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President of the Republic László Sólyom will participate at an event at the Collegium Hungaricum in Vienna. The actors Anna Kubik and Imre Szélyes will take the stage, and the opera singer Ingrid Kertesi will perform accompanied by Katalin Hegedüs on the piano.
In Warsaw, a roundtable talk with Hungarian and Polish historians took place on Monday. The participants included Mária Schmidt, Ignác Romsics, Jerzy Eisler, Andrzey Friszke and the moderator János Tischler. Five former ambassadors from the two countries were also present at the talk. An exhibition of photographs opened in the Polish sejm, or parliament, and Warsaw mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz and Hungarian ambassador to Poland Róbert Kiss laid a wreath at the '56 memorial in the Polish capital. A mass to mark the anniversary of the revolution will be celebrated on Sunday.
The Hungarian embassy in Bucharest will mark the anniversary of the revolution with a concert of Bach by the Kossuth Prize-winning cellist Miklós Perényi in the Peles Palace. The concert will be broadcast by Romanian public radio and will be published as an album. An international conference of historians on the '56 revolution will take place in the Romanian city of Odorheiu Secuiesc.
In Bratislava, Péter Heltai will speak about the lessons of '56 and present works by the writer Elemér Hankiss.
In Prague, the Annie Fischer Prize-winners István Lajkó and Orsolya Mód will play a programme of Beethoven, Dvorak, Popper, Bartók and Ligeti on piano and cello.
The Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin will host the writers Géza Bereményi and Dietrich Gartska at its remembrance of '56. In the German city of Gerlingen, the sister city of Tata, in Hungary, the Auer String Quartet will perform with the German guitarist Friedemann Wuttke.
György Szomjas's film about the "boys of '56" will be shown at the Hungarian culture institutes in Brussels New Delhi and London, and the director will speak after the screening in the British capital.
Another film screening, of Péter Bacsó's Oh, Bloody Life, will take place at the Hungarian Culture Institute in Moscow; and Márta Mészáros's The Unburied Man will be shown in Sofia.
The Serbian National Museum in Belgrade will show an exhibition of photographs of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the establishment of the Third Hungarian Republic. In Zagreb, the Hungarian children's dance ensemble Csillagseműek will perform with the Tündök ensemble.
The Kossuth Prize-winning singer Márta Sebestyén will sing in Paris, accompanied by Mátyás Bolya and Balázs Szokolai Dongó.
The cellist István Várdai and the pianist Márta Ábrahám-Nagyi will perform in the grand hall of the Hungarian consulate in New York.
The Hungarian Academy in Rome will host a performance of a play by Áron Tamási, and a wreath will be laid at the '56 plaque in the city.
A photo exhibition of the '56 revolution opened on Monday in the European Commission offices in Madrid.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
