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UPDATED: 19 Aug 2009 GMT
  • Chargé Levine handing out the “Rock against Racism” wrist bands (Embassy photo by Attila Németh) Embassy Tent Attracts Youth at Sziget Festival

    As part of its youth outreach program, the U.S. Embassy set up a tent at one of the largest youth festivals in Europe, the Sziget Festival August 12-16. The aim of the Budapest Embassy’s program was to involve young people in entertaining games, yet provide them with the opportunity to get information about the U.S.

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  • President Obama’s video message in support of tolerance at Sziget (Embassy photo by Attila Németh) U.S. Embassy Helps Rock against Racism

    Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) was the prevailing mantra at the opening day concert of Budapest’s week-long Sziget music festival on August 11. In an effort to mobilize the power of music as a great unifier that transcends all boundaries and cultural divides, the U.S. Embassy participated in this campaign…

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  • 2009 Teaching Tolerance Summer Camp Trainers Teaching Tolerance through English

    For the fourth time in a row since 2006, from August 1-15, 2009, 55 students (ages 11-14) and 11 English as a Foreign Language teachers from Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania and Slovakia participated in the “Teaching Tolerance though English” summer camp in Balatonlelle, Hungary.

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Repatriation of WWII U.S. Airman’s Remains
U.S. Embassy honored a WWII airman, Sergeant First Class Marvin J. Steinford who died in Hungary...

Repatriation of WWII U.S. Airman’s Remains

Chargé Levine Commemorates the Roma Holocaust
On August 2, Chargé Levine participated in the Roma Holocaust memorial event at Nehru Quay, Budapest.

Chargé Levine Commemorates the Roma Holocaust

Chargé Visits Roma and Friends Summer Camp
The camp brings together both Roma and non-Roma children and their English teachers from all over Hungary.

Chargé Visits Roma and Friends Summer Camp

Heavy Airlift Wing Activated at Pápa Air Base
The first of three US-made C-17 NATO military cargo aircraft arrived in Pápa Air Base on July 27.


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Chargé d'Affaires Jeffrey D. Levine presents the Award to Wynton Marsalis (Embassy photo)

Embassy Helps Sponsor Wynton Marsalis Concert in Budapest
On July 26, jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator Wynton Marsalis together with the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra performed before a packed house at Budapest’s Congress Center. It was a stellar performance that brought down the house, and included the works of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and other jazz legends.

From the left: Zoltán Bolek (Islamic Community), Rabbi Slomó Köves (Chabad-Lubavitch), Tamás Fabiny (Lutheran Church), Chargé Levine, Rabbi Schneier, Gusztáv Bölcskey (Reformed Church), László Kiss-Rigó and Mark Miles (Catholic Church)

Luncheon for Rabbi Arthur Schneier and Hungarian religious leaders
On July 23, Chargé d’Affaires Jeffrey Levine hosted a luncheon in honor of Rabbi Arthur Schneier, who leads the “Appeal of Conscience Foundation,” which is an interfaith partnership of corporate and spiritual leaders from all faiths who come together to promote “peace, tolerance and ethnic conflict resolution.”

Zoltán Sumitzki, owner of the largest European private collection of space research objects and Tamás Simonyi talk about Moon mission and space travel. (Embassy photo by Mónika Váli)

U.S. Embassy Helps to Celebrate Moon Day in Budapest
On July 20, the U.S. Embassy partnered with Budapest’s Millenáris Cultural Center to organize a Moon Day, a series of musical, cultural and educational programs to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first landing on the Moon.

Chargé d'Affaires Jeffrey Levine (right) and Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai listening to the national anthems. (Embassy photo by Attila Németh)

Hungarians and Americans Celebrate America’s 233rd Birthday
On July 2nd, Chargé Jeffrey Levine hosted a large reception at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence to celebrate America’s national holiday. Hundreds of Hungarians and Americans met to mark America’s 233rd birthday and listened to the Chargé’s remarks about tolerance and Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai’s remarks about Hungarian-American friendship.

Embassy Spokesperson Jan Krc (middle) presents the Embassy Award to Maestro Duain Wolfe.

Colorado Symphony Chorus Receives Embassy’s Cultural Diplomacy Award
Celebrating their 25th anniversary, the Colorado Symphony Chorus performed Verdi’s Requiem to a full house at the Palace of the Arts on July 2nd. Welcoming them was the Embassy Spokesperson, Jan Krc, who presented the founder and Director of the Chorus, Maestro Duain Wolfe with the U.S. Embassy’s Award for Cultural Diplomacy.