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HIGH HEELS SHOE EXHIBITION

Magma Gallery V.th District, 11. Petőfi Sándor Str.

Thursday, April, 19. at 6.30 p.m.

Here’s a herald news that will certainly make the day for many girls and ladies. The invitation goes out by the Magma Gallery, whereas the entrance to the high heels world opens its doors to present a brand new avantgarde collection. During the exhibition the Hungarian-American pop singer Felly K will not only lift up your mood but by seeing these awesome shoes will also lift up the eyebrows.

The highlight of the show, as you will see these pairs you will recognize some of them from the serial: “Sex in the City”. Just some names of the previous designers: Jimmy Choo, Raphael Young and many more. Mind you, most of these unique pairs ain’t available in Hungary.  They are  presented just to admire and get inspired of these superb looks. That is the bad news. But in every bad there is something good!

The best looking high heel celebrity will surely get into the mood by receiving an award from Felly K and  the  stylist of the Magma Gallery.

So mind yourself once more for the date and place to be on Thursday, April, 19. at 6.30 p.m.

 Magma Gallery V.th District, 11. Petőfi Sándor Str. Budapest.

IMPORTANT: Dress Code: “ONLY IN HIGH HEELS!”

Update by Aggie Reiter

Cordially invite You and Your partner to the

Exhibition Opening

of the graphic works by

the Barcsay-prized artist

Ms. Kinga Horváth

at

Ari Kupsus Gallery – Graphics (Német utca 2. 1/7, 1084 Budapest)

on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012, at 6 p.m.

The exhibition will be opened by the Munkácsy-prized artist, Gábor Nagy

The exhibition will be on view till 31st of May, 2012.

Opening hours: Wednesday, Thursday: 1 p.m.  –  6.30 p.m. Other days by request

NÉMET UTCA 2. I/7, 1084 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY ,  +36-20-322 0 334

          ari@arikupsusgallery.com,  www.arikupsusgallery.com

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Recently the pretty little family owned restaurant under the family name: Bodrogi opened its doors.

In the near past days, Mr. Gyula Bodrogi awaited and welcomed with a huge feast their invited friends, local celebrities, actors, singers, journalist, media and press representatives and businessmen from many parts of Hungary to be present at his son’s newly opened restaurant.

His opening words were:” I am more nervous  now than before getting up on stage”. He also said: “Seeing the wide range of offers, I am surely going to come everyday to taste each-and-every one of these written on the blackboard”.

Mr. Ádám Bodrogi, the owner of the restaurant did not follow nor Mr. Gyula Bodrogi, his father, neither Ms. Voith Ági, his mother’s footsteps who both are well-known actor and actress here in Hungary and abroad. On the boards of the stage they both have  had given and  still give so much pleasure hours with their unforgettable performances in theaters and film productions.

Adam’s father, Mr. Gyula Bodrogi has been recognized as the nation’s actor.

Ádám, did not fall so far from the tree after choosing to turn his dream come true and launched in the catering industry. In a way, the newly opened Bodrogi Café and Restaurant  is from now on Ádám’s stage, whereas day-by-day he has to please in tastes his “audience”, guests.

The Bodrogi cafe and restaurant is opened for the real gourmands. They offer their guests a wide range of home-made flavors cooked from their 150 year’s old family recipes. You bet, they are absolutely cooked and taste as you have lifted off your kitchen’s fire place or the oven. Furthermore, they bake on the spot their own home-baked bread.

Ádám gave a real tribute with a range of food that were not just amazing in looks and delicate scented dishes as to give a hint to the invited guests of what to expect from the local kitchen. Upon the decorative white tablecloths laid table, delicious wild garlic soup, a’la Grandma’s style stuffed cabbage, Hungarian beef stew, amazingly tasty oven cooked pasta with salty cottage cheese and bacon . If there would have had been a rating of the gold medal dish I would have gone out to the “yummy of day awarded”, the golden dumplings with the heavenly vanilla sauce.

This place surely has its relaxing atmosphere, enjoying the good food while you’re talking with your company.  Pretty neet place to spend a whole day meeting. They serve excellent tea and coffee, also can’t beat the great selection of marvelous  Hungarian wines and of course the Hungarian Pálinka could not be missing from the  list of beverages.

Now, if this herald news caught your attention, then roll over to reach your own experiences, it won’t be a disappointment I assure you!

Here you go:

Bodrogi Gourmet

Open: 7 days a week: 8 a.m. till 11.30 p.m.

XIIth Dustrict.  2. Fürj Str. Budapest

Table reservation: +36 1 784 3023

Updated and snap Aggie Reiter

EVERY EVENING PROGRAM CAN BE GREAT, LET ALONE THIS EVENING LET YOUR HEART AND SOUL GET IT’S BEST AT THE PALACE OF ART, BUDAPEST!

April, 6. 2012.

at the Béla Bartók – National Concert Hall

(http://mupa.hu/en/bartok-bela-nemzeti-hangversenyterem)

The concert begins at 7.30 p.m. last till 10 p.m. 

Address: IXth. District – 1, Komor Marcell str. Budapest

Phone number: (36 -1-555-3001 or +36-1- 555-3002)

(Opposite to the National Theater. Here’s a map to show you around: http://mupa.hu/en/megkozelithetoseg/

On this evening’s program, the Hungarian National Philharmonic (http://www.filharmonikusok.hu/english) : Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (suite, op. 64)

and

Brahms-Schönberg: Piano Quartet in G-minor, Arnold Scheonberg’s  transciption for orchestra.

Mr. Mattias Barnert, Swiss conductor will be leading the Hungarian National Philharmonic.

In the first part of the concert, Prokofiev’s suite will be performed in a version never heard before in Hungary.

The second half features classical music, but again not in its original form.

The Piano Quartet – orchestra transcription

(“ Johannes Brahms was one of Arnold Schoenberg’s main examples. He dedicated several writings to the composer, taught his students the elderly maestro’s compositional techniques and in 1937 he transcribed for symphony orchestra Brahms’s G-minor Piano Quartet (1861). When asked, just before the premiere, why he had chosen this particular work and what he had in mind when transcribing it, he replied, ‘My reasons: 1. I like this piece. 2. It is seldom played. 3. It is always very badly played, because the better the pianist, the louder he plays and you hear nothing from the strings. I wanted once to hear everything, and this I achieved. My intentions: 1. To remain strictly in the style of Brahms and not to go father than he himself would have gone if he lived today. 2. To watch carefully all these laws which Brahms obeyed […].’ Schoenberg changed nothing in the music of the great German master, and the performance apparatus roughly corresponds to a Brahmsian orchestra. The translucent orchestration allows for every part and every small detail to be heard, and consequently the sonority is perplexingly evocative of Brahms’s symphonies. The listener experiences a curious illusion of hearing a symphony where there is in fact no symphony, as if he or she were hearing Brahms, but it is in fact not Brahms, since there is no real passage between the different musical eras. If Brahms had wanted to compose a symphony, obviously he would have conceived a completely different work in terms of music and form. The transcription is no more and no less than what the composer intended: a compositional bravura and a curiosity to the audiences of today.

Mr. Matthias Bamert

Matthias Bamert studied music in his native Switzerland, as well as in Darmstadt and Paris, falling in with the likes of Boulez and Stockhausen; these associations can be well detected in his own compositions. He assisted Stokowski at the American Symphony Orchestra in 1970 and 1971, then joined the Cleveland Orchestra’s conducting staff under the leadership of  Music Director Lorin Maazel. Later on he was Music Director of the Swiss Radio Orchestra, then began making a wider reputation across Europe. He was principal guest conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra and Associate Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. Bamert served as Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival (1992 -1998), where he made inroads in thematic programming and of the London Mozart Players (1993 – 2000). A prolific recording artist, Bamert has made over 80 discs, many of which have won international prizes.”)

Seats can be reserved through the Internet, via on their website: http://mupa.hu/en/jegyvasarlasi-lehetosegek/  or can also personally get your tickets at the Place of Art’s at cashbox.

Just wish to mention:  tickets can be redeemed on the day of the performance by bringing along a print-out copy of the e/mail as the voucher and at the entrance just flip it at the ticket machine and there you go.

There are still a couple of tickets available for the a/m concert, so if you wish to be there, just go for it.

Wish all the tourist spending their Easter holidays in Budapest to have a fine and relaxing holiday and most of all your eyes to enjoy this beautiful environment at the Palace of Art and the fascinating sound for your ears.

Update by Aggie Reiter

The owner and the gallery is named after Mr. Ari S. Kupsus, the Finnish entrepreneur.

Address: VIIth District, 23/b Bródy Sándor str.  Budapest

You are cordially invited to the forthcoming exhibition opening on:

April, 16. Hungarian language

April 19.  English language

They both start at 6.30 p.m.

The entry fee is 1.000HUF (for students 500HUF)

“An Ancient Dawn”-titled

presentation

by Ms. Beáta Székely

She will be holding a presentation upon her research work in Transylvania. Her paintings express her love and importance for the Transylvanian culture. The guests will be able to personally ask her questions about the paintings.

All the income goes for the fund to help Beata to continue with her research in Kolozsvár area.  The seats are limited, so be sure to  make  an early bird reservation by passing your request through an e-mail: ari@arikupsusgallery.com or personally give a call: +36-20-322 0334.

During the evening wine will be sponsored by: Sumegi Keller Kft.

To get equainted with the gallery’s previouly held and the line ups of exhibition can be viewed at the Gallery’s web site: www.arikupsusgallery.com

Also continuously followed on Facebook: www.facebook.com/arikupsusgallery

Update by Aggie Reiter

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