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Hundreds of unique porcelain objects by the renowned Zsolnay porcelain factory went on show in Pecs, southwest Hungary, on Wednesday, at an exhibition opened by President Pal Schmitt.
September 2, 2010
Presenting the diversity of Hungarian culture and its world-class products aims to narrow the gap between Hungary and China, state secretary for culture Geza Szocs said at the launch of a programme series in China on Monday.
August 27, 2010
Hungarian News Agency MTI has published the seventh, penultimate volume of a series of photo albums entitled "Pictures of an Era".
August 26, 2010
The 34-year-old Hungarian composer Márton Illés is taking his work for large ensemble Torso III – which has already been performed in Berlin, Hamburg, Paris and Rome, to Tokyo on August 23.
August 22, 2010
The Janus Pannonius Museum in the Hungarian city of Pécs, a 2010 European Capital of Culture, has opened an exhibition called “From Art to Life” – Hungarians in the Bauhaus. The show, the result of many years of research, presents extraordinarily exciting material, rarely seen pieces, a well conceived overall picture and a high quality catalogue.
August 22, 2010
Budapest’s Vörösmarty cinema will host the 6 th BuSho, Hungary’s biggest short film festival, between August 31 and September 5.
August 20, 2010
A performance by Esma Redzepova, the “Gypsy Queen”, will be among the highlights at the PanBalkan picnic in the Hungarian city of Pécs, a 2010 European Capital of Culture, between August 30 and September 5.
August 19, 2010
Budapest’s oldest synagogue is to reopen in September, after 50 years, following a renovation.
August 18, 2010
Géza M. Tóth’s new animation film Bogyó and Babóca, based on Erika Bartos’s bestselling book, premiered in cinemas on August 12. Many people first heard about M. Tóth when his film Maestro was nominated for the Academy Awards for best animated short. Lately, M. Tóth has fared well with his witty philosophical short film Mama. He is head of KEDD Studio, which he set up eight years ago, and will be in charge of a new training programme at Theatre and Film Academy from September.
August 16, 2010
This year’s Sziget Festival, a week-long musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube, drew 390,000 people.
August 16, 2010
The Szeged Contemporary Ballet will perform at a celebration to mark Hungary’s August 20th national holiday at the Shanghai World Expo
August 16, 2010
The last time Fear Factory played in Hungary was in 2006, also during the Sziget Festival. At the end of that concert, I thought this was the end: there no way to do anything better than this anymore. Yet, much has happened since.
August 16, 2010
The US ambassador was among those peddling to generate electricity for the concert of San Francisco's Silent Revolution eco-friendly band at the Sziget Festival in northern Budapest's Obuda Island on Saturday.
August 15, 2010
More than 200 students from 42 countries participated at this year’s Debrecen Summer University, the best known Hungarian as a second language course in the world.
August 15, 2010
The harvest and bread are the central themes of the Hungaricum Village at this year’s Sziget Festival, a week-long musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube, but there are plenty of dance performances, folk music shows and demonstrations of traditional handicrafts too.
August 15, 2010
Hungarian-born director Gábor Csupó’s film Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita) will be shown at the 10th Animation Comics and Caricature Festival in Tel Aviv.
August 15, 2010
Hungarian Days will be held in Cluj, W Romania, on August 18-22, dedicated to the culture of Hungarian communities in the Carpathian Basin.
August 15, 2010
Two British bobbies along with Dutch, German and French police officers are helping their Hungarian colleagues at this year's Sziget Festival in northern Budapest's Obuda island, where more than half of the visitors are foreigners.
August 15, 2010
Cash payments may become completely obsolete, taken over by “electronic wallets”, if the Sziget card introduced this year stands the test, the festival’s main organiser said.
August 14, 2010
A meeting of international youth of Hungarian descent organised by the Égtájak Bureau will be held in Budapest for the 15th time between August 15 and 25.
August 14, 2010