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Summer in the Park Festival begins this Saturday
The Summer in the Park Festival has been part of the line up for the summer programme for residents and visitors to Košice for five years. Apart from the strong musical programme, it brings, in the spirit of its multi-genre idea, dramatic performances for children and adults, film shows and literature in a new light. The Kasárne Kulturpark is transformed into a refreshing city-oasis of culture and relaxation for almost a whole month; Summer in the Park will be held from 3 to 25 August.
Avishai Cohen and Peter Breiner to headline the MAZAL TOV! Festival
Exceptional concerts, guided tours of Jewish architecture in Košice, exhibitions and educational events – all this and more at the second MAZAL TOV! Festival in Košice from 18 until 22 July. Avishai Cohen, one of the stars of contemporary jazz, will introduce his new project at the festival that is open to everybody and some of its events are even free of charge.
Košice’s Hall of Art offers particularly contemporary visual art
Košice is gaining a new place and new possibilities for properly presenting contemporary visual art as is the standard in the rest of the world. The Kunsthalle/Hall of Art, known to Košice people as the old swimming pool hall, is one of the most architecturally interesting buildings in the town. It stopped functioning as a swimming pool after structural damage caused by the diversion of the River Hornad, an arm of which had flowed close to the building.
Tokyo musical typhoon in Košice
One of the highlights of the year’s musical production during Košice ECOC 2013 will undoubtedly be considered to be the concert by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. The very fact that such an ensemble performed in Košice is an event whose importance hardly anyone realizes, though it is almost certain that getting orchestras of a similar calibre to Košice in the coming years will not be so easy. The Tokyo group arrived after performances at the Prague Spring Festival and Ostrava’s Janáček May in full force, which they decided to showcase at the House of Arts in Košice under the leadership of their residential conductor Kazuhito Koizumi.
Voice of the audience was used to create Original Tempo disco music
A play without words, a mixture of music, visual projections and performance took place on Saturday night in a public space in a courtyard on the Main Street from the Japanese performers. The Original Tempo group pulled a large number of fans who wanted to see a piece of Japanese culture into rainy Košice. Theatrical performances were one of many gems of the USE THE CITY festival in the European Capital of Culture.
Audience enjoys “stepping” and is transported to the scene
“We are free here.” That is to say, in our country. To this end, the protagonists of the Košice Na Peróne Theatre, together with the hosting actors had to work through a number of historical ages, marked by wars, suppression, oppression, exile, censorship and the return to the free homeland, where the artists could create without someone forbidding or decreeing something.
The Step by Step performance provided the USE THE CITY
Tape riots in the Košice streets
Hungarian artists’ experimentation with the forms of musical theatre was fully expressed on Saturday afternoon in the streets of Košice. A crowd of people went for the music. Well known songs performed by the HOPPart theatre company echoed in the City Park, under the old bastion and on Zvonárska street. Without any musical instruments they managed to emulate current hits by Lady Gaga and Britney Spears. They also included Hungarian singles. The icing on the cake was the last song by the Košice band Puding pani Elvisovej – Gramatika (Grammar) which our southern neighbours perfectly imitated.
Kjógenu’s farce gets them laughing, even in Japanese
In Košice we had a chance to see Japanese farce again after only a short time. Like the first performance, Friday can be summed up in one sentence. It was famous, surprised the eyes, made the ears happy, got the heart beating and amused the audience. The Small Kjógenu Theatre from Brno with its guest – master Motohiko Shigejam, of Kyoto’s professional actor of the traditional school, Okura in the main role and in his native language, presented three farces in the historic town hall: Voice at the Door, Tea Caddy and Large Clothing.
Exhibition of Japanese culture – bonsai, go, shogi
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of cooperation and good relations between the Slovak Republic and Japan, European Capital of Culture – Košice 2013, in cooperation with EU Japan Fest – Japanese company to support the dissemination of Japanese culture in Europe, prepared a number of interesting events presenting Japanese culture fort the weekend of 25th – 26th May 2013.
Concert of the Sun from the Japanese musical sky
The Land of the Rising Sun and its artists will soon shine on and warm up the music scene in Košice. Another cultural gem to be offered by the European Capital of Culture Košice 2013 is the concert of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra to be held on 26th May in the concert hall of the House of Arts. It will be undoubtedly one of the biggest events of this year in the metropolis of the East.
Košice suburbs revived by culture
Košice residents will have better access to culture once again. With two already functioning cultural exchangers, arts made it to suburbs and housing estates. Early this week, three new exchangers were launched as part of the Košice 2013 and SPOTs projects in Košice to offer cultural, scientific, and sports activities for people of all ages.
Convergences with The Hiliard Ensemble
Convergences bring to Košice an exclusive consert of British vocal ensemble The Hiliard Ensemble and an unusual rendition of Maori music.