In our July programme we publish two interviews about the history of the Ottawa Hungarian Community Centre. Founding members and present leaders talk about past and present.

Part 1: Memoirs of founding members

Part 2: Visitor from Hungary at the OHCC (1982)

Members of the Hungarian community have visited Mr. Panek and wished him good health and happiness. Rudolf Bánsági, president of the Hungarian Community Centre, presented him with flowers. Magdolna Tóth asked questions about their long and prosperous life. Father Leo also thanked them for their staunch support of the Hungarian Catholic Community.

Ödön Panak has turned one hundred today! He was a strong supporter of the Hungarian Community Centre and the Hungarian Catholic Community of Ottawa. We wish him good health and happiness on his birthday!

Fine Dishes for Take-out

Observe how Kathie Bognár and Sue Klekner-Alt prepare Hungarian Goulash and Layered Pancakes in the Hungarian House.

Produced by Gábor Finta.

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A look at the preparations for the bake sale

Produced by Gábor Finta.

As it is well known, the peace treaty at the end of World War I was signed on June 4, at 16:32, 1920 in Versailles, close to Paris, in the  52 meters long and 7 meters wide corridor of the Grand Trianon Palace, la Galerie des Cotelles.

We commemorate this sad anniversary with a programme that can be seen on YouTube at 16:30, June 4, EDT.

Content

• Introduction- Béla Szeri, OHCC vice president
• Endre Ady: Greeting to the Winner (recited by András Dobai)
• Leó Weiner: Three Hungarian Folk Dances, No 3 (Csongor Prigli, Piano)
• Gyula Illyés: To the Makers of the Piece (recited by Béla Szeri)
• Sándor Reményik: New Testament (recited by (Mariann Talla)
• Béla Bartók: Sonatina (1-3) Abbey Sugars-Keen, piano)
• Köntés Béla: The Song of a Belated Rebel (recited by the author)
• Finta-Köntés: The Song of a Belated Rebel (Choirs of the Szerencs (Hungary) Choir Festival conducted by the author )

The programme was edited by Bea Finta and produced by Gábor Finta.

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• Spring in Ottawa

The accompanying music of the video is two Grieg pieces: For Spring, Arietta (Gábor Finta’s own recordings)

(The video was produced by Gábor Finta)

Tartalom

• Interview with the directors of the Ottawa Hungarian Community Center (host: Magdolna Tóth, host and editor: Gábor Finta)
  • Rudolf Bánsági (president)
  • Béla Szeri (vice president)
  • Edit Palencsár (treasurer)
  • Béla Szabó (member of BOD)

(The video was produced by Gábor Finta)

Mother’s Day virtual program of the Ottawa Hungarian Community Centre. The show features sixteen Hungarian young Canadians and adults who recite poems and play the piano and violin for their mothers.

(The video was produced by Gábor Finta)

Content

• Introduction to the show (Finta Gábor)
• Poetry Day
• Selection from poems of Sándor Weöres (Mese TV)
• Introduction (Magdolna Tóth)
• Poetry of Lőrinc Szabó (Béla Köntés)
• Sándor Weöres: Öregek (in a musical version)
• The show of Béla Szeri
• A walk in Budapest (video of Gábor Finta)

(The video was produced by Gábor Finta)

The Ottawa Hungarian Community Centre has compiled a video program this year to commemorate the Revolution of 1848. We used materials made several years ago and recordings recently prepared.
Dr. Vass-Salazar Mária, Ambassador of Hungary addresses  Hungarian Canadians and the programme contains poems by Sándor Petőfi and Piroska Kárpáti, recordings of the Youth and Tulipán Dance Groups as well as compositions by Joseph Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Béla Bartók and Gábor Finta.

(Video production by Gábor Finta)