorial Ceremony
- 29 May 2012 9:01 AM
- community & culture
Ambassador Kounalakis attended a memorial ceremony honoring Mihaly Kovats on May 11, 2012 in Karcag. Colonel Kovats, a native of Karcag, left Hungary to fight in the American Revolutionary War. He wrote a letter to Benjamin Franklin offering his services and then recruited, trained and led the first U.S. cavalry unit into battle. He died on May 11, 1779, when he led a cavalry charge against the ...
Hay Festival To Pollinate Ideas In Hungary
- 26 Apr 2012 11:01 AM
- community & culture
Famously described as the Woodstock of the mind by Bill Clinton, the Hay Festival is one of the world's most prestigious literature and arts festivals. Hay Budapest will feature an exciting mix of Hungarian, Central European, British and Spanish authors and thinkers. Bob Geldof, Jung Chang, Ben Okri, Hanif Kureishi, and György Dragomán are some of the distinguished guests at the first Hay ...
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 ...
Rodin & The Museum Of Fine Arts In Budapest
- 4 Jan 2013 8:02 AM
- community & culture
The dossier exhibition organized by the Department of Art after 1800 showcases Rodin’s works preserved in the collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and the latest research results relating to it. The exhibited six sculptures, the prints, photographs, and the related catalogue will acquaint the public with the most recent research findings and recently discovered documents pertaining to ...
Xpat Opinion: Culture War Around The Hungarian National Theatre
- 29 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
A centre-right columnist welcomes the endorsement of the left-leaning director of the National Theater by a prominent right-leaning rock musician as a rare example of how to ease tensions between opposing camps.
Rio de Janeiro In Budapest, Exhibition By Mateu Velasco
- 12 Sep 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Printa gallery in a join project with Brody House and the Brazilian Embassy in Budapest has the pleasure to announce a double solo exhibition by the Brazilian artist Mateu Velasco. In the first exhibition, titled 'Border hop: Rio - Budapest 1', Mateu Velasco is showing a collection of work from notebooks, t-shirts, serigraphs and Aguatint that is inspired by the urban landscapes of Rio. Showing ...
Holocaust Survivor & Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel Returns Hungarian Award
- 29 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
A right-wing columnist downplays the importance of Elie Wiesel’s decision to return the highest Hungarian state honour in protest against what he sees as the government’s efforts to restore anti-Semitic icons. A left-wing pundit, on the other hand, believes that the case will receive international attention and further harm the image of the Orbán government. A centrist commentator notes that the ...
'The Retrospective Exhibition Of Károly Ferenczy', National Gallery Budapest
- 8 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"In public consciousness, Károly Ferenczy's name has been closely associated with the Nagybánya artists' colony (presently Baia Mare, Romania) ever since the latter was established in 1896. As the father of Hungarian impressionism and post-impressionism, and as an outstanding artist and leading master of the artists' colony, Ferenczy has rightfully been regarded as the founder of modern Hungarian ...
Xpat Report: Budapest Teaching Opportunities At International Schools
- 7 Jun 2012 10:30 AM
- community & culture
Dulcie Copeland, a British primary school teacher started her international journey this time last year. She had taught at a primary school in Kent, England for many years and was ready for a change. "I thought it would be a nice idea to see other countries and experience other cultures while doing a job that I really enjoy," Dulcie says. So she looked at the opportunities in international ...
U.S. Ambassador Attends Mihaly Kovats Memorial Ceremony
- 29 May 2012 9:01 AM
- community & culture
Ambassador Kounalakis attended a memorial ceremony honoring Mihaly Kovats on May 11, 2012 in Karcag. Colonel Kovats, a native of Karcag, left Hungary to fight in the American Revolutionary War. He wrote a letter to Benjamin Franklin offering his services and then recruited, trained and led the first U.S. cavalry unit into battle. He died on May 11, 1779, when he led a cavalry charge against the ...
Hay Festival To Pollinate Ideas In Hungary
- 26 Apr 2012 11:01 AM
- community & culture
Famously described as the Woodstock of the mind by Bill Clinton, the Hay Festival is one of the world's most prestigious literature and arts festivals. Hay Budapest will feature an exciting mix of Hungarian, Central European, British and Spanish authors and thinkers. Bob Geldof, Jung Chang, Ben Okri, Hanif Kureishi, and György Dragomán are some of the distinguished guests at the first Hay ...