Hungarian Cultural Centre - Programme Brochure Sep 2011

september highlights hungarian cultural centre • london

Thu 22 – Sat 25 September ≥ TENT London, Stand E05

Fri 23 September, 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL

10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

exhibition

WAMP and KIBU in London KIBU (Kitchen Budapest) and WAMP (Hungarian Design Fair) launched an open call for young Hungarian designers to participate in a workshop and develop new projects. They worked out concepts of objects/services/applications at the intersection of new media, technology, design and fashion.

The selected designer group will be showcasing a kinetic energy device used on playgrounds.

For further information please visit www.tentlondon.co.uk

HCC concert

Celebrating Béla Bartók The concert celebrates the return of Imre Varga’s statue of Bartók to South Kensington and marks the composer’s 130th birthday in 2011.

Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162, e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk or visit www.hungary.org.uk

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10 Maiden Lane Covent Garden London WC2E 7NA

Tel: 020 7240 8448 Fax: 020 7240 4847 Message: 020 7240 6162

www.hungary.org.uk culture@hungary.org.uk

september highlights hungarian cultural centre • london

hungarian cultural centre • london september highlights

The Sackler Wing of Galleries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD exhibition

Free. Further information: www.thamesfestival.org, www.gyorikekfesto.hu

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century. Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi

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There is still time to see this highly acclaimed and very successful exhibition in September. A display of approximately two hundred photographs ranging in date from 1914 to 1989 explores stylistic developments in photography and charts key historical events. The exhibition was organised by the Royal Academy of Arts on the occasion of the Hungarian EU Presidency in 2011.

Tickets: £10/£8 Further info: www.royalacademy.org.uk, www.hungary.org.uk. RAA enquiries: 020 7300 8000, booking: 0844 209 0051

Thu 15 September, 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA film club

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Wed 31 August – Fri 2 September ≥ University of Wales Trinity Saint David Lampeter Campus, Ceredigion, Wales SA48 7ED

2009, feature, 93 min, dir. Roland Vranik Transmission presents us a seaside town where suddenly there is no electricity, no computer screens working. Director Roland Vranik won the 2005 Hungarian Film Showcase with his first feature film Black Brush (Fekete kefe). His films have been presented and highly acclaimed at numerous international film festivals. Transmission was beautifully shot

by Gergely Pohárnok.

conference

This conference aims to draw renewed attention to the importance of the Hungarian Professor Andreas Alföldi (1895–1981), who was an eminent ancient historian, numismatist, archaeologist and epigraphist.

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Sat 10 – Sun 11 September, 12 noon – 9.30 pm ≥ On and around the River Thames

32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU exhibition

Active Witness: EUNIC London Summer Exhibition To celebrate the European Year of Volunteering, this exhibition brings together 26 works by photographers representing 26 participating EUNIC London countries. Hungary is represented

by Tamás Dezsô, who works on long-term projects that focus on the margins of society in Hungary, Romania and in other parts of Eastern Europe.

Free entry. For further information please call 020 7973 1992 or visit www.europe.org.uk/12star

between Westminster and Tower Bridges festival the mayor’s thames festival

The craftsmanship of blue-dyeing brought to London The Hungarian Cultural Centre brings blue-dyeing to Londoners this year. This beautiful traditional handicraft is under revival nowadays.

Wed 21 – Sat 25 September Launch party: Wed 21 September, 6 pm ≥ Blackall Studios 73A Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 4QS design fair

Free entrance on Wednesday. £5 from Thursday to Sunday with catalogue.

For further information please visit www.hubazaar.com and www.londondesignfestival.com

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HUBA is showcasing contemporary Art and Design by 30 applied artists from Hungary: fashion clothing and accessories, jewellery design, interior design – paper furniture, glass, textile and lamp design and ceramic art. HUBA's launch party is open to all, where Hungarian wine and food will be served.

This conference is generously supported by The University of Wales Trinity Saint David, the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London and The Institute of Classical Studies.

Nude, 1935, Martin Munkácsi, Gelatin silver print 27.7 x 35.5 cm.

Courtesy of the Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét

Free. For reservations please call 020 7240 6162, e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk or visit www.hungary.org.uk

DESIGN FOR TAKEAWAY! Presented by HUBA – Hungarian Bazaar

Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century

Tue 19 July – Fri 9 September ≥ 12 Star Gallery Europe House

Third Reich – a plan for a new Gypsy Holocaust.

The Budapest Protocol is a journey into Europe’s hidden heart of darkness…

Adam LeBor is a journalist and author who lives in Budapest. He is the author of eight books, and has reported on Hungary and Central Europe for the past twenty years.

Eight workshops operate in Hungary, they use traditional patterns but also experiment with modern ones.

Two craftsmen at the HCC's stand will demonstrate to visitors how blue-dyeing has been done for centuries.

Thu 30 June – Sun 2 October ≥ Royal Academy of Arts

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Wed 21 September, 7 pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA book launch

Adam LeBor, The Budapest Protocol Nazi-occupied Budapest, winter 1944. Miklós Farkas is handed a stolen copy of The Budapest Protocol, detailing the Nazis post-war plans. 65 years later, as the European Union launches the election campaign for the first President of Europe, Farkas is brutally murdered. His journalist grandson Alex unravels a chilling conspiracy rooted in the dying days of the

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