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CLIMATE PROTECTION AND ENERGY SAVING!

It was in 2007,  Australia originated a campaign and brought in actions as to protect our World’s climate. Now-a-days this act had become a protection movement.

 Between 8.30 p.m. to  9.30 p.m. local time in Hungary the decorative lighting will go out!

Those arriving to the Chain bridge area (Budapest) awaits colorful programs! Just a hint: During the sixty minutes of darkness there will be fire jugglers, African drummers and light graffiti! More to that, a  bike will transform human energy into electricity. The energy generated by battery will upload and during the darkest hour it will be switched to the DJ desk, whereas the DJ will spread the music rolling in the deep dark hour!

Last year, with a number of 1.8 billion people “switched off the lights” in throughout 135 countries in having to join the campaign at millions of households and many world-wide known buildings. The Globe slowly  will fall into the shade of darkness for an hour. Rolling around the World  as the clock’s hands reach the pointed hour: The Sydney’s Opera House (even Bondi Beach), the Leaning Tower of Pisa,  the Buckingham Palace, the Big Ben in London, the Giza Pyramids in Egypt, the Acropolis of Athens, the Great Wall of China, the Colosseum in Rome and the Empire State Building and the entire Times Square, in the United States will be in full darkness.

The awareness-raising campaign opened the eyes of the inhabitants of our planet  to vote for and fight against climate change which was also a call by the WWF  in the same year of 2007!

Hungary has joined over  six years to this campaign from the spark of the idea. This year, as to the previous ones, Budapest’s main attractions,  the awesome historic monuments and building’s will be shinning with the illuminated rays of light, pre-darkness at: The Parliament,  The Chain Bridge with the other nine bridges crossing the River Danube in Budapest, the Buda Castle, the Fisherman’s Bastle, The New York Palace, the Hero Square, the National Theater. Lights turned off is not just a unique act at Budapest. Throughout the country in the same hour, towns, villages, settlements, cities will join this campaign. At the City of Kaposvár, the Cathedral of Our Lady, the Fancy “Gaudy” Palace the “Cifrapalota” at the city of Kecskemét, the Cathedral of Eger, just to mention a couple of outstanding, sophisticated  scenes and buildings in Hungary.

The astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) will take snaps and videotape from their height, as the continents fall into deep darkness,  one after another following the different time zones areas.  For those who wish to follow this amazing sight for the eye can click to the website of the European Space Agency (ESA) to view the recordings.

The Aussie supermodel Ms. Miranda Kerr, promised she will give a yoga classes for free, to 500 people, if they show their  support in sharing their own uploaded video on YT.  According to another promise, the Greenpeace International’s CEO, Kumi Naidoo will green paint his beard, if 10.000 of  individuals will register on the International Earth Hour website.

Last year in Hungary approximately three thousand individuals, more than 70 municipalities and 250 institutions indicated their support to the campaign at the Earth Hour webpage.

The local WWF Earth Hour main contributors are the Allianz Co., Coca-Cola Hungary and the Magyar Telekom Group.

Well it seems IF we really want to do something good for ourselves and for the World we live in,  then within uniting co-operation the good cause can reach its goal!

Update by Aggie Reiter

I WONDER, WHICH GOLF PLAYER WOULDN’T HAVE HAD THIS PICTURE IN HIS/HER DREAMS IN PUTTING GREEN!?!

The summer greens will surely come but in the meantime to gain the experiences is just out at our fingertips, as to visit during this week-end the MOM Park Shopping Center at Budapest.

There are so many scene to be held a press gathering, but this time the opening of the year’s golf season had been selected at an unusual site. No, not outdoor, but furnished indoor at the ground level of the MOM Park Shopping Center, Budapest. The visitors were greeted by Ms. Monika Bednár, main organizer of the event.

The Hungarian Golf Association seekerS is to promote an event with interactive possibilities of golf, and found an awesome partner within the MOM Park’s team.

The MOM Shopping Center  welcomes at the ground level all visitors to gain experiences with joining at the interactive golf days. Their main goal is to popularise the game of golf in Hungary.

Events days/time:

Friday: from noon till 7 p.m.

Saturday: 11 a.m. till 7 p.m.

Sunday: 11 a.m. till 4 p.m.

To participate at these programs it is free of charge.

Depending on the weather will be an outdoor golf experiences rolling up.

Stay and play golf, spending a golfy week-end! Beginners and professional can stroll over to the MOM Park Shopping Center and enjoy these interactive fields of green grass programs offer.

The press representatives were told the following: There has been a developed educational program for school kids as to acquire players within its  framework. This  is available even for the small kids to learn the basics of golf. There are pretty good results coming in from the foreign experiences. Of course success will not fall in anyone’s laps, needs a lot of practise, hard work, not to mention the continuous co-operation which is pretty much-needed among the participants in our homeland, the life of golf.  Mr. Andrew Súgár, President of the Hungarian Golf Association has high hopes that within four years, thousands of children will have a chance to learn and be out on the golf’s green grass. He also stated: “The Hungarian golf is a pioneer in terms of sport events and also I have deep hopes in sharing a lot of fun with everyone.”

Here is a couple of snaps to what to expect, to see and practice during this week-end at the MOM Park Shopping Center. But before rolling down the page, see some of the little kids who passed by at to-day’s press conference practising the stand, hold, shot, controlled by a golf trainer. Could be, within a decade these kids will be hunting for the scores.

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You can take part in the programs on the spot. The  Starting New At Golf (SNAG),   that will  also be implemented at the school’s,  as a golf program! The local PE teachers will receive theoretical and practical pre-trainings and will be able to teach the kids the SNAG in a playful form within their physical education.

Simulator: The three-sided slopes of varying difficulty simulator offers an opportunitity to try out and have an exciting experience for both beginners and professional athletes.

There is also a ground to gain experience of chip technology, as to practice in having a short game with the precise impact that hits the net.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST…

For many already well-known, the year 2016 holds the Summer Olympics Games that will be in Rio and since the golf games  became a part of  the olympics games we can track the grand golfers by following their games on the green grass fields.

Hope these kids of to-day will be our future Hungarian  Mr. Tiger Woods and Ms. Annika Sörenstams.

Update and snaps by Aggie Reiter

The  Ari  Kupsus Gallery cordially invites You,  your friends  or family members to gather and come along to:

the exhibition opening of artist: Ms. Beáta Székely

The title of the exhibition is

“An Ancient Dawn”

Location:

VIII District – 23/b Bródy Sándor Str.  – Budapest

Official Opening: 28th of March, 2012.

6 p.m. till 8 p.m.

While strolling along the art works the guests can have a snip of the fine Sumegi Wine, sponsored by the Sumegi Keller Ltd.

See you there!

The exhibition will be on view till the 20th of April, 2012.

 Beáta Székely: The Chicken’s Evening, oil on canvas, 40×54 cm, 2012.

      For further inquires:

ari@arikupsusgallery.com,

www.arikupsusgallery.com

www.facebook.com/arikupsusgallery

Update by Aggie Reiter

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EVEN IF YOUR NOT A PERSON WHO IS ROLLING THE DRUMSTICKS, HOVER OVER TO THE PLACE OF ART – BUDAPEST TO SEE FOR YOUR OWN TWO EYES A SLICE OF THE WONDERLAND OF DRUMS!

Payed a visit to the Palace of Arts, whereas in the frame of the Budapest Spring Festival, Mr. Sándor Kármán, the owner of the Museum of Drums welcomed the arrived visitors to peck in the land of drums. The exhibition can be visited throughout the duration of time during the Budapest Spring Festival. That is until the 26th of March. Even though this exhibition shows only a slice of what can be seen at the Museum of Drums at the city of Cegléd, the selection and the display of drums was as entering to a scene of haven for all drummers and non drummers. Mr. Sándor Kármán has a private collection from 1990 and just by seeing a couple of drums at the exhibition, you can easily believe he has a unique and an outstanding collection of drums and not to mention the wonderful stories he has to each-and-every-one of them! Mr. Sándor Kármán, once being a drummer himself always cherished a dream as to collecting drums and displaying them in a museum.

He was saying he can only hope that these drums can bring back even if just a portion of the grand names in the awakening generation of drummers. As he also stated, these people deserve special recognition, shouldn’t lose track of the great drummers who truly made a difference in the history of drummers.

Listening to Mr. Sándor Kármán’s „presentation” you could hear his  love in the air for the drums. He is a real two-walking-feet lexicon of drums.

Mr. Sándor Kármán is a humble person who has the one and only collection in the World out on display at the Museum of Drums of percussions that introduces the drums from their development in 1990 in jazz, modern and classic music. Since the Museum opened in 1992 numerous visitors have entered a land to a historical tour of drums. During the two decades, many professional and non drumstick holders came along that somehow were interested in the

History of Drums

Opening hours: from Monday till Friday 10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.

Week-end can be visited prior consultation (+36 20 365 1724)

Location: 5 Szabadság tér (Szabadság Square) City of CEGLÉD

The Museum of Drums is also proud to share and take you down the road to a wonderful display of vintage drums from the last century.

At the museum there is a guide tour and you can stroll along at these spaces and time with an expert telling the tales of the drums and drummers beside you. Just a hint to tickle your interest. there is a working model of Leonardo da Vinci’s (1452-1519) mechanical drum design that lays just a foot step away for you.

Drum Museum goal is to collect and preserve and most of all to present the material history of each from and in its formation to the present visitors.

One of the long time gone furnished spot was a huge musical instrument store on the Rákóczi Str. in Budapest. For some of you it doesn’t ring the bell at all, but for many locals and maybe for those Hungarians who once lived in Budapest and now living somewhere over the rainbow, it may sound familiar. The instrument shop owner was Mr.Ármin Sterberg. To bring back the sight and feeling of those days, the Museum of Drums had set-up an exactly the same designed similar shop. Through the shop’s window can be seen (just like in the old days) those sets of drums from the Hungarian drum makers like: Mogyorossy, Stowasser and Reményi from the 1920s up to the 30’s. Now, take that as a tour back in time! One of the superb drummer’s drum Mr. John Grey – “Consort” trap set can be seen there.

Another gift that made history at the Museum was the drum making items and tools donated by Mr Desző Dubán Jr. after his father Mr. Dezső Dubán (1921-1993) had gone ahead. Mr. Dezső Dubán and Mr. Antal Medveczky both were very well-known and acknowledged local drum makers in the postwar times.

Mr. Api Weisz, (1910-1945) was a legend in his time and still remained in the world of music, as Hungary’s legendary drummer. There is a memorial stand showing him beside his drum as was seen playing with his band called “Chappy” at the Moulin Rouge in Budapest.

One of the outstanding “peice of treasure” at the Museum of Drums is an exhibition introducing the lifetime achievement of Mr. Peter Erskine, the American drummer, tutor and composer.

As a private collector he has an outstanding collection of drums and since 1993 he has lite the fire as to organize an annually held International Drum and Percussion Gala at Cegléd,  in the city’s Sport Hall. These walls held excellent drummers such as: Jojo Mayer, Steve Smith, David Moss, Will Calhoun, Tommmy Campell, Benny Greb, Horacio Hernandez, Peter Erskine and last but not least, Billy Cobham –  see my previous article and snaps at: https://rollinginbudapest.com/2011/09/02/septemberfest-with-special-guest-staring-bill-cobham/

There is also a cosy, neet music room at the museum.

A Gala without a prize ain’t really a Gala, right!?! So a Golden Drumstick Award was founded and presented each year as a recognition to the best Hungarian drummer.

There are so many greaties you couldn’t have touched on base, but these drums and stories can bring back their memories.

If you enjoyed this update then the Museum of Drums should not be missed!

Opening hours: from Monday till Friday 10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.

Week-end can be visited prior consultation (+36 20 365 1724)

Location: 5 Szabadság tér (Szabadság Square) City of  CEGLÉD

Many of the „oldies” drum players were radio babies, heard all kinds of music, later formed their own style. They also had their state in style for drums.

There are so many greaties you couldn’t have touched on base, but visiting the museum you will surely get an insight.

Update and snaps Aggie Reiter

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In general, the use of our hands in preparing our first not always seen as arts was when we got to meet the plasticine. That was in our time at the kindergarten and we happily took  home our first ‘applied arts”!

Those are the days when girls and boys decide they wish to have these moments not forgotten throughout their life.

The Museum of Applied Arts gives a space for the designers four times a year.  Some of these artists came along  to-day and brought their object and items to the Museum of Applied Arts. To-day, was the first exhibition this year as to peak into their latest fantasy products, was worthwhile.  This is just a coincidence that the timing was during the Budapest Spring Festival. It is not just an ordinary exhibition but the items were available on the spot. Here are some artists work that took my attention:

Ms. Fanni Király, a designer and teacher who graduated at the Hungarian University of Craft and Design. Brought just samples of her collection to the open fair at the Museum of Applied Arts. Amazing collection of contemporary metalwork and other artistic handwork designs, jewellery with pergamen, water-lily pin, jewellery with stones. Beside producing jewellery she also has a large-scale of designs like objects for decoration.

Ms. Judit Lantos, an individual ceramic  artist with her own studio. She also displayed some objects, as a reminder of the colorful items in those 60’s and 70’s. Her main attention focus on preparing items for everyday use, as small gifts, kitchen accessories and a handful of decoration items. Many of her objects are present at shops and galleries in Budapest.

Ms. Ágnes Bartha, Goldsmith and Enamel Artist. An artist with many sides, who has in use in preparing masterfully planned plexiglass jewellery, metal, enamel, unique goldsmith jewelry. She opened more than two dozens of individual exhibitions with her superb silver jewellery   Her beautiful glass, acrylic material and her twisted silverware ring stone really aroused the interest of the eye. An awesome display of a classy designer.

Designer Ms. Zsuzsa Ujj, Ceramic Artist, at the exhibition a small land of pottery and porcelain really was rich in a spot to visit.elegant Her landmark was well seen in the objects with the elegantly tasteful style. The ceramic eggs, beside other items seen at the exhibition were a real masterpiece of art.

Mr. István Pataki is an organic fruit producer since 1994. He produce juices, nectar and jams. Mr. Pataki told me the following: “Remembering my childhood, all the spare time I had, I was engaged in farming.” “When did have free time?”  “It was my Mum’s decision of when to have my free time and as the berries began to  ripe and be mature, I was out to collect them at the Bend of the River Danube, where I still live and do the “harvest”  collect the fruits of season.” Mr. Pataki and his companion Ms. Anna Konczili  had a stand to ease the thirst of the visitors with the selection of 100% pure fruit juices and last but not least, displayed fruit nectar could have had been brought on the spot.

The first Romani Fashion Studio’s collection was introduced by Ms. Erika Varga, Romani designer at the 1st Romani Design Fashion Show in the summer of 2010. It was at the Museum of Fine Arts, here in Budapest. I had the privilege to be there at the exclusive fashion show. Well that was not yesterday and as the Hungarians say: „Since then a lot of water rolled down the River Danube”To-day at the Museum of Applied Arts, some early and newly design products were introduced and while visiting that spot over heard and saw some customers were not familiar with the Roma design cloths. But some sure were and done their shopping. Actually, both the fashion, nor the jewelry industry did not develop products specifically for the Roma people. The Romani Design has a touch of Roma culture in its unique designs. It is based on the culture of the Roma and wish to serve with its clothes, accessories, jewelry, handicraft items that were so far unknown on the catwalk in Hungary. The design of the Romani motives are products both for Roma and non Roma individuals. The RomaniDesign is using the XXI. century needs in designing their fashion products. Ms. Varga started designing clothes in 2007,  after having second thoughts with the idea of becoming a designer of cloths.

Ms. Erika Varga told me, she believes fashion is a communication tool and can do a lot to get to know each other better.

 Update and snaps Aggie Reiter