Hungarian Cultural Centre - Programme Brochure Apr-Aug 2015

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The Story of Somebody Nobodysdaughter’s Raincloud

by Kätlin Kaldmaa, illustrated by Jacqueline Molnár

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13 May ≥ page 18 masterclass Masterclass with Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó

18 June ≥ page 29 children & families Kodály-based music sessions for children and their families

14 & 15 May ≥ page 19 • jazz World-class pianist Béla Szakcsi Lakatos in London

18 June ≥ page 29 • talk Hungarian travellers to colonial Bengal – Lecture by Professor Imre Bangha

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9 Apr ≥ page 5 • exhibition Crisscross Stories – Estonian and Hungarian Fairy Tales Illustrations 16 Apr ≥ page 7 • literature The Anglo-Hungarian Poet Ferenc Békássy – Talk by George Gömöri

18 May ≥ page 20 • monday music soirées The Lanner Quartet’s Musical Treat at HCC

17 Apr ≥ page 8 • exhibition Tamás Dezsô: Notes For An Epilogue

19 May ≥ page 20 • concert The Lanner Quartet’s Musical Treat in Oxford

21 Apr ≥ page 10 • lecture Hungarian musical life in the shadow of Nazism; the work of OMIKE’s Artist Action – Talk by Ágnes Kôry

20 May ≥ page 21 • lecture Voltaire as European celebrity: from England to Hungary – Talk by Professor Nicholas Cronk

23 Apr ≥ page 11 • children & families Kodály-based music sessions for children and their families

20 May ≥ page 22 • concert Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra

28 Apr ≥ page 12 • concert Dóra Kokas – Violoncello

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21 May ≥ page 23 • children & families Kodály-based music sessions for children and their families 21 May ≥ page 23 lecture Bartók’s Travels – Talk by Roy Rashbrook

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Statutes, Constitutions and a Golden Bull: Early European Parallels to Magna Carta

By Graham Loud, Martyn Rady, Miri Rubin and Nicholas Vincent 24 June ≥ page 31 • lecture The Hungarian Excavations in the Royal Palace of Tetrarch Herod Antipas at the Dead Sea, where Saint John the Baptist was Beheaded – By Gyôzô Vörös

july 16, 17, 22, 23 July ≥ • concert UK Tour of Bohém Ragtime Band

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2 May – 20 June ≥ • exhibition Forma Hungarica

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6 May ≥ page 15 • children & families Kodály-based music sessions for children and their families 10–12 May ≥ page 15 design Hungarian designers at Pulse London 2015

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12 May ≥ page 16 • film + q & a White God (2014) Q&A with award-winning director Kornél Mundruczó

june 1 June ≥ page 25 • monday music soirées Piano recital of Somang Jeagal from South Korea 4 June ≥ page 27 • children & families Kodály-based music sessions for children and their families 4 June ≥ page 27 • literature Pixel by Krisztina Tóth at ELN Translation Pitch

august 13–16 August ≥ page 34 • opera The Edinburgh International Festival presents: The Marriage of Figaro Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer 18 August ≥ page 35 • concert The Edinburgh International Festival presents: Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra

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By launching the Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture project in October 2014, the Hungarian Cultural Centre wanted to inspire and motivate university students to promote Hungarian culture in the United Kingdom as Student Ambassadors at their universities. The call was open to students enrolled at any of the accredited colleges or universities in the United Kingdom.

The selection process had two rounds. After the first, written round the successful candidates proved their capabilities through a Skype presentation when they had the opportunity to elaborate on their action plans. On 26 January 2014 we announced the two winners: Nóra Kelemen from the Universtiy of Glasgow and Márk Kendernay from the University of Bath. Our Student Ambassadors were appointed by HE Péter Szabadhegy Ambassador of Hungary in London, Dr Beáta Pászthy Director of the Hungarian Cultural Centre, Gyöngyi Végh Head of Programming and Communications and Barbara Révész Leader of the Project.

Nóra Kelemen the university of glasgow The very first thought I recall having when I saw the announcement of the project of Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture was the enormous excitement and the immediate rush of ideas. As my field of study closely relates to politics and diplomacy, I submitted my application in the belief that my enthusiasm, my previous experience and my commitment would help me achieve the aims set in my action plan.

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As a Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture I believe that cultural diplomacy has an important role to play in building bridges between countries and individuals. I also believe that cultural, science and sports diplomacy is a form of connection building that is done by the individuals rather than political actors. Therefore, as an advocate of the culture of my home country, my responsibility lies in connecting to student communities and inviting them

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INTRODUCING THE STUDENT AMBASSADORS OF HUNGARIAN CULTURE

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to explore Hungarian cultural values. Being appointed with these responsibilities in a country as diverse and multicultural as the UK, and at a university as vibrant as The University of Glasgow, allows me to communicate and build cultural relationships with students from various countries all over the world.

My action plan consists of a set of events and programmes. About half of these were already up and running at the time of my appointment, however the plan includes initiatives which are yet to be implemented. The action plan aims to promote Hungarian film and gastro culture, Hungarian literature, folklore and cultural heritage within the framework of social events, extra-curricular activities, essay writing competitions and newspaper articles. One of the ideas, however, should be set apart from the above, for it was developed with the purpose of encouraging Glasgow students to spend their exchange semesters at one of the partner institutions of the university in Budapest. The idea implies creating a Bon Voyage prospectus which includes all famous art galleries, festivals, student hot-spots, historical sights, pubs, bars, cinemas and theatres in Budapest which could contribute towards a great exchange experience.

I am delighted to be appointed for the role of Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture. The opportunity of being a student ambassador is an opportunity to represent the cultural values of my home country and a great chance to help individuals of other nationalities to discover the richness and diversity of Hungarian culture.

MĂĄrk Kendernay university of bath Defining culture appears to be difficult, perhaps because of its boundless diversity. It covers art, music and traditions in the classical term, however, design and sport among others have also been connected to it recently. In fact, culture is arguably an ever-growing field, it is all around us. The challenges that emerge in other areas, due to this very complexity, provoke the need for change in the cultural world as well. The role of Hungarian culture in this increasingly global context is a question that a student ambassador finds truly fascinating.

I have applied for the project of the Hungarian Cultural Centre because it provides an excellent opportunity for an intellectual adventure while it enables contribution to a larger community.

It is a substantial form of voluntary work.

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Secondly, sport plays an important role in forming and sustaining communities.

After a successful charity run in Brussels organised with the help of local Hungarians in 2013, I would like to take my experiences and create a similar community event addressed to both Hungarians and those interested in Hungarian culture. I believe this philanthropist approach must have an increasing relevance in our image of culture today and in the future.

However, neither of these projects could exist without a broad discussion. The history and culture of Hungary and the United Kingdom have numerous links which can form the basis of this dialogue. As a Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture, I wish to take part as well as encourage others to engage in this dialogue, which can certainly reveal fascinating discoveries for all.

Thursday | 9 April | 6.30pm (private viewing) ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e EXHIBITION Crisscross Stories Estonian and Hungarian Fairy Tales Illustrations The exhibition “Crisscross Stories” presents today’s fairy tales from Hungary and Estonia.

Writers in both countries wrote fairy tales, which were then sent to Hungary to be illustrated. 25 Hungarian artists chose their favourite tale from Estonia, and 25 Estonian artists chose their favourite Hungarian tale.

The Hungarian illustrators were Anna Holló, Kinga Rofusz, Katalin Szegedi, Panni Bodonyi, Gabriella Makhult, Jacqueline Molnár and others. They provided pictures for works by Estonian authors, such as Leelo Tungal, Aidi Vallik, Aino Pervik, Piret Raud, Kätlin Kaldmaa, Kristiina Kass, Tiia Toomet, Kerttu Soans and Jaanus Vaiksoo.

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As a Student Ambassador of Hungarian Culture, my plan for the one-year mandate consists of mainly two projects. Firstly, Budapest in the past years has witnessed a significant increase in tourism, notably among young people. While the city seems to be attractive for short stays, its potential appeal for students and young professionals from the United Kingdom is yet to be discovered. In order to explore this possibility, I co-operate with various parties both from Budapest and Bath, the university I am currently studying Architecture at.

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Having lived more than nine years in international environment and travelled to many places, I have learned that communication is not only key for understanding others, but can provide us with valuable answers about ourselves too. In light of this, cultural diplomacy has a great potential at dynamic places such as universities across the United Kingdom.

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The work of Hungarian writers János Lackfi, Angi Máté, Petra Finy, Péter Dóka and others was illustrated by Viive Noor, Juss Piho, Anne Pikkov, Maara Vint, Regina Lukk-Toompere, Kerttu Sillaste, Katrin Erlich, Urmas Viik, Enno Ootsing, Jüri and Piret Mildeberg and others.

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The Estonian Children’s Literature Centre opened the exhibition in March, which then travelled to Haapsalu, Tapa and Kuressaare. There is also a catalogue in Estonian, Hungarian and English. Cooperation partners are the Centre of Estonian Children’s Literature, Estonian Graphic Designers’ Union, Estonian Institute in Hungary, Hungarian Institute in Estonia and Hungarian children’s magazine Csodaceruza.

The project was supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture, Estonian Cultural Endowment and Estonian Graphic Designers’ Union. The London exhibition was realised through the cooperation of the Embassy of Estonia in London and the Hungarian Cultural Centre London.

Exhibition open: 10–30 April 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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≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

the british–hungarian fellowship presents

The Anglo-Hungarian Poet Ferenc Békássy To mark the Hungarian National Poetry Day – Talk by George Gömöri Ferenc Békássy was born into a family of old Hungarian nobility and educated in England, spending five years in Bedales School and four years in King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote poetry both in English and Hungarian and while his poems in English were included in the anthology Cambridge Poets 1900–1913, his poems in Hungarian were published only posthumously. Whilst in Cambridge Békássy was befriended by the economist John Maynard Keynes and with his recommendation became the first foreign member of the famous debating society ‘Apostles’ in Cambridge.

He and the English poet Rupert Brooke were rivals for the affection of Noël Olivier, whom Békássy had first met at Bedales. Tragically both Békássy and Brooke died in 1915 fighting on opposite sides during World War I. In both cases they wrote their last letter to Noël Olivier.

Ferenc Békássy’s letters to Noël, translated into Hungarian were published by Aranymadár publishers, Budapest, in 2013.

George (György) Gömöri, Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, taught Polish and Hungarian Literature in Cambridge. He is a Hungarian-born poet and translator. In 1956 a university student at ELTE and already a published poet, he was a key figure in the organisation of the student march demanding reforms from the communist regime, which escalated into the Revolution. In November 1956 he left Hungary and became a graduate student in St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Since then he has published over fifty books, including Polishing October, New and Selected Poems and Rózsalovaglás (Riding with Roses), his latest collection of poems in Hungarian in 2014 and a book of essays, A rejtôzködô Balassi (Balassi Hiding) also in October 2014. He is a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Science (Cracow) and has received numerous awards and prizes, the last one of which is the Janus Pannonius Prize for Translation at Pécs, Hungary. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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e LITERATURE

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17 April – 13 June

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≥ The Photographers’ Gallery 16–18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW

Tamás Dezsô: Notes For An Epilogue Print Sales’ Gallery presents Notes for an Epilogue and Here, Anywhere the acclaimed series by Hungarian photographer Tamás Dezsô. This will be the first UK exhibition of Dezsô’s work following his much lauded presentation at Unseen, Amsterdam in 2014.

Notes for an Epilogue and Here, Anywhere are on-going bodies of work depicting a time of transition in rural Romania and across Hungary following the fall of Communism in the late 1980s. The projects comprise images of large-scale, painterly landscapes, derelict factories and life on the periphery of society. With these series Dezsô is not offering portraits of a nation but rather a careful examination of the decaying ruins of the Soviet era, their effects on villages, communities and individuals and the slow disappearance of centuriesold traditions.

Dezsô began his career as a photojournalist for various magazines and daily newspapers before deciding to focus on his own work examining Eastern Europe at a time of major political transition.

Starting in 2009 with Here, Anywhere in his native Hungary, Dezsô turned his attention in 2011 to neighbouring Romania where totalitarianism and forced industrialisation under the rule of Nicolae Ceaucescu took a more aggressive form. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union a series of sweeping political and economic reforms ended decades of physical and intellectual oppression.

Yet the promise of change was soon replaced by disappointment and stagnation as modernisation failed to take hold and unemployment continued to soar.

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Tamás Dezsô was born in 1978, and is based in Budapest.

His work has been exhibited worldwide and has been published in the British Journal of Photography, Sunday Times, New York Times, TIME Magazine, National Geographic, GEO, Le Monde Magazine, Wired, PDN, HotShoe Magazine, and many others. He is also the recipient of numerous awards, among them the first place at CENTER’s Project Competition, the Daylight & Center for Documentary Studies Project Prize, and the Grand Prize at the Jeune Création Européenne Biennal.

He has been nominated twice for the prestigious Prix Pictet.

Opening times: Mon–Sat 10am–6pm, Thursdays 10am–8pm, Sun 11:30am–6pm. Free entry. Δ Further information please visit www.thephotographersgallery.org.uk and www.tamas-dezso.com

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Avoiding a direct documentary approach Dezsô imbues his images with a heavy sense of atmosphere, making use of muted palettes and winter scenery to convey an unsettling stillness. Dilapidated factories symbolise the psychological and physical condition of former workers now yearning for the stability of previous times. Traditional costumes, particularly as seen in his photographs of Romania, allude to the failure of successive governments in spreading new economic and social policies while also acting as sentimental reminders of a world quickly disappearing.

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Waves of migration turned industrial areas into ghost towns, fanning support for far right political groups in Hungary while also generating feelings of misplaced nostalgia throughout the region.

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Tuesday | 21 April | 7pm

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e LECTURE

≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

to mark the holocaust remembrance day

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Hungarian musical life in the shadow of Nazism; the work of OMIKE’s Artist Action Talk by Ágnes Kôry With music examples of Bach, Bartók, Weiner and others In spite of strict laws preventing Jewish participation in Hungary’s cultural life, particularly during the German occupation (the official date of which is March 1944, although the German Nazi influence was evident earlier), music-making by Jews refused to die out without a fight. With the aid of some outstanding Jewish cultural figures, Hungarian Jewish musicians organised their own regular events in Jewish premises under the collective name of OMIKE. Their concert and opera performances were of very high standard and, arguably, they had positive influence even on post-war musical progress.

Conductor Frigyes Sándor was a crucial and very active OMIKE artist; he introduced and premiered Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orchestra in Hungary. (Bartók, not easily given to praise, was very complimentary about Sándor). Over fifty years ago conductor Sándor became the musical director of a student chamber orchestra which (under his guidance) developed into the highly successful Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra (FLCO). One could argue that Sándor’s OMIKE experiences bore fruits in the FLCO. Sadly, many OMIKE artists did not survive the Holocaust.

Hungarian-born Agnes Kory (Kôry Ágnes) is a graduate of the Béla Bartók Conservatoire Budapest, Royal Academy of Music London and University of London. An ex-professional cellist, she focuses on research into a variety of fields (such as baroque string instruments, Bartók, Kodály, Holocaust and other topics).

Agnes Kory leads the Béla Bartók Centre for Musicianship where specialised musicianship training coexists with comprehensive music education. 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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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 These music sessions are suitable for children as small as 6-month-old. During the sessions 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

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≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

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23 April, 11am–11.45am 6 May, 11am–11.45am | 21 May, 11am–11.45am 4 June, 11am–11.45am | 18 June, 11am–11.45am

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Tuesday | 28 April | 7pm

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≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

Dóra Kokas on violoncello Olga Sitkovetsky on piano Dóra Kokas was born in 1992 and has already established herself as one of the leading cellists of her generation, performing regularly as a recitalist, chamber musician as well as a soloist. She started participating in cello competitions at the early age of seven, and has been awarded top Prizes ever since.

programme R. Schumann Fantasiestücke Op.73 D. Shostakovich D-minor Cello Sonata Op.40 J. Brahms E-minor Cello Sonata Op.38 B. Martinu Variations on a Theme of Rossini

In 2006 and 2007 Dóra Kokas studied at the Summer String Academy in Bloomington – Indiana with Susan Moses and János Starker and won the Academy’s ‘Haydn-String Quartet Competition’ together with her quartet. Dóra also studied with Márta Agócs at the Kecskemét, subsequently at the Budapest Saint Stephen Conservatoire from 2003. From 2006 onwards she attended the Special Class for Extraordinary Talents at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest under the direction of László Mezô, and from 2009-2011 at the Vienna University of Music under the direction of Reinhard Latzko. She recently studies at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy under the direction of Miklós Perényi and she is also a student of the Razumovsky Academy in London in the class of professor Oleg Kogan.

Dóra is a founding member of the Prize Winning Kelemen Quartet (2010–2015), one of Hungary’s leading ensembles. Apart from concerts in Melbourne, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria and Croatia, the quartet has been re-invited after its successful debut tour in the USA (New York, Greenwich, Dallas), India and Australia. She recently won 2 prizes at the Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in Budapest 2014.

Last December she also won the Liszt Academy Soloist Competition in Budapest.

Dóra is performing on 1863 cello built by Joseph Homolka in Kuttenberg, with a bow made by P. Serdet – Paris, kindly on loan from Pierre Stonborough – Vienna, since 2005.

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Born in Moscow, Russia, Olga Sitkovetsky studied piano and concertmaster skills at the College of Music affiliated with the Moscow Conservatory, and later at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Sitkovetsky has performed as an accompanist in numerous international violin competitions and has received numerous awards for her accompaniment. She has also participated in the International Musical Academies in Tours (France), Kent (England) and in summer courses in Italy and France.

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In 1991, Lord Menuhin invited her as an accompanist to the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music in Surrey, England. Her work at the School from 1991-2000 has helped a number of students to win top prizes at major international competitions. Sitkovetsky now enjoys accompanying these former students, now accomplished musicians, in their tours all over the world. She participated in a recording celebrating Lord Menuhin’s 80th birthday. In July 1998, Sitkovetsky made her official American debut at the renowned Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island.

Sitkovetsky has toured extensively in Italy, Belgium, Gilbraltar, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. 2002 and 2003 found her performing in some of the most prestigious concert venues in the world including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Salzburg ‘Mozarteum’ and the Vienna Konzerthaus. She has also recorded with various artists for Angel Records/EMI Classics, Dynamic, Naxos and ASV. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Saturday | 2 May – Saturday | 20 June e EXHIBITION

Design behind the Iron Curtain is a fascinating area of research. From 1945 to 1990 many great artists developed their work in isolation from the West. Interestingly, this also meant isolation from what we might call ‘accepted history’, because most of these great practitioners have not recently been written about or exhibited.

Rediscovery and reassessment is an essential part of progress in historical analysis.

It is also the most enjoyable part of piecing together information about a new collection of historical objects.

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Forma Hungarica – Post-war Hungarian Ceramics From the Graham Cooley Collection

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≥ Kings Lynn Art Centre King St, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1HA

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The parallels between Hungarian ceramics and Czech glass are very strong. Exporting from the Comecon countries was highly co-ordinated and controlled. Designer glass came from Czechoslovakia and designer ceramics from Hungary. There were accepted artists who could sell their work through the Arts and Crafts Company (Iparmûvészeti Vállalat) or the state organised Artex, and those promoted by the State were prolific in their time. The names of most of these artists have disappeared over time, so the organisers hope that this exhibition will bring their work the exposure that it deserves.

The exhibition, a world first in this area will feature over 400 objects from the Graham Cooley Collection. Géza Gorka (the great establishment figure) and Lívia Gorka (his rebellious daughter; excluded from the academy) will be in the Fermoy Gallery.

The main exhibition will be the Shakespeare Barn and period literature will be in the Red Barn. The exhibition catalogue published by King’s Lynn Arts Centre with text commissioned by Péter Langh of the 567 gallery in Budapest will be the first publication on the subject in English.

This exhibition marks the 5th fruitful collaboration between the collector and King’s Lynn Arts Centre and the exhibition promises to be both captivating and informative.

The main exhibition features the work of the following notable ceramic artists: István Gádor, Géza Gorka, Margit Kovács, Lívia Gorka, József Garányi, János Török, Katalin Garányiné Staindl, Sándor Illés, Ilona Benkô, Viktor Janáky, Árpád Csekovszky, Éva Bod, Ildikó Várdeák, Mária Hadamcsik, János Papp, Ferenc Pál, Kati Ferenczy, Jenô Eschenbach

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≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 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. See page 11 for more information. Δ £6/child/session. To book your place, please contact Mária Chambers on 01483 808 643, 07843 054 940 or info@hcaguildford.org.uk

Sunday | 10 May – Tuesday | 12 May ≥ London Olympia Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London W14 8UX

e DESIGN Hungarian designers at Pulse London 2015 (Stand 238) Budapest-based Design Terminal and London-based Hu+ in partnership with the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) and the Hungarian Cultural Centre

Design Terminal is an urban institution. The performance of cities which use appropriate tools to encourage emerging creative startups positively affects their countries’ competitiveness as a whole. Design Terminal is a European institution, recognising and promoting the European Commission’s 2014-2020 aims linked to the development of the creative industries. The development of the Hungarian creative industries supports the segments based on intellectual performance to gain broader perspective.

Design Terminal is also a community institution, aiming to be an example as a public body through the charity side of its activities and its employees’ voluntary work.

The key fields of Design Terminal are: Industrial Design, Fashion, Innovative Technologies and Urbanism. One of Design Terminal’s goals is to highlight the work of designers, engineers and startups active in the sector. In order to do this, during occasional informal conversations, formal meetings and conferences organised

by Design Terminal and its partners, sector players can introduce themselves to international and national groups of investors, the profession and the public.

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Hu+ is a community of Hungarian professionals from a variety of backgrounds. They aim to open up new routes for talented Hungarians by working together on exciting projects.

They provide space for fresh and new ideas and help them reach markets outside Hungary.

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Hothouse Hungary celebrates the new venue of Pulse, as its stand design is inspired by the ‘palm house-like’ building of Olympia.

Palm trees and exotic plants create a wonderfully lush and pleasant environment, which is filled with the treasures of Hungarian designers.

Pulse is the UK’s only trade event in the retail sector that offers the newest, most exclusive, directional and unique products, inspirational industry insight and cutting edge trend forecasts, throughout the year. If you are part of the retail trade, are thinking of setting up your own business, are looking to exhibit in the future or are accompanying a friend or colleague, the organisers welcome you to attend. Please note that exhibitors will not sell to members of the general public at the show.

Opening times: Sunday 10 May & Monday 11 May, 9.30–18.00, Tuesday 12 May, 9.30–17.00

Please note Pulse is a Trade Only event and is not open to the general public. Δ For further information and registration please visit www.pulse-london.com

Tuesday | 12 May | 5.30pm ≥ London Film School 24 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9UB

e FILM SCREENING and Q&A White God (2014) Cannes award-winning director Kornél Mundruczó in Q&A Kornél Mundruczó was born in Hungary in 1975.

He studied at the Hungarian University of Film and Drama and is now a renowned European film-director, whose films premier at the most prestigious festivals all over the world.

He directed his short film Afta shortly after leaving school. It went on to win numerous international awards. Pleasant Days, his first feature film, was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno in 2002 for best first and second feature. He entered the Cannes Residence in 2003. His second feature film Johanna – an

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Kornél Mundruczó has been working for the stage for several years now, with Krétakör Theatre, National Theatre of Hungary, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Schauspiel Hannover and TR Warsawa among others, but basically whenever he finds a topic, a group or a venue which inspires him. During the working process he tries to build a team and often ends up inviting some of the same actors, who become creative partners. It is with them that he devises the productions. After freelancing with more or less the same group of people for several years, he founded his independent theatre company, PROTON Theatre together with Dóra Büki in 2009.

The London Film School is recognised as one of the world’s key graduate schools and remains film education’s most cosmopolitan institution – LFS graduates are established in film and television production in more than eighty countries. Alumni include many great filmmakers and very successful technicians, covering all kinds of cinema.

LFS is one of only three institutions licensed as a Skillset Film Academy. Skillset identified a small number of institutions which offer the highest quality training and skills and these have been approved by the UK film industry as centres of excellence.

The LFS mission is to provide an environment for excellent filmmaking, matching issues of craft and technology with the development of creativity and collaboration.

Metrodome Group Ltd is a London-based company that owns, manages and distributes film, TV and digital content. The Company operates through two divisions: Metrodome Distribution (feature films and home entertainment in the UK) and Hollywood Classics.

The Company’s library of rights includes over 300 feature films. Metrodome is the UK distributor of the movie White God, a copy of which it generously lends us for this screening.  Please note this event is by invitation only.

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His film Tender Son was shown in the Offical Selection of Cannes 2010.

Mundruczó’s latest movie White God won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes 2014 and was screened at the 58th BFI London Film Festival. White God has also been selected as the official Hungarian entry for the 87th Academy Awards.

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operatic adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc – was presented in the Un Certain Regard in 2005. His third feature film Delta won the Fipresci Critics’ Award in Cannes 2008.

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e MASTERCLASS

≥ London Film School 24 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9UB

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Masterclass with Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó

In his masterclass for students and the general public the award-winning director Kornél Mundruczó unveils some aspects of the fascinating art of film-making, which he will illustrate with selected film clips.

This event is part of the Hungarian Cultural Centre’s initiative called Hungarian Student College which the HCC organises in partnership with the Association of Hungarian Students Abroad (KÜMA) and the Hungarian Societies of UCLU, LSE, King’s College, SOAS, and Imperial College. The Hungarian Student College aims to invite internationally recognised experts of various fields – diplomacy, politics, science, art, business – who can engage and inspire the younger generation.

On this occasion the Student College is delighted to present Kornél Mundruczó winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize for his film White God. The event will also involve a Q&A with director Kornél Mundruczó. All are warmly welcome at this unique international gathering of students, film lovers, experts and the general public.

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

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≥ 606 Jazz Club 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0QD

≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, London WC2E 7NA

e JAZZ World-class pianist Béla Szakcsi Lakatos in London Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, Hungary’s world-famous style-setting, innovative pianist is constantly exploring his ancient roots while preserving his own unique style. His solo work straddles the fine borderline between modern jazz and contemporary music, while he is one of the most emphatic accompanists. Szakcsi single-handedly invented a Hungarian brand of Gipsy Jazz, quite different from the style developed by the late Django Reinhardt. He immediately caught the attention of the British critics when he played with Arnie Somogyi’s ten-piece band, Improvokation both at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and at Ronnie Scott’s. Alyn Shipton in The Times wrote of ‘the brilliantly eccentric pianism of Béla Szakcsi Lakatos’, while John Fordham of The Guardian simply stated that ‘pianist Béla Szakcsi Lakatos is wonderful’.

In November 2007 he and his augmented group represented Hungary at the London Jazz Festival.

His frenetically successful concert was broadcast live by Radio 3. Since then he has played with the likes of Jack DeJohnette, John Patitucci and Chris Potter, just to name a few. With the Visegrád All Stars formation, which included top jazzmen from the four Visegrád countries, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos mesmerised the 250-strong London audience in 2013. He is the only jazz musician in Hungary to hold the highest artistic award, Artist of the Nation. Δ Entry: £10. For more information and booking please contact 606 at

jazz@606club.co.uk, on 0207 352 5953 or visit www.606club.co.uk 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.

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≥ Leonard Wolfson Auditorium Wolfson College, Oxford

e MONDAY MUSIC SOIRÉES The Lanner Quartet’s Musical Treat Members of the Lanner Quartet believe that everybody likes great music but classical performances need to be reformed in order to be alluring for the public. Therefore the quartet, which is a cultural start-up venture, was brought to life in the summer of 2012 with a special aim. The musicians decided to appear on the cultural scene with a string-quartet which is radically different in style, operation, programmes and musical approach from a traditional approach. At the beginning of the 21st century the audience seems to drift away from the performer. This is why the Lanner Quartet would like to win new audiences for high-quality culture.

With a unique image and the help of modern management an old tradition called ‘salon concerts’ is being renewed. Probably it is not surprising that with this philosophy, the quartet differs from the well-known quartet stereotypes in all aspects.

Unconventionally the Lanner Quartet uses double bass instead of cello and they welcome their audience personally before the concerts. The performances are interactive and they add some surprises to the programmes. The audience can appear together with their children and they can forget about concert hall rules.

The Quartet also appears at less-known concert venues. At the end of a performance nobody is rushing to the cloakroom: people usually stay longer to talk to each other and the artists.

The Lanner Quartet calls their self-directed performances Musical Treats. These are free of charge and they welcome the audience with high-quality music, delicacies of gastronomy and usually some kind of surprise that can be won on the spot. These Musical Treats are always moderated by the musicians themselves. The Musical Treats are always full-house performances, having the power to bring the community together. These events are attended by people who are not regular concert goers or have stayed away from classical music up till now.

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Members of the Lanner Quartet: Gábor Selmeczi – Guest violinist of the Budapest Festival and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Péter Kostyál – Violinist of Budapest Festival Orchestra Zoltán Fekete – Viola artist of Budapest Festival Orchestra and Erkel Ferenc Chamber Orchestra Attila Martos – Double bass artist of Budapest Festival Orchestra – spent several years in Japan as a guest section leader of double bass at Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa Peer of Schubert, violinist, conductor and composer, Joseph Lanner can be considered as the father of waltz. He was a unique musician: he organized his own concerts and led an orchestra. He was passionate about music and everything else in connection with it. Johann Strauss Sr. also learned from him.

He visited Budapest on numerous occasions and he composed several pieces for Hungarian musicians. The Quartet chose Lanner as a name because of his approach and intellectuality.

The Lanner Quartet would like the audience to get to know his name because his work was ahead of the Strauss family’s time and his reputation was just as high in his own era. Δ Free with the option to donate in support of the Quartet’s Foundation. To book your place 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 | 20 May | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e LECTURE Voltaire as European celebrity: from England to Hungary

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Open Lecture Series

Talk by Professor Nicholas Cronk Have you ever wondered why there is a Green Plaque with the name of Voltaire on the portal of the Hungarian Cultural Centre? Did he actually live here, in the present building?

All will be revealed by Professor Nicholas Cronk in his enlightening presentation.

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Voltaire has been hailed as the first modern celebrity, and in his lifetime he was famous far beyond the frontiers of France. In the 1730s he lived in London, lodging in Maiden Lane, on the site of the Hungarian Cultural Centre. He wrote later a pioneering universal history of the world where he placed all the world’s cultures on a similar footing, and his works, widely read in French, were also translated in the eighteenth century into many languages, including Hungarian.

Professor Nicholas Cronk is Director of the Voltaire Foundation in the University of Oxford. He is the general editor of the Complete works of Voltaire, published in Oxford, the first ever complete edition of Voltaire’s writings. Begun in 1968, the paper edition is due to be completed in five years’ time, when it will number some 230 volumes. Δ Free but booking is required. Please call 020 7240 8448 or email bookings@hungary.org.uk

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Wednesday | 20 May | 7.30pm ≥ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX

e CONCERT Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra return to London This concert will be a unique opportunity to hear the Budapest Festival Orchestra perform with their musical director Iván Fischer and pianist Maria João Pires in the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. The Budapest Festival Orchestra is celebrated for its spontaneity and fiery intensity, and their conductor Iván Fischer is renowned for his originality and galvanising effect on stage.

programme Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture, The Magic Flute Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat, K.271 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.1

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The concert opens with Mozart’s joyful, bubbling Overture to his opera The Magic Flute before Maria João Pires takes to the piano for the composer’s delicate, delightful Piano Concerto No.9. Brahms’ Symphony No.1 takes the concert into more troubled waters. A Romantic symphony in full bloom that takes its inspiration from Beethoven’s dramatic depths. ‘[Ivan Fisher] doesn’t shape the music through gesture so much as impersonate it with his whole body, and the orchestra responds in kind.’ (Ivan Hewett in Daily Telegraph) Δ Tickets: £50, £35, £20, £10. For further information and booking please visit the Southbank Centre’s website: www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Thursday | 21 May | 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. See page 11 for more information. 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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the british hungarian fellowship presents

Bartók’s Travels

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Open Lecture Series

Talk by Roy Rashbrook As a typical English music student in the late 1980s, one of Roy Rashbrook’s chief frames of reference with regard to Hungarian Culture was the music of Béla Bartók.

Now, in English schools, the first thing one is taught about Bartók is that he incorporated Hungarian folk melodies into his music. This puts him neatly into the same category as his British contemporary Vaughan Williams. However, as Roy’s studies progressed, so increased his frustration at the apparent lack of musical examples to back up this information. Excerpts from Bartók’s oevre were always played but never an example of real Hungarian folk music to illustrate the similarity.

Having first met, then fallen in love with and eventually married a Hungarian, Roy was keen to find out more about the folk-music tradition, and was astonished to find a musical language that did not seem to fit with the music of Bartók at all. The real story, (as ever) turns out to be more complicated and provides a fascinating insight into Hungary’s past and cultural development.

Roy Rashbrook was educated at Dauntsey’s School, going on to study Music at Goldsmith’s College and singing under Alexander Oliver, William McAlpine and Rudolf Piernay at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. After a brief flirtation with a career in teaching, Roy became a professional singer in 1998, joining the world famous choir of Saint Paul’s Cathedral the following year; a position which offers some precious stability in the life of a freelance musician! In addition to the broadcasts, concerts, special events and daily services there, Roy also sings regularly with such groups as The King’s Consort and The Clerks, combining their various performing, touring and recording schedules with his work as a soloist, singing teacher and conductor. He has conducted several choirs and ensembles, including the Goldsmiths’ Chorus, The University of London Union Chorus, The Hanover Singers and Candlelight Opera. He is currently musical director of two choirs: Hart Voices (Fleet, Hampshire) and The Chantry Singers (Guildford, Surrey).

Roy has performed as a soloist with many of Britain’s leading orchestras including the City of London Sinfonia, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the London

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Recent conducting work includes performances of Holst’s Planets Suite, Rachamaninov’s Vespers, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Solomon and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle as well as of his own close harmony arrangements of a number of songs taken from the world of film. Recent tenor solo engagements include the role of Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

He lives in Woking with his wife and daughter, where he spends such spare time as he can get with his hobbies of photography, cycling, hiking and learning Hungarian.

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Mozart Players. In addition to performances in all London’s best-known concert venues, his work has taken him all over the country and throughout Europe as well as to Israel and the USA. He has appeared on many CD recordings, film soundtracks, radio and television broadcasts, both at home and abroad.

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≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

Piano recital of Somang Jeagal from South Korea Winner of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition Pianist Somang Jeagal was born in Daegu, South Korea in 1983. He began studying piano at the age of five and he gave his first solo recital at the age of eleven. Later, he studied at Seoul Arts High School, followed by the Seoul National University, where he graduated with highest honors, earning undergraduate and Master of Music degrees.

programme Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Années de pèlerinage, Première Année (Suisse), S.160 1. Chapelle de Guillaume Tell 2. Au lac de Wallenstadt 3. Pastorale 4. Au bord d’une source 5. Orage 6. Vallée d’Obermann 7. Eglogue 8. Le mal du pays 9. Les cloches de Genève

A winner of several national as well as international competitions, Somang is a recipient of a Grand Prize at the Korea Music Foundation Competition and First Prize at the Asia-Pacific Young Artist Competition. In autumn 2014, he won the First Prize at the 2014 Washington International Competition for Piano. In addition, he also won First Prize at the 2014 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, which earned him a concert commitment at the Liszt Hall in Budapest.

Somang performed at numerous international music festivals and concert series at major concert halls such as Salzburger Schloss Konzerte of Austria, Konzerthaus of Germany, La Madeleine of France,

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Seoul Arts Center, J.F. Kennedy Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall. Concert tours have taken him to Australia and New Zealand (Sydney, Canberra, Wellington and Auckland) as part of the KUMHO Virtuosi Trio Concert Series. He was also featured in US Tour Concerts (New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Toronto) through the US Seoul National University Alumni.

To broaden his musical aspirations, Somang has participated in masterclasses with eminent concert pianists Leon Fleisher, John O’Conor, Klaus Hellwig, Hiroko Nakamura and Hae-sun Paik. He currently studies under full scholarship with Professor Kevin Fitz-Gerald in the Artist Diploma Program at USC’s Thornton School of Music.

The Los Angeles International Liszt Competition was established in 1990 by Geraldine Keeling and Judith Nesleny.

It is a Biennial Competition. During the past 25 years it has grown from the original 51 participants and 5 judges to nearly 200 participants each time and 16 judges. In 2014, 177 young artists/contestants participated from 11 US states, 5 countries and 3 continents.

The 16 judges were members of the Liszt Societies of the World and distinguished artist/teachers who came from 10 states, 4 countries and 3 continents.

The requirements of the competition encompasses solely the original works of Franz Liszt – no transcriptions allowed – in 11 divisions, from 12 years and under (wunderkinder) to 35 years of age , competing in Piano, Voice and Organ. The winners are then presented in the United States and worldwide at the most prestigious concert halls.

For the past 25 years, the winner of the Grand Prize in the Piano division has earned the initial prize, and other prizes, plus an all-expense-paid concert tour to present Liszt’s works in Washington DC at the Embassy of Hungary, in London at the Hungarian Cultural Centre, and finally in Budapest, at the Liszt Memorial Museum’s Liszt Hall, where the Master used to teach his Master Classes while staying in Budapest. It is now an international centre for Liszt studies, and a place for literary collections/manuscripts and memorabilia of his lifework. 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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≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 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. See page 11 for more information. 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 | 4 June | 7pm ≥ Free Word Centre 60 Farringdon Road London EC1R 3GA

e LITERATURE european literature night – translation pitch

Pixel by Krisztina Tóth translated into English and pitched by Owen Good The selection committee for the ELN Translation Pitch, consisting of Louise Swan (English PEN), Rosalind Harvey (Emerging Translators Network) and Rajendra Chitnis (Bristol University) has selected out of 61 submissions Owen Good’s submission of Krisztina Tóth’s novel Pixel to be pitched live on at the Free Word Centre.

Owen Good together with five other selected translators will compete for the Best Pitch by presenting his project to a jury consisting of Max Porter, commissioning editor of Granta, Kerry Glencourse, a literary agent Suzanna Lee Associates and Stefan Tobler, editor from And Other Stories who will decide on the Best Pitch. The winning translator will be offered support and promotion from Free Word and English PEN towards the UK publishing industry. The winning translation will be subsidised by English PEN and published on the PEN website with an accompanying interview on the Free Word site. PEN will also commission a professional reader’s report to accompany the sample translation, so that it can be presented to UK publishers.

ELN Translation Pitch, which in contrast with the ELN writers, focuses on European writers with international potential who haven’t been translated yet, is part of the ELN series.

The aim of the ELN Translation Pitch is to support and promote the work of EU writers who have not yet had a complete work published in English, while providing an opportunity for translators to actively champion the work of their favourite writers in front of UK publishers and literary agents.

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Krisztina Tóth is currently one of the most renowned poets and authors in contemporary Hungarian literature, boasting ten publications with the prestigious Magvetô publishing house, home to other widely-recognised titles such as Imre Kertész’s Nobel-Prize winning Fatelessness (Magvetô 1975), and László Krasznahorkai’s Sátántangó (Magvetô 2005).

Tóth’s work includes three poetry collections, Porhó (Magvetô 2001), winning the 2001 Vas István Award and the 2002 Palládium Award, Síróponyva (Magvetô 2004), winning the Szép Írók Award and Gemini Award in 2005, and Magas labda (Magvetô 2009), from which Owen Good found three of his Close Approximations Prize winning poetry translations.

In 2003 Tóth published a collection of poems for children entitled Londoni Mackók (Csimota) which was recognised as Children’s Book of the Year.

Pixel (Magvetô 2011) is Tóth’s third fiction and she has since gone on to publish two full-length novels with the same publisher, Akvárium (Magvetô 2013), nominated for the AEGON Prize 2014, and Pillanatragasztó (Magvetô 2014). Pixel has already been translated into five languages including German (Nischen Verlag 2013), Turkish (Dedalus 2014) and Polish (Studio Emka 2014). In 2014, in the Austrian TV channel ORF’s bestseller charts the German Pixel rose from 3rd place in February to 2nd in March and by May it was 1st in the charts.

The chapters in Krisztina Tóth's book function as independent pixels. Each one an individual colour and exciting in itself, but when we notice the constructed system of connections between them, or rather when we take a step back, they blend into a new and captivating, larger story. The links weave through a century of generations and across Europe from Luton to Bucharest, the Balkans, the Turkish coast, Paris, and back to Budapest. By constantly zooming in and zooming out, enlarging and reducing, an intimate body of text takes form and comes to life before our eyes.

Tóth’s debut collection of short stories Vonalkód (‘Barcode’ Magvetô 2006) won the Márai Sándor Prize in 2007 and has been translated into seven languages including French (Editions Gallimard 2014), Spanish El Nadir (2010), and German (Bloomsbury Verlag 2011).

Owen Good is a young translator living and working in Budapest. He began translating Hungarian fiction and poetry while completing his BA in Language and Culture at University College London, for which he majored in Hungarian studies.

He grew up in Northern Ireland, without any particular connection to Central Europe or the Hungarian language, but he became intrigued by the odd language as he began his studies. From 2013-2014 he attended a postgraduate program in Translation of Hungarian Literature at Bálint Balassi Institute Budapest. Good currently lives in Budapest, where he teaches Translation Studies at Péter Pázmány Catholic

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Thursday | 18 June | 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. See page 11 for more information. 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 | 18 June | 7pm ≥ Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7NA

e TALK the british hungarian fellowship presents

Hungarian travellers to colonial Bengal Lecture by Professor Imre Bangha The talk explores the various approaches Hungarian visitors to Calcutta and other parts of Bengal, mostly scholars, aristocrats and artists, had towards India and its colonial rule. Hungary was not a colonising power and at certain parts of the nineteenth-century rather found itself on the side of the oppressed.

Nevertheless, during the period of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1867–1918), Hungarian travellers often presented imperial attitudes towards the Indians.

The glance of the Hungarians, conditioned by their own background in Hungary, was directed by situational identification with one or another player in Indian politics and culture.

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Good won first prize in Asymptote’s Close Approximations competition in 2014 with his translation of a selection of Tóth’s poetry. Good’s work has also appeared in Hungarian Literature Online and Krakow Post. Besides being selected for the ELN Translation Pitch, his translations of short stories from Tóth’s Pixel have also been selected for Dalkey Archive Press’s Best European Fiction 2016.

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University. Currently, he is interested in the work of young, contemporary poets and novelists and contemporary female writers, with a special focus on Krisztina Tóth.

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Dr Imre Bangha is Associate Professor of Hindi at the University of Oxford. He studied Indology at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary and holds a PhD in Hindi from Visva-Bharati, India. He has published English, Hindi and Hungarian books and articles on literature in Brajbhasha and other forms of old Hindi and prepared Hungarian translations from various South Asian languages. His work on the international reception of Bengali culture include the monograph Hungry Tiger: Encounter between India and Central Europe (2007) and the edited volumes Tagore Beyond his Language (forthcoming) and Rabindranath Tagore: Hundred Years of Global Reception (2014, co-edited with M. Kämpchen). 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 | 19 June | 6.30pm ≥ Conference Centre, The British Library 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

e HISTORY Statutes, Constitutions and a Golden Bull: Early European Parallels to Magna Carta

By Graham Loud (University of Leeds), Martyn Rady (UCL), Miri Rubin (QMUL) and Nicholas Vincent (UEA).

As a related event of the British Library’s exhibition Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy (open until Tue 1 Sep 2015) to celebrate the 800th anniversary of this historic document, this presentation will focus on other charters drawn up around Europe at around the time of Magna Carta. Although Magna Carta is rightly celebrated for granting rights to all free men in perpetuity, there were a range of other charters drawn up around Europe in the same period that also sought either to establish basic principles of justice, curb the powers of rulers and grant the right to resist.

Some of the more intriguing of these, including the Statute of Pamiers (1212), the Golden Bull of Hungary (Aranybulla, 1222), the Constitutions of Melfi (1231) and the imperial land peace of Mainz (1235) are explored and contrasted by some of the most eminent medieval historians; Graham Loud (University of Leeds), Martyn Rady (UCL), Miri Rubin (QMUL) and Nicholas Vincent (UEA). Δ For further information and booking please visit: www.bl.uk/events/early-european-parallels-to-magna-carta

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Where Salome Danced: The Hungarian Excavations in the Royal Palace of Tetrarch Herod Antipas at the Dead Sea, where Saint John the Baptist was Beheaded

By Gyôzô Vörös Introduction by The Rt. Rev’d. Róbert Pátkai The Herodian fortified palace of Machaerus, overlooking the Dead Sea in Transjordan, is the historical place where, according to Flavius Josephus (AJ XVIII 5, 2), one of the holiest men of his era (known to Jews as Yokhanan the Baptizer; to Christians as Saint John the Baptist, and to Muslims as the Prophet Yahya ibn Zakariyya), was confined and executed by the Tetrarch Herod Antipas. The archaeological site of Machaerus was rediscovered by the German explorer, Ulrich Jasper Seetzen in 1807, and more extensive remains were identified by the French Dominican Father Felix-Marie Abel in 1909.

Since then, the site has been excavated several times, first in the 1960’s by E Jerry Vardaman, and then in the 1970s and 90s by Professors Virgilio Canio Corbo and Michele Piccirillo, both of the Pontifical Fransciscan Biblical School in Jerusalem. Following Father Piccirillo’s unexpected death in 2008, the Hungarian Academy of Arts has been conducting archaeological excavations and architectural surveys in the ancient castle and city of Machaerus. The results have been published in the first two magnificent volumes, published by Edizioni Terra Santa in Milan.

In this lecture, Academician Gyôzô Vörös will place the archaeological site of Machaerus in its New Testament context, in order to elucidate the blurred scene of a Biblical site, and reconstruct it as clearly as possible in the light of up-to-date historical, archaeological and architectural research.

Gyôzô Vörös PhD is a Member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, Project Director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Mississippi State University and Director of Machaerus Excavations, Surveys and Anastyloses at the Dead Sea. Róbert Pátkai came to London in 1956 and became vicar of the Hungarian Lutheran Church. A few years on he was called to serve as pastor of the English-speaking Lutheran congregation in London.

Soon after, he was appointed dean (later becoming bishop) of the English-speaking Lutheran Church in Great Britain. 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 | 16 July | 8.15pm–11pm ≥ The Pump House Jazz Club, Watford Friday | 17 July | 12.30am ≥ Spice of Life Jazz Club, London Friday | 17 July | 8pm–11pm ≥ Bay Jazz Club, Botany Bay Cricket Club, Enfield Wednesday | 22 July | 8pm ≥ Amersham Jazz Club, Beaconsfield Thursday | 23 July | 8pm ≥ Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich, Essex e CONCERT UK Tour of Bohém Ragtime Jazz Band The eight members of the Bohém Ragtime Jazz Band own twenty instruments and they even play all of them! Not to mention their other specialties such as instrument-like tools for making musical noise with, a cappella singing or occasional dancing. The band plays almost as many styles as instruments. Their concerts bring you back to the early 20th century, providing much humour and joy besides the music. In addition to focusing on American music, old Hungarian jazz songs are an integral and important part of the repertoire. Attending any of their performance is an ideal programme for people of all ages from toddlers to greatgrandmothers.

The band has appeared at the greatest jazz festivals of Europe and North America including Montreux, Pori, Sacramento, Breda, Ascona, Oslo, Dresden, Bude, Rimini, Berlin and many others. Their performances have broadened their circle of fans from the UK to Italy, from Romania to Canada.

The Bohéms regularly play with guest stars.

Their performances have been broadcast by major televisions in Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania and by national radio stations in numerous countries. The band has recorded 17 albums over the years and those are also regularly broadcast by many radios. They have organized the International Bohém Festival since 1992. The Bohéms were given the prestigious eMeRTon Prize as ’jazz band of the year’ in 2003. Δ For more information please visit www.bohemragtime.com

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The Marriage of Figaro Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer Funded by James and Morag Anderson through the Edinburgh International Festival Opera Development Fund

Iván Fischer conducts and directs a specially staged concert of one of opera’s most beloved comic creations. Mozart’s sparkling farce charts one crazy day of love and desire, deception and confusion across barriers of class and convention, as servant Figaro and his master, Count Almaviva, fight for the affections of maid Susanna.

Aptly subtitled ‘The Follies of a Day’, The Marriage of Figaro soars to comic heights but also plumbs the depths of emotion, expressing the joy and pain of love and the agony and ecstasy of desire, until all is resolved in a spirit of forgiveness.

Fischer’s startling production, acclaimed in Budapest and New York, fuses music and theatre, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Fischer on stage assisting the dramatic action and singers acting Mozart’s frenetic comedy in amongst the musicians. Δ For more information and tickets please visit www.eif.co.uk/2015/figaro

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≥ Usher Hall Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH1 2EA

e CONCERT Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra Two late, visionary masterpieces by Mozart, the glowing ‘Prague’ Symphony with its teeming melody and the sublime Requiem performed by incisive conductor Iván Fischer and his characterful Budapest Festival Orchestra.

programme Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No 38 ‘Prague’ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem

Featuring the Budapest Festival Orchestra, • Iván Fischer – Conductor Edinburgh Festival Chorus, • Christopher Bell – Chorus Master • Miah Persson – Soprano • Barbara Kozelj – Mezzo soprano • Jeremy Ovenden – Tenor • Konstantin Wolff – Bass

Δ For tickets and more information please visit www.eif.co.uk

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Saturdays 11 & 25 Apr, 9 & 23 May, 13 & 27 Jun, 4 Jul 10am–1.30pm Hungarian as a Foreign Language Groups for adults Saturdays 11 Apr 4 Jul 6.30pm–10.30pm Live Hungarian Folk Dance and Music Event with the Folktone Band Mondays 13, 20 & 27 Apr, 11 & 18 May, 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 Jun 8pm–10pm Hungarian Folkdance and Folk Singing Group for adults and young people Saturday 18 Apr, 10am–2pm

Hungarian Coffee Shop The Coffee Shop offers traditional Hungarian hot and cold food.

Hungarian Library The Hungarian Library offers over 500 books cd’s and dvd’s to children and adults • Free for HCA members. o Further information info@hcaguildford.org.uk Tel: 00 44 1483 808 643 Mob: 00 44 7843 054 940 www.hcaguildford.org.uk www.magyartanodaguildford.org.uk www.facebook.com/HCAGuildford/ events

Saturday 2 May, 6.30pm ≥ Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Spring Dance House Hungarian folk dance evening with live music Saturday 6 Jun ≥ Grosvenor Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD17 2QT

Saturday 16 May, 10am–2pm

Children’s Day Info: familyday@hchs.org.uk

Saturday 4 Jul, 10am–1.30pm End of Year Performance with the Folktone Band

o For further information please visit www.hchs.org.uk

cambridge szeged society programme

Saturday 11 Jul, 10am–8pm Summer Family Trip to the Seaside Lepe Hampshire

25 Apr ≥ Mandeville Primary School, Mandeville Drive, St Albans, AL1 2LE The 7th day of the second semester 2 May ≥ Verulamium Park, St Albans, AL1 2DL Sports Day 16 May ≥ Mandeville Primary School, Mandeville Drive, St Albans, AL1 2LE The 8th day of the second semester Guest: Etelka Olasz story-teller 9am–10.30am • Free for members.

6 Jun ≥ Mandeville Primary School, Mandeville Drive, St Albans, AL1 2LE The 9th day of the second semester

hchs (hungarian culture and heritage society)

Spring Family Trip to ‘The Devil’s Punch Bowl’

‘International Children’s Day’ Trip to RHS Whisley

hungarian school of st albans

o For more information please visit www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk

20 Jun ≥ Mandeville Primary School, Mandeville Drive, St Albans, AL1 2LE School Year Closing Ceremony and Family Day in St Albans Free for members.

Every Tuesday & Thursday ≥ St Stephen Church, Watling Street, St Albans, AL1 2PT ≥ High Street Methodist Church, Sish Lane, Old Town, Stevenage, SG1 3RS Kodály Singing Classes in St Albans and Stevenage Price: 45£/10classes

o For further information please visit www.hungarianschool.co.uk, or email hungarianschoolofstalbans@gmail.com Info on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ StAlbansHungarianSchool

hungarian cultural centre • london

hungarian reformed church 17 St Dunstan’s Road, London W6 8RD

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Every Sunday 11am – with modern music 5pm – with traditional music Church Service 5 Apr, 11am & 5pm Easter Church Service and Holy Communion 12 Apr, 11am & 5pm Chuch Service with Zsigmond Vad, dean of the Great Church of Debrecen 3 May, 3pm Family Day 24 May, 11am & 5pm Pentecost Church Service, Holy Communion and Confirmation o Further information: www.reflondon.hu Tel. 020 8748 8858

hungarian folk dance group (hunique) Every Monday at 7pm ≥ The Catholic Centre, 2 Dukes Avenue, London W4 2AE Hungarian folk dance sessions o Info on Facebook: facebook.com/hunique.dance

maosz (national federation of hungarians in the uk) o For more information please visit www.maosz.co.uk

oxford hungarian society 1 May, 8pm ≥ Oxford, venue TBA Film: In the Depths of Woods and Creeks With its ingenious cinematography and stunning underwater scenes, this nature documentary by Péter Farkas and Ferenc Keresztúri reveals the hidden secrets of Hungarian woodlands and the rich underwater world inhabiting their lakes and streams. With English subtitles.

8 May, 8pm ≥ Oxford, venue TBA HE Péter Szabadhegy: ‘Hungary – The Will to Survive’ The Hungarian Ambassador in London will speak about the financial and economic challenges Hungary faces.

15 May, 8pm ≥ Oxford, venue TBA

hungarian families group mosoly magyar ovi-suli london presents Etelka Olasz actress and storyteller visits Hungarian children Saturday 16 May, 9am–10.30am ≥ Hungarian School of St Albans Saturday 16 May, 12pm–2pm ≥ Mosoly Magyar Ovi-Suli London, New Malden Sunday 17 May, 10am–12pm ≥ Hungarian School, Southampton Sunday 17 May, 2pm–4pm ≥ Hungarian School, Woking Non-members are also welcome. o Further information: info@magyarovisuli.co.uk

Sunday 8 November, 8pm ≥ St John’s Smith Square London, SW1P 3HA

Marcus Tanner: The Raven King Marcus Tanner, book reviewer and leader-writer for The Independent, will talk about his book on Matthias Corvinus’ life and passion for books.

The Bards of Wales by Karl Jenkins Original poem by Janos Arany, English text by Peter Zollman

19 May, 7pm ≥ Leonard Wolfson Auditorium

Conducted by Roy Wales

The Lanner Quartet An unconventional classical music concert with an emphasis on interacting with the audience.

12 June, 8pm ≥ Oxford, venue TBA End of Term Reception to celebrate the end of the academic year. o For further information please visit www.hungsoc.com

English Concert Singers English Concert Chorus English Concert Orchestra

Soloists include Rhys Meirion (tenor), Pauls Putnins (baritone) Programme also includes works

by Britten and Elgar. o Tickets are £25, £20 or £15 and will be available from the St John’s Box Office on 020 72 22 10 61

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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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