Merlin Theatre and BAD (Bicycle Art and Design), together with the Netherlands Embassy, has announced a photo contest with bicycle and fashion in focus. The prize-giving evening of the contest, with valuable design packages and winning photo prints – among other items – to be handed over, will be accompanied by a fashion show displaying trendy clothes and accessories designed by six artists of the BAD group. Later in the night the atmosphere is to be further brightened up by Merlin’s resident DJ.
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The first stair got loose: the three dramas read out last year were launched, and are now orbiting the theatre world on their own; their fate now depends on celestial constellations. We continue to stream ahead in the drama aether – who knows where we will land? One thing is certain: the landscape we are going to arrive at looks familiar and we painfully but surely know our way around, although we have never been here before. We may wonder again how familiar these unfamiliar details are, and how come this world is so Dutch in a Hungarian way.

Esther Gerritsen
The hangover / The following day of the day, the night and the death - 19 April, 7 p.m.

Judith Herzberg
Wound - 26 April, 7 p.m.


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Voicst are a three-piece indie rock band hailing from Amsterdam. "Voicst" is South African slang, meaning "manic energy". Support from influential Dutch media outlet 3Voor12 and The Dutch Pop Institute led the band to Lowlands, the huge Dutch festival, and also netted Voicst their first appearance at the New York CMJ Music Conference. For three consecutive years they toured Benelux with the likes of Bettie Serveert, Nada Surf and Tenacious D.
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The development of the highly ambitious Városháza Forum project will start soon in the Heart of Budapest. Combining the restoration of the existing, but never completed 18th-century baroque building with new, futuristic wings is bound to create a contemporary Forum with respect to the heritage and true spirit of Budapest. Once completed, the City Hall complex will act as a micro-city, offering virtually every city function and revitalizing the Városháza of Budapest for the benefit and enjoyment of all, inhabitants and visitors alike.
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