Hungarian Cultural Centre - Programme Brochure Sep-Dec 2014

Events

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40th Anniversary Of The Rubik’s Cube

september 17 Sep ≥ page 3 • open day Sursum Linguae: Everything you wanted to know about Hungarian but never dared to ask...

22 Sep ≥ page 4 • talk Deadly Carousel: A Singer’s Story of the Second World War – Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year

23 Sep ≥ page 5 • talk From Pest to Palaces, the Extra-Ordinary Life and Career of Philip Alexius de László 24 Sep ≥ page 6 • hungarian student college British Banker Mind & Hungarian Heart – lifelong sources of energy: a special ’satsang’ for all

october 1 Oct ≥ page 9 • film, screen talk & book signing A Moving Image, Joy Batchelor 1914–1991 2 Oct ≥ page 11 • jazz Gábor Bolla jazz saxophonist in London 3 Oct ≥ page 12 • children & families Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families

8 Oct ≥ page 12 • literature All that Still Matters at All – Selected Poems of Miklós Radnóti – Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year

10 Nov ≥ page 20 • monday music soirées Introducing Rita Schindler harpist 12 Nov ≥ page 21 dance Viktória Dányi, Csaba Molnár and Tamara Zsófia Vadas at Currency 2014

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13 Oct ≥ page 13 • monday music soirées Introducing Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy 27 Oct ≥ page 15 • book launch UK launch of Márton Szepsi Csombor’s Europica Varietas 29 Oct ≥ page 16 • magyar mind Magyars and makars: Tom Hubbard and Zsuzsanna Varga in conversation about Scottish and Hungarian poetry 30 Oct ≥ page 17 • concert Távlatot kapott az élet (A Life in Perspective): The Hungarian-French sculptor Ervin Pátkai (1937–1985)

november 6 Nov ≥ page 19 • lecture Hungarians in the Ottoman Empire

12 Nov ≥ page 22 magyar mind Hungarian explorers: Sir Aurel Stein

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25 Nov ≥ page 23 exhibition From Olympic Games to Death •

– Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year

27&28 Nov ≥ page 25 • jazz Juli Fábián in London

december 1 Dec ≥ page 25 • concert Advent Concert Featuring the Joyful Company of Singers conducted by Peter Broadbent Announcing the winner of the Award For Hungarian Culture in the UK 5 Dec ≥ page 25 children & families Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families •

7 Nov ≥ page 20 • children & families Kodály-based Music Sessions for Children (0–5 yrs) and their Families

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e OPEN DAY Sursum Linguae:

Sursum Linguae is all about languages. The Hungarian Cultural Centre in partnership with EUNIC London and UCL SSEES holds an open day when you can learn about the Hungarian language and find out how and where you can start learning or studying it.

The open day at the HCC is organised simultaneously with the open day events of our partner organisations at EUNIC London. In order to explore as many European languages as possible, you will be able to walk in to the participating cultural institutes – marked on a specially designed map – and you can even have your ‘European languages passport’ stamped at each venue.

Eszter Tarsoly, an experienced linguist and successful Hungarian language teacher unveils all the mysteries surrounding the Hungarian language and provides practical advice as to how to access and acquire this fascinating European language. Eszter will guide your linguistic exploration with the help of other invited experts of the field.

The programme includes interactive Hungarian sessions built around the following themes: Food, Language History, Hungarian rap, Hungarian fingerprints in London, Film and Games. There will be two 20-minute sessions every hour with a 10-minute break in between. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk.

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Everything you wanted to know about Hungarian but never dared to ask...

Eszter Tarsoly, Senior Teaching Fellow (UCL SSEES)

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Wednesday | 17 September | 5.30pm – 8.30pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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

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e TALK hungarian holocaust memorial year Deadly Carousel: A Singer’s Story of the Second World War (Vallentine Mitchell, 2006)

by Monica Porter Mátyás Sárközi in conversation with the author Vali Rácz was a celebrated, glamorous singer in Budapest during the 1930s and 1940s, nicknamed ‘the Hungarian Marlene Dietrich’. She sang in nightclubs, appeared on stage and in films, and was a recording star. Her many admirers included Franz Lehar, who composed a love song for her. After Hungary entered the war in 1941, she became the pin-up of Hungarian troops fighting on the Eastern Front.

But when the Nazis occupied Hungary in March 1944, she took on a new, secret role. At the risk of her own life, she sheltered a group of five Jewish friends in her home and rescued them from the horrors of the Holocaust. For eight dangerous months she kept them alive…until she was inadvertently betrayed.

Her eventual arrest by the secret police, followed by the extraordinary twists of fate which twice brought her to the brink of death, are told in the book Deadly Carousel: A Singer’s Story of the Second World War. First published in 1990 and re-issued in 2006, it was written by Vali Racz’s daughter, Monica Porter.

Born in Budapest in 1952, Monica Porter emigrated with her family to the USA in 1956, after the Hungarian Revolution was crushed by Soviet tanks. She grew up in New York but has been based in London since 1970.

Following in the footsteps of her father, the writer Peter Halasz, she is a freelance journalist who has contributed to countless British newspapers and magazines, and the author of five books.

In 1992 Vali Racz was named a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Monica travelled to Jerusalem with her mother to attend the award ceremony. Also in attendance was one of the Jewish fugitives who had hidden in Vali’s house in 1944. All five of them survived the war. Vali Racz died in 1997.

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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

Tuesday | 23 September | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e TALK the british hungarian fellowship presents From Pest to Palaces, the Extra-Ordinary Life and Career of Philip Alexius de László An illustrated lecture by Sandra de Laszlo Philip de László / László Fülöp (1869–1937) was born in Budapest. From the age of 11 he worked as an apprentice in various trades and finally as a photographer’s assistant where he copied the portrait photographs he was employed to retouch. His talent was noticed by a philanthropic nobleman, who helped him gain a state scholarship to the Arts and Crafts School. He later won a place at the Drawing School (now the Academy of Fine Art) in Budapest.

There he studied under two of the best and most influential Hungarian painters of the time, Bertalan Székely and Károly Lotz. Later he also studied in Munich and Paris. In 1903 he moved to Vienna then, in 1907, to London where he spent the rest of his life. His reputation still remains largely as a society portrait painter, but well numbered amongst his sitters were industrialists and scientists, politicians and painters, men and women of letters and many other eminent, as well as ordinary people.

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Δ For further information please visit www.monicaporter.co.uk and www.valiracz.com

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Mátyás Sárközi came to London in 1956 as a Hungarian refugee.

After finishing his studies he joined the Hungarian Section of the BBC World Service and worked there for almost forty years as a broadcaster. Mátyás Sárközi contributed widely in Hungarian emigré literary magazines and published a number of short story collections in Hungarian. He wrote more than twenty books, and his correspondence novel Levelek Zugligetbôl (Letters from Zugliget) has been awarded the coveted József Attila Prize.

He knew Vali Rácz personally.

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6 Sandra de Laszlo, Founding Editor of the de László Catalogue Raisonné, married to Damon de László, one of the artist’s 7 grandsons. She is a self-taught art historian, starting with the Diploma at the Study Centre for the History of the Fine & Decorative Arts at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1972–73. For eleven years she worked part-time in the Picture Department at Spink and Son, as a Guide at the then Tate Gallery and at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital for their Healing Arts Programme.

She has been working on the catalogue raisonné since she dared to write her first letter to an owner, a complete stranger in New York, in 1989. She was co-curator with Christopher Wood and Richard Ormond of the de László exhibition, A Brush with Grandeur, at Christie’s London in January 2004, compiling and editing the catalogue entries for the accompanying book. This exhibition was the ‘jewel in the crown’ of the Magyar Magic festival of Hungarian culture, put on by the Hungarian Cultural Centre to celebrate Hungary’s arrival into the European Union. Sandra was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica Plaque for this work.

She was co-curator for the exhibition De László in Holland at the Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, March – June 2006, and British Editor of the book De László in Holland.

In 2010 the National Portrait Gallery in London mounted a Special Display: Philip de László, Portraits, to celebrate the completion of the indexing of the artist’s papers by Sandra’s team – a 5-year endurance test of transcribing and translating some 15,000 letters and documents. The catalogue raisonné is still very much in progress and the illustrated picture descriptions are published online – Sandra and her editors are currently working to attain the 1,000 mark (the equivalent of some four catalogue raisonné books on paper) – which may be less than one quarter of the final count of portraits painted by de László. Δ The copyright for the self-portrait belongs to the de Laszlo Foundation. For further information please

visit www.delaszloarchivetrust.com 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

Wednesday | 24 September | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e HUNGARIAN STUDENT COLLEGE the hungarian student college presents

British Banker Mind & Hungarian Heart – life-long sources of energy: a special ’satsang’ for all By special guests: H.E. Peter Szabadhegy Hungarian Ambassador to London and William de Gelsey Chairman, Gedeon Richter plc, Senior Advisor, UniCredit Bank AG

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This time we have the privilege to welcome William de Gelsey, investment banker, Senior Advisor of the UniCredit Bank AG, who will be in conversation about his career with H. E. Péter Szabadhegy, recently appointed Hungarian ambassador to London, who also comes from the world of corporate finance. The conversation will touch upon these points: • Lessons from a really long active life: ’Is a succesful career enough to be enlightened?’

Work should become a hobby.

• Constant sentinels of a career (work heritage, knowledge, belief, fidelity).

• Mind, heart & determination: rational life management versus endeavour and emotion – ’chemistry of life’.

• Mind & Heart: keeping personal integrity – performing philanthropic responsibility.

• What are the perpetual sources of energy for life?

William de Gelsey MA., KCSG, Chairman, Gedeon Richter plc, Senior Advisor, UniCredit Bank AG

William de Gelsey, a British subject, the son of the late Baron & Baroness Henry de Gelsey, was educated at the Royal Catholic University Public School (KirKat), Budapest and received an MA degree in Natural Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge.

He obtained his industrial experience with Imperial Chemical Industries followed by Management Consulting.

In 1960 Mr de Gelsey changed for a merchant banking career. First he worked as the Managing Director of Hill Samuel & Co., then as Deputy Chairman of Orion Royal Bank, a multinational investment bank. In 1988 he moved to Vienna to be the Senior Advisor to the Board of Creditanstalt, today’s UniCredit.

Following the privatisation of Gedeon Richter, Budapest in 1994 by Creditanstalt’s Hungarian subsidiary, he was invited to join the Board of Richter in 1995 and was made its Chairman in 1999. The Late Pope John Paul II made Mr de Gelsey a ‘Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great’ (KCSG) in 2005 for his services to the Church

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The Hungarian Student College aims to invite guest speakers who the younger generation can look up to as role models. The College 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. 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, to start up culture and entrepreneurship.

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The Hungarian Cultural Centre and the Association of Hungarian Students Abroad (KÜMA), together with the UCLU Hungarian Society have joined to host a special series of events in 2014 with the title Hungarian Student College.

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in having played a significant role in making it possible for the 320-year-old Catholic School ‘KirKat’, which was forced to cease to function between 1948 and 2004, to resume its educational mission. Today the Catholic School is back in its original building with 600 pupils being educated under the auspices of the Archdiocese of EsztergomBudapest. Mr. de Gelsey was awarded the Knight Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary in 2011.

H.E. Péter Szabadhegy’s ancestors in Hungary have a long lineage of governmental and military backgrounds. Ten generations ago in 1686, for example, János Szabadhegy received the title of nobility from King Leopold for his heroic deeds in the battles against the Turks. His parents left Hungary in 1956 meeting and marrying in New York, meaning that Mr Szabadhegy was raised in the US. After graduating with a degree in Accountancy, along with his Masters in Economics from LSE and an MBA from the University of Chicago, he joined Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan) in New York, becoming the company’s youngest Vice President.

In 1991 at the age of 30 he moved to Budapest, restarting his career as a Management Consultant at Deloitte for 13 years. There, he was first responsible for consulting to the Hungarian Banking industry and again became the youngest partner at Deloitte’s Central and Eastern European firm. It was during his time that he also spent two years working at the Embassy of the Order of Malta in Budapest, and established diplomatic ties between Hungary and the Order of Malta, his first experience of diplomacy.

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.

UCLU The UCLU Hungarian Society was formed in January 2014 as an associate body of UCL Student Union with the aim to promote Hungarian cultural, scientific and economic achievements among the students of the university. The Society has around 50 members at present. Its activities cover three broad areas: organising academic, carrier-focused and social activities for students. The Society considers it important to reach out and work with Hungarian students studying at other UK universities such as LSE, King’s College, Imperial Colleg and SOAS.

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

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e FILM, SCREEN TALK & BOOK SIGNING A Moving Image, Joy Batchelor 1914–1991 by Vivien Halas 2014 marks 100 years since Joy Batchelor, the pioneering animator, was born in Watford. The daughter of a commercial artist and a former golf club manageress, Joy was brought up to believe that talent, ambition and hard work were paramount, and that a woman’s place was not necessarily in the home.

A gifted artist, Joy went to art school in Watford and was offered a place at the prestigious Slade School of Art, but unfortunately there was not enough money for her to attend. She found work at an animation studio creating films about a ‘dreadful little koala bear’. Appalled at the quality of the films, she taught herself animation, and soon became so skilled that she trained her colleagues – and was earning more than her father.

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halas & batchelor collection celebrates 100 years since the birth of joy batchelor

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Wednesday | 1 October | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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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 series 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. Throughout its history, the studio always strove to pioneer new styles and techniques from paper cut-out figures to computer animation, and it went on to create more than 2,000 films over 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.

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. 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.

Vivien Halas will present her limited edition publication A Moving Image, Joy Batchelor 1914–1991, which celebrates Joy’s energy and talent, and acknowledges her considerable achievements. Her critical eye ensured that standards at Halas & Batchelor Cartoons were high. Her drawing style shaped the studio, as did her talent for script writing and being able to take difficult subjects and make them accessible and entertaining.

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e JAZZ

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung calls him an “improviser of overwhelming independence,” saying he plays “as fast as Coltrane”. And yet the Hungarian saxophone player Gábor Bolla, born in 1988, has never seen the inside of the music academy; he taught himself all the skills he has on the tenor saxophone. After practising on the tenor horn for only six months, he was selected for the Getxo Jazz Festival in Bilbao, Spain.

At the age of 15 he was nominated for the semi-final of the highly prestigious saxophone competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Many doors opened after that. He was invited to play as a guest soloist for the world-famous Vienna Art Orchestra and played with US stars such as Johnny Griffin and Kirk Lightsey. In 2004, Bolla won the Hans Koller Prize, the Austrian Grammy, as “Talent of the Year” and in 2005 he won the audience and jury prize at the Jazz Festival in Avignon. For his debut on Europe’s biggest jazz label, ACT Records, his album “Find Your Way” invokes on the one hand the spirit of American jazz and, at the same time, the roots of his Hungarian homeland. Echoes of Django Reinhardt, Bartók, Monk, Rollins, Coltrane and even Stevie Wonder fuse in his music into a totally mesmerizing individual sound. Gábor Bolla will be playing with some of the best British jazz musicians on the London scene.

Pianist Tim Lapthorn leads his own trio with Arnie Somogyi and Stephen Keogh and also plays piano in groups led by amongst others singer Ian Shaw, bassist Arnie Somogyi (Ambulance featuring Eddie Henderson), saxophonist Frank Griffith and, BBC Jazz Award Nominee, singer Polly Gibbons. Tim's many influences include Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk and Stevie Wonder. Bass player Steve Watts, founding member of the group Exhibit A is an inspired, creative musician who is strongly influenced by anything that he hears. Winston Clifford one of Britain’s leading jazz drummers, an incredibly subtle player who makes his instrument sing.

Has played with the best of them, including Courtney Pine, Bheki Mseleku, Jason Rebello, Gary Husband, Pete King, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Iain Ballamy, Ronnie Scott Band, Julian Joseph, Andy Sheppard, Steve Williamson Band, Jean Toussaint Band, Slim Gaillard, Bobby Watson, Monty Alexander, Gary Bartz, Art Farmer, Archie Shepp, Freddie Hubbard etc. 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

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Gábor Bolla jazz saxophonist in London

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Thursday | 2 October | 8.30pm ≥ 606 Jazz Club ✉ 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD

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Friday | 3 October | 11am – 11.45am ≥ 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 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 | 8 October | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e LITERATURE hungarian holocaust memorial year

All that Still Matters at All Selected Poems of Miklós Radnóti, translated by John M. Ridland and Peter V. Czipott (New American Press, Milwaukee, 2014) British poet Stephen Watts in conversation with translator Peter V. Czipott Hungary knows Miklós Radnóti (1909–1944) as one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Abroad, Radnóti is known primarily as one of the great chroniclers of the

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Monday | 13 October | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÉES Introducing Zsuzsa Vámosi-Nagy 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 postgraduate 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.

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Peter V. Czipott was born in California to Hungarian émigré parents. Receiving his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in physics from the University of California, San Diego, he has pursued a research career in industry, working mainly on development of innovative sensors for medical diagnostics and the detection of concealed threats and contraband. He has collaborated with California poet John Ridland since 2002, publishing translations of Balassi, Radnóti, Márai, Reményik, Faludy and others in journals in the USA, UK and Australia.

In 2010, Dr. Czipott received the Bálint Balassi Memorial Medallion for services to Hungarian culture. Last year, Alma Classics (Richmond, UK) published Ridland and Czipott’s translations of selected poems by Sándor Márai as The Withering World. At present, Czipott and Ridland are working on translating the poetry of Dezsô Kosztolányi.

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Holocaust, which took his life. However, his poetic maturity began more than a decade before World War II and encompasses a much wider range. In their volume, the translators have taken care to present a more extensive overview of Radnóti’s oeuvre, while including all the late poems that comprise his literary testament. Over the course of the past decade, they had the opportunity to present samples of their work more than once to Radnóti’s muse and widow, the recently deceased Fanni Gyarmati, who reviewed their efforts with a keen critical eye and ear. This evening, one month before the seventieth anniversary of the poet’s death, introduces this new bilingual Radnóti collection to the UK. British poet Stephen Watts will engage co-translator Peter Czipott in a conversation about Radnóti’s life and work, as well as the delights, frustrations and dangers of translating poetry.

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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. programme Gaubert: Troisième Sonate pour Flu ˆte et Piano 1. Allegretto 2. Intermède pastoral 3. Final Debussy: Rêverie Reinecke: Sonata “Undine” Op. 167 1. Allegro 2. Intermezzo. Allegretto vivace 3. Andante tranquillo 4. Finale. Allegro molto agitato ed appassionato, quasi Presto.

Ian Clark: Touching the Ether Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso

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.

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.

South African born pianist Anne Marshall has established herself as a leading accompanist based in London. Anne has a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal College of Music in Advanced Performance, with accompaniment as principal study, where her teachers were Andrew Ball and Roger Vignoles. She was a recipient of an Associated Board Scholarship, and received bursaries from both the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust and the Apollo Music Trust going on to become an Accompanist Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music, supported by the Anthony Saltmarsh Trust. Previous studies include a Masters degree in performing arts from Pretoria University, studying

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Monday | 27 October | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e BOOK LAUNCH UK launch of Márton Szepsi Csombor’s Europica Varietas published in English by Corvina Press, 2014, translated into English

by Bernard Adams and introduced by Wendy Bracewell Wendy Bracewell and Bernard Adams talk about the first travel book written in Hungarian The Hungarian Cultural Centre and Corvina Press Budapest are pleased to jointly present to UK audiences the first complete English language translation of Márton Szepsi Csombor’s Europica Varietas.

Márton Csombor was born in 1595 in Szepsi (Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia) and left in 1616 to study in Gdansk, making the 700-mile journey on foot. In April 1618 he set out on the tour described in this book, returning to Szepsi in August. He was ordained in the Calvinist Church and in 1619 became a schoolmaster in Kassa (Košice, Slovakia).

Europica Varietas, the first travel book written in Hungarian, first appeared in 1620.

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under Professor Joseph Stanford. Anne has accompanied many distinguished artists, including Samuel Coles – principal of the London Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorna McGhee – principal of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Hoskuldsson – principal of the Metropolitan Orchestra New York, and she is a is a regular accompanist for Sir James Galway, too. As a solo pianist, Anne has performed with a number of international orchestras including the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, the Youth Festival Orchestra of the Czech Republic, and the Orchestra of the University of Pretoria. Recent broadcasts include accompanying Sir James Galway in February 2014 and August 2012 live on the BBC Radio 3 program “In Tune”, and appearing on Summit TV, South Africa, in April 2011.

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Such is the vitality and sparkle of Márton Szepsi Csombor’s intensely personal narrative that even now the first Hungarian travelogue still holds a strong appeal for the modern reader, and the success that greeted its publication four hundred years ago comes as no surprise. In the first complete translation of the work into English, the youthful author stands out as a vibrant, energetic personality, a shrewd observer and commentator with a lively interest in the variety of the places that he visits and the people that he meets. His intention of sharing his experiences with his compatriots was amply achieved, and it is much to be regretted that in 1622, at the age of only twenty-seven, the plague deprived him of further opportunities for travel and us of the chance to read about them.

Bernard Adams was born in 1937 in the English West Midlands. He was educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1991 he retired from teaching to concentrate on translating Hungarian literature, and lives in Zánka, Hungary.

Wendy Bracewell is Professor of Southeast European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, London, and director of a long-running research project, ‘East Looks West’, that deals with East European travel writing about Europe, 1550 to 2000. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Wednesday | 29 October | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e LITERATURE Magyars and makars: Tom Hubbard and Zsuzsanna Varga in conversation about Scottish and Hungarian poetry

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Tom Hubbard, novelist, poet and scholar of Scottish literature has held professorships in Scottish and Comparative Literature at the Universities of Connecticut and Grenoble. His interest in Hungarian poetry stems from a meeting with the Hungarian poet and literary historian Gyôzô Ferencz in Belgium. He has also taught at Eötvös University in Budapest. His fiction bears the mark of his passion for reading literary works in a comparative context, attested to by his novel Marie B. (Ravenscraig Press, 2008), based on the life of the Ukrainian-born painter Marie Bashkirtseff.

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Tom and Zsuzsa have worked on Scottish-Hungarian translation projects for over a decade, first for the volume of Hungarian poetry translated into the languages of Scotland (At the end of the broken bridge, Manchester: Carcanet, 2005) and then the historical anthology of Scottish poetry in Hungarian translation Skót bárdok-magyar költôk (Budapest: Ráció, 2007). They will be discussing their collaborations, including their working methods in translation and editing. The programme will include a poetic tribute to the painter Csontváry and a few of Tom’s own poems translated into Hungarian. With the Scots dimension this becomes not a bilingual but a trilingual event. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Thursday | 30 October | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e TALK the british hungarian fellowship presents

Távlatot kapott az élet (A Life in Perspective): The Hungarian-French sculptor Ervin Pátkai (1937–1985) A memorial evening with Rev. Róbert Pátkai and Mátyás Sárközi The Rt. Rev. Robert Patkai, brother of the artist and Mátyás Sárközi, a widely respected London-based Hungarian writer, will present a personal account of Ervin Pátkai’s life and career on the occasion that a new book has been recently released about the Hungarian-French sculptor, published by the Pátkai-Talent Program of the Lutheran Secondary School and Art School of Békéscsaba. The Békéscsaba-born Ervin Pátkai,

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Zsuzsanna Varga studied in her native Budapest and in Scotland, where she took her doctorate in Scottish literature. She researched comparative literature at the University of Essex and UCL, and she has taught Hungarian studies at the University of Glasgow since 2008. Her research interests focus around the concept of travel: of writers, ideas and texts. She has also compiled a bibliography of Hungarian literature in English translation, and regularly reviews Hungarian fiction for the TLS.

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His second novel, The Lucky Charm of Major Bessop has just been published by Grace Note Publications of Crieff, Scotland. It is subtitled ‘a grotesque mystery of Fife’ – and indeed his penchant for grotesquerie may owe as much to his mainland European background as to his Scottishness, perhaps even more. Tom’s poetry has appeared in recent book-length poetry collections, such as The Chagall Winnocks (2011) and Parapets and Labyrinths (2013). Tom is passionate about testing the capacities of the Scots language for modern poetic purposes.

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who left Hungary after the 1956 revolution, is remembered through the memoirs of friends, relatives and contemporaries in the book Távlatot kapott az élet (A Life in Perspective).

The twenty-year-old Ervin Pátkai fled from Hungary to France in 1956 and settled in Paris where he soon started his studies at the École des Beaux Arts’ Sculpture Department. After his graduation, he participated in the II. Paris Biennale in 1961 with his monumental public art sculpture, the Kozmosz, for which he was given the Grand Prix of the year. The artwork was purchased and also exhibited for many years by the Musée d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris. From his grant money, Ervin Pátkai sponsored the Magyar Mûhely, the art journal of Hungarian immigrants in France, which was founded by Hungarian artist in 1962.

The public art sculpture works of Ervin Pátkai completely match the leading tendencies of the 1960s emerging post-modern conceptualism. Pátkai’s large-scale ferroconcrete artworks are built around one or more axis with labyrinthine paths, which are comparable to an imagined Tower of Babel. Pátkai was elected as member of the selection committee of the Paris Biennale in 1967, and by this time he had already exhibited at several group and international art shows.

He started lecturing at the Université Paris Sorbonne in 1970. Later he was invited as member of the art committee of the new urban construction, ’Le Pavé Neuf’. His oeuvre has been acknowledged by the French ’Legion of Honour’ Order. He died unexpectedly in Paris in 1985.

In 2006 the Hungarian University of Fine Art organized an exhibition of Ervin Pátkai’s artworks and this recently released book finally summerizes his unique artistic approach in the context of such already widely appreciated Hungarian immigrants in France as Judit Reigl, Victor Vasarely, Simon Hantai and Tibor Csernus.  Please note that this event is in Hungarian. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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e LECTURE the british hungarian fellowship presents

Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were neighbours for almost 500 years, and the relations between the two varied greatly through that time—often obviously hostile but also, on a more everyday level, mutually beneficial. One indication of the extent of Hungarian-Ottoman contact lies in the surprising number of Hungarians who lived in Ottoman lands. Some of the Hungarians who left Habsburg territory for refuge in the Ottoman Empire after 1848, including Lajos Kossuth, are still widely remembered, but most ‘Ottoman’ Hungarians are much less known today. Frederick Anscombe will talk about a few of these less-recognized figures and their contributions to Ottoman life, highlighting in particular İbrahim Müteferrika, a native of Kolozsvár who established the first printing press in the empire in 1728.

Born in the US, Frederick Anscombe holds degrees from Yale University and Princeton University, but he has lived in various countries of Europe and the Middle East for most of the last 30 years. Currently he is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at Birkbeck, University of London, and his research interests focus primarily upon the history of Arab and Balkan lands since the late seventeenth century. Among his publications are State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands (2014), The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar (1997), and The Ottoman Balkans 1750–1830 (edited volume, 2006). 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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Hungarians in the Ottoman Empire

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Thursday | 6 November | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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Friday | 7 November | 11am – 11.45am ≥ 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 October on page 12 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 | 10 November | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÉES Introducing Rita Schindler harpist Hungarian harpist Rita Schindler is establishing a reputation as a notable musician whose playing has been described as being ‘beguiled with a broad range of colours’.

She has given solo and chamber music recitals for a wide range of audiences and has provided entertainment for British and foreign royalties including HRH the Prince of Wales. Rita has performed professionally with numerous orchestras in Britain and across Europe, most notably with the highly acclaimed City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Welsh National programme Opera and the Mid Wales Opera Company. As a soloist, A. Mudarra Rita has performed harp concertos with the Birmingham Fantasia que contrahace Chamber Orchestra, the Central England Ensemble and the la harpa de Ludovico Solihull Symphony Orchestra.

J. Dowland Lacrimae Antique Pavan P. Hindemith Sonata for Harp G. Faure Impromptu for Harp, Op.86 Ph. Hersant Bamyan C. Salzedo Variations of a Theme in an Ancient Style

Rita began to sing and play the piano at the age of eight.

At twelve she was accepted to Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choir School in Budapest, where she later began her harp studies and in 2004 she was a prize-winner at the Hungarian National Harp Competition. Rita began her undergraduate harp studies in 2007 with Catherine White at Birmingham Conservatoire, where she was awarded a scholarship. During her undergraduate years, Rita became a member of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's youth orchestra. In 2008 Rita was selected to be a Young

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Artist of the Royal Philharmonic Society and became a recipient of a Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Foundation Award. In 2010 Rita won first prize with distinction in the chamber music competition at the North London Festival of Music and Drama, and in 2012 she won the Concerto Competition of the Central England Ensemble.

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Rita has taken part in master classes with renowned harpists including Isabelle Perrin, Karen Vaughan, Gabriella Dall'Olio, Skaila Kanga, Milda Agazarian, Irina Zingg and Sioned Williams. Alongside her flourishing professional career, Rita is currently earning her Artist Masters in Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London under the guidance of Imogen Barford.

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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

1–15 November ≥ The Place ✉ 17 Duke's Road, London WC1H 9PY e DANCE CURRENCY 2014 The Place and Crying Out Loud, in partnership with the European Commission and with the support of EUNIC, curate in London a festival of fresh-thinking from the edges of European performance. This isnʼt straightforward dance, circus or theatre but performance that blurs the borders of all three.

These are ideas and forms that swap between people and places and land somewhere new.

Currency is about exchange with added interest.

Hungary is represented at Currency 2014 by Viktória Dányi, Csaba Molnár and Tamara Zsófia Vadas, performing their cutting-edge production ‘Skin me’ on Wednesday 12 November.

Viktória Dányi, Csaba Molnár and Tamara Zsófia Vadas are three young contemporary dancers who started working together in the Bloom! dance company.

Their first piece entitled ’The End Is Near’ premiered in 2012. This time they are working independently from the company, as individual artists, staging an original piece based on highly personal ideas. Two young experimental musicians have also joined the creative process both as composers and active participants of the performance: Ádám Czitrom and Áron Porteleki. Δ For booking and further information please visit www.theplace.org.uk.

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

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e LECTURE

MAGYAR MIND

Hungarian explorers: Sir Aurel Stein

Open Lecture Series

By Helen Wang, Curator of East Asian Money, British Museum The Hungarian Cultural Centre’s highly successful MAGYAR MIND Open Lecture Series continues this season! British experts shed light on various aspects of Hungarian art and culture. The lectures are open to all and they cover Hungarian fine art, history, photography, cinema, fashion, architecture, language, literature and music among many others.

Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) was born in Budapest in 1862. He studied Sanskrit, Old Persian, Indology and philology at the universities of Vienna, Leipzig and Tübingen, and map-making as part of his military service in Budapest, before setting out for a career in India. His formal positions from 1888 onwards were as registrar of Punjab University and principal of the Oriental College, Lahore and principal of the Calcutta Madrasah. But his real passion was the exploration of Central Asia, China, India and the Middle East.

Stein carried out three expeditions (the fourth was aborted) to the western regions of China between 1900 and 1916, where he not only conducted archaeological excavations, but also geographical and ethnographical surveys and photographing.

Today, he is especially famous for 'discovering' the library cave at the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang.

Stein adopted British nationality in 1904 and he was knighted for his contribution to Central Asian studies. In 1943, when he was in his 80s, Stein embarked on his long-awaiting expedition to Afghanistan, but died in Kabul a week after his arrival in the country.

Stein’s Silk Road expeditions were funded by various institutions for which he promised to collect archaeological and textual artefacts. The intention was that the finds would eventually be allocated proportionately to the funders. Stein’s first expedition (1900–01) was funded by the Government of India and the Government of Punjab and Bengal, and it was agreed that the finds should be studied in London and allocated to specific museums later.

Helen Wang looks after the Museum’s collection of East Asian coins and banknotes.

Her special interests include the archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein (1862–1943), his extensive collections, the Silk Road and the use of textiles as money. She has also published other lesser known aspects of the British Museum’s East Asian money

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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

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collection: for example, Chinese secret society money and membership certificates; the logistics of transporting copper for coinage in nineteenth century China; paper money design in Shanghai in the 1900s; bronze token money of Jiangsu province in the 1930s; images of Mao Zedong on Chinese money in the twentieth century.

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Tuesday | 25 November | 7pm (Private view) ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA e EXHIBITION hungarian holocaust memorial year

From Olympic Games to Death Exhibition and Remembrance The exhibition pays tribute to those Hungarian Olympic champions, athletes and sports leaders of Jewish origin who died during the Holocaust. To those who because of their origin as inmates of a labour camp in Hungary or on front lines in the Second World War or as prisoners in concentration camps suffered the death of martyrs.

The exhibition accompanies them along their career throughout their glorious days of success until their discrimination, deprivation and death.

The exhibition also aims to show how important the role of Jewish athletes was in the creation of the Hungarian and international Olympic movement, in its popularization and booming Hungarian and international sports life. Visitors will be introduced to the main line of the Olympic champions and athletes such as Attila Petschauer, János Garai, dr Oszkár Gerde, András Székely, József Braun and Endre Kabos, not forgetting about the Chess Olympics champions such as Endre Steiner and Lajos Steiner.

attila petschauer

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There were also patrons and sports leaders of Jewish origin who took a share in creating the institutional infrastructure of Hungarian and international sports life and then became martyrs. Just to mention Ferenc Kemény, who was the founder of the International Olympic Committee and the Hungarian Olympic Committee while also the brother–in–arms of baron Pierre Coubertin. The legendary sports reporter and journalist Alfréd Brüll should not be forgotten either, who was not only the leader and patron of MTK – the Hungarian Physical Training Circle – but also the chairman of the Hungarian Swimming Association, the Hungarian and the International Wrestling Association and one of the founders of the Hungarian Football Association. Thus Brüll played an important part in the foundation of several sports, in which later Hungarian athletes became successful.

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The VAC – Fencing and Athletics Club – which was founded in 1906 and during the dark periods of history pursued and banned, would play a significant role. It was a definitely Jewish sports club in Budapest, with thousands of Jewish sportsmen and sportswomen, Hungarian champions, members of Hungarian sports teams during decades, among whom several people died during the Holocaust.

The VAC still exists in Budapest under the name „ MACCABI VAC”.

This a good opportunity now to revive the memory of martyrs who were forgotten undeservedly and – taking advantage of the international interest – to organize an extraordinary exhibition, with series of programs, full of information and special materials which haven’t been shown yet. We will dedicate a significant role to younger generations involving them in order to let them know about Hungarian sportsmen and sports leaders of Jewish origin, who laid down the base of the Hungarian olimpic successes and sports glories in the Modern Era. They finished their mortal span undeservedly, deprived of their dignity, in some cases suffered a death by torture, and their memory was let tarnished in the past sixty years.

Curators: dr. Lajos Szabó, György Szász, Ádám Jusztin Director: György Szász Exhibition open: 25 Nov – 10 Dec 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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Juli Fábián in London

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Thursday | 27 November | 8.30pm ≥ 606 Jazz Club ✉ 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD Friday | 28 November | 7.30pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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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. 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

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Announcing the winner of the Award For Hungarian Culture in the UK In January 2014 the Hungarian Cultural Centre invited cultural and educational organisations for the third time to submit their applications for its Award For Hungarian Culture in the UK. The winner of the award will be announced before the Advent concert, which will thus also celebrate Hungarian culture and the award-winner.

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Advent Concert Featuring the Joyful Company of Singers conducted by Peter Broadbent

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Monday | 1 December ≥ St Paul’s Church ✉ Bedford St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9ED

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This year’s Advent Concert presents one of Europe’s most prominent chamber choirs, the Joyful Company of Singers (JCS), which is renowned for its virtuosity and intensity of spirit, as well as for an astoundingly wide repertoire, ranging from the 16th century to the present day. This time the JCS offers a musical journey through popular pieces of Hungarian choir literature by Zoltán Kodály and contemporary Hungarian pieces by Miklós Csemiczky and Péter Tóth. Our audience will also have the opportunity to join in with the choir when singing well-known English and Hungarian Christmas carols.

The Joyful Company of Singers was formed in 1988 by conductor Peter Broadbent to perform a diverse repertoire throughout the year in London and further afield.

An important element of Joyful Company’s raison d’être is its commitment to contemporary and new music, including a high proportion of first performances, and supported by several highly successful educational projects. Many composers have written music for Joyful Company such as Michael Berkeley, Judith Bingham, Roxanna Panufnik and Malcolm Williamson among others.

The Joyful Company first came to prominence when it won the Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition in 1990. Since then it has maintained its profile in the music world, winning an impressive list of national and international competitions leading to many invitations. JCS regularly appears at major UK music festivals, including Bath, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Chelsea, Presteigne, Spitalfields, Three Choirs, Huddersfield Contemporary Music and the BBC Proms. Equally prominent in Europe, JCS has performed at festivals in France, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Russia, broadcasting in many countries as well as on BBC and Classic FM. The choir and Peter Broadbent were honoured to receive the “Guidoneum Award” from the Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo in recognition of its achievements and promotion of choral music. In the USA, JCS has given concerts at Stanford University, in Los Angeles and San Diego, and appeared at the National Convention of the American Choral Directors’ Association, in Texas.

Performances with orchestras include many with the City of London Sinfonia with the late Richard Hickox and with Sir Mark Elder, Nicholas Kraemer and Stuart Bedford, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Sir Andrew Davies), the BBC Concert Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, etc.

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St Paul's Church, also commonly known as the Actors' Church, was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission by Francis Russell. As well as being the parish church of Covent Garden, it gained its nickname by a long association with the theatre community. The Hungarian Cultural Centre organised its first highly successful Advent concert in St Paul's Church in 2012 and we are returning this year with another fantastic concert programme and famous London-based choir singing pieces of Hungarian composers. 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

Friday | 5 December | 11am – 11.45am ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre ✉ 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA 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 October on page 12. 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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In 2003 he conducted an Atelier at the XV Europa Cantat in Barcelona, and in 2006 the world Youth Choir in their Summer session, giving concerts in Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Germany. He adjudicates at International Choral Competitions all over Europe and in the UK. He gives seminars and masterclasses in the UK, France, Italy, South Africa, the USA and Canada. In 2007 he was awarded the “Pro Cultura Hungarica” Prize by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Hungary for his contribution to strengthening Anglo-Hungarian cultural relations.

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Peter Broadbent is one of Britain’s leading choral conductors, enjoying a versatile career with an extensive repertoire ranging from Baroque Music performed on period instruments to contemporary music, including many first performances. Broadbent has conducted the London Mozart Players, Divertimenti Chamber Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia, the Southern Sinfonia, the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra, Apollo Voices and the BBC Singers, broadcasting frequently on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Engagements outside the UK include concerts with the Debrecen Philharmonic Orchestra & Kodály Chorus in Hungary and a broadcast with the National Chamber Choir in Dublin.

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maosz (national federation of hungarians in the uk)

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27 Sept, 6pm ≥ Reformed House, 17 St Dunstan’s Road, London, W6 8RD

7 Sept, 1pm ≥ SS Peter and Paul Church, 38 Camborne Avenue, London, W13 9QZ

Annual General Meeting

The Feast of St Stephen of Hungary

o Free but booking is required. Please

Sung Mass at 1pm. Celebrant and preacher: Dr. György Jakubinyi, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Julia, Transylvania. The St Stephen Choir will perform during the Mass.

Conductor: Gergely Kaposi. Liturgy will be followed by lunch at St Stephen House (62 Little Ealing Lane, W5 4EA). We will also be celebrating the 60th Anniversary of ARKME (Association of Roman Catholics in Great Britain).

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25 Oct, 6pm ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EA Remembering the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 o Free entry. For more information please email martalindop@hotmail.com

the hungarian reformed church in the uk Every Sunday, 5pm ≥ Reformed House, 17 St Dunstan’s Road, London, W6 8RD Worship and Sunday School for children Every first Sunday of the month, 3pm ≥ Reformed House, 17 St Dunstan’s Road, London, W6 8RD Women’s Circle 7 Sept, 5pm ≥ Reformed House, 17 St Dunstan’s Road, London, W6 8RD First worship in the new academic year 29 Nov, 12am–3pm ≥ St Stephen House, 62 Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EA Chirstmas Market o For more information on the Hungarian Reformed Church’s programme please call 02087488858

o Advanced booking only.

For tickets please visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/111940 or call 07858399572

27 Sept, 6pm till midnight ≥ St Stephen House, London Autumn Ball With three course dinner, live music, folk dance presentation and raffle prizes. o Advanced booking only.

For tickets please visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/111940 or call 07858399572

25 Oct, 6pm ≥ St Stephen House, London Remembering the Hungarian Uprising of 1956

cambridge szeged society programme All October ≥ Museum of Cambridge Hungarian Embroidery Exhibition 11 Oct, 7.30 pm ≥ West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge Howard Williams dir. Hungarian Concert – Cambridge Sinfonia Orchestra: Kodály – Háry János, Bartók – Piano Concerto 3 , with Ervin Nagy, Seiber – Viola Elegy, with Penny Veryard.

12 Oct ≥ Fitzwilliam College Chapel, Cambridge Tyrone Landau (tenor) & Geoffrey Morris (guitar), perform lunchtime concert CD launch; A most attractive occupation: Seiber Folk Song Cycles (CDs on sale) 18 Nov ≥ ARU, East Road, Cambridge Film evening: Károly Makk’s Another Way or a Mikós Jancsó film o For further information on the Cambridge Szeged Society programme please visit www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk

o For further information please contact the MAOSZ Director, Márta Lindop: martalindop@hotmail.com 8 Nov, 6pm till midnight ≥ St Stephen House, London Disznótoros Lakoma (Pigfest) With dinner, live music, folk dance and raffle prizes. o Advanced booking only.

For tickets please visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/111940 or call 07858399572

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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oxford hungarian society michaelmas term 2014 17 Oct, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College Nick Thorpe: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest

hungarian cultural association’s programme 13 Sep 10am–1.30pm OPEN DAY 27 Sep, 11 & 25 Oct, 8 & 29 Nov, 6 Dec 10am–1.30pm ≥ HCA Guildford, Surrey Educational activities for children on Saturdays

21 Sep, 10.30am–2pm ≥ Alice Holt Forest Farnham Surrey Community event I Autumn 10 km cycling and 5 km walking challenge for all

Nick Thorpe, a BBC journalist and film maker based in Budapest, introduces his book about the Danube (Yale, 2013)

Hungarian language, music, folkdance, craft, play groups for children (0–14 yrs’ old)

and their parents, parking fees apply.

Advanced booking only.

24 Oct, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

3 Oct, 7 Nov, 5 Dec, 11–11.45am ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre

Judit Bródy: Ancient Networking – Letterwriting from the 15th to the 20th century

Kodály-based Singing and Music Groups for Children (0–5 yrs’ old) and their families

Cultural event I Hungarian traditions – Celebrating St Nicolaus Day

Judit was a science librarian and is an author of several books

o Tickets: £6.50 /1st child, £4.00 /2nd

7 Nov, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College Trevor Haydu-Jones: ‘Lost Property-One Coronet’ The story of the Margit crown currently in the Nemzeti Múzeum in Budapest and the provenance of which has been obscure.

21 Nov, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College A discussion of the book The Door (Az Ajtó) by Magda Szabó (translated by Len Rix) 28 Nov, 8pm ≥ Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College An evening of Jazz with singer Katalin Sztankovics o For further information please visit www.hungsoc.com

o Free for HCA enrolled children

6 Dec, 11am–2pm

o free for HCA enrolled children and their parents, £8.00/guests.

Advanced booking only

child. 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 contact Maria Chambers.

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

13 & 27 Sep, 11 & 25 Oct, 8 & 29 Nov, 6 Dec, 10am–1.30pm ≥ HCA, Guildford, Surrey Hungarian language groups for adults on Saturdays o Tickets: please contact Maria Chambers for fee information.

Advanced booking only.

Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mobile: 00 44 7843 054 940 maria.chambers@hcaguildford.org.uk 15 & 29 Sep, 13 Oct, 3 & 17 Nov, 1 Dec, 8–10pm ≥ HCA, Guildford, Surrey Hungarian folkdance and folk singing group o Tickets: please contact Maria Chambers for fee information.

Advanced booking only.

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

scalarama September Various venues across the UK

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Scalarama in association with A Nos Amours present Béla Tarr’s touchstone of durational cinema – Sátántangó in a brand new 35mm print. This legendary film, running at just over 7 hours, deals with the collapse of a collectivised Sovietera farm in rural Hungary. o For more information please visit www.scalarama.com

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stage in london

For further information please visit www.stageinlondon.com

5 Sep, 7pm ≥ Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8EP

19 Nov, 7pm ≥ Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8EP

2 Dec, 7pm ≥ Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8EP

Soma Mamagésa: Self-confidence, self-love, self-healing

Péter Kálloy-Molnár: Ôsember ‘Caveman’

Prof. Dr. Emôke Bagdy’s lecture

o Tickets: £22, in advance £18.

A one-man play about relationships between men and women.

london hungarian symphony orchestra (lhso) 26 Oct, 6pm ≥ St John’s Waterloo Church

o Tickets: £22, in advance £18.

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

6 Dec, 7.30pm ≥ St John’s Waterloo Church

11 Jan 2015, 6pm ≥ Venue TBC

’Memorial Day’ Concert

Christmas Concert

New Year’s Gala Concert

Programme: Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Hubay: Violin Concert No. 2, soloist: Vilmos Oláh, Beethoven: Symphony No. 5. Conducted by Edward Farmer.

Programme: Flute and Harp Concert, soloists: Edit Paulik (flute) and Rita Schindler (harp), Surprise composer: guitar concert (based on Kodálymotifs), soloist: Gábor Podhorszky, Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker. Conducted by Edward Farmer.

Programme includes Strauss and other popular classical music pieces.

o Tickets: £15, concession : £12 Tickets in advance: £12, concession: £9

o Tickets: £15, concession : £12 Tickets in advance: £12, concession: £9

THE HUNGARIAN CULTURAL CENTRE IS SEEKING STUDENT AMBASSADORS TO PROMOTE HUNGARIAN CULTURE AT THEIR OWN UNIVERSITIES IN THE UK

HUNGARIAN CULTURE CALLING! D o you have what it takes to be an ambassador?

A re you passionate about H ungarian culture?

A re you ready to share it at your own U niversity?

Then why not apply for the position of H ungarian Student A mbassador in the U K!

P lea se send us a n em a il with yo ur CV a nd m o tiva tio n letter by Friday 14 November.

F o r fur ther info rm a tio n plea se v isit o ur website www.hungary.org.uk

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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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