Conductor maestro Jorma Panula is back in Budapest for the 5th time for his Masterclass for Conductors. The Masterclass is held between the 21.8-26.8. The Masterclass is open for all applicants from all age ranges and the participants for the class have been chosen based on their applications. A selected few from the class will be chosen to perform on the final concert the 26.8 at Vigadó, one of Budapests historical concert venues. You can purchase tickets for the final concert from here and read more about the masterclass from here .

FinnAgora is back from a summer break, well rested and full of energy! We have started working and have a lot of different and exciting events for this fall. We attended this years Sziget Festival and supported finnish artists like Alma. This weekend the finnish illustrator JP Ahonen will be at Fekete Zaj festival. L1 Dancefest will take place in Budapest from the 1-4 of September, where the finnish dancer Taneli Törmä will be performing his piece LOCATION X/ Distortion. To keep up to date of our events order our newsletter available in Finnish or Hungarian. Also you can follow us on social

TelepArt mobility support platform promotes opportunities for performing artists to travel and perform internationally. TelepArt is a light micro-funding format aimed for emerging and semi-established professional artists traveling from Finland to Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic and Romania and vice versa. You can read more about the program and apply on http://www.applytelepart.com/apply/ TelepArt is open for applications most of the year, with exceptions during winter holidays and summerbreaks.

FinnAgora 15 celebrations continue at Zsolnay Light Festival in Pécs 27.–30.6. Installations, AV live-sets, films about light art, and discussions are part of the Finnish focus program of the festival: the art by the Finnish guests of the festival reflects Nordic way of thinking through symbolism of light. Finnish ambassadors of light are brought to Zsolnay Light Festival together Let it Be! Art agency . Zsolnay Light Festival, organized for the fourth time this summer, is the first and only light festival in Hungary. Last year, the festival attracted more than 70 000 visitors. FINNISH FOCUS

FinnAgora’s FINNOVATION Business Conference on 1 2 June 2019 brings the latest news of the Finnish innovative field to Budapest. We have invited Finnish experts and business specialists to speak about what is behind ’the Finnish Miracle’: how do startups work in Finland and in the Nordic countries and how innovations are born in Finnish companies. During the day-long conference, we will learn, for example, how to utilize ’sisu’ – the inner courage and fortitude – in entrepreneurship and what kind of possibilities human-centred data economy creates for future businesses. We will get insights

Our popular pop up restaurant event is here: enjoy Saturday afternoon in the courtyard of the Finnish Embassy on 11th May ! Organized for the 8th time, our popular food event renewed its image last year: we are presenting our visitors new and exciting Finnish street food flavours and integrating more Finnish and local entrepreneurs to the event. This year, visitors have a unique chance to taste pulled oats, a delicious plant-based protein that beats meat. Behind this Finnish food innovation is Gold&Green Foods who have kindly sponsored TASTE Finland event this year! The food is prepared

Finnish synthesizer musician Sebastian Teir, known as Kebu , starts his European tour from Budapest on Saturday May 4 th , 2019. Kebu will perform in the legendary A38 Ship, a former stone-carrier ship in Danube. In addition to the gig in the evening, there is a unique chance to participate in a workshop by Kebu. Making Music with Analogue Synths workshop is mainly aimed at music professionals and composers. Kebu’s music is instrumental and melodic and it is created by using analogue synthesizers only. The artist is not only known for his unique music but also his energetic live performances

Budapest Park’s summer program kicks off with Rapcirkusz concert on April 25. This year the event has a Finnish focus: beatboxer Felix Zenger , break dancer Eetu Mäkinen , graffiti artist Acton and musician Sampo Hiukkanen will join the Hungarian rap and hiphop legends on the stage. Rapcirkusz is a new and unique mega outdoor-concert where Hungarian hip hop icons perform with a live orchestra. The event was first arranged last year and sold out its 10 000 tickets quickly. This year FinnAgora is proud to be part of this new Budapest based festival by bringing special guests from Finland! The

Kaija Saariaho is an internationally acclaimed Finnish composer, opera performer, who is visiting Hungary for the first time and will teach at the conductor master course organized by Péter Eötvös Foundation. Kaija Saariaho is currently one of the most popular contemporary composers, recently awarded the prestigious Frontiers of Knowledge Award of the BBVA Foundation which was previously awarded to György Kurtág. The public has a unique chance to hear Saariaho’s music in two occasions at Budapest Music Center (Mátyás u. 8., Budapest, 1093): Mini-concert 8 April 2019 18:00 @ BMC Library

Pirkko Saisio’s novel The Smallest Shared Dividend (1998) presents modern Finnish literature in Literature Night in Budapest on March 28th. For the fourth year in a row, EUNIC organizes the Night of Literature in cooperation with the excellent Radnóti Theater. The event will take place in various – and often unusual – locations around district VI. The actors of Radnóti Theater will be reading hand-picked works of European authors in Hungarian for the audience. This year, for the first time, the event will also be organized in Debrecen, together with the Csokonai Theater. Thus, in both cities

Kira Poutanen’s first novel Ihana Meri (trans. Wonderful Sea ) was published as the next edition in the POKET series at the end of February in Hungary. POKET is a community building and reading popularization nonprofit project. The colorful POKET-books are available in book vending machines around Budapest. Poutanen’s novel touches the topic of anorexia and tells the story of a 15-year-old girl, Julia. FinnAgora has supported the new publishing of the novel. FinnAgora met the ambassador of the book, the Hungarian swimmer and multiple Olympic gold metalist Katinka Hosszú, at the book launch

Barlast is releasing their second album in 2019 and is playing a concert at the Opus Jazz Club as a part of the record release tour. Barlast (Swedish for ballast) creates spacious new music. The silence can be heard between the notes. Everything unnecessary is stripped away. Only the name remains as ballast. The Finnish group Barlast released their debut album Ihantola (LLS03/Texicalli Digital) in February 2017. Most of the album was recorded in the round attic tower of the 110 year old Ihantola building in Helsinki. If you listen closely, you can sometimes hear the soundscape of the hip

The 8th Finnish Film Days takes place on the 6-10th of February 2019 at Toldi Cinema! Finnish Film Days offers ten first-class film screenings and more special program, such as festival sauna and heavy metal concert, than before. The festival´s curator András Horváth says that this year´s program consists of ”movies with all sorts of rhythm, colour and pace, so that everybody could find their favourite ones. Sometimes these movies can be a bit witty or sour humoured, sometimes just simply strange but also hilarious, full of life and thought-provoking. And often all this in one!” TOLDI MOZI

New Jazz From Finland is arranged for the second time in Budapest in December. New Jazz From Finland is a collaboration between FinnAgora and Budapest Music Center and brings exciting contemporary acts from the Finnish jazz scene to Hungary. This year Mopo and OK:KO are booked for shows at Budapest’s Opus Jazz Club. Mopo is a collective of three talented musicians from Finland. The energetic trio saw the daylight in the fall of 2009, when the musicians brainstormed as a result of a bar-fight. Mopo ("a moped") accelerates easily from zero to speed of light, but mostly the trio steps on the gas

In the prestigious Faur Zsófi Gallery opens the exhibition called OFFSPACE – The Art of Infinite Space by Finnish artist Jussi Niva and Hungarian artist Zsófi Barabás. Jussi Niva, who graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts1989, works with paintings that challenge the border between two and three-dimensional. This particular technique makes the geometrical shapes of his paintings to change depending on where the viewer is standing. Niva´s paintings were exhibited already in 1992 at Documenta, one of the most important contemporary art exhibitions in Europe. After that he has had

So you like your food delivered to your door. Awesome. How about your art? The creative pioneers from Wolt Finland and Kallan & Co. are visiting Budapest Design Week 18.10 to share their visions about bringing art closer to home. Design Delivered is a first of its kind initiative, living on the borderline between state-of-the-art food delivery and contemporary design. Due to big interest in the Wolt project Design Delieved the evening discussion is already sold out, but the event will be filmed and shared in FinnAgora's media channels after the event. More info coming soon. Information

Musician Hilja Grönfors together with the other founders of the Finnish Roma Culture Museum were in Budapest for ten days to establish collaboration with Hungarian Romedia Archive. During their visit, with help of FinnAgora, the group organized an event to announce that the museum will open in Helsinki. At the event Hilja Grönfors performed together with Hungarian Romengo orchestra, the publicist of Roma Culture Museum Angelika Nikkinen gave a speech about the museum’s significance for younger Roma generations and museum’s curator, film director Katariina Lillqvist told about museum’s

Finnish video artist Salla Tykkä's work will be on display at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. The exhibition opens on the 6th October 2018 an continues until January 2019. The exhibition is one of the biggest ever of an Finnish artist in Budapest. Salla Tykkä began her career in the mid-1990s. Her short films have been shown not only at international exhibitions but also in film festival competitions. For her work Giant, also on display at the Ludwig Museum, she received the Canon Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2014. According to the Curator of the Ludwig Museum

UH Fest (20.9-7.10.2018) is one of the rare events dedicated to adventurous modern music in Hungary. Not focusing on genres is a principle that reflects in the overall activity of the festival. Three Finnish artists supported by TelepART will perform at different venues in Budapest as a part of the festival program: Trafó Klub 30.9 22:00 Pharaoh Overlord https://www.facebook.com/events/1264113777062186/ Láng Művelődési Ház 3.10 19:00 Circle Erőművház 5.10 19:00 Tsembla https://www.facebook.com/events/2204013919871427/ Link to the UH-Fest program: http://uh.hu/program/

Hanna Wass is an Academy Research Fellow and University Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Helsinki. The appreciated lecturer visits universities in Budapest and Debrecen with her lecture ”Megatrends of Election” in September. The lecture is about current political election trends in Europe and North-America. Dates and locations : Tuesday 25th September 2018 10:00 ELTE. Budapest Wednesday 26th September 2018 Klo 10:00 University of Debrecen. Debrecen Thursday 27th September 2018 Klo 14:00 Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Institute for Political Science. Budapest

Choreographer Sanna Myllylahti‘s solo performance I WILL TELL YOU WHEN I AM READY is a physical, motion-oriented contemporary dance piece that examines through the body the conflict between constant hurrying ahead, achieving of things and our limited time on earth. Sanna Myllylahti has worked as a choreographer since the mid-1990s. Myllylahti lived almost 20 years in Amsterdam and worked internationally as a freelancer. She is currently working as a senior lecturer of contemporary dance in the Theatre Academy at the University of the Arts Helsinki. More information: https://monoplay.eu/event/

The TelepART Mobility Support Platform supports emerging and semi-established artists in showcasing their work internationally. At the core of this project is a new style of rapid-access funding. This funding is designed to support travel costs for performances between Finland and Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Romania. The aim of TelepART is to promote cultural exchange between Finland and the countries involved. The platform is permanently open to applications. Applications can be submitted by performers and their representatives or event organisers. Applicants will be notified of

Jarkko Mandelin’s choreography Beneath a Falling Sky for the Bodhi Project is performed at the International Dance Week Budapest 26.6. The Bodhi Project is an international touring company for young dancers in the beginning of their careers. The project is run by SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance). Every year the Bodhi Project is visited by many prominent international choreographers. Jarkko Mandelin is the first Finnish choreographer who has worked with the Bodhi Project. Mandelin is currently one of the most interesting names in the Finnish dance scene. Mandelin is known for

The first Tatu and Patu book was published in Hungarian in 2007. Through the cooperation of Cerkabella Publishing and the translator Laura Bába, 10 instalments of the series have become available for Hungarian children and parents since then. The writers and illustrators of the franchise Aino Havukainen and Sami Toivonen will visit Hungary in June for the launch of the 11th Tatu and Patu book, Tatu és Patu, a nyomozók - A Felező-eset (Detectives Tatu and Patu: The Case of the Mysterious Divider). Fans of Tatu and Patu can meet the authors in Budapest and Szentendre. Dates and locations :

Senior Lead of Sitra’s Carbon-neutral Circular Economy theme Ernesto Hartikainen is one of the guest speakers at Brain Bar Budapest this year. Hartikainen is responsible for the World Circular Economy Forum 2017 programme and for bringing circular economy concepts to Finnish forests. Europe’s biggest festival on future, Brain Bar Budapest is an ambitious and unique event bringing together trendsetters and decision-makers, encouraging discussions and critical thinking. On 2.6., at 11.—11.30 a.m. Hartikainen joins Co-founder and CEO of BioCellection Miranda Wang and Director of the Experimental

FinnAgora co-hosts the panel discussion Theater for Social Change that focuses on two key questions: first, what role can arts organisations play in 2018? Second, how can we amplify the impact and reach of their work? The four panellists are dedicated to creating art with purpose, whether that means promoting inclusion, starting dialogue about social issues, or providing livelihoods for marginal and disadvantaged groups. The panel discussion is followed by a day of workshops on the theme Theater for Change . Respected and award-winning experts from across Europe will share their experiences,

WHEN I’M GONE, PLEASE DELETE MY VOICE MEMOS is a performance-installation composed for light and sound, which is based on interferences of a skype conversation and on voice memos recorded on cell phones. The piece is centered around a dialogue about connection and otherness, involvement and exclusion. Niskanen & Salo is an artist duo based in Helsinki and New York City. Their installations often combine light, sound, video, and everyday objects to create platforms for many forms of human interaction, surprising encounters, and intense rendezvous between strangers. Thursday 31 st of May 6:

Art has the ability to express not only resistance and rebellion, but also hope and empowerment. Art has always been a sensitive catalyst for social and political change. It is unique in its capacity to provide the tools and platforms that can lead to advocacy, action, and change. An increasing amount of artists are commenting and taking a stance on recent developments in Europe and other parts of the world through their work. At the same time, their right for the freedom of expression is under threat in many countries. At the discussion evening three professionals will talk about the artists

Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima is playing with the A Novel of Anomaly quartet at Opus Jazz Club the 16 th of May. A Novel of Anomaly is a band led by the Swiss singer Andreas Schaerer. Their music is playful and has a touch of fiddler mentality. The band consists of talented jazz musicians from all over Europe. Besides Shaerer and Kaliman the band consists of Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli and Italian accordion player Luciano Biondini. Pianist Kari Ikonen and his orchestra Nazionale Della Luna are playing at Opus the 18 th of May. Ikonen founded the orchestra together with Manuel Hermian in 2015

Borderline is an exhibition based on the idea of internationally renowned Finnish photographer Stefan Bremer. Borderline is based on Bremer’s recent work with asylum seekers who had to leave everything behind. For many, the only memory from the past are the photos on their phones. Bremer and Alalousi are photographers of different generations. They are united by a passion for photography that clearly manifests in their work. Borderline is a dialogue that tells how the artists have processed the same phenomenon in their own personal style. Stefan Bremer (1953) is a hallmark of Finnish

FinnAgora - Suomen Unkarin kulttuuri-ja tiedeinstituutti etsii tapahtumatuottajaa määräaikaiseen työsuhteeseen 1.8.2018 – 30.6.2020. Työsuhdetta voidaan yhteisellä sopimuksella jatkaa. Tapahtumatuottaja työskentelee Budapestissa. Tapahtumatuottaja tuottaa instituuttiin kulttuuriohjelmaa ja tapahtumia sekä toteuttaa kulttuuriviennin hankkeita, hankkii ohjelmarahoitusta ja raportoi siitä sekä osallistuu instituutin viestintään. Edellytämme tapahtumatuottajalta suomalaisen taiteen ja kulttuurikentän tuntemusta, projektinhallintakykyä, kokemusta rahoituksen hankinnasta sekä soveltuvaa koulutusta

It is time for the 14th edition of the Budapest International Comics Festival. The 2018 event features Finnish comic artist Kati Kovács whose work Carou-Cell comes out in Hungarian just for the festival. Kovács is one of the best-known Finnish comic artists, her works have been translated into Swedish, German, French and Hungarian. In 2014 she received Finland’s first-ever State Prize for Comic Art and in 1998 she was awarded the Urhunden Prize in Sweden for best foreign comic. During the day Kati will also take part at an international roundtable discussion. Topics include small press

TASTE Finland pop up restaurant The Restaurant day organized by Finnagora and the Finnish Embassy in Budapest has already become a tradition. This year the event is organized for the 7th time in the courtyard of the Finnish Embassy in Budapest. The Restaurant day-concept is originally from Finland and it has been hugely popular around the world. This year the event profile has been renewed. We will serve the biggest street food trends in Finland right now at the TASTE Finland pop up restaurant! The vegans out there will be happy to know that there will be a vegan main course and dessert

Elena Mindru Finnection is a Finnish jazz group led by the singer Elena Mindru. Mindru is of Romanian origin, which can be heard in her compositions, but resides in Finland, where she is a doctoral student at the Sibelius Academy’s Jazz Department. Elena Mindru Finnection consists of a group of talented young Finnish musicians. The band’s first album was released in 2014 and was very well received in Finland, as well as in Romania and other European countries. Mindru has performed as a jazz vocal soloist with the European Jazz Orchestra, the Transilvania Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish

Bruckner’s dark and apocalyptic 8 th symphony is performed by the Budapest Festival Orchestra 28.4 at 19.45 p.m. under the baton of Finnish conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste. The venue for the performance is Bela Bartok National Concert Hall. Pro Finlandia Prize-winning Jukka-Pekka Saraste is an internationally acclaimed conductor known for extraordinary musical depth and integrity. Saraste is the Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne. Saraste is especially fond of late Romantic music but he also has a strong connection with contemporary music. Furthermore, Saraste is a co-

Ilona Jäntti’s circus show To Every Cloud will be presented in Zagreb on 28th April, at the Cirkobalkana Circus festival. Wire, silk and rope: Jäntti’s performance uses these materials to explore the relationship between soft and hard and between the human body and the material. Jäntti studied circus art in Stockholm, at the Circus Piloterna circus academy. She also obtained a master’s degree in contemporary dance choreography from the Laban Centre in London. Jäntti has a considerable background in circus art, dance and theatre. She has cooperated with e.g. Shakespeare’s Globe and the Royal

Devet Lun is an absurd and nonverbal puppet theatre performance for babies and their caretakers. The performance is about the nine months of the development of a fetus. AEIOU is an independent group of artists who are active in Slovenia as well as in Finland. The founders are puppeteers Katja Kähkönen and Katja Povše, and sculptress and art teacher Mateja Ocepek. The group was founded in Slovenia in 2010 and expanded to Finland in 2013. The award-winning performances of AEIOU have been featured at numerous international festivals. Devet Lun premieres on the 25th of April at the House of

International Book Festival Budapest is regarded as one of the most important events for professional authors in Hungary. Every year the event is visited by up to 60 000 people. This year the event is organized 19.-22.4. and the Finnish guest author is Finlandia-award winning Pirkko Saisio. Saisio is one of the most important contemporary authors in Finland right now. At the Book Festival the first part of Saisio’s autobiographic trilogy, Pienin yhteinen jaettava, is presented. The book has been translated into Hungarian by Ildikó Varga P. and it’s published by the publishing house Polar.

Editor and debut novel writer Satu Vasantola is the second Finnish guest at the European First Novel Festival, held at the International Book Festival Budapest. Satu Vasantola’s recently published first novel, (Never) Going Back is a deft portrayal of individual lives uprooted and inexorably intertwined across time and space. Satu Vasantola’s singular style is both lyrical and bold. Due to her fascination with medicine, diseases, accidents and violence, Vasantola’s characters are often led into hospitals and operation rooms. Vasantola is a journalist, who worked as an editor-in-chief of

Finnagora and The Finnish Embassy have joined forces to present Pirjo Honkasalo’s 2013 movie, Concrete Night, in Cinema City Allée. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Finnish director. Set in Helsinki, Concrete Night tells the story of a day in the life of two brothers, one of whom is about to go into prison, and spends his last free hours with his 14 year old younger brother. The movie depicts this fragile state of mind in dreamlike sequences, telling a gripping tale about the loss of innocence. Concrete Night is based on a novel with the same title, written by Pirkko

The Finnish day at the National Gallery of Slovenia the 8 th of April is a fun day for the whole family. The National Gallery organizes the day in cooperation with the European Commission in Slovenia in honor of the European Year of Cultural Heritage of 2018. During the day children can participate in a quiz about Finland, hobby horse workshop and competition as well as learn Finnish in a language workshop. Adults can enjoy a musical performance by accordion player Klemen Leben, watch Finnish short films and join a guided tour of the Gallery. FinnAgora is also proud to present the Jussi-award

Kristian Smeds´ stage work just filming at Trafó House of Contemporary Arts will get its Hungarian premiere in March. Kristian Smeds is one of the leading theatre personalities in Finland. His just filming received its world premiere in the Finnish National Theatre in the fall of 2016 and toured also in Estonia that year. Just filming brings together two formidable acting talents: Annamária Láng from Hungary and Juhán Ulfsak from Estonia. Their partnership produces a theatrical dance rich in passion, absurdity and humour. A highly visual and musical performance, just filming is also a heart-

Enjoy international literature at night in the most curious places! The popular event is organized by EUNIC Hungary. During the night famous Hungarian actors read contemporary literature translated into Hungarian from all the EUNIC countries in curious places in the 6th district. During the night you can listen to up to twenty contemporary European literary greats. Previous years the Finnish works have been read in e.g. the guard’s booth at the Liberty bridge and in a small gym. This year Finland is represented by Rosa Liksom’s work Väliaikainen. The Finlandia-award winning author is one of