http://xpatloop.com/http://www.xpatloop.com/images/cms/xs_logo.gifhttp://xpatloop.com/entertainmentXpatloop.com - Expat Life In Budapest, Hungary - Entertainment© XpatLoop.com 2007en-ENinfo@xpatloop.com"Following his sell-out UK & European tour in 2010 and 2009’s UK Top Ten album Still So Far To Go – The Best Of Chris Rea, one of the UK’s foremost singers and songwriters returns with his first new material in over 10 years. He is coming to Budapest on 15 February. Concert will start at 20:00.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/67583Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:01:00 GMT"After a five month-break from performing, Bin-jip returns to the stage, with a host of songs from their new album – for the first time at this performance.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69404Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT"Zoltán Katonka has been member of the Central Europe Dance Theater since its re-foundation in 2006. The experiences of the 5 years spent at CEDT have slowly developed his very first choreography – in his piece, he analyses the workings of closed communities, the cohesion, its joys and traps.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69345Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMTThe place where Yamato performs is the space where people gather in the resounding beat of drums. The moments are born when the sound created by Yamato resonates with the pulse of everybody present. Ripples of pulses and gently overlap. The sound of drums, which were made of animal skin and ancient trees, some of are more than 400 years old, as the pulse or the Heartbeat (Shin-on).http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69413Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:50:00 GMTOver twenty-five years since their formation, Dream Theater continue to cultivate, curate and protect their status as worldwide niche taste-makers on their eleventh studio album, which was produced by the band’s own John Petrucci and mixed by hi-fidelity magician Andy Wallace (Nirvana, Prince, System Of A Down). “We’re just having a great time on the road. Everything has really come together,” says lead guitarist Petrucci.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/68728Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:30:00 GMT"After the first Cliffme party, Community Night 2011, where Miss and Mr Community was elected, why not celebrate this year’s Valentine’s Day in an unusual way, at a super-posh bar on the riverbank, participating in a kissing competition?http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69432Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT"An eternal story in the spirit of an outrageous comedy. Pinocchio represents at once the freedom of childhood fantasy and serves as the symbol of the wastefulness of a growing boy. When Master Geppetto artfully fashions a small wooden figure from a tree stump he finds outside his hous, the figure appears as a happy little boy.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69380Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT"There are certain places in the world where at a given time events become concentrated in an extraordinary way and as such are able to write themselves into the history of the world as venues of significant cultural achievements. One such place is St. Gallen in Switzerland and within it the Erker complex: Erker Publishers, Studio and Meeting Place.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69381Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT"We welcome our guests both old and new to our Museum+ evenings with a refreshed approach and new programmes One day a month our museum will again be open until 10 p.m. awaiting visitors with programmes that focus on universal themes such as fashion, love, sports, morality, music, beauty and theatre, which certainly hold something personal for everyone.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/19515Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT"Live music enthusiasts will know that the Palace of Arts is a fantastic concert venue – and not just in the evenings. On weekday afternoons, a broad spectrum of musical genres can be heard in and around the Foyer of the building.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/18589Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT"Szilvia Seres’s project is a look back, and a time travel: the past’s vision of the future, in the present. Its point of departure is that hopeful period of the political transition in Hungary – from the sobering perspective of nearly one and a half decades.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69363Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT"Hungary's national final is now complete, with the addition of four more lucky finalists. Hopes are high in Hungary of another good result at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest.The second semi-final of the Hungarian selection show, A Dal was held tonight. Three songs were selected by a jury and the fourth selected by a public phone vote."http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69389Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMTTickets are now available for the International Circus Festival, held in Budapest for the 9th time. The Festival is a unique celebration of circus arts, providing fantastic entertainment for audiences and a serious competition for the professionals participating between 2-6 February 2012. Once again the organisers aim to present the best International and Hungarian circus artists, and say they are proud that Budapest is establishing itself as a circus city.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69046Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:04:00 GMT"The Blue Note show repertoire is a selection of music from Nigel Kennedy's celebrated Blue Note Session album and music from the height of the Blue Note era (classic blue note material from the late 60’s / early 70’s period) and would be played by the The Nigel Kennedy Quintet.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69339Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:45:00 GMT"Music Freedom Day is prestigious series of events that is organized every year on the same day, 3rd March by Swedish organisation Freemuse. The aim of creating the organisation was to draw attention to freedom of practising of fundamental human rights and inequalities, barriers and abuses connected with them experienced all over the world.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69348Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT"You lack only just a relatively small sum to go to studio and record the album of your band, or you want to put in production your new patent? The first Hungarian crowdfunding page, www.creativeselector.hu helps cultural ideas, NGO-iniciatives, the inventors of silly gadgets or any talent to effectuate their ideas. The portal happily gives space to all sorts of fresh projects, connects creative minds with their potential financial supporters, fans or consumers and it generates social co-operation.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69310Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:00 GMT"Pichet Klunchun and Myself is a clever theatrical presentation of an intellectual encounter between two dancers from very different traditions. The piece stages the meeting between conceptual choreographer Jérôme Bel and traditional Thai dancer Pichet Klunchun, a master of “Khon,” a Thai classical dance practice.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69195Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:00 GMT"András D. Hajdú, a staff photographer with news website Origo, has won the grand prize of the 30th Hungarian Photography Contest with a series of pictures on the deaths of three women at a stampede at the West Balkan disco last year.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69289Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:00 GMTThe 20th Sziget Festival this summer aims to be a whole lot more than just a jubilee get-together. 2012 will once again see some of the hottest new bands in the festival’s line-up, including synthpop phenomenon: Hurts, and UK rock scene’s finest ambassadors: The Horrors. Other new names on this year's line up are Mando Diao, Friendly Fires, Noah And The Whale, The Subways, and Crystal Fighters. To keep the right mixture of new and iconic, Placebo will also present their new album. Read on for info about each band.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/69256Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:40:00 GMT"The Core of the World Festival lasting for several days each January is dedicated to all the arts. Renowned Hungarian pop bands and young artists from different branches of the arts participate in the festival which has been organised since 1999. The Exhibition of Young Artists (Fiatal Művészek Kiállítása) is held traditionally within the framework of the festival.http://www.xpatloop.com/news/66108Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:00 GMT