Hungarian Cultural Centre - Programme Brochure Apr-Jul 2014

Self-portrait by Lajos Tihanyi, 1912

6 MAY – 19 MAY

WWI Centenary Events

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15th Anniversary of the Hungarian Cultural Centre

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april 3 Apr ≥ page 3 • children + families Kodály-based music sessions 9 & 10 Apr ≥ page 3 • concert Tamás Érdi’s Piano Recital in Oxford and London 13 Apr ≥ page 5 • film + book launch The Halas & Batchelor Collection celebrates 100 years since the birth of Joy Batchelor 24 Apr ≥ page 6 • book launch Ágnes Lehóczky: Carillonneur 28 Apr ≥ page 7 • film Regina (2013) Director Diana Groó in conversation after the screening 30 Apr ≥ page 8 • book launch The Club at Eddy’s Bar

by Zoltán Böszörményi

may 1 May ≥ page 9 • children + families Kodály-based music sessions 6 May ≥ page 12 • exhibition One of The Eight — Róbert Berény – WWI Centenary Event

9 & 10 May ≥ page 10 • theatre UK Premiere of Prah

by György Spiró 13 May ≥ page 14 • talk Early Twentieth-century Hungarian Fine Art

by Professor Peter Vergo – WWI Centenary Event

14 May ≥ page 16 • talk Early 20th century Hungarian Literature By Professor Mihály Szegedy-Maszák – WWI Centenary Event

15 May ≥ page 18 • presentation The Art of Cultural Diplomacy

by HE Ms Katalin Bogyay – HCC 15

15 May ≥ page 20 • concert Early 20th century Hungarian Music by Tamás Vásáry and Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy – WWI Centenary Event

19 May ≥ page 22 • symposium Hungary and the UK in World War I – WWI Centenary Event

21 May ≥ page 23 • book launch George Gömöri: Polishing October and New Poems; Rózsalovaglás (Riding with Roses) 22 May ≥ page 24 • children + families Kodály-based music sessions 29 May ≥ page 24 • jazz Juli Fábián in London

june 5 June ≥ page 25 • children + families Kodály-based music sessions 5 Jun ≥ page 26 • literature Take Down His Particulars, Ádám Nádasdy’s poetry collection in English 12 Jun ≥ page 26 talk “Ofen, Bvda, Pesto, Buda, Pest” – The Earliest Views of Budapest: 15th and 16th century Woodcuts, Copper Engravings and Paintings depicting Buda, Pest and Ó-Buda by Andrew Alchin •

17 June ≥ page 28 • exhibition Re-painted Reality 2.0 – Unique exhibition of contemporary Hungarian artists living with and without disabilities 26 June ≥ page 30 • children + families Kodály-based music sessions

july 25 & 26 July ≥ page 30 • concert Söndörgô returns to London

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10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0-5 yrs) and their Families 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

Wednesday | 9 April | 7pm ≥ Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College

Thursday | 10 April | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉

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10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e CONCERT Tamás Érdi’s Piano Recital in Oxford and London Tamás Érdi gives two fascinating concerts in England. First he plays at the recently built brand new Leonard Wolfson Auditorium at Wolfson College in Oxford, organised by the Oxford Hungarian Society in association with Wolfson College Music Society.

On 10 April he performs in the heart of Covent Garden at the Hungarian Cultural Centre.

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Pianist Tamás Érdi lost his eyesight as a result of an oxygen overdose in a defective incubator. His interest in music was discovered at a very young age. His teacher Erika Becht used a technique called ‘the structural method’ to teach Tamás how to play the piano, whereby he virtually ‘recomposes’ the music he is introduced to. programme Schubert: Four Impromptus Op.90 Beethoven: Sonata in D-minor, Op.31. No.2 Liszt: Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d’Este Chopin: D-flat major Op.28. No.15 ’Raindrop’ Chopin: A-flat major Polonaise Op.53 Liszt: Funérailles 1849 Oktobre Liszt: D-flat major Consolation Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.6.

At 15, Tamás played a Mozart piano concerto at the prestigious Budapest Spring Festival with leading conductor Tamás Vásáry. At 17, he won the Louis Braille International Piano Competition in Moscow and was admitted to the Music Academy in Vienna. At 18, he won the Gina Bachauer Piano Competition with a five-piano arrangement in Salt Lake City. In 2002, Tamás graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto as piano artist instructed by Leon Fleisher. During his studies in Toronto, he played with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Iceland Symphony, Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio, the Vienna Mozart Orchestra, the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sverdlovsk Symphonic Orchestra.

In 2012, he was closing act of the Liszt Bicentennial events in Romania with the Enescu Symphonic Orchestra. He performed at Carnagie Hall, Lincoln Center. Moreover, he played in Siberia, Russia, Kuwait, Lebanon, the US, Canada and several European cities, most recently in London at the Barbican Centre, and worked with all symphonic orchestras in Hungary. He has performed for 4,000 people under the famous Chopin statue in Warsaw, Poland several times.

‘Tamás touches piano keys with much more sensitivity than those who can see.

I believe that in his play, in certain dynamic domains there is such sensitivity which is naturally not possible to reach for us. I would say that this ability could be measured by Chopin's standards. It is no coincidence that Chopin is so close to him…

He opens up a new world, a new dimension that no one has opened before.’

(Zoltán Kocsis, Parlando, January 2010) Δ Oxford concert tickets: £7 (on the door) £5 (concessions).

For booking and information please contact the Oxford Hungarian Society on mail@hungsoc.com.

The concert is in aid of AMREF (the African Research and Medical Foundation).

London concert at the Hungarian Cultural Centre is 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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Silk Sreet, London EC2Y 8DS

The Halas & Batchelor Collection celebrates 100 years since the birth of Joy Batchelor Celebrations include the new limited edition publication A Moving Image, Joy Batchelor 1914–1991 by Vivien Halas, Joy’s daughter, and a special screening evening and book launch at the Barbican as part of the Bird’s Eye Film Festival as well as events at international animation festivals later in the year.

This lively exploration of Joy Batchelor’s work includes contributions from broadcaster and film critic Brian Sibley, BFI curator Jez Stewart, animation writer Clare Kitson and academics Jim Walker and Paul Wells, as well as her daughter Vivien Halas.

2014 marks 100 years since Joy Batchelor, the pioneering animator and wife of John Halas, was born in Watford. Even today, there are markedly less women in powerful positions in the film industry than men, so Joy Batchelor’s career as half of the Halas & Batchelor studio is extraordinary.

Joy met John Halas, an animator from Budapest, when she was looking for a better studio to work for. John was impressed by Joy’s talent and intuitive sense of movement.

He hired her and they both went to Budapest to work on the film The Music Man. Production halted because of the threat of WW2, and at the outbreak of the War, the pair returned to London where they both eventually found work creating animations supporting the war effort for J. Walter Thompson’s advertising agency.

By 1940, they set up Halas & Batchelor Cartoons, and got married. Throughout its history, the studio always strove to pioneer new styles and techniques from paper cutout figures to computer animation, and it went on to create more than 2,000 films over

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50 years. The studio’s best-known work is Animal Farm, regarded as the first British feature length animation, which celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2014.

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Joy not only animated, designed the characters and wrote many of the early scripts – she was also a producer and director at a time when women in the animation industry worked mostly as painters and tracers. Δ For further information and booking please visit the website of the Barbican Centre

www.barbican.org.uk/film

Thursday | 24 April | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

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e BOOK LAUNCH the hungarian cultural centre in association with shearsman books presents

Carillonneur by Ágnes Lehóczky Ágnes Lehóczky’s fifth collection of poems Carillonneur, which is her third one in English, takes a new psychogeographical approach in order to explore urban landscapes; that is, districts of Sheffield and Budapest. Writing from the viewpoint of an outsider, employing the palimpsestic texture of the prose poem, offers a new, so-called 'nomadic poetics' which crosses not only languages and borders of physical places but the boundaries of origins and identities, suggesting that the human psyche, collective memory and disparate selves overlap each other's psycho-topographic maps. Collaging both the factual and the invented – both diachronic and synchronic – layers of history and cultural heritage of cities and recycling the neglected and the forgotten, these poems continue to experiment with the poetics of almost-prose narratives remapping locations of a hybrid mind from amnesia and imagination. Ágnes Lehóczky is a Hungarian poet, scholar and translator originally from Budapest. She has two short poetry collections in Hungarian, Station X (2000) and Medallion (2002), published

by Universitas, Hungary. Her first full collection in English, Budapest to Babel, was published in 2008 and her second collection, Rememberer, in 2012 by Egg Box Publishing. She was the winner of the Arthur Welton Poetry Award 2010, the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2010 in poetry and the inaugural winner of the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry at Girton College,

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Monday | 28 April | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

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e FILM Regina (2013), dir. Diana Groó Discussion with Diana Groó and George Weisz after the screening The event marks the Holocaust Memorial Year in Hungary and Yom HaShoah The Hungarian Cultural Centre is grateful for the use of the film to its producers, George Weisz and Alan Reich.

Diana Groó is a feature and documentary film director. She was educated in Budapest, obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in French and Hebrew from the Faculty of Arts of Eötvös Loránd University, followed by a Master’s in TV and Film Directing at the Department of Film and Television Directing at the Hungarian Film Academy in 2000. She is co-founder of Katapultfilm studio (2002) and DunaDock (2013).

After her prize-winning shorts and documentaries, her debut feature film was A Miracle in Cracow, a Central European Jewish magic tale, in Polish-Hungarian coproduction in 2004. Her documentary What lies ahead – about disabled children of the Hungarian Petô Institute – was awarded by the Jury of Verzio 4 International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in 2005. Her second feature film Vespa (2010), a road movie of a Romani teenager, awarded

by UNICEF and the Dialog Prize for Intercultural Communication in Cottbus, received the Best Director’s award in Geneva and Los Angeles.

Her Wild Imagination art history series, presenting the art of Marc Chagall, August Renoir, Pieter Bruegel and Henri Rousseau opened the contemporary art exhibition of Herzlya Muzeum in Israel in 2005.

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Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk.

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Cambridge in 2011. She was Hungary's representative poet for Poetry Parnassus at Southbank Centre during London's Cultural Olympiad in Summer 2012. Her collection of essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Poetry: the Geometry of Living Substance, was published in 2011 by Cambridge Scholars.

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In 2008 Diana premiered the stage adaptation of Katherine Kressman Taylor's prophetic novel Address Unknown about Nazism, which she also staged in Sao Paulo Theatro Hebraica in 2011. Her latest work is Regina (2013), a poetic documentary about the world’s first woman rabbi, was the winner of the Lia Award for dealing with Jewish Heritage at the 2013 Jerusalem Film Festival. The film also received the Hungarian Film Critics Award and the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival of Cultural Arts and History in Hungary. Regina was presented at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at Unesco palace and in the Library of Congress in Washington.

The poetic documentary tells the story of Regina Jonas (1902–1944), a woman who made history by becoming the first properly ordained woman rabbi in the world. The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish peddler, Jonas was ordained in 1935. During the Nazi era and the war, her sermons and her unparalleled dedication brought encouragement to the persecuted German Jews. Regina Jonas was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. The only surviving photo of Jonas serves as a leitmotif for the film, showing a determined young woman gazing at the camera with self-confidence (www.reginajonasmovie.com). Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Wednesday | 30 April | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e BOOK LAUNCH phaeton publishing in association with the hungarian cultural centre presents

The Club at Eddy’s Bar by Zoltán Böszörményi In the last years of the Cold War, the club at Eddy’s Bar is a magnet for the élite of an Eastern European city.

They keep one another’s secrets, even the truth about a brutal crime. When a young journalist learns too much, he has to flee the country. He keeps a notebook in which he wrote his account of the crime, hoping to publish it when he and his family are safe. From a refugee camp, he is admitted to Canada, where he struggles to start a new life without family, money or language. In the new country, however, he finds the people he meets are concealing as many dark secrets and lies as those in the old. A gripping murder mystery, this is also a deeply perceptive tale of power and wealth, of fidelity and infidelity.

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Zoltán Böszörményi was born in 1951 in the Hungarian community of Arad in Transylvania. While still a student, he published two books of Hungarian language poetry. The second of these resulted in his arrest and interrogation by security officers. He fled across two borders and spent seven months in an Austrian refugee camp. He was admitted to Canada, where he learned English and graduated from York University in Toronto. After the opening up of Eastern Europe in the 90s, he returned and set up a successful lighting company in Romania. Now retired from manufacturing, he is Editor-in-Chief of Hungarian language daily and monthly journals, and has published several novels and books of poetry in Hungary.

In 2009 he received the Gundel Arts Award for the Hungarian version of The Club at Eddy’s Bar, and in 2012 he received the Attila József Award for Hungarian literature.

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The Club at Eddy’s Bar features on its covers drawings by the Hungarian artist Ferenc Martyn, born in Kaposvár in 1899. He died in Pécs in 1986, where his work is on permanent display in the Janus Pannonius Múzeum and Martyn Ferenc Múzeum. His family name derives from his Irish ancestor, Major Peter Martyn, who emigrated from Galway in 1790. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families Jointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre For further information please see the event in April on page 3. 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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e THEATRE UK Premiere of Prah by György Spiró Translated into English by Szilvia Naray-Davey Performed by Anne-Marie Draycott and Zach Lee Playwright György Spiró in conversation after the play The Hungarian Cultural Centre in partnership with IgnitionStage proudly hosts two nights of the English language production of Prah, a play written by György Spiró.

Prah is a comedy which tells the tale of an ordinary couple whose lives are turned upside down when they win the lottery. At first, it seems to be a sort of salvation, a remedy for all their sufferings. However, as husband and wife discuss the fate of the money and its impact on their lives, doubts start to form regarding the benefits of their winnings. Prah is a story about the changing emotions of ordinary people who find themselves in an extraordinary situation.

György Spiró is a Hungarian novelist, essayist and playwright who is considered to be one of the most prominent authors of post-war Hungary. Spiró pursued his studies of Hungarian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian literature at Eötvös Loránd University and earned his degree of philology at the same institution in 1970. In 1972 he graduated from the College of Journalism in journalism and sociology. He has been involved in theatre and teaching since the start of his career. He has won many prestigious awards for his work such as the Attila József Prize, the Madách Prize, Prima Prize, the Kossuth Prize and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. On numerous occasions, his plays won Hungary’s Best Drama of the Year title. His most famous writings include The X-s, Chickenhead, the Kingfisher, Dreaming for You and Captivity.

IgnitionStage is a small professional theatre company, established in Manchester in 2007. They have successfully produced three plays, bringing the work of new writers from the north west to the stage, both on a local level and to national audiences at the Lowry Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and 24:7 Festival. Their remit has evolved and now includes producing translated contemporary drama from Central and Eastern European nations. By doing so, they wish to contribute to bridging the gap between ‘us’ and ‘them’, by demystifying the idea of foreign plays and, therefore, foreign cultures. They aim to achieve this by selecting thought-provoking, yet entertaining, plays that translate well onto the British Stage in the English language. Prah is their first translated production.

The UK production of Prah is supported by the Arts Council of England. Δ Tickets: £12.50, For tickets please visit: http://ignitionstage.wordpress.com/buy-tickets-for-prah/

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Our World War I Centenary Events will transport you back in time to the vibrant cultural, intellectual and artistic scene of the early twentieth-century. We will recreate the atmosphere of the famous Hungarian coffee houses where everything was happening at the time by turning the Hungarian Cultural Centre into the Grand Budapest Café of Covent Garden.

Early twentieth-century Budapest boasted a plethora of coffee houses where writers, editors, artists, journalists and intellectuals met, exchanged thoughts and ideas, and often worked. As the internationally renowned Hungarian writer Sándor Márai put it ‘people do not come here for a coffee but to live their lives’.

At our Grand Budapest Café you will be able to relive some of this experience, and while you are sipping your coffee and sampling Hungarian delicacies, you will be able to

explore Hungarian fine art, literature, music and the history of the pre-war era with the help of our most distinguished speakers.

2014 marks an important milestone in HCC’s history too as the institute turns 15 this year. We are celebrating the anniversary on 15 May with founding director H.E. Ms Katalin Bogyay FRSA, FWAA, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Hungary to UNESCO, President of the 36th Session of UNESCO General Conference, who opened the Hungarian Cultural Centre in 1999.

Please come and join us in celebrating history and making history together.

Dr. Beata Pászthy Gyöngyi Végh Barbara Révész Andrea Kós Fruzsina Kováts

Our WWI Centenary Event Series have been made possible with the generous support of the WWI Centenary Memorial Committee in Hungary.

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Tuesday | 6 May | 7pm (Private view) ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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One of The Eight — Róbert Berény Works from a private collection During the era preceding the First World War, the most progressive group of painters and the quickest in adapting international trends was the Eight. Despite the fact that the three exhibitions they had – at the turn of 1909–1910, in 1911 and in 1912 – mark only a short period of time in the history of Hungarian modernism, their significance cannot be emphasised enough given that their appearance resulted in the birth of avantgarde in Hungary.

The youngest and perhaps the most talented painter of them all was Róbert Berény, who had a very successful career in Paris before the group was formed: at the age of 19–20, he had a joint exhibition with Henri Matisse and the Fauves.

During the three exhibitions of the Eight, most of the works displayed were his: when their second exhibition took place

in 1911, he had 49 oil paintings shown, more than his fellow painters combined. Berény’s versatility did not solely manifest itself in the different genres of painting and graphic designing; besides visual arts, he was very much engaged in music too. As a friend of Béla Bartók, the great Hungarian composer of whom he painted a portrait in 1913, not only did he write music reviews and accounts of the most modern musical events, but Berény also played the violin, the viola and the piano, and he even composed music.

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Since then he has curated exhibitions on fauvism and Hungarian modernism in Hungary: Magyar Vadak Párizstól Nagybányáig (Hungarian Fauves from Paris to Nagybánya) 1904–1914, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, 2006. A Nyolcak– Cézanne és Matisse bûvöletében (The Eight: Enchanted

by Cézanne and Matisse) Museum Janus Pannonius, Pécs, 2010. A Nyolcak (The Eight), Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2011, in France (Fauves Hongrois, Céret, Musée d’art moderne, Le Cateau Cambrésis, Musée Matisse, Dijon, Musée des beaux-arts, 2008–2009) and in Belgium (Dialogue de fauves – Fauvisme hongrois 1904–1914), L’ho ˆtel de ville de Bruxelles, 2010.

He also curated a Europe-wide travelling show dedicate to the first Hungarian modernist artists’ group, The Eight. The first venue was in Austria: „DIE ACHT – Ungarns ‘Highway’ in die Moderne”, Kunstforum, Vienna, 2012. Recently he curated Allegro barbaro – Béla Bartók et la modernité hongroise, 1905–1920 at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris (2013–2014).

Exhibition open: 7 May–13 June Opening hours: 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

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Gergely Barki is a PhD candidate in Art History at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and a research fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities – Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Institute of Art History (RCH-HAS-IAH). His dissertation is the monograph and catalogue resumé of Róbert Berény, one of the most prominent figures of Hungarian modernism. After earning his Master’s degree in art history from Eötvös Loránd University (2002), Gergely became the research fellow of the MTA-ELTE University Research Institute for Art History and since 2006 he works for the RCH-HAS-IAH.

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The exhibition presents selected works, chiefly graphic pieces, from the private collection of Róbert Berény’s monographist and wife, many of which were on display at the time of the exhibition of the Eight. The exhibition will familiarise those present with Berény’s works done in cubist, fauvist or expressionist style. Moreover, the rarest pieces of his oeuvre, his applied artistic productions, connected to the embroideries designed by him in 1912, will also be introduced.

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Early Twentieth-century Hungarian Fine Art Dancing on the Volcano: Hungarian Artists on the Brink of the Great War Professor Peter Vergo, University of Essex During the 1890s and early 1900s, only a few Hungarian painters enjoyed a genuinely international reputation, among them Mihály Munkácsy and József Rippl-Rónai.

But from about 1905 onwards, a number of younger artists began to set an overtly internationalist agenda, looking to Paris in particular for inspiration. The most important of them belonged to the so-called ‘Group of Eight’, an exhibiting society founded in Budapest in 1909–10.

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This lecture looks at the activities of some prominent members of this group, including their reaction to the work of important French painters such as Cézanne and Matisse. It also considers how the outbreak of war put an end to this fruitful period of artist exchanges, and how artists responded to the war, in some cases as official war artists, in others as simple soldiers creating a vivid and often moving record of what they saw and experienced.

In Hungary, as in the German-speaking countries, the outbreak of war had initially been greeted with a degree of patriotic fervour. But, as defeat loomed, the work of many Hungarian artists increasingly began to reflect pacifist, left-wing or openly revolutionary leanings. Several of the most important of those artists belonged to the circle around Lajos Kassák, whose periodical Ma (‘Today’) was a focus for radical movements not just in painting but in all the arts, including music and literature.

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Peter Vergo is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. He has published widely, including his book Art in Vienna 1898–1918 (new edition due in 2015); Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art; and The ThyssenBornemisza Collection: 20th Century German Painting.

His exhibition Vienna 1900 was the centrepiece of the 1983 Edinburgh Festival, for which he was awarded the Austrian Golden Order of Merit. More recently, he has been working on early twentieth-century Hungarian art, literature and music. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk.

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Poster design, one of the high points of Hungarian visual art of this period, played a central role during the years of defeat, revolution and the establishment of the ‘Republic of Councils’. Several members of the ‘Group of Eight’, including figures such as Róbert Berény and Bertalan Pór, experimented with this genre, putting their considerable talents at the service of the short-lived Hungarian revolution. The talk ends with a brief look at the counter-revolutionary backlash, the establishment of the ‘White Terror’ and the exodus of so many Hungarian artists, who quit their native land for destinations such as Vienna, Berlin and Moscow.

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Hungarian Literature in the Early Twentieth Century Professor Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (Indiana University, Bloomington and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) What are the lasting achievements of the literary culture of early twentieth-century Hungary? Modernism became institutionalised with the publication of four journals.

Huszadik Század (Twentieth Century, 1900–1919) was edited by the political scientist Oszkár Jászi (1875–1957). Nyugat (West, 1908–41) became associated with the poets Endre Ady (1877–1919), Mihály Babits (1883–1941), Dezsô Kosztolányi (1885–1936), and Milán Füst (1888–1967), the author of the novel The Story of My Wife (1942).

A Szellem (Mind, 1911) was the organ of a group of intellectuals that included Béla Balázs (1884–1919), the librettist of Bartók, the art critic Lajos Fülep (1885–1970) and the philosopher György Lukács (1885–1971).

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A Tett (Action, 1915–16) and its successor Ma (Today, 1916–25), edited by the free-verse poet and visual artist Lajos Kassák (1887–1967), a close friend of the painters known as ”The Eight” and Moholy-Nagy, were the journals of the Hungarian avant-garde movement.

Among these authors Kosztolányi occupies something of a unique position in Hungarian literature. He is the only Hungarian author to have succeeded not only in writing first-rate lyric verse, essayistic prose, and narrative fiction (novels and short stories), influenced

by Chinese and Japanese poetry and psycho-

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Mihály Szegedy-Maszák is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Professor Emeritus of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, a member of Academia Europaea (London) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Literary Canons: National and International (2001), sixteen books in Hungarian (among them monographs on the authors Zsigmond Kemény, Sándor Márai, Géza Ottlik and Dezsô Kosztolányi), editor-in-chief of a three-volume history of Hungarian literature (2007) and the journal Hungarian Studies, co-author of Théorie littéraire (1989), Epoche –Text – Modalität (1999), A Companion to Hungarian Studies (1999), Angezogen und abgestoßen: Juden in der ungarischen Literatur (1999), The Phoney Peace: Power and Culture in Central Europe 1945–49 (2000), National Heritage – National Canon (2001) and Der lange, dunkle Schatten: Studien zum Werk von Imre Kertész (2004).

He has published articles on the culture of the Habsburg Monarchy, the theory of the novel, Romanticism, modernism, postmodernism, translation and inter-art studies, Richard Wagner, Henry James, Gustav Mahler, Béla Bartók, Ezra Pound, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Buster Keaton in English, French, German, Polish, Chinese and Hungarian. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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analysis, but also in producing a wide range of translations of lasting value. A priest of the art of writing in his lifetime, he is one of the most widely read authors in contemporary Hungary, and a figure of international reputation to whom numerous other writers have paid homage, from Thomas Mann to Miroslav Krleža, from Danilo Kiš, Deborah Eisenberg, Sándor Márai, and Attila József to Péter Esterházy, whose work Esti (2010) is based on Kosztolányi's anti-novel Kornél Esti (1933).

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Thursday | 15 May | 6.30pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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e PRESENTATION & BOOK LAUNCH

The Art of Cultural Diplomacy H.E. Ms Katalin Bogyay FRSA, FWAA Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Hungary to UNESCO President of the 36th Session of UNESCO General Conference, Founding director of the Hungarian Cultural Centre Opening words by Dr. Dezsô Szabó, Director, International Directorate, Balassi Institute Katalin Bogyay remembers…

We are all different from each other. But diversity is the source of strength and beauty of our planet. For me, diversity is not a burden but a source of inspiration.

“You are not a drop in the ocean” sang the 13th century Persian poet, Rumi, “you are the entire ocean in a drop.” It is with such mindset, that we must look to our future – seeing every human being as an ocean of feelings, hopes and aspirations.

Promoting cultural diversity has been my life-long occupation – I have devoted my professional career to connecting people of diverse cultural backgrounds through the universal language of music, art and communication.

To “build the defenses of peace in the minds of men and women,” as UNESCO’s constitution declares, is the very essence of the Organization. “With our thoughts we make the world,” teaches us Buddha.

But in isolation, no matter how powerful, the ideas within individual minds will not improve the lives of others. We must unite across the existing national, ethnic, and social boundaries to give our ideas a chance to cross-pollinate and spread for a truly global impact. And the most effective tool towards this end is the soft power of cultural, scientific and sports diplomacy.

I remember the time I started to set up the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Covent Garden. I wanted to create a “fashionable Hub” where ideas, cultures, religions, thoughts, artists and different people can meet each other. And where Hungarian culture can act as a real bridge and as a source of inspiration. That was the base of the journey which started in 1999 in Maiden Lane…

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She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK) and of the World Academy of Art and Science (US). She is an International Advisor and the President of Cultural Diplomacy & The Arts program to the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (Berlin, Germany) and to the Institute for Global and European Studies, IGES (Corvinus University, Budapest). She is an honorary member of the London-based Imago-International Psychoanalytical Society.

Katalin Bogyay is an active promoter of music as the medium of intercultural cooperation and understanding. She is a founding member of the Liszt Academy Network , based in London, and a board member of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, the oldest Orchestra of Hungary, founded by Ferenc Erkel.

She is a recipient of several high honors, including the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary for her outstanding contribution to Hungarian culture and cultural diplomacy, Nehru Gold Medal of UNESCO (2013), Special Trophy of Fair Play for promoting sports diplomacy from the International Fair Play Committee (2013), the Chain Bridge Award by Hungary for her services to Hungarian foreign affairs (2013), the Grand Cross of the Order of Sahametrei by King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia for intercultural cooperation (2013), Officer of the Order of Leopold by King Albert II of Belgium (2008), Aphelandra, the humanitarian prize for her work performed internationally building bridges between people( 2009) and the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary for her contribution to international culture (2005).

The Balassi Institute at a glance Dr. Dezsô Szabó, director for international relations will provide a short overview of the Balassi Institute and its strategic goals. The Balassi Institute plays a key role in the professional direction of Hungarian cultural affairs as its main objective is to project a quality-oriented image of our nation, thereby increasing Hungary’s prestige internationally and strengthening and preserving all facets of Hungarian culture both within and outside of Hungary’s borders.  Please note this event is by invitation only.

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She is a firm believer of cultural diplomacy based on intercultural dialogue, as demonstrated in setting up the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London Covent Garden, and masterminded Magyar Magic (2003-2004), the Hungarian Cultural Season in the U.K. introducing 2000 artists in 500 events in collaboration with more than 300 British partners.

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Katalin Bogyay has served as Hungarian Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO since 2009 and in the capacity of the President of the General Conference of UNESCO (2011-2013). A tireless and committed cultural bridge-builder throughout her multifaceted professional life, she has occupied the posts of Hungary’s State Secretary for International Affairs for Education and Culture (2006-2009) and the Director of the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Covent Garden, London, UK (1999–2006). She has also led a career of international television broadcaster, film producer and writer.

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e CONCERT

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10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

Early Twentieth-century Hungarian Music Tamás Vásáry › piano | Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy › flute Tamás Vásáry needs no introduction to UK audiences. He rose to prominence as a virtuoso pianist in Hungary, but flourished internationally in the 1960s and 70s following his departure to the West. In the late 70s he turned to conducting and toured extensively in that role, especially in the U.S. Tamás Vásáry was born in Debrecen, Hungary, on 11 August 1933. He was a child prodigy, debuting at eight in a performance of Mozart’s D major Concerto, K. 107. In 1956, the year of the failed Hungarian Revolution, he fled Hungary and settled in Switzerland.

programme Poulenc: Sonata Taffanel: Fantasy on ‘Der Freischütz’ by Weber Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata Op. 27, No. 2 Kodály: Marosszék Dances Chopin: Chopin Andante spianato et Grande polonaise Op.22 Liszt: Legend No. 2 ‘St. Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves’ Liszt: Dreams of Love S.541 Liszt: Rigoletto Fantasy Paraphrase

Tamás Vásáry debuted at the Royal Festival Hall of London in 1961, which performance started off his international career. From that year on, he was given thousands of concerts at the most prestigious musical centres of the world located in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Luxemburg, Stockholm and Oslo.

In 1962 György Széll introduced him to New Yorkers during a concert at the Carnegie Hall.

Tamás Vásáry has collaborated with the world’s most prominent orchestras and most acknowledged conductors on a regular basis – for instance Ernest Ansermet, André Cluitens, Paul Kletzki, Ferenc Fricsai, André Previn,

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Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (Budapest) in 2006 as a student of Professor Lóránt Kovács. She also studied in the Hague with Emily Beynon.

Afterwards, on full scholarship, she attended the postraduate course at the Royal Academy of Music in London and was tutored by Professor William Bennett. In 2008, she was awarded the prestigeous Queen's Commendation for Excellence prize by the Academy and received her diploma with distinction.

She attended several international flute master classes (Michel Debost, Peter Lloyd, William Bennett, Aurele Nicolet, András Adorján, Jiri Valek, Jaime Martin, Emily Beynon, Lorna McGhee) and international flute competitions with great success (two 1st and three 2nd prizes in different categories of competitions at the Summer Academy of Music in Semmering, winner of the International Flute Competition in Bukarest and the 11th International Flute Competition in Timisoara). In 2008 and 2009, she received the Fischer Annie scholarship, and in 2009 she was awarded the highly ranked Junior Prima prize.

Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy is an active orchestral player as well: she has been principal flutist of the Ventoscala Symphony Orchestra since 2003 and the Solti Chamber Orchestra since 2008. From 2006 to 2008, she was principal flutist of the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra in London. She has regurarly been invited as a guest principal flutist in the Fundación Excelentia Symphony Orchestra of Madrid since September 2013.

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As a conductor, Vásáry has worked with over a hundred orchestras including the Berlin Philharmoniker, the New York Philharmonic, the Dallas Philharmonic, the Detroit Philharmonic, the Houston Philharmonic, the Baltimore Philharmonic, the Denver Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, the Orchestre National de France, the Santa Cecilia (Rome), the Torino Rai and the Spanish National. Furthermore, he was director and first conductor of two English orchestras; the Northern Sinfonia (1979-1982) and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta (1989-1997). Between 1993 and 2004, he was director of music of the Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio. He has been honorary director of music of the orchestra since 2004.

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Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Eugen Jockhum, Erick Leinsdorf, Antal Doráti, Bernard Haitink, Kurt Sanderling, György Solti, Rudolf Kempe, Neville Marriner and Adrian Boult. Moreover, he is a frequent guest of the most notable festivals taking place in Salzburg, Edinburgh, Berlin, Granada, Aldeburgh, Tanglewood (USA), Cleveland Blossom, Stresa, Hong Kong, London or Budapest.

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In 2008 and 2010, Zsuzsa was a teaching assistant of William Bennett at his International Flute Summer Schools. She appeared as a soloist of international flute conventions in Manchester and New York. Moreover, she regularly gives solo and chamber music concerts in Hungary and abroad. Zsuzsa is currently attending the doctoral course of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, being also a teacher of the Weiner Leó Conservatory.  Please note this event is by invitation only.

HCC’s 15th Anniversary events have been made possible with the generous support of Nemzeti Kulturális Alap (NKA).

Monday | 19 May | 6–8pm ≥ Embassy of Hungary London

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e SYMPOSIUM wwi centenary event

An Evening of History Hungary and the UK in World War I The audience of this symposium will be transported back in time with the help of Sir Bryan Cartledge, former British diplomat and author of The Will to Survive, Professor Norman Davies, history lecturer at the University of Oxford and Professor Géza Jeszenszky, historian and former Foreign Minister of Hungary, who will give their insights into the goings on behind the scenes.

sir bryan cartledge, professor norman davies, professor géza jeszenszky, mátyás sárközi

The discussion will be moderated by the writer Mátyás Sárközi, who will share with us some anecdotes about his grandfather, the world famous playwright Ferenc Molnár, who also served as a war correspondent. During the discussion you will be able to enjoy drinks and contemporary Hungarian delicacies prepared by the chef of the Embassy of Hungary.

This WWI Centenary Event has been organised in partnership with the Embassy of Hungary in London, the Hungarian Cultural Centre and St Anthony’s College of Oxford University.

 Please note this event is by invitation only.

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Wednesday | 21 May | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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e BOOK LAUNCH

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George Gömöri Polishing October: New and Selected Poems Rózsalovaglás (Riding with Roses) Introduction by Professor Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (SSEES/UCL) On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, George (György) Gömöri, well-known poet, translator and Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, will introduce his two latest volumes of poetry: Polishing October: New and Selected Poems translated into English by Clive Wilmer, George Szirtes and Jamie McKendrick and Rózsalovaglás (Riding with Roses) his latest book of poems in Hungarian.

George has published over fifty books in subjects ranging from Polish literary history, the latest being The Polish Swan Triumphant published in 2013, to essays on modern Hungarian literature. George Gömöri will also talk about his past publications and his first poems, which were published 62 years ago.

On 30 April, the Petôfi Literary Museum in Budapest will celebrate Gömöri’s eightieth birthday by holding a conference revolving around various aspects of the author’s life. Discussions during the conference will include topics such as George the poet, George the academic, his Polish literary connections, his role in the 1956 revolution and a talk on how the secret police spied on him in three countries.

George Gömöri is a Member of the Polish Academy of Art and Sciences (Cracow). His many awards include the Salvatore Quasimodo and the Ada Negri Poetry Prizes. He also received the Pro Cultura Hungarica and the Commander's Cross of the Hungarian Republic. 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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Thursday | 22 May | 11am ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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e CHILDREN & FAMILIES Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families Jointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre + For further information please see the event in April on page 3. Δ £6/child/session. To book your place please contact Mária Chambers on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or info@hcaguildford.org.uk

Thursday | 29 May | 8.30pm ≥ 606 Jazz Club ✉ 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD Friday | 30 May | 7.30pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e JAZZ Juli Fábián in London 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.

Jazz singer Juli Fábián is one of the boldest improvisative vocalists in Hungary, who rather than shunning them is actually looking for risks. She possesses probably the most sensuous voice on the Hungarian scene. Her improvisations are inventive and original. She can be sexy, romantic or humorous – but always knows which one to be and when. Her songs are approachable, often danceable but of a consistently high standard. Last time she performed in London she absolutely brought the house down at the legendary 606 Club. This time she will be backed by topline British musicians.

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Flutist Steve Rubie, owner of the 606 Club and leader of the Brazilian tinged Latin jazz band Samara, is a brilliant and spirited jazz player. His impromptu duets with Juli in Budapest produced moments of sheer brilliance. Tim Lapthorn is one of the most emotionally charged and riveting pianists on the UK scene. Bassist Mick Hutton has appeared alongside an extremely diverse range of musicians including Humphrey Lyttelton, Kenny Wheeler, Bill Bruford, Nigel Kennedy, Gary Husband and Lee Konitz.

The drums will be looked after by that incredible rhythm king Winston Clifford. Known as ’the powerhouse’, the much-in-demand drummer Dave Ohm has played, toured and recorded with amongst others, Benny Golson, Mornington Lockett, Claire Martin, Ian Shaw, Gwyneth Herbert, Jim Mullen and is a regular member of the Ronnie Scott’s All Stars.

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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

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 www.facebook.com/hcclondon

10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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Jointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre

+ For further information please see the event in April on page 3.

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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Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families

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e LITERATURE

≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

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Take Down His Particulars, Ádám Nádasdy’s poetry collection in English George Szirtes in conversation with the author The Hungarian Cultural Centre and Corvina Press Budapest are pleased to jointly present the Hungarian poet Ádám Nádasdy’s collection Take down his particulars (in Christopher Whyte’s English translation), published by Corvina in 2012. Ádám Nádasdy was born in Budapest, Hungary, and has lived there most of his life. He has a degree in English and Italian and teaches English Linguistics at Eötvös University Budapest. Besides his career as a respected linguist, Nádasdy is a well-known translator of classic plays from English into Hungarian. Ádám Nádasdy is an excellent speaker and reader both in Hungarian and English. He makes regular appearances at literary events and festivals where he is always very well received. His latest London appearance was at UCL’s Sándor Weöres centenary conference dedicated to the major 20th-century Hungarian poet. 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 | 12 June | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉

10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e TALK the british hungarian fellowship presents

“Ofen, Bvda, Pesto, Buda, Pest” The Earliest Views of Budapest: 15th and 16th century Woodcuts, Copper Engravings and Paintings depicting Buda, Pest and Ó-Buda

By Andrew Alchin The early views of Buda and Pest provide a fascinating combination of beauty, information and mystery, enabling us to see how these cities and their contemporary events were perceived by contemporaries. The story has a rich cast of characters

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including King Matthias of Hungary and his Renaissance library, The Holy Roman Emperor, Suleiman the Magnificent, the city of Nuremberg and Hans Sachs.

Andrew Alchin will explain the technical, intellectual and historical background to which these views were produced and go on to examine them individually, pointing out (using projected images) in each case the authorship and publication medium of the view, particular items of interest, correspondence with contemporary events – battles, sieges, etc. Where appropriate, the connection of each view with its predecessors will be discussed along with other considerations, such as the accuracy of the views and their relation to the geography of Budapest. Quirks and mistakes in the views will also be revealed! Original copies of some of the prints will be on display for perusal before or after the lecture.

Andrew Alchin first visited Hungary as a tourist in 1965, and has had a lifelong interest in and affection for the country.

He has lived in Budapest, on and off, for several years, studying Maths at the Eötvös Loránd University in 1967-1968 as a British Council Scholar, and returning to work there for IBM in Hungary between 1991 and 2002. He is a collector of old maps and views, including several Hungarian-related items. 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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Tuesday | 17 June | 7pm (Private View) ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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e EXHIBITION Re-painted Reality 2.0 Unique exhibition of contemporary Hungarian artists living with and without disabilities Featuring László Fark, Csaba Fürjesi, Zsolt Gyarmati, Ervin Hervé-Lóránth, Zsuzsa Kalmár and Ica Zilahi The Re-painted Reality exhibition was realised in the autumn of 2012 at the Hungarian National Gallery as part of its Equal Opportunity Programme, which was started three years ago. The exhibition presented the works of contemporary artists – some who live with physical disabilities and others who are able-bodied.

The main message of the exhibition is the reflexion of our common values in order to demonstrate that artists with disabilities are just as able to create high quality art by virtue of their power of will and creativity. The title ’Re-painted Reality’ refers to the principal aim of the exhibition, which is to change the general thinking about handicapped artists and their art. The works of the exhibition are not labelled with information about the disabilities. Therefore, the viewers can evaluate the artworks without any kind of preconception.

In 2014 the exhibition has been and will be presented in several European cities including Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Brussels, Stuttgart, Paris, London, Helsinki, Moscow, Prague and Istanbul. The original Hungarian collection will be completed by works of local handicapped artists wherever it is exhibited. By the end of the year, the works of all participating European artists will be exhibited at the Hungarian National Gallery in order to be presented to the Hungarian public. The series of this exhibition is a joint programme of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources, the Balassi Institute and the Hungarian National Gallery. The exhibition has been released under the patronage of Miklós Soltész, Minister of State for Social and Family Affairs.

The curator is Bernadette Dán.

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Zsolt Gyarmati is one of the most significant representatives of ’Urban Art’.

He creates equivalent and iconic type of images. His style was also influenced by ’art brut’ (a rough, raw art), ’action painting’ (a painting technique of abstract expressionism), and his method on computer generated inputs.

Ervin Hervé-Lóránth considers himself a ’polihisteric art designer’ artist. He is an interior designer, a designer, a sculptor, a painter, a writer, a teacher and also an anthropologist at the same time. Each of his days is interwoven by his holistic vision of art. He operates in all fields of craft and art.

Zsuzsa Kalmár has been wheelchairbound since the age of 11. Painting means something different to her than the usual movement patterns. She has difficulty in moving her arms, therefore, she works slowly and ponderously. Trees provide the main subject to her paintings which she adores.

After studying aquarelle and graphics for a year in Nagyvárad, Ica Zilahi mainly educated herself in art camps. Through her paintings, she wants to show the world to the audience in a somewhat sarcastic way. The artist usually uses aquarelle, pastel and different combined techniques and prefers strong, bright colours.

Exhibition open: 18 June–29 July Opening hours: 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

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Csaba Fürjesi lives and works in Salzburg and Budapest. He is a founding member and the artistic director of the Cered Art Colony. He graduated from the University of Applied Arts, Hungary in 2003. In 2013, he was awarded Madách Prize, as well as the Four Elements – the Prize of Hungarian Art Academy. One of his main subjects is the presence, the changing existence of the human experience in time and space.

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László Fark graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Hungary in 1997. He is an art teacher who has been instructing and leading an art study group at Csepel for more than a decade. He mainly depicts the human body, which he illustrates in an abstract way along with other privileged elements of the world. His professional success is not inhibited by his physical disabilities affecting both his hand and arms. Since he was invited to Capena to a contemporary exhibition, he is also known in Italy.

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Thursday | 26 June | 11am ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉

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10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families Jointly presented by the Hungarian Cultural Association Guildford and the Hungarian Cultural Centre + For further information please see the event in April on page 3.

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Δ £6/child/session. To book your place please contact Mária Chambers on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or info@hcaguildford.org.uk

Friday | 25 July Womad – The World’s Festival ≥ Charlton Park – Ecotricity Stage – Malmesbury

Saturday | 26 July ‘Walthamstow Garden Party’ ≥ Lloyd Park in Walthamstow East London

Organised by the Barbican Centre

e CONCERT Söndörgô returns to London Söndörgô is one of the most active world music groups in Hungary. They play a style of music that is hugely attractive, but little known and quite different to the traditional, fiddle-led Hungarian repertoire. Their aim is to foster and preserve Southern Slavic traditions of the Serbs and Croats as found in various settlements in Hungary.

The group was founded in 1995 in Szentendre, a small Hungarian town near Budapest with a long-established Serbian tradition. The Eredics brothers started to play music together with bass player Attila Buzás during their high-school years. Partly because of family reasons (Kálmán, the father of the Eredics brothers, was a founding member of the Vujicsics Ensemble), all the group members are profoundly drawn towards Southern Slav folk music. Söndörgô’s mission is to research it, arrange it and perform it on stage. In contrast to most groups playing Balkan music, Söndörgô does not play brass band music, it is a tambura band. The tambura is a small and agile plucked instrument similar to the mandolin, which is supplemented by wind instruments and

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Δ For more information about the concert on 25 July please visit: www.womad.co.uk For more information about the concert on 26 July visit the Barbican Centre website: www.barbican.org.uk

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After a beautiful debut on the international scene with this album, this atypical Hungarian band will charm and thrill the audience with a new album coming out in the fall 2014: Tamburocket is an cross between archaism and modernity, following in the footsteps of Béla Bartók.

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accordion. Söndörgô’s traditional repertoire is made up of material gathered by Béla Bartók and Tihamér Vujicsics as well as learned from old masters of the tradition.

Nowadays Söndörgô is a constant performer of festivals in Hungary and Europe and they repeatedly have worked together with the famous Macedonian saxophonist Ferus Mustafov – the fruit of this collaboration is their joint 2009 album In concert.

Their album Tamburising – Lost Music of the Balkans, a collaboration with the last prim tamburitza of Mohacs ensemble, came out in spring 2011 on World Village UK.

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hungarian cultural association’s programme 3 Apr, 1 & 22 May, 5 & 22 June, 11am–11.45am ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

26 Apr, 10 & 24 May, 14 & 28 Jun, 12 Jul, 10am–1.30pm ≥ HCA Guildford, Surrey

Kodály-based Singing and Music Groups for Children

Hungarian Youth and Art Group for 11–14 years old o For further information please

o £6/child. Advanced booking only.

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

contact Maria Chambers. Advanced Booking only. Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.uk

5 Apr, 10.30am–3.30pm ≥ Devil’s Punchbowl, Surrey

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Celebrating Easter: Family Trip to the Devil’s Punchbowl, Surrey o Free for HCA enrolled children and their parents, parking fees apply.

Advanced booking only.

Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.uk 26 Apr, 10 & 24 May, 14 & 28 Jun, 12 Jul, 10am–1.30pm ≥ HCA, Guildford, Surrey Hungarian Language, Music, Folkdance, Craft and Playgrounds for Children (0–14 yrs) o For further information please contact Maria Chambers. Advanced Booking only.

Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.uk 26 Apr, 10 & 24 May, 14 & 28 Jun, 12 Jul, 10am–1.30pm HCA, Guildford, Surrey

Employability Workshop I. Successful Job Applications o Tickets: free for HCA members, £5.00 for other guests. Advanced booking only. Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643, or events@hcaguildford.org.uk

o For further information please contact Maria Chambers. Advanced Booking only.

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

o For more information please contact Maria Chambers.

Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 Email: info@hcaguildford.org.uk 12 Jul, 11am–1.30pm HCA, Guildford, Surrey

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Celebrating Hungarian Folk Music and Dancing: Gala Performance o Tickets: To be confirmed. Advanced booking only. Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 Email: events@hcaguildford.org.uk

28 Apr, 2pm–4pm Employability Workshop II. Mock Interviews o Tickets: free for HCA members, £5.00 for other guests. Advanced booking only. Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643, or events@hcaguildford.org.uk 12& 19 May; 2, 16, 23, 30 Jun; 7 Jul, 8pm–10pm HCA, Guildford, Surrey

12 Jul, 2pm–6pm HCA, Guildford, Surrey

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Celebrating Hungarian Folk Music and Dancing: Teacher’s Training Event o Tickets: £20.00/person. Advanced booking only. Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 Email: events@hcaguildford.org.uk

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12 Jul, 10am–1.30pm Celebrating Hungarian Business in the South East: Introducing the New Business Members of the HCA

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Celebrating Hungarian Folk Music and Dancing o Tickets: £10.00/person for children and £5 for second adults. Advanced booking only. Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 Email: events@hcaguildford.org.uk

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Celebrating International Children’s Day: Family Trip to Alice Holt Forest, Farnham Surrey o Free for HCA enrolled children and their parents, parking fees apply.

Advanced booking only.

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

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

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Fabri Ivanovics Trio at Cambridge Folk Club

Lenten Retreat

9 May, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

3 May, 1.30pm ≥ Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Cambridge

Dr Beáta Pászthy PhD: Starving for Perfection. Anorexia nervosa, the silent killer.

16 May, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College Eszter Tarsoly: Thinking out loud – what do we mean when we talk about language. Popular Beliefs about Language and Speech in English and Hungarian.

30 May, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College Film Screening of Close to Capa (Közel Capához).

A discussion with the creator, Éva Hámor, after the film will ensue.

Fabri Ivanovics Trio at Cambridge Folk Club 9 May, 1.30pm ≥ Bateman Auditorium, G & Caius College, Cambridge Cambridge Chamber Ensemble 7 Jun, 1.30pm ≥ Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Cambridge Programme of English and other Romantic Songs o For further information please visit www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk

Friday, 6 Jun, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College Arpad Klimo: Mass Violence in Hungary. A Comparison of Massacres in 1942 and in 1956. o For further information please visit www.hungsoc.com

londonfalva

Quimby & Ian Siegal o Tickets: £19,5 in advance.

Age +18 and ID required. For futher information please visit www.quimby.hu, www.iansiegal.com, or www.scala-london.co.uk

6 Apr, 1pm–3pm ≥ St Stephen House, London Königsblue – Lunchtime Concert: Dasol Lee (piano) and Timea Gazdag (soprano) o Free entry. For more information, please call: 07858399572 or email: szentistvanhazbookings@gmail.com Event info on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/ 232663273587991/

12 Apr, 6pm–8pm ≥ St Stephen House, London An Evening of Poetry to mark the National Poetry Day o Free entry. For more information, please call: 07858399572 email: szentistvanhazbookings@gmail.com, or visit www.facebook.com/ szentistvanhaz.london

20 Apr, 3pm–5pm ≥ St Stephen House, London

Ákos Concert – Karcolatok 20

Easter Sunday Celebration with Holy Communion

o Tickets: the first hundred tickets for £19

bolygómusic production presents

For more information, please contact Revd János Csicsó on mobile: 07904864431 or email: hungarian.chaplaincy@btinternet.com

13 Apr, 7pm ≥ The Clapham Grand

12 May, 7.30pm–11pm ≥ Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, N19NL

o Free entry. All welcome.

23 May, 7pm ≥ The Clapham Grand Kispál és a Borz: Concert o Tickets: £19

o For more information please contact Revd János Csicsó on mobile: 07904864431 or email: hungarian.chaplaincy@btinternet.com

21 Apr, 6pm–midnight ≥ St Stephen House, London Spring Ball (Locsoló Bál)

o For further information please visit www.londonfalva.com

o Tickets: £10 (adults), £6 (child). szentistvanhaz.ticketsource.co.uk Advanced booking only.

For more information please call 07858399572 or email szentistvanhazbookings@gmail.com

hcc recommends 25 Apr, 7pm–10pm ≥ St Stephen House, London Filmclub o Please check our facebook page for film title. www.facebook.com/ szentistvanhaz.london Free entry. For more information please call 07858399572 or email szentistvanhazbookings@gmail.com 27 Apr, 3pm–5pm ≥ St Stephen House, London Mentrés Másként Trió – Concert: Tünde Fábri-Ivánovics (singing), Dániel Lipták (fiddle) and Géza Fábri (cobza ˘) o Free entry. For more information please call 07858399572 or email szentistvanhazbookings@gmail.com, or visit https://www.facebook.com/ events/1402186536712330/ 3 May, 6pm–9pm ≥ St Stephen House, London Filmclub to mark the Day of Europe o Please check our facebook page for film title. www.facebook.com/ szentistvanhaz.london Free entry. For more information please call 07858399572 or email szentistvanhazbookings@gmail.com 31 May, 6pm–midnight ≥ St Stephen House, London Pentecost Ball (Pünkösdi Bál) o For information on tickets visit: szentistvanhaz.ticketsource.co.uk Advanced booking only.

For more information please call 07858399572 or email szentistvanhazbookings@gmail.com

o For further information on St Stephen House please visit www.magyarkatolikusok.co.uk

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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Alternatively, find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/hcclondon and Twitter @HCCLondon. Thank you for your interest.

The HCC team: Dr Beata Pászthy PhD | Cultural and Scientific Counsellor – Director Gyöngyi Végh | Head of Programming and Communications Barbara Révész | Junior Programme Manager Andrea Kós | Office Manager Fruzsina Kováts | Finance Manager Balázs Szaszák | IT Consultant

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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