86 result(s) for transylvania in Community & Culture
Holy Mass in English Every Saturday In Downtown Budapest
- 22 Mar 2012 10:30 AM
- community & culture
Weekly Roman Catholic Holy Mass in English at 5pm every Saturday, at the Jesuit Fathers' Church of the Sacred Heart. The young Transylvanian-born Father Lajos Kovács, S.J. delivers carefully prepared homilies that deal with current social problems and personal faith. Organ-accompanied traditional Anglo-American hymns are sung by the community. Lectors are members of the expat community, with ...
Famous Women In Hungarian History
- 13 Mar 2012 8:01 AM
- community & culture
"When one lists the outstanding personalities of Hungarian history, one tends to think of crowned kings, valiant commanders, renowned statesmen and legendary champions of freedom –representing, almost exclusively, the stronger sex. Yet, many woman bolstered the fame of Hungary over the centuries.
Now On: Transylvanian Churches Exhibition, Museum of Ethnography
- 12 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"The works exhibited show important sites of our built heritage, Calvinist, Roman Catholic, Unitarian, Greek Catholic, Orthodox, churches and bell towers from multiethnic and multidenominational Transylvania. The watercolours, pen drawings, pencil drawings, interior and exterior photographs made between 1880 and 1920 used the means of documentation and art to represent not only the sacral ...
Tesco Named RBIF Sponsor Of The Year In Hungary By Robin Marshall
- 24 Jan 2012 8:06 AM
- community & culture
The name of the Robert Burns International Foundation Sponsor of the Year was revealed to a crowd of 75,000 on January 14, 2012, with Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United Football Club, and the RBIF’s Honorary President, presenting the trophy to David Wood, commercial director of Tesco Global Áruházak Zrt.
Budapest Burns Supper, 15th Anniversary Bonanza
- 19 Jan 2012 12:16 AM
- community & culture
28 January 2012 will be the 15th anniversary of the Budapest Burns Supper, one of the leading expat charity fund raising events of the year. The organisers are promising a night to remember in honour of this landmark Scottish soiree. Read on for more details by Robin Marshall.
New Year’s Eve Traditions In Hungary
- 6 Dec 2010 7:45 AM
- community & culture
"The 31st of December has been the last day of the year only since the 17th century. Those days in some villages it was believed that animals speak in human voices on this day. It was forbidden to hang out clothes, because if they did so someone from the family would hang themselves. Many people went to church to bury the old year. In Transylvania a straw-puppet was buried, symbolizing the death ...
MPs Outraged By Plans To Celebrate Romania At National Theater
- 19 Nov 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"National Theatre director Róbert Alföldi yesterday cancelled an agreement to host a Romanian cultural event on November 30 after public objections from Fidesz, the Christian Democrats and Jobbik.
'The Walled-up Wife', Hungary's Famous Ballad
- 18 Nov 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"There were these masons, nine or twelve, they say. And they took upon themselves to erect a building - strong and beautiful, like none there was before. And they worked day and night. And night and day they worked, but whatever they constructed during the day collapsed at night, and whatever they built during the night fell to the ground by morning.
PanBalkan Art Picnic, Pécs, Until 5 September
- 30 Aug 2010 3:00 AM
- community & culture
"An Art Picnic will take place, a „panbalkan” one. We demonstrate, as the legendary demonstrators in 1989, but we invite the artists of the Balkans to a multicultural, borderless art picnic, to create common values.
Holy Mass in English Every Saturday In Downtown Budapest
- 22 Mar 2012 10:30 AM
- community & culture
Weekly Roman Catholic Holy Mass in English at 5pm every Saturday, at the Jesuit Fathers' Church of the Sacred Heart. The young Transylvanian-born Father Lajos Kovács, S.J. delivers carefully prepared homilies that deal with current social problems and personal faith. Organ-accompanied traditional Anglo-American hymns are sung by the community. Lectors are members of the expat community, with ...
Famous Women In Hungarian History
- 13 Mar 2012 8:01 AM
- community & culture
"When one lists the outstanding personalities of Hungarian history, one tends to think of crowned kings, valiant commanders, renowned statesmen and legendary champions of freedom –representing, almost exclusively, the stronger sex. Yet, many woman bolstered the fame of Hungary over the centuries.
Now On: Transylvanian Churches Exhibition, Museum of Ethnography
- 12 Feb 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"The works exhibited show important sites of our built heritage, Calvinist, Roman Catholic, Unitarian, Greek Catholic, Orthodox, churches and bell towers from multiethnic and multidenominational Transylvania. The watercolours, pen drawings, pencil drawings, interior and exterior photographs made between 1880 and 1920 used the means of documentation and art to represent not only the sacral ...
Tesco Named RBIF Sponsor Of The Year In Hungary By Robin Marshall
- 24 Jan 2012 8:06 AM
- community & culture
The name of the Robert Burns International Foundation Sponsor of the Year was revealed to a crowd of 75,000 on January 14, 2012, with Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United Football Club, and the RBIF’s Honorary President, presenting the trophy to David Wood, commercial director of Tesco Global Áruházak Zrt.
Budapest Burns Supper, 15th Anniversary Bonanza
- 19 Jan 2012 12:16 AM
- community & culture
28 January 2012 will be the 15th anniversary of the Budapest Burns Supper, one of the leading expat charity fund raising events of the year. The organisers are promising a night to remember in honour of this landmark Scottish soiree. Read on for more details by Robin Marshall.
New Year’s Eve Traditions In Hungary
- 6 Dec 2010 7:45 AM
- community & culture
"The 31st of December has been the last day of the year only since the 17th century. Those days in some villages it was believed that animals speak in human voices on this day. It was forbidden to hang out clothes, because if they did so someone from the family would hang themselves. Many people went to church to bury the old year. In Transylvania a straw-puppet was buried, symbolizing the death ...
MPs Outraged By Plans To Celebrate Romania At National Theater
- 19 Nov 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"National Theatre director Róbert Alföldi yesterday cancelled an agreement to host a Romanian cultural event on November 30 after public objections from Fidesz, the Christian Democrats and Jobbik.
'The Walled-up Wife', Hungary's Famous Ballad
- 18 Nov 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"There were these masons, nine or twelve, they say. And they took upon themselves to erect a building - strong and beautiful, like none there was before. And they worked day and night. And night and day they worked, but whatever they constructed during the day collapsed at night, and whatever they built during the night fell to the ground by morning.
PanBalkan Art Picnic, Pécs, Until 5 September
- 30 Aug 2010 3:00 AM
- community & culture
"An Art Picnic will take place, a „panbalkan” one. We demonstrate, as the legendary demonstrators in 1989, but we invite the artists of the Balkans to a multicultural, borderless art picnic, to create common values.