Timo Lassy and Teppo Mäkynen are performing at New Jazz from Finland at Budapest Music Center the 30th of November at 20.00. Both artists are household names of Finnish Jazz, Timo Lassy plays the saxophone and Teppo Mäkynen plays the drums. For more information on the event and on Timo Lassy and Teppo Mäkynen visit: https://opusjazzclub.hu/en/concerts/new-jazz-from-finland-timo-lassy-teppo-maekynen Jazz Finland has given their expert opinion during the event and has collaborated with New Jazz from Finland and FinnAgora.

Ilmiliekki Quartet is one of the most beloved ensembles of Finnish Jazz. Consisting of trumpet player Verneri Pohjola, pianist Tuomo Prättälä, bassist Antti Lötjönen and drummer Olavi Louhivuori. Stylistically Ilmiliekki Quartet range from the delicate end of the sparse contemporary jazz sound to the depths of Nordic fire music. Ilimiliekki Quartet will play at Budapest Music Center the 29th of November at 20.00. For more information on the event and how to buy tickets visit https://opusjazzclub.hu/en/concerts/new-jazz-from-finland-ilmiliekki-quartet Jazz Finland has given their expert

This year, the Council of Europe celebrates its 70 th birthday. One of the priority goals of the Council of Europe is to defend human rights, and this drawing contest is linked to that. We expect secondary school students (age group: 14-18) to send in drawings, photos, videos or computer graphics about human rights via ET70.rajzverseny@gmail.com . Deadline: 3 rd December 2019. Please read more about the values the CoE promotes: https://www.coe.int/hu/web/about-us/values 1 st prize: A trip to Strasbourg for 2 persons (return air tickets, hotel room for 2 nights, per diem) including a visit to

Join us for an evening talk hosted by the Finnish Ambassador's wife, Terttu Virri and learn her secrets about using Finnish design in diplomatic representation! You get a chance to hear more in depth about Finnish design and see the Wild at Heart -exhibition. Time: 29th of October, 18:00 Place: Hybridart Space, Budapest, Galamb utca 6. Facebook event can be found here .

Stories of Modern Finnish Design and Art – a guided tour by curator Tero Kuitunen. The guided tour takes you behind the scenes and offers insight into the exhibition’s context and development process. The eleven designers and their artistic works are introduced in depth and the central themes of the exhibition further explained. Tero Kuitunen is a spatial and product designer based in Helsinki, Finland. He has graduated as a designer from the Applied Arts MA programme at the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture. Currently he is working as a freelance designer in several