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The Janus Pannonius Museum in the Hungarian city of Pécs, a 2010 European Capital of Culture, has opened an exhibition called “From Art to Life” – Hungarians in the Bauhaus. The show, the result of many years of research, presents extraordinarily exciting material, rarely seen pieces, a well conceived overall picture and a high quality catalogue.

The Hungarian city of Pécs, which is a 2010 European Capital of Culture, will host the International Adult Puppet Festival on August 23-28.

A performance by Esma Redzepova, the “Gypsy Queen”, will be among the highlights at the PanBalkan picnic in the Hungarian city of Pécs, a 2010 European Capital of Culture, between August 30 and September 5.

 The Hungarian city of Pécs, which is a 2010 European Capital of Culture, is hosting the Pécs Cantat, an international choir festival that will draw about 1,200 participants from 22 countries, on August 15-22.

The Hungarian city of Pécs has invited artists from the Balkans to invade its public spaces from the end of August as part of its 2010 European Capital of Culture programme.

Road of Discovery in the Heart of the Region, a creative programme for teenagers organised by Arbeiter Wolfhart Gelsenkirchen and the Pécs Youth Centre Rainbow Children’s House, has entered an important new phase.

The Vasváry House in Pécs, in southwest Hungary, is hosting an exhibition of the work of József Angster, the city’s most famous organ builder.

The Hungarian city of Pécs, which is a 2010 European Capital of Culture, is hosting the 8th International Light Symposium, a conference on the role of light in visual culture, on July 28-31.

Ernő Rubik, the inventor of Rubik’s Cube, perhaps the world’s most popular puzzle game, said the secret of the success of his cube was that it has many secrets.

The Hungarian city of Pécs, a 2010 European Capital of Culture, is hosting the Bridges World Conference: Mathematical connections in arts, music, science and culture on July 24-28.

The Dutch artist Elvira Wersche will create a sand mosaic on the floor of the crypt of the Pécs cathedral between July 21 and 27.

The Hungarian city of Pécs, a 2010 European Capital of Culture, will host the International and National Origami Conference and Origami Festival between the end of July and August 15.

Pécs will host a week-long European youth culture week from Sunday, an event held since 1988 in cities that set up heritage protection groups joining the initiative.

The Hungarian city of Pécs, a 2010 European Capital of Culture, will host the Bridges World Conference: Mathematical connections in arts, music, science and culture, on July 24-28.

A man dressed in course cloth wearing a straw hat shouts loudly near the Hungarian town of Bikal. He greets people, shaking their hands, startling a few of them. A Renaissance princess reassures visitors: “He’s just Crazy,” she says. Nobody is who they appear to be in this Medieval village in Baranya County.