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» Panic (Pánik)
Thursday, 5 March 2009 7.30 pm
Filmclub hosted by László Heckenast
Directed by Attila Till (2008, feature film, 35mm, colour, 94 min.)
Zsuzsi has everything a girl can dream of: at thirty, she has two degrees, a great job, a nice car, and a place of her own. One day, however, the young PR manager wakes up to realize that something is wrong… She can’t breathe and her heart races.
When she is even dumped by her lover Kirill, she decides to check into the Panic Clinic. Here she finds herself under the care of a highly ambitious therapist, who uses strange methods for treating her and the other patients. Very soon a tiny goal becomes a huge task for Zsuzsi: she needs to be able to leave the clinic, go through the gate, and try to fit back in. Beyond the walls everyone is normal, of course: Zsuzsi’s mother, Elli, and her friend, Ilona are two middle-aged divas who compulsively shop and seek adventure. Ilona’s daughter anxiously watches her newborn baby’s every movement, and Zsuzsi’s little brother wants to free their mother from an evil body-snatching alien – with the help of a gun. The pair of supercops who show up quarrel endlessly over their gay identity and even they come to blows. Zsuzsi has a choice: either she remains anxious forever, or she
2008 – Budapest Hungarian Film Week (in competition)
2008 – Cairo International Film Festival
Free. For reservations, please call 020 7240 6162 or e-mail press@hungary.org.uk
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» Hungarian National Day
Saturday, 14 March 2009 5 pm
Roman Catholic St Stephen’s House
62, Little Ealing Lane, London W5 4EA Underground: Northfields (Piccadilly Line)
Jointly organised by the National Federation of Hungarians and the Hungarian Cultural Centre
Our Inheritence, The Past
An Anthology – Remembering 1848–49
Introduction by the president of the National Federation of Hungarians, Róbert Pátkaiin hungarian.
The Trio Spirito has been formed in 2008 comprising three talented musicians from Hungary and England. They are members of the I Maestri Orchestra (London), Zsuzsa Berényi as leader, Anna Colwille as principal viola and Linda Kolláti as principal cello player. Trio Spirito presents beautiful classical and popular music for violin, viola and cello.
» Back and Forth Between Architecture-Art-Architecture
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Private View: Tuesday, 17 March, 7–9 pm
The Young Hungarian Talents series, initiated by the Hungarian Cultural Centre,aims to present emerging Hungarian contemporary artists in London.
A Photo Installation by Tamás Jovánovics
The exhibition will be opened by James Putnam
The walls of the Hungarian Cultural Center exhibition space will be covered entirely by photos from a Public Art Commission which the artist recently finished in Nyiregyháza (Hungary), and in which three facades of the College campus were covered with three steel and aluminium compositions.
The buildings are typical examples of socialist panel block architecture, whereasTamás’s vertical design composition has been conceived in a minimalistic, sarcastic spirit. The intention was not to create an independent artistic addition to the structure, but to create something that seems inherent to the building itself, as if these boring, sadly designed buildings were having a nightmare, and started hallucinating about themselves. Thereby, a visual-cultural dialogue is established between architecture and art. Then, by interpolating - via photography - this ensemble into the Adamesque interior of the Hungarian Cultural Centre, a further dialogue is established back and forth between different periods and cultural-political concepts of past and present.
The exhibition can be viewed between 18 March – 7 April at the Hungarian Cultural Centre.
Opening times
Monday: closed
Tuesday, Thursday:
10 am – 7 pm
Wednesday, Friday:
10 am – 5 pm
For reservations for the Private View, please call 020 7240 6162 or e-mail press@hungary.org.uk
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» Gottlieb Wallisch – Piano
Thursday, 19 March 2009 7.30 pm
A jointly organized concert by the Austrian Cultural Forum London and the Hungarian Cultural Centre.
Born to a Viennese family of musicians, Gottlieb Wallisch was admitted to the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts at the age of six, and later graduated with distinction from the class of Heinz Medjimorec. He has participated in master classes given by Oleg Maisenberg and Dmitrij Bashkirov, and studied with Pascal Devoyon at the UdK Berlin and with Jacques Rouvier at the CNSM Paris. Gottlieb Wallisch is a prize winner of several international piano competitions, amongst which is the 1st Prize and the “Grand Prix Ivo Pogorelich” at The Stravinsky Awards (USA).
Gottlieb Wallisch has performed with leading orchestras including the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under conductors like Giuseppe Sinopoli, Dennis Russell
Davies, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Langrée, Sir Neville Marriner. Numerous concert
tours have taken him to the USA (Carnegie Hall, Washington DC), Great Britain.
Hungarian Embassy, 35 Eaton Place, SW1X 8BY
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» BARABAS LORINC MEETS THE LONDON SCENE
Thursday, 19 March 2009 8pm start
Barabas Lorinc at the Bedroom Bar
Despite his modest years, trumpeter Barabás Lőrinc had already worked with an enormous number of top players from the contemporary music scene of his Hungarian homeland. Having been the lead trumpeter of the hip-hop/jazz outfit Barabás Lőrinc Eklektric, as well as Random Szerda, well known for it's improvisational style, Barabas Lorinc came to England from Hungary to create new musical partnerships and forge new sounds. Within just a few weeks he has surrounded himself with several exciting and talented musicians including Jake Telford (OK-Ma), Rick James, Tansay Omar (previously drummer for Bjork!) and Janos Agocsi. This new show will combine well-tried formulas with local specialties, mixing up electro and minimal with jazz-funk, improvisation, and the good groove that's sure to get you on your feet!!
The Bedroom Bar
62 Rivington Street
London EC2A 3AY
£5 entry
For more information call 020 76135637
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» Monday Music Soirées
Monday, 23 March 2009 7.30 pm
The Haydn Baryton Trio
The Haydn Baryton Trio Budapest was founded by Balázs Kakuk in 1980 with the intention to revive Joseph Haydn’s almost 200 compositions for baryton – an original instrument of Prince Miklós Esterházy, the Magnificent – in order to perform the pieces in authentic and original instrumentation. The Ensemble plays all Barytontrios from Haydn as well as quintets, octets and the barytondivertimenti from other composers of the Esterházy circle.
Balázs Kakuk, violoncello, viola da gamba and barytongamba artist, professor for cello and chamber music at Ferenc Liszt Music Academy and Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest. As member of the Baroque Quartet Collegium Musicum Budapest he was winner of the competition of Festival van Vlaanderen in Brügge in 1978.
Anna Magdaléna Kakuk obtained a violin artist diploma in 2006. As a violinist, viola soloist, chamber musician and orchestra member she gave concerts in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, England, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Denmark, France, Slovakia, Italy and Croatia. In Budapest she is a permanent performer and contributor of the series ‘Music at Lunch Time’ in the Bank Center, founder and artistic leader of the Caprice Quartet.
András Kaszanyitzky received a violoncello artist diploma in 1998 at Ferenc Liszt Music Academy. Winner of several home and foreign competitions. In 1996 he was awarded prize second of Popper Cello Competition in Budapest. Permanent member of the Weiner-Szász Chamber Symphony Orchestra and the Haydn Baryton Trio Budapest.
Free. For reservations please call 0207 240 6162 or e-mail press@hungary.org.uk
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» Book Launch
Tuesday, 24 March 2009 7.30 pm
Károlyi & Bethlen: Hungary
The Hungarian Cultural Centre, in association with Haus Publishing Ltd., is pleased to host the launch of Mihály Károlyi and István Bethlen: Hungary by Bryan Cartledge.
The book forms part of a 32-volume series, Makers of the Modern World: The Paris Peace Conferences 1919-23, Their Aftermath and Legacy, edited by Professor Alan Sharp. The individual volumes in the series seek to illuminate the deliberations and the legacy of the delegates, representing 32 nations, who tried to create ‘the peace to end all war’. Each volume looks at the history of one or more of the countries involved, intertwined with the life or lives of those who were sent to take part in the negotiations. Although Mihály Károlyi had left office by the time that Hungary was at last invited to attend the Paris Conference, he was deeply involved in the events which preceded the invitation; and István Bethlen not only attended the Conference but dealt, as Prime Minister, with the tragic consequences for Hungary of the Conference’s decisions. In this new account, built around the lives of these two men, Bryan Cartledge examines the genesis of the Treaty of Trianon and describes its legacy.
Sir Bryan Cartledge served as British Ambassador to Hungary from 1980 to 1983, and subsequently as Ambassador to the USSR. From 1988 until 1996, he was Principal of Linacre College, Oxford. His first book on Hungary, The Will to Survive: a History of Hungary, was launched at the HCC in April, 2006 and its two editions have sold out. It was published in Budapest in Hungarian, under the title Megmaradni, in July, 2008.
Sir Bryan Cartledge
Free. For reservations please call 0207 240 6162 or email press@hungary.org.uk
The idea for this talk is a parallel look at the rivers, bridges and riversides of these two very different cities both in design and cultural context. The overview shall cover the histories of their river crossings; what happened to them during the War; riversides; a critical view of post-war developments and what could come next. The talk will also cover in some detail the most important transfer of the Industrial Revolution during 19th Century between the two countries: the building of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge over the Danube and how its design underlines its symbolism. The material will be based on walks, photography and research in London and Budapest specifically for this event. Peter Heath will introduce the talk.
Sandor Vaci is a British architect with numerous British-Hungarian interests.He was the curator of the Hungarian Architecture Today: Modernist and Organic at the RIBA and Glasgow in 2004 as part of the Magyar Magic programme. Last year had an exhibition about Budapest Doorways (collected over several years of walking the historic centre of the city) at the Gödör Klub in Budapest. Also arranged the translation and publication of András D Bán’s British-Hungarian Diplomacy 1938-1941 launched at the Hungarian Embassy also in 2004.
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