192 result(s) for poet in Community & Culture
3 Scottish Burns Suppers In Budapest 2017
- 12 Jan 2017 12:42 AM
- community & culture
There are not many Scots who can claim as much international recognition as Robert Burns. It's that time of the year when people around the world come together to toast the memory of Scotland’s most celebrated poet: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January 1759, and he is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and his birthday is celebrated worldwide.
MNB Spends HUF 353mn On Artworks
- 9 Dec 2016 6:01 AM
- community & culture
The MNB announced that it has recently spent Ft 353 million on buying five Hungarian artworks as part of its art collection programme. The MNB announced a €100 million programme to buy Hungarian art in foreign ownership in January 2014. The programme is expected to run until the end of 2018.
Fungarian: Why Is Halloween Strange For Hungarians?
- 30 Oct 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
November 1st is national holiday. According to the Catholic calendar, it’s All Saints’ Day – but Hungarians call it Day of the Dead (Halottak napja), when traditionally it’s a family obligation to tend the graves of their closest relatives.
Lit by thousands of candles, the cemeteries are a melancholic and beautiful sight on this day. The most common flower of the season people put on the graves ...
Expat Church's Charitable Harvest Dinner, 28 October
- 28 Oct 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
St. Margaret’s Anglican Episcopal Church Budapest is having a fundraising Harvest Dinner at Menta Terasz Restaurant next Friday. The evening promises a special welcome drink and three menu choices, and will feature guest speaker Alex Faludy, grandson of the Hungarian poet and literary critic György Faludy, and the youngest graduate of Cambridge in the past 300 hundred years.
Contemporary Arts Festival, Now On Until 23 October
- 14 Oct 2016 5:35 AM
- community & culture
The CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival presents some of the greatest contemporary performers from Hungary and abroad, including Yann Tiersen, Hiromi, Plaid and the Southbank Gamelan Players, Squarepusher’s project band, Shobaleader One, Krzysztof Penderecki, Yellowjackets, the FAMILIE FLÖZ and Krisztián Gergye’s Company.
The Birth Of Color – Premiere, Kiscelli Museum, 7 October
- 6 Oct 2016 11:40 AM
- community & culture
The Birth of Colours is a one-hour total-art performance with a 57-member mixed choir, four narrators, percussion instruments and singing bowls. The composer is the Italian Lucio Ivaldi, and the libretto was written by American poet David Brendan Hopes.
The Birth Of Colour In Budapest
- 3 Oct 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
By Mary Murphy: Art confuses me. I know what I like and what I don’t like, but when it comes to what period came when and which artist belonged to what movement, my ignorance is embarrassing. I couldn’t tell a Manet from a Monet were my life to depend on it.
Parisian Impressions, Mupa, 24 September
- 20 Sep 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
It was no coincidence that artists from every corner of the world tended to flock to Paris; even if they had to go hungry and live in poverty, they would accumulate plenty of experience there - it was impossible to imagine a more exciting place in days gone by.
Hungarian Author Sándor Csoóri Dies Aged 86
- 13 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Hungarian writer, poet and politician Sándor Csoóri has died at the age of 86 after a long illness, the Government Information Office told MTI. Born in Zámoly in central Hungary on February 3, 1930, Csoóri was a fiction writer and poet, as well as an essayist and screenwriter.
3 Scottish Burns Suppers In Budapest 2017
- 12 Jan 2017 12:42 AM
- community & culture
There are not many Scots who can claim as much international recognition as Robert Burns. It's that time of the year when people around the world come together to toast the memory of Scotland’s most celebrated poet: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January 1759, and he is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and his birthday is celebrated worldwide.
MNB Spends HUF 353mn On Artworks
- 9 Dec 2016 6:01 AM
- community & culture
The MNB announced that it has recently spent Ft 353 million on buying five Hungarian artworks as part of its art collection programme. The MNB announced a €100 million programme to buy Hungarian art in foreign ownership in January 2014. The programme is expected to run until the end of 2018.
Fungarian: Why Is Halloween Strange For Hungarians?
- 30 Oct 2016 8:10 AM
- community & culture
November 1st is national holiday. According to the Catholic calendar, it’s All Saints’ Day – but Hungarians call it Day of the Dead (Halottak napja), when traditionally it’s a family obligation to tend the graves of their closest relatives.
Lit by thousands of candles, the cemeteries are a melancholic and beautiful sight on this day. The most common flower of the season people put on the graves ...
Expat Church's Charitable Harvest Dinner, 28 October
- 28 Oct 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
St. Margaret’s Anglican Episcopal Church Budapest is having a fundraising Harvest Dinner at Menta Terasz Restaurant next Friday. The evening promises a special welcome drink and three menu choices, and will feature guest speaker Alex Faludy, grandson of the Hungarian poet and literary critic György Faludy, and the youngest graduate of Cambridge in the past 300 hundred years.
Contemporary Arts Festival, Now On Until 23 October
- 14 Oct 2016 5:35 AM
- community & culture
The CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival presents some of the greatest contemporary performers from Hungary and abroad, including Yann Tiersen, Hiromi, Plaid and the Southbank Gamelan Players, Squarepusher’s project band, Shobaleader One, Krzysztof Penderecki, Yellowjackets, the FAMILIE FLÖZ and Krisztián Gergye’s Company.
The Birth Of Color – Premiere, Kiscelli Museum, 7 October
- 6 Oct 2016 11:40 AM
- community & culture
The Birth of Colours is a one-hour total-art performance with a 57-member mixed choir, four narrators, percussion instruments and singing bowls. The composer is the Italian Lucio Ivaldi, and the libretto was written by American poet David Brendan Hopes.
The Birth Of Colour In Budapest
- 3 Oct 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
By Mary Murphy: Art confuses me. I know what I like and what I don’t like, but when it comes to what period came when and which artist belonged to what movement, my ignorance is embarrassing. I couldn’t tell a Manet from a Monet were my life to depend on it.
Parisian Impressions, Mupa, 24 September
- 20 Sep 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
It was no coincidence that artists from every corner of the world tended to flock to Paris; even if they had to go hungry and live in poverty, they would accumulate plenty of experience there - it was impossible to imagine a more exciting place in days gone by.
Hungarian Author Sándor Csoóri Dies Aged 86
- 13 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Hungarian writer, poet and politician Sándor Csoóri has died at the age of 86 after a long illness, the Government Information Office told MTI. Born in Zámoly in central Hungary on February 3, 1930, Csoóri was a fiction writer and poet, as well as an essayist and screenwriter.