2000
June 2-5

Szeged Days in Cambridge - 40 Szeged Citizens visited

2000
October 22

CB2 Dinner - to commemorate the 1956 Uprising. Members contributed to the River Tisza Appeal.

2001 April

2 Cambridge Post Graduate Students invited to give papers at Szeged University

2001
May 3

Evening of Poetry & Wine, Darwin College. Szeged participated in Cambridge Octocentenary Celebrations and Presented a new city flag for the Guildhall. Due to Jocelyn Charity's connection with the Perse School for Girls, 2 teachers visited and taught at the Karolina school in Szeged. The connection is on-going., with exchange visits in summer 2002 and in 2003.

2001 September

Aron Razga, from Szeged Conservatory of Music gave a recital at Emmanuel College, while studying at the Cambridge Academy of English on a bursary.

2001
October

Death of Esther Harvey, daughter of Sandor & Laura Nagy, the society's first honorary member.

2001 November

Students from the Liszt Academy in Budapest and London Royal Academy of Music gave a chamber music recital at Emmanuel College. A Szeged student, Sarolt Koczor, visited Cambridge to research her MA thesis on Benjamin Britten

2002
January 16

Mátyás Sarkozi, gave a talk on his grandfather, Ferenc Molnar, at Darwin College

2002
March

Alan Tongue invited as guest lecturer at Szeged University, 10 days of seminars on the English Musical Renaissance

2002
May

Group of Society Members visited Szeged. George Gomori and Clive Wilmer gave a poetry reading at Darwin College.

2002
October

Szeged Delegation visited Cambridge.

2002

Japanese students, pupils of Gyorgy Pauk, gave recital at Emmanuel College

2003
August

Ilona Herbent participated in Budapest half-marathon.

2004
January 16

Alan Tongue gave lecture 'Jottings from a musical notebook' at Darwin College

2004
March 17

Auer Quartet gave a concert at Emmanuel College.

2004
May

Hungarian Ambassador, Bela Szombati, gave a talk at Darwin College

2005
March

Alan Tongue invited to conduct Seiber Missa Brevis at the Matyas Templom in Budapest

2005
May 5

Edinburgh Quartet gave a concert of 3 Seiber string quartets at Emmanuel College.

2005
May

Julia Seiber Boyd and local potter Joan Orlov, attend Bridge Fair in Szeged

Hungarian flag supplied by Szeged - flown at Guildhall

Council Grant Application Submission

Bridge Fair Szeged - Chair attended with artist invited delegate; Gordon Morrison, photographer.

Summer Members Party; Clare College Fellows Garden with musical entertainment - 2-5pm.

"Big Day Out" (on Parkers Piece) - the Society has a stall and will be selling Szeged produce and have other items on display.

Commemorative Talk by Maátyás Sarköszi - on his involvement in the Uprising on 23.10. 1956 - to take place in the Council Chamber, the Guildhall at 7.30 pm. Council members and David Howarth MP and Andrew Duff MEP invited.

Exhibition of photographs - glass of wine and view of Gordon Morrison's pictures of Szeged from 7pm in the Guildhall Council Chamber. Gordon's photos will also be on display on 17/11- enquiries to the Guildhall.

Talk by George Szirtes - poet & critic, on his life & work

Delegation from Szeged to visit Cambridge - to coincide with Mayor's Reception on 17/11/06

Family Music Day Seiber Yugoslav & Hungarian Folk songs performed at the Guildhall by Society member James Eisner & Louise.

Food & Craft Festival - also at the Guildhall. Please bring any artefacts/craft for display.

Bridge Fair in Szeged The Cambridge Mayor is attending with Mrs Dryden; the Chair, Julia Boyd will represent the Society and receive an award from the Szeged Mayor & MP, Dr. Laszlo Botka. Cllr. David White is also attending the Bridge Fair celebrations.

Guest Artists taken to Szeged for Bridge Fair - Joy Voisey (potter) in 2007;Nick Juett in 2008.

Chair awarded the Szeged Prize in 2007

EFL materials supplied by 3 local language colleges sent by the Society to Szeged in summer 2007; further boxes to be sent in 2008

Retiring dinner The Society's President Jocelyn Charity will attend the retiring dinner for the Cambridge Mayor, Cllr. Dryden.

Big Day Out The Society will again participate in the Big Day Out date

Garden Party - to celebrate 20 years of Twinning with Szeged; 4.30 - 6.30pm - Clare College Fellows Garden.

Howard Williams reminisces on 11 years as Conductor of the Pecs Orchestra; 7pm - Darwin College Old Library

Szeged Week 2007
events and exhibitions in Cambridge.
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7 pm on 19 January 2008 - The Queen’s Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Tickets:- £10 advance booking and concessions contact: 01223 506064 £15 at the door

THE ROUND-UP (18) The Arts Picturehouse presents a newly restored version of one of Miklós Jancsó’s most notable films of the ‘60s - THE ROUND-UP. - Miklós Jancsó will attend the screening and following Q&A Do not miss this opportunity to meet a legendary filmmaker, still working and here to discuss his work over 40 years.

Super8 Festival
A group from Szeged is participating - and members are welcome to meet them/assist with guiding round Cambridge (meet Market Square 9.45 outside the Guildhall on 25th April); contact SImon Mullen for more information. cabaret@simonmullen.com

2008
15-23 Nov

Szeged Week 2008
events and exhibitions in Cambridge.
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Talk by visiting Leverhulme Professor and well known writer, Gyorgy Szonyi, - currently at Anglia Ruskin University
"The Polish fight against Communism 1945-1989; from the viewpoint of a Hungarian Witness"
venue: Emmanuel College, Queen's Building , Seminar Room (ground floor); at 7.00pm - wine & nibbles followed at 7.30pm

Jessicha Duchen, author of Hungarian Dances talks on her book and her experiences
venue: Darwin College, Old Library 7pm for a glass of wine & nibbles & 7.30pm for the talk

LEVERHULME LECTURES
Gyorgy Szonyi - visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University for 2009 and honourary member of the Society, will be giving the following Leverhulme Lectures - all Cambridge Szeged Society members are welcome to attend

6 May, 2009, 17:30, David 016 Lecture Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

The lecture will be followed by a small reception wirth refreshments

The Lure of the Occult: Renaissance Magic in Modern Cultural
10 June, 2009, 17:30pm,
David 016 Lecture Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

For further information visit: www.anglia.ac.uk/renaissance
or contact Magda Generalczyk, English and Writing Administrator
Tell: 0845 196 2080
email: Magda.Generalczyk@anglia.ac.uk

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The lecture will be followed by a small reception wirth refreshments

An introduction to the novels of Antal Szerb
7.00pm Darwin College, Old Library
Len Rix, renowned translator, gives an introduction to the novels of Antal Szerb - and how these caused him to become a translator of Hungarian.

Cambridge Szeged Society
Members and Friends Summer Garden Party
wine tasting of 8 sample wines – free & food; additional wine to purchase

Venue: Clare College Fellows' Garden
Time: 2 - 5.30 pm

Visit by Agi Acs-Santa from Szeged Mayor's Office

Roger Gough
“In Kadar’s shadow; the ‘Happiest Barracks’ & Hungary today”

Venue: Darwin College
Time: 6.45 for 7.15pm

Supper in memory of 1956 Uprising

Venue: Cazimir’s
Price: will depend on numbers – please indicate your wishes a.s.a.p

Under the Influence; the impact of Western European on Hungarian music - and interaction between the tradition
Professor Gyorgy Szonyi - Joint event with Anglia Ruskin University

Venue: Anglia Ruskin Music Faculty recital Hall.
Time: 5.00pm

Hungarian Food & Wine Event
Held jointly with Cambridge WIne & Food Society. For more details see www.cambridgefoodandwinesociety.org.uk or email stephen.vincent@casp.cam.ac.uk

Venue: St Paul's Church Hall
Time: 7.30pm
Price: £16 (indication of numbers in advance will be necessary)

A farewell to György Szõnyi
The Cambridge-Szeged Society invites you to a reception to say farewell and thank you to Prof. György Szõnyi on his return to Hungary

From 7 pm on 14th January 2010
At The Old Library, Darwin College Cambridge
With a recital of Hungarian Folk songs by Lindsay Stemp and Anne Penton. With readings by Tim Penton

Visit to Cambridge
A delegation from Szeged will visit Cambridge in mid January to take part in the celebration of 800 years of Cambridge University. The delegation will include:

Mr Sandor Nagy, Vice Mayor of Szeged
Mr Robert Natyi, Director of the Roek Palace Gallery, Szeged
Mr Tibor Papp, Director of Foreign Affairs, Szeged City Council and representatives of Szeged University

- many thanks to all those who helped with guiding/ interpreting etc.

2010 AGM
7.00pm - Old Library, Darwin College Cambridge

Talk by Dr Peter Meisner
Helmore Building, Room 252, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus, East Road - 6.15pm start
Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the talk starts
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Preview of Nicolas Juett's Exhibition
Cambridge PREVIEW of Nicholas Juett's exhibition in Szeged

Seiber and his influences - 50 years on
Programme:- Seiber, Bartok, Frid, Janovicki, Gibbs, Wood
Concert at Fitzwilliam College

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Inaugural Rowing Regatta
In Szeged during Bridge Fair festival

Innaugural rowing Regatta: Szeged as part of Bridge Fair celebrations - CUBC & City club are competing against Szeged University & a Serbian team.

Bridge Fair in Szeged
Local guest artist, Isobel Stemp

Summer Garden Party
Cambridge Szeged Society Members and Friends Summer Garden Party at Clare College Fellows' Garden

Nicolas Juett's Art Exhibition
Opening of Nicolas Juett's Art Exhibition at Reok Palace, Szeged - into August.

Hungarian & British Music for ‘cello & piano
Veronica Henderson (‘cello) & Jill Morton (piano)

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Szeged artists Exhibition
3 Szegedi artists Exhibit at Williams Art (Dales old brewery, Gwydir St, Cambridge

Cambridge Chamber Ensemble
Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Click Here to download the event poster
Tickets: £10; under 23 £5; includes an interval drink

Enquiries: Julia Seiber Boyd 01223 506064

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Mátyás Seiber and his Legacy
Howard Williams directs the CC21
(Choir of the 21st Century)

Queens’ College Chapel, Cambridge
23 October 2010 7.00pm
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Tickets: £12; concessions £8;

Enquiries: Julia Seiber Boyd 01223 506064

Talk by Len Rix
The prize-winning translator Len Rix will be reading from extracts of his recently published translation of Short Stories by Antal Szerb Followed by questions and answers and a glass of wine

1 Newnham Terrace Darwin College 7.00 pm

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Talk by Rani Drew
The prize-winning poet, playwright and short story writer talks about her book: The Dog's Tale: a life in the Buda Hills Followed by questions and answers and a glass of wine

Darwin College Old Library 7.00pm

Talk by Nigel Thorpe
The former Ambassador to Hungary Nigel Thorpe will speak on the subject of: "Central Europe & the Change from Communism" Followed by questions and answers and a glass of wine

Darwin College Old Library 7.30pm

AGM
7.00pm - Old Library, Darwin College Cambridge

Talk by Klara Breuer-Rudas Deputy Hungarian Ambassador
“What Hungary brings to the Presidency of the EU"
23rd March - 6.15pm at Queens’ College : The Long Gallery
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CAMBRIDGE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Friday 6 May at 7.45pm at Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge

A concert of chamber music in one of Cambridge's best-known colleges, to include Mozart's Duo for Violin & Viola K424 and Brahms' Piano Quartet in G minor Op 25, together with a Haydn Piano Trio and a Concert Etude by Liszt.

Established professional artists from the Cambridge area will be joined by the exciting young Chinese violinist, Chen Xie from the Royal Academy of Music.

Interval refreshments are included in the ticket price (£10 - £5 under-23s). For further details and tickets contact Julia Seiber Boyd on 01223 506064, or email cam.cham.ensemble@btinternet.com or jmseiberboyd@aol.com.
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Bridge Fair in Szeged
local artist attending: Deanna Tyson

Nora Berend
Thursday 9 June at 7.30pm Talk on

“Immigrants in medieval Hungary: the possibilities of coexistence” at Darwin College, Old Library.

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Society Summer Garden Party

1- 4 pm on 24th July at Clare College (fellows) Garden, Cambridge

The Kecskés Ensemble of Szentendre and the
Fábri–Ivánovics Duo, play Traditional Music from Hungary
A concert by the Kecskés Ensemble of Szentendre, on 11 September, at Fitzwilliam College Chapel, at 12.30 pm
A chance to hear traditional Hungarian and East European music, including the rich sound of the lute, theorbo, harp, psaltery, koboz, gourd-fiddle, Turkish pipe, gemshorn, crumhorn, hurdy-gurdy and more.
Hosted by the Cambridge Szeged  Society. 
Tickets £8 and £5 concessions.
To find out more email: jmseiberboyd@aol.com  Tel: 01223 506064
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Visit to Cambridge by His Excellency Janos Csák
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Lindesay Dixon Piano Recital
Ferenc Liszt Bicentenary Celebration Piano Recital by Lindesay Dixon
28th October 7.30 pm
The Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street
Entrance FREE to members of Cambridge Szeged Society
Non Members – full price £5.00 concessions £2.50
on the door or book in advance
Bookings & enquiries 01223 506 064 jmseiberboyd@aol.com
oramjames@hotmail.com
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Ervin Nagy Ervin Nagy - renowned Hungarian pianist
Piano Recital of works by Bartok and Liszt, played by renowned Hungarian pianist Ervin Nagy, 26 November at Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street at 8.00 pm. Full price £8, Members and concessions £5.
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2006 AGM Click here to see edited minutes

2007 AGM Click here to see edited minutes

2008 AGM Click here to see edited minutes

2009 AGM Click here to see edited minutes