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The first Budapest Hay Festival, a gathering of “the best of Hungarian, Central European, English speaking and international authors and thinkers to celebrate the sharing of stories and ideas”, opened on Friday.
May 18, 2012
The 82-year-old Hungarian philosopher Ágnes Heller was presented the Carl von Ossietzky Prize by the German city of Oldenburg at a ceremony on Friday.
May 18, 2012
Chairman of the Hungarian Federation of Writers János Szentmártoni and the writer Ferenc Kontra will travel to Zagreb on the invitation of the Croatian federation of writers on May 7. Szentmártoni said thy planned to lay the foundations of a long-term cooperation, as they did during a recent visit to Russia.
May 18, 2012
The Hungarian director György Pálfi’s film Final Cut – Ladies and Gentlemen has been invited to the 65th Cannes film festival.
May 17, 2012
The Hungarian soprano Csilla Boross was praised by critics in the American press for her role in the premiere of a new staging of Verdi’s Nabucco in Washington at the weekend.
May 17, 2012
More than 60 events are on the programme of this year’s Urbitális, a festival that takes place at venues around the capital during the month of May.
May 17, 2012
Artists represented by Budapest’s Forrás Gallery will show at Art Beijing 2012, the largest art fair in Eastern Asia, between April 29 and May 2.
May 17, 2012
The philosopher and photographer Pierre Poulain will hold a seminar at the Főnix Art Workshop on May 4.
May 17, 2012
State secretary for sports policy at the Ministry of National Resources Attila Czene has opened a contemporary art exhibition in Rome which shows the highlights of Hungarian sports history.
May 17, 2012
“An Imperial Message” a radio play by András Forgách and Tibor Szemző for Hungarian public radio, has been picked for the 16th International Prix Marulic Radio Festival, to be held in Hvar on the island of Hvar, Croatia, on May 19-25.
May 16, 2012
The foundation stone for a monument for the March of the Living was laid in downtown Budapest on Friday, at a ceremony attended by Antal Rogán, mayor of the city's District V.
May 16, 2012
The band Compact Disco will leave on Sunday to represent Hungary at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku.
May 16, 2012
Budapest’s Trafó House of Contemporary Arts will host a production by the Argentine dancer Constanza Macras and her company DorkyPark on June 8-9.
May 16, 2012
László Krasznahorkai, one of Hungary’s best known writers, will participate at the Third International Writers Festival in Jerusalem on May 13-17.
May 15, 2012
The Vienna Insurance Group is “wrapping” its headquarters, the Ringturm, with artwork by the Hungarian painter László Fehér.
May 15, 2012
Hungary and the United States will mark the 90th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations at a conference at the Central European University in Budapest on May 10.
May 12, 2012
The Hungarian pianist Ádám György will perform at the opening of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship in Warsaw on June 8.
May 12, 2012
Art fair organiser Art Market Budapest and the Hungarian Mission to the UN in Vienna on Tuesday launched a programme that aims to cement the ties connecting art worlds in Hungary and Austria.
May 12, 2012
Almost a hundred students at Hungarian art schools have made valid submissions to the Young Creative Chevrolet (YCC) Contest in the national round of the competition.
May 12, 2012
The Titanic Film International Film Festival has wound up a successful week, featuring events for film industry insiders and the general public as well as film screenings.
May 12, 2012