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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MONTH: Fundraising
reception and silent auction to support and promote the film The Rescuers:
Heroes of the Holocaust
DATE: April 28
VENUE: Embassy of Hungary, Washington, DC
ADDRESS: 2950 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
By invitation only.
Emmy Award Winning Documentary filmmaker Michael
King is currently
producing and directing this feature-length documentary, which focuses
on non-Jewish diplomats who worked to save Jews during the Holocaust.
The film will be seen through the eyes of Stephanie
Nyombayire, a young
Rwandan woman and anti-genocide activist who worked as a research assistant
for British Historian Sir Martin Gilbert.
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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MONTH: Film
Screening: Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
DATE: April 17
VENUE: Embassy of Hungary, Washington, DC
ADDRESS: 2950 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008
TIME: 7.00 p.m.
RSVP by April 1st by phone (202) 362-6730/201 or by email: rsvp.was@kum.hu
Narrated by Joan Allen, this is the first documentary feature film
about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became
a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Post-screening
live discussion with Director Roberta Grossman (2008, running time:
54 min)
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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MONTH: Film
Screening: Captain László Ocskay, the Forgotten Hero
DATE: April 7, 2009
VENUE: Embassy of Hungary, Washington, DC
ADDRESS: 2950 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008
TIME: 7 p.m.
RSVP by April 1st by phone (202) 362-6730/201 or by email: rsvp.was@kum.hu
Directed by Gergely Fonyó, the film is based on the stories
of survivors about the bold rescue operation conducted be László Ocskay,
Captain of the Royal Hungarian Army during the Second World War. Thanks
to Ocskay’s activity, about two thousand hunted Jewish men, women,
and children have escaped in the building of the former Jewish high
school in the Abonyi Street of Budapest, Hungary (2007, running time:
70 min).
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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MONTH: Film
Screening/ Fateless
DATE: March 31
VENUE: Embassy of Hungary, Washington, DC
ADDRESS: 2950 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008
TIME: 7 p.m.
RSVP by March 24th by phone (202) 362-6730/201 or by email: rsvp.was@kum.hu
Based on the semi-autobiographic novel by the 2001 Nobel prize winning
Hungarian writer Imre Kertész, the film tells the story of young
Hungarian Jewish school boy, who is transported to Auschwitz in 1944,
then to Buchenwald, eventually returning home to Budapest after the
war. Directed by Academy Award Nominee Lajos Koltai, and the music
score was composed by Academy Award Nominee Ennio
Morricone (2005,
running time: 140 min)
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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MONTH: Carl
Lutz and the Legendary Glass House in Budapest
DATE: March 24 - April 29
VENUE: Senate Caucus Room (SR-325), Russel Senate Office Building,
United States Congress
ADDRESS: Intersection of Constitution Avenue and First
Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002
TIME:
The exhibition is about the Swiss Vice-Consul Carl Lutz who rescued
thousands of Jews in Budapest from deporation to Nazi death camps during
World War II. Co-organized with the Carl Lutz Foundation, Hungarian
American Coalition, Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice,
Mensch International Foundation, Embassy of Switzerland, and Embassy
of Israel.
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THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL BALLET COMPANY SUMMER
INTENSIVE & AUDITION
DATE: June 28 - July 24, 2009
VENUE: The Hungarian State Opera House
ADDRESS:
TIME:
Who: the first 100 qualified applicants confirmed by the audition
board.
Focus: for the pre-professional or young professional dancer who would
like to train, prepare and be coached for the final audition for the
Hungarian National Ballet Company as well as other European Companies.
Qualifications: 16-22 years of age, classically trained dancer
Performance Gala: Hungarian State Opera House main stage July 23, 2009
Audition: 15 European Companies will be represented by their Artistic
Directors and decision makers to evaluate 100 qualified dancers for
contracts during the final performance
Internationally renowned faculty, coaches, stagers and Directors from
the USA, France, Hungary and Russia.
SEND YOUR APPLICATION NOW!
For more information: www.opera.hu/hnbcsi/index.html
Fees: full tuition, accommodations, 3 meals/day, gala performance,
audition, coaching: 4000 EU
Without accommodations/meals: 3000 EU
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PULSE NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
DATE: 5-8 March, 2009
VENUE: Booth B11 Pier 40, Pulse New York
ADDRESS: 353 West Street( @West Houston), New York, NY 10014
TIME:12:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Léna & Roselli Gallery is an institution of contemporary
Hungarian art, commerce, and an art sponsor. It aims to maintain and
represent Hungarian fine arts and artistic values in cooperation with
the values of the Eastern-European intellectual community. The founder
of the gallery, Dr. Ilona Orosz, serves the traditions of the national
cultural heritage while also intending to create new values. The Léna & Roselli
Gallery is associated with several East-European artists, artistic
institutes, and cultural institutes.
Artists represented by Léna & Roselli Gallery:
István Nádler
László Lakner
Róza El-Hassan
Gábor Király
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LINCOLN CENTER’S GREAT
PERFORMERS PRESENTS TAKÁCS QUARTET – THE COMPLETE BARTÓK
STRING QUARTETS
DATE: 14, 18 & 21 March, 2009
VENUE: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
ADDRESS: 132 W 65th Street, New York, NY 10023
TIME: 8:00 pm
The Takács Quartet returns to Lincoln Center for three concerts
(March 14, 18, and 21, 2009) performing the complete Bartók
String Quartet cycle, interspersed with Beethoven’s early
String Quartets, Op. 18. At home in this repertoire, the Takács
Quartet has performed the Bartók and Beethoven quartet cycles
in music capitals throughout the world, where it has been
continually cited for bringing fresh insights to its interpretations
of these canonical works. The quartet’s recording of the six
Bartók String Quartets received the 1998
Gramophone Award for chamber music and, in 1999, was nominated for
a Grammy Award.
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TRANQUILITY BY ATTILA BARTIS READING
AND CONVERSATION
DATE: April 6, 2009
VENUE: Rapaporte Treasure Hall (Goldfarb Library) @Brandeis University
TIME: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Praise for Attila Bartis and Tranquility
"Bartis at times puts one in mind of Joyce, at others of Kafka,
at others of Roth, yet ultimately eludes all comparison by the strength
of his originality."
—Arturo Mantecón, ForeWord
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TRANQUILITY BY ATTILA BARTIS READING
AND CONVERSATION
DATE: April 7, 2009
VENUE: Boston University Photonics Center
ADDRESS: 8 St. Mary's Street, 9th floor
TIME: 6:30pm
Askold Melnyczuk (Moderator)
Founder and former editor of AGNI, professor at UMass Boston and
in Bennington’s MFA program, and author of The House of Widows.
Free and open to the public | Reception to follow
Co-sponsored by the Center for International Relations at Boston University
In cooperation with the literary journal AGNI, the American Literary
Translators Association (ALTA), Archipelago Books, and Zephyr Press
With the generous support of the European Commission Delegation in
Washington, DC
Praise for Attila Bartis and Tranquility
"Oddly beautiful and unsettling, the novel boldly illustrates
the lengths people go to in securing their own private hells."
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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ATTILA BARTIS AND
BRIAN EVENSON
DATE: April 9, 2009
VENUE: Idlewild Books
ADDRESS: 12 W. 19th St. (near 5th Ave.)
New York, NY 10011
212-414-8888
TIME: 7 – 9 pm
Bartis will speak in Hungarian with a translator.
Brian Evenson is the author of The Open Curtain, a finalist for an
Edgar Award and was among Time Out New York's top books of 2006. He
lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown
University’s Literary Arts Program. Other books include The
Wavering Knife (winner of the IHG Award) and The
Brotherhood of Mutilation.
He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Fremon and Jacques
Jouet.
Praise for Attila Bartis and Tranquility
"Reading like the bastard child of Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede
Jelinek, Tranquility is political and personal suffering distilled
perfectly and transformed into dark, viscid beauty. It is among the
most haunted, most honest, and most human novels I have ever read."
—Brian Evenson
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