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Summer Celebration at HCCA summer celebration, an ambitious cross-cultural project, exciting new press. Here’s what’s happening at the Hungarian Cultural Center...
Saturday, June 16, 5:00pm |
Summer Celebration
at HCC Saturday, June 16,
5:00pm Bring your parasol and join us for refreshments for a late afternoon roof party, HCC style. Your chance to see the fantastic exhibit in our gallery by artist János Megyik and learn more about our upcoming fall events. Great Press for Hungarian Writers! Recently, György (George) Konrad’s memoir ‘A Guest in My Own Country’ was reviewed in The New York Times Sunday Book Review. “In the end,
George Konrad was lucky. He alone among his Jewish classmates survived the Nazi
occupation of Hungary. He joined the 1956 uprising against Communism and escaped
arrest after it failed.” Read
the full review here. And renowned economist János Kornai’s memoir ‘By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey’ was reviewed in the New York Review of Books. “The Hungarian
János Kornai is the most famous, and certainly the most influential, economist
to have emerged from postwar Communist Europe. His reputation is based on three
books, Overcentralization, Economics of Shortage, and The Socialist System,
which knocked away the intellectual foundations of the publicly owned,
bureaucratically planned economy…” Read the
full review here. Hungarian Artist Andrea Dezsö wins prestigious NYFA Fellowship Fresh from her acclaimed HCC exhibit 'My Country', Ms. Deszö won the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship and is featured in this week's New York Times. Read the article here. HCC at the 2007 Sziget Festival in Budapest August 8 – August 15 Welcome to the city of lofty courtyards, flying gardens, and earszikha! This summer, the Hungarian Cultural Center partners with the arts collective Flux Factory and a group of Hungarian artists and architecture students to bring the Pavilion for the City of Budapest New York to the 2007 Sziget Festival in Budapest. Taking its cue from two ride/exhibitions from the 1939 New York World’s Fair—GM’s Futurama and the iconic Democracity—the Budapest New York Pavilion will be a mechanical ride that takes visitors around a scale model of the imaginary city of Budapest New York. The model will blend architectural elements from both cities to create a cityscape that is tantalizingly recognizable yet entirely unique. The festival runs from August 8-15 and we will be in Budapest for 5 weeks building, so if you’re in the neighborhood, stop by and say hello. And don’t forget to follow documentation of the project starting in mid-July on the Hungarian Center website. The project is also co-sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.   HUNGARIAN CULTURAL CENTER 447 Broadway, 5th Floor, NYC (between Howard and Grand Streets) (T) 212.750.4450, (email) info@culturehungary.org www.culturehungary.org |
