Past Events - 2025
July 16, Wed
Itinera Hungarian Electro-Folk Concert
Be transported to a nomadic space in time and spirit. Itinera's music is inspired by Hungarian folk, world music, electronica and pagan dark folk. Layered mantras and music loops help creating a ritual, trance-like state of mind so band and audience can travel together into another world.
June 12, Thurs (in EN) & June 13, Fri (in HU) - 7-8:15pm
Psyché: Writings of an Erstwhile Poetess
Psyche, a Romani countess and poet, wanders across Europe during the Napoleonic era in a chauvinistic society that challenges her independence. The first English translation of a one-woman show performed by Stella Abel and adapted from the Hungarian book Psyche: Writings of an Erstwhile Poetess by Sándor Weöres.
June 15, Sun at 5pm
Magda, the Tailor / Magda, A Szabó
June 8, Sunday - 2 to 4:30pm
pHen: Moholy-Nagy University & BioBat
Biodesign Challenge (BDC) is an international design competition that invites students to envision, create, and critique ways of using biotechnology to build an interconnected future in harmony with the natural world. Moholy-Nagy University students will exhibit their innovative new "pHen".
June 6, Fri - 7pm
Dűvő - Magyar Nap Warm-Up Concert, 50th Annual Hungarian Festival
50th Annual Hungarian Festival Warm Up event, Manhattan
The band plays Hungarian folk music primarily in a style that preserves traditions. Their repertoire includes music from Transylvania, Upper Hungary, Southern Hungary, and Little Hungary. In addition to playing together, Dűvő also collect and teach folk music.
on view until June 2025
Magyar Folk Art in Bold, Exhibition Extended to June 2025.
A striking and cheerful expression of art inspired by recognizable ethnically Hungarian motifs and designs with a 21st century twist. Look closely and find lacework in the background, examine the golden touches, and all the intricate details that delight the eye.
April 12 (Sat), 6pm
Hungarian Day of Poetry
Aranydiplomás színművész- énekesnő verses- zenés műsora aki most Amerikában vendégszerepel és a Költészet Napja alkalmából Karinthy Frigyes, Petőfi Sándor, Vörösmarty Mihály, és Váci Mihály költeményein kívül, a legendás dalszerző, S.Nagy István olyan megzenésített verseit is elhozza.
April 12 (Sat), 7:30pm
Ferenczi & Freud, Intrigues around the Divan
Sándor Ferenczi was Freud's colleague and friend, and later his chosen successor. He was the first professor in psychoanalysis. Their relationship ended up in a fatal quadrangle that sparked the birth of psychoanalysis. Recorded in Hungarian with English Subtitles in 2017.
February 22, Saturday 8pm
Write it Again Shakespeare!
A witty proposal is made to the ghost of English playwright Shakespeare, on how to rewrite the original play in order to rid The Merchant of Venice of the accusation of anti-Semitism - perhaps due to a misunderstanding. (pre-recorded play in Hungarian with English subtitles).
