International Screen Entrepreneur Award
British Council vyhlasuje celoslovenské kolo medzinárodnej súťaže International Screen Entrepreneur Award určenej mladým profesionálom v oblasti filmu, televízie, animovaného filmu, filmových festivalov a prehliadok, tlačovín, periodík a web stránok venovaných problematike filmu a televízie.
The Canadian legend of acoustic - industrial music, Skinny Puppy, will play their historically first concert in Košice, Slovakia, on 13th August 2010.
Date of publication: 14th of June 2010
Deadline for the applications: 10th of July 2010
Residence stay duration: 1 or 2 months (September to November 2010)
USE THE C!TY FESTIVAL
The slogan of the project INTERFACE, with which Košice won the title of the European Capital of Culture for 2013, is ‘USE THE CITY'. It invites the citizens of the city - its users - to go out into its streets and take an active part in the city's public life; it invites them to engage with the art and culture offered by the urban space, and with one another.
PERFORMING ARTS MANAGERS ON THE MOVE
Open Call for Applications - PERFORMING ARTS MANAGERS ON THE MOVE
We are looking for 30 individuals who will be divided into 2 separate groups. Each group will undergo a training programme of 16 months' duration, made up of 5 sessions (each lasting 3 days) and taking place in 5 European countries.
Recruitment of Climate Advocates for Year 2
Do you care about the environment? Are you passionate, curious and want to make a difference to the world? The British Council is now looking for young people to participate in its European climate change project, Challenge Europe.
To what extent can modern painting or architecture impact lives, or city stereotypes? How can tediousness of city reality be thwarted? Such were the issues the contestants in Urban Impact, a public fine art project, were faced with. The contest aimed at working out a specific project integrating visual art into city organism, into its public space, and point out the long-needed presence of visual art in the city. The contests could draw inspiration from manifold means of expression balancing between an object, site-specific art, and urban art. Project should cover strategic city public spaces - select location, mutual relationship and significance. And we know the winner.
Another city will share the European Capital of Culture 2013 (ECC) title with Košice -the French city of Marseille. Based on the up-to-date information, the composition of the French team has not changed. Since they worked under immense pressure, and experienced due stress before the results were announced, the team was naturally overjoyed to have won. After they savored victory, they eased up to get ready for the phase awaiting them, which would be much longer and much more challenging.
In early February, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic officially commenced the prestigious contest to claim the European Capital of Culture title in 2015. Select Czech city will share it with its Belgium counterpart. The ECC notion is not new in the Czech Republic. Prague boasted the title in 2000. According to the report of the Czech Ministry of Culture provided to our Interface News, four cities have expressed an interest to run so far - České Budějovice, Plzeň, Ostrava and Hradec Králové.
4th BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL JAZZ COMPETITION
7 - 13 May 2010 / Bucharest - for BANDS and VOCALISTS
The total amount is 7,000 Euro, cash and concerts.
The tenth French Culture Days (March 23 - April 17) will close the chapter comprising the decade-long series of the traditional several-week-long event in the Eastern Slovak metropolis. As of next year, Alliance Française in Košice would like to present Francophone culture throughout the year. The initiative is a piece laying out the world-wide mosaic of French Culture Days, which are organized every March.
Interview with the renowned jazz trumpet player Erik Truffaz shortly before his concert on November 24, 2008 at Kasárne Kulturpark in Košice
Zora Jaurová became the artistic director of Košice – European Capital of Culture 2013 project
Press release
The Mayor of Košice František Knapík inducted Zora Jaurová (35), theater dramaturge, reviewer and translator, into the newly created position of the artistic director in the European Capital of Culture 2013 project earlier today.
Košice welcomes the news that Marseille in France has become European Capital of Culture 2013
Project team Košice – European Capital of Culture 2013 has been pleased to find out that Marseille has become its French counterpart following the final decision of the international jury in Paris earlier today.
On August 17, several members of the European Capital of Culture (ECC) 2013 selection board arrived at Košice for a 3-hour official visit. The board chaired by Sir Bob Scott of Great Britain, also included Gottfried Wagner – a member from Austria, Martin Kováč – vice-chair for Slovakia, Katarína Kosová – a member for Slovakia, Jacqueline Pacaud – an observer for the European Union, and Linda Kapustová Helbichová of the Slovak Ministry of Culture.
Design Match 08 has come to Košice
After a great success that the exhibition titled Design Match 08 marked in Prague and Bratislava, its third stop has been in Košice. It was opened on August 12, and it will last until September 14. Design Match 08 is a unique platform, building an establishment for itself with time.
Suburban monsters were a pleasant surprise
The first workshop at the heat exchange station on Ružínska ulica at the Košice suburb of Terasa exceeded the organizers’ expectations. Several dozen children were able to turn the dingy façade of a typical suburban building of concrete into the center of attention of the passers-by.
For decades, Kosice, a city of 250,000 in eastern Slovakia, was considered an industrial backwater — if it was considered at all. (Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital, got the attention.) But in the past several years, a beautifully refurbished center has emerged from behind Kosice’s ugly veneer of gray concrete and steel, drawing artists, entrepreneurs and a growing number of tourists.
Discovering hometown secrets
IT’S usual to sightsee, learn new facts about historical sites, and meet foreigners while abroad, but some residents of Košice have been doing it without leaving home.They take part in the “Wanders in Košice,” monthly guided tours involving locals and some English-speaking foreigners that the City Information Centre (MIC) has been organising since 2004.
