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.

Source: Extremely Hungary

CONTACT: Sarah Goulet, +1-212-671-5179, sgoulet@resnicowschroeder.com,
for Extremely Hungary

Web Site: http://www.extremelyhungary.org/

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