The Municipality of Józsefváros and the Józsefváros Gazdálkodási Központ are again organising a flower distribution for the residents of Józsefváros. When? 10 May 2024 between 9 am and 4 pm 11 May 2024 between 9 am and 12 pm Where? JGK Dankó utca premises (1086 Budapest, Dankó utca 3-5.) 20 000 planters will be distributed […]

Enjoy a triple concert experience on 10 May at Rákóczi tér during Jazzfest Budapest. Taking place from 27 April to 15 May in nearly 20 venues, the festival is part of the Budapest Spring Festival. The free concerts in District VIII are supported by the Municipality of Józsefváros.  Performing on Rákóczi tér will be the […]

Organise a community-building Neighbourhood Fest in Józsefváros! The Neighbourhood Fest initiative aims to strengthen and support communities in the district, empowering small communities, residential communities and neighbourhoods by encouraging the organisation of community events. Through the Neighbourhood Fest initiative we will implement community building, community development and community organising programmes. Community cookouts, gardening, music, board […]

[A cikk magyar változatát itt találja: https://jozsefvaros.hu/otthon/hirdetotabla/hirek/esemenyek/2023/10/multikulturalis-jozsefvaros-meseld-el-te-is-a-torteneted/] The story of Józsefváros is our story. For the fourth time, the storytelling series My Józsefváros welcomes participants and listeners on 26 October 2023 in Népszínház utca. The choice of location and theme goes hand in hand – there is hardly a wider showcase for the multicultural Józsefváros […]

The traffic behind the Rákóczi Market Hall will be changed in the first half of the month, street furniture will be placed on the street and a joint asphalt painting will be held. The opening of the street will be at 13:00 on Saturday 16 September 2023, with a fair and pottery session. And in […]

Would you like to get more familiar with the traffic rules and urban traffic situations? Learn for free from professionals! Practice urban cycling with trained guides from the Hungarian Cycling Club. Become a confident cyclist. Learn the rules of safe cycling. Cycle around the squares and streets of Józsefváros with an experienced guide. Bebicycling 2023 […]

The Hungarian Cyclists’ Club, together with its local organisations and partners, is looking forward to welcoming you with a cycling breakfast or snack in dozens of locations across the country. The Józsefváros Municipality has joined the initiative again, so on September 19, 2023 from 7 a.m., we are waiting for all cyclists at the corner […]

Spanish singer Luz Casal will give a concert at the Belvárosi Theatre This autumn, a true Mediterranean atmosphere will be brought to one of Budapest’s most colourful neighbourhoods: on 30 September and 1 October, Spanish music and dance, gastronomy, and special artistic and cultural experiences will take centre stage in the Palace Quarter in the […]

Sign up for our English-language newsletter here >>> We are looking forward to welcoming you all on Saturday, September 9 at Mátyás tér for the 2nd Józsefváros Charity Cooking Competition, which starts at 10 am. At 2pm the jury will announce the results of the competition. The jury: Fűszeres Bodrogi Eszter (https://www.facebook.com/Fuszeres) Erik Molnár (ArchitectoPitPit) […]

Sign up for our English-language newsletter here >>> September 15-17, 2023. Rákóczi tér & Rákóczi tér market hall Celebrate Hungarian jazz with us at the third Józsefváros Jazz Festival, which will take place again on Rákóczi tér between  September 15 and 17! Budapest’s most colorful district, the beautiful Józsefváros, proudly welcomes jazz lovers to this […]

Sign up for our English-language newsletter here >>> Rap festival at the 15th anniversary of Kesztyűgyár  – Applications for the rap competition are now open The Kesztyűgyár Community Center is celebrating its 15th birthday, and as part of the celebrations we are inviting everyone to a Rap Festival. On Friday, 22 September, young people from […]

For the first time, the Municipality of Józsefváros announces the Night of Gypsy Musicians. At the event, several bands and renowned artists will offer a taste of the best of their knowledge. You can listen to better and better performances in a variety of genres on Mátyás Square for five hours. The event is free […]

The Municipality of Józsefváros is organising a cooking competition again this year. Location: Mátyás tér Date and time: Saturday, September 9, 2023 from 10:00 to 15:00. Register your team by August 20, 2023 by filling in the application form at https://forms.gle/fgR6bpusTAGjhdyz7 Due to space limitations, the first 15 teams will be admitted to the competition. […]

Let’s celebrate together the winners of the second Józsefváros Participatory Budgeting! Let’s celebrate all those who brainstormed, worked, volunteered, voted, participated in the programs or helped in any way to make the Participatory Budgeting a reality. Come to A Grund (30 Nagy Templom utca) on Friday, July 21, 2023 at 6pm. Let’s party, celebrate and […]

The Kesztyűgyár Community House in Józsefváros will organise summer day camps for children aged 7 to 14 living in Józsefváros or attending primary school in Józsefváros again in 2023. The camp takes place in Orczy-kert, Ludovika Campus. Camp dates: Monday June 19, 2023 – Friday August 25, 2023 – in weekly sessions. You can apply […]

Time of screening: Saturday June 3, 2023, 8am – 1pm Address and location of screening tests: Budapest VIII. district, Auróra u. 22-28. PULMONARY CARE (1st floor) – COPD screening DIABETOLOGY (1st floor) – blood glucose measurement, advice CARDIOLOGY (1st floor) – ECG, blood pressure measurement, advice GYNECOLOGY (4th floor) – cervical cancer screening X-RAY (4th […]

The City Operations and Green Programs Office, the Office of Community Participation  and the Józsefváros Management Center are organising a flower distribution for residents of Józsefváros again this year. When? Friday June 2, 2023 between 9am and 6pm Saturday June 3, 2023 between 8am and 2pm Where? JGK Dankó utca premises (1086 Budapest, Dankó utca […]

Until 15 June 2023, you can vote in this year’s Participatory Budgeting for Józsefváros, where we will decide together how the district will spend HUF 150 million. Come and have a picnic with us. We are waiting for you on the following days: Saturday 20 May 2023 from 3pm: Have a hot-dog with us on […]

It’s fun to ride a bike, and it’s never too late to start. If you can’t ride a bike as an adult but want to, we can help. The Józsefváros Municipality and Velo Budapest are launching a free cycling course for complete beginners. All you need is a bit of determination and courage: if you […]

Dear children and parents! We are looking forward to welcoming you again to the Children’s Day of the Józsefváros Municipality on Saturday 27 May at 10 am at Teleki tér! Come and play, dance, laugh and have fun! Place: Teleki tér Time: Saturday, May 27, 10am – 2pm Individual programs 10:00-10:50  Fruzsina Kovácsovics concert https://kovacsovicsfruzsina.hu/index.php […]

Join us on Saturday April 22, between 10am and 6pm at Horváth Mihály tér, where dozens of stands will be set up by the district’s exhibitors. plant and flower shops artisans civic groups What can you expect? plant and craft fair presentation of NGOs and communities children’s activities a discussion on urban gardening from 4pm […]

This year we are waiting for you again to demonstrate that we all love to move and that it is possible to get around without using gas! Bring your scooter, bike, plastic motorbike and let’s ride together from the nearby kindergarten to Rákóczi tér on Friday afternoon to celebrate Earth Day by singing together! We […]

On the last day of March, we’re relaunching the „Call Grandma, too!” gymnastics program with a spring welcome walk – we will be doing gymnastics together on the lawn of II. János Pál pápa tér every Friday for a few weeks. Unless the rain washes us away, every Friday from 10am we will show how […]

In the 2023 Participatory Budgeting, district residents will have the opportunity to decide how to spend HUF 150 million. Let’s take a walk together in the Csarnok neighborhood and map the problems affecting the district, and let’s collect ideas on what improvements and changes are needed to make the area more liveable and lovable for […]

Dear parents of Józsefváros! This year again, the kindergartens of Józsefváros will present themselves: get to know our staff, our kindergartens’ programs and services. We welcome you to our 2023 Oviexpo, which will help parents who are about to choose a kindergarten. With a musical show, lots of games, introductory videos, and face-to-face time with […]

Let’s get ready for the Advent season in Józsefváros together! We invite you on each weekend of Advent at Horváth Mihály tér in the Józsefváros Bálaszín for various programs. We will light the candle on the square in front of the church. Programs for the first Advent weekend Friday, 25 November 4 pm Rézeleje Fanfárosok […]

Saturday, November 5, 2022 is another Screening Józsefváros St. Kozma Health Center (JEK) Saturday at from 8 am to 1 pm. Important notice: only the specialist practices of the Health Clinic listed below are available on that day. Neither Reception nor the Call Center will be in operation. Address: Budapest, Auróra utca 22-28. (You can […]

In 2021, Józsefváros launched a multi-day district jazz festival with the aim of creating a tradition, paying tribute to the local traditions of the genre and providing an opportunity to meet as many of the jazz musicians of the future as possible. Many of our world-famous jazz musicians were born, live and have lived in […]

Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2022, 8.30 pm Venue: Teleki tér On Roma Holocaust (porajmos in Romani language) Memorial Day the world remembers the Roma victims who were tortured and exterminated in concentration camps during WWII. The ethnic cleansing among the Roma people dates back to 1935, when the Nuremberg Race Laws, aimed at the Jews, […]

What are we offering? You can vote for the first participatory budgeting of the history of Józsefváros until 24 July. Let’s have some pancakes together at the opened section of Bacsó Béla utca from 10 am on Saturday, 23 July, the day before the closing of the votes. Let’s celebrate each other and ourselves, have […]

When? Saturday, July 9, 2022 between 3 pm and 5 pm Where? II. János Pál pápa tér Do you also rather brainstorm with a drink outside in a park than alone at home? Join us on a picnic: Let’s get to know each other, learn about the behind the scenes of participatory budgeting, let’s talk, […]

Dear Children and Parents! We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to the Józsefváros Municipality Children’s Day on Saturday May 28 from 11 am at Kálvária Tér. Come and let’s play, dance and laugh and enjoy ourselves together! Date: Saturday, May 28 from 11 am to 5 pm Venue: Kálvária tér Programs: 11 am – […]

Concerts, exhibitions and gastronomy at several locations from October 1 to October 3 Józsefváros is repaying an old debt. Many jazz musicians of world fame were born, lived or are living in Józsefváros who started their career here and have been popularizing Hungarian culture through jazz. Whole generations of musicians have grown up in the […]

The Hungarian Association of Migrant Women (She 4 She) and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee are organising an exhibition of artworks by refugees and migrants in the building of the Mayor’s Office of the Józsefváros Municipality from 2 September to 15 October 2021. The purpose of the exhibition is to bring Municipality employees, Józsefváros residents and […]

The Municipality of Józsefváros is joining the Budapest100 program again this year. The highly successful civic festival in the capital city, which marks its 11th anniversary, opens up the houses that were built, rebuilt and handed over after the First and Second World War – between 1921 and 1930 and 1945 and 1957 – together […]

Let us gather to commemorate the victims of the Roma genocide on the Roma Holocaust Memorial Day on August 2, 2021 at Teleki tér! The Municipality of Józsefváros respectfully invites you to the district’s memorial flower planting ceremony in Teleki tér to commemorate the Roma Holocaust Memorial Day on August 2, 2021 Monday at 9 am. […]

Join us on any of the following dates: August 9, August 13, August 29, September 11, September 18 or September 24. Registration: reszvetel@jozsefvaros.hu The Municipality of Józsefváros, in cooperation with the Cycling Club, will organizes six cycling tours in August and September 2021 for people 1) who like riding a bike but have not yet […]

The exhibition opens its gates on May 3, 2021 and can be visited every day from 2pm until 6 pm with the exception of Sundays and Mondays. On the International Roma Day on April 8, 2021 the Roma Parliament opened its exhibition with the title “Becoming free” in Kőfaragó utca 5. The exhibition presents the […]