Pirkko Saisio’s novel The Smallest Shared Dividend (1998) presents modern Finnish literature in Literature Night in Budapest on March 28th. For the fourth year in a row, EUNIC organizes the Night of Literature in cooperation with the excellent Radnóti Theater. The event will take place in various – and often unusual – locations around district VI. The actors of Radnóti Theater will be reading hand-picked works of European authors in Hungarian for the audience. This year, for the first time, the event will also be organized in Debrecen, together with the Csokonai Theater. Thus, in both cities

The TelepART Mobility Support Platform supports emerging and semi-established artists in showcasing their work internationally. At the core of this project is a new style of rapid-access funding. This funding is designed to support travel costs for performances between Finland and Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Romania. The aim of TelepART is to promote cultural exchange between Finland and the countries involved. The platform is permanently open to applications. Applications can be submitted by performers and their representatives or event organisers. Applicants will be notified of

Kira Poutanen’s first novel Ihana Meri (trans. Wonderful Sea ) was published as the next edition in the POKET series at the end of February in Hungary. POKET is a community building and reading popularization nonprofit project. The colorful POKET-books are available in book vending machines around Budapest. Poutanen’s novel touches the topic of anorexia and tells the story of a 15-year-old girl, Julia. FinnAgora has supported the new publishing of the novel. FinnAgora met the ambassador of the book, the Hungarian swimmer and multiple Olympic gold metalist Katinka Hosszú, at the book launch

Barlast is releasing their second album in 2019 and is playing a concert at the Opus Jazz Club as a part of the record release tour. Barlast (Swedish for ballast) creates spacious new music. The silence can be heard between the notes. Everything unnecessary is stripped away. Only the name remains as ballast. The Finnish group Barlast released their debut album Ihantola (LLS03/Texicalli Digital) in February 2017. Most of the album was recorded in the round attic tower of the 110 year old Ihantola building in Helsinki. If you listen closely, you can sometimes hear the soundscape of the hip

The 8th Finnish Film Days takes place on the 6-10th of February 2019 at Toldi Cinema! Finnish Film Days offers ten first-class film screenings and more special program, such as festival sauna and heavy metal concert, than before. The festival´s curator András Horváth says that this year´s program consists of ”movies with all sorts of rhythm, colour and pace, so that everybody could find their favourite ones. Sometimes these movies can be a bit witty or sour humoured, sometimes just simply strange but also hilarious, full of life and thought-provoking. And often all this in one!” TOLDI MOZI