Hungarian Cultural Centre - Programme Brochure Jan-Mar 2014

Events

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january 16 Jan ≥ page 3 • talk In Memoriam Peter Zollman (1931–2013)

february 12 Feb ≥ page 12 • lecture King Matthias: The Raven King by Marcus Tanner Magyar Mind – Open Lecture Series

9 Jan–23 Feb ≥ page 3 • exhibition Mari Mahr – Inventory of Ourselves and other works 14 Jan ≥ page 4 • exhibition Introducing the textile artist Judit Baranyi 16 Jan ≥ page 6 • children + families Kodály-based music sessions 20 Jan ≥ page 6 • lecture Launch of the hungarian student college london 22 Jan ≥ page 8 • literature Launch of Mátyás Sárközi’s Tamperdü – Celebrating the Day of Hungarian Culture

27 Jan ≥ page 9 • concert, literature Hungarian Dances: The Concert of the Novel

by Jessica Duchen International Holocaust Memorial Day Performance

30 Jan ≥ page 10 • lecture The extraordinary journey of the books of a Hungarian collector by Bridget Guzner Magyar Mind – Open Lecture Series

13 Feb ≥ page 13 • children + families Kodály-based music sessions 13–23 Feb ≥ page 13 • fashion International Fashion Showcase London 2014

march 6 Mar ≥ page 20 • talk New Challenges and Innovation by Professor András Vedres 10 Mar ≥ page 21 monday music soirées Introducing The Rákoczi Duo

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13 Mar–11 Apr ≥ page 23 exhibition Orsi Cowell-Lehoczky: Albion Saluted

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17–20 Feb ≥ page 15 • exhibition MOME textile art graduates in London

13 Mar ≥ page 24 children + families Kodály-based music sessions

19 Feb ≥ page 17 • lecture When Hungary Reached Out to Save Persecuted French Royalists by Dr Gabriel Ronay

25 Mar ≥ page 25 • lecture How I learned to stop worrying and love Bartók

by Jessica Duchen

24 Feb ≥ page 18 • monday music soirées Introducing the Cataleya Quintet 27, 28 Feb ≥ page 19 • exhibition, concert Introducing young Roma artists: Free-pressionists & Ferenc Snétberger with his students

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27, 28 Mar ≥ page 26 • jazz The Triád: Kristóf Bacsó, Oláh ‘Tzumo’ Árpád, Márton Juhász 28 Mar ≥ page 27 concert Tcha Limberger and his Budapest Gypsy Orchestra •

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Péter Zollman, who passed away on the 3rd of December in the 82nd year of his life, was a unique phenomenon in the history of literary translation. As a trained physicist, he established a successful engineering company which ’was awarded three times by the Queen for export and excellence. Before reaching retirement age, Péter Zollman sold his business in order to fulfill his longstanding ambition to become a literary translator and through his effort let the English-speaking world enjoy the beauty and excellence of Hungarian poetry. Although he did not write poetry beforehand and came to Britain as an adult, he proved to be a linguistically inventive master of English verse and his translations are excellently faithful to the original. His English version of János Arany’s The Bards of Wales was set to music by the eminent Welsh composer Carl Jenkins as a choral and orchestral cantata.

Péter Zollman translated hundreds of classical and modern poems, for which work he was awarded the Hungarian Füst Prize, and later the prestigious Order of Merit of Hungary in 2013. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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9 January – 23 February ≥ Photographers’ Gallery

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e EXHIBITION Mari Mahr – Inventory of Ourselves and other works Print Sales Exhibition Mari Mahr is a brilliant artist of Hungarian origin who works in relatively small series with an astute elegance. Mahr’s work presents glimpses into the personal and cultural influences of the artist's life, from the magical fantasies of Latin America to the harsh realities of communist Hungary and most recently reflecting on her relationship with her late husband, the artist Graham Percy.

By quality of work, she is one of the very great artists of recent years; by the amount of limelight shone upon her, almost invisible. – Frances Hodgson, The Financial Times

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In Memoriam Peter Zollman (1931–2013) Remembering the great Hungarian translator of literature Featuring Mátyás Sárközi and George Szirtes

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Thursday | 16 January | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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The opening times are 10am – 6pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10am – 8pm Thursdays and 11.30 – 6pm Sundays Δ For further information please visit thephotographersgallery.org.uk

15 January – 7 February Private view: Tuesday 14 January, 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

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e EXHIBITION Introducing the textile artist Judit Baranyi Judit Baranyi was born in Nagyvárad, Transylvania, thus the visual impressions that she had in her childhood were determined by the atmosphere in the region.

The view of the tiny villages hiding on the side of misty mountains, the vineyards and the sublime snowy peaks had an impact on her for a lifetime.

Judit Baranyi received her degree at the Textile faculty of the University of Applied Arts in Hungary in 1968.

Her artistic development was deeply affected by the French tapestry art.

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Although she had already made wall pictures with several different techniques such as embroidery or appliquéd trimming, her favourite technique became weaving, as she felt the old tapestry technique to be the most suitable to express her thoughts. The works of Judit Baranyi are much more than mere decorations – she believes that with carpets we can express deeper, more abstract thoughts, emotions, anxieties and joy.

Opening times: Mon–Thurs 10am–5pm, Fri 10am–2pm Δ Free but booking is required.

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Major international exhibitions: Sofia (Bulgaria), Genéve (Switzerland), Vancuver (Canada), Beauvais (France), San-Diego (USA), Athens (Greece), Warsaw (Poland), Berlin (Germany), Strasbourg (France).

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Judit Baranyi’s solo exhibitions: 1968 Young Artist Club, Budapest, 1984 Cultural Centre, Tök, 1997 Cultural Centre, Budakeszi, 1992 Scientific Forestry Association, Budapest, 1993 Adalbertium, Budapest, 1997 Mechatronic Days, Budapest, 1997 Lajos Katona Library, Vác, 1998 Telki at 800, 2007 Fôtér Gallery, Gyöngyös, 2008 Heart of Jesus Chapel, Budapest.

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Thursday | 16 January | 11–11.45am (0–3 yrs) | 12.15am–1pm (3–5 yrs) ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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e CHILDREN & FAMILIES Kodály-based music sessions Kodály-based music sessions for Hungarian children and their families jointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre.

These music sessions are suitable for children as small as 6-month-old.

During the session the parents learn and try out songs and games they can use at home with their children, which will help them develop not only their musical skills but create a strong bond between parents and children.

Mária Chambers, founding director and a highly experienced teacher of the Hungarian Cultural Association in Guildford leads the sessions. She plays music, sings and enchants children and parents with the engaging and creative activities. Δ £6/child/session. To book your place please contact Mária Chambers on 01483 808 643,

07843 054 940 or info@hcaguildford.org.uk

Monday | 20 January | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e LECTURE launch of the hungarian student college london

Lecture by special guest: H.E. János Csák Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Hungary in London Comparing and Contrasting the Mindsets of Business, Public Service and Charity The Hungarian Cultural Centre and the Association of Hungarian Students Abroad (KÜMA), together with the Hungarian Student Association UK have joined to host a special series of events in 2014 with the title Hungarian Student College.

The Hungarian Student College aims to invite guest speakers who the younger generation can look up to as role models. The very first guest is H.E. János Csák Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Hungary in London. The College

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will not leave the audience without a proper guidance. Each time an expert of the field will lead the students in the exploration of these topics. The audience will have the chance to question and challenge these opinion-leaders; the lecturers will step in the middle of the arena so that the discussion will flow in a more direct and friendly manner.

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The College project will offer a series of programmes clustered around a variety of topics, hot ones and ever-greens, including themes starting from Hungary's place in Europe and in the world, through cyber security and gamification, to public transportation.

After the session the audience is encouraged to stay, network and discuss the topics further.

Ambassador János Csák is an economist and sociologist.

Before his appointment as Ambassador, he was a corporate executive, later a management consultant and private investor. During his career he was a member of the board of directors and advisory boards of several companies in Europe, in the USA and Australia: he was the Chairman of MOL (Hungarian Oil and Gas Co), Westel (now T-Mobile), the treasurer of Matáv (now Magyar Telekom), and member of the board of CA-IB Investment Bank. His advisory work included corporate strategy and finance, organisational development and leadership. In 2009–10 he was a visiting fellow in political economy at The Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. In his spare time he translates literature and essays on social sciences from English. He is a member of the supervisory board of the Saint Francis Foundation, Déva. In 2003 he founded the Kálmán Széll Foundation. In recognition of his economic and social activities he was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary in 2010.

HSAUK The Hungarian Students Association in the UK, founded in January 2013, wishes to represent the interests of Hungarian students in the United Kingdom. Currently, the association’s main goal is to create a network of students in the UK and provide information to those students that wish to study in the UK in the future. Another important goal is to build successful relationships between Hungarian companies and the talented, multilingual students studying in the UK. Over 500 of the 1400 students in the UK are members of HSAUK.

 Please note this event is in Hungarian for university students only. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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KÜMA The Association of Hungarian Students Abroad (KÜMA) aims to help Hungarian students gain experience abroad while also encouraging these students to return to Hungary to use their knowledge and experience there. The association operates in a variety of areas ranging from simple data sharing through community-building to fostering social discourse.

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Wednesday | 22 January | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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e LITERATURE celebrating the day of hungarian culture

Launch of Mátyás Sárközi’s Tamperdü Tamás Tarján in conversation with Mátyás Sárközi On 22 January 1823 Ferenc Kölcsey – one of the most prominent figures of Hungarian literary history – completed his manuscript of the Hungarian National Anthem. Since 1989 anniversary commemorations have been held nationally and internationally on this day to celebrate and nurture the Hungarian cultural heritage.

Mátyás Sárközi re-read his own well-received correspondence-memoir Levelek Zugligetből (Letters from Zugliget) to create a new book, a reflection on the original text. Yet again, the central character of the story is the legendary literary figure Márta Sárközi and more of her amusing letters are presented in the chapters. The result is an eminently readable and fascinating historical panorama, peppered with anecdotes and portraits of personalities of the age. Tamperdü deals with the holocaust as well as with the 1956 Hungarian refugees finding their place in British Society.

Mátyás Sárközi came to London in 1956 as a Hungarian refugee. After finishing a book-illustration course in St. Martin’s School of Art and gaining his BA Hons at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, he joined the Hungarian Section of the BBC World Service and worked there for almost forty years as a broadcaster.

He contributed widely in Hungarian emigré literary magazines and published a number of short story collections in Hungarian. Mátyás Sárközi first returned to Budapest in 1989, and since then takes an active part in the literary life of his native country.

He wrote more than twenty books, and his correspondence novel Levelek Zugligetbôl (Letters from Zugliget) has been awarded the coveted József Attila Prize.

Tamás Tarján was born in 1949. He graduated in Hungarian Literature and Ethnography in 1973, and since then he has been teaching at the Hungarian Literature Department of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He is specialized in 20th-century drama, poetry, satire and

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 Please note this event will be in Hungarian. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

Monday | 27 January | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e CONCERT, LITERATURE International Holocaust Memorial Day Performance Hungarian Dances: The Concert of the Novel David Le Page (violin), Viv McLean (piano), Jessica Duchen (author/narrator) The Hungarian Cultural Centre marks this year’s International Holocaust Memorial Day with a special performance of Jessica Duchen’s Hungarian Dances, which is “A saga whose passion for music, Hungary and history sings out on every page” (The Independent).

The Hungarian Dances concert unites author and passionate soloists in an enthralling mix of words and music. Jessica Duchen’s acclaimed novel follows the story of a Gypsy girl who becomes a famous classical violinist, but at a terrible personal price. Here the narrative interweaves with the Hungarian and Gypsy-influenced music that inspired it, including works by Bartók, Dohnányi, Hubay, Brahms and Ravel’s Tzigane, among others.

The concert has been rapturously received in concert series and festivals around the UK and has been featured on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune.

Jessica Duchen is a versatile author and journalist, her output including novels, biographies, plays and words & music programmes. She contributes regularly to The Independent and BBC Radio 3.

“Jessica writes with an unpredictable and original voice and a dazzling perceptiveness” (Joanna Lumley). Hungarian Dances is published by Hodder.

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contemporary Hungarian literature. He has published 40 books: monographs, volumes of studies, essays, reviews, textbooks and collections of literary parodies.

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David Le Page was a prize-winner in BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition. In 1999 he was appointed leader of the Orchestra of the Swan, with which he regularly appears as soloist and director. David is president of the European String Teachers Association. He has recently released a CD of his own music, The Reinvention of Harmony and Imagination. “Scintillating...

Le Page cast a sinuously flexible spell” (Birmingham Post).

Viv McLean, winner of the First Prize at the 2002 Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, has performed at all the major halls in the UK and extensively around the world.

He has recorded often for BBC Radio 3, numerous international radio stations and CD labels. “Extraordinary originality, superb simplicity, and fingers of steel hidden behind muscles of velvet” (Le Monde, Paris). Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Thursday | 30 January | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e LECTURE magyar mind open lecture series in partnership with the british hungarian fellowship

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Open Lecture Series

Hungarica in the British Library or the extraordinary journey of the books of a Hungarian collector

By Bridget Guzner The Hungarian Cultural Centre’s highly successful MAGYAR MIND Open Lecture Series continues in 2014 to introduce various aspects of Hungarian art and culture as seen, studied and taught by British experts. The lectures cover Hungarian fine art, photography, cinema, architecture, fashion, language and music among many others.

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This talk aims to be an introduction to the birth of what was to become the second largest collection of Hungarian books held in any library outside Hungary.

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After his employment as full-time assistant in 1838, Thomas Watts started acquiring books in all languages for the British Museum Library. With the steady increase of funds this process culminated in 1870 with the purchase of the library of a lesser known Hungarian collector, Istvan Nagy. Nagy, a lawyer by profession and founding member of the Hungarian National Economic Society, formed a vast collection of printed books, manuscripts, historical prints and maps which bear witness to the history of print and Protestantism in Hungary.

These Hungarian holdings were complemented by rare items from the famous art collection of another Hungarian, Miklós Jankovich. To these were added Laszlo Waltherr’s collection of pamphlets, also purchased in the 1870s.

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the british library’s earliest printed book with an entirely hungarian text: epistolae pauli lingua hungarica donatae, etc. (cracouie 1533)

The talk will take the audience on the journey of this extraordinary repository as it made its way into the British Museum.

Bridget Guzner was born and educated in Transylvania (Romania). After graduating in Philology from the Babes-Bolyai University of Kolozsvár, she followed her mother’s British roots arriving in the UK in the seventies to start a long career as research assistant in the British Library. Later as curator of the Hungarian and Romanian collections, she took great interest in studying the collections, organising exhibitions and events, acquiring, describing old and new material with the purpose of enhancing the appreciation of Hungarian history, language and culture in her adopted country. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448

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Wednesday | 12 February | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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e LECTURE King Matthias: The Raven King

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By Marcus Tanner The Hungarian Cultural Centre’s highly successful MAGYAR MIND Open Lecture Series continues in 2014 to introduce various aspects of Hungarian art and culture as seen, studied and taught by British experts. The lectures cover Hungarian fine art, photography, cinema, architecture, fashion, language and music among many others.

The story of Matthias Corvinus, Hungary’s Raven King, has never lost its power to inspire and enthrall. A teenage commoner, he only seized one of the great crowns of Europe but held on to it with courage and panache for more than three decades, presiding over one of the most brilliant and cosmopolitan courts of the age.

Matthias expanded his kingdom with almost endless wars, some well chosen, others not. But Matthias was far more than a warrior king, tenaciously conducting campaigns on the battlefields of Austria, Bohemia and Bosnia. He was also a keen student of the great intellectual movement unfolding in far-off Italy that we know as the Renaissance, and he was wedded to the almost Herculean task of importing that Renaissance, lock, stock and barrel, to Hungary.

To do that involved far more than expensively remodeling palaces in a new-old Classical style.

It meant turning the royal capital of Buda into an open house for writers, poets, historians, and astronomers from all over Europe. At the centre of this grand design to make distant Hungary a great intellectual powerhouse in the new Europe was a library, a fabulous collection of rediscovered classical treasures illuminated by the finest craftsmen of Italy, which was designed as a temple of the arts, enclosing within its walls the sum of all human experience.

Marcus Tanner explores the context of the King’s passion for books, the significance of the library in the contemporary world, his rival collectors, such as Lorenzo de Medici, and his helpmates, starting with

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Thursday | 13 February | 11–11.45am (0–3 yrs) | 12.15am–1pm (3–5 yrs) ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e CHILDREN & FAMILIES Kodály-based music sessions for Hungarian children and their families Jointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre + For further details please see the event in January on page 6. Δ £6/child/session. To book your place please contact Mária Chambers

on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or info@hcaguildford.org.uk

13–23 February ≥ 180 The Strand

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e FASHION International Fashion Showcase London 2014 Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic jointly presented Three Central European countries – Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic – jointly present their talented emerging fashion designers at this year’s International Fashion Showcase in London. The three countries see the opportunity to cooperate in the field of fashion and make a bigger impact together.

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Marcus Tanner is the author of several published books, including Croatia, a Nation Born in War, Ireland’s Holy Wars and The Last of the Celts (Yale University press). His next book, about the Victorian Balkan explorer Edith Durham, is out this spring. In the 1990s he was The Independent newspaper’s Balkan correspondent and, later, its assistant foreign editor. He is now editor of the website portal Balkan Insight and a part-time leader-writer for The Independent.

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his mercurial homosexual amanuensis, Janus Pannonius, his difficult Italian wife, his favourite illuminators as well as his several Italian librarians. What was the King trying to achieve - and what was his legacy?

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These countries aim to express their interest in fashion industry developments and that they are interested in cooperation and the creative industry in general.

The joint presentation will involve exhibitions, workshops and a popup store.

Design Terminal in partnership with the Hungarian Cultural Centre will introduce talented young Hungarian designers from the popular fashion designer competition called ’Gombold újra!’

(Rethink/Re-button), which was launched

by Design Terminal, a state institution for the Hungarian creative industries to promote fashion designers who dare to claim that Magyar is still á la mode.

The shortlist of emerging Hungarian designers include • Dóri Tomcsányi, • KELE Clothing, • The FOUR (Anett Gálvölgyi, Anna Zsófi Kormos and Márton Miovác), • ZAKO.

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18–20 February Private view: Monday 17 February, 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

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e EXHIBITION MOME textile art graduates in London The exhibition introduces newly graduated students from the Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME), Department of Fashion and Textile Design, who are specialized in textile product design, fashion design and accessory (leather) design.

The rule of individuality in the world of fashion and textile design is of great importance to the university’s Master course: only through original ideas, experiments and research is it possible to meet the new challenges of the trade. The tasks of designing and researching open up new dimensions among wider and more professional fields and promote the integration between architecture and the world of images. These tasks provide an opportunity to become a creative, open-minded artist of great value.

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The students are usually interested in various traditional techniques and they re-evaluate the traditional ways of shaping textiles according to contemporary trends, tastes, attitudes, which is a common ground in their works. The collections of the young generation of designers present the works at the university and place the results of the Hungarian design in a wider context. The exhibition includes garments, accessories and textile designs. Through their works, they present the many ways of preparing material, and how they experimented with the creation of forms, surfaces and structures.

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Wednesday | 19 February | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e LECTURE the british hungarian fellowship presents

‘When Hungary Reached Out to Save Persecuted French Royalists’

By Dr Gabriel Ronay A little known Hungarian cleric gave succour to 18th century French refugee families in a hitherto unknown eastern ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ action. The real-life story of a rescued French family gives substance to Baroness Emmushka Orczy’s fictional adventure yarn set during the reign of French Revolutionary Terror. But this elusive Hungarian rescuer of French aristocrats was not a derring-do Englishman, but a benevolent Hungarian bishop acting on his own.

Dr Gabriel Ronay explains the reasons for his research: ‘I chanced on the exploits of Bishop Fengler of Gyôr when my French sister-in-law asked for help to find out what had happened to her ancestors, the Count and Countess de Chabot and their two small children in 1793. What is known for certain is they managed to escape from their burning ancestral home as the Revolutionary Guard was slaughtering the royalist population of the Vendee. According to family rumour, the de Chabots sought refuge in distant Hungary but the family chronicles for the years 1793–1803 are blank.

But why Hungary? The de Chabots and other French families had no known Hungarian connections. Besides, England was the choice of most aristocrats fleeing the Terror. The facts of the “Hungarian Connection” are stranger than fiction.’

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Exhibition open: Tue–Thurs 10am–5pm, Fri 10am–2pm

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The works of art by: • Ágnes Kovács | supervisor: Judit Bráda senior lecturer • Zita Merényi | supervisor: Edit Szûcs senior lecturer • Nelli Nógrádi | supervisor: Edit Szûcs senior lecturer • Judit Eszter Kárpáti | supervisor: Hedvig Harmati DLA associate professor, head of department • Sára Gulyás | supervisor: Judit Bráda senior lecturer • Nóra Hevesi | supervisor: Kriszta Remete DLA associate professor • Blanka Sajó | supervisor: Edit Szûcs senior lecturer • Lilla Cséfalvay | supervisor: Kriszta Remete DLA associate professor

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Dr Gabriel Ronay is an author, historian and journalist, who worked for 25 years on The Times. He has published over two dozen works on historical topics, both medieval and contemporary. His books have been published in Britain, USA, Scandinavia and Japan. He left Hungary after the crushing of the 1956 Revolution, in which he was deeply involved. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Monday | 24 February | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÉES Introducing the Cataleya Quintet Diego Aceña – flute, Alasdair Hill – oboe, Pablo Ortiz de Urbina – french horn Sophie Robertshaw – bassoon, Adrian Somogyi – clarinet

programme Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro – Overture K.492.

György Ligeti: Six Bagatelles Alexander Zemlinsky: Humoreske Ferenc Farkas: Early Hungarian Dances Norman Hallam: Dance Suite

Having met originally as Masters Scholars at the Royal College of Music the Cataleya Quintet was formed in 2011. Their international and diverse musical education from the UK, Europe and the USA produce a musical connection which creates a unique and ambitiously driven wind quintet. The dedicated and focused ensemble have had coaching sessions from many of the professors at the Royal College of Music including tutors Simon Channing, Martin Gatt, Janet Hilton and Robin O’Neill, and have frequently performed within the Royal College of Music in a variety of public performances including showcases of Quintets by Francaix, and of Poulenc’s Sextet in RCM’s Britten Theatre.

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Thursday | 27 February | 7pm (Exhibition opening) ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA Friday | 28 February | 6.30pm (Concert) ≥ Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church ✉ 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EP e EXHIBITION, CONCERT Introducing young Roma artists Free-pressionism and sacrality The FREE-Workshop is a renewed intellectual and artistic workshop that considers the guiding principles of the Tiszadob art group as their natural intellectual heritage but preserves and passes this heritage on through modern mediums. The exhibition portrays the adventurous life stories of the FREE-Workshop’s founding artists — Tibor Balogh, Kálmán Káli-Horváth, Sándor Kiss and Marianna Borkó — to reveal those significant events that influenced their artistic attitude and to give a glimpse of why they chose to create the way they do. The FREE-Workshop is a community based on solidarity and functions as a substitute for the missing family roots.

By means of taking the opportunity of liberal artistic self-definition, the FreePressionists – a group that developed from the Tiszadob circle – have created a new trend that reaches beyond ethnic and national boundaries.

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More recently, The Cataleya Quintet has performed in the Purcell Room at the Southbank centre after successfully auditioning for the Park Lane Group Concert Series. As well as their many upcoming performances, the ensemble has plans to compete in national and international competitions, and continue their outreach and education work within schools and educational environments as the Cataleya Quintet.

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Cataleya have been invited to perform at the Southbank Centre, St Martin-in-theFields and in the Elgar Room of the Royal Albert Hall, and have recently performed and been interviewed on Spanish National Radio (RNE). They have been awarded the Boconnoc Music Award from the Royal College of Music and Cataleya look forward to presenting their concerts as part of their residency at the Boconnoc Estate in Cornwall.

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Ferenc Snétberger and his students In conjunction with the exhibition of the Free-Pressionists we also present talented young Roma musicians from the Snétberger Music Talent Center, playing along with their master Ferenc Snétberger. The Snétberger Music Talent Center’s mission is to establish an exemplary institution acknowledged both nationally and internationally, in which young, disadvantaged Roma music talents get world-class training and mentoring to help with starting their career in music. Since 19 June, 2011, the Center – under the professional leadership of Ferenc Snétberger, Liszt Award winning guitarist, who is also of Roma origin – has given opportunity to 60 talented, 12–20 year old Roma youngsters every year to further develop their musical skills.

Exhibition open: 28 February–10 March Opening time: Mon–Thurs 10am–5pm and Fri 10am–2pm These events have been made possible with the generous support of Nemzeti Kulturális Alap (NKA). Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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the british hungarian fellowship presents

New Challenges and Innovation

By Professor András Vedres Professor András Vedres will discuss New Challenges and Innovation, looking at the innovative potential of various countries in general and Hungary in particular.

He firmly believes that there is no prosperity without invention, no inventions without inventors, and last but not least, there is no innovation without inventions.

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Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

Monday | 10 March | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉

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e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÉES Introducing The Rákoczi Duo Marc B. Naylor (tárogató) and Karen Newby (piano) In 2005 Dr Marc Naylor was invited to represent Great Britain at the International Tárogató Congress held at Vaja, Hungary, during which time he gave lectures on the use of the tárogató in British music as well as touring Hungary, Romania and Transylvania, giving concerts with the International Tárogató Ensemble. On his return to England, Marc formed The Rákoczi Duo with pianist Karen Newby to promote the tárogató amongst performers, composers and the concert-going public.

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In 1989 he initiated the formation of the Association of Hungarian Inventors, and has held the position Secretary General from its inception. Among other things, he was one of the organizers of the First World Meeting of Inventors in 1998. He won the title ’The Inventor of the Year’ in 2000 (for his invention ’Eco-yacht’) and in 2003 (Bicycle with air motor). The International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA) elected him President in 2006 and was duly re-elected in 2010. During his career he has won numerous prizes. He has been granted state awards by the governments of Poland, Belgium, Russia and Croatia. In 2007 he received the Jedlik Ányos Prize, and in 2011 the President of Hungary awarded him the Officer Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit for assisting the realization of the EU Patent system. He is a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Professor Vedres is also the Grand Master of the International Order of Merit of the Inventors.

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András Vedres was born in Budapest in 1940.

He graduated in Medical Chemistry at Eötvös Loránd University in 1963. He has a secondary degree in intellectual property law, and a degree from the College of Physical Education as a sailing boat instructor. He worked at research laboratories of pharmaceutical companies (EGIS, Richter Rt.) between 1963–1991 and, as a multiple inventor, he has also participated in the development of Hungarian medicines.

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Since this time the Rákoczi Duo has had many new works written for them by various composers including Keith Amos, Marcus Blunt and Betty Roe. Naturally, they include many works by Hungarian composers in their concert programmes, and Dr. Naylor continues to research the repertoire of this most beautiful of wind instruments.

programme to include Ferenc Farkas: Early Hungarian Dances Ferenc Farkas: Dances from Csíksomlyó Ferenc Farkas: Dances from Esztergom Traditional arr. Naylor: Music from the Rakóczi Period Ferenc Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 8 Sándor Balassa: Dum Dum Nélkül Béla Kovács: Eine kleine Balkanmusik

The Rákoczi Duo performs to a wide audience, giving concerts at venues including Queen Alexandra’s House, London as well as the various Music Societies throughout Great Britain and at corporate events.

When not performing, Marc Naylor also composes and has written several works for tárogató and piano for The Rákoczi Duo, including the suite “Portraits of Hungary”, a Sonatina and a Concerto, all of which are published by Edition Lyrique. He has also made several transcriptions for the instrument and is currently working on a volume of works by Karl Jenkins.

Marc Naylor has also had many new works for unaccompanied tárogató written for him, including Thorn-Trees by Australian composer Brigid Burke, giving the work its premiere performance at the 2010 International Tárogató Congress at Vaja, Hungary.

He has also been invited to give lectures on the history of the tárogató and in 2006 he gave a presentation on the use of the tárogató in the operas of Richard Wagner at the International Wagner Symposium. Marc Naylor has been invited back to Hungary in 2015 to once again represent Great Britain at the next International Tárogató Congress.

When not playing with the duo, Karen Newby performs as both accompanist and soloist, the highlights so far being three years as resident pianist at the Intercontinental Hotel in Park Lane, London; contracts with P&O cruises on the ships Arcadia, Artemis, Oceana and Ventura; classical / cocktail pianist on the MS Deutschland (the German “love boat”); accompanying at the Wigmore Hall; opera pianist at the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich and playing for tea at the Ritz, Piccadilly, London. With a repertoire covering music from Chopin to Cole Porter, from Albeniz to Alicia Keys and from South Pacific to Phantom of the Opera, Karen’s distinctive voice, timeless piano style and easy chat are suitable for any venue. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

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Orsi Cowell-Lehoczky: Albion Saluted

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Private viewing: Wednesday 12 March, 7pm Opening speech by guest of honour: Sue Jelley, Chair of Society of Women Artists The collection of artworks called ‘Albion Saluted’ by Orsi Cowell-Lehoczky brings into focus the ordinary yet intimate, which makes up the fabric – the essence – of this place, the United Kingdom.

“10 years of living in various parts of Europe have given me a unique insight on how different communities in different countries relate to issues quite universal: home and abroad; Europe and integration, assimilation; migration and immigration.

On reflection about the (all too often) negative publicity, I think it is time to show an outsider’s view on living in the UK... I would like to make a point by showing the positive side. I wish to praise things we all seem to just take for granted and I would like to remind people of those important little details. I wish to show my gratitude towards the community where I have been welcomed and that became my home so effortlessly.” The artist’s message is conveyed by her virtual snapshots depicting her surroundings here in the UK, transcribed by her special abstract figuralism.

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Orsi Cowell-Lehoczky was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1972. She completed her MA at the University of Fine Arts, Budapest in 2000. She spent 10 years travelling, living and working abroad (in Romania, Egypt, Greece and Switzerland) before settling down in the UK. She has been living in London since 2010.

In 2013 Orsi received a “body of work” Award from HRH Princess Michel of Kent at the prestigious ‘Society of Women Artists’ 152nd Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London. Orsi Cowell-Lehoczky has exhibited with galleries as well as major art shows in London, Zurich and Budapest. Her work can be found in public collections in Budapest and Pomáz (Hungary). She has been a member of the Association of Hungarian Creative Artists (MAOE) since 1999.

Exhibition open: Mon–Thurs 10am–5pm, Fri 10am–2pm Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

Thursday | 13 March | 11–11.45am (0–3 yrs) | 12.15am–1pm (3–5 yrs) ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e CHILDREN & FAMILIES Kodály-based music sessions for Hungarian children and their families Jointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre + For further details please see the event in January on page 6. Δ £6/child/session. To book your place please contact Mária Chambers

on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or info@hcaguildford.org.uk

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10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LECTURE MAGYAR MIND

Open Lecture Series

By Jessica Duchen The Hungarian Cultural Centre’s highly successful MAGYAR MIND Open Lecture Series continues in 2014 to introduce various aspects of Hungarian art and culture as seen, studied and taught by British experts.

The lectures cover Hungarian fine art, photography, cinema, architecture, fashion, language and music among many others.

The 25 March 2014 marks the 133rd birthday of Hungary’s greatest composer, Béla Bartók.

Jessica Duchen, author and music journalist for The Independent, sets out to explore her personal passion for Hungarian music, the great tradition of classical training that emerged from the Ferenc Liszt Conservatory in Budapest and, ultimately, the works of Bartók himself.

She traces the path from her first encounters with Bartók as a young violin pupil flummoxed by the language of his duos, through decades of misunderstanding, to the revelation that ensued on visiting the museum housed at the composer’s former home in Budapest. Bartók has, she says, become one of her heroes, both as an artist and as an inspiring, humane and high-principled individual living through desperate times.

The talk is illustrated with extracts from works by Bartók and others.

Jessica Duchen is a versatile author and journalist, her output including novels, biographies, plays and words & music programmes. She contributes regularly to The Independent, BBC Music Magazine and BBC Radio 3.

“Jessica writes with an unpredictable and original voice and a dazzling perceptiveness” (Joanna Lumley). Her third novel, Hungarian Dances, is published by Hodder and also enjoys a concert version with violin and piano which was heard at the Hungarian Cultural Centre earlier in the year. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HCCLondon

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‘How I learned to stop worrying and love Bartók’

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Tuesday | 25 March | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉

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Thursday | 27 March | 7.30pm ≥ 606 Jazz Club ✉ 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD Friday | 28 March | 7.30pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e JAZZ The Triád Kristóf Bacsó (alto-saxophone), Árpád “Tzumo” Oláh (piano), Márton Juhász (drums) The Hungarian Cultural Centre has regularly been bringing the best Hungarian jazz talents to London as part of its long-term cooperation with the well-known 606 Jazz Club in Chelsea. Triád is a new formation of three of the most forward looking, yet already seasoned young Hungarian musicians.

The brilliant alto-saxophonist, Kristóf Bacsó is a graduate of the Ferenc Liszt Academy, of the Conservatoire de Paris and of the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

He has toured Europe, the United States and Japan, has played with John Pattitucci, Eddie Henderson and Jeff Denson. Kristóf was part of the Anglo-Hungarian Septet co-led by Gerard Presencer and Kálmán Oláh at the 2008 London Jazz Festival.

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Award Winning young drummer Márton Juhász studied extensively in his native Hungary, winning national first prize for solo percussion in 2005, before re-locating to study in London. After being awarded the prize for top overall student on his course, in 2007 he was accepted in to Berklee College of Music. Since then he has performed and recorded extensively both in the US and Hungary, including performances at the 14th, 15th and 16th International Drum Festivals. Δ Entry to the concert at 606 Jazz Club: £10. For more information and booking please contact 606 at jazz@606club.co.uk, on 0207 352 5953 or visit www.606club.co.uk Δ The concert at the Hungarian Cultural Centre is free but reservation is essential. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk. To keep up-to-date please join the event on our Facebook page.

Friday | 28 March | 7.30pm ≥ Union Chapel ✉ Compton Ave, London N1 2XD e CONCERT with the support of the hungarian cultural centre lejazzetal presents

UK tour of Tcha Limberger and his Budapest Gypsy Orchestra 12 March–29 March (see dates and venues in HCC recommends) Bursts of soaring musical tragedy and czardas madness delivered with an astounding purity of sound and hardly imaginable depth of musical dialogue. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Tcha Limberger is from a famous family of Gypsy musicians growing up with the Gypsy-jazz of Django Reinhardt. Now just 36, he tours with this orchestra of hand-picked Gypsy musicians from Budapest where there is no ‘Primas’ who commands such respect.

Csárdás, Verbunk and Laments from the Budapest ‘Magyar Nota’ Gypsy orchestra tradition of the 19th and early 20th centuries with the beautiful voice and playing of blind violinist Tcha Limberger and his incredible band. In true Hungarian Gypsy Band style they switch between soaring intensity and smoldering pathos delivering a passion and technical virtuosity that is astounding.

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Pianist Árpád „Tzumo” Oláh, the brilliant and fantastically versatile young Roma pianist is the graduate of two world famous institutions: the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Thelonious Monk Institute for which he was handpicked out of more than 400 applicants by Herbie Hancock. Presently he is enriching the jazz-scene in the Hungarian capital. He has just returned from a successful tour of Japan and is heading for Berlin. He has played with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Kenny Garret, Terence Blanchard and Wayne Shorter.

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Helen Mayhew called their gig the highlight of the whole festival. He plays in a number of top bands in Hungary and his debut album was one of the sensations of 2009.

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About the music I intend to play: to start with, this music deserves to be reappreciated in its essential form and for that reason I don’t intend to create a new style immediately. It should again be played by musicians who really want to play it.

Of course, we will not try to sound like a Gypsy band out of 1920, but also we’ll not play current versions either. I would like to bring all these elements together that made me want to study this music, that still inspire me about this music, even when it seems to be dead already. Tcha Limberger ‘Tcha Limberger seems to be made entirely of music!’ (The Observer) ‘As intoxicating as a vintage dessert wine’ (Songlines) Δ Tickets: £18/£15. For further infomation and booking please visit www.unionchapel.org.uk, www.lejazzetal.com or call 07967 728259.

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hungarian cultural association’s programme Wednesday, 1 Jan ≥ Claremont Landscape Garden, Esher, Surrey

booking only: Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mob: 00 44 7843 054 940 maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.uk

New Year’s Day Walk o Tickets: free for HCA members £6.00/guest. Advanced booking only: Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mob: 00 44 7843 054 940 maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.uk 16 Jan, 13 Feb, 13 Mar ≥ HCC London Kodály-based singing and music groups for children o Tickets: £6.00/child. Advanced booking only. Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mob: 00 44 7843 054 940 maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.uk Sunday, 26 Jan, 1pm–4.30pm ≥ G-Live, Guildford, Surrey Family Orchestral Concert A lively and colourful orchestral concert for all the family, including excerpts from such favourites as Bolero, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Pizzicato Polka and the Torreador’s March. Enjoy the opportunity to have fun with musical instruments and improvisation sessions yourself before the concert 1.00–2.30pm, hosted by Surrey Arts. o Adult ticket: £12 (one U18 free with each transaction, at least one adult ticket must be purchased) Child ticket: £10. A £2 per ticket booking fee applies, capped at six per order.

Fee-free booking for Friends of G Live and Groups. Please call 0844 7701 797 to buy fee-free.

Saturday, 22 Feb, 11am–2pm Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford, Surrey

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‘Farsang’ – Celebrating Hungarian Folk Traditions: o Ticket information: free for HCA enrolled children and their parents Guests: £6.00/person. Advanced

Saturday, 22 Mar ≥ Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford, Surrey Remembering the heroes and heroins of 15th March 1848 o Ticket information: free for HCA enrolled children and their parents.

Guests: Donations. Advanced booking only: Please call 00 44 1483 808 643 or 00 44 7843 054 940 or email maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.uk

oxford hungarian society hilary term 2014 Friday, 24 Jan, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College A Social Evening With Drinks and Nibbles Friday, 31 Jan, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College Emese Lafferton: Race, Imperialism and the Turanian Movement in Hungary in the Decades around 1900 Friday, 7 Feb, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College Stephen Renner: The Air Service in the Revolutionary Era (1918/19)

For further information on the Hungarian Cultural Association’s programme please visit www.hcaguildford.org.uk and www.magyartanodaguildford.org.uk

Friday, 7 Mar, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College György Gömöri: ‘Polishing October’ Poet and historian György Gömöri introduces his latest volume.

Friday, 24 Jan, 8pm ≥ The Garage London, 20–22 Highbury Corner, N5 1RD London drum and monkey presents Bikini Concert o facebook.com/events/

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Saturday, 15 Mar ≥ 229 The Venue, 229 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PN londonfalva presents Charlie Concert o facebook.com/events/ 513816132042312

Thursday, 30 Jan, 5.45pm ≥ Council Chamber, The Guildhall, Cambridge Annual General Meeting AGM followed by Talk by Andrew Duff MEP “Hungary and the EU; an unfinished story” o www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk Saturday, 8 Feb, 1.30pm ≥ Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge Chamber music Linda Lin (cello) & Ian Brown (piano) o www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk

hcc recommends UK Tour of Tcha Limberger and his Budapest Gypsy Orchestra 12–29 March 12 ≥ Stamford | Arts Centre | 8pm (preconcert talk 7.30pm) o stamfordartscentre.com | 01780 763203 13 ≥ Cardigan | Theatr Mwldan | 7.30pm o mwldan.co.uk | 01239 621200 14 ≥ Abergavenny | Borough Theatre | 8pm o boroughtheatreabergavenny.co.uk | 01873 850805 15 ≥ Bradford On Avon | Wiltshire Music Centre | 7.30pm o wiltshiremusic.org.uk | 01225 860100 16 ≥ Neath | Gwynn Hall | 7pm o gwynhall.com/en/gwynhall | 0300 3656677 17 ≥ Shrewsbury | Coffeehouse | 8pm o shrewsburycoffeehouse.co.uk | 01743 242610 18 ≥ Southampton | Turner Sims | 8pm o turnersims.co.uk | 023 8059 5151 19 ≥ Bury St Edmonds | The Apex | 7.30pm o theapex.co.uk | 01284 758000 20 ≥ Gateshead | The Sage | 8pm o thesagegateshead.org | 0191 443 4661 21 ≥ Edinburgh | Queens Hall | 8pm o thequeenshall.net | 0131 668 2019 22 ≥ Banchory | Woodend Barn | 8pm o woodendbarn.com | 01330 825431 23 ≥ Sheffield | Montgomery Theatre | 7.30pm o themontgomery.org.uk | 07835 966810 25 ≥ Stoke Row | Crooked Billet | 8.30pm o thecrookedbillet.co.uk | 01491 681048 26 ≥ Tunbridge Wells | Trinity Theatre | 8pm o trinitytheatre.net | 01892 678678 27 ≥ Exeter | Phoenix | 8pm o exeterphoenix.org.uk | 01392 667080 28 ≥ London | Union Chapel | 7.30pm o unionchapel.org.uk | 07967 728259 29 ≥ Leeds | The Venue | 7.30pm o lcm.ac.uk | 0113 222 3400

Hungarians in the North of England (Észak-angliai magyarok) offer regular community and cultural events. o Further information: www.facebook.com/groups/eszakangliaimagyarprogramok

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The information in this brochure is believed to be correct at the time of going to press, but as this may be three months or more before the events take place, we strongly advise you to confirm dates, times and availability on our website and Facebook page before setting out for any particular event.

The HCC reserves the right to alter artists or programme details as necessary.

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