Expo Schedule - The Hungarian Heritage Expo

12 noon, Eastern Live session Kick off Call with Liz (All Expo attendees are welcome!)

3pm, Eastern Live session Welcome and group conversation with Liz Topic: Who impacted your interest in Hungarian heritage the most? All Expo attendees are welcome!
HISTORY Aliens in Appalachia: Hungarian Miners in the Mountain South Coalfields with Doug Cantrell
FOOD Honey Gingerbread Demonstration with Tunde Dugantsi
HISTORY Intro to Memory Project: Visual History Archive of Hungarian Emigration with Andrea Lauer Rice
AUTHOR TALK From Stories to Novels: The Siege of Budapest and the Rákosi Era with Connie Hampton Connally
FOLK ART Maintaining Traditions: Transylvanian Egg Decorating with Timea Szép
GENEALOGY Using your Library as a Genealogy Resource with Vickie Fields
LANGUAGE Improve Your Hungarian with Fun Games with Zsófia Gebel Simó
FOLK DANCE Kalotaszegi region | Taken at the Taste of Gulyás Festival in Detroit, Michigan | June 2024 | Participants Leó Demeter Qualls, Anna De Cheke, Bence Hajdu, Kíra Kertész

2pm, Eastern Live Session Hungarian Language Clinic Workshop with Anna Hamp (Available only to those who purchased the Tool Kit)
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS Budapest Café Culture with Orsolya Lajos-Berla
AUTHOR TALK Footnote to History: From Hungary to America, The Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor with Andrew Laszlo
FOOD Our Cultural Heritage: Gulyásleves by Annamaria’s Kitchen
HISTORY Our Laughter is Drowned in Smoke: Life and Labor of the Appalachian Hungarians, 1880-1930 with Briane Turley
TRAVEL The Hidden Mini Treasures of Budapest with Kinga Tittel
FOLK ART Matyó Embroidery Then And Now with Katalin Lovasz
GENEALOGY About the Jewish Registers with Krisztián Skoumal
FOLK DANCE Galgamenti Region | Taken at the Magyar Bazár in Wash DC | November 2023 | Bence Hajdu, Kíra Kertész
6pm, Eastern Live Connection Session with Liz Topic: Let’s share ways to get the next generations connected! All Expo attendees are welcome!

12 noon, Eastern Live Session Cooking Demonstration with Adam Fledrich (Available only to those who purchased the Tool Kit)
6pm, Eastern Live Session Let’s Learn Az a szép Workshop with Anna Hamp (Available only to those who purchased the Tool Kit)
FAMILY HISTORY Like Mother, Like Daughter with Juliette and Lori Stokes
LANGUAGE Let’s Have a Little Fun with Hungarian with Katalin Solymosi
FOLK ART Embroidering a Business with Didi Ijjas
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS Why You Should Host an Exchange Student with Karolina Toth
HISTORY Himler of Himlerville and the World with Cathy Corbin
FOLK ART Easter Eggs in the Pannonian Basin with Ildikó Fekete
FOLK ART The Tradition of Written Embroidery from Transylvania with Sarah Pedlow
FOLK DANCE Bonchidai – Taken at the Magyar Bazár in Wash DC | November 2023 | Members of the Tisza Ensemble |
TRAVEL Heritage Travel: Why You Should Consider Visiting Your Ancestral Villages with Liz Szabó Vos

2pm, Eastern Live Session with Liz Topic: Next steps! All Expo attendees are welcome!
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS Sister Cities: Sonoma, CA and Tokaj, HU with Joan Toth
GENEALOGY The Most Important Online Sources at FamilySearch by Krisztián Skoumal
TRAVEL Beautiful Lake Balaton with Andrea Tordai
FOLK MUSIC Hungarian Folk Singing: From Village Life to Urban Practice with Zina Bozzay
LANGUAGE From Roots to Words: The Beauty of the Hungarian Language with Zsófia Gebel Simó
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS Connect to The Hungarian American Coalition, our largest community organization with Andrea Lauer Rice
FOOD Making Paprika with Paprika Molnár
FOLK MUSIC Drusza Folk Ensemble | Based in Hungary but on exchange in the USA in 2023 – 2024 | Taken at the Magyar Bazár in Wash DC | Members are Piroska Hoppál, Márton Pachert, Barni Turi