Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in Slovenia
Hungarian minority in Slovenia
The Hungarian National Community living in the eastern part of Slovenia has established numerous societies and other cultural and educational institutions in the bilingual region. In the largest Municipality of Lendava-Lendva a huge cultural centre was opened in 2004 as a joint project of Slovenia and Hungary.
Selected cultural projects
The Cultural Embassy Hungary programme in the frame of the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012 presented visual arts, crafts, music, puppetry and dance in February and March 2012. The Jewelry and Fabrics exhibition of the women artists trio from Estonia, Finland, and Hungary (Anna Makovecz) in the Vetrinj Mansion was followed by the exhibition of faous artifacts from the Zsolnay porcelain factory, the photography exhibition Budapest Positive, organized in collaboration with the Photon Gallery and the selected works from the Antal-Lusztig private collection that traces development of 20th Century Hungarian fine art. At the Salon EPK the exhibition of Victor Vasarely, the pioneer of op-art, presented the programme highlights.
The Baltic-Hungarian Jazz Quartet and a violin concert by Félix Lajko brought an improvisation mix of folk music, Roma and classical music, rock, blues or jazz to the Satchmo Jazz Club and the Slovene National Theatre Maribor.
In his Tao Te performance the dancer and choreographer Ferenc Fehér showed an expressive combination of freestyle dance and martial arts to the young audiences at the Maribor 2nd Grammar School. The Griff Puppet Theatre played the Knight Janos, the tale of a brave shepherd, based on a poem by Sándor Petőfi at the Maribor Puppet Theatre.
Maribor hosted a presentation of Jelenkor, a legendary literary newspaper from Pécs (ECoC 2010): a selection of Slovene poetry and prose edited by Robert Titan Felix was published on the occasion.
See also
- Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Budapest
- Consulate of the Republic of Slovenia Szentgotthárd
- Radio Slovenia Muravidéki Magyar Rádió (MMR)
- TV Slovenia Hungarian Minority TV Programming