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» Taste MOMEnts
Monday, 15 September 2008
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Monday 15 – Saturday 20 | September
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Cafe in the Crypt, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ
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will be opened by Gábor Kopek habil dla, rector, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest
A travelling exhibition that provides a unique perspective on the work of progressive contemporary Hungarian designers. It is organized by the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME), which has invited internationally acclaimed professional designers – graphic artists, photographers, animators, fashion-, jewellery- and product-designers in their ’20s and ’30s – to display their work in the unorthodox format of a design banquet. The result is a spectacular insight into the extraordinary creative potential with which Hungary has contributed to the development of contemporary design culture.
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opening times
Monday › Tuesday
9 am – 8 pm
Wednesday › Saturday
9 am – 10 pm
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The exhibition is a part of the London Design Festival.
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Free. For more information please call 0207 240 8448
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» Tibor Fischer: Good to be God
Tuesday, 16 September 2008 7pm
The Hungarian Cultural Centre, in association with Alma Books, is proud to present Tibor Fischer's newest work.
‘I tried to live my life decently. For a long time. I really did, but it didn’t work...’
Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially, exponentially and pretend to be someone really important and successful: God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being, results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers and sorting out (as almightily as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle, dying and coming back to life…
About the author: Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport of Hungarian parents. Brought up in South London, he was educated at Cambridge and worked as a journalist. He was shortlisted for
the Booker Prize for his first novel, Under the Frog, which also won a Betty Trask Award, and he was nominated as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Subsequent works include The Thought Gang, The Collector Collector, Don’t Read this Book if You’re Stupid and Voyage to the End of the Room.
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Please note: Attendance at this event is by invitation only
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» Erzsébet Seleljo concert
Monday, 22 September 2008 7.30
MONDAY MUSIC SOIREÈS
Erzsébet Seleljo grew up in Hungary. She started playing the saxophone at the age of fourteen, with her father as her first teacher. She is the winner of several competitions,
most notably the Helicon Festival (Hungary) in 2000, and the First National Saxophone Competition in Hungary in 2003. She has performed recitals at venues such as the Sziget Festival (Budapest), National Gallery and Bishopsgate Institute (London), and played with
orchestras including BM Duna Symphony Orchestra, and the European Youth Wind Orchestra. Seleljo reached the semi-finals of the XVIII. Torneo Internationale di Musica competition in Italy in June, 2008, and is currently in the process of completing the Intensive Masters Course at the Royal College of Music, studying under Kyle Horch. Her studies are generously supported by the Liszt Academy Network foundation.
Erzsébet Seleljo › saxophone
Irén Seleljo › piano
programme
Jules Demersseman – Fantaisie sur un theme original
John Carmichael – Fetes Champetres
Fernande Decruck – Sonata
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Jenô Takáts – Two Fantastics
Dezsô Zádor – Ukrainian Folk Song ‘Hadanochka’
Paul Bonneau – Piece Concertante dans l’espirit ‘Jazz’
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Free.
For reservations please call 020 7240 6162
or email
press@hungary.org.uk
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» Andrew Merkler: Awakening of memories
Tuesday, 23 September 2008 7pm
BOOK LAUNCH
The Hungarian Cultural Centre in association with The British Hungarian Society presents Andrew Merkler: Awakening memories.
The author Andrew Merkler searched far and wide to find out about his extended, talented and hard-working Jewish family. Long resident in Britain he visited Hungary where he was born,
Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Sub-Carpathia, Germany and Austria. He discovered that the Merklers hail from Germany and in 1924 his relative, Lajos Merkler developed one of the largest paprika mills in the world. His relatives also include doctors, farmers, businessmen, a poverty stricken publican, a composer/music critic and the world famous film producer/director, Sir Alexander Korda, his generous benefactor in his early years. The women include attractive figures that held the family together in turbulent times. Andrew Merkler’s father wrote the scripts for more than 30 Hungarian movies, some of which are regarded as classics. His lyrics to numerous songs of the 1930s and ’40s remain popular to this day. The book contains the story of prominent people and relatives, saints and lesser mortals, seasoning the story with humour when the occasion permits. The memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, including his father and brother, is kept alive. Andrew Merkler has written plays on his own and translated several Hungarian plays which have been staged in England and New Zeland.
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Free.
For reservations please call 020 7240 6162
or email
press@hungary.org.uk
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» Manipulation of Genes – Modification of Genes
Thursday, 25 September 2008 7pm
will be opened by dr Pat Simpson
The 21st century is the age of biotechnology. Science is able to answer new questions thanks to the complete mapping of the human genome. Science and art are two distinct entities,
but with the same end: knowledge. It is difficult to create a visual representation of a gene,
the ‘packet of information’ at the foundation of heredity, because it is outside the human visual range. Science is able to interfere with the fate of man in a manipulative manner. The delicate subject of this exhibition is the interpretation and reflection of this scientifically and socially highly complex process, as well as its representation in art.
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Free.
For reservations please call 020 7240 6162
or email
press@hungary.org.uk
For further information please visit
www.downtownartists.hu
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