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The Szeged Contemporary Ballet will perform at a celebration to mark Hungary’s August 20th national holiday at the Shanghai World Expo

The US ambassador was among those peddling to generate electricity for the concert of San Francisco's Silent Revolution eco-friendly band at the Sziget Festival in northern Budapest's Obuda Island on Saturday.

More than 200 students from 42 countries participated at this year’s Debrecen Summer University, the best known Hungarian as a second language course in the world.

The harvest and bread are the central themes of the Hungaricum Village at this year’s Sziget Festival, a week-long musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube, but there are plenty of dance performances, folk music shows and demonstrations of traditional handicrafts too.

Hungarian Days will be held in Cluj, W Romania, on August 18-22, dedicated to the culture of Hungarian communities in the Carpathian Basin.

Two British bobbies along with Dutch, German and French police officers are helping their Hungarian colleagues at this year's Sziget Festival in northern Budapest's Obuda island, where more than half of the visitors are foreigners.

A meeting of international youth of Hungarian descent organised by the Égtájak Bureau will be held in Budapest for the 15th time between August 15 and 25.

Half of the around 65,000-70,000 visitors going daily to the Sziget Festival at northern Budapest's Obuda Island are foreigners, their proportion among the weekly pass holders is around 75 percent, the festival's managing director told MTI on Friday.

The Sziget Festival has noticeably raised the bar, already on the first day, as far as world music goes. In addition to the Buena Vista Social Club, two women with beautiful voices were here. The one was Spanish, but her heart drew one to Cuba, and the other came from Jerusalem, but her songs were only in Spanish, or, to be more precise, in Ladino

Representatives of Spain, Belgium and Hungary inaugurated on Wednesday a tree dedicated to the current trio of European Union presidencies at the Sziget Festival in northern Budapest's Obuda Island.

The Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s new play Hard To Be a God is raising the pulse of theatre-goers in Western Europe.

A strange boat set out on its voyage on the first day of the festival, but instead of floating on water, it navigated between the trees. The French street theatre troupe Malabar, with the hour-long performance Le Voyage des Aquareves, created an ocean on this island in the Danube, inhabited by distinctive sea creatures. The Gallic crew sailed into the Sziget Festival at a late hour but their performance rarely lost direction.

Applications have been called to participate in the programmes of the 12th Solo Dance International Festival and the 10th Duo Dance International Festival to take place on January 6-11.