Budapest Edges into NYC with Gypsy Jazz, Punk, Film and Fashion

Budapest Edges into NYC with Gypsy Jazz, Punk, Film and Fashion

Extremely Hungary Festival Continues with Innovative Collaborations at Brooklyn Museum, Symphony Space, BAM and more

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- We've done Bartok and Liszt. Now Extremely Hungary brings a range of events that celebrate the cutting edge of contemporary Hungarian arts and culture and explore Hungarian influence on fashion, music and film. Highlights of the fall season include:

   --  OPEN AIR 8x10, an interactive outdoor  fashion show coinciding with       New York Fashion Week, featuring  the  latest  couture  by  emerging        Hungarian  designers.  Each  afternoon, photographers  will take       Polaroids of models and passers-by for ICP's glass-box gallery (Sep.       12 - 15). Co-presented by arts>Brookfield Properties;   --  Opera Unbound at the Brooklyn Museum, a contemporary spin on the       traditional Opera Ball.   In addition to live music performances,       opera movies, and cell  phone-manipulated arias, the evening will       include a multimedia experience featuring excerpts from the operas of       Gabriel von Wayditch, a little-known but prolific twentieth-century       Hungarian-American composer (Oct. 3);   --  Hungarians   in   Hollywood,   a   film   series   at   BAMCinematek         highlighting   the   extraordinary contributions made by  Hungarians       to the history of American film from Hollywood's Golden Age to today,        including  Gilda  and  The  Thief  of  Baghdad,  with  a  special        25th anniversary  screening  of Stranger than Paradise (Oct. 7 - 15);   --  Rebel  Waltz,  a  weekend  of  revolutionary  music  celebrating the        20th anniversary of  the  fall  of  the Berlin wall with bands active       in Eastern Europe in the '80s.  Presented at LaMaMa, E.T.C. and (Le)       Poisson Rouge (Nov. 6 - 8);    --  Fire  +  Fire,  a  dynamic  musical  production  uniting  Hungarian        Gypsy  and  African-American musicians, juxtaposing the two vibrant       cultures.   Author and musician Greg Tate collaborates with Gypsy and       jazz musicians for this experimental performance at Symphony Space       (Nov. 19 and 21).   

Additional events underscoring the impact of Hungarian culture on American society include spirited monthly cabarets at Galapagos Art Space, a Bauhaus symposium at MoMA, concerts at the 92nd Street Y, baking classes at the French Culinary Institute, and cabaret singing at Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie.

Extremely Hungary is made possible in part by funding from the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture. The festival is co-chaired by George Soros and Kati Marton.

For a full listing of confirmed programs in New York and D.C. visit www.extremelyhungary.org.

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