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29 Aug

Friday on your mind … „Kapj Rá„ – „Get it” … Fish … Fish … Fish!

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Halkakas (Fish Bistro)

District, VII., 36. Dohány Street – Budapest

During the morning hours the press individuals were invited to hear about the latest campaign regarding fish consumption in Hungary – namely „Kapj Rá„ – „Get it”

Péter Ondré, Managing Director of the Agricultural Marketing Center and Ferenc Lévai, spokesman for MA-HAL, spoke at the press conference. According to the Agricultural Marketing Center, download of the application can solve different tasks, solve fish and fish related questions, find interesting information about fish, how to prepare fish dishes, and watch recipe videos, said Péter Ondré. In addition, he reported „Kapj rá” “Get it!” has developed a mobile app that users can download for free.

Ferenc Lévai, member of the Hungarian Aquaculture and Fisheries Trade Union (MA-HAL), said, „Kapj Rá” – “Get it!” primary task of the campaign is to increase domestic fish consumption. The campaign highlights the importance of a healthy lifestyle and conscious nutrition, and shows consumers that fish are lagging in the popularity race when the food industry started to market cheap molluscs and covered with breadcrumbs stuffed-processed products from chicken, pork and other meat but not fish. In addition, fish has traditionally been considered the food of the poor, and as a result prosperity has been out of the kitchen by the variety of fish dishes as well. He added that Hungarians eat 5.5-6 kilograms of fish/person/year, while the EU average is around 20 kilograms and the continental record in Portugal the folks eat 56 kilograms/year.

In the future, his goal is to invite customers at least once a week, let’s say marking it on Fridays for fish lovers to eat fish! Hopefully this campaign will go far beyond Budapest and throughout Hungary restaurants will place on their menus Fish Friday  …   „Kapj Rá ” – ” Get it!

At the Halkakas Fish Bistro you are guaranteed the fish ingredients exclusively obtained from Hungary. The bistro only use cooking fresh fish, no deep-frozen. At the end of the press conference individuals were invited onto trays filled with fish delights. The smoked carp pâté, the catfish gyros, the unmatched carp crisps and the carp tempura where all from Hungary’ rivers, ponds and lakes. We swam as fish in the water with the delightful tastes!

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27 Aug

Season opening concert – Italian Cultural Institute @ Budapest

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The Rana-Argentieri Duo

Friday, September 5, 2019.  6.30 p.m.

Italian Cultural Institute, Giuseppe Verdi Hall

District; VIII., 8. Bródy Sándor Street – Budapest

This season  starting  with youthful freshness on September, 5.  concert featuring Ludovica Rana (cello) and Stefania Argentieri (piano), the newly formed duo of young Puglian musicians to discover and introduce the lesser known but highly artistic Italian chamber repertoire.

Their concert, Portrait of a Musical, invites the listeners/viewer on a journey through the stylistic explorations, poetics, and suggestions of hidden Italian instrumental chamber music. This Italian musical portrait of Martucci is pure melody lyrics and well-followed structure it starts from his composition and passes through Busoni’s formal metamorphoses and stills of Castelnuovo-Tedesco to the innovative and imagined synthesis of Giovanni Sollima.

Puglia Sounds Export project sponsors: Puglia Region – Assessorato all’Industria Turistica e Culturale, Puglia Sounds,Teatro Pubblico Pugliese.

Required Reservation: iicbudapest@esteri.it
Worthwhile to register for a membership card to be able to participate at not just this but forthcoming concert but to the following concerts with a valid card to the Italian Cultural Institute. With the member’s card (+1 person) can participate.

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27 Aug

World-renowned artists @ Budapest – Hungary – 2019.

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On Friday this week begins the first Inaugural New Millennium International Chamber Music Festival and Master Classes in Budapest … World-renowned artists will be the guests from August, 30. until September, 3. 2019.

The Cadenza Arts Management plays an important role in organizing the operative tasks of the festival.

Violinist Miranda Liu, the youngest concertmaster in Hungary, focuses on possibly the most authentic interpretation of chamber music. She has launched the New Millennium International Chamber Music Festival, which will take place in Budapest at the Festetics Palace, Benczúr Palace and the Chamber Hall of the Old Music Academy at the most emblematic concert halls to host such events. Performers include: the Central European String Quartet, pianist Tamás Érdi, clarinetist Csaba Klenyán, cellist Bartosz Koziak from Poland and pianist Georgy Tchaidze from Russia. Furthermore, the chamber orchestra Central European Strings will be making its debut, and the most successful musicians of the younger generation will perform as well.  Innovative programs will provide attendees the excellent opportunity to hear sextet and septet masterpieces in addition to the rich duo, trio and quartet repertoire.

The international master classes of the festival are open to musicians of all ages, offering the opportunity to study solo or chamber music repertoire at individual lessons with the teaching artists of the festival. Students may participate in the festival’s concerto competition to win a prize of a solo performance beside the artists of the festival and make their debuts with the Central European Strings at the festival’s closing concert.

Detailed program of the New Millennium International Chamber Music Festival:

Performers to be: Miranda Liu – Artistic Director. Ensemble in Residence: Central European String Quartet (Miranda Liu, Máté Soós, Haruka Nagao, Judit Szabó) and many more awesome musicians.

Dates and  venues to the concerts_

Friday, August, 30. 2019, 7:30 p.m. – Festetics Palace, Mirror room

Saturday, August, 31. 2019, 5 p.m. Franz Liszt Old Academy of Music, Chamber Hall- -“Brahms”

Sunday, September,1. 2019, 7-30 p.m. – Benczúr Palace, ceremonial hall

Monday, September, 2. 2019, 5 p.m. Franz Liszt Old Academy of Music, Chamber Hall

Closing Concert with the Central European Strings and the winners of the festival’s competition

Monday, September, 2. 2019, 7.30 p.m. Franz Liszt Old Academy of Music, Chamber Hall

Award Ceremony … The New Millennium Music Festival and Master Classes’s Competition Winners perform as soloists with the Central European Strings.

Entry tickets to the festival’s concerts:

1300HUF/single ticket, afternoon concert

2000HUF/single ticket, evening concert

6000HUF/4 concert festival pass (evening concerts)

7500HUF/6 concert festival pass.

Tickets and passes can be purchased at the Liszt Academy Ticket Office and/or through nmicmf.jegy.hu, Interticket ticket offices.

Note: Daily programs stroll down: https://nmicmf.com/

Press release

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26 Aug

“This is Africa” Community Day @ Budapest 2019.

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Join the full day festival on September, 29. 2019 in Budapest between 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. at the Stefánia Palace – (Honvéd Cultural Center), District, XIV., Stefánia Street.

This is Africa Community Day has been held during every autumn in the past years.
Peek into the programs:

Instructive, interesting, entertaining, adventurous and scientific lectures. Unheard savannah tales for children, exciting exotic plays-fairs, handcrafting.

Interactive afro dance,  afro jazz, mask collection, African themed paintings exhibition, movie screening,

FREE Admission. Everyone is welcome no age limited!

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21 Aug

Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool – musical biographical documentary 2019

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Miles – The Genius far miles beyond his era!

Miles Davis: Horn player, bandleader, visionary, and most of all in so many different waves of music he did. Elegant, intellectual, vain. Callous, conflicted, controversial.

Coming to cinemas in Hungary from the end of August, gives an insight into Miles Davis’s life and career, based on his own words and autobiography of the music and pop culture icon. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool tells the story of a truly singular talent and unpacks the man behind the horn. Birth of the Cool lays out the complicated personal history and game changing musical revolutions of the jazz legend, and admirably tries to cover it all into a two-hour documentary. Directed By: Stanley Nelson – Runtime:115 minutes.

The central theme of Miles Davis’s life was his restless determination to break boundaries and live life on his own terms. It made him a star, it also made him incredibly difficult to live with, for the people who loved him most. Again and again, in music and in life, Miles broke with convention and when he thought his work came to represent a new convention, he changed it again. Miles’s bold disregard for tradition, his clarity of vision, his relentless drive, and constant thirst for new experiences made him an inspiring collaborator to fellow musicians and a cultural icon to generations of listeners. It made him an innovator in music—from bebop to “cool jazz,” modern quintets, orchestral music, jazz fusion, rock ‘n’ roll, and even hip-hop.
The film’s debut at the cult Sundance Film Festival has seen unprecedented archive footage and personalized conversations with friends and co-creators portray the portrait of Miles Davis, for whom art was everything. Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Lee Konitz, Carlos Santana, or Flea from The Red Hot Chili Peppers are the names of world-renowned musicians who have been named for their landmark compilation record for Davis’ revolutionary arrangement.

English-American subtitled film portraits convey the Urania National Film Theater in Budapest, for the first time on

August, 30 at 8 p.m.

In addition, it will be featured at many other locations throughout the country,  distributed by Pannonia Entertainment.

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21 Aug

Japanese antique children’s kimono exhibition – Budapest – 2019

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House of Traditions –  László Maácz Gallery

1011 District I., 8. Corvin Square – Budapest

Exhibition Opening – Monday,  4 p.m.  September,  9, 2019.

In September, a special exhibition arrives to the House of Traditions. The Japanese Antique Children’s Exhibition, featuring approx. 40 pieces of kimono arrives  along with the Japan Foundation colored children’s toys. The exhibition will be opened by Anikó Lévai.

On  Saturday, September, 21., the exhibition will be held in conjunction with the program by Sowa Kimono Gakuin at the Heritage House – Theater Hall, which will also hold an interesting kimono show.

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15 Aug

The 33rd. Celebration of Crafts – The Buda Castle @ Budapest

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Festival of Crafts tune into the four-day festival of crafts at Budapest!

August 17-20. 2019.

The 33rd Craft Celebration of Crafts  is a major topic of interest for many: footwear.

Particular emphasis is placed on the Szeged style slippers, exhibitions, fashion shows await those interested in the renaissance of to-day, see the secrets of shoemakers and how the contemporary Hungarian shoe designers reinterpret traditional footwear.

Also featured is the world-renowned master shoemaker whose family inherits the tricks of the profession from generation to generation. In their workshop they make perfectly fitting footwear for the customer’s foot, which is usually done with calfskin, but for more special pieces, they can use crocodile, salmon, shark, skate, ostrich or eel leather. Shoe makers from Iceland and Spain are also coming. In the workshop of the master from Turkey, Harry Potter film footwear can be admired.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Hungary, in 2019, Japan will be the guest of honor at the Craft Festival.

With the help of Japanese craftsmen, you will get to know kimonos, fans, Japanese footwear, ceramics, furosiki bundles, Kokeshi dolls and much more. The visitors themselves learn to write Japanese brush, folded paper, or even Japan to arrange a bouquet of fresh flowers, but also a taste of Japanese food and drinks. In addition, visitors can learn about the most emblematic instrument of Japanese culture, the magician, the Japanese drum. The festival opens with an exotic, unknown, distant world from which we will all be richer.

During the 4days the best folk musicians, singers, storytellers and folk dancers of our country perform on the stages. There will be, among others, Felix Lajkó’s newest orchestral concert, Bálint Bársony with a very special musical treat with the Hungarian Rhapsody Project, Salon and Band, Kerekes Band, world famous American saxophonist and Dresch Quartett with a concert by Dezső Fitos. On the 17th of August we will be our guest, the Czifra Center project is on the way, where Romani Design will be introduced, Lajos Sárköz and his band, as well as scholarship holders of the Snétberger Foundation will perform.

For locals and foreigners staying, working in Hungary do not skip this unique festival where craft, music, dance will make the day for the visitors.

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14 Aug

Chulent Festival  @ Budapest 2019.

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The 5th Annual Chulent Festival is soon to fill all along at District, VII. Kazinczy Street  –  Budapest.

There is no place better to have a tasty Chulent – Budapest

Sunday, August, 25.  11 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Almost anyway around the world folks can find a place to eat Chulent. It is one of the most popular Jewish dishes from the ancient times.

The slow-cooked Jewish chulent can be prepared either from beans, other legumes, smoked goose breast or beef, eggs or onions.

The Jewish culinary festival will be organized in the heart of the Jewish District for the fifth time, by the Chabad Lubavitch congregation and the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation (EMIH).

Cholent speaks everyone’s language, whether you are Hungarian or Foreigner, Jewish or gentile, young or old. The strictly kosher festival will present the Chulent  variations of several countries.

In addition to enjoy the taste of the Chulent and other emblematic Jewish foods along with colorful additional festival programs such as: live music concerts … so beside gastronomic experiences, Jewish tunes can be enjoyed thanks to the Klezmer bands playing music thoughout the day. For children theater shows awaits the little ones. For young adults, friends and families fine time to get into the mood, having a splendid day with little Israel here in Budapest.

No need for entry tickets … it is free of charge.

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13 Aug

Hungary’s Cake of the Year – 2019

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Winner cake of 2019 - Lace of Our Lady and the Little Chesnut cake

Hungary’s cake of the year happens once a year. This year the Hungarian Confectioner Craftsmen Corporation invited entries for the Hungarian Cake of the Year contest for the 13th time and as a tradition Hungary’s  Cake of the Country as to celebrate the National Holiday at the 20th of August. Thirty-one cakes were in competition and were prepared in their creations in front of the judges, who then after rated them based on professional aspects.

The finalists, this year’s  was winner was the “Boldogasszony Csipkéje” (Lace of Our Lady) Confectionery by Norbert Tóth the pastry chef from Dunaföldvár.  The lace of Our Lady is a real raspberry delicacy. More than half a pound of fruit. It consists of soaked sponge cake, raspberry and white chocolate cream, ganache with lemon and basil and raspberry jam.

Lace of Our Lady

Hungary’s free-sugar cake was revealed to be the winner of 2019 the “Kicsi Gesztenye” (Little Chestnut) cake by pastry chef László Gyuris from Szeged. The basic flavor of the cake is the chestnut, and also pleasantly sour cranberries and hazelnut crunch.

Little Chestnut Cake - Free sugar

Get ready for the real Hungarian heavenly delicious cakes. Surely if you are visiting, staying in Hungary at the time being the mouthwatering cakes cannot be missed to try this delicacy.

Are you a real gourmet? Surely if you are in Hungary you should try this delicacy.

In earlier years, the more modern French line dominated, but now the domestic taste was the winner at the jury.

For the 4th time was organized together with Hungary’s cake of the year the competition for traditionally made sourdough bread. Only those bakers were in competion making any bread without additives agents. Apparently, on the 20th of  August  celebrating Saint Steven Day – Hungary’s King.  This year’s harvest with the new bread as well. The winner was with white bread Szerencs Tarsoly – development of Pedró Bakery – made of wheat flour, durum flour, special shape, crispy, hand-made wheat bread.

 

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13 Aug

Dance Canon – Hommage à Zoltán Kodály @ Hungarian Heritage House

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3 p.m. – Thursday, September 12. 2019.

3 p.m. – Friday, September, 13. 2019.

7 p.m. Friday, September, 13. 2019.

District, I., 8. Corvin Square – Budapest

The key reference point of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble’s new show is Zoltán Kodály’s life works. Just like in the Ensemble’s previous productions, tradition is brought to stage with extreme vitality, in symbiosis with contemporary artistic expressions.

The musical framework of the story, which evolves from the small events of an imaginary community, is provided by the compositions of Kodály (and his contem-poraries: Béla Bartók, László Lajtha) and by the folksongs collected by the composer. Throughout the scenes, we follow the evolution of hu¬man relationships and the loss thereof, joys and grieves and the rituals of everyday life and festivities.
In Dance Canon, we can hear parts of well-known Kodály works, such as Háry János, Mátra Pictures, Kálló Double Dance, Psalmus Hungaricus and the Evening song.

A richly nuanced, lyrical-associative imagery, a spectrum of playful changes in time and space lead the audience to the final scene: the cathartic enunciation of the triumph of human existence, of life itself.

Composer: Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, László Kelemen, Eszter Pál, István Szalonna Pál, Lajos Pál. Choreographer: Dezső Fitos, Enikő Kocsis, Gábor Mihályi, Orza Călin. Costume Designer: Edit Szűcs.
Spectacle: Zsuzsa Molnár. Director/Choreographer: Gábor Mihályi.
As A Quest: Tamás Bősze, Beáta Czébely, Mátyás Bolya. Solo Singer: Andrea Brassói-Jőrös – guest artist,  Zsófia Staszny – guest artist, Annie Fischer, Martina Szerencsés, Júlia Kubinyi, Eszter Pál, Milán Hetényi. Leader of the orchestra: Ferenc Radics. Dance Director: Richárd Kökény, Dancing Assistants: Beatrix Borbély, Katalin Jávor, György Ágfalvi. Artistic Director: István Szalonna Pál. Director of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: Gábor Mihályi.

The show is a joint production of the Hungarian Heritage House, the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, the Budapest Spring Festival and the National Dance Theater. The shows premier was at April, 21. 2017.

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