Design Match 2008 Košice
You are warmly welcomed on the exhibition of Design Match 08 project in Kosice, second biggest city in Slovak Republic. The exhibition will be held in Old Barracks – Culture Park / Independent Culture Centre (Kasárne Kulturpark / Nezávislé kultúrne centrum), Kosice Slovakia.
INTERFACE succeeded in the press contest
Košice Project of European Capital of Culture 2013 - INTERFACE succeeded in the press contest
At the turn of June and July, the project team headed by František Knapík, the Mayor of Košice, Marek Vargovčák and Jozef Filipko, the Deputy Mayors, took a tour of the French candidate cities for the title of European Capital of Culture 2013.
An unused heat exchange station is going to be made available to the citizens of Košice to be transformed as they like. The first public meeting took place on July 24 at 5 p.m. at the site of so-called “pink heat exchanger” in Obrody Street at the housing estate Terasa.
The Second Cities project has gone through to its second half. Ula Tarasiewicz, the photographer from Poland, has finished her activity in Košice mainly engaged in shooting compelling interiors and architecture of the old communist times.
Second round of the Second Cities project
The second round of the Second Cities project, the supporting event of the city´s application for nomination as ECOC 2013
Košice, a candidate for the title of European Capital of Culture (ECOC) 2013, has also included an ecological dimension of water and its use into its application project.
Košice and Toulouse, two candidates for the title of European Capital of Culture (ECOC), represented by František Knapík, the Mayor of Košice and Vincentella de Comarmond, the Deputy Mayor of the city of Toulouse in charge of culture met today in the Historic Town Hall in Hlavná Street 59 Košice to sign an agreement on mutual cooperation until 2013.
The actor and director Peter Rašev has died
Following a long illness, the actor and director Peter Rašev died on June 12, 2008 in the Teaching Hospital of Louis Pasteur in Košice at the age of 56. He was a notable persona of Slovak theater art.
In 2002, he was awarded "CENA PRIMÁTORA mesta Košice (The Mayor of Košice Award)” for his work in theater, radio, television, and film culture, and his contribution to the promotion of civic involvement.
Prešov June 4, 2008 – On Wednesday, June 4, 2008 the Mayors of Košice and Prešov signed Memorandum on Mutual Understanding and Future Cooperation in preparation of the European Capital of Culture 2013 event (ECOC 2013).
World-known Sándor Márai and his Košice
WANDERINGS AROUND KOŠICE THIS WEEKEND
Sándor Márai (1900–1989), now already a world-known writer, was born in a house, which does not exist any longer. The shopping centre Dargov was erected is the place where the house used to be situated. For some of his teenage years Sándor Márai lived in the house at No. 35 in the Mäsiarska Street.
Košice received six visitors from Kaunas representing the second largest city in Lithuania. The Lithuanian delegation visited the Barracks/Kulturpark in the Kukučínova Street and attended a project presentation of the city´s application for nomination as ECOC 2013. They were swept off their feet.
Between May 6th and May 30th, the Theological faculty on Hlavná ulica in Košice hosted an exhibition by an Israeli photograph and pilot Dubi Tala, which offered the local inhabitants an opportunity to embark on an unusual journey to the biblical city of Jerusalem.
Košice received offer to cooperate with Turkish Bursa and future capital of culture 2010 Istanbul
Turkish Bursa, partner city to Košice, welcomes the application of the principal town of the east of Slovakia for nomination as European Capital of Culture (ECOC) 2013 and proposes assistance and cooperation in the organisation of joint cultural projects. Istanbul, the future capital of culture in 2010, is also going to give us some precious pieces of advice.
Lyon and Košice Supported Close Cooperation
On April 30, 2008, František Knapík, the Mayor of Košice and Hubert Julien-Laferriere, the Vice-president of the Agglomeration of Lyon acting for the mayor of Lyon, gave their voice again to the mutual cooperation between the two cities in the fields of art and culture in the meeting attended by the representatives of both Košice 2013 and Lyon 2013 project teams.
František Knapík, the Mayor of Košice, received Tunç Űgdűla, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey, at the historic town hall. The Ambassador met with the members of the European Capital of Culture Košice 2013 project team and with Peter Markovič, the Director of the East-Slovakian Gallery in Košice.
The Košice City Information Centre and the Košice ECOC 2013 project team arranged on the weekend of May 3-4, 2008 an unconventional tour of the city themed KOŠICE HEREAFTER. The tour drawing upon the idea of traditional Wanderings about Town is to take the visitors to the year 2013.
This exhibition brings together several generations of French photographers, ranging from great humanists to the young modern artists. On all accounts, this is an uncommon view of the Man, of the others, the view which is animating the images in the pictures. The present selection of the works lets us identify three important periods:
French artists of the Lá Hors De group and the Slovak actors of Divadlo na peróne [The Theatre on Platform] set to brush up the traditional fairy-tale of Little Red Riding Hood. They had found the tale was known by almost all Europeans save that different countries had different versions of the same story. Their project Quelque chose est Rouge [Something is Red] running for a few months crowned its achievement on April 29, 2008 at 20:00 hours by giving a multimedia performance at the barracks in Kukučínova Street in Košice. The show was a closing event to the Days of French Culture and supported the Košice´s nomination as the European Capital of Culture 2013.
