168 result(s) for border in Community & Culture
Xpat Opinion: Migrants Seeking Home Show Hope At Keleti
- 2 Sep 2015 4:00 AM
- community & culture
By Liz Frommer: Over 2,000 immigrants packed Budapest's Keleti railway station this past Sunday night, a stark reminder of Europe's current immigration debacle. Mostly hidden under the main square, the juxtaposition of the hundreds of families stranded in tents, hungry and worn, with the luminous facade of Keleti's 19th century station was eerie. Strewn about this vast passageway leading ...
Video: Hungary Celebrates National Holiday, With Speeches & Fireworks
- 24 Aug 2015 9:04 AM
- community & culture
Celebrations of Saint Stephen’s Day were held across the country and in Hungarian communities in neighbouring countries. In front of Parliament the national flag was hoisted with military honours. As a traditional part of the ceremony, young army officers took their oaths after the hoisting of the flag. In his address to the new officers, President János Áder said that the nation should take a ...
WWI Centenary Exhibition Opens At Várkert Bazár
- 17 Jul 2015 12:50 PM
- community & culture
An exhibition on the “war between brothers” that was the First World War which has opened in Budapest’s Várkert Bazár events centre at the foot of Budapest castle has been hailed as the most important exhibition of the year at its opening. The exhibition portrays the horrors of First World War battlefields and the world of the hinterlands.
Invitation: Xpat Wine Club 3, Hilton Budapest, 30 June
- 25 Jun 2015 2:00 AM
- community & culture
You're invited to mix and mingle with the international community on 30 June, in the heart of the castle district, to taste some special sparkling wines, and outstanding whites and reds from Somló and Mór. And there's more :) including fine finger-food, and a magical setting...We'll be at the Hilton Budapest again, as following all the fun of our last event there, the hotel GM kindly suggested we ...
Uniquely Hungary: Help Others By Recycling Your Jeans, By Anne Zwack
- 30 Apr 2015 1:40 AM
- community & culture
Even for someone as unversed in fashion as I am, it has not escaped my attention that denim is the hot item this year. Every leading designer worth his salty prices has come out with a new angle on denim and jeans, including Christopher Kane who embroiders them with what look like matyo flowers.
Giant Croatian Easter Egg Exhibited In Pécs
- 2 Apr 2015 1:55 AM
- community & culture
The extraordinary, two-metre attraction was erected in Pécs’s central Széchenyi tér. Similar giant Easter eggs have been made by craftsmen in Croatia’s Koprivnica-Križevci County, on the border with Hungary, since 2007 and the project has now become part of the region’s cultural heritage.
Discussion About The Syrian Revolution, Gólya Budapest, 1 March
- 27 Feb 2015 8:10 AM
- community & culture
"From revolution to international proxy war. The Syrian revolution started in 2011 and after half a year of peaceful insurrection it turned step by step to a civil war, then to an international conflict.
Uniquely Hungary: Meeting Late Martin Munkacsi, By Anne Zwack
- 26 Feb 2015 11:04 AM
- community & culture
Hungary must have more famous photographers per capita than any other country: Capa, Kertesz, Brassai, Moholy-Nagy but Munkacsi was the one who brought movement and joie de vivre to photography. Women laughing as they leapt over puddles, goalkeepers diving for the ball, dancers, divers, wrestlers, children running into the surf, Fred Astaire clicking his heels in mid air.
Book On Hungarian Holocaust Presented At Tom Lantos Institute
- 20 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
- community & culture
It is an ongoing task to keep alert coming generations and ensure that the Holocaust should never happen again, state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office László L Simon said at the presentation of a new book about the Hungarian Holocaust in Budapest’s Tom Lantos Institute.
Xpat Opinion: Migrants Seeking Home Show Hope At Keleti
- 2 Sep 2015 4:00 AM
- community & culture
By Liz Frommer: Over 2,000 immigrants packed Budapest's Keleti railway station this past Sunday night, a stark reminder of Europe's current immigration debacle. Mostly hidden under the main square, the juxtaposition of the hundreds of families stranded in tents, hungry and worn, with the luminous facade of Keleti's 19th century station was eerie. Strewn about this vast passageway leading ...
Video: Hungary Celebrates National Holiday, With Speeches & Fireworks
- 24 Aug 2015 9:04 AM
- community & culture
Celebrations of Saint Stephen’s Day were held across the country and in Hungarian communities in neighbouring countries. In front of Parliament the national flag was hoisted with military honours. As a traditional part of the ceremony, young army officers took their oaths after the hoisting of the flag. In his address to the new officers, President János Áder said that the nation should take a ...
WWI Centenary Exhibition Opens At Várkert Bazár
- 17 Jul 2015 12:50 PM
- community & culture
An exhibition on the “war between brothers” that was the First World War which has opened in Budapest’s Várkert Bazár events centre at the foot of Budapest castle has been hailed as the most important exhibition of the year at its opening. The exhibition portrays the horrors of First World War battlefields and the world of the hinterlands.
Invitation: Xpat Wine Club 3, Hilton Budapest, 30 June
- 25 Jun 2015 2:00 AM
- community & culture
You're invited to mix and mingle with the international community on 30 June, in the heart of the castle district, to taste some special sparkling wines, and outstanding whites and reds from Somló and Mór. And there's more :) including fine finger-food, and a magical setting...We'll be at the Hilton Budapest again, as following all the fun of our last event there, the hotel GM kindly suggested we ...
Uniquely Hungary: Help Others By Recycling Your Jeans, By Anne Zwack
- 30 Apr 2015 1:40 AM
- community & culture
Even for someone as unversed in fashion as I am, it has not escaped my attention that denim is the hot item this year. Every leading designer worth his salty prices has come out with a new angle on denim and jeans, including Christopher Kane who embroiders them with what look like matyo flowers.
Giant Croatian Easter Egg Exhibited In Pécs
- 2 Apr 2015 1:55 AM
- community & culture
The extraordinary, two-metre attraction was erected in Pécs’s central Széchenyi tér. Similar giant Easter eggs have been made by craftsmen in Croatia’s Koprivnica-Križevci County, on the border with Hungary, since 2007 and the project has now become part of the region’s cultural heritage.
Discussion About The Syrian Revolution, Gólya Budapest, 1 March
- 27 Feb 2015 8:10 AM
- community & culture
"From revolution to international proxy war. The Syrian revolution started in 2011 and after half a year of peaceful insurrection it turned step by step to a civil war, then to an international conflict.
Uniquely Hungary: Meeting Late Martin Munkacsi, By Anne Zwack
- 26 Feb 2015 11:04 AM
- community & culture
Hungary must have more famous photographers per capita than any other country: Capa, Kertesz, Brassai, Moholy-Nagy but Munkacsi was the one who brought movement and joie de vivre to photography. Women laughing as they leapt over puddles, goalkeepers diving for the ball, dancers, divers, wrestlers, children running into the surf, Fred Astaire clicking his heels in mid air.
Book On Hungarian Holocaust Presented At Tom Lantos Institute
- 20 Nov 2014 8:00 AM
- community & culture
It is an ongoing task to keep alert coming generations and ensure that the Holocaust should never happen again, state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office László L Simon said at the presentation of a new book about the Hungarian Holocaust in Budapest’s Tom Lantos Institute.