Don't believe your eyes, see with your heart! This is the motto of Symbol - an exhibition of Ruth Schmidt Paintings that we were delighted to open with the opening words of the artist herself at our Embassy on 5th May
On April 25, our Embassy organized a Day of Hungary at the Kalnciema Street Crafts Market in Riga, a market specializing in high-quality crafts and farm producers’ foods.
Our Embassy organized a concert and a reception commemorating the National Day of Hungary of March 15.
The second venue of our traveling exhibition on the life and work of Teréz Brunszvik was the town of Jēkabpils, where the University of Latvia has a branch that educates future kindergarten teachers and elementary school teachers. The opening ceremony of the exhibition took place on February 14.
It was a pleasure and an honour that on February 13, our Embassy participated in the book donation event called Draudzīgais aicinājums (Friendly Invitation) for Latvian primary and secondary schools already for the third time.
On January 27, our Ambassador paid tribute to the memory of the Hungarian victims of the Holocaust in Latvia with a bouquet of flowers and a bow of his head at the memorial dedicated to Hungarian Jewish women who were deported to Latvia.
Founder of the first kindergarten in Central Europe, countess Teréz Brunszvik was born 250 years ago.
On November 12–13, the Embassy of Hungary in Riga hosted the latest stage of the Hungarian Food Business Program of the Agricultural Marketing Centre. Fifteen Hungarian food industry companies presented themselves to a Latvian professional audience.
On November 3, our Embassy presented the first Hungarian edition of Lāčplēsis (Bear Slayer or Medveölő in Hungarian), considered the Latvian national epic and written between 1872 and 1877 by the patriotic poet Andrejs Pumpurs, at a private, intimate ceremony at the Latvian National Library in Riga, accompanied by a lecture by the translator János Pusztay, professor of Finno-Ugric linguistics.
On October 22, our Embassy commemorated the anniversary of the 1956 revolution and war of independence in the festive hall of the Riga Museum for History and Navigation.