He is the most renowned Slovak cello player who has recently completed a concert tour in the USA, from where he has just returned. He has worked on a number of interesting projects – he has collaborated with gifted Roma musicians and has started doing the groundwork for the 10th international festival Konvergencie.
Life brings about various paradoxes. A book on Košice by an author born here, but living in Switzerland, coming out in its Czech version, might as well be one of them. It surely, however, is not the only one in life of the writer and publicist Dušan Šimko.
Košice has become the European Capital of Culture 2013 (ECC). Such was the verdict of a 13-member international jury chaired by Bob Scott at the Slovak Ministry of Culture. Košice’s Interface project unfolds long-term transformation of the city through cultural channels and seeks to create stimulating environment for culture and creativity.
Juraj Koban: Unique thanks to simplicity
“The idea was to create crystallized points in housing units, where human warmth will be flow through getting together, talking, culture, and art...,“ asserts Juraj Koban, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University in Košice, who is also the originator of the idea on how to transform the heat exchange units into cultural points SPOTS.
Košice used to be the capital of the Hungarian Empire. What does it mean to you?
The birthplace. The sins of youth. Maturation and sobering up. Blunders and their acknowledgment. City and its residents, as well as their history.
Literary scientist and prose writer Stanislav Rakús comes from Western Slovakia. He made his way to Košice via Prešov where he studied philology, specializing in Slovak and Russian. He acknowledges Košice as one of the two principal cities of his life.
Multimedia project Something is Red was underway in Košice for almost two months. First, there was the stage scene. Then, the actors were getting accustomed to the cultural space of military background. The French were learning Slovak and the Slovak were absorbing French.
Theatre dramaturgist, reviewer and translator, director of the national office of the European grant programme Culture (2007–2013) – Cultural Contact Point in Bratislava. This black-haired lady of action whose Bratislava accent cannot be overlooked, Zora Jaurová (35) has now extended her rich professional CV by adding the cooperation with the Košice application project...
Michal Hvorecký: I feel like a minority
A young successful writer entered the Slovak literary arena like thunder from a clear sky in 1998 with his debut album Silný pocit čistoty (A Strong Sense of Cleanliness). He lives between Bratislava and German-speaking countries, where he claims Sándor Márai has become a literary superstar, who has become an inspiration to others.
INTERVIEW - M. Jirous and P. Placák
They both have had plenty of experience with the communist regime. As before 1989 also now they both call things by their proper names. They´re both saying it is now even more important that people know what was going on then.
