Thursday
10am – : Antique & Contemporary Art Exhibition and Auction at Millenáris Park
Starting today and running through Sunday, a huge art sale fills Pavilion B of the Millenáris Park event centre. Featuring both old and modern pieces, the event showcases the best galleries and auction houses in Budapest under one roof.
6pm-7.30pm: US Presidential Primary Elections: Super Tuesday 2020 at Budapest Corvinus University (BCE), Building "E" South Entrance, Faculty Club
The American Corner Budapest invites two experts to discuss the results of this week’s Super Tuesday and explain the ongoing US presidential primary elections. Get to know more about this defining moment in the 2020 presidential campaign and about America’s current political challenges.
The speakers are Dr Tamás Magyarics from the School of English and American Studies at ELTE, and Professor Stanley Ward from Corvinus University Budapest. The event is free, but registration is required. The language of the event and the discussion will be English.
8pm-10.45pm: Dead Man Walking
at the Eiffel Art Studios – Bánffy Stage
Offering a rare chance to enjoy contemporary opera in English, this production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking deals with the subject of capital punishment. Premiered in San Francisco in 2000, the piece is based on the true recollections of a nun and her interaction with prisoners on death row. The show runs for four nights at the Eiffel Art Studios, tonight, Sunday and twice next week. The venue, attached to the Opera House, was recently converted from a railway repair depot in Kőbánya, south Pest.
10pm-3am: Telekom Electronic Beats pres
Boiler Room at the Akvárium Klub
The legendary party series Boiler Room returns to Budapest on Thursday. Hosted across two rooms at the downtown Akvárium Klub, the event features an international line-up with names such as DJ Seinfeld, Willow, Tom Trago, Minor Science, Nyxa, Hodge b2b Mor Elian, Club Fitness, Yinna and AIWA. In the Main Hall, look out for Manchester DJ/producer Willow, who cut her teeth at Croatian music festivals and, in the Small Hall, Club Fitness, due to appear at GALA 2020 in Peckham this May.
Friday
11am-until 15 March: National Restaurant Week at various venues
With the demise/scaling down of Torkos Csütörtök, another cross-city/nationwide dining promotion has come to the fore: National Restaurant Week. From today until 15 March, some 150 participating establishments across Hungary will be offering three-course menus for 3,900, 4,900 and 5,900 forints respectively, service charge included. Bookings can only be made here.
6.15pm-8pm: The Truth at the Uránia National Film Theatre
There’s another chance to see Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first foreign-language film, The Truth, when it screens as part of Budapest’s annual Francophone Film Days and Festival, running until early April. Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke star in this familial drama, with dialogue in English and French, and subtitles in Hungarian. See the full festival schedule here.
10pm-5am: Beat Safari: Burr Oak at Dürer Kert
A new collaboration between Julien Carbou aka The Clamps, and Opsen, one third of French trio Signs, Burr Oak should ring true with many aficionados of the drum & bass genre. The result should also push the musical boundaries of Trendkill, the London-based label run by DJ/producer Prolix.
11pm-5am: Pure Lust pres Acid Pauli Live! at the A38 Ship
Acid Pauli, aka Martin Gretschmann, has gone on many a musical adventure over the last 20 years, most notably as Console where he made his name in the late 1990s. Now based in Berlin with music collective The Feathered Sun, Acid Pauli has also worked on film soundtracks and has dates lined up in Switzerland, Mexico and at Barcelona’s OFFSónar.
Saturday
9am-4pm: Volkswagen Winter Market at Bug Parts Autósbolt
On Saturday Volkswagen enthusiasts meet others to buy, sell and exchange components of this iconic car. Attendees also have the chance to get advice from experienced Beetle owners on how to maintain their vehicles. The event, held at a VW garage at X.Gyömrői út 125, is free to attend. Registration is mandatory for vendors, while visitors who sign up receive tea and lunch.
10am-1pm: Toys, plants, books SWAP at Open Doors Hungary
Bring old books, toys, clothes, plants – or anything that you no longer want but might make someone else happy – to Open Doors Hungary at IX.Bokréta utca 10. There will be a corner with basic tools to repair, an exchange corner to swap belongings, and a special spot to collect materials for a kindergarten for disadvantaged kids in Gávavencsellő, north-east Hungary.
4pm – : Wine & Violin at the Fonó Club
Hungary’s top violin craftsmen gather alongside winemakers such as Lilla Laposa and Éva Dignisz Gálné for two days of live music and imbibing at Budapest’s prime folk venue, the Fonó. Today, performances start at 7.30pm, with Poland’s Volosi playing from 8.30pm. On Sunday, the Somogyi String Quartet appear from 2pm.
8pm- : Oláh Krisztián Quartet at the Budapest Jazz Club
Bookending the four-day international festival at the Budapest Jazz Club, Hungary’s Oláh Krisztián Quartet showcase their new album, At the Back of My Mind, with the collective improvisation of namesake pianist Krisztián Oláh, saxophonist Kálmán Oláh Jr, double bass player György Orbán and drummer Dániel Serei. The V4 JazzFest features one act from each of the Visegrád 4 countries – Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – and takes place in Budapest, Kraków, Prague and Šamorin.
Sunday
10am-6pm: WAMP Design Fair at Bálna Budapest
The WAMP design market is back on 8 March to celebrate the arrival of spring with a sea of unique designer items including cosmetics, clothes, accessories, home décor artefacts, culinary treats and more. This time, there will also be special attractions dedicated to International Women’s Day.
7.30pm-11pm: Dope D.O.D. at Dürer Kert
These hardcore rappers from Groningen return to Budapest for a show at the Dürer Kert. The trio have just released a new EP, Sick6Six, with Polish rapper Słoń for Valentine’s Day, on the back of their release from late 2019, Do Not Enter.
8pm-9.30pm: Trixie Whitley
at Müpa
The daughter of tragic blues guitarist and songwriter Chris Whitley, Ghent-born Trixie Whitley performs as one part of a trio, after her acclaimed solo show here in 2012. Amid the alt-rock, blues and soul will be a few numbers from her last album, Lacuna.
8pm-10pm: SWANS: Where Does A Body End? at the Bem cinema
An intimate portrait of seminal NYC no-wave band SWANS, Where Does A Body End? is the result of director Marco Porsia’s five-year relationship with the band, at rehearsals, in the studio, on tour and on stage. Screened in English, WDABE focuses on the band’s founder and stalwart Michael Gira but the themes are universal – how a collective of performers form, bond and break up.
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