7 result(s) for the shining in Community & Culture
Insightful Interview: Relevance of Revolutionary Hungarian Poet Sándor Petőfi to Foreign Readers
- 19 Jun 2023 10:14 AM
- http://www.hlo.hu/
- community & culture
2023 marks the bicentenary of the nineteenth-century, revolutionary poet Sándor Petőfi's birth.
Budapest Festival Orchestra To Play Heroes’ Square Again On 10 June
- 28 Apr 2017 7:32 AM
- community & culture
With over a thousand dancing feet, nearly a hundred musicians and one conductor, the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) will once again be giving a free concert on Heroes’ Square on 10 June. The heroes of the event will be the young people, Roma and non-Roma from privileged and less-privileged backgrounds, for whom the preparations have just started all over the country.
'Early Music Festival', Now On Until 4 March
- 6 Feb 2017 7:00 AM
- community & culture
This year’s Early Music Festival, now in its third year, will feature world-famous soloists and the most well-known ensembles. Opening the concert series, silky-voiced French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, the shining star of early music, will take to the stage with a selection of Händel arias that will please connoisseurs.
Budapest Welcomes Korean Photographers’ Touring Exhibition From 6 May
- 5 May 2016 9:02 AM
- community & culture
The first Eastern European country to establish diplomatic relations with Korea, Hungary shares so much with Korean that it’s called ‘The East Asia of Europe’. The most impressive thing is that, as in Korea, they hang and dry chili peppers and garlic, essential ingredients in Korean cooking. Although the chili pepper is called paprika in Hungary, the sight of if surely reminds me of an autumn day ...
Xpat Report: Budapest Bonfire Party For Charity
- 8 Nov 2013 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"Thank you so much for all the help! It was a fantastic evening, very well organized, with great people and a brilliant atmosphere." This feedback from the Csodalámpa Foundation is for everyone at the XpatLoop event on Monday 4 November. Together around 200 Xpats (expats + locals) united to help children suffering from life-threatening illnesses, raising nearly 1 million forints for this ‘Wish ...
33rd Budapest Spring Festival Starts On 22 March
- 21 Mar 2013 8:01 AM
- community & culture
The 2013 Budapest Spring Festival may well be offering on its second weekend what can be considered a festival within the festival: the Budapest Festival Centre has organized a programme that is in harmony with the spirit of the Easter celebrations. In 2013 Hungary’s most prestigious arts festival will await its audience between 22 March and 7 April.
Xpat Event Report: Wallenberg Commemoration In Budapest
- 20 Oct 2010 1:00 AM
- community & culture
"The British Embassy together with the Raoul Wallenberg Association organised a ceremony on 15 October at which a plaque was unveiled commemorating the courageous efforts of Raoul Wallenberg. The Swedish diplomat gave shelter for Hungarian Jews in the building of the British Embassy (Hazai Bank at that time).
Insightful Interview: Relevance of Revolutionary Hungarian Poet Sándor Petőfi to Foreign Readers
- 19 Jun 2023 10:14 AM
- http://www.hlo.hu/
- community & culture
2023 marks the bicentenary of the nineteenth-century, revolutionary poet Sándor Petőfi's birth.
Budapest Festival Orchestra To Play Heroes’ Square Again On 10 June
- 28 Apr 2017 7:32 AM
- community & culture
With over a thousand dancing feet, nearly a hundred musicians and one conductor, the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) will once again be giving a free concert on Heroes’ Square on 10 June. The heroes of the event will be the young people, Roma and non-Roma from privileged and less-privileged backgrounds, for whom the preparations have just started all over the country.
'Early Music Festival', Now On Until 4 March
- 6 Feb 2017 7:00 AM
- community & culture
This year’s Early Music Festival, now in its third year, will feature world-famous soloists and the most well-known ensembles. Opening the concert series, silky-voiced French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, the shining star of early music, will take to the stage with a selection of Händel arias that will please connoisseurs.
Budapest Welcomes Korean Photographers’ Touring Exhibition From 6 May
- 5 May 2016 9:02 AM
- community & culture
The first Eastern European country to establish diplomatic relations with Korea, Hungary shares so much with Korean that it’s called ‘The East Asia of Europe’. The most impressive thing is that, as in Korea, they hang and dry chili peppers and garlic, essential ingredients in Korean cooking. Although the chili pepper is called paprika in Hungary, the sight of if surely reminds me of an autumn day ...
Xpat Report: Budapest Bonfire Party For Charity
- 8 Nov 2013 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"Thank you so much for all the help! It was a fantastic evening, very well organized, with great people and a brilliant atmosphere." This feedback from the Csodalámpa Foundation is for everyone at the XpatLoop event on Monday 4 November. Together around 200 Xpats (expats + locals) united to help children suffering from life-threatening illnesses, raising nearly 1 million forints for this ‘Wish ...
33rd Budapest Spring Festival Starts On 22 March
- 21 Mar 2013 8:01 AM
- community & culture
The 2013 Budapest Spring Festival may well be offering on its second weekend what can be considered a festival within the festival: the Budapest Festival Centre has organized a programme that is in harmony with the spirit of the Easter celebrations. In 2013 Hungary’s most prestigious arts festival will await its audience between 22 March and 7 April.
Xpat Event Report: Wallenberg Commemoration In Budapest
- 20 Oct 2010 1:00 AM
- community & culture
"The British Embassy together with the Raoul Wallenberg Association organised a ceremony on 15 October at which a plaque was unveiled commemorating the courageous efforts of Raoul Wallenberg. The Swedish diplomat gave shelter for Hungarian Jews in the building of the British Embassy (Hazai Bank at that time).