Eseményszervező / Event organized by Éva Szabó

Szombaton a múzeumban több programlehetőséggel várjuk a látogatókat:

Meg lehet tekinteni az 1956-os októberi forradalom emlékezetére berendezett kiállításunkat, könyveket lapozgatni, olvasni angol és magyar nyelven egyaránt.

Rövid filmeket vetítünk folyamatosan a témában.

Edith Dittert kiállításunk ezen a napon tekinthető meg utoljára.

Úgy is támogathatja a múzeumot, ha vásárol képet, képeslapot az eladásra felajánlott alkotások közül.

A kertben pompáznak a rózsák. Sétálhat egyet, vagy beszélgethet a barátaival, az árnyékban üldögélve.

Igazán különleges finom magyar és amerikai borokat, harapnivalót is fogyaszthat.

Töltsön egy kellemes délutánt az Orly Múzeumban! Parkolni a környéken könnyen lehet.

Eseményszervező / Event organizer: Éva Szabó

János Zolcer: Gorbachev's Secrets

The author about the book and the story behind:

“Gorbachev and I moved in with President Bush for two weeks, and we talked from morning till night!
I had planned this back in 2000, to realize it a year later.
Besides Bush, we also visited German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Israeli President Simon Peres, met Pope John Paul II, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, Lech Walesa... My plan succeeded: I brought together Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the Soviet Union, who initiated global changes in the 1980s, for numerous days with the leading international politicians of the time.
No journalist has ever pulled off a similar production!
The main theme everywhere was the same: why and how did the politicians change the world - peacefully, in a positive direction? Who were these people who embarked on such a historic journey?
My answers can be found in my book "GORBACHEV's SECRETS": 450 pages, with 500 photos, 280 virtual footnotes, and 130 QR codes linking to videos.
I maintained a friendly relationship with Gorbachev for 23 years, until his death: I visited his hometown, school, early rental apartment, early workplaces, the Kremlin; I was a guest at his dacha several times; I traveled half the world with him...
Gorbachev wrote a recommendation and a foreword for the book. The book has been published in English, German, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian. Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Hindi translations are in progress...

In the past decades, I personally got to know some of the major figures in world politics. I spent weeks in the company of George Bush, Helmut Kohl, Simon Peres, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher at their homes. I had a 22-year friendship with Mikhail Gorbachev, who revealed the secrets of the Soviet Union to me, showed me how the Kremlin operates, and shared his imperial mindset. So, I didn't learn about recent events from books, but from the politicians who shaped them. Some of them even referred to me as their friend. I still maintain my relationship with Moscow to this day.

In September, book presentations will be held in 15 cities in the United States, in Hungarian and English.”

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Eseményszervező / Event organizer: Éva Szabó

Edith Dittert's artistic journey takes us through the enchanting world of abstract landscapes and vibrant floral creations. Her unique style, often intertwined with handcrafted paper collages, offers a fresh perspective on the beauty that surrounds us. A proud member of both the Santa Cruz Art League and Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Edith Dittert has become a respected figure in the Bay Area art scene.

Edith Dittert BIO

Hungarian born artist, now residing in the USA since 1956. Formerly living in Clayton California, at the foothills of Mount Diablo for over thirty years, she is now residing in Scotts Valley, near Santa Cruz California since 2006.

She is coming from an artistic family. Her grandfather was a sculptor and her mother was a violin teacher and accomplished painter.

While playing violin in the Diablo Valley Symphony orchestra she has started taking art lessons in 1985 at the Diablo Valley College, and has participated in several workshops with leading San Francisco Bay Area artists ever since.

She is painting in oil, watercolor, acrylic, and creating fine-art collages of dyed hand-made oriental papers.

She likes to paint flowers and landscapes in abstract and realistic style, in warm and glowing colors. Her fine-art collages will lead you into the abstract world of dragons, exotic birds and sea life.

She has exhibited in galleries in Carmel and Monterey, California, and art shows sponsored by several Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay Area Art Associations.

Refreshments 🍰

Indulge your taste buds with delightful Hungarian sandwiches, pastries, and a selection of beverages while you explore the captivating art on display.

Museum Shop 🛍️

Don't miss the opportunity to take home a piece of this enchanting experience. The Museum shop will be open, offering a curated collection of art-related treasures.

For inquiries and more information, please feel free to contact us at:

📞 Phone: 510-384-5606

Come and immerse yourself in the world of abstract beauty, mingle with the artist herself, and enjoy a leisurely afternoon surrounded by creativity and inspiration. We look forward to sharing this memorable day with you!

Kindly RSVP by September 7.

Your presence is a work of art in itself.

Eseményszervező / Event organizer: Éva Szabó

The Summer Exhibition at the Orly Museum in Honor of the Petőfi 200 Memorial Year. Free of charge.

Short content of the exhibition:

"At the time of Petőfi's birth, the Hungarian Kingdom was part of the dominant power in Central Europe, the Habsburg Empire, and its national independence was heavily compromised. However, it was precisely during this time, in the first half of the 19th century, that a new intellectual spirit emerged throughout Europe influenced by the ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Economic and social reforms began: it was the era of bourgeois transformation and national awakening, whose aspirations were summed up by contemporaries with the motto of homeland and progress.In this environment, a young rebellious poet appeared in Hungary, who with his direct voice, new themes, and evocative power, disrupted conventions, mediocrity, and salon poetry. In his short life of barely 26 years, he wrote nearly 1000 poems. As a Hungarian-language poet with a distinct identity, he had an unprecedented impact on world literature: his works were actively translated into both major and minor European languages; many translators learned Hungarian because of him. His poetry contributed to the awakening of self-consciousness among smaller European nations striving for their freedom. Victor Hugo referred to him, and later Nietzsche set several of his poems to music. He played a significant role in shaping the image of Hungarians living abroad to this day. He became a central figure in the Hungarian events of the European revolutionary wave: as a poet in the 1848 revolution, raising the banner of civil liberties and national self-determination, and as a military officer serving his country in the fight to preserve the achievements of the revolution.

Revolutionary, national hero, myth: with his poetry, dynamic personality, and heroic death, Sándor Petőfi is the true embodiment of Romanticism."

Organizer of the exhibition: Éva Szabó

Hungarian born Italian Artist, from Rome brings spicy dreams, hidden stories in Berkeley

Eseményszervező / Event organizer: Éva Szabó

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Eseményszervező / Event organizer: Éva Szabó

  The Orly Museum of Hungarian Culture will commemorate Sándor Petőfi with a special museum-educational exhibition. The revolutionary poet was born 200 years ago on 1 January 1823. In the bicentenary year, the themes of love, the search for happiness, heroic death, nation, personal freedom, the desire for family idyll, folk-tale traditions, homeland and the problems of humanity - all of which were of great concern to the poet during his short but full life - are still valid and inevitable today. The exhibition will be accompanied by a cultural program, an educational lecture and a museum education session for kids. 

Refreshments and Hungarian home-made pastries are available at the Museum Café for a fee.

The event is free of charge, donations are welcome.
Free parking is available in front of the museum on Arch Street and nearby.

Eseményszervező / Event organizer: Éva Szabó

Petőfi Sándor Berde Mózeshez, 1848-as kormánybiztoshoz, parlamenti képviselőhöz írott eredeti levelét a kolozsvári unitárius levéltárban őrzik. Február 11-ei előadónk, e levél tartalmát is elemző előadásában, a költő szemüvegén keresztül láttatja a forradalmi időszakot, valamint a szabadság utáni vágy örök eszméjét.

Molnár Lehel, Székelykeresztúr (1968) szülötte. A múzeumalapító Molnár István unokájaként ezer szál fűzi a helyhez, ahol utolsó éjszakáját töltötte Petőfi Sándor, a költő és forradalmár, a fehéregyházi csata előtt. Molnár Lehel Kolozsváron a Protestáns Teológiai Intézet Unitárius Karán szerzett lelkészi oklevelet (1990–1995). 1996-tól a Magyar Unitárius Egyház Kolozsvári Gyűjtőlevéltárának főlevéltárosa. 2004-től a Romániai Egyházi Levéltárosok Egyesületétnek elnöke. Doktori címét 2020-ban a Szegedi Tudományegyetemen szerezte. Kutatási területe: az erdélyi unitárius egyház-, művelődés-, iskola- és hittantörténet köré csoportosul. Eredményei erdélyi, magyarországi és külföldi tudományos, tudománynépszerűsítő magyar, román, angol, valamint német nyelvű történeti, teológiai folyóiratokban, kiadványokban, konferencia kötetekben jelennek meg. Elérhetősége: molnar.lehel@unitarius.org

The original letter of Sándor Petőfi to Mózes Berde, government commissioner and member of parliament in 1848, is preserved in the Unitarian Archives of Cluj. In his lecture on 11 February, our speaker, who will also analyse the content of this letter, will look at the revolutionary period and the eternal ideal of the desire for freedom. Lehel Molnár is a native of Székelykeresztúr. As the grandson of the museum's founder, István Molnár, he has a thousand ties to the place where Sándor Petőfi, the poet and revolutionary, spent his last night before the Battle of Fehéregyháza. The lecture will be hold in Hungarian.

Lehel Molnár is an archivist at the Unitarian Headquarters in Kolozsvár. After finishing his unitarian theology training in 1995, he was appointed Assistant Minister at the First Unitarian Church in Kolozsvár where he served for nearly two years. He had received subsequent formal archival training in Debrecen, Hungary (1996-97). In November of 1999, he was ordained a Unitarian minister. In the 2018-2019 academic year, he was a Balázs Ferenc scholar at the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California. In November 2020 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Szeged in Hungary and received the Ph.D. degree. Co-editor of several scientific volumes. His independent volume on early modern episcopal visitations was published in 2022. His research results are published in Hungarian, Romanian, English and German-language historical and theological journals, publications and conference proceedings in Transylvania, Hungary and abroad.

Eseményszervező / Event organizer: Éva Szabó

One of the world's leading interpreters of the cimbalom ( known as cymbalom, or hammered dulcimer), a symbolic instrument of the Hungarian and Romanian repertoire, a modern and "chromatic" variant of the so-called psaltery, an instrument in which the strings are struck by two stakes.

He was born into a Lautari family, professional musicians mostly of Roma ethnicity, son of the legendary Ion Miu, nicknamed "The Cymbalom Godfather", considered one of the main innovators of the modern technique of the Cymbalom, recognized for having broadened the horizons of the instrument from traditional music to classical music and jazz. George has spent every single day of his life performing with the most famous musicians in Romania as in Japan, UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Hungary or studying the instrument.

His repertoire is immense and ranges from popular music from all over the Romanian, Hungarian music, jazz and classical music, sometimes these repertoires intersect each other in such a natural way that they fade the boundaries between one genre and another.

At the Orly Hungarian Museum in Berkeley he will present a varied repertoire between Hungarian (to which priority will be given), Romanian, Serbian, Jewish music with incursions of Jazz Manouche (gypsy jazz) and the classical repertoire for solo piano (Chopin, Listz, Bach). His exorbitant virtuosity will be appreciated in solo performances as in the pieces in which he will be accompanied by some of the leading musicians in the Eastern European music scene in the Bay Area, like Marco Ghezzo, Andrew Cohen, Jimmy Grant and Matthew Tweten.

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$25/ticket. At the door $30/ticket Kids under 10 are free!

Call Elvira Orly: (510) 384-5606 or email Eva Szabo at eva@orlymuseum.org

Event organized by Éva Szabó