Kennedy Center awarded Gold Medals to four extraordinary Hungarian artists: conductor Ádám Fischer, conductor Ivan Fischer, pianist and composer György Kurtág, and soprano Eva Marton.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 19 June, 2019 | Topics:
Ambassador, Art & Culture, Culture, Events, News, Public Affairs, U.S. & Hungary
| Tags: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, music
Walk of Change ’89 – A Szabadság Ritmusa weaves Hungarian and American popular music, culture, foreign policy, and economic policy into an engaging adventure through central Budapest that will motivate us to consider what freedom means to us today as Hungarians and Americans.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 6 June, 2019 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Events, History, News, Press Releases, Public Affairs, U.S. & Hungary
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1989 regime change in Hungary, Veszprem is hosting Think Freedom, an urban spectacle and multidisciplinary art installation by renowned American artist Edina Seleskovic, on Szabadsag ter in Veszprem, Hungary.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 10 May, 2019 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Culture, News, Press Releases
The installation is a reflection on the meaning of freedom, incorporating sculpture, performance, light, sound, film, the art of literary word, and new global communication technologies, while connecting young generations with the universal power of art.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 8 May, 2019 | Topics:
American Spaces, Art & Culture, Culture, Events, News, Public Affairs, U.S. & Hungary
The Embassy sponsored an exclusive film screening of a newly-released 3D documentary titled “America’s Musical Journey” in Budapest on April 9.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 12 April, 2019 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Chargé d’Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, Doing Business in the U.S., Events, News, Travel & Tourism
| Tags: blues, Foreign Commercial Service, jazz, music, tourism, travel
Szentgyörgyi Albert High School in Kecskemét did an exceptionally great job!
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 3 April, 2019 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Education, English Language Learning, Events, News, Public Affairs, Scholarships and Exchanges, Study in the U.S., Travel & Tourism, U.S. & Hungary
| Tags: America Day
Did you get it right? Find out the correct answers to our #FBI110 Trivia questions. Questions and Answers What’s the FBI’s motto? Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity
https://www.fbi.gov/history/seal-motto Name one US television show that talks about the FBI work overseas We received lots of great answers! Out of multiple correct examples, one show that talks about the FBI’s ...
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 23 July, 2018 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Education, Events, News, Public Affairs
| Tags: FBI
Celebrating the 110th anniversary of the Federal Bureau of Investigation we invite you to an FBI trivia, where you may win an Escape Room experience with an FBI agent!
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 18 July, 2018 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Events, News
| Tags: FBI, International Law Enforcement Academy
Today,
Central European University (CEU) President and Rector Michael Ignatieff welcomed Ambassador David B. Cornstein to the university. “I was pleased with the opportunity to visit CEU today and meet some of the very talented faculty and students. It’s an impressive academic institution and an asset to both Hungary and the United States. I support its continued operation ...
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 28 June, 2018 | Topics:
Ambassador, Art & Culture, Education, News
| Tags: Central European University
Our own Chargé d’affaires David J. Kostelancik was inspired to join the celebration of #JazzAppreciationMonth! Gershwin, Bartók, and more were on the program.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 18 April, 2018 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Chargé d’Affaires, Culture, Deputy Chief of Mission, Events, News
Remarks by the Chargé d’Affaires David Kostelancik at a Concert Featuring Nicolle Rochelle and the Hot Jazz Band Kassa Jazz Boat December 4, 2017 Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen! Jó estét kívánok! This year, Szent Miklós has brought me my gift a day early – the chance to be here with all of you ...
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 15 December, 2017 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Chargé d’Affaires, Culture, Deputy Chief of Mission, Events, News, Public Affairs
| Tags: concert
Remarks by Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. David J. Kostelancik at the opening of Alex Webb’s The Suffering of Light photographic exhibit Műcsarnok, Budapest February 28, 2017 – as prepared for delivery – Deputy Mayor Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Director Szegő, Director of the Budapest Photo Festival Mucsy, Curator for this exhibit and the Festival Ms. Szarka, and of course, our ...
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 28 February, 2017 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Chargé d’Affaires, Culture, Deputy Chief of Mission, Speeches
| Tags: photography
During tonight’s concert, we celebrate those “barometers of freedom” – the Hungarian jazz musicians who played their music in 1956 in defiance of the Communist government. And we remember all of the Hungarians who suffered and those who died in the fight for democracy 60 years ago.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 17 November, 2016 | Topics:
Ambassador, Art & Culture, History, Speeches
| Tags: 1956, culture, history, music
It is my great pleasure to join you tonight for the opening of this incredible exhibition of works by David “Chim” Seymour, who in his brief 45 years was an eye witness to some of the most historic moments and turbulent times of the past century.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 13 October, 2016 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Deputy Chief of Mission, History, Speeches
| Tags: 1956, photography
The photographs on display in this exhibition offer a glimpse into the sacrifices made by Hungarians forced to leave behind everything they knew, to become refugees, to start life anew in a foreign land in the years immediately following the Revolution.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 6 October, 2016 | Topics:
Ambassador, Art & Culture, History, Speeches
| Tags: 1956
First, I strongly believe that when it comes to tolerance and inclusion, it all starts with education -- and education cannot start early enough.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 23 September, 2016 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Deputy Chief of Mission, Education, Speeches
This is the third year in a row for the festival in Budapest, and it’s great to see how it brings together experienced and amateur filmmakers to tell stories inspired by their own experiences and their hometowns. I
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 19 September, 2016 | Topics:
Ambassador, Art & Culture, Speeches
Today, more than two hundred years after Washington’s death and 110 years since the placing of this statue, Washington’s ideal for America endures.
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 16 September, 2016 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Deputy Chief of Mission, History, Speeches
As I look at this exhibition, it strikes me just how powerful it is that it is on a train car. You can actually feel the history – the terror and despair – in the physical object itself, in the wooden planks in the floor, the sliding doors, and the wheels on the track. The ...
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By U.S. Embassy Budapest | 12 September, 2016 | Topics:
Ambassador, Art & Culture, History, Speeches
| Tags: Holocaust
