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Download Hirado: February 2010 Edition
Várdos Night at the Korona: 26th of February, Friday 7pm. 4 course meal Várdos Folk music and folkdance by Gyöngyösbokréta dance group. Tickets $45. Booking essential!!! Ring 98018887
Sunday, 14 March. The directors of Hungarian Community Centre will be holding a commemoratiion of the March 15 Uprising commencing at 2pm. Enquiries Olga Veto 9754 8579.
Korona Csárda Hungarian Restaurant: All you can eat Buffet!!! Open: Fri 6-11pm $33; Sat 6-11pm $37-Live Music; Sun 11.30-3pm $33. Bring a party of 12 guests and recive a FREE Dinner. Special Function up till 80 guests. Booking/Enquire: 9801 8887; email:koronacsarda@yahoo.com.au
HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE COURSES: for enquiries about learning Hungarian ONLY, please contact Marika Szabo on 0409 434417or email: mariaszabo@optusnet.com.au
Please note: We welcome general enquiries about the Hungarian Community Centre and the community, however we are unable to deal with requests for the search for relatives and friends.
Rokon és barátok keresésével nem foglalkozunk.
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Hungarian Community Centre Melbourne, Australia
760 Boronia Road Wantirna, Victoria 3152 |
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The Hungarian Community Centre Melbourne is the largest Hungarian institution outside the borders of Hungary. It provides a home to the thousands of Hungarians who live within reach of it enabling organisations and individuals to maintain their national inheritance, heritage and culture.
The Hungarian Community Centre is a not for profit organisation which works for the furtherance and assistance of the Hungarian community and endeavours to maintain Hungarian culture and pass it to future generations.
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| Hungarian Day at Federation Square, 2006 |
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Hungarians, their organisations and groups have meetings, picnics, balls, lunches, dinners, concerts and literary functions at the Centre. Large emphasis is placed on the youth where activities such as scouting, folk dancing, Hungarian language school, play group are held continuously. The biggest festival is Hungarofest which is held biennially. This festival includes rich cultural and historic displays, continuous programs and entertainment and excellent traditional Hungarian cuisine.
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| Hungarian Community Centre Dance group |
Exhibition at Hungarofest 2006 |
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Each year commemorations are held for significant historic events, for example in October, we remember the 1956 uprising.
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| Commemorating March 15 |
"Pro Patria, Pro Libertate" - Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1956 uprising |
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The beautiful Szent Istvan (Saint Stephens) ecumenical church was completed at the Hungarian Community Centre in 1994. Hungarians of the Catholic, Reformed Church and Lutheran faiths can observe their Christian beliefs and traditions.
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| Szent Istvan church inside |
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The Hungarian Community Centre and the groups within it actively participate in Australia's multicultural life, the dance groups perform at various festivals and close ties are held with other institutions, such as Buda, which is a historic home in Castlemaine.
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| Vajdaszentivany dance camp, 2004-2005 |
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