A French film with Hungarian and Swedish artists
[28 March 2010.]
The Titanic Film Festival will be presenting the French movie Domaine that was directed by the Austrian-French director Patrick Chiha. The film has both Scandinavian and Hungarian aspects.

Danish Little Mermaid heading to China
[28 March 2010.]
Denmark's iconic statue of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" is being shipped to China for display in an exhibition.

Finissage
[25 February 2010.]
On the closing day of the exhibition of Menyhárt Menyus Tamás „Thor láTamása" we are organizing a finissage at Nordic House (Budapest VII. ker. Klauzál tér 4.) where you can buy the works of the artist.

Swedish inventions - lecture today!
[17 February 2010.]
Föreläsning om svenska uppfinningar og kulturelle skillnader i affärskulturer Torsdag 18 februari 16:00.

Winter Lettre-days
[17 February 2010.]
A workshop-debate will be held with the involvement of editors and translators of Danish dossier (Hungarian Lettre International 2009-2010 winter edition) and reading in original and Hungarian languages with the participation of students specializing in Danish studies. The date and place of the event: 23. February 2010. at 17.00, Scandinavian Department of ELTE (VIII. Rákóczi út 5. room 151).

Lecture about Axel Munthe
[12 January 2010.]
Lecture of Ágnes Harrach about the famous Swedish doctor and his breathtaking house in Capri. (More about the program in Swedish)

Time is up - The deadline is Copenhagen
[9 December 2009.]
Under this headline Connie Hedegaard, Minister for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009 is hosting more than 150 countries. As an introduction in an article published at the opening day of COP15 Monday December the 7th – she wrote: There are moments in history where the world can choose to go down different paths. The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is one of those defining moments.

Christmas sale
[30 November 2009.]
As Christmas is coming closer we are going to hold a book sale with discount on Saturday, 5. December from 10.00-19.00 and on Sunday, 6. December from 10.00-18.00 in Nordic House.

Lecture on the poetry of Olav H. Hauge
[09 November 2009.]
Professor Idar Stegane (Universitetet i Bergen) holder seminar om Olav H. Hauges diktning mandag 30. november kl. 12:00 ELTE Institutt for skandinaviske språk og litteraturer.

Danish documentaries at Verzio Film Festival
[05 November 2009.]
Danish film of Janus Metz can be seen on the programme of the 6th Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.

Skin: Danish textile designs
[12 October 2009.]
The Danish Cultural Institute and Makett Labor cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition
HUD (Skin) presenting the art works of the Danish textile designer Line Kramhøft at 6 pm on 14 October at Makett Labor.

Free workshop of Marie Brolin-Tani
[12 October 2009.]
Are you a 16-27 year old professional dancer interested in contemporary dance? Then welcome to a 3.5 hour workshop on 7th November 2009 with the Swedish-Danish choreographer Marie Brolin-Tani in Budapest arranged by Nordic House Foundation.

Nordic poets read out
[25 September 2009.]
On 30 September 2009 Nordic poets participating in XXIX World Congress of Poets held in Budapest are going to read out from their poems to the audience.

Lectures about Swedish education and culture
[23 September 2009.]
The Nordic House Foundation kindly invites you to the lectures of Katherine Pauly (lecturer at LFL private school Gothenburg).

Dogville: premiere at Bárka
[16 September 2009.]
The performance put on stage on the basis of the script of Dogville by Lars von Trier is a real rarity of this year’s season of the theatre.

Riverside - webseries after the hit tv show Andra Avenyn
[16 September 2009.]
The new web-based series titled Riverside presented by the Swedish Television (SVT) had premiere on 7th September. The series is also available on our homepage at Nordic House.

Umeå will be Europe's Cultural City in 2014
[15 September 2009.]
The Swedish city won defeating another Swedish location, the city of Lund. (in Swedish)

Swedish singer at Café IF
[10 September 2009.]
The Swedish singer Johanna Toth will perform at IF Café (IX. district, Ráday utca 19) on the 13 September at 7.30 p.m.

Norwegian band on A38
[10 September 2009.]
Schtimm Minimal from North of Norway will please you with their songs written for the lyrics of a never-existed Russian poet, which brought them world fame, all this on the occasion of the 10th birthday of both bands on a huge party full of happiness and joy.

EUNIC Open Night - May 8-9, Budapest
[7 May 2009.]
Celebrating Europe Day, the European National Institutions of Culture (EUNIC) in Budapest are providing high level cultural programme of exhibitions, films, dance-house and concerts throughout the night of 8 May.

Dear all,
[19 January 2009.]
We mentioned in our Christmas greeting that on 23th of January we are going to hold a meeting for voluntary helpers of the Foundation. We changed the date of the gathering because Scandinavian House Foundation will have a place of its own from the beginning of February, so the meeting will be held there.

Kierkegaard seminar in Budapest
[12 January 2009.]
The Hungarian Theater Institute in cooperation with the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen will host a two-day seminar on Wednesday and Thursday, January 14-15, 2009.

The fantastic story of Karen Blixen
[8 November 2008.]
The Danish Cultural Institute and the Petőfi Museum of Literature are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition The Fantastic Story of the Danish Writer Karen Blixen Wednesday, 19 November at 6 pm at the Petőfi Museum of Literature, 1053 Budapest, Károlyi Mihály u. 16.

Swedish Advent in Budapest
[8 November 2008.]
This year the Swedish Advent worship will take place November the 23rd at 3 PM at the Kelenföldi Evangélikus Templom (Budapest, XI.ker. Bocskai út 10.).

Two Hungarian poets in Swedish
[4 November 2008.]
The Swedish publisher Art Factory published very recently the poems of Mónika Mesterházi and Anna Szabó T. with the title Två ungerska poeter.

Donation from Denmark
[24 October 2008.]
Danish photographer Vagn Hansen's pictures of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Hungarian National Museum.

Swedish folkdance in Pótkulcs
[11 August 2008.]
This week two Swedish amateur dance groups, one that dances Swedish dance and one that dances Hungarian, both from Lund in Southern Sweden will be in Budapest.

Swedish programs in June
[1. June 2008.]
Those interested in Swedish programs can find various cultural events in June as well.

Malene Mortensen at the Columbus Jazz Club
[11. April 2008.]
The excellent Danish jazz singer, Malene Mortensen and her band will give a concert at 8 pm on 16th April.

Kaizers Orchestra at A38
[7. April 2008.]
The Kaizers - who sound like you blended the melancholy of the Leningrad Cowboys with the kicking power of the Rolling Stones along with crazy lyrics in Norwegian - give a concert on the 11th of April at a38.

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in Budapest
[27. March 2008.]
On the closing day of Budapest Spring Festival Sweden’s national orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra will give concert.

Nora's Sisters - seminar and competition
[11. March 2008.]
Brave Decisions, Women's Life Choices - this is the title of the seminar and the competition that will be held in Miskolc at the Regional Adult Learning Centre of Miskolc University on the 16th of April.

Danish concert in Budakalász
[7. March 2008.]
Piano concert performed by the school leaver students of Kolding Music School from Denmark can be heard on 17th March 2008. at Budakalászi Faluház. (2011. Budakalász, Szentendrei út 9. - next to Lenfonó).

Danish film in Dialektus Fesztivál
[27. February 2008.]
Perle Mohl - with her documentary about Emerillons of French Guiana - will be the guest of Dialektus Fesztivál 2008.

Videoinstallations of Villesen in Mucsarnok
[14. October 2007.]
The Kunsthalle, Budapest and the Kisterem cordially invite you on 16 October, 2007 to the presentations of two new videoinstallations by Danish artist Gitte Villesen.

Supersilent at the Mol Jazz Festival
[6. September 2007.]
This year MOL jazz festival is organized for the fifth time from 12 to 16 September 2007 with participation of international and Hungarian stars. Norwegian jazz group, Supersilent also plays at the festival.

Nordic artists at Budapest Autumn Festival
[6. September 2007.]
A Danish and a Norwegian performance will be screened in the course of International Dance-film Festival, which can be seen at Művész cinema on the 15th of October.

Danish Day in Kecskemét
[11. June 2007.]
On the 16th of June there will be a Danish Day all day in Kecskemét, at Deák Ferenc square. The event is organized by Dánturizmus.hu and the Danish Cultural Institute with several Danish companies.

Exhibitions about Astrid Lindgren
[11. June 2007.]
The most famous writer of Swedish children's literature Astrid Lindgren would be 100 years old this November. For this occasion a series of exhibitions will take place in Hungary with the title "Astrid Lindgren lives today".

Carion Quintet in Budapest
[11. June 2007.]
The Danish Embassy and the Danish Cultural Institute welcomes everyone to the concert of Danish wind quintet Carion on the 13th of June from 8 pm, at Collegium Budapest (1014 Budapest, Szent Háromság u. 2.)

Concert of the Katarina Gosskör
[31. May 2007.]
On June the 10th at 6 pm the Katarina Gosskör from Stockholm gives a concert at Tabáni Alexandriai Szent Katalin templom.

Summer language course
[31. May 2007.]
The Scandinavian House Foundation starts its Swedish language course for beginners on 8. June 2007. Lessons are held once a week, 1x3 hours on Fridays from 17.30 to 20.00.

Linné was born 300 years ago
[3. May 2007.]
Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus, known as the father of taxonomy was born 300 years ago, on May the 23rd 1707. For this occasion Hungarian-Swedish Association invites all to participate at the lecture of museum pedagogue Gunilla Zetterlund who arrives from Stockholm to talk about Linné.

Valpurgis night in Budakeszi
[23. April 2007.]
Ungersk-Svenska Föreningen och SWEA i Budapest firar Valborg tillsammans, i år den 29 april för så har vi en hel svensk kör som sjunger för oss. Högalids kammarkör, Stockholm med dirigent Ewa Lena Kansbod kommer att sjunga in våren.

Högalid Choir in Budapest
[23. April 2007.]
Högalid Choir from Stockholm will sing at the holy mass on Saturday evening and  subsequently together with Semmelweis Chorus from Budapest they  will give a concert at Szent Katalin church in Tabán at 06.00 pm. on 28. of April 2007. 

Lars von Trier and Dogma 95
[23. April 2007.]
Meeting with Peter Schepelern, biographer of Lars von Trier and with Jesper Jargil, director of photography of Idiots (Idioterne).

Lecture on Nordic languages
[17. April 2007.]
Professor of linguistics Finn-Erik Vinje gives an interesting lecture about the changes of Nordic languages at the faculty of Scandinavistics of Eötvös Loránd Science University.

Nordic films at Titanic Film Festival
[17. April 2007.]
This year Titanic offers some good movies from the Scandinavian film production of the last couple of years. Skandináv Ház suggest you the Princess of Anders Morgenthaler and Izzat, the film directed by Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen.

The mistery of the sun stone
[10. April 2007.]
How did vikings find the way to Greenland, Iceland and even to America? And then, how did they manage to get back home without any problems? The lecture of Gábor Horváth is about the viking navigation tool, the mystic sun stone.

Danish documentaries at Dialektus Film Festival
[10. April 2007.]
The films of Esben hansen and Pila Rusjan Zupan can be seen at the first International Dialektus Festival, where the most creative and sensitive documatary films of Europe are competing for 4 days to win the Golden Deer Prize.

Antonsen and Fassang in MUPA
[10. April 2007.]
On April 11. 2007 Wednesday from 19:30 The Antonsen-Fassan duo gives a unique concert at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall.

Norwegian animated film wins Oscar
[21. March 2007.]
Norwegian animator Torill Kove has won an Oscar for her animated short film The Danish Poet.

Dreamlands burn - contemporary Nordic art show at Műcsarnok
[1. December 2006.]
Nordic Art Show 2006 is a comprehensive exhibition presenting the works of more than thirty Nordic artists, one of the most ambitious initiatives in the field, in the region, and during the past 100 years.

The lifelines of Liv Ullmann
[30. November 2006.]
Lifelines - that is the title of the biography about the life of Liv Ullmann, published in Hungarian translation at the end of November. The book was translated by Eva A. Dobos and published by Madách Posonium of Bratislava.

Norwegian new wave jazz in Szeged
[9. November 2006.]
This year on the 11th of November Szeged Jazz Festival welcomes three formations of the norwegian Rune Grammofon record label: In The Country, Susanna & The Magical Orchestra and Supersilent.

Swede plans to put little red cottage on the moon
[7. November 2006.]
Not content with having them dotted all over the countryside, Sweden is now considering putting a little red cottage on the moon.

Swedish-Hungarian Hamlet-ballet
[2. October 2006.]
Hamlet - this time a ballet - was adapted for stage by a Swedish choreographer, Marie Brolin-Tani. The first night of the piece, performed by the Ballet Company of Győr can be seen in the Theatre of Győr on the 7th of October.

Rebekka Bakken in Jövő Háza
[29. September 2006.]
The newly discovered Norwegian star who is called „the European Norah Jones” opens her European tour in Budapest on the 5th of October.

Kierkegaard's lost book to Andersen uncovered
[26. September 2006.]
The discovery of a second edition copy of Søren Kierkegaard"s "Either-Or" confirms a connection - if only fleeting - between the philosopher and poet Hans Christian Andersen "To the Danish poet…H C Andersen."

Swedish rush after Ikea paintings
[26. September 2006.]
Swedish furniture giant Ikea’s decision to sell paintings by well-known artists was a wise move, with the warehouse’s entire stock running out in 12 minutes.

What tourists buy in Iceland
[26. September 2006.]
Some 170,000 tourists visited Iceland this past summer, spending 10 to 15 percent of their money on retail goods. With the tourism season coming to a close, Fréttabladid reports on which Icelandic souvenirs are most popular with foreign visitors.

Moose center open doors
[23. September 2006.]
Norway's ever-present moose have attracted so much interest and attention in recent years that they're now the focus of a special center that opened over the weekend in Solør, northeast of Oslo.

Narrow won for Swedish opposition
[18. September 2006.]
Sweden's centre-right opposition bloc has defeated the ruling Social Democrat party in the country's closest-fought general election for decades.

Best hot dog from Iceland
[18. September 2006.]
The legendary Baejarins Beztu Pylsur ("Towns Best Hot Dogs") hot dog stand in Reykjavik city centre is the second best snack stand in Europe according to a survey by UK newspaper The Guardian.

Artists about globalization
[15. September 2006.]
Sixteen artists from four countries exhibits their artwork reflecting globalization at the Danish Cultural Institute in Kecskemét.

Swedish short films about 1956
[15. September 2006.]
On September 16 from 7pm two documentaries can be seen in Swedish language about the 1956 revolution in the Italian Cultural Institute.

Backyard babies in Budapest
[13. September 2006.]
The veteran punkrock band Backyard Babies arrives to Budapest to play their newest album People Like People Like People Like Us.

Following Ole Lippmann's footsteps
[13. September 2006.]
The Danish DR 2 TV channel has completed the shooting of a documentary in Budapest and Kecskemét about the Hungarian revolution in 1956.

Darkness come to Reykjavík
[4. September 2006.]
In the evening of the Reykjavík International Film Festival all city lights will be turned off for 30 minutes.

Fifty years of Vasa discovery
[24. August 2006.]
The royal warship has proven a staple of Stockholm tourism. The museum celebrated the 50th anniversary of the ship’s discovery.

Skandináv Ház opens
[21. August 2006.]
We kindly invite you to an infor-mal gathering on September 3, from 3 pm at the Budavári Művelődési Ház.

Free net in Stockholm
[16. August 2006.]
At the centre of Stockholm you can browse the net free thanks to the initiative Surf free in Kungsträdgården.

Icelandic writer - a run of luck
[14. August 2006.]
The books of Arnaldur Indriðason sold more than two million copies worldwide.

Denmark - the happiest?
[31. July 2006.]
Denmark is the happiest of all countries on earth - says British researcher Adrian White.