Musician Hilja Grönfors together with the other founders of the Finnish Roma Culture Museum were in Budapest for ten days to establish collaboration with Hungarian Romedia Archive. During their visit, with help of FinnAgora, the group organized an event to announce that the museum will open in Helsinki. At the event Hilja Grönfors performed together with Hungarian Romengo orchestra, the publicist of Roma Culture Museum Angelika Nikkinen gave a speech about the museum’s significance for younger Roma generations and museum’s curator, film director Katariina Lillqvist told about museum’s

Finnish video artist Salla Tykkä's work will be on display at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest. The exhibition opens on the 6th October 2018 an continues until January 2019. The exhibition is one of the biggest ever of an Finnish artist in Budapest. Salla Tykkä began her career in the mid-1990s. Her short films have been shown not only at international exhibitions but also in film festival competitions. For her work Giant, also on display at the Ludwig Museum, she received the Canon Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2014. According to the Curator of the Ludwig Museum

UH Fest (20.9-7.10.2018) is one of the rare events dedicated to adventurous modern music in Hungary. Not focusing on genres is a principle that reflects in the overall activity of the festival. Three Finnish artists supported by TelepART will perform at different venues in Budapest as a part of the festival program: Trafó Klub 30.9 22:00 Pharaoh Overlord https://www.facebook.com/events/1264113777062186/ Láng Művelődési Ház 3.10 19:00 Circle Erőművház 5.10 19:00 Tsembla https://www.facebook.com/events/2204013919871427/ Link to the UH-Fest program: http://uh.hu/program/

Hanna Wass is an Academy Research Fellow and University Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Helsinki. The appreciated lecturer visits universities in Budapest and Debrecen with her lecture ”Megatrends of Election” in September. The lecture is about current political election trends in Europe and North-America. Dates and locations : Tuesday 25th September 2018 10:00 ELTE. Budapest Wednesday 26th September 2018 Klo 10:00 University of Debrecen. Debrecen Thursday 27th September 2018 Klo 14:00 Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Institute for Political Science. Budapest

Choreographer Sanna Myllylahti‘s solo performance I WILL TELL YOU WHEN I AM READY is a physical, motion-oriented contemporary dance piece that examines through the body the conflict between constant hurrying ahead, achieving of things and our limited time on earth. Sanna Myllylahti has worked as a choreographer since the mid-1990s. Myllylahti lived almost 20 years in Amsterdam and worked internationally as a freelancer. She is currently working as a senior lecturer of contemporary dance in the Theatre Academy at the University of the Arts Helsinki. More information: https://monoplay.eu/event/