The last Sunday in May is Children’s Day here in Hungary. Isn’t every day Children’s Day? And how come there is no Father’s Day here? Anyway, Duna Plaza (District XIII, Váci út 178.) is organising a Chocolate Festival 25-26 May to celebrate your household chocolate thieves, with lots of games, chocolate rewards, and concerts for… Continue »

Thirty Belgian breweries! Fifty beers on tap! One hundred and forty kinds of beer! No, it’s not the third Buda Castle Beer Festival (that’s in mid-June and they’ll have some 200 beers), it’s the smaller but much more potent Fourth Belgian Beer Festival, which pitches its tent at Vajdahunyad Castle in City Park starting next… Continue »

It is time to bring out your inner Sherlock Holmes as Budapest’s very own Murder Mystery event takes place this Sunday. aKERT and Krimieste.hu will be hosting the event in and around the Horvath-kert park from 10:00am to 20:00pm. Clues will be provided throughout the day and everyone with the right answer will be put… Continue »

A group of 26 people from the Sciences Po in Paris will hitchhike from the French capital to Istanbul this summer, stopping off in Budapest during their 30-day trip. During their stop-off in Hungary the group is hoping to experience the local culture and see what Budapest has to offer. “We will be in Hungary… Continue »

The Suspended Coffee movement allows you to buy a warm beverage or food in advance for someone in need. There are more than 100 participating restaurants, cafés, service providers etc. that are identified by this sticker on the door, making it easy for anyone who wishes to “pay forward” an item. The list of businesses… Continue »

Fashionistas and art-lovers can enjoy tasteful and extravagant pictures in the newly opened Fashion Photographers Exhibition at the X6 Gallery in downtown Budapest. Held in the lobby of Roosevelt 7/8 Office Building, the gallery features photographs from world-famous artists such as Bence Bakonyi, Youssef Nabil and Jacques Olivar. X6 Gallery has just opened its doors… Continue »

Hungary’s favourite foreign band Depeche Mode will take the stage at Puskás Ferenc Stadium on Tuesday 21 May at 8pm as a part of their Delta Machine Tour. Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher spent most of last year working on their latest studio album Delta Machine and are now looking forward to getting… Continue »

Budapest’s second edition of the Hay Festival opens this Friday with novelists, poets, politicians, architects, mathematicians and musicians gathering for five days of conversation, concerts, literary walks, poetry, wine tastings and film screenings under the motto “Imagine the World”. From Hay-on-Wye, a Welsh town that Hay Festival Budapest president Paul Greatbatch describes as being home… Continue »

Women will rule the roost at Jazz Spring in the Palace of Arts this Friday and Saturday. The event opens with American tenor saxophonist Anat Cohen and her quartet. This astonishing musician, who was born in Tel Aviv and now lives and works in New York, is not only a virtuoso saxophonist but also creates… Continue »

Some 40 films, round-table discussions and concerts will be in the focus of the Fourth International Romani Film Festival at Budapest’s Örökmozgó cinema this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The festival aims to present Hungarian and European Roma culture, as well as to depict the situation of the Roma minority in Hungary and aid conversation between… Continue »