Sussex Hungarian Society

A longer-term date for your diary: 12 and 13 July 2008
when we are hoping to organise a festival of Hungarian music and literature

Sussex Hungarian Society
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The Society was formed in 2006 (starting as the Lewes Hungarian Society), providing a focus for Hungarians who are now living in Sussex and for English people with an interest in Hungary. Reflecting a now wider membership, the new Constitution name us the Sussex Hungarian Society.

The first event organised by the society in 2006 was a Hungarian food and music evening held in early June, followed by an exciting demonstration of traditional Hungarian dancing. Another successful social evening was on 18 November, with a mixed programme of short talks, folk-songs, and after a buffet meal an opportunity to join in some authentic Hungarian dancing. On 17 January this year members met to plan the next event, and to discuss a short talk on the 1956 Uprising. On 20 April the Hungarian Folk Dance Group of London joined in a Spring entertainment, and guest speakers talked about two contrasting eras in history - Hungary in the time of Elizabeth I and Hungary during the Cold War. There was a get-together on Sunday 24 June at the King's Head, attended by about 30 members and friends, despite the poor weather. The dull summer remained dry for the open-air Summer Festival on 2 September, featuring bogrács cooking, an "international" stool-ball match and lots of Hungarian food for sale. Preceded by the Annual General Meeting, we held a lively Christmas celebration evening on 8 December at the South Portslade Community Centre, with Christmas food, music and dancers visiting from London. The end of winter was welcomed on 1 March 2008 with a Farsang fancy-dress party held in Christchurch hall, Lewes, where members who came were joined by a travelling gypsy band with a lively mixture of traditional and popular music.

In due course there may be an opportunity to join a group to learn or to practise the language.
There are books on Hungary and in Hungarian for loan.

At the Annual General Meeting on 8 December 2007
the following were elected officers of the Society:

Chairman	Sam Hasan
Vice- Chairman	Roza Nandor
Secretary	Richard Winter
Treasurer	Csupa Edit

Elected members of the Committee were:
Berta Busby, Ildikó Cseh, Christopher Jones,
Gizella Matthews, Gábor Székély.

To find out more about the society contact the Secretary.

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