The series of events dubbed Extremely Hungary, organised by the Hungarian Cultural Centre in New York, were running on a three-year budget of 700 million forints (EUR 2.6m), funding well spent on the best of contemporary productions in music, literature, fine arts, dance and film, Istvan Hiller said. The programme's benefits were threefold: it has won further future cooperation between the institutions involved, improved the country image and earned a good press coverage for Hungary and Hungarian culture, he added.
The final event of the season was a large-scale world music concert on Saturday night, US time, featuring Hungarian and US performers, and presenting Roma and black culture side by side.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
