25 Sep
World Press Photo 2023 @ Budapest
Eyes open to the World’s Best Press Photos at the National Museum Budapest. From September, 22. 2023 features almost 94 recordings from around the world. The best and most important photojournalistic and documentary photos of the past year can be viewed until November, 5. 2023.
Every year since 1955, the World Press Photo competition and the related exhibition organized in many countries summarize the events of the last year with the help of authentic, emotional and thought-provoking photos from all over the world. The winners were chosen by an independent jury that reviewed more than 60,448 photographs entered by 3,752 photographers.
László L. Simon – general director National Museum also mentioned that several accompanying events will join the exhibition. National Geographic Hungary turned 20 this year. On the occasion of the anniversary, World Press Photo presents the most exciting and beautiful Hungarian materials from the magazine’s two decades at the accompanying exhibition at the National Museum. In addition, portal’s selection of photos showing events in Hungary from the past year can be viewed on the fence outsode at the museum. In the Museum’s Garden, the works of Czech, Polish, Slovak and Hungarian photographers on climate change can be seen.
The images of the World Press Photo 2022 exhibition were selected by the international jury from 64,823 photos taken by 4,066 photojournalists from 130 countries: the traveling exhibition is expected to be viewed by more than 4 million people in 120 locations worldwide.
Désirée Bonis – Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Budapest, spoke about this year’s World Press Photo prize-winning photo. The first-prize photo is a strong reminder that there is still a war going on not far from Budapest, while the exhibition material clearly shows that in a period of austerity, in addition to economic difficulties the world also has to deal with the climate crisis. Furthermore, in his speech, he emphasized the importance of the free press, especially the currently protracted epidemic situation.
The photo of the year was Jevhen Maloletka‘s Air attack on the maternity ward of the Mariupol hospital.
Marika Cukrowsky – curator of this year’s exhibition, said: the biggest change in the almost seven-decade history of World Press Photo is that the pre-judging of the competition has been made regional, so a more comprehensive evaluation of local events can be expected. Before the global jury, entries sent from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America, South America, Southeast Asia and Oceania are evaluated separately.
The World Press Photo exhibition can be visited until November, 5.2023.
Riport and snaps by Aggie Reiter
21 Sep
“What’s Up Doc”… Does It Ring The Bell?
Celebrating the 100th birthday of Warner Bros.
Under the auspices of Warner Bros. Discovery, the Warner Bros. studio is celebrating its 100th birthday this fall as part of domestic and international collaborations.
With the cooperation of the Sugarbird brand the Hungarian-based clothing company launched a clothing collection with two iconic characters from Looney Tunes, Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny. See the enormous collection at thier web site.
This message not just for cartoon fans.
Update by Aggie Reiter
20 Sep
The16th KAFF (Kecskemét Animation Film Festival) @ Cinema MOM Movie Theater- Budapest
Between September 21st and 27th, fans of the animation genre can see a special selection program at the Cinema MOM movie theater.
Every day for a week, a compilation showing the award-winning works of the 16th Kecskemét Animation Film Festival (KAFF) held this summer will be screened. Admission to the screenings is free, may register on the cinema’s website – http://www.cinemamom.hu.
With the series of free screenings realized in cooperation between Kecskemétfilm and Cinema MOM, in addition to award-winning creators, they also pay tribute to Ferenc Mikulás, who, since the foundation of the Pannónia Filmstúdió’s studio in Kecskemét in 1971, managed the work of the world-famous animation workshop for half a century. His team continues to organize the internationally recognized “A” category animation biennale with unbroken enthusiasm and unchanged professional competence.
Admission to the “BEST OF KAFF” screenings is free, and seat registration tickets can be reserved on the spot at the venue. Due to their history and visual world, the works are primarily recommended for adult viewers.
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19 Sep
Latest News – Venue opens to World Press Photo -Thursday, September, 22.2023.
The winning material of one of the world’s most famous photo competitions has arrived in Budapest, to the Hungarian National Museum. The annual exhibition presenting the results of the 2023 World Press Photo Contest presents the best and most important photojournalistic and documentary photos of the past year.
The winners were selected from more than 60,448 photos by an independent jury.
World Press Photo is an independent non-profit organization founded in Amsterdam in 1955, which has been a globally recognized platform for journalism ever since, almost seven decades. Today, the organization has become the world’s most prestigious platform in press photo contest.
To visit the venue requires an entrance ticket. Since it is not a state-run exhibition.
Update by Aggie Reiter
19 Sep
2023 World Press Photo – Hungarian National Museum – Budapest
2023 World Press Photo Contest authentic photos tell the story of world events. The annual exhibition presenting its results presents the best and most important photojournalistic and documentary photos of the past year. The winners were selected from more than 60,448 photos by an independent jury. The World Press Photo Foundation introduced a regional strategy last year, changing the structure of the annual competition and judging to provide a more global and geographically balanced view of world events. Entries from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America, South America, South-East Asia and Oceania will be evaluated separately.
Authentic photos tell the story of world events for the first time for six weeks, from September, 22 to November, 5.
Officially open to the public Thursday, September, 21. at 1 p.m. at the Hungarian National Museum – District VIII., 14-16 Múzeum Blvd Budapest. Free of charge.
Update by Aggie Reiter
18 Sep
New Age with Circular Coffee
Participated at the event hosted by Bányai Coffee, MONYO, Mad Dog and the Food Rescue team. Found out that the way of coffee – Circular Coffee is not just a drink. Just put aside everything you have ever thought about coffee and “hear about” the route from the coffee bush to the coffee grounds.
Prehaps new information to many that in addition to the coffee bean, the flesh fruit is also a source of many valuable nutrients and flavor, which ended up on the coffee fields ground. Imagen a sherry compaired to a coffee fruit … inside the cherry is the nut whilst inside the flesh of the fruit that surrounds the coffee bean. Hot drinks, new-wave soft drinks and even crisps were prepared to present new flavors and the power of upcycling with the tasting!
The event was hosted by Bányai Coffee, MONYO, Mad Dog and the Food Rescue team.
Four Hungarian brands – Bányai Coffee, MONYO Brewing Co., Mad Dog Coffee and the “Ételmentő” (which is a Hungarian word that stands for “Food Rescue” in English), joined forces to show how every part of coffee can be turned into a gastronomic delight.
At the event the exhibitors told in recent decades, sustainability and circularity have been increasingly emphasized in the food industry and of one of the favorit hot drinks the coffee more and more efforts towards this. During the cultivation and processing of coffee, a number of raw materials and by-products are produced, which until now we might not even have thought of how valuable they can be. One such example is Cascara, as a/m the dried version of the flesh of the fruit that surrounds the coffee bean. Traditionally, this flesh surrounding the coffee greens was often discarded or composted. However, due to the growing interest in sustainability, cascara’s potential is being recognized in more and more places.
Cascara is rich in nutrients such as caffeine, antioxidants and vitamins. The coffee fruit with its fig and date-like aroma … (sourced from Bányai Coffee’s plantation in Costa Rica). Has antioxidant content and energizing effects. A unique refreshment not only to bare the heat during hot summer but throughout the year. Thanks to upcycling, these valuable materials can be given new life. In this way not only protect our environment by reducing waste, and create special and nutritious products that conquer with a unique taste and contribute as an additional source of income to the livelihood of those working on the plantations.
Casacara by Monyo Coke Soda is now also available in Hungary. Packed 0.33-liter aluminum cans. Once you tasted it will go for more… so yummy and refreshing.
Riport and snaps by Aggie Reiter
18 Sep
“Golden Years” – Retirement Movie by Hungarian-born Swiss Director Barbara Kulcsar.
The “Golden Years” … drama … feel good comedy … mystery movie that show audiences it is never-too-late-to find happiness.
Alice and Peter are celebrating their retirement. When their children gift them with a cruise on the Mediterranean, they look forward to this new phase in their lives. But then Alice’s best friend Magalie dies unexpectedly and Alice discovers that she had been having a secret affair in France for 15 years. Plunged into an existential crisis, Peter becomes a health fanatic, to hedonist Alice’s chagrin. So, when Peter invites Magalie’s widowed husband Heinz to join them on the cruise, which Alice had hoped would breathe new life into their marriage, their harmonious retirement is over and pent-up frustrations bubble to the surface. While Peter spends time with Heinz, Alice leaves the cruise trip through the Mediterranean and heads onwards shore excursion to Marseille and it is only on their separate paths of self-discovery that the couple find unexpected new ways to spend their golden years.
The Swiss quality of life completely in many ways different content from a Hungarian couple to forward to their new phase in thie lives. Yet enjoyable and giving audience in mind similar situation they have had already lived through. Just watching the movie surely gives smiles and understanding the difference nomatter where you reach the well-deserved retirement age.
Was filmed in Switzerland and Denmark and released in 2022. Length 92 MIN. It was a break-out hit at the Swiss box office.
Movie out from September, 21. throughout Hungary’s cinemas. Original language with Hungarian subtitled movie.
Age above 16 yrs.
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12 Sep
COOP RALLY – QUALITY HUNGARIAN PRODUCTS – 2023.
SEPTEMBER, 13-13 THE NATIONAL 17TH COOP RALLY HIT THE ROADS, SO WAS SAID AR the press conference held today. Attending László Pekó, chairman of the board of CO-OP Hungary Ltd., Márton Nobilis – state secretary responsible for food industry and trade, László Fábián – general secretary of the Hungarian Olympic Committee – the CO -Member of the board of OP Hungary Ltd. The main patron of the COOP Rally Dr. István Nagy – Minister of Agriculture.
About the coming up two-days program … nearly 300 participants from more than 100 companies will visit eight stations. Six food manufacturing companies and 2 COOP member companies in Western Hungary. László Pekó reported on the previous results… The professional program launched in 2006 has so far visited 135 suppliers that manufacture and distribute food products and other daily consumer goods. These are 100% domestically owned retail company groups. In connection with this, he emphasized: the COOP Group, which operates nearly 2,200 stores in more than 1,400 settlements in the country, ensures the daily supply of one million customers in such a way that 95,000 Hungarian products are sold in their stores, including more than 800 own-brand products, 90 percent of which are domestically produced. Speaking about last year’s sales revenue of the company group, which employs almost 20,000 people and ensures the livelihood of 400 domestic small and medium-sized enterprises, he noted that last year their sales revenue increased by 19% in the last five years.
In 2021, the presence of the COOP started in the framework of the Hungarian Village Program
covering almost the entire territory of the country, it significantly improved the living conditions of nearly 450,000 small-town residents and thus 168 new work opportunities. At the small villages folks don’t just do their everyday shopping, but to get to know each other … chat … build their community.
Nothing proves their results better than the fact that between 2018 and 2023 they were also recognized with the Value and Quality Grand Prix trademark.
COOP has supported the Hungarian Olympic Committee since 1996, and as a strategic partner from 2021, within the framework of which it supports the preparation of the Hungarian Olympic Team and promotes the Olympics ideal. Regarding to the next year’s Olympics in Paris, he emphasized that the preparations are going well. The Hungarian team currently has more than 50 quota places, which, if everything goes well, could be 180 sporters present. At this year’s COOP Rally 4 of Hungarian Olympic champions will be rolling on the route … Fencer Emese Szász, Swimmer Dani Gyurta, Water Polo players Zoltán Kósz and Norbert Hosnyánszky.
Since 2010, the COOP Aid Foundation has donated more than HUF 150 million, almost 400 tons of food, to the needy people, in trouble through no fault of their own and to children in need of special care raised in state care.
Report & Snap by Aggie Reiter
10 Sep
The Festival Season Continues @ Pécs This Fall Aswell.
Punnany Massif and The Biebers will also perform at the Pécs Days! September 20-24. in Széchenyi Square, in addition to the free concerts, a variety of food and wine offerings, a fashion show, a children’s musical, a dance show, a bar festival, PTE International Day and the Student City festival also add color to the program.
It’s no coincidence that Pécs Days is the region’s longest-standing collective art festival, as this year’s event will be the 32nd event in downtown Pécs. In addition to the programs, 15 wineries, 25 craft vendors and a wide gastronomic offer await those interested.
The 5-day festival starts on September 20, when the International Culture Day of the University of Pécs
Pécs). As part of this, the PTE Dance Ensemble, an interactive African drum and dance show, will be performed by the French singer-songwriter ERUAL, who came from Rennes (France) and is now making his debut in Hungary, as well as, who is already very well known in the Hungarian music scene, who will perform this time in a trio formation. then on stage. The programs for the following days can be viewed… http://www.pecsinapokfestival.hu/programok/pecsi-napok-2023
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Rolling in Budapest 