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20 Jan

Hungarian Culture Day – 2026.

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On Saturday, January 24th, 7 p.m., 60 minutes @ the Várkert Bazár Event Hall hosting a special dance performance on the occasion of Hungarian Culture Day. The production titled “Joyful Dance” – Fitos Dezső Company, based on the tradition of Hungarian folk dance, evokes the communal experiences that once characterized village weddings, spinning wheels and festive occasions. The company presents its latest piece, which showcases the dances and cultural diversity of the different regions of the Carpathian Basin, while emphasizing the physical and spiritual effects and liberating power of dance. Folk dance theatrical elements will also appear during the evening. The focus of the evening is on the community-building power of folk dance and the joy of life expressed in dance together with the artists of the SICC Theater Company will also participate in the production.

The choreographers and directors of the Joyful Dance are Enikő Kocsis and Dezső Fitos, the music is provided by the Fitos Dezső Company orchester, and the performance is performed by the company’s dance choir.

Rercommandation by Aggie Reiter

2 Jan

The New Year Just Started … Make Your Trip Memorable in Budapest 2026.

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In January, Budapest offers cozy indoor activities such as a couple of thermal baths (i.e. Széchenyi, Gellért), exploring museums (Fine Arts, Madame Tussauds Budapest … House of Houdini, Hopp Ferenc Museum of Asian Art), attending opera/concerts, and visiting ruin bars.

… Alongside charming outdoor options like ice skating at the Vajdahunyad – City Park, lovely winter concert (largest church of the city at the St. Stephen’s Basilica, also Matthias Church in Buda Castle), Hungarian State Opera House – neo-Renaissance masterpiece, light exhibitions (Lumina Park), Danube river cruises and last but not least a dozen of other sights-and-sounds can be visit whist being in Budapest, perfect time for rollinginbudapest enjoying the winter atmosphere with festive lights and fewer less crowd.

Recommendation by Aggie Reiter

1 Jan

New Year … New adventures … rollinginbudapest.com

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Let peace and harmony fill your home and heart throughout 2026 … Embrace change and watch magic unfold in the coming Year … Make this year your best chapter yet … Celebrate new memories and cherish old friendships this coming New Year.

See you around (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) … Aggie Reiter

18 Dec

Xmas festive preparations @ the Ethnographic Museum Budapest.

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Xmas is inseparable from traditions. The Ethnographic Museum works all year round, and especially during the holiday season, to bring the present into contact with the past, science with teaching, and cultures and generations into dialogue with each other.

In connection with the festive preparations, the museum’s online platforms pay special attention to the traditional world of the winter holidays: customs, stories and inspirations help to see how they can be incorporated into today’s everyday life. It is also worth trying the museum’s Motif Creator application, with which you can create unique motifs – even as the basis for personal gifts. It is also a great way to spend time browsing through holiday-related objects and photos in the renewed collection database or visiting the Etnotube channel, where we can deepen our knowledge of Xmas traditions through archive films or recently recorded interviews.

Recommendation by Aggie Reiter

17 Dec

The 15th anniversary Pharmacist of 2025 and Favorite Pharmacy awards ceremony @ Budapest.

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The award ceremony took place today at the Aria Hotel Budapest – Teatro Aria (District V., 5. Hercegprímás street – Budapest.

The event and awards are intended to draw attention to the development of pharmacist competencies that enhance patient care and optimize drug therapies, and to showcase the excellence of the profession.

Main topic of the presentaitions were, the practical importance of pharmacist prescription writing and how its implementation is getting around. The availability of the Pharmacotherapy Management (FTM) specialized training, which is continuously taking place at the University of Debrecen. Was said like to show the safe, compliant healthcare support specialist training for pharmacists added to the Hungarikum in the future. The training lasts 2 semesters, and the person must obtain 60 credits.The challenge of our days is artificial intelligence and its possibilities in drug therapy management.

After the presentations the recognitions of “My Favorite Pharmacy” and “Pharmacist of the Year” competition awards was presented.

The First and Second Place of “My Favorit Pharmacy” winners were: 1. Szent Sebestyén Pharmacy – from Nagykovácsi (small town located in Budakeszi ), 2. Székfű Benu Pharmacy – from City of Eger, 3. Béke Pharmacy – from Budapest (XIII. district).

The winners of the” Pharmacist of the Year” competition: 1st. Dr. Dániel Fekete, 2nd. Dr. Botond Pető, 3rd.Dr. Eszter Barna. Special award received by Dr. Miklós Csaba.

These votes were overall based throughout the country’s people visiting this year’s Pharmacies.

Riport and snaps by Aggie Reiter

15 Dec

Sziget Festival 2026

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Tuesday, 11. August, 2026.  through Tuesday, 18. August, 2026.

Óbudai Island (Hajógyári Island) – District III. -Budapest

Hungary’s biggest music and cultural festival returns to Óbuda Island from 11 to 18 August, as Sziget Festival unveils the first wave of artists for its 32nd edition. The 2026 lineup already promises a standout year, with Twenty One Pilots, Florence + the Machine, Tomora, Lewis Capaldi and Sombr among the headliners, alongside performances by Underworld, Dijon, Tash Sultana, Dom Dolla and Biffy Clyro. The bill also features Ashnikko, Lambrini Girls, Bad Nerves and Giant Rooks, with more Hungarian acts still to come.

This island is famous thanks to the week-long Sziget festival which takes place here every August, showcasing some of the world’s most famous musicians. For the other 51 weeks of the year, you find an oasis of peace and tranquillity. The quiet among the trees is only broken by the sound of dogs running around in the fields or the laughter of children at the slide park.

Update by Aggie Reiter

12 Dec

Exhibition on Screen – Based on an exhibition in the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace.

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The new season of Exhibition on Screen is based on an exhibition in the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace. Opens with Canaletto and the Art of Venice, a film that takes viewers on a captivating journey through the life and art of the famous Venetian landscape painter. Noone captured the essence and magic of Venice better than Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto.

Director: David Bickerstaff

English art documentary, 90 minutes, 2017 … in English, with Hungarian subtitles.

The screenings will take place in several cities see date/timing at the below cinemas:

Pécs – Apollo Cinema
Székesfehérvár – Barátság Cinema
Sátoraljaújhely – Latabár Cinema
Jászberény – Lehel Film-Theater
Szentendre – P’Art Cinema

In Budapest – Uránia National Film Theater … December, 21. 2025 – January, 3. 2026.

Featuring over 200 paintings, drawings and prints, the exhibition offers an unparalleled insight into the art of Canaletto and his contemporaries, and the city he so masterfully captured. The film also gives us the chance to step inside two official royal residences – Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle – to learn more about the artist and Joseph Smith, who introduced Canaletto to Britain.

Viewers are taken on a 21st century ‘Grand Tour’, visiting the sights that were once the city’s most famous landmarks in the 18th century. The film takes us on a personal tour of the city, which was also enjoyed by their 17th-century predecessors and immortalized in Canaletto’s paintings – from the Rialto Bridge to St. Mark’s Square, from the Doge’s Palace to the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. The film features individual guided tours by curators of the Royal Collection and world-renowned experts in Venetian history, ensuring that we get closer to Canaletto and the city that inspired him.

Update by: Aggie Reite

1 Dec

Grammy Award-winning “The Doors” documentary in cinemas in early December!

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Pannónia Movie Ltd. will be showing the film about the legendary band with some extra new content for just two days in three Budapest cinemas.

Written and directed by Tom DiCillo, When You’re Strange, a documentary that premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the Best Music Film category at the 2011 Grammys, will be screened on the big screen by Hungarian audiences on December 4th and 6th. The original running time, which was not even an hour and a half, will be supplemented with footage from a recent performance, so an approx. 100-minute The Doors experience awaits fans.

This time, Cinema MOM will be left out of the Pannónia multiplexes, only the other three cinemas will show the concert documentary with Hungarian subtitles, as follows:
GoBuda Cinema: December 4, 6 p.m. and December 6, 11 a.m.
Lurdy Cinema: December 4, 7 p.m. and December 6, 1 p.m.
Pólus Cinema: December 4, 7.30 p.m. and December 6, 3 p.m.

The chemistry of four artists made them one of America’s most influential bands. With rare recordings from their formation in 1965 until Jim Morrison’s death in 1971, When You’re Strange follows the band’s career with narration by Johnny Depp, providing insight into the revolutionary impact of their work. To mark their 60th anniversary, the film will be screened in 4K for the first time in cinemas and a new recording of the song “Riders on the Storm” will be presented, including performances by John Densmore and Robby Krieger.

They did this with special guests as part of their Playing For Change collaboration, which aims to perform the compositions included in the initiative in exotic locations around the world. John and Robby will also be present for the occasion with an exclusive introduction, and their invited companions included more than 20 musicians and dancers from 8 countries, including the legendary Willie Nelson’s sons, Lukas and Micah; Rami Jaffee, from the Foo Fighters, and folk singer Sierra Ferrell. With the song, the surviving members wanted to pay tribute not only to Morrison, but also to the memory of keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who passed away in 2013.

Recommender: Aggie Reiter

28 Nov

“The World of Our Retro Winters” Outdoor Exhibition at the Várkert Bazaar.

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“Let there be a Holiday on Earth! “

Press and media individuals were invited this in the morning hours Friday, Nov.28 to the opening exhibition.

At the opening of the exhibition, said Zsolt Sándor – communication and marketing director of the Castle Governor’s Office: “It is a tradition during the Advent period to organize an outdoor exhibition that is somehow connected to the Christmas holidays and we try to present a slice of Hungarian culture that we think may be of interest to both domestic and foreign tourists visiting us.”

Róbert Török – Director General of the Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Hospitality, recalled that this is the second time the museum and the Castle Governorate are organizing a joint exhibition, as last year they presented a selection of colorful, illustrated postcards from almost a hundred years ago on the boards.The exhibition offers a real retro holiday experience, nostalgic and atmospheric remembrance in a real social and economic historical context.

In the sixteen illuminated installation elements that can be viewed for free, the curators of the exhibition, Kinga Veress and Gabriella Jenei, chief museologists, recall the wait for Santa Claus, the preparation for the Christmas tree festival, the atmosphere of New Year’s Eve house parties and the carnival costume parades that defined the rhythm of winter. The advertisements and shop windows promised abundance, while most people stood in line for even the smallest gift. Yet a special, profane cult of the winter holidays developed, which for those who grew up in Hungary in the seventies and eighties still fills with nostalgia now brought a smile on some faces, that once meant miracles that were desired.

Selected period posters, postcards, product labels and photos of iconic objects from the collection of the MNMKK Hungarian Museum of Commerce and Hospitality can be viewed until March 1.

The exhibition can be viewed free of charge from November 29, 2025 to March 1, 2026 on the path ramp leading up to the Gloriette at the Várkert Bazaar Budapest.

Those folks interested what it was like in Hungary getting ready for the coming season of Xmas, may see on the large size posters telling the era’s stories through the path ramp leading to the Gloriette at the Várkert Bazaar Budapest The posters background of the items,objects and gadjets can be read in Hungarian and English language from November, 29. 2025.

Also may visit guided tour with full of stories, where may relive the memories of the old winters together, or just discover what it was like to celebrate back then those communist era.

Photos from: Castle Captaincy

Riport by Aggie Reiter

26 Nov

 Ildikó Enyedi’s Latest Film “Silent Friend”. 

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For the “Q” to arose … the film will tell the ‘A” …“What if they are watching us, just as we are watching them? And what would you do if you wanted to connect with a being, but you don’t have a common language?” These are the questions that arise in the recently released trailer for Ildikó Enyedi’s film Silent Friend . The latest work by the Golden Bear-winning and Oscar-nominated director of Body and Soul debuted at the 82nd Venice Film Festival and has since won numerous awards. The Hungarian-German-French co-production, supported by the National Film Institute, was rated 100% by Rotten Tomatoes, which summarizes film reviews. There were sold-out screenings in 26 cinemas in 18 cities in Hungary, so nearly 3,500 people have now seen Silent Friend , which will be released in domestic cinemas on January 29, 2026, distributed by Mozinet.

Six awards, including the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Actor (Luna Wedler) … Venice International Film Festival 2025.

Update by Aggie Reiter

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